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...card, a sound card and a digital video-broadcasting card. A new portal will allow subscribers to customize the streaming video they receive over their PCs. Of course the company's target audience is much larger - the 80 million European satellite and cable TV households currently receiving television and audio via Astra's satellites. These potential customers will need set-top boxes built to Europe Online's specifications, which are scheduled to go on sale this autumn from $280 to $370. In the meantime, Europe Online expects to sell its digital programming to regular TV broadcasters. Now that's convergence...
...which enables full Internet access over TV broadcast networks. Features include a split screen that can show both TV and the Internet, a remote with built-in keyboard, the ability to pause or replay live broadcasts, digital TV that records to a hard disc, video on demand, a file audio player, e-mail, 3D games, digital radio and connections to devices such as printers and cameras. For its part Hitachi will be showing how smart cards can be inserted into set-top boxes to purchase music from the Internet...
...need is a 28.8K modem or better, an Internet connection and a free, downloadable player for streaming audio - I use RealPlayer because it's compatible with my iMac and most radio sites - and you can wander the world as you wander the Web. I have a DSL connection, but sometimes I log on via AOL through my telephone line, a route I especially recommend during the dinner hour. You can eat along with, say, the moody jazz and classical music of The Blue of the Night, which airs from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. Dublin time on Ireland...
...could certainly use one. Now that their basic voice business is becoming a commodity, wireless and other struggling carriers are, in the words of telecom analyst Jeff Kagan, "looking for someone to throw them a life preserver." By the end of the year, many carriers may be offering unified audio messaging (Would you like to hear your e-mail, voice mail or faxes?) or enhanced directory assistance (Driving directions to the nearest Home Depot, anyone?). With the help of location-sensing technology like embedded gps chips in cell phones, you won't even have to explain where...
...have been separated by thousands of miles since Kaleita-Sniderman divorced, remarried and moved to Ohio--to communicate. The transmission isn't perfect. Lips move. Words lag behind, like a badly dubbed-in translation in a foreign movie. An eerie whistling sound seeps in and out of the audio, and the camera doesn't catch details in Ashton's many works of art. Her brilliant yellow clay dragon with jewel-like eyes and feather wings is a gray blob on the computer screen. But to Ashton, the videoconference is "cool." To her mom, it's "a godsend...