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...Merrill Lynch and NBC. Jack Welch, Michael Dell and Al Gore are fans. This summer Sony's Palm-based Clie will get a snappy new upgrade, complete with a sharp color display and support for a new, secure digital music format. By leveraging resources from its music, gaming and audio-video divisions, Sony may be able to create the ultimate portable gadget. And now the first PDA phones are on sale from Kyocera and Ericsson, with more on the way from Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia and others...
...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...
...telephone answering machine. Perhaps the most difficult listening environment is a noisy party or restaurant gathering, where many people are talking at once and the clatter of dishes adds to the cacophony. To reduce the background noise and focus on the conversation at hand, Bernstein uses a tiny direct-audio-input microphone connected by wire to her hearing aids...