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...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...
...site, which was designed for use by alumni only, will not offer full-length courses but rather academic vignettes that will include video and audio clips of lectures, speeches, and interviews with faculty members. Users will also be provided access to supplementary materials such as texts and historical data...
Despite the court's ruling to the contrary, Napster is still maintaining that its MP3 file exchange is a type of "non-commercial use" allowed by the Audio Home Recording...
CONCERTMASTER In the spirit of man's everlasting quest to stuff bigger things into smaller packages, Intel has succeeded in packing 128 MB of memory into its tiny new portable digital audio player, the Intel Pocket Concert ($300). That's twice as much memory as its nearest competitors, most of which sell for about the same price. The Pocket Concert plays files in Windows Media and MP3 formats; of course, TIME neither condones nor encourages the use of unauthorized or pirated digital music...