Word: bandwidth
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...deploying an Internet Protocol system that allows it to send video and data over a dedicated high-speed line--the same kind most companies use for Internet service. IP videoconferencing hasn't taken off yet because the bandwidth required to transmit streaming video would incapacitate most office networks. But once corporations have all the bandwidth they need, experts say, all videoconferencing will be done using IP. When videoconferencing gets to that level, "it will be operating on an easier platform," says Lou Gellos, spokesman for Terabeam, a Seattle-based firm that markets laser transmitters that can send...
...complicated and too global for know-it -all CEOs. Information moves too fast for anyone to juggle the demands of different cultures, currencies and markets - and keep shareholders happy: last year 22% of Fortune 500 chief executives were drummed out of office. Says Hamel: "No single person has the bandwidth to run a global company any more...
...store entirely—meaning that an album sold online should cost $7-$10 less than one bought in a store—but it reduces the cost of promotion, because record labels can use customer profiling technology to make recommendations like Amazon.com does for books. In addition, because bandwidth is so cheap, there is essentially no marginal cost in digital distribution. That means that beyond the fixed cost of studio time, promotion software and bulk bandwidth, record labels will have essentially no cost. And yet they will still try to charge us $16.99 for albums downloaded over the Internet...
...scan the list of descriptions, and eventually you'll find the one that's approximately right for you. Globetrotter? To start, there's "African Experience" and "Brazilia." Headbanger? Try "The Pit" (metal) or "Axis" (adult alternative). With sites like Live365.com that provide average Joes with the bandwidth to open up their record collection to thousands of listeners a day, and sites like indiePOPradio.com that link users to stations geared toward particular interests, the Web holds out the promise of delivering radio from the hands of "such a lot of fools" (or profit-oriented entrepreneurs) into the grasp of the People...
...SIMIAN www.ikda.co.uk/simian GO APE A high-bandwidth music and design extravaganza. It's a little out there - has Earth been overrun by monkeys? - but it proves the Internet can enhance listening to music...