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...Beeb envisages educational uses like schoolchildren downloading documentary footage for their multimedia homework projects. However, though the BBC has offered no launch date or technical details, the creative archive can also be seen as a play by the company to position itself as a major force in global broadband...
...solve the gadget-compatibility issue and speed the transition to the digital home. So Dell recently--and quietly--began offering basic home installation of computer networks for $119. The Dell.com site, which will be revamped on Oct. 10, even has a search engine to help homeowners locate providers of broadband service, another prerequisite for the coming digital transformation...
...Ball would be a prime candidate to run the soon-to-be-merged Telewest and ntl, the two cable-TV companies that have suffered the most from BSkyB's success. Telecom-giant BT might also take an interest in Ball as it moves into broadcasting through mobile-phone and broadband technologies. What's curious about the bouncing Ball story is that it appeared almost out of thin air. Several British papers - including Murdoch's own Times - reported the ouster last week as nearly a fait accompli, even though News Corp. and BSkyB officials were saying nothing for the record. Regardless...
...some Western countries might be struggling, but Schwartz argues that technological advances and management innovations point to rising productivity levels and a "Long Boom" ahead. Thanks to further trade integration through globalization, quantum computers up to 100 million times as powerful as today's PCs, and widespread fiber-optic broadband by 2015, he estimates that "we will probably come close to a doubling of the overall standard of living throughout the world in a generation." The globe's second-most-powerful economy in 2020? China. Prediction No. 2: The U.S. doctrine of preemptive strikes and increasing unilateralism will pump...
FastWeb has grown into the No. 2 broadband provider in Italy, behind giant Telecom Italia. Massimo Castelli, director of marketing for that firm's domestic wireline division, admits of e.Biscom, "In terms of pure technology and service, they clearly have a more innovative offering than we have." One innovation is FastWeb's selection of some 3,000 video titles, including 1,000 Hollywood films, routed directly to customers' TV sets. Viewers like the service, paying between $3.50 and $7 per film. The studios get 50% to 60% of that, but the remainder adds to FastWeb's impressive annual revenue...