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...stream of ideas for things to do with revenues swollen by the resources jackpot. A short list included tax cuts, for companies and individuals; more investment in skills development, education and research; increasing workforce participation and raising national savings; improving child-care arrangements; and modernizing infrastructure, especially broadband, roads, railways and ports. The government certainly delivered in some of these areas, but the programs were scattered and underfunded; they seemed like mere sops to the policy police, designed by the message consultants to counter anticipated criticism. Howard does not yearn for applause from the wonks or pointy-heads; he wants...
...hours, 15 minutes a week online last year, a 17% increase over 2004. Watching TV, by contrast, grew by only 6%. Viewing habits may change, but the need to advertise products remains. Thus advertisers are hoping that "one-pipe" convergence will remodel the landscape. That's when a single broadband feed into your home will hook into one device that operates your TV, PC, dvd player, dvr, games console and stereo system. The differences between a TV and a computer, and between a website and a TV channel, will then start evaporating like pixels on a dying screen. Viewers will...
...poverty. MOBY is fighting for your right to ... surf the Web. Along with like-minded artists such as R.E.M. and some improbable partners like the Gun Owners of America, the techno-musician has joined the SavetheInternet.com Coalition, whose object is to preserve so-called Net neutrality. That would keep broadband providers from charging premiums to content providers (like Google or MySpace) for faster connections, which could limit consumer access to some sites. "If Congress guts Net neutrality," says Moby, "independent sites would be choked off, and the Internet will become a private toll road." And that's a whale...
...SnapStream. Set-top boxmakers such as Scientific Atlanta, recently acquired by Cisco, are incorporating place-shifting into their devices. But is there really a mass market of people who need real-time TV broadcasts on the road? The underlying technology is already with us: there are over 200 million broadband subscriptions in the world, growing to over 400 million by 2010, according to market research firm In-Stat. And Informa Telecoms & Media says there are over 2 billion mobile-phone subscribers, growing to 3 billion by 2008, many of whom will have high-speed service. Each of those are candidates...
...business trial of the century, the Enron trial thus far has been something of a letdown - especially its peek into the Enron executive suite. Lay and Skilling may have transformed a stodgy natural-gas carrier into a global trader in everything from energy to weather futures and broadband, but the two men remained surprisingly old-school when it came to technology. Take Skilling, a Harvard School of Business grad and master of this brave new digital world. When the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission went after Enron for the California energy crisis, it built a case using in-house e-mails...