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...download-ready qualities. In Wolf's words: "I drank the Kool-Aid." As Wolf and other producers sell their wares in the annual TV-industry ritual known as development season, new technologies are changing the way they do business. With high-quality video available on 200 million PCs via broadband, 200 million 3-GB mobile phones, an estimated 4 million iPods and other devices, the Big Four networks (ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox) are scrambling for ways to deliver content over a panoply of platforms. They are also scrambling to figure out a business model that can predictably deliver profits...
...Speed Up Your Surfing Google's experimental Web accelerator is a free program that helps broadband browsers load sites more efficiently, so you waste less time waiting for pages to load. The software works by routing your requests for certain Web pages through fast Google-managed machines, compressing online information before sending it to your computer, and by centrally storing copies of Web pages that are used often, to make them more quickly accessible. Like many of Google's services and downloads, the tool doesn't work on Macs, a source of much grief among those who favor Apple machines...
...meantime. I can think of two groups who would probably love to pay $10 per month to watch loads of decent movies. First, the road warriors who are sick of toting a bag of DVDs on every flight (and paying for all of those discs). Second, people who have broadband at home, but don't spring for premium cable. Vongo might not have the selection that Netflix offers, but the near-instant gratification of a 25-minute download is alluring...
...provide the city of Cambridge with free wireless internet access. A “mesh” system connects and expands various pre-existing wireless internet sites to offer wireless services with a higher level of quality than dial-up, but a lower level of quality than DSL or broadband, said City Councillor Michael Sullivan...
...soon be overshadowed by phones from Samsung and LG, built to run on Cingular's new high-speed network. Verizon and Sprint have radically expanded their entertainment offerings over the past few months and Cingular is apt to try and keep up. The SLVR is sexy and slim, but broadband it ain't. That might not matter to the target customer whose main concern is to talk - and look good doing...