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...wireless industry insists progress is being made on all fronts. Service and screens are improving, it says. And wireless broadband is coming. Metricom, a company providing wireless modem connections to users in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, will be rolling out high-speed wireless by the end of the year. It is expected to take service to 120K or higher. And the industry says mobile 384K wireless (as fast as a high-speed DSL connection) should be available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wireless Summer | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

...them through the panoply of developing technologies, is in its second month as a freestanding magazine. "The need for a regular monthly guide became apparent in the past year," says TIME DIGITAL staff writer Maryanne Murray Buechner, pictured on the June issue's cover, drowning in a sea of broadband cables. "We've had a host of digital products available to us in the past decade, but it's really only in the past year that there have been so many competing products. That's created the need for a road map to help people figure out how these products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contributors: May 29, 2000 | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

...just our city or extends across the country? If you were talking 10 years ago, when cable just meant the provision of TV signals, the answer probably would be no. But cable isn't just about getting a clear picture of your favorite baseball team anymore. It's about broadband - high-speed Internet access, television programming and telephone all coming down the same tube. And with that spicy mixture, you might not want it all to be controlled by one entity, a situation highlighted a few weeks back when Time Warner Cable blacked out programming from the rival Disney Company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should We Fret Over Another Cable Marriage? | 5/26/2000 | See Source »

...might actually be good for competition, because tentacles of the resultant giant would work their way into communities previously dependent on one cable or Internet provider, challenging the status quo and presumably forcing prices down. There is also the growing realization that cable lines will not be the only broadband entryway to people's homes forever: Advances in satellite technology and improvements in phone lines will no doubt mean increased competition at this crucial part of the information-delivery chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should We Fret Over Another Cable Marriage? | 5/26/2000 | See Source »

...Super Bowl LIV in 2020. Record-setting numbers of viewers are tuned in to watch the game, but not on television and not over the Internet. Instead they are using handheld broadband devices that allow them to project the transmission onto any flat surface. And in 2020, just as today, viewers are interested in the game, but they're even more interested in the advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Will Advertisers Reach Us? | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

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