Word: cheaping
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...panel holiday." But as long as the price tag on a flat-screen TV is four or more times as much as a comparable tube TV, many consumers will drool and dream but not bite. "Prices [of flat TVs] will be cheaper for consumers this holiday season, but not cheap enough to have them explode off the shelves," says Chris Connery, vice president of market research at DisplaySearch, a consulting firm based in Austin, Texas...
CELL-PHONE GAMES GIVE CHEAP THRILLS a good name. Costing about five bucks a pop, interactive games via mobile phones are booming, with U.S. consumers shelling out an estimated $250 million for them in 2004, according to research firm Zelos Group. Verizon alone offers more than 350 titles. Old favorites like Pac-Man and Tetris have been redesigned for smaller cell-phone screens. They rank among current best sellers, along with card games like blackjack and poker. But there are also plenty of sports and action games out for this fall. The newest trend is multiplayer titles like Family Feud...
...time. Cook County, Ill., is planning a massive 940-sq.-mi. cloud that would light up all of Chicago. Philadelphia announced a humongous hot zone of its own in September. Los Angeles and New York City are soliciting bids from wireless contractors. This stuff is just too cheap and too useful not to have. It doesn't even stop at the city limits. Out in the sticks, where there are no skyscrapers to get in the way of a wi-fi signal, wireless is even bigger. There's a hot spot in rural Walla Walla County, Wash., that runs...
...Skip Crilly, who lived in the hills outside Spokane and couldn't get anybody to run a high-speed line to his house. Like any good engineer, he thought outside the box: maybe he could get the speed without the wiring. The standard wireless Internet technology, wi-fi, was cheap and fast, but it worked only at a range of about 300 ft. What if there was a way to boost that range...
...edged sword: it can empower you, but it can also mess with your privacy. And there's such a thing as too much info. Stick a wi-fi-enabled camera on a streetlamp, stick a solar panel on the camera for power, and suddenly you have got cheap, instant 24-hr. streaming-video surveillance. "How many cities wouldn't want that?" Stalter asks rhetorically. "So Blade Runner is happening." (I think he means 1984, but same difference...