Word: contentment
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...world of the near future, all manner of content--magazines, movies, music, books, shopping--will be pouring into your home through your cable television line. The cable is now known as broadband because, even though it looks the same, technology has made it fatter and faster. When broadband access fuses the new and old economies with a bang, consumers will have a simple concern: If the broadband world is ruled by one company, will we have to pay more? Will we have a choice of what we watch? And if we don't stop them now, will we be able...
...Case and Levin wouldn't budge when the FTC demanded the right to regulate the placement of AOL Time Warner content, fearing they would lose control of their own products. It was a make-or-break issue. In their 11th-hour concession, signed off on at 5:30 last Wednesday afternoon, they agreed to report any complaints from competitors who believe they've been denied AOL Time Warner content...
...eking out an existence buying German-language rights to non-German films, then selling the product to cinemas and TV stations. Like film producers, such distributors succeed or fail on the basis of their ability to pick winners and avoid losers. But while a producer can control cost and content from day one, distributors bid on individual films or bundles of films that are already in the can. It made sense, therefore, that someone who can make money with his hands tied as a distributor could make more money with his hands free to tinker as a producer--if only...
...rex.net $149) goes where the others can't: inside a laptop. The tiny touchscreen PDA is really a PC card, the kind that can slide into the side of portables. If you don't use a laptop, you can buy the optional cradle to fill REX with content from the Web or synchronized schedules from Microsoft Outlook. REX is right for inveterate networkers who travel light and don't want to miss a single digit...
...expanded opportunity created by Barak's desperation - against the wisdom of making a deal with a lame-duck Israeli leader underwritten by a lame-duck U.S. president. Although Arafat has not ruled out the possibility of direct talks with Barak in the coming weeks, he may be content to go through the motions and wait to see where the political chips may fall. And, of course, to spend a good part of his time in Washington trying to cozy up to Colin Powell and Condi Rice...