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...dial the number, and the automated voice answers. "Our menu has changed," the voice says. And you are thinking, Yes, it's going to be even worse than before. Customer experiences like those thrill Karl-Heinz Land, whose VoiceObjects program threatens to make us actually enjoy automated-voice systems...
...folks who freed Huffman from his old dial-up connection--the one that hogged his phone line while he was online to check sports scores or read the news--work for the publicly owned utility of the city of Manassas, Va. They are the people who make sure that the 15,000 homes and businesses in this quiet suburb 30 miles southwest of Washington have electricity, water and sewer service. They were never interested in getting into the broadband business--in fact, officials are keen to franchise the operation to an outside investor--but that's exactly what they...
...huge chunk of the market is still up for grabs: namely, the 40 million-plus homes using dial-up to connect. For some of these users, a 56K modem is plenty. But budding BPL providers are betting that a significant number of consumers really do want broadband service but are simply holding out for a better offer...
...electrical outlet, and you're online. The connection speeds are likely to be slower than the typical cable-modem setup (which clocks in at 1 mbps or faster), but they are comparable to most DSL services, which tend to run at about 500 kbps (10 times as fast as dial-up). And BPL is a symmetrical service, meaning it's just as fast sending out digital photos and other fat files as it is bringing them in; cable and DSL services are typically much slower on the upstream...
...Rhetoric doesn't always match reality in the realm of foreign affairs, and in what may be a further sign that steps are being taken to dial down tensions with Iran, the U.S. military in Baghdad on Friday released nine Iranians in its custody - including two of the five nabbed in Irbil in January, who the U.S. had accused of being linked to Shi'ite militias fighting U.S. troops inside Iraq. There are indications that Tehran may also be acting to cool tensions with the U.S. in Iraq: U.S. officials say the number of deadly explosively-formed-penetrator...