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...music revived. Summer means inhabiting some place other than Cambridge, and that means a radio dial with real options...
There is very little you cannot reach from Zeng's tiny room: Tibetan-freedom websites, raunchy Danish porn, headlines from the New York Times. Zeng's 1,000 Internet subscribers can dial into his computers from all over Beijing and connect nearly limitlessly to the electronic world. They can send e-mail, photos and news of China. And they can receive practically anything else. When the government blocks a website, as it still is wont to do from time to time, Zeng's customers simply surf elsewhere. Is reuters.com jammed? They can jump to washingtonpost.com...
...higher than the deep discounters charge (see chart). Schwab's secret has been to knock down the wall between its online business and its 5 million regular account holders, giving everyone access to the entire range of products and services available at the firm. These include round-the-clock, dial-up brokers and technical support, and a financial supermarket that offers 1,500 different mutual funds...
Another downside lies in the dependence of IP telephone companies upon the existing phone system. If local direct-dial and touch-tone phone service were not available nationwide, none of these firms could even offer their services...
...your radio dial...