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...DIAL W FOR WINDFALL...
...lesson? It's the message, not the medium, that matters. Browsers themselves will inexorably devolve into the equivalent of a dial tone, and the Web battles will be decided by how effectively content providers are able to develop and maintain increasingly rich, complex sites to keep users engrossed enough to spend their time and money online...
...spin-off trend picked up momentum last year, when U.S. companies loosed a record $48 billion worth of ventures into the marketplace. This year, with AT&T casting off its manufacturing division as Lucent Technologies, the value of spin-offs is expected to reach $70 billion. Last week Dial Corp. sent its $1.5 billion consumer-products division spinning...
...with getting off the ventilator. At U.Va. they predicted that he would be able to breathe on his own. They gave him a test called NIF--negative inspiratory force--which measures the effort of the muscles as they try to take in air. He could not move the dial. He thought, "What's wrong with me?" After a long while of trying, he gave up, and the therapists let him. "What they're trying to do," he says, "is get you to take responsibility for your own progress." Then he tried again, took 10 breaths on his own and moved...
Levin's grand theory--one shared by his megamedia peers--is that in the coming radically deregulated era, production married to distribution will allow a company to create, seamlessly, new products for the digital age. As the dial evolves into hundreds of channels and on-demand services, the cable business has regressed to brutal trench warfare over ever slimmer slivers of market share; the game is to control maximum channels in order to ensure a sufficient outlet for ever growing streams of new and recycled programming. Thus Disney buys Capital Cities/ABC; Viacom buys Paramount and launches...