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So it came as somewhat of a surprise when two of the biggest players -- Time Warner, the nation's second largest cable operator, and U S West, the fifth $ largest telephone company -- announced last week that they were becoming digital partners. In a deal that sent television-, telecommunications- and entertainment...
What made the Time Warner-U S West merger possible was an accident of geography: although U S West covers 14 states and Time Warner has cable franchises in 36 states, there is almost no overlap in the territories they cover. (Even so, the deal had to be crafted to...
Speaking of microprocessors, you probably have heard a lot of talk about the Alpha chip from the Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), the nation's second-largest computer maker. With an initial clocking speed of 150 MHz (150 million cycles per second) and plans to increase this figure to as much...
Suddenly the brave new world of video phones and smart TVs that futurists have been predicting for decades is not years away but months. The final bottleneck - the "last mile" of wiring that takes information from the digital highway to the home - has been broken, and a blue-chip corporate...
For the phone companies, the breakthrough came three years ago when scientists at Bellcore, the research arm of the Baby Bells, found a way to do what everybody had assumed was impossible: squeeze a video signal through a telephone wire. The technology, known as asymmetric digital subscriber line, has some...