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...failed, wipe-on hair cleanser. Case couldn't hack the glacial pace at P&G. So in 1983, after an introduction from brother Dan, he jumped to a start-up called Control Video Corp., which was perfecting the "can't lose" idea of shilling TV-top boxes that would download and play video games over telephone lines. The idea bombed. But a bit of financial legerdemain turned the firm into Quantum Computer Services, which ran an online network for Commodore 64 computer users, and Case stuck around...
...Internet has grown, so too have the demands for bigger, faster, better routers. Today, Cisco manufactures gigabit routers that can handle a billion bits of information a second. Coming soon, as bandwidth requirements increase and Internet traffic doubles every 100 days--and as we consumers increasingly upload and download video, voice, music and data--Cisco will be ready with terabit (trillion bit) routers and more...
...them interesting. The TV Phone, which goes on sale in Korea later this year and could hit the U.S. in 2001, uses a collapsible antenna to display the soaps, soccer games and sitcoms on its tiny, 1.8-in. color screen. The MP3 Phone, due out by year-end, will download and play digital songs. It connects to a PC via serial cable to download music into its embedded memory...
...protect private property in cyberspace? A California judge will try to tackle that question next week when the latest potentially groundbreaking cyberspace case hits the chambers. This one's a class-action suit by electronics makers against web sites that enable Internet users to download pirated DVDs. It seems that a bunch of Norwegian hackers developed software that allows people to record DVDs from their ROM drives and transmit them over the Net to anyone with the same software - making it possible to produce an infinite number of copies from a single DVD, all at the original quality...
...arguments are often put forward by computer makers such as Dell and Compaq when marketing IBM clones. Now it's up to Judge William Elfving of the Santa Clara County Superior Court to decide if the web sites are at fault. Unfortunately for him, there are no precedents to download...