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...live video used to require a huge satellite truck, thousands of dollars in equipment and several strong souls to lug around bulky machines. Then YouTube came along, and all you needed was a camera, a computer and a little bit of Web savvy. Now Web video has gotten even easier. With Qik.com, a free Web service launched in public test mode on July 21, all you need is a cell phone...
...serious merger talks last summer after Smith decided that TCI would make an ideal match for his company. ''We kept it to a small number of people,'' Smith says, ''although we kept Salomon Brothers as a backup. We did all the negotiations ourselves. No outsiders.'' Maintaining the secret became easier once the Paramount bidding war broke out in September and grabbed the attention of Wall Street and the media. Like Malone, Smith views the Paramount fight as a side issue. He envisions the new Bell Atlantic more as a toll taker on the electronic highway than as a provider...
...reassessing their goals for general elections scheduled for next spring. The Socialists are expected to try to forge a partnership with Waldheim's People's Party, renewing the popular coalition that governed Austria from 1945 to 1966. The ''back to the future'' sentiments should give Waldheim an easier time on the domestic front. By contrast, the determined efforts of war-crime investigators are likely to plague the President-elect for a long time to come...
...couple of hundred kilometers over enemy territory is a very uncomfortable place to operate.'' In fact, the entire SDI apparatus for boost- phase sensing and shoot-down would have to be predeployed in space and would therefore be extremely susceptible to a pre-emptive enemy attack. ''It is easier to destroy the space-based components of a strategic defense system,'' says former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, ''than it is to destroy the ballistic missiles.'' Nor would defenders have much time to identify and hit a missile during this initial stage. Today the Soviet ICBM boost phase lasts...
...Nobel Peace Prize, but remains little known in the U.S. ''We're a household name in Europe. I want a grassroots- level recognition here too,'' Healey explains. At first he had trouble getting artists. Many were ''aided'' out. ''Six weeks ago I had just about decided it was easier to deal with dictators than rock 'n' rollers,'' said Healey with a grin. A few acts were quick to sign on, however. Sting, who has been on the road with a new band for the past 18 months, says only Amnesty could have dragged him out of bed to perform. Because...