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3Com plans to introduce a new line of home phone-line networking kits this summer, but the product it is promoting now uses a traditional Ethernet connection, adapted to guarantee a 15-min. set-up time (or so the company says). Called OfficeConnect, it includes a small, flat box that serves as both the network hub and the modem or high-speed connection for accessing the Internet. Many agree with 3Com that Ethernet remains the most reliable option, particularly for small businesses and home offices with no time to be anyone's beta tester. OfficeConnect looks easy enough...
Computers are not the only high-tech items in the home that could benefit from a network. Industry analyst Karuna Uppal of The Yankee Group argues that home networking will be even more appealing to householders once the technology is extended to things like TVs, DVD players and stereos, home security systems and central air conditioning. Sun Microsystems is licensing a Java-based technology called Jini that is supposed to offer a no-fuss way to make home entertainment devices and other non-PC appliances part of any home network. Microsoft is working on a competing standard called Universal Plug...
...three main areas of networking--PC to PC, home entertainment and home automation--are all different," says IDC's Childs. "But eventually they will all merge somehow." Cisco sees its networking software inside everything from TVs to toasters. IBM and Bell Atlantic have said their home networks will be able to include not just PCs but also VCRs and light switches...
...same can be said for charity work. Susan Riker Dolan, 41, a former nurse turned attorney, began volunteering at a hospice in Madison, Wis., in 1995. She started spending four hours a week comforting dying patients and their families. When she married and moved to her current home of Park Ridge, Ill., Dolan continued her volunteer work. She began spending time with hospice administrators, lunching with the executive director and assisting the group with volunteer training. Eventually she signed on as a marketing and promotions manager. "I can't wait to go to work each day," Dolan says. "I guess...
...billion-a-year company's formulas for making adhesive labels and tape. Officials say China--already defending against charges of nuclear espionage in the Los Alamos case--and Taiwan are among the most notorious purloiners of business secrets, allegedly sending graduate students to infiltrate companies and bring data home...