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...rags are stored. In the next few months the city is planning to give fire fighters clip-on webcams that can stream video back to the fire truck from inside a towering inferno. ("Instead of the fire hose dousing the building with water, you're dousing it with 10 megabit!" exults Stalter, sounding like he's running for office...
...back in 1997. An entrepreneur who sold his search-engine business to Amazon.com Kahle now runs the Internet Archive, a nonprofit that collects and stores a vast library of defunct Web pages. He buys his Internet access wholesale from a local company at the bargain rate of $30 per megabit per month. The archive needs many thousands of megabits to do its job, and Kahle considers the amount of bandwidth that Pozar's San Bruno antenna requires--which costs Kahle less than $200 a month--to be insignificant. He is prepared to be far more generous. "We're a library...
Davis said HASCS has tentatively limited outbound Napster traffic to one half of a megabit per second, although he stressed that number was not final...
...most promising future growth area for the low-orbit-satellite phone market will be the Internet. If the Net keeps expanding at its current pace, companies figure that demand for digital connections will skyrocket. Currently, firms in the U.S. pay about $1,000 a month for a 1.5 megabit-per-second pipeline to the Internet. Eventually, satellites should be able to provide an equivalent uplink at one-tenth the cost. Some analysts even see rates plummeting to $50 a month in the future...
...worldwide economic slump, so have the fortunes of Japanese chip companies. At NEC, profits are down 71%; at Toshiba, earnings are off 39%. As a result, the Japanese have retreated from some markets. Fujitsu, for example, is closing its U.S. chipmaking plant in San Diego. The factory made one-megabit memory ! chips, whose price has plunged in the wake of overproduction by South Korean firms. Japanese firms have recently had to contend with stiff competition from low-cost producers in Taiwan as well. They have also fumbled: Toshiba invented flash technology, but Intel picked up the idea and ran with...