Word: modem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these may be full of hot air. Modem technology has a habit of improving beyond what anyone thought possible, and satellite's competitors--digital phone lines and cable modems--are getting cheaper and better, making it unlikely that most city dwellers will opt for satellite or blimp connections anytime soon. How well ventures like Teledesic, Globalstar and Iridium will do depends largely on the answer to one question: Are they offering something radically new, or just another incremental feature for an existing technology...
Other new offerings from FAS Computer Services include a Dial-Up networking installer on CD-ROM, which includes new versions of Netscape and other programs; full networking support for Windows 98; Windows NT Workstation software on Science Center labs; and 56K and ISDN-compatibility on the dialup modem pool, enabling users with these high-speed modems to access the FAS network
...Swirl360--pop rockers who are 23-year-old identical twins--released a few MP3 songs online at swirl360.com last week. "We think of it as an advertisement," Sabec added. Besides, while it's possible to download a band's entire CD, it takes too long--on a 56.6K modem, figure 10 minutes a song. So maybe the recording industry isn't dead...
...tiny, teardrop island does to multifarious India. He favors elliptical, charged fragments that show drifters caught between the "flat, newly built motorways" of England, "empty as the moon itself," and an island they can sustain only in memory and illusion. "I know how to live with only a modem and a slip of plastic," says his wandering narrator at the end of this deeply melancholy and beautiful book, "but with each jolt I find I yearn for a story without...
...does put an awful lot of power in your hands. You can start with the simplest of questions--How do I buy a new sport- utility vehicle?--and step away from your PC in an hour with more information than you might have gathered in a month without a modem. And that information may be better than anything you've ever seen. Carpoint.com the Microsoft website, lets you look at 3D, interactive pictures of the inside of dozens of sports cars--something you can't do anywhere in the real world. The virtual world, for all its hype and promise...