Word: modem
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...twice that of the Personal, and includes support for TCP/IP, the language of the Internet. The Professional comes with an e-mail program, which lets you download your e-mail from popular desktop software such as Eudora. It also has the ability to access the Internet directly via a modem or a special network cable...
With the HomeLink system, you use a modem to connect to BankBoston's encrypted dial-up system via the phone lines they provide with their software. (You can't access HomeLink over the Internet yet.) Enter your personal identification number (PIN) code, and you're ready...
...When the Internet-powers-that-be work alone, however, the results are more dubious. Witness Intel's unveiling Tuesday of Quick Web technology, which will do little more than double the download of a 28.8 modem, while delivering clunky graphics and cached pages. Most surfers would likely prefer to wait for the wintel-Bell cartel to deliver. Next problem: how to handle traffic when everyone and their grandmother is sucking down a million bits a second...
Kids aren't the only ones the government wants to protect from cyberporn. The Federal Trade Commission has negotiated refunds of $2.75 million for thousands of U.S. customers who unwittingly racked up charges in a Net sex scam in which supposedly free Websites rerouted modem connections through the former Soviet Republic of Moldova, taking lascivious surfers on a very costly ride...
...When people are spending three or four hours on the Internet, clearly it is not good for productivity at work, and the same thing is true at home," said Reuters spokesman Paul Waddington. One solution: Turn your modem off right now, in the middle of this sentence, and go for a long walk in the park. Well, it was just a suggestion...