Word: modem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...middle of the best economy in more than two decades, people in Chillicothe, Ohio, can see the fireworks but can't hear the boom. Prosperity is not a parade through the center of town; it has arrived so quietly, by modem and by minivan, that people here don't trust what they...
...hard--not that he could do it any other way--for a new generation of inexpensive, easy-to-use network computers, the so-called NCs. The idea is simple enough: build an inexpensive box (under $500) that combines the best of a PC (some processing smarts, a screen, a modem) with the best of the Net (tons of information, most of it free). Behind the scenes, database software (Oracle's, of course) will make all this goodness transparently simple to navigate. On the front end, in Ellison's vision, might be Apple's famously friendly user interface, returning, Lazarus-like...
...that the gap between have- and have-nots will not extend to information." Winners in the deal: Consumers with one phone line who make a lot of long distance calls will get a 5-15 percent rate cut. Losers: Small businesses and anyone with a second line for a modem or fax. Per-month charges for lines for business firms will go up from $5.50 to $6 on July 1, and to $7.50 in 1998. Second home lines will go up from $3.50 to $4.50 and then...
...expects within the next 12 months), Homegate will become a realistic alternative to long-distance phone service. That Alaskan businessman will be able to connect to the Jakarta Net gateway and "call up" any number around the world at the 10[cents] a minute rate. A laptop and a modem will allow anyone to bypass the expensive (and difficult) international phone system, offering millions in savings. Homegate has already signed up one corporate customer for 25,000 copies of the software. The year 2000 target: a million users. Cost: $15 a month...
...companies in New York state with false and deceptive advertising. The ring allegedly lured Web surfers to its sites with the promise of free erotic pictures. Those who wanted to see the photographs first had to download special software that, once installed, surreptitiously hijacked the computer's modem. The program disconnected the users from their Internet provider and silently dialed a number in Moldova, a state east of Romania. Phone charges of up to $3 per minute kept mounting, even after the user stopped using the site, until the computer was turned off. Since some people leave their computers...