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...Improvements in the division, Armstrong says, are "not future conjecture, but really? today's reality." He said the company is breaking even in its high-speed Internet business and expects to have more than 20 percent of AT&T's cable customers signed up for cable modem service by 2005. It has firm plans to improve its balance sheet with cost-cutting and price hikes, and has already slashed 10,000 jobs in the past year (with 3,000 more on the way). And although they?re still anemic by industry standards, profits are up slightly from last year...
DIAL M FOR MODEM Last week AT&T unveiled 25 Internet pay phones at airports in New York, Atlanta and Dallas. The AT&T Public Phone 2000i has a 12-in. screen, a full-size keyboard and a touch pad. Internet access comes at a reasonable 25[cents] per minute (with a 4-min. minimum), and callers can talk and surf at the same time. No, you don't get your quarter back if you don't have any e-mail...
...airboard is not for everybody. At $1,065, it costs as much as a laptop but isn't meant for serious computing. Checking e-mail is easy, but a 56-kbps modem makes for pretty poky surfing. The touch panel is fine for sending quick messages, but pushing the on-screen buttons is tedious for anything longer. And it has a short leash: airboarders can drift only 30 m from the base station, a distance that may be fine for Japan's rabbit-hutch homes but is too weak for many rambling American houses...
...created a neat hack: it added a digital-signal processing chip that bypasses the operating system. You'll need to shell out $150 more for a 64 MB memory stick, though--the 8 MB stick included with the unit holds three songs max. And if you want a wireless modem, you'll have to wait until the end of the year...
...who’s really causing these new problems? A knee-jerk reaction would cast blame on those people who have four cell phones, two pagers, a fax line, a modem line and five phone lines in their house. Granted, it might be a bit excessive to have more phone numbers than limbs, but the real problem is that telephone companies waste the phone numbers that are allocated to them by an archaic blocking scheme, dating back more than six decades, that wastes numbers on sparsely-populated rural areas...