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...newsstands? Don't flatter yourself. On the other hand, in an age when anyone with a modem can publish a Web page accessible to all of planet Earth, who needs newsstands? You may not be a celebrity, and public interest in your sins may be meager. But as cyberspace grows, its ultra-narrowcasting will serve even meager appetites. So next time you scorn a lover or a friend, make sure she doesn't have Web-authoring software. Just imagine--your own personal Linda Tripp, mad as ever and now equipped with...
...fixed digital camera that can send color snapshots to any computer or Web page every 30 seconds. Unlike similar products that must be tethered to a PC just a few feet away, the $300 FoneCam (available at fonecam.com simply plugs into a phone jack and uses its built-in modem to send pics to any computer across the country. Software is included to let owners schedule the frequency of photo transmissions...
...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...