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Dubinsky, meanwhile, finally found an angel. U.S. Robotics, the leading modem seller, based in Skokie, Ill., was looking to extend its brand. "They weren't in Silicon Valley, so they didn't know the conventional wisdom that these things were dogs," she says. In September 1995, the Midwesterners bought Palm Computing...
...Internet is more than a great medium for Drudge's content; his brand of journalism couldn't exist without it. With little money and less experience, Drudge created a small media empire with just a 486 computer and a modem...
...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...