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...whether you look up stock quotes (though we draw the line at capturing the symbols of the specific stocks you follow). If you come to the Netly News, we'll record your interest in technology. Then, the next time you visit, we might serve up an ad for a modem or an online brokerage firm or a restaurant in Akron, Ohio, depending on what we've managed to glean about...
Your illustration of the Mars Sojourner vehicle, "Bargain-Basement Rover" [SPACE, July 14], included a description I got a kick out of. You noted that the vehicle's radio modem "sends signals only at a sluggish 9,600 bits per sec." I was working at the Space Technology Labs in 1957, when we sent our first satellite to the moon. With a 5W transmitter, we were able to receive data at only 1 bit per sec. by the time we got to the moon. The incoming data were so slow that we were decoding them...
...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...