Word: modems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both of these bandwidth bandwagons are on a roll lately. At a gathering in Chicago this week, many of the country's largest cable and computer companies will plot speedy-modem marketing strategies with big electronics retailers like Circuit City and Radio Shack. This follows a recent agreement to make all cable modems work the same, so you can buy and install one yourself rather than staying home from work to have a cable guy install a leased modem for you (assuming he shows...
...straight through, without having to fast-forward past any atrocious songs. But Junkie dares more and misses more--it's a more admirable album than her last but not a more listenable one. A few tunes, like the smooth Unsent, are readily agreeable. But too many, like faulty modem hookups, crackle and wail and fail to connect emotionally. Despite such flaws, it's impressive that Morissette and her talented co-producer/co-writer, Glen Ballard, had the courage to release a CD as rambunctious as this one. The follow-up to this follow-up could really be something...
...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...
...straightforward. You plug a standard phone line into one hole in the back of the box and a standard telephone receiver into the other. You use the telephone to dial your Internet provider and to punch in your log-in and password. Then the Aplio--with its built-in modem--takes over, connecting you to the party you are trying to speak to. It connects you, that is, if the party has an Aplio synched to yours, which probably requires enough prearrangement by telephone to eat up most of that 95% saving...
...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...