Word: modems
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...cable empire is finally striking back. Its secret weapon: blisteringly fast access to the Internet, courtesy of the cable modem, an electronic gadget that connects computers to the outside world via cable-TV lines instead of phone lines. In the past two weeks, America's two largest cable operators, TCI and Time Warner, launched the nation's first commercial cable-modem services in Fremont, California, and Akron, Ohio, respectively. Time Warner built its own service, dubbed Road Runner (after Warner Bros.' lightning-speed cartoon character); TCI joined forces with a Silicon Valley start-up called @Home. The basic pitch, however...
...answer that question that the leading major U.S. cable operators are racing to become Internet providers. Today's media darling, @Home, which launched last year vowing to build the first national cable-modem network, has exclusive deals with TCI, Cox and Comcast. In addition to its Fremont service, it is readying rollouts with TCI in Hartford, Connecticut, and Arlington, Illinois; Cox in Orange County, California; and Comcast in Baltimore, Maryland. "We're in a frenzy," says CEO Tom Jermoluk. "We've got 20 or 30 cities going online. We'll reach hundreds of thousands of homes very shortly...
Netscape wasted little time in counterattacking. Two weeks later, on Aug. 26, company founder Jim Clark unveiled blueprints for a new software firm called Navio that will try to outflank Microsoft by putting browser software on pretty much anything with a screen and a modem. The first stop is likely to be an Internet TV, followed by a $500 network computer, online video gaming machines and Net-surfing cell phones. Organized around a powerhouse electronics alliance that includes just about everyone but Microsoft (Sony, NEC, Nintendo and IBM are supporting the venture), the company...
That may be the question of the year. The man represents the Internet industry's most coveted market: the estimated 85% to 90% of American homes that aren't yet connected. For this Passive Majority, most of whom don't even own a computer, let alone a modem, "Net TV" would seem to make perfect sense. After all, nearly everybody in America has a TV and a telephone, and many are presumably curious to learn what the World Wide Web is all about. If they could use their existing sets to access the Infobahn from the comfort of their...
...intersection of cyberspace and Wall Street has produced an unlikely offshoot: the message board as quasi fan club. Some of today's highest-flying stocks are being cheered along by a chorus of believers singing their praises online. U.S. Robotics, a red-hot computer-modem producer, has been touted by hundreds of postings with headings like, "Buy USRX any time...