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BRIGHT LIGHTS Dreading yet another year of hauling out the Christmas lights and replacing all the dead bulbs? New Forever Bright lights by Fiber Optic Designs are made of shatter-resistant light-emitting diodes that the company claims will last up to 20 years and cut energy costs up to 85%, compared with regular incandescent Christmas bulbs. Available in red, yellow and green and selling for about $10 for a string of 100, they might rekindle your holiday spirit...
Most companies happily depend on underground fiber-optic lines for the high-speed transmission of voluminous data. So providers of wireless technologies have had a hard time gaining market share. But the World Trade Center tragedy has unexpectedly given them a chance to show off their wares. Because the fiber-optic lines in lower Manhattan were damaged, Merrill Lynch turned to Seattle-based Terabeam, which provides laser transmitters (like the one below) that connect individual offices to the data network. The devices, trained on each other through windows, can send a gigabit of information per second--600 times faster than...
...viewed with suspicion by the often insular business and government elites of the Caribbean Basin. It was just one more way, they grumbled, to get trampled by the global economy. But bold investors are finding opportunity in that angst. This year, more than 5,000 miles of undersea fiber-optic cable is being laid from Miami to the Yucatan to the Bahamas, wiring 15 countries and islands. The $450 million venture is led by a firm based in Miami and Bermuda, aptly called New World Network. "It makes sense for us precisely because the Caribbean is so underserved," says...
...globalization. U.S. capability was built to listen in on the Soviets, a lumbering nation-state that had to rely on its own communication technology. Bin Laden, on the other hand, is able to take advantage of the best the global communications industry can offer. "Cell phones, encryption, fiber optic communications, digital communication. Those are all available to people who would do harm to the United States of America," Hayden told "60 Minutes." He urged Congress to spend a lot more money on upgrading the U.S. electronic intelligence capability...
...about 12:30 p.m., a heavily armed SWAT team clad in bulletproof gear and helmets entered the building with shields, special entry gear, a battering ram and fiber-optic equipment, which the police used to peak under doors in the hotel. The Boston Police Bomb Squad arrived shortly after 1 p.m., and four Boston ambulances waited outside with lights flashing, including a special tactical response unit with EMTs in bulletproof vests and helmets...