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...coast of Venezuela, three 400-ft. ships are laying down miles of high-speed fiber-optic cable capacious enough to carry 600,000 calls simultaneously. In a high mountain town outside Cuzco, Peru, a co-op of native farmers has found a way to get more than 10 times the local price for its potato crop by selling to a New York City organic-food store it found on the Internet. In the streets of Sao Paulo, fashionable women have taken to carrying around white West Highland terriers, the mascot of a free Internet-service provider called iG that, like...
...Fiber-optic lighting for the patio spa is gaining popularity, mostly because the wiring remains far away from the water and the typical system is lit entirely by a single 150-watt lightbulb ? which can be changed without draining the pool...
Fiberstars, based in Fremont, Calif., offers a pool-lighting package through contractors that typically costs $800 to $1,200. The system is simple: A small box 15 feet from the pool houses the bulb and the reflectors. Fiber-optic lines run underground from the box, surfacing where traditional lighting would normally be installed. Those going for a "Star Trek" effect can opt for glowing tubes mounted along the pool's rim. If you're more curious about the extremes of mood lighting, try experimenting with individual or rotating color filters placed in front of the light source. Psychedelic, baby...
...NAME, TEAM] Daniel Pettit, JDS Uniphase [SOLD*] $70 million [CURRENT**] $328 million [INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS] Senior v.p. books gains with shares of fiber-optic firm flying...
...jewel" for Vodafone. The sparkle comes from the fact that both firms have a special focus on wireless, mobile communications. Wireless is a key part of the new international telecoms order because wireless systems are far easier to build and maintain than in-the-ground copper or fiber-optic networks. And in an age of globalization, Vodafone--which also owns AirTouch--could offer to let its users roam freely from nation to nation without having to pay the exorbitant special charges that they face today. Observes Frank Wellendorf, a telecommunications analyst with Westdeutsche Landesbank: "Clearly, Vodafone is in a very...