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...Welcome to the future of entertainment, in which highly interactive, highly personalized content is delivered via fast two-way connections over TVs - as well as PCs and mobile phones. You will never watch TV the same way again...
From its headquarters in the shadow of a former summer residence of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Europe Online is pioneering the delivery mechanisms and the content that will allow Europeans to receive Internet-based interactive entertainment via their PCs and televisions. "Others talk about it, we are doing it," says founder Candace Johnson, 48, who also co-founded Luxembourg's Astra, Europe's leading direct-to-home satellite system...
...invested $60 million in Tellme, while Sprint PCS is pushing its new voice-activated dialing and is expected to launch a voice portal of its own later in the year. These services have an added benefit: with subscribers in search of the latest, greatest calling plan hopping around like credit-card customers, personalized features like voice dialing, e-mail and contact managers help people stay put. Says Mark Plakias, senior v.p. at the Kelsey Group: "By the time you've loaded up a voice-dialing system, you don't want to do it again...
...first I was intrigued by the Royal Vista's adorable fold-up keyboard and rock-bottom $60 price. Even better, the Vista was supposed to synchronize addresses, appointments and to-do lists with Microsoft Outlook, the most popular personal-information manager for PCs. But Vista's keyboard got a lot less cute when I actually had to type on it. Entering my mom's address and phone number took about 10 minutes because I kept accidentally hitting a key that erased everything...
...ketchup. It's still surprising that tech-savvy, gadget-happy Japan sat on the sidelines during the boisterous dotcom boom. (Remember that?) Even today, in Japan, the world's second largest economy, only 625,000 homes have high-speed Internet access, out of a population of 126 million people. PCs never caught on, in part because the first models were ugly and bulky and used keyboards the Japanese aren't comfortable with. "We're keypad people," says DoCoMo's president, Keiji Tachikawa...