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...global economy. Growth in some Western countries might be struggling, but Schwartz argues that technological advances and management innovations point to rising productivity levels and a "Long Boom" ahead. Thanks to further trade integration through globalization, quantum computers up to 100 million times as powerful as today's PCs, and widespread fiber-optic broadband by 2015, he estimates that "we will probably come close to a doubling of the overall standard of living throughout the world in a generation." The globe's second-most-powerful economy in 2020? China. Prediction No. 2: The U.S. doctrine of preemptive strikes and increasing...
...cable-broadband services common around the globe. That fiber is fast enough to deliver movies without any hiccups, and to send songs in seconds rather than minutes. Scaglia and his company, e.Biscom, are funneling feature films and sitcoms--plus conventional Web and phone services--to PCs and TVs in six major Italian cities. Born during the late-'90s Internet boom, e.Biscom is on a steady growth path in a cooled-down economy. "The idea is to create a network with no bandwidth limitation," says Scaglia...
...cell phone. It's a wireless music player. It's both. At the end of July, Sprint plans to become the first carrier to let subscribers play full-length songs on its phones, radio-style. Those who've signed up for the high-speed Sprint PCS Vision service will get to choose from 50 different songs from Sony and Warner Music. There's almost no delay before the tune starts playing, thanks to streaming technology. But we found the sound quality to be a bit wobbly on the phone we tried. If you like what you hear, you can download...
...soon to tell if phone blogging will be more than a passing fad, but the early buzz has prompted AT&T Wireless and Sprint PCS to offer password-protected online photo albums for up to $15 a month to customers with phone cams. Other services, such as Textamerica.com let people create public phone-cam blogs for free. Posting pictures is as easy as sending an e-mail. On some phone-cam blogs, you can also add a few lines of text or an audio clip and invite others to comment...
Steen said the Bugbear e-mails most likely came from machines belonging to deans’ assistants, many of whom use PCs...