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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...
...gained only 20,000 users. At this point its viewers are primarily using a PC with a CD-ROM drive, a 2D graphics card, a sound card and a digital video-broadcasting card. A new portal will allow subscribers to customize the streaming video they receive over their PCs. Of course the company's target audience is much larger - the 80 million European satellite and cable TV households currently receiving television and audio via Astra's satellites. These potential customers will need set-top boxes built to Europe Online's specifications, which are scheduled to go on sale this autumn...
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...
...becoming PCs, PCs are turning into TVs and phones and personal digital assistants are morphing into portable multimedia devices. But it is not just the devices that are converging. In the home, Internet, telephone, television and stereo systems are fusing into a networked unit that can be controlled either centrally or on the move...
Emily Blue, 25, was driving home from dinner with friends several weeks ago when she decided to call a friend on her Sprint PCS portable cell phone. She was still dialing as she went through an intersection and plowed into a parked Ford Explorer, totaling her own Acura Integra. While suffering only a burnt lip after the air bag exploded in her face, Blue admits to being plenty embarrassed. "I know better than to dial and drive," she insists...