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...essential literary text. My mother was slightly confused by my desire to delve into the goyim’s good book, but I explained that I wanted to know more about a book which meant so much to so many people. She accepted that response until we received a phone call a few weeks later. “Hello. Is Kasha Tinkelvitz there?” asked the telephone caller. “Um...she’s unavailable at the moment. What is this regarding?” my mother responded. Kasha is our dog, a puff...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Unlikely Enlightenment | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...folks who freed Huffman from his old dial-up connection--the one that hogged his phone line while he was online to check sports scores or read the news--work for the publicly owned utility of the city of Manassas, Va. They are the people who make sure that the 15,000 homes and businesses in this quiet suburb 30 miles southwest of Washington have electricity, water and sewer service. They were never interested in getting into the broadband business--in fact, officials are keen to franchise the operation to an outside investor--but that's exactly what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Competition: Power Play | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

These days most broadband subscribers use either a modem from their cable company or a digital subscriber line (DSL) from their phone company. The first wave of BPL roll-outs doesn't pose much of a threat to the Comcasts and Verizons of the industry, which boast millions of customers and have been selling high-speed access since the late '90s. Some 22 million U.S. households already subscribe to a broadband service, according to Forrester Research analyst Jed Kolko, making it one of the biggest hits of the digital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Competition: Power Play | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...able to carry video too. Electric companies could be the next contender in an extended battle to control not just high-speed surfing but all forms of digital communication and entertainment for the home. Comcast, Cablevision and others already offer multiple services. Idacomm says it plans to offer Internet phone service and video-on-demand to BPL users right off the bat. "That's the triple play," says Vamsi Sistla, broadband analyst for ABI Research. "That's what every network that's sending data is striving for. And [consumers] who can get the apple, the orange and the banana from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Competition: Power Play | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

There's no shortage of advertisers trying to reach the Polish market. Banks, mobile-phone providers and companies like Western Union all seem to grasp the appeal of immigrant readers, many of whom are upwardly mobile and ready to show it with their wallets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spots: Enter the Polish | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

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