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...Europe Online started its mass consumer launch in November, and has so far 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...
...working parts. IBM resells a third of the used equipment it gets back from corporate leases in online sales and auctions. "It's a profitable business for us," says Joe Lane, general manager for global financing. Old chips get second lives in electronic toys. Outdated CD-ROM and hard drives are reborn as replacement parts...
...Application Service Provider, a recent trendlet among Net businesses. Increasingly, software companies deliver their stuff to you exclusively online, in tiny installments that they can automatically upgrade and maintain--you don't do a thing. Within a few years, software that comes in a box or on a CD-ROM will go the way of milk delivered in bottles...
...European colonies extended rights of denization (a preliminary to citizenship) to those coming from any part of Europe ? including Jews ? before such rights were available in the respective mother countries. Evidence from slave ship revolts ? collected as part of the transatlantic slave trade database project (now available on CD-ROM from Cambridge University Press) ? suggests that African cohesiveness in resistance to the trade increased over the decades so that there was much more likelihood of a slave ship rebellion being successful in the second half of eighteenth century than a century earlier. From a broad five century perspective, everyone...
Gates and Appiah launched the site on Martin Luther King's birthday in 1999, largely to sell copies of the Africana encyclopedia on CD-ROM and in print...