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...line up to one end of the box, plug any ordinary phone into the other end, and you're ready to go. No PC required. (If you want to share your connection with a PC, as most people will, you'll need to run it through a router. Vonage will sell you one for $25; the setup is a little more involved, but it's still not brain surgery...
...broadband customers, charging $100 for the wired version, $250 for wireless. Networking cards for each PC are $50. Customers must install the gear, but for $9.95 a month they get unlimited phone-based technical support and a promise that no matter what the trouble is--poor network connection, faulty router--EarthLink won't pass the buck. Gateway, a PC manufacturer that also sells broadband services and networking equipment, goes a step further: for $399, it will send a technician to your house to install the equipment and configure each computer (often the trickiest part of the setup process). A crash...
...Vision Thing: "DASAR is a human router of a new kind: we direct and give personal access, point-to-point, to all executives of the technology networks...
...Cisco, these days, there is a Sun and an AMD, issuing glum earnings outlooks and quietly smothering the newborn tech optimism in its cradle. And the NASDAQ that had posted decent gains Thursday on the it's-gonna-be-OK news from America's bellwether PC producer and router-maker quickly crumbled, shedding its gains dolefully into Friday afternoon. Taken together with job cuts soaring to ten-year highs last month (and that's just the barest taste of the post-disaster economy - the hold at 4.9 percent unemployment for September is the ultimate in lagging indicators...
...Code Deep Purples of tomorrow. Not half-assed worms cobbled together by so-called "script kiddies" who merely download the right pieces of code and whose intentions are basically benign. I'm talking about vast and malicious super worms. If you could create something that attacked Cisco router software, for example, you really would cause a global Internet meltdown...