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...signed up for a new Internet phone service called Vonage, which costs $40 a month for unlimited local and long-distance calling (plus a one-time $25 setup fee). The average American phone bill is $55, so that's a pretty good deal, even factoring in the cost of a broadband Internet connection, which is required. You sign up online at www.vonage.com and they send you a sinister-looking box the size of a large ashtray. Hook your cable modem or DSL line up to one end of the box, plug any ordinary phone into the other...
...Eurowimp," says a senior White House aide. "He's not ponderous or hand wringing. He gets to the bottom line, and that's [George] Bush's cup of tea." That's high praise from an Administration that puts such value on straight shooting. It's also a setup. As Bush contemplates military action against Iraq, he hopes he will be able to count on support from his good friend, who has been such a solid ally during the war in Afghanistan...
...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 course in home networking is also included. For $100 more, you get one wireless adapter for a desktop or notebook...
...networks expand, any device in your home that has a microprocessor in it could potentially hook up to your home network, either for content delivery or home automation," says Chris Kaminski, editor and founder of HomeNetHelp.com a networking-advice website based in Ferndale, Mich. In such a setup, the computer becomes a peripheral, just one other machine being fed from the outside. And your broadband-service provider would become your source for movies, music and games. The first step is to establish standards that allow providers to deliver these services to individual homes and control how content is used...
...Stefanchik, who has the skill to place the ball in different spots depending on the defensive setup, is naturally most attracted to the strategy of the game...