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Like the U.S., Canada is experimenting with two-way data services. Le Groupe Videotron Limitee, a firm based in Montreal, plans to start an experimental system in the city of Chicoutimi, Quebec, that will send and receive electronic mail, regulate thermostats, order pay-per-view movies and get weather reports and stock market quotes. If it works, the plan is to widen it to as many as 1.5 million homes in Montreal and Quebec City. Outside the relatively well-wired confines of North America, however, getting connected can still be a frustrating and costly experience. In Europe and parts...
...beaten up in cyberspace. Every reporter who ventures there soon learns how prickly its inhabitants can be about stories that reinforce the stereotype of the Net as a place where only spies, hackers and child molesters live. Editors are also discovering that the information highway is a two-way street: no matter what they print about gun control, for example, a flood of angry E-mail is almost sure to follow. While few editors will admit to being influenced by such online pressure (unless, of course, it points out an error), most journalists are likely to take the complaints into...
...independent filmmaking. It was thus a sign of the times that at this year's screenings, the talk was not only about actors, directors and hip new movies, but also about the information superhighway. Gathered in Park City, Utah, in January, the Beautiful People heard the experts talk about two-way media, explored online services and debated the merits of CD-ROM technology. ``It's going to be like a geologic upheaval,'' Redford said. ``We're going to have to sit and watch as the pirates of the high seas lock ships and duke...
...wrong to place fully the blame on the masters, as one house resident has recently done with excessive gusto. Discussion is a two-way street: the house committee is not flawless either, and should take more initiative in establishing a constant channel of information between the students and the house masters...
Winding up the latest stage of the largest-everfederal auction of the airwaves, the FCC today announced winners of 30 regional licenses to offer powerful wireless services, such as two-way paging, messaging and faxing. Eleven of the winning bids -- which hand the federal government more than $490 million -- came from minority or women-owned firms. (After those companies receive credits, the government haul drops to $394 million, the FCC said.) The auction, which had six companies competing per region, was designed to produce winners ready to offer consumers increased competition and lower prices, unlike the two-firm limit...