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There is a wild card in the Internet deck too: wireless services. Hughes Network Systems sells DirecPC and DirecDuo dishes (the latter with both Web and TV reception) that can download Web pages at a relatively brisk 200,000 to 400,000 BPS. Last month Loral's CyberStar unit joined the fray with a satellite system of its own. Both are more expensive than cable and DSL (monthly fees can run more than $100 for unlimited use), but satellite dishes can be used almost anywhere, including vacation cabins and other rural locations. Several companies are also experimenting with a ground...
...reserve price for a prototype dining chair: $20,000. For those with less extravagant budgets, the home division of Herman Miller, resurrected in 1994 after countless inquiries from the public about where to buy Eames furniture, has rereleased several pieces--this year it was the "erector set" storage unit, yours for a mere...
Wake up and smell the espresso, America. There's a revolution brewing in Europe, and it could hit you right where it counts: in the pocketbook. On Jan. 1, the currencies of 11 European Union countries will be officially replaced by a central monetary unit called the euro. It will take three years for the old deutsche mark, franc and lira coins and bank notes to disappear, but in less than two months their values will be pegged to that of the euro. And savvy U.S. investors are moving to take advantage of investment opportunities offered by the new currency...
...freedom and choice." But for the passengers of Flight 111, that in-seat entertainment center may have been a deadly luxury. Last week Swissair announced it was shutting down the system on its 18 jumbo jets after Canadian investigators dredged up evidence of suspicious heat damage near the unit on the Geneva-bound MD-11 that crashed off the Nova Scotia coast Sept. 2, killing all 229 people aboard. The airline said the step was precautionary and no cause for the crash has been determined. Canada's Transportation Safety Board agreed with the airline's position, yet the findings point...
...installed only aboard Swissair jets--could have generated enough heat to trigger the disaster. Salvage crews have pulled up evidence of heat damage above the ceiling that straddles the cockpit and first-class cabin, which is where the heart of the in-flight-entertainment system was housed. Each unit uses Microsoft Windows NT software, with a powerful Pentium processor at each seat wired to a central computer. These wires, pulled out of the Atlantic, also had been damaged by high temperatures. Investigators found that the wires had been connected to the same electrical pathway that powers vital aircraft functions, rather...