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...game like Arabian Nights, which Europe Online now offers over the Internet, takes only 42 seconds to download via Europe Online vs. 32 minutes using a regular 56KB/second telephone dial-up connection. The reason Europe Online is so speedy is that its network uses multiple technologies for the up-link to the satellite. Among them: cable modems, integrated services digital network (ISDN) lines, digital subscriber lines (DSL), wireless application protocol (WAP) and other broadband distribution systems...
...Their vision was to link e-learning and digital TV. The two dreamed up an action plan at her kitchen table one weekend in January of 1998. "We were going into an election in Sweden and there was a public debate about the failure of the school system," Wegelius says. "We thought, what if we could take the storytelling powers of the media world and marry that with the best academic content using new interactive digital technology - take Hollywood and Stanford and move them to Silicon Valley? Maybe we could create a completely new learning environment...
...teaching people how to become pop stars. A series of 10 half-hour TV shows included discussions with popular groups such as Ace of Base about how they got started. The Kworld.se website offered a Beat Lab corner where people could chat online with artists, get resource material and link to music companies. The website sold a CD-ROM 10-part music course, which went from how to compose a song to how to write a contract with a record company...
...Here's how to get started. There are a couple of basic sites, such as radio-stations.net and Web-Radio.com, which can link you to station websites by genre, from news, sports and talk to country, techno and hip-hop, or you can pick a location - say, Brazil - and surf or samba at will. Radio-locator.com, a site designed by the geniuses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has a great geographical guide. You can also search the larger sites by using the call letters of a specific station to pull in the BBC, for example, or New Jersey's WFMU, which Rolling...
...Most radio sites offer broadcasts in RealPlayer or Windows Media Player and include links for downloading player software. Once the software is installed, click on the live broadcast link (you may have to do a little guesswork to click the right buttons on foreign-language stations) and you'll be connected in about 30 seconds. As long as your Internet connection remains live, so will the radio broadcast. There can be disruptions due to Net congestion, which chops up the signal like old-fashioned static, and, if you're loading another page or working on a document, the stream...