Word: networked
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Even as the Web was twanging with news of the Maxus scam, Attorney General Janet Reno proposed a crime-fighting network designed to combat just such cybercriminality. The move may protect the next e-tailer victimized by Net extortion, but it has come too late to help this...
...Microsoft can succeed in coming up with its own protected, pervasive network architecture--a computer-instruction language linking everything from wireless devices to kitchen appliances to PCs--then the company could dominate the network with NGWS in the same way it has ruled the desktop with Windows...
...will these writers get to tell their stories? A recent controversy on UPN's family sitcom Moesha suggests that defining "the black experience" is thorny even on a show with nine black writers. As the title character (played by Brandy) moved on to college, the network sought to add gritty elements to make the squeaky-clean comedy more "relevant" by considering storylines about sex and gangs. One of the show's creators, Vida Spears, resisted the changes and was forced to leave...
...device is made by Research In Motion, and used to be available only with Blackberry's wireless service, over the BellSouth Data Network. But last week major wireless retailers across the country began selling an upgraded and even cooler RIM-made gadget for a telecom company called American Mobile, based in Reston, Va. The new device, dubbed the eLink, should shame young Marshall and her fancy Blackberry-toting crowd...
...thing looks just like the old Blackberry but has some notable, hidden differences. Instead of relying on BellSouth, eLink sends its digital packets over the ARDIS network, which covers more territory--220 million people in the U.S., vs. BellSouth's 175 million. ARDIS can also handle faster speeds--up to 19.2 kilobits per sec., according to the eLink folks, twice as fast as their competitor. Finally, the ARDIS network is renowned for its "in-building" penetration, which means that I can travel up, down and around the august Time & Life Building and never miss...