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...though, by experiments announced in Cambridge, Mass., last week: two teams of scientists have slowed light to a dead stop. The achievements, to be reported in this week's issue of Nature and next week's Physical Review Letters, could one day lead to a new generation of compact, superfast computers that operate by light, not electricity...
...over the airwaves with a spot that spoofed life in a cable-modem world, where neighbors have to share Internet bandwidth and end up fighting one another during prime time because their service has slowed to a crawl. This, the ad said, is why you should instead get the superfast phone technology DSL (Digital Subscriber Line). For $40 or more a month, it's supposed to let you surf at around 30 times the speed of a 56K modem and talk on the phone at the same time...
...Mexico due next year. Meanwhile, large infrastructure projects are in the works that will expand the region's ability to meet almost any demand. Global Crossing, an international telecommunications company, is building a $2 billion fiber-optic network that will encircle and crisscross South America, connecting with existing superfast cable lines to Europe, the U.S. and Asia by 2001. The lines will improve connectivity in the region tenfold. Starting this May the Americas II cable system will connect Brazil, the Caribbean and South America's northeast corner to the U.S. A region-wide $1.5 billion Telefonica system will be operational...
...with all unfamiliar technology, there are a few hurdles you'll have to jump and plenty of chances to get ripped off along the way. First of all, the standard for this medium is a superfast cable called FireWire (geeks know it as IEEE 1394, and Sony folks call it i.Link). Any DV camcorder you unwrap under the tree next week should feature a FireWire output, and any PC you want to use has to include a FireWire input. Most don't, of course, and you'll probably have to upgrade (see box). A major word of warning: FireWire does...
Most people think choice is a good thing. Take French roast vs. Kona, or Skippy vs. Jif. But when it comes to notebook computers, the options can be downright dizzying. This year, with the introduction of superfast Intel Pentium III processors in laptops and the rapid proliferation of ultralight PCs, your choices got even broader...