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Power To The People

Electricity One of the many things I am hoping to see at Demo 2004 this coming week is a broadband power line modem. I knew that eventually competition would begin to take hold in broadband. I first wrote about this in a reflection May 12, 1998 -- and must admit that my forecast was a bit premature. But now, at last, it is happening. At last year's Vortex Conference, Larry Babbio, vice chairman of Verizon, said that they had reduced their monthly DSL fee by $15 and that the reduction was "not promotional". Surely, the cable companies will not stand by and lose market share. Direct TV is aggressively advertising broadband Internet access via satellite. Having multiple competing sources of broadband will result in lower prices and higher speeds. That is how free markets work. What we need is even more competition -- and the electric utilities are about to offer it. In this morning's New York Times, a story by Stephen Labation, F.C.C. Begins Rewriting Rules on Delivery of the Internet, described how the Federal Communications Commission is devising new rules which will allow electric utilities to offer broadband over their power grids. (read more)

Posted by John R Patrick on February 14, 2004 in DEMO News | Permalink

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Entrepreneurs Preview Liberating Technologies

Mike Klein, 02/16/04

Scottsdale, Ariz. -- The DEMO 2004 Conference kicked off today with a high level of energy and enthusiasm among the 600 attendees who traveled to Scottsdale for this event, which is serving as a launching pad for 67 of today’s best new consumer and enterprise technology products.

The conference, now in its 14th year, attracts international media, venture capitalists, and veteran technologists who come to see spirited entrepreneurs introduce new products, and technologies in fast paced demonstration sessions that last 60 seconds to six-minutes in length.

This years conference features products that liberate users from the desktop computing environment and allow bloggers to post instantly to the Web using cell phones and other mobile devices. In addition, new communications, collaboration and security offerings as well as a glimpses into Internet TV and new digital photo services, were demonstrated.

Read More at www.wistechnology.com

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