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Technology Stocks : IATV-ACTV Digital Convergence Software-HyperTV -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mike.com who wrote (7614)	11/8/1999 10:39:00 PM
From: art slott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13157

Insiders also sold stock below this price. Mike, you are envious of the money some people you know are making in other stocks. If they have a good track record, than you might want to buy some of what they recommend. That way you won't feel so awful when Actv is down a 1/4 or in a trading range. That would also be good for everyone reading this thread.

To: mike.com who wrote (7614)	11/8/1999 10:52:00 PM
From: Bruce Cullen	Respond to of 13157

A Thought for the Day. Business at Warp Speed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PC Computing via NewsEdge Corporation : Ready to try full-screen video conferencing on your laptop? Download a full-length DVD movie online and burn it straight to a disc for safekeeping? Flip between Microsoft Word and the season premiere of X-Files with no TV tuner? Try full-screen videoconferencing on your laptop? Or go virtual shopping through a supermarket for bread and winein full 3D, with aisles and shelves but no lines? It's all coming sooner than you think, thanks to the Next Generation Internet. Most experts predict that by 2002 or 2003, you'll have more bandwidth than you could ever need. The NGI initiative (also called the Supernet) was spawned as what the government dubbed "a multi agency federal research and development program to develop, test, and demonstrate advanced network technologies and applications." Where are your tax dollars going? Some of the best applications are still under wraps, but a few NGI proj ects are already available: real-time VRML (virtual- reality markup language) terrain mapper Terravision II makes Quake III look like Pac-Man. Interactive visual conversation simulator I-Drama speaks Russian better than Yeltsin before lunch. Need a remote-control robot surgeon? The NGI's working on those too. And full-duplex DVD-quality video transmission barely raises an eyebrow with the NGI crowd. These ultimate NGI applications can require as much as 600Mbps of bandwidth, so plan on upgrading to a 1GB Ethernet network if you want to be part of the Next Gen. When the Ethernet hardware to do all this hits town next year, be prepared for full-screen videoconferencing, MPEG multi casting, and blazing file and e-mail transfers, even if you don't have a security clearance. Of course, there's a catch to the dream pipe we're about to get. Even though NGI apps are designed for the Internet of the future, don't expect to run them on the Internet any time soon unless your e-mail address ends in .edu. Virtually all high-speed Internet connections are leased by academic institutions, and the speed rush doesn't come cheap. MCI WorldCom's vBNS+ (very high-performance backbone network service; see map, above) will provide the fat pipes for all this bandwidth-hungry research. Thanks to a five-year deal signed in June, vBNS+ is now the official provider of the NGI, with 1,750 institutions on board so far. MCI is practically giving the service away at $64,800 a month for a 622Mbps fiber-optic connection. For the rest of us? Hang onto that cable modem for now. Nonetheless, data and video convergence roars on. The first wave of video-on-demand applications should start appearing on data cable-network hybrids within the next six months. With the $80 billion merger of CBS and Viacom in September, watch for big moves in this space. If all this talk of gigabit networking and video on demand makes your head spin, consider peaceful Ashland, Oregon. Ashland, population 19,000, boasts Shakespeare in the summer, picket fences, and a fiber-optic network connecting everyone in town. On its citywide gigabit network, residents get 3Mbps to 5Mbps transfer rates around the clock, giving them some of the highest personal bandwidth rates in the country. Watch other cities frantically play catch-up as broadband networking becomes the must-have utility for a generation that doesn't like to wait. Realtors, take note: "Broadband ready" goes a lot further than "electric range" when trying to close a deal with today's newlyweds. <<PC Computing '99>>

To: mike.com who wrote (7614)	11/9/1999 7:48:00 AM
From: wlcnyc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13157

"I'm sure there is lots of positive news coming. That's what worries me. How far do you think the stock will drop on the next news?" Brace yourself, Mike, today's the day we will find out! <G> Bill