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To: cm who wrote (5790)	3/2/1999 10:48:00 PM
From: Mammon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11417

It's the Williamson County where the country music stars live, right outside of Music City, USA.

To: cm who wrote (5790)	3/6/1999 9:29:00 PM
From: cm	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 11417

Looking Backwards At The 1/11 Infoworld WAVX Article... Some interesting quotes from a now, admittedly, old article: "Wave Systems (www.wave.com), in Lee, Mass., is in production with its embedded Embassy chip, which will include client-side metering capability as well as an option to include Hewlett-Packard's VerSecure strong cryptography management." ** "As e-commerce moves toward services such as software rentals, hardware solutions to authenticate a buyer's identity and ability to pay will become ubiquitous." "There is an increasing movement by companies that own content to say (content) is not free just because it can be accessed via the Internet," says Jim Balderston, an analyst at Zona Research, in Redwood City, Calif. "They want to prevent people from playing or accessing or bits that they haven't properly acquired. Technology like the Embassy chip will be deployed to manage and observe the relationship and the bits being accessed.) (MY NOTE: Balderston, before joining Zona Research was himself a writer with Infoworld for, I think, seven years. Now, Zona ain't a Forrester Research or Gartner Group, but they do have a fairly good reputation for Internet and e-commerce savvy.) "Wave Systems will see the first adoption of its Embassy embedded chip in a product slated for introduction in March. Hauppauge Computer Works (www.hauppauge.com)in Hauppauge, N.Y., will offer an Embassy-enhanced version of its WinTV tuner card, which is used to access broadcast television signals." "Sarnoff will be able to offer financial subscribers services such as data from Standard and Poors, full editions of the Wall Street Journal, and real-time quotes, as well as music and audio content, while protecting intellectual property." ** "In order to deploy the Embassy chip on as many desktops as possible, Wave has licensed Embassy to two of the largest suppliers of I/O chips, Integrated Technology Express and Standard Microsystems. These two companies, which have deployed approximately 60 percent of all the I/O chips in desktop PCs, will include the Embassy in their I/O devices, Allen said." (Just thought it might be helpful to keep these rather specific and promising quotes in mind as we move forward.) Best Regards, c m