ADVISORY/Churchill Club Program featuring: Satellites, TV, Computers & More: Pushing the Envelope? Tuesday, June 20, 2000.News/Assignment Editors and High-Tech Writers ADVISORY...for Tuesday (June 20) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Satellites are leading the chase toward the Holy Grail Holy Grail: see Grail, Holy. A very desired object or outcome that borders on a sacred quest. There are several Holy Grails in the computer business. and the Killer App A software application that is exceptionally useful or exciting. Killer apps are innovative and often represent the first of a new breed, and they are extremely successful. For example, in the late 1970s, the VisiCalc spreadsheet was the killer app for the Apple II, providing reason in telecom, Computer and media Convergence Media convergence is a theory in communications where mass mediums merges together to create a new product offering a variety of the properties of each. Such an example is that of the internet. . Advanced Interactive Multimedia (AIM) services like those from Wink, TiVo, ReplayTV and OpenTV are at the forefront, ready to launch into the wired world en masse en masse adv. In one group or body; all together: The protesters marched en masse to the capitol. [French : en, in + masse, mass. . What are these displays of AIM services, do they work, are they priced right, will they make money for themselves and their vendors and Wall Street? Are they tomorrow's candidates for burnout Burnout Depletion of a tax shelter's benefits. In the context of mortgage backed securities it refers to the percentage of the pool that has prepaid their mortgage. or bright stars in the worlds of TV, computers, net appliances and more? Is broadband part of the future play? What do the growth projections say and will all these companies evolve into a single platform?
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HOST: The Churchill Club is a non-profit organization providing
Silicon Valley with a non-partisan forum for the exchange
of ideas on timely issues, particularly those in which
business and politics converge.
EVENT: Satellites, TV, Computers & More: Pushing the Envelope?
PANEL: Larry Chapman, President, DirecTV Global Digital Media,Inc.
Jon DeVaan, Senior VP, Consumer Group, Microsoft Corp.
Mike Ramsey, CEO, TiVo
Jan Steenkamp, CEO, OpenTV
Maggie Wilderotter, President & CEO, Wink
Moderator: Jimmy Schaeffler, Chairman & CEO,
The Carmel Group
VENUE: Hyatt Rickeys Palo Alto
4219 El Camino Real
650/493-8000
WHEN: Tuesday, June 20, 2000
6 p.m. Registration/Buffet
7:00 p.m. Program
CONTACT: To register, visit our website at
http://www.churchillclub.org or e-mail us at
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This program is generously supported in part by: OpenTV and WebTV
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