Playing hardball.Cable giant Time Warner Inc. is getting a lot of marketing mileage MILEAGE. A compensation allowed by law to officers, for their trouble and expenses in travelling on public business. 2. The mileage allowed to members of congress, is eight dollars for every twenty miles of estimated distance, by the most usual roads, from his from its "triple play" package, which bundles TV, phone service and broadband Internet access Broadband Internet access, often shortened to just "broadband", is high speed Internet access—typically contrasted with dial-up access over modem. Dial-up modems are generally only capable of a maximum bitrate of 56 kbit/s (kilobits per second) and require the full use of a for about $100 a month. Now stepping up to the plate in the same Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. market is telephone titan AT&T Inc., with what it calls its Homezone Receiver program. "If you're calling the three services they offer a 'triple play,' then we've got the home run," said Debbie Barba, vice president and general manager for AT&T in Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties. AT&T Homezone is available to new AT&T/Dish Network residential customers who either already have or plan to order AT&T Yahoo High Speed Internet and the 2Wire home networking gateway. Customers can select from several broadband speeds and satellite TV packages, then purchase the Homezone package for $9.95 per month. AT&T executives said the Homezone would be the first national telecommunications provider to offer integrated Internet video Video material obtained from the Internet. It may refer to streaming video from real time broadcasts, streaming archival material or downloading video files for watching later, all of which are viewed on the computer. content and TV entertainment. Specifically, consumers will be able to access a range of Yahoo services, including photo accounts, Launchcast radio, movie listings and times, and digital video recording--think TiVo--through a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . It also offers remote net-based remote access to the system. Enabling all of this is the Homezone receiver developed for AT&T by San Jose-based 2Wire Inc. |
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