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CES Update:
Microsoft will be supporting a number of new high-speed digital transfer methods in the next version of Windows. The new methods will make use of a number of existing broadcast infrastructures--such as cable, digital satellite, and the Internet MBONE (multicast backbone) to broadcast multimedia content at higher speeds than currently available over the Internet. The broadcast concept, in which a large number of clients receive the same data at the same time (similar to ordinary TV) will help to relieve the bandwidth bottleneck that currently plagues Internet servers; unfortunately, it won't allow the click-and-go convenience that Web surfers have come to expect.
For 20 years, the Japanese have virtually monopolized all aspects of electronic imaging technology with their CCD image sensors. But new image-sensor technology licensed to a California company may soon change t…
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