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Digital Living Room 2000 Part 2 (9/26/2000)

We conclude our look at the digital future in Computer Chronicle's coverage of the Digital Living Room Conference from Laguna Niguel, California.


This movie is part of the collection: Computer Chronicles

Keywords: Episode year: 2000; Wireless: Bluetooth; e-commerce; Companies: Microsoft; Companies: Kodak; Digital Imaging

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Wireless Connectivity

Connexion by Boeing
Soon traveling by air won't keep you out of touch with news, email, or accessing the Net. Boeing's new inflight Internet service is due to launch late next year. It will cost somewhere between ten and twenty-five dollars and hour.

Mobile Commerce (M-Commerce)

Xenote iTag
A new personal Internet device, the Xenote iTag, creates direct connections between the things that interest us in our daily lives, and online information. By "bookmarking the radio", listeners can "tag" songs and ads then connect to relevent information via the Web.

Bluetooth
One technology that may drive the new world of intelligent wireless devices is Bluetooth.

Microsoft Pocket PC
Microsoft has finally released Pocket PC, the next version of its Windows CE operating system.

Voice Portal

Quack.com
A provider of voice-to-Web solutions, has developed technology that can quickly speech-enable existing websites and Internet information making its content available anywhere by phone.

BeVocal
With BeVocal, callers using a toll-free number and simple spoken commands, can access point-to-point driving directions, travel information, real-time traffic reports, weather, business locations and stock quotes.

Tellme
Tell Me provides a free service you call to reach the people, businesses, and information you need every day.

New Information Appliances

ReplayTV
The Panasonic ShowStopper with ReplayTV Service is moving toward the next generation of interactive TV by finding new ways to use storage and connectivity to provide a customized television viewing experience.

Ceiva Logic
A computer on the inside, buts its special purpose is to download and display digital photographs.

i-opener
I-opener, from Netliance, is another example of new information appliances. It may have a screen, mouse, and a keyboard, but it is simply an internet termianl - easy to use and inexpensive to buy.

Van Koevering Interactive Piano
With a Windows PC hidden inside the piano, it comes complete with a modem and the ability to upgrade its software.

Web Pad
A hot new form factor for information appliances is the Web Pad. It's simply a touch screen version of Netliance's i-opener.

Digital Imaging

Kodak TV
The new Kodak TV System lets you distribute, view and even order prints of digital phots right on your television set.

Lightsurf
Partnering with Kodak, LightSurf provides a new technology that will soon let you send and receive digital photos on your cell phone.

Be Here
Be Here's iVideo panoramic video camera enables you to put live 360 degree pictures on the Web, completely navigable by each individual user.

FlyOver Technologies
An Israeli start up, FlyOver Technologies, will be bringing real digital pictures to online mapping and directions. FlyOver will let you look at a real aerial view of the place you want to go to, and let you zoom or navigate the terrain in real time.

ditto.com
A new search engine, ditto.com, searches for images rather than text, which can be very helpful when you're searching for something.

Web-Based Computer Applications

ThinkFree.com
ThinkFree is a complete office suite written in Java. That means the application, and your files, can reside on the web, and be accessible anywhere, on any platform. It includes word processor, spread sheet, and presentation programs.

eFrenzy
A web application that moves e-commerce into servcies, not just products. Looking for a band to play at a party? You can find it and thousands of other services, online, at efrenzy.com

Expertcity.com
With Expertcity.com, you can get ral time advice from a live technician. And their technology lets the tech support person actually take remote contral of your compouter and fix the problem for you - just as if they were right there in your house or your office.

DoDots
A totally new concept in serving up Web based information. DoDots provides online and offline companies with technology that enables all web content to be branded, appropiately packaged, instantly distributed and shared. Any content htat can be delivered in a web page can be delivered in a Dot!