High-bandwidth Web connections will let passengers surf as they fly

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Boeing Co. is leading a partnership that plans to develop full Internet access for passengers on airplanes in flight. The Boeing system will be based on high-frequency satellites and on an antenna technology that will electronically direct its radio beams, called the Connexion system. It uses 1,000 little antenna modules arranged in a phased array.The antenna has a computer that directs the beam from one satellite to another as the plane moves through the air. Passengers will see two jacks on the back of the seat in front of them, one for conventional modems, the other for those with Ethernet cards.the service will probably cost $20 to $25 an hour, and is expected to become available in the U.S. late in 2001.

Telephone communications, exc. radio, Satellite Communications, Satellite Telecommunications, Aircraft & Parts, Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing, Aircraft and Parts, Product development, Telecommunications systems, Satellite communications services industry, Aircraft industry, Boeing Co., BA, Broadband transmission, Broadband, Broadband Internet, Airline passengers

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Quantum leap may transform chips; putting linked photons through their paces could let companies build much smaller transistors

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Physicists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Univ. of Wales are applying quantum theory to reduce photons, or particles of light, from a 248-nanometer laser to a wavelength of 62 nanometers. This results in transistors one-third the size of those in current semiconductor chips.The key to inventing smaller transistors rests with making shorter wavelengths by entangling photons, passing them through slits and producing twice the energy in a reduced wavelength.

Semiconductors and related devices, Semiconductor Devices, Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing, Science & research, Research, Semiconductor industry, Innovations, Technology development, Quantum theory, Quantum mechanics, United States. Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Extension Sought in Canada Lumber Fight

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The United States Commerce Department is asking a Nafta panel for more time and information concerning the recalculation of duties for softwood lumber imports from Canada.

Canada, Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Government regulation, Administration of General Economic Programs, Foreign trade, International economic relations, Legal/Government Regulation, Sawmills, Sawmills and planing mills, general, Tariffs & Duties, Lumber, Tariffs & Quotas, Interpretation and construction, Laws, regulations and rules, International trade, International trade regulation, Tariffs, Trade policy

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