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A DSL, cable, or Verizon Fios Internet service connection, a regular telephone, a router, and a telephone adapter are required for service. VoiceWing lets you make local, long distance (includes the domestic US and Canada), and international calls at great low rates. VoiceWing works with any new or existing cable, DSL, or Verizon Fios broadband connection. Calls can be made and received using any existing traditional phone, a router and an adapter. Call Management is improved and simplified – set up and manage popular call features like Voice Mail, Call Logs, Call Forwarding and Caller ID with an online personal account page. Vonage Voice Over Internet Premium Unlimited Plan offers unlimited local and long distance calling for $24.99 a month, with your first month free, and provides over 25 premium features at no extra charge. Net2Phone VoIP Net2Phone CommCenter is a free download that allows you to make phone calls from your PC to any telephone in the world. Long distance calls in the U.S. are free for the first 5 minutes, and $.02/minute thereafter. International calls are as low as 3.9 cents a minute. Net2Phone also offers calling cards and broadband Internet access services.   Long Distance Phone Services Qwest Long Distance Packages offers affordable plans for all usage levels.   Broadband Internet Services: DSL, T1, Cable Modems... Broadband National allows you to compare and choose from 50 broadband ISPs with the click of a mouse, including Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Cablevision, Charter Communications, Verizon Online DSL, AT&T Yahoo!, Qwest, and HughesNet Satellite High Speed Internet, and many more regional providers. They have a quick and easy online ordering interface, and up to date info on the cheapest broadband deals on the Internet. Time Warner's Road Runner High Speed InternetSign Up Online now offers cable modem connections for $29.95/month (for the first 6 months) with $25 Cash Back. 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Qwest DSL offers high-speed DSL and Internet access for about the price of dial-up in 14 states: AZ, CO, ID, IA, MN, MT, NE, NM, ND, OR, SD, UT, WA & WY.

For those who cannot get or cannot afford DSL or cable connections, Propel Accelerator is a subscription service that speeds up dial-up browsing, making Web sites load up to 5 times faster. A subscription costs $59.95 per year or $7.95 per month. Propel Accelerator has won CNET's and ZDNet's Editor's Choice awards.

  Internet Services: dial up modem Internet Service Providers

NetZero Platinum and Juno Platinum both give you fast, reliable, unlimited Internet access for $9.95/month (about 1/2 the price of AOL). Juno also offers free internet access, with ads, for limited to 10 hours access per month.
AmericaOnline's AOL 9.0 provides a 45-day free trial (now with unlimited minutes), and if you don't want to continue, simply cancel your membership before the trial ends. AOL says version 9.0 is "their best version yet" (as it should be), and the offer includes some free music downloads and AOL's instant messenger.

  Flash Memory, SD Cards, Compact Flash, Memory Sticks, RAM...

EDGE Tech offers "cutting edge" Computer Memory Upgrades, including RAM modules, Flash memory (SD, SDHC, Compact Flash, etc.), and USB portable hard drives, like the 400GB DiskGO! 3.5" Portable USB 2.0 & IEEE-1394 Hard Drive, and the USB-powered 80GB DiskGO! 2.5" Ultra Portable USB 2.0 Hard Drive.

At Crucial Memory (UK) UK shoppers can save on top-quality CompactFlash, SD, MMC, or other memory for your MP3 player, digital camera handheld PC, or other device.

My Memory (UK) sells memory for PCs, cell phones, PDAs, MP3 players, digital cameras, and other digital devices. They also sell inkjet catridges, photo paper, batteries, and other accessories. They carry USB, CompactFlash, SD/MMC, MemoryStick, and other formats of flash memory, as well as PC DDR SDRAM, from makers including SanDisk, Lexar, Sony, Kingston, Magicstor, and others. My Memory is based in the UK, but will ship internationally.

  Electronic Parts and Accessories, Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless Connectivity

Radio Shack carries general consumer electronics goods plus cables, connectors, parts, accessories and batteries.

Founded in 1976 as an electronics service company in Dayton, Ohio, MCM Electronics has become one of the premier distributors in the consumer electronics industry. MCM now stocks over 40,000 products from 600+ quality vendors. MCM's products include: computer hardware and peripherals, security and surveillance, wire and cable, audio and video equipment, tools, test equipment and much more.

Parts Express sells thousands of electronic parts, plus parts-related items and electronics accessories. For almost 15 years Parts Express has supplied audio engineers, repair shops, commercial sound installers, home theater installers, speaker builders, car audio installers, DJ's, schools, hospitals, and hobbyist with the parts and accessories to make their installations profitable and professional. Their inventory includes home and car stereo and speaker building parts, telephone parts, cables, connectors, test equipment, tools, batteries, chemical products, and much more.

Founded in a garage in Hawthorne, California in 1983, Belkin is now the recognized global leader in connectivity solutions, with over 1,000 employees and sales topping $1 billion. They offer easy-to-set-up wireless and wired networking gear, accessories for iPod® players and XM player devices, and the first CableFree USB Hub. Their PureAV® brand, a line of cables, power, and digital wireless accessories, extracts the full performance potential from high-end home theater equipment.

  Battery Shops

Duracell Direct sells batteries, adapters, and chargers for notebook computers, cell phones, cordless phones, camcorders, digital cameras, and more, including AA and AAA rechargeable batteries and chargers.

Batteries Plus opened their first store in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 1988. They now have over 255 brick and mortar stores from coast to coast. Batteries Plus offers a large selection of batteries for laptop computers, camcorders, cell phones, and almost anything else, including rechargeable cells and standard alkaline batteries.

eBatts carries a huge selection of batteries and power supplies for laptop computers, camcorders, cell phones, and other mobile accessories. As of this writing, eBatts provides free ground shipping for all web orders weighing less than 200 lbs anywhere in the continental US.

Interstate Batteries offers their own brand of low-cost standard batteries & custom electronics batteries with free shipping on all battery orders with a minimum order of $35 (use the "coupon code" linkshare01).

TIME Magazine,     August 2, 1963 p. 49: COMMUNICATIONS: Like the Red Queen     A new kind of communications satellite, Syncom II, built by Hughes Aircraft Co. for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, soared up into space last week from Cape Canaveral. Instead of going into orbit not far above the earth, like famed Telstar I, it kept on climbing and climbing. When it touched an altitude of some 22,500 miles, a small rocket fired and pushed it into an almost circular orbit.     Three for the Globe. Like the Red Queen in Through the Looking Glass, the orbiting Syncom II keeps moving but gets nowhere. At its extreme height Syncom takes 24 hours to complete one orbit. Since this is the period of the earth's rotation, it stays above the same point on the earth below. This "synchronous" orbit*-- whence comes the name Syncom-- has important advantages. Riding high, the satellite can relay messages by line-of-sight radio to more than one-third of the earth's surface. Three satellites like it, properly spaced, can cover all the inhabited parts of the earth.     Low-level communications satellites like Telstar I, whose orbit varied between 593 and 3,505 miles, do not cover nearly as much of the earth's surface. Being so low, the can get along with less transmitting and receiving power, but many more of them must be used for world-wide communication.     Another disadvantage of low-level satellites is that steerable radio antennas must follow them as they sweep rapidly across the sky. Synchronous satellites turning with the earth can be kept in view by fixed antennas, which are simpler to operate.     Syncom I, which was launched last February, went into near-perfect orbit, but its electronics system broke down, leaving it useless as a relay station. Last week's successor, Syncom II, did better. as the satellite climbed toward orbit more than two hours after launch, the Navy communications ship Kingsport, anchored at Lagos, Nigeria, called it by microwave radio. Syncom II answered smartly, proving that its electronics gear was healthy. The satellite even bounced a recording of The Star-Spangled Banner back to the Kingsport.     Jockey for Position. Syncom II developed some drift after it went into orbit, as was expected, but in the wrong direction. The Kingsport next ordered Syncom to fire its hydrogen peroxide rocket to correct the slow eastward drift, and actually days will pass before Syncom's delicate guidance apparatus will jockey it into an exactly synchronous orbit. Then it is supposed to swing gently in a north-south figure-eight pattern, crossing the equator over the Atlantic Ocean while radiomen below test how well it can relay messages between distant points on the distant earth. *First suggested in 1946 by Science Fiction Writer Arthur C. Clarke.

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