Broadband Future

Microsoft's Lightspeed in Slo-Mo: "With great fanfare, Microsoft (MSFT ) Chairman William H. Gates III premiered SBC Communications' (SBC ) groundbreaking television service, dubbed Project Lightspeed, at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. The service, which uses Microsoft's Internet protocol television (IPTV) software, dazzled onlookers, showing how baseball fans could keep tabs on three games in tiny windows on their TVs while watching the game that mattered most to them."