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Reconnecting with high tech.

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service

| September 01, 2003 | Takiff, Jonathan | COPYRIGHT 2003 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Jonathan Takiff

GIZMO: Two weeks in the life of the high-tech industry.

WHILE WE WERE GONE: Sequestered in rural Williamstown, Vt., for two vacation weeks, the closest run-in I had with high technology was spotting a satellite dish hanging off the side of a rotting shed. So let's play catch-up on the tech news front.

SATELLITE SCORES: Football fans will be cheering this fall for the newly enhanced, interactive NFL Sunday Ticket sports package DirecTV will offer subscribers.

To super-serve information junkies, four extra channels each Sunday will surround a cropped game screen with an L-shaped frame holding scores, stats and alerts of critical, "red zone" action in other games. Viewers will be able to jump channels to catch the excitement. (Sunday Ticket carries all NFL games except local blackouts.)

Yet more data will stream continuously ...

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