ISP Information:
A method of sending and distinguishing radio signals by modifying the frequency of the radio wave. See also AM.
ISP Glossary:
Frequency Modulation - By JOHANNA BERKMANAnthony Wood had two goals in the summer of 2002: get in shape andfigure out what to do with the rest of his life. The year before, the36-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur had sold ReplayTV, thedigital video recorder company that he founded, for $125 million plusthe assumption of debt. Now recruiters were calling him about C.E.O.posts at technology companies, and he had to make a decision -- takea job or start all over. He packed up his Palo Alto household for theseason and with his wife, Susan, and two toddlers, headed forSunriver, Ore., a resort area in Deschutes National Forest."It's not like Aspen," Wood says. "It's a regular place, and it'sbeautiful." It was there, biking on a trail surrounded by ponderosaand lodgepole pines, sandwiched between the river and snowcappedmountains, that he resolved his fate: "I settled on the idea ofstarting a company in the digital-media-player space," he says,"since it was going like gangbusters." He couldn't get excitedabout being a "hired gun."Wood knew it, but you may not: there's a battle currently raging inSilicon Valley for control of your living room. The new investmenttheme is digital connectivity, that is, linking your computer to yourTV and other set-top boxes from your cable or satellite provider sothat you can access all your digital photos, music and movies withoutever leaving the sofa. This intersection of the PC and the homeaudio-video market was 'the Number One trend,' at this year's ConsumerElectronics Show, according to Bill Gurley, a partner at BenchmarkCapital, a top Silicon Valley venture-capital firm. "I suspect thatit will be even bigger" in 2004, Gurley says.http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/magazine/16ROKU.html
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