The Detroit News. That's so twentieth century. That Beep -offered up a host of other digital devices.
Digital television is the most obvious contender.
But it's also the most troubled of all the technologies around. The industry hasn't even agreed on a standard for connecting digital sets to cable set-top boxes. Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard lashed out at this inaction in a speech here Friday. He said he would recommend that the commission impose cable-compatibility rules on the industry if it fails to settle this issue by April 1. Digital music, in the form of MP3 files distributed via the Internet and played back on computers and on Walkmanstyle portable devices, also is off to a sprinting start.