The Nation's Homepage Tech successes and failures of '97 Hype Push. Sign up for a push channel on a Web site and you don't have to go to content. It comes to you. Nice for news blips, bad for just about everything else.
Most people like to do their own filtering.
In a lab with perfect phone lines they're screamingly fast. They're inexpensive, but don't expect a big difference. Both hype and home. Right now they're not fast enough or useful enough, but that could change. Wait a while until their features start to measure up.