The educated are getting richer, the uneducated are getting poorer. Such creativity is necessary when your alternative funding source is the Federal Communications Commission, which has lent its own brand of bureaucratic lan to the problem. In 1997, Fishman and his staff began working on a series of forms for schools to fill out to receive money. Unfortunately, according to a November 1997 letter from Fishman, the company couldn't put up its Web site giving schools access to the forms until mid-January 1998, two weeks after the disbursements were supposed to begin. And schools must wait 28 days after requesting services and equipment via the site before they can expect any money.
Numbers apply to U.S. public schools.
Data is for 1996. Sans Jack N ot having access to e-mail while you're on the road can be like having your umbilical cord to the office severed. A new telephone service from e-Now of Ojai, Calif., can help you reconnect with your office lifeline when you're unable to log on to the Net. This information is housed on e-Now's secure server. When customers call in, e-Now's proprietary software automatically accesses their Internet accounts and reads messages aloud.