Home networking

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(3) Home networking gets a jump start from new tech

     With an eye for the future, technology companies next week will
     tout new advances in home networking in hopes of taking ideas
     from the drawing board into the living room. At the Consumer
     Electronics Show, an electronics conference that started
     Saturday in Las Vegas, new products from start-ups as well as
     some of consumer electronics' largest names will aim to charge
     the nascent industry for connecting PCs, printers and other
     electronic gadgets at home. Thomson Multimedia, which builds
     consumer electronics products under the RCA brand, is expected
     to announce plans to sell networking kits next month that let
     people connect PCs using existing power outlets in the home.
     Thomson, using technology developed by Novell spinoff Inari,
     will sell home networking kits that allow people to use their
     homes' internal electrical networks as a medium to share Net
     access, play video games, and enjoy movies and music throughout
     the house. Thomson will become one of the first companies to
     release home networking kits using electrical outlets, giving
     the fledgling technology, called "powerline," a much needed
     jump start, analysts say. The RCA brand--long known in the
     world of consumer electronics--could also help adoption.
     Powerline technology, which has taken years to develop, has
     lagged behind other home networking kits that have hit store
     shelves first, such as wireless and phone-line products. Such
     technology allows people to link PCs by plugging them into
     regular phone jacks.

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