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No Lock on the Door at Digital Home

Furthermore, Parks Associates forecasts a five-fold increase in products connected in entertainment-centric home networks by the end of 2007. The report estimates there will be 35 million nodes in U.S. homes by the end of the year; 65 million in 2004; 95 million in 2005; 136 million in 2006; and 183 million in 2007.

From the article "No Lock on the Door at Digital Home," by Michael Singer.

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