A little something extra beside your TV image
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Intel announces the Intercast standard that will deliver World Wide Web pages to a PC via standard broadcast modes. Intercast employs the vertical blanking interval, the 10 lines that occur at one end of a television image, to allow users to send graphics, text and still images at 9,600 bps. The data will be sent over a one-way broadcast system and a standard television tuner can be used to choose the signal, but users would need some form of Internet access to interact with the Web page. A number of industry leaders in the television, telecommunications, cable and computer industries are backing the standard, although they conceded that they do not know whether consumers will accept a move from watching a large television screen to the smaller computer screen. Intercast requires a chip that digitizes the televisions signal and a television receiver to accept cable or broadcast signals.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1995
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A differing view of the spread of technology; rural areas in U.S. are not being left out, a new study finds
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A study to be published by the National Bureau of Economic Research has found that the Information Revolution is not bypassing rural America as had been previously reported by the Taub Urban Research Center of New York University. The study showed that computer and communication technology is being distributed equally throughout the US. The reports reveals that the government has less of a responsibility to intervene by implementing public networks, because private investment has already created advanced networks. The study is based on data collected from 1986 to 1992 concerning fiber optic networks and large business computers. Researchers found tracking the deployment of fiber optic networks is an excellent way to determine how available voice communications services are and the wide range advancement of data.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1997
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Innovation, hence survival, at Apple
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Apple's new Chmn and CEO Gilbert F. Amelio offers direct, if short, answers to questions on how he intends to turn Apple around, but he lacks the passion that characterized Apple's founders. Amelio says he sees Apple's problems as fixable, and he is moving slowly in his early days at the company. He has spent time touring the company and earning credit from employees for his technical understanding. Amelio's early focus is on countering the impression of chaos and panic in the company. He plans to move employees around the company instead of launching large-scale layoffs. Apple's greatest challenge is to innovate and make itself stand out from other companies. To keep an edge in innovation, Amelio's first effort must be to stop top Apple employees from leaving for other companies.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1996
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