Apple gives Messagepad a tuneup

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Apple's Newton Messagepad personal digital assistant is achieving better character recognition thanks to new software, but the company may be planning to desert the product. The new software uses the Rosetta system, based on a neural network design, which analyzes adjacent characters and evaluates them with a series of dictionaries and geometric shape tables that provide some 80,000 pieces of reference data. The Newton's other improvements include a series of dialogue boxes so users enter less data manually along with faster data sorting and retrieving. Although Apple is careful not to claim too many abilities for the new software, early users say that it offers a 95% accuracy rate. Despite these positive results, published reports state that Apple wants to cut costs by finding a partner to split development costs or sell the product entirely. The new software will appear in the same Newton hardware in Dec 1995, and the combined unit will cost $700.

Personal & Home Computers, Microcomputers, Hand-held computers, Handheld computers, Hardware product development, Product development, Computer hardware, AAPL, Computer peripherals industry, Computer games, Product enhancement, Personal digital assistants, Personal digital assistant, Hardware product enhancement, Apple Inc., Apple Newton MessagePad (Personal digital assistant)

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Computing's next wave is nearly at hand: imagining the future in a post-PC world

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Technological innovations in computer and digital telephone equipment are changing how data is processed and the extent to which information networks will link billions of information appliances that are connected through a gigantic computer hub. These devices will replace personal computers as the major resources in data exchange and transmission. Virtually any device will have its own microchip that can interact withany other device anywhere in the globe. All of these products will enable billions of people to have networks serve any individual need.

United States, Analog & Hybrid Computers, Radio & TV communications equipment, Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing, Cellular Mobile Tel Equip, Computer networks, Innovations, Computer industry, Microcomputers, Wireless telephones, Forecasts and trends, Telecommunications equipment, Cellular telephone equipment industry, Cellular transmission equipment, Information networks

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