Beep beep; Japanese firms may have found the secret passage to continued domination of video games: trade schools

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The Japanese maintain a competitive hold on the computer game industry with a spate of trade schools designed to train students how to write source code for computer games. Nintendo Ltd's and Dentsu Inc's Nintendo-Dentsu Game Seminar and Human Co's Human Creative School are two such trade schools that generally tend to hire their students upon graduating from the school. Japan claims about 90 percent of the market for computer games, and the emergence of game schools represents a business strategy to maintain it. Trade school applicants are carefully screened and tend to be high school graduates in their early twenties. Classes at the schools follow the Japanese Apr-Mar academic school year and are either part-time or full-time commitments. Students are instructed in how computer games are designed and are given access to such game team specializations as planning, programming, graphics and music.

Prepackaged software, Games, toys, and children's vehicles, Training, Design and construction, Computer games, International competition (Economics), Nintendo Company Ltd., Dentsu Tec Inc., Japanese Competition, Computer Game, Human Co.

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Get smart: everyday products will soon come with built-in intelligence

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The consumer electronics industry is moving towards smart devices, products that turn the ordinary into the intelligent. The trend in 1991 includes smart appliances, which use fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence, virtual reality, which allows prospective home buyers to walk through a blueprint of their house, and technology to make work-at-home a feasibility. Some of the more interesting high-technology products on the horizon include picture telephones, satellite navigation systems and high-definition television (HDTV). The proliferated use of compact optical disks is also a forecast trend; vast amounts of information will be readily available to the masses.

ELECTRONIC & OTHER ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT, Usage, Product development, Consumer electronics industry, Intelligent devices, Intelligent machines, Future Technologies

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Destructive viruses have now spread to Japanese PCs

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Japan may finally be feeling the affects of computer crime, as the number and severity of computer viruses appears to be on the rise. Japan has been slower than many other Western countries to begin large scale use of microcomputers, but as automation increases, so has the number of reported computer crimes. NEC Corp reports that a 'Christmas' virus has infected many of its microcomputers. The virus is designed to go off when the computer's calendar reaches December 25, destroying applications larger than 30,720 bytes. Other major computer manufacturers have also reported increases in the number of viruses reported.

Telecommunications systems, Computer viruses, Security measures, Computer crimes, Computer hackers, Virus, Hacker, Security Systems, Computer Crime

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