Claircom plans digital phones for airlines
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Digital telephone service will be available to airline passengers by fall, 1992, according to an official at Claircom, a joint venture between General Motors Corp's Hughes Network Systems unit and McCaw Cellular Communications Inc. Passengers will be able to connect their laptop computers to a telephone system, enabling them to transmit and receive computer data and facsimiles for about $2 a minute. Claircom has agreements with Northwest Airlines and Alaska Airlines to test the service on a trial basis. Like cellular telephone systems, the phones will be linked to an on-board cell station, which will then transmit data to cell sites on the ground. Claircom currently has 100 such sites, and plans to build 50 more. The phones are designed to fit into existing airplane telephone equipment and will be in direct competition with GTE Corp's products already on the market.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1992
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Motorola challenges Intel in pricing its new microchip
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Motorola Inc plans to aggressively price its forthcoming PowerPC microprocessor, a move that could cut into Intel Corp's and Microsoft Corp's domination of the personal computer market while drastically reducing prices for the next generation of PCs. Motorola, which is developing the PowerPC in conjunction with IBM and Apple, plans to sell the chips for less than half the expected price of Intel's new Pentium chip. That means that PowerPC-based machines could sell for less than $2,500, compared to the $5,000 that the first Pentium-based computers are expected to sell for when they debut in the summer of 1993. The first PowerPC-based computers will not ship before late 1993 at the earliest, giving Intel an opportunity to slash prices by then. The PowerPC faces a big liability: it cannot run Microsoft's forthcoming Windows NT operating system.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1993
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Firms to unveil hand-held computers with electronic 'pens' and phone links
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EO Inc and Toshiba Corp are expected to unveil new hand-held computers in early Nov, 1992. EO Inc, which is a start-up manufacturer begun by several companies including AT&T and Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co, will unveil two new computers called personal communicators that offer built-in cellular telephones and a new microprocessor known as Hobbit. Hobbit is designed to communicate easily with other computers using technologies such as cellular telephones. The computers' estimated price will be $2,000 and $3,000, and they are expected to be available in the first six months of 1993. Toshiba will introduce a portable computer that has the ability to communicate through the telephone line. The product's expected price is $3,500, and it is expected to be shipped in Jan, 1993.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1992
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