Monitors get skinnier, and a phone for your tie
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New products seen at the 1998 Comdex trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada, included consumer electronics as well as computer products. Examples are smart telephones, digital cameras, and stereo speakers. Compaq and Dell demonstrated desktop PC's outfitted with high speed internet connections using cable modems (digital subscriber lines) which operate at much higher speeds than current phone line-based systems. A number of companies demonstrated notebook computers that use Microsoft's latest Windows CE operating system, code-named Jupiter. Hewlett-Packard's Jornada, NEC's Mobile Pro 800 and Vadem's Clio sported keyboard's about 90% the size of a standard notebook's. They are said to be very functional for simpler tasks like word-processing, e-mail, and internet surfing and the batteries can last more than twice the time of conventional notebooks. Sony and Toshiba debuted new ultraportable computers, the Vaio 505FX and the Portege 3010CT. Also on view were many new flat panel displays, still priced out of the reach of most consumers.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
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Alliance formed around Sun's Java network
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Sun Microsystems' Javasoft division announced that over 100 companies, which notably do not include Microsoft, have agreed to adhere to Sun's standards for Java network applications. In participating in the alliance, the companies agree to end the practice of making minor alterations to code to improve its functionality on a particular system. Sun feared that this practice would undermine Java's strength as a cross-platform language in the same way that it thwarted Unix's universality. The absence of Microsoft in the group exacerbates the existing schism between Microsoft and other software developers. Microsoft's opponents feel that Microsoft's Java-based Internet applications are another means for the company to establish Windows 95 and NT as the dominant OSes in the industry.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1996
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