Turning bookworms into geeks

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The Japanese tend to read books and periodicals in trains since there is insufficient room for newspapers. Non-fiction is popular among the Japanese, who like to read about facts, and this includes 'How to' books as well as guides on different locations. Media groups in Japan are preparing CD-ROMs which cater for this enthusiasm for facts. CD-ROM offerings include 'Ancient Rome - The Rise and Fall of The Millennium', from Fujitsu/TV Tokyo. The product uses computer graphics well, but is only available in Japanese.

Social aspects, Japan, CD-ROM, CD-ROM disks

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The property of the mind

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The Internet offers a wealth of opportunity to pirate and distribute any sort of digital information, including copyrighted works such as sound recordings. To prevent this, the government, high tech companies and the Internet itself have ways to track down piracy.

Software, Internet, Prevention, Copyright, Copyrights, Crime, Software piracy

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Return of the prophet: Oracle

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Oracle head Larry Ellison is touting network computers and plans to compete with Microsoft by connecting Oracle databases with information appliances. Oracle has already developed software for this purpose. Oracl8 was unveiled at a Jun 1996 exhibition.

Electronic computers, Planning, Computer networks, Innovations, Computer software industry, Software industry, Information appliances, Oracle Corp., ORCL

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