Using wireless system, Pizza Hut carves out a slice of the digital pie

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Pizza Hut has launched a new online service in Singapore using a technology called packet-data switching. Pizza Hut's Singapore Web site allows the person order for a pizza, paying with a Visa credit card. Each of the restaurant's deliverers carries a device, which is actually a wireless terminal for swiping the credit card. The data is transmitted over SingTel Paging's DataRoam network using the packet-data switching technology. Packet-data switching, or sometimes called Mobitex, is yet to capture the global interest.

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Launches new online service, which delivers pizza & accepts credit card payments using packet-data switching technology

Manufacturing processes, Food Services and Drinking Places, Services introduction, Singapore, Eating Places, Restaurants, Pizza Hut Inc.

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Singapore color-copier rule keeps H-P device waiting at the border

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Hewlett Packard (HP)'s OfficeJet Pro 1150C will be barred from being sold in Singapore starting May 1997 due to a new regulation aimed at stopping counterfeiters. The new regulation requires color copiers to be fitted with a system that would thwart attempts to copy legal tenders, a much expensive device to outfit the current OfficeJet Pro model that sells for less than $1,000. HP sales are not expected to be hurt because the Singapore market takes up only 3% of HP's 6 bil Asian market for computer peripherals.

Photographic equipment and supplies, Photocopy Equipment, Photographic and Photocopying Equipment Manufacturing, Office equipment and supplies industry, Office equipment industry, International trade, Economic policy, Hewlett-Packard Co., HWP, HP OfficeJet Pro 1150C (Copying machine)

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Flat-panel PC monitors are the rage in Japan, where space is king

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Flat-panel PC monitors are becoming highly popular in Japan, where people consider space as a commodity. The trend led to PC manufacturers offering personal computers with flat-panel monitors, nearly eliminating the older CRT models. Sharp estimates that flat-panel desktop sales would reach 1.4 million units in 1998, up from the 400,000 units sold the year ago. IDC, a market research firm, also said that the high demand for flat-panel monitors in Japan could eventually result in shortage of LCD in the market.

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Japan: Flat-panel PC monitors are becoming highly popular in country, where people consider space as a commodity

Japan, Product information, Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing, Computer Display Monitors, Computer monitors

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