Television's hidden resource

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Businesses accessing information from a variety of sources should take advantage of the cost-free television information service known as teletext. As a 'piggy-back' service offered by television stations while programs are simultaneously transmitted, teletext is accessible to British televiewers with nine-m sets through either ITV4 or C4's Oracle, or through BBC1 and BBC2's Ceefax. Televiewers can avail of teletext by pressing the TEXT button on their remote controls. Accessibility of the different pages is made possible by entering a specific three-digit number. The service is markedly slower than computer-based information services. When compared to information retrieval from newspapers through an outside information service, teletext is indeed faster and more cost-effective. It would be helpful for teletext users to remember that the system does not have a built-in index, nor is a printed one available.

Television broadcasting stations, Information retrieval services, Usage, Innovations, Services, Television broadcasting industry, Information services, Teletext systems

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If a picture paints a thousand words

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Lotus Development Corp's 395 pounds sterling Freelance Plus is a graphics design package that runs on any IBM or compatible with graphics card. A minimum of 384 kb RAM is required. A number of devices ranging in price from 3 to 23,000 pounds sterling are available, such as mouse and image recorder-cameras, printers, and plotters. The graphics are created by using nine graphic elements, each with sets of characteristics such as color and size. Main menu options permits graphic element manipulation. These options are add, select, edit, move, rearrange, view, file, plot, and chart. The file option is used for bringing compatible files into Freelance. Freelance also contains some computer-aided design software features such as grinds, zoom, and rotate.

Software, Design and construction, Lotus Development Corp., Graphic methods, Computer graphics, evaluation, Freelance Plus (Presentation software)

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BlackBerry jam

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The survey of financial services users conducted by Pyxis Mobile in the US reveal that 81% of respondents described the RIM BlackBerry service is vital to their business activities. But the BlackBerry is based on proprietary technology, which does not leave users with many options for a plan 8 when the service was threatened.

United States, Financial Services, Finance and Insurance, DEPOSITORY INSTITUTIONS, Financial services industry, Surveys

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