For the novice, on-ramps to the Information Superhighway: makers promote powerful machines that don't patronize beginners, and the prices are right

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There are many new products on the market for the novice computer user this holiday season. There are home computers, MP3 players, Internet appliances and hand-held computers that are inexpensive and easy to use. A list of software packages for the occasional-technology user is included.

Computers, Product information, Computer Auxiliary Equip, Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing, Computer peripherals, Buyers Guide, Hardware buyers' guide

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Let the game wars begin: Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft want to take gaming into the mainstream, and they'll fight it out along the way

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The competition among makers of computer and video game systems will become fierce with the introduction of new systems by Microsoft and Nintendo. Sony introduced its PlayStation 2 in Nov. 2000 and soon after Microsoft detailed its planned Xbox. Now Nintendo has entered the market with its GameCube, to be introduced at the May 2001 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, CA. All three systems will battle it out for market share when they are all available to consumers in the Fall of 2001. Unable to battle the competition, pioneer Sega Enterprises has stopped producing its Dreamcast console.

Japan, Product standards, safety, & recalls, Evaluation, Product/Service Evaluation, Sony Corp., Hardware multiproduct review, SNE, Nintendo Company Ltd., Sony Playstation 2 (Computer-based entertainment system), Nintendo GameCube (Computer-based entertainment system)

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Can XBox electrify Microsoft suppliers?

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If Microsoft's new XBox video game console sells well, it will have little effect, in terms of revenues, on Microsoft, but it has already had a positive effect on the shares of Nvidia , which makes the chips for the XBox. Analysts are also expecting Xbox to add about $150 million a quarter to the revenues of Flextronics, which manufactures the XBox and other products for Microsoft and firms like Cisco Systems and Lucent Technologies.

Electronic components, not elsewhere classified, Other Electronic Component Manufacturing, Contract Electronic Component Assembly, CPUs (Central processing units), Forecasts and trends, Electronic components industry, FLEX, NVIDIA Corp., NVDA, Computer-based entertainment system, Computer entertainment systems, Electronic component assemblies, Flextronics Inc.

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