Scan the headlines? No, just the bar codes; encoding technologies for newspapers and magazines link printed page to Web page

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Newspapers and magazines now have access to a new technology that links periodical customers to the Web. The advertising in a magazine can now include a bar code that, when scanned by a mouse-like device which is hooked up to a consumer's PC, will take the customer immediately to a Web site.

Newspapers, Newspaper Publishers, Computer peripheral equipment, not elsewhere classified, Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing, Key-Verifiers, Newspaper publishing, Advertising, Web sites (World Wide Web), Computer peripherals industry, Periodicals, Web sites, Bar code scanners, Product coding, Barcode/mark reader

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Another contestant wades into e-book format wars

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Reciprocal has entered the hotly-contested electronic-book software market with its planned 2001 release of a software for reading electronic books. The software can be used on personal computers and on Palm digital-organizer devices. Three other software makers (Microsoft, Gemstar-TV Guide International and Adobe Systems) are also developing electronic-book software but their individual formats are incompatible.

Computer Software, Software Publishers, Reciprocal Inc.

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Software is called capable of copying any human voice

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AT& T Labs will market Natural Voices, a software that clones voices for use mostly in text-to-speech products, which some predict will be a $1 billion industry in a few years. This "custom voice" software can resurrect voices of the dead (Harry Carey at Wrigley Field again) or of celebrities, which of course raises questions about who actually owns a voice. Natural Voices has a few tones that sound robotic, but the technology has a vast future in video games, automobiles, books on tape, as well as interaction with cell phones and hand-held computers.

Voice communications software, Voice synthesis, Speech synthesis, AT&T Corp. AT&T Labs

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