I.T., phone home: cheap calls on the Internet shake everyone up

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Vocaltec Inc. has devised a technology for converting voice into digital form capable of being transmitted across the Internet. Although it requires further refinements, the system, known as the Internet Phone, offers an inexpensive approach to placing long-distance calls.

Computer networks, Product development, Telecommunications systems, Long distance telephone services, Electronics industry, Long-distance telephone service, Speech processing systems industry, Vocaltec Inc.

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Television arrives on the Internet

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Intel's new technology known as 'Intercasting' will allow television viewers to access the World Wide Web simultaneously. Computer makers Gateway and IBM are working on the new computers equiped with Intercasting capabilities and expect to have the machines out in 1996.

Intel Corp., INTC, World Wide Web, Interactive video systems

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Follow the money: a new stock market arises on the Internet

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Electronic Share Information Ltd. (ESI) will be the first stock market to be launched in the Internet. ESI will eliminate the costs associated with brokers, trade shares for less and also sell shares of companies that could not previously afford a stock-market listing.

Usage, Stock-exchange, Stock exchanges

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