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Compaq wasted little time flexing its muscle. Shortly after announcing the Digital deal, Compaq elbowed IBM aside to become the exclusive PC supplier to Radio Shack's chain of 6,800 electronics stores. It surprised no one to watch an upstart that began by copying IBM triumph in a byte-to-byte contest with Big Blue...
DANCING THE BYTE AWAY...
...brand of fast-and-loose journalism seems to work online, where getting it first often means more than getting it right. And why not? It's a fast-food medium, and increasingly savvy users are learning (thank you, Pierre Salinger) to take a fistful of salt with every byte...
...audio from police radio, including the Dallas and L.A. cops. The result: a sort of gruesome copspeak play-by-play to accompany the TV spectacle. Even the site's more mundane offerings--including lost kittens and traffic stops--attract some 10,000 daily visitors, each eager to take a byte out of crime...
...boob tube, at least theoretically, the ideal vehicle for bringing the Internet to a mass market. Now Palo Alto, California-based WebTV has teamed with Sony and Philips to roll out low-cost, Internet-TV browsing terminals that plug easily into television and phone lines. Then even the most byte-shy technophobe can surf the Net and enjoy the convenience of E-mail. ($329 to $349 [box] and $19.95 [monthly access]; WebTV and Sony or Philips...