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At top of the list of Microsoft's "Innovations" in the new release is a disk-compression program, which can give the user more hard disk space by compressing data before writing them to the disk so they take up less space. When read from the disk, the data are...
For the phone companies, the breakthrough came three years ago when scientists at Bellcore, the research arm of the Baby Bells, found a way to do what everybody had assumed was impossible: squeeze a video signal through a telephone wire. The technology, known as asymmetric digital subscriber line, has some...
One tier up are modems with speed rated 9600 baud, which, despite of a price tag of more than $100, are winning over many a computer user. Most of these modems are actually able to work faster than the rated spped of 9600 baud; equipped with the so- called V.42bis...
So, to satisfy the data- hungry- and also to keep up with the times- the HArvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS) have set up dial- up lines that support data- transfer speed of up to 14,400 baud. With the V.42bis compression turned on, that translate into almost five...
The spin doctors could have been cruel: one of Hollywood's biggest, baddest power brokers resurfaces as head of a rinky-dink cable outfit that hawks kitchen knives and costume jewelry. Yet the move was hailed as a stroke of visionary genius. QVC, Diller announced, would be the basis for...