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...behind Time Warner and Toshiba in the race to set the standard for a successor to the videocassette player called the digital video disc, which offers sharply improved picture quality. And some experts are scathing about Sony's plans to develop its own brand of personal computers with chipmaker Intel. Says Bibb: "The profits are going to hell in the PC market...
...Oracle, IBM and other companies know something we don't? I doubt it. These companies have made it their goal to break the so-called "Wintel" dominance over the computer market (the large number of users using Microsoft products on Intel-based machines). While this announcement certainly raises the question over the future effectiveness of the personal computer model, realistically, Ellison and his peers are spewing hype rather than predicting the future...
...World Trade Center, the Statue of Liberty below has the scale and look of a queen on one of those miniature, travel-size chessboards. Ordinarily the deck offers only spectacular vistas. But for the next month or so, visitors will be able to see something else entirely: the Intel World Chess Championship...
...only $15, tourists and chessophiles can watch the two best players in the world, Professional Chess Association champion Gary Kasparov and challenger Viswanathan Anand, in a best-of-20 competition for $1 million. (The loser gets half a mil.) The championship is a co-production of the Intel Corp., the computer chip-maker, and the P.C.A., the breakaway chess organization started by Kasparov two years ago. With its heavyweight title-fight purse, a lightweight ticket price, an inspired setting and rules intended to shorten the matches, the event has been designed to reach those of us who still call knights...
...whose decision to allow other manufacturers to copy its PCs made economic giants out of Microsoft and Intel, could become a clone maker itself. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple chairman A.C. Markkula said his company has asked IBM to make computers that use the Macintosh operating system. "The IBM name on a computer still means something to a lot of people, especially corporate buyers," says technology correspondent David Jackson. "A machine that would run the Mac O/S with the IBM label is viewed by most analysts as a great combination." IBM officials did not immediately respond...