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Shrime's company, Micro Star, next month will begin offering the paperback-size instrument in both a plastic case ($400) and a brass one ($700). To use the device, travelers press a button to enter the name of the city they are visiting. A built-in microprocessor then does virtually all the rest. Shrime, a Lebanese Christian, spent two years designing the guide after consulting with Middle East Islamic leaders. The device has legions of potential customers: Islam counts more than 500 million followers...
...dealing with micro-units and the diamonds have to be exactly parallel," he explains, adding that there is also the complication that there is also the complication that the diamonds themselves may be unable to withstand the high pressure...
Softcon also attracted firms with new schemes for distributing software. An industry that transmits information electronically in microseconds has always found it strange that its products are delivered to stores like books or records. Softyme Express, a San Francisco firm, last week announced an agreement with computer distributor Micro D to place machines in retail outlets that will let customers receive programs on blank discs over telephone lines. Two other firms, Romox, of Campbell, Calif., and Xante, of Tulsa, are testing or marketing similar systems. Nolan Bushnell, the multimillionaire founder of Atari, is even talking about selling software from vending...
...founded in 1965 and exists as a quasi-independent organization at the GSD. Historically, the lab concentrated on displaying spatial data from landscape architecture as well as developing computer catrography. Currently, the seven-member staff is also working in architecture modelling, techniques for color shading and micro-computer based technology...
...purchased in Japan, for prices starting at $495. Sony's two new downsize Walkmans, only slightly bigger than a pack of cigarettes and priced at $99.95 and $129.95, are already hot sellers in the U.S. Another potential hit for Sony is its 3.5-in. micro-floppy-disc drive for personal computers, which can store a megabyte, or 1 million characters of information. Hewlett-Packard already includes the Sony device in its machines, Apple Computer will use it in its new Macintosh computer, and there are rumors that IBM is about to adopt it for future computers...