Word: multimedia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only is its subject matter relatively new, but the main text of Religion 1007 has also taken on an innovative format--a multimedia CD Rom titled On Common Ground: World Religions in America, a product of the Pluralism Project, which was developed by Eck starting in 1991 to document the growing religious diversity...
...modulator-demodulator still has a few tricks up its sleeve. Acer's Wireless PC Connection ($200) uses 900-MHz spread-spectrum technology to permit notebook users to stray up to 500 ft. from their phone jacks for backyard or poolside computing. Meanwhile, SuperSonic II ($200) from Diamond Multimedia yokes two modems (and two phone lines) together to bring the effective bandwidth up to 112 kbps (kilobits per sec.). If someone calls while you're online, the system just cuts the speed in half until you hang up the phone and then kicks back into full double-barrel bandwidth...
...will about the Internet and the wonders of multimedia. At the end of the day, most people still prefer to leave their brain at the office and morph themselves into couch potatoes--watching Michael Jordan dazzle opponents or Mel Gibson vanquish villains. In the battle for home- entertainment supremacy, the den is no match for the living room...
Sony's profits came under increasing pressure as harsh pricing and a strong yen battered electronics makers. No matter how many Walkmans Japan's best could sell, the idea that the company could make the leap from gadget producer to player in the multicultural, multimedia universe was considered, to twist an old Sony advertisement, baloney...
...exactly wowed the digerati. Some analysts complain that Sony's PC offers too little value and is priced too high to compete with established makers like Gateway 2000 and Compaq. Sony contends that the VAIO is simply spearheading a long-term attempt to get a lucrative piece of the multimedia home computer market. For that, Sony has much to offer. "The next growth market is digital imaging for PCs," says the Tokyo analyst. "And connecting digital cameras and computers is one of Sony's biggest strengths...