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...easy, says Hager. Park-ophiles simply record episodes on their VCRs and squeeze the signals into their PCs using a nifty piece of digitizing software called RealVideo. A few simple instructions put the episodes on the Web, where anyone on the Internet can point, click and view them within seconds. Hager started distributing South Park in August, a few days after after RealNetworks began giving away its once pricey server software. Why did he do it? His justification is that while the show is enormously popular with 18-to-25-year-olds, most college students don't have cable...
...should a corporation shell out $50 Per Computer for a copy of Netscape when IE comes preloaded on the PCs they purchase...
Upon returning from break, I began investigating PDA-type options, including the Apple Newton MessagePad 2000 and the new handled PCs that run a light version of Windows 95 dubbed Windows CE. These WinCE machines cost about $1,000 and run "pocket" versions of popular Microsoft software such as Word and Schedule...
...German-born Pfeiffer replaced ousted co-founder Rod Canion in 1991, a year in which price wars and a slumping economy cut Compaq's sales 10%, to $3.2 billion. Pfeiffer applied American management techniques, slashing payrolls and streamlining manufacturing. He used the savings to launch lines of lower-priced PCs. In '96 he led the company into high-margin, big-iron computing, buying Tandem Computer for $3 billion. Tandem's machines process everything from stock trades to credit-card transactions...
Digital completes a strategic triangle. It produces such high-margin items as the servers that link thousands of PCs on the Net, but its support staff serves such blue-chip customers as Citicorp and Lockheed Martin. Digital will smooth Compaq's path into the corporate computing world coveted by Pfeiffer. "Services open the door for hardware," says Digital chairman Robert Palmer...