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...wild card in all this is the flood of new games published on CD-ROMs for personal computers. Having languished on computer-store shelves for nearly a decade, CD-ROM's for Macintosh and IBM-compatible PCs are suddenly taking off. "Trip got blindsided by CD-ROMs," says John Taylor, an analyst at L.H. Alton, a San Francisco-based investment firm. "People who bought PCs for all sorts of reasons are saying, 'I just spent $2,500 for my multimedia computer. Why should I spend $400 on a dedicated game machine...
...delivered a stinging slap in the face today to the chipmaker that provides the brains behind many of its PCs: Intel. Big Blue announced that it will stop shipping personal computers using the Pentium chip because its problems are more significant than previously stated. Intel discovered a problem last summer in its chip but says the probability is so slim -- once every 27,000 years -- that it unlikely to cause problem. "We believe no one should have to wonder about the integrity of data calculated on IBM PCs," G. Richard Thoman, an IBM senior vice president, said in a statement...
...what is, after all, only a slice of thin air? Because that thin air has been set aside to create "personal communication ! services" that may someday connect everybody to everybody else -- like the phone system does today, but without those constricting telephone wires. Through streams of digital data, PCS providers could deliver all kinds of exotic services, from smart cars that call for help when they've been stolen to vending machines that order their own refills. They could be the foundation for a wireless electronic-mail network -- a kind of information highway of the airwaves -- through which people could...
...clear last week, however, that the companies maneuvering for position in the upcoming PCS auction had a much more mundane use in mind. Each major bidder, for its own reason, was focused on what is known in the business as pots -- plain old telephone service, or in this case, plain old wireless telephone service. The Baby Bells want to use wireless PCS phones to extend their reach outside their local regions. The long-distance carriers want to use them to connect to customers without having to pay monopoly rates (45 cents on every dollar) to the Baby Bells...
...consider our in-room data jacks. Through these jacks, every student can connect his or her computer to the network. This is not unusual, as other schools and businesses throughout the world have networked PCs in this manner...