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...line called Microsoft Home that puts out education, entertainment and reference products, to such start- ups as Big Top Productions, a San Francisco software designer with 26 employees that has introduced seven titles since January. IBM too has begun to focus on the kid market with such recent CD-ROM titles as The Book of Shadowboxes: A Story of the ABCs, an introduction to the alphabet. Even such blood-and-guts video-game makers as Sega and Electronic Arts are jumping into the field. Electronic Arts' new EA*Kids division has already brought out eight programs, including the best-selling...
Many of today's educational programs were dreamed up by computer-industry veterans who were dissatisfied with what was on the market for their children. One parent, Richard Devine, started Club KidSoft, a mail-order company that distributes a quarterly magazine and a CD-ROM disk that allows parents to try out 40 software programs for free in their homes. To buy one, consumers simply call a telephone number for a code that unlocks the rest of the program. Started last October, Club Kidsoft already has more than 40,000 subscribers...
...Every single CD-ROM product has a different user interface, which librarians may have to be conversant with," Snyder says...
Miyagishima said the first on-line issue contains reviews of CD-ROM software and a shareware program that allows people to communicate on the computer by voice. He said the magazine would also have an article about the use of the Internet during disasters like January's Los Angeles earthquake...
...While analysts were debating whether this global network was feasible, Microsoft announced a deal with Japan's Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, the world's second largest telephone company, to design business applications for CD-ROM and facsimile machines...