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...theoretically, the ideal vehicle for bringing the Internet to a mass market. Now Palo Alto, California-based WebTV has teamed with Sony and Philips to roll out low-cost, Internet-TV browsing terminals that plug easily into television and phone lines. Then even the most byte-shy technophobe can surf the Net and enjoy the convenience of E-mail. ($329 to $349 [box] and $19.95 [monthly access]; WebTV and Sony or Philips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GADGETS | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

...planning a whole family of Oracle NCs--all designed to draw effortlessly from Oracle's databases--including a bare-bones desktop NC for as little as $300, an NC executive phone and an NC set-top box that will plug into a standard TV, letting home viewers surf the Web and send E-mail from the comfort of their living-room couch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

Lost interest? Too lazy to vote? Go ahead, channel surf around those annoying political ads and sleep late next Tuesday. Wall Street's already held the election, tallied the ballots and staged the victor's champagne bash to boot.That's a big part of what's been going on in the stock market since Labor Day. Sure, corporate profits have been humming, and low interest rates have provided punch. But if investors weren't content with the nation's political backdrop it's unlikely stocks would have risen as they have. The Dow Jones industrial average, after sweating through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRESIDENTIAL PLAYS | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

QUOTE OF NOTE: "There is no one who wishes to maintain a clean and safe environment more than I. On weekends I regularly swim and surf off Point Loma with my two smallest children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...produce new flavors and textures. In the new album's opening song, "Tropical," Carla Gillis (lead guitarist and singer) declares, "I'm sick of your morals, I'm sick of them, My mother told me what to do today!" Yet behind this repetition, two guitarists piece together a surf-rock riff, while the bass (Amanda Braden) roots the song's fervent movement with hard-driving chords. In "The Phone, the Phone," sisters Lynette and Carla blend two different vocal styles and come up with a wonderfully complementary sound. One sister repeats the chorus as the other sarcastically murmurs...

Author: By Luke Z. Fenchel, | Title: Plumtree Is Happy Music | 10/31/1996 | See Source »

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