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Peggy Berk, a Manhattan communications consultant, starts her day by turning on her modem-equipped computer, dialing into the GTE Telemail network and reading on her screen any overnight telexes from her clients. Tapping a few keys, she scans the electronic version of USA Today before switching to another network, the Source, and perusing the A.P. and U.P.I. news wires. "I can get along without my morning toast and coffee," she says, "but I can't leave home without going on-line first...
...zips messages between users of computers. So far, however, the two-year-old EasyLink has been the company's biggest cash drain, consuming more than $110 million in 1984 alone. The electronic mail business suffers from a surplus of competing services, including Federal Express's ZapMail and GTE's Telemail. Few, if any, are making money...
...ongoing FBI investigation at Cornell is one of 15, all involving a break into the Virginia-based GTE Telemail system. FBI spokesman James E. Mull said this week that the computer confiscation "was not part of a major crackdown," but merely an investigation requested by the communications service...
...Telemail system is a communications service with 17,000 individual customers. Manager of Public Affairs Claudia Houston could not speculate on why her company has been the object of fifteen separate computer intrusions...
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