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...poll taken election night, nearly 80 percent of the 250 student surveyed said they were either interested or extremely interested in the possibility of bringing TVs to Loker, according to Dining Services Project Manager Alexandra E. McNitt...
Nobody disputes the power of OPRAH WINFREY to move merchandise. But is Oprah powerful enough to get people to turn off their TVs and read? She may be. The talk-show host recently announced that her show would conduct "the biggest book club in the whole world," and that Jacquelyn Mitchard's The Deep End of the Ocean would be her first discussion subject. That alone sent the novel to the top of bestseller lists around the country. And even though her semiannual book shows get low ratings, Oprah told the Washington Post, "I always feel if you do right...
Skinny Legs had two TVs. Playing on one was the movie of the night. This was St. John's only cinema. On the other was the Olympics, specifically the U.S. women swimmers going for gold in the 4X100 medley relay. As the American anchor touched the wall first, everyone took time out from the movie to cheer and chat excitedly about another medal for the Americans. The scene was a commercial NBC could only dream...
There are, however, as many variations on this latest get-rich-on-the-Internet scheme as there are firms that want to cash in on it. Companies like Zenith and Curtis Mathes are building new TVs that come out of the packing crate Net ready; others, like ViewCall America, are designing set-top boxes that plug into ordinary TVs and make them Web capable. Sony and Philips, for example, are licensing set-top technology from WebTV Networks, a company partly financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Sega and Nintendo, meanwhile, are adding Internet capability to their video-game machines...
...fully wired wide-screen net TV for easy video conferencing and Web surfing, a new digital videodisc player that shows films in eight different languages and a headset for exploring the make-believe world of virtual reality. "Thirty years ago, we were the first hotel to have color TVs in all the guest rooms," says hotel managing director Jim Petrus. "Now we're redefining state...