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...nearly 40 years, Sony Corp. has been synonymous with advanced consumer electronics, from Trinitron TVs to Walkman cassette players. Now the company has decided to shift gears. Chairman and Co-Founder Akio Morita, 63, confirmed last week that Sony is changing its focus to products for business and industry: communications and broadcast equipment semiconductors and other component parts. Says Morita: "We won't be primarily a radio and tape-recorder company any more...
...Washington next month, several high-technology companies will attempt to recruit students, using, appropriately enough, high-tech methods. Business People Inc. of Minneapolis will set up large-screen TVs at 30 of the top schools for technical education, including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley. Then, in a Washington studio, recruiters from such companies and Government agencies as Sperry, Tektronix, Combustion Engineering, the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Security Agency will make their pitches via satellite to the assembled seniors. The students, perhaps 4,000 to 7,000 of them, will be able...
...During the 1981 campaign, Finance Minister Yoram Aridor played what his opponents called "election economics" by cutting excise taxes and import duties on foreign items like autos and color TVs. The Begin government then tried to ease the pain of inflation by broadening indexation and encouraging spending. Losing confidence in the shekel, Israelis increasingly turned to the American greenback. "Our national currency is now the dollar," Ezer Weizman, Begin's former Defense Minister, who is now heading his own ticket, charged last week. "This is a disgrace...
...hazards of the multiplicity of new TVs is that manufacturers are dazzling customers with more gimmicks and gimcracks than an average viewer needs or can afford. One of the General Electric TVs introduced earlier this month bristles with 35 buttons. Says David Lachenbruch, editorial director of TV Digest: "Consumers are confused, intimidated and overwhelmed by all the blinking lights and digital readouts...
Even as televised stereo sounds begin to blast and screens grow larger, the television industry has plans for still more features. By next year, such companies as GE, Sony and Zenith will be selling so-called digital TVs. These revolutionary devices contain microcomputers that translate conventional, wavelike TV signals into visual and audio information that the viewer can fine-tune on the screen. On some models, the user will be able to zoom in on Liberace's diamond rings, for example, or freeze Pete Rose in mid-swat. Digital technology can also increase picture clarity...