December 1996 / Bits

Double Trouble for 56-Kbps Modems	Real-world limitations and questions of compatibility lurk beneath emerging 56-Kbps modem technologies. - by Dave Andrews
Internet TVs Arrive World Wide Web Does Television	Internet TVs that offer built-in Web browsing and e-mail will come in at least two varieties.
Call Centers Deliver Data on Time Size of U.S. Call-Center Market	Whether it's serving as a help desk, an inbound order center, or an outbound marketing operation, the call center can be the best source of real-time marketing and market intelligence that a company has. - by Curt Harler
Fu ture Watch	Super-Storage for the Next Century
Bug of the Month	Look Out for that Slipstream Fix!
Holiday Gift Sampler Guitar Man Goes MIDI Robotic Mobility Sooth Anyone's Soul Claymation Run Amok in 3-D Ski Your Desktop	When we asked vendors to send us products for consideration for this year's holiday gift section, we received a wide variety of merchandise.
Digital Cameras Give an Instant View LCD Included	Digital cameras are rapidly evolving from expensive toys to viable and affordable image-capture devices. - by Jon Pepper
Survey Intranet Purchase Plans Over Next 12 Months Most Companies Now Have Web Sites
Apple Achieves Notebook Parity	With the PowerBook 1400 series, Apple catches up with the rest of the notebook-computer industry. - by Tom Thompson
Book Review: Do What I Bid	- by Peter Wayner
Book Review: The Absurd, Incomprehensible, and Ridiculous Exposed	Dave Barry in Cyberspace by Dave Barry; Random House; ISBN 0-517-595753; $22 Read Dave Barry in Cyberspace, and not just because it mentions Jerry Pournelle's BYTE column on page 4. - by Edmund X. DeJesus
Browse the Web with Your Eyes Closed Web Browser for Blind Surfers	Surfing the Web can be extra challenging if you can't see your screen. - by Joe Lazzaro
CD-ROM Review: Lots of Words Can You Say "Vocabulary"?	Here are two CD-ROMs f or people who love words. Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary Builder (MWVB) guides you through a series of exercises that will strengthen your English vocabulary. - by Rich Friedman
Forgery Woes Force Move to Private Conferences	Hurdles in implementing universal digital-signature verification for Inte rnet newsgroup-style message conferences may lead to an increasing use of privately hosted discussion groups on the Internet. - by Dave Andrews
Datapro Report New On-Line Banking-Service Plans Banks' Motivation for On-Line Banking	Banks Eye PC Banking and the Internet - by Jannette Alston
Tuned Into the Web Sangam Pant, VP, Lycos	Sangam Pant, vice president of engineering at Lycos, disc usses how best to find sights and sounds on the Web.

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