February 1997 / International Bits

BYTE Middle East Announces Best of GITEX 96 Awards Best Arabic Technology	New Arabic technologies garner most of the prizes. - by Khaldoon Tabaza
Newspad Makes El Periódico Interactive Not As Easy to Carry to the Bathroom	A group of readers of El Periódico de Catalunya, Barcelona's largest newspaper, can now browse, personalize, and structure their own newspaper on a tablet-like computer called Newspad. - by Jim Nagel
USB Trickles to Market	The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is entering the mainstream PC market, albeit slowly. - by Mark Carroll
Check All the Links Map and Monitor Web Links	Within most Web sites it is impossible to divine the path from one page to another several clicks away -- especially if there are thousands of pages. - by Tania Hershman
CD-ROM Near Speed Limit?	There are limits to how fast CD-ROM drives can get using the standard constant linear velocity (CLV) disk-reading technique. - by Mark Carroll
MHEG Complements Interactive TV	Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Java, and the Web are taking the world of interactive applications by storm. - by Valerie Thompson

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