[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Edited Edupage, 26 May 1996
From: IN%"[email protected]" 27-MAY-1996 14:46:47.89
From: Edupage Editors <[email protected]>
>FLAT PC SCREENS HEAD FOR THE DESKTOP
>Liquid crystal display screens currently cost about five times that of a
>similarly-sized cathode ray tube screen, but that should be changing over
>the next couple of years, say LCD makers. Next year, major LCD vendors
>expect to halve the difference, bringing prices down to two-and-a-half times
>that of CRTs. Analysts say when the difference comes down to that point,
>the desktop replacement market could really take off. "CRT replacement is
>inevitable, it's just that in the near term there are a lot of hurdles,"
>says an analyst at Stanford Resources. "The place where it makes the most
>sense are with large-screen LCDs." NEC recently unveiled a 20-inch
>high-resolution LCD screen with wide-angle viewing designed as a
>"CRT-killer" according to a NEC engineer. (Investor's Business Daily 23 May
>96 A8)
IIRC, LCD screens are considerably harder to read off of by Tempest
equipment than normal CRT screens. An encouraging change.
>NORTHERN TELECOM PHONES GET JAVATIZED
>Northern Telecom plans to incorporate Sun Microsystems' Java microprocessors
>and software in a new class of inexpensive "smart" telephones designed to
>double as Internet appliances. The move makes Northern Telecom the first
>telephone manufacturer to license Java chips for its products. The chips
>will be used in its wired PowerTouch phones and its wireless digital phones,
>and customer trials should start next year. (Wall Street Journal 23 May 96
>B3)
I would guess that these phones would still not be crypto-capable, but
I'm not quite sure what they have in mind to use Java in them for.
-Allen
>***************************************************************
>Edupage ... is what you've just finished reading. To subscribe to Edupage:
>send mail to: [email protected] with the message: subscribe edupage
>John McCain (if your name is John McCain; otherwise, substitute your own
>name). ... To cancel, send a message to: [email protected] with the
>message: unsubscribe edupage. (If you have subscription problems, send
>mail to [email protected].)