This year is being called the year of DVD (or digital versatile disk). DVD really caught on this past holiday season. A report at TechWeb states that U.S. consumers bought more than 487,000 DVD players in the fourth quarter of 1998 and that DVD rentals were up 50 percent.
DVD Defined
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If you are one of those people who doesn’t leave home without your PalmPilot, you probably covet neat toys and gadgets that will enhance the functionality of your invaluable device. Below is our list of cool devices that will enable you to make the most of your PalmPilot.

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Videoconferencing used to be more trouble than it was worth: It was expensive, the images were jerky and grainy, and one typically spent half of that all-important meeting time just setting up the equipment. That isn’t necessarily the case anymore. Not only has videoconferencing equipment gone down in price, picture quality [...]

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Computers will soon be shipping with the ultra-fast Pentium III chip, but some privacy groups are up in arms because the chip will feature a built-in serial number that can be used to identify consumers during online transactions.

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Recently, an acquaintance of mine remarked on the irony of running low-end graphics nostalgia games — like Asteroids and Centipede — on my rather high-priced (and presumably high-tech) personal computer. I had to rise to the occasion with a few rounds of Tomb Raider II and Riven, and that was that. But [...]

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When ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) was first introduced, it quickly gained a bad reputation for being hard to install and use. But in many areas of the country, service has improved greatly, and Web surfers are once again considering ISDN an attractive alternative for faster Internet access.

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