PLUGGED IN : NEWS BYTES.INTEL WILL ONLY GO SO FAR: Intel Corp. is changing its pattern of aggressive semiconductor price cuts, deepening some August reductions but canceling the traditional November markdowns. The change is intended to give personal computer makers greater stability during the critical year-end shopping season, Intel said Friday. It also could fatten fat·ten v. fat·tened, fat·ten·ing, fat·tens v.tr. 1. To make plump or fat. 2. To fertilize (land). 3. Intel's bottom line when demand for chips and PCs are expected to lag behind last year's vigorous levels.For consumers, Intel's decision means some personal computers will be cheaper in September and October than they would have been. But it also means there won't be a price break in the middle of the holiday buying season - something savvy buyers have waited for in the past. TAKING A BREAK: According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a new survey, Internet users have better things to do than cruise for pornography. Indeed, in a recent month fewer than 20 percent of World Wide Web users visited sites that contained sexually explicit materials. The information comes from the NPD Group The NPD Group, Inc. is a leading global market research company[1] founded in 1967 and provides consumer and retail information to manufacturers and retailers. Using actual sales data from retailers and distributors as well as consumer-reported purchasing behavior, NPD in Port Washington Port Washington, uninc. town (1990 pop. 15,387), Nassau co., SE N.Y., a suburb of New York City, on the north shore of Long Island and Manhasset Bay. There is extensive manufacturing, much of it reflecting the region's past association with the aircraft and aerospace , N.Y. Their PC-Meter survey uses software to track the actual Internet use patterns of 4,000 home computer users. NPD NPD New Product Development NPD Nouveau Parti Démocratique (Canada) NPD Narcissistic Personality Disorder NPD Norwegian Petroleum Directorate NPD Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands Vice President Pamela Smith said the resulting data is a fairly accurate snapshot of computer use patterns throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Internet search engines like Lycos and Alta Vista See AltaVista. (World-Wide Web) Alta Vista - A World-Wide Web site provided by Digital which features a very fast Web and Usenet search engine. As of April 1996 its word index is 33GB in size. were the most popular sites in April, the most recent month surveyed. BUSINESS ON THE NET: It seems so easy - create a World Wide Web page and start selling your products around the globe. But Canadian Business Canadian Business is the longest-publishing business magazine in Canada. It was founded in 1928 as The Commerce of the Nation, the organ of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. The magazine was renamed Canadian Business in 1933. magazine has a caveat: You could find yourself violating laws, copyrights or patents in other countries. The magazine suggests Web entrepreneurs research the markets they're likely to be doing business in, and be sure they are complying with local regulations. For example, if a company would put a warning that ``this offer is not valid on Saskatchewan'' in a print ad, it should also be included in a Web site. WEB LINKS CLINTON/GORE ON LINE: A new head-to-head battlefield in the presidential campaign opened Wednesday when the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign went on line with a colorful site on the World Wide Web. President Clinton's certain Republican opponent, former Sen. Bob Dole, has been on line for many months with his own campaign home page. The new site, at http:// www.cg96.org, features a menu page that shows pictures of the president and vice president together, with a new shot popping up every few seconds. At the bottom of the page is a crawl message that recites what has become the campaign's mantra: ``We have great news to share with you.'' In contrast, Dole's site, at http:/ /www.dole96.com, looks more static. SHOWBIZ SITES: Tinseltown fans have two great sites to peruse pe·ruse tr.v. pe·rused, pe·rus·ing, pe·rus·es To read or examine, typically with great care. [Middle English perusen, to use up : Latin per-, per- . Mr. Showbiz, at http://www.mrshowbiz.com/, has news of TV, movies and music celebs. You also can check out The Hollywood Reporter at http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/m.shtml. For the couch potatoes among us, there's TV Guide Online at http://www.iguide.com/tv/. While there, be sure to check out the searchable TV database to find out what's on What's On (Traditional Chinese: 熒幕八爪娛) is a weekly half-hour TV series that airs on Fairchild Television. Format Originally started in 1996, the show is currently the longest-running program in Fairchild Television history. the tube. RANDOM ACCESS GAME PLAYERS: A ``Quake'' has struck the on-line world. Id Software's much-awaited follow-up to top-selling computer game Doom is tying up Web sites and straining servers as new players rush to download it (it's not available in stores yet). To sample the PC game, point your browser to http://www.idsoftware.com on the Net. On CompuServe, go: Quake. On America Online, keyword: Quake. We're told the game is expected in stores in August. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (Color) No caption (President Clinton) |
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