PLUGGED IN : NEWS BYTES.DIAL IN: L.A. Cellular customers now have access to the next generation of digital cellular phones capable of handling caller ID A telephone company service that sends the caller's telephone number between the first and second ring of the call. If the calling number is not blocked, the calling number is displayed on the handset or base station of the called party. and full-service paging. The service was made available within Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and Orange counties this month. The new digital phones look and cost about the same as conventional analog cellular sets, but can store up to 100 names and numbers. When a specific person calls, his or her name will flash on the phone's small screen. WEB ADS SELL: Softbank Interactive Marketing, an advertising sales representation firm in El Segundo El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and , announced it sold more than 1 billion Web ad impressions in 1996. In the fourth quarter, the company increased its portfolio of high-quality, branded sites by over 33 percent. Based on findings from several independent research firms, Softbank executives project that it holds 25 percent of the current Web advertising sales market. WEB LINKS BE FIRST IN LINE: Everything you've ever wanted to know about initial public offerings can be found at IPO (Initial Public Offering) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard. Central, http://www.ipocentral.com. Compiled by the Reference Press, this gold mine of a site features a complete list of companies that filed for an IPO of common stock after May 6. This directory can be accessed alphabetically or by date, and the latest filings are available under a separate menu item. IPO Central also highlights one featured IPO per week, with a free link to a Hoover Online profile on that company. UNCLE SAM Uncle Sam, name used to designate the U.S. government. The term arose in the War of 1812 and seems at first to have been used derisively by those opposed to the war. Possibly it was an expansion of the letters "U.S. ON LINE: The federal government has embraced the Internet. By some estimates, federal agencies have placed more than 1 million pages of information on the Internet - and the list is growing daily. The best place to start is http://www.fedworld.gov. FedWorld includes links to dozens of federal Web sites and, using key words, searches out information on those sites for you. Next on the list is http://www.business.gov/Search.html, when a search program peruses more than 100,000 pages of government information. You can find just about any federal agency by typing in http://www. followed by the agency's name, or an abbreviation abbreviation, in writing, arbitrary shortening of a word, usually by cutting off letters from the end, as in U.S. and Gen. (General). Contraction serves the same purpose but is understood strictly to be the shortening of a word by cutting out letters in the middle, of that name, followed by .gov. For the Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), division of the U.S. Dept. of Justice charged with investigating all violations of federal laws except those assigned to some other federal agency. , for instance, it's http://www.fbi.gov. COME OUT AND PLAY: Want to find a safe park or a great recreation center for your kids? Check out the Parents' Online Guide to L.A., http://www.parentrover.com. Organized by the West Hills-based ParentRover group, the site offers a local directory of sports activities, recreational classes, youth theater troupes and educational outlets. RANDOM ACCESS PC FOR JUST $999: Packard Bell See Packard Bell NEC. is targeting the nearly 65 percent of U.S. homes without a PC with its new $999 Platinum Series computer system. The C155 features a 120-megahertz Intel Pentium processor, Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. 95, a high-speed modem and a 14-inch monitor. The model is part of Packard Bell's new 1997 lineup of PCs designed as part of the company's strategy to maintain its position as the world's top seller of home computers. CAPTION(S): 2 Photo, Drawing Photo: (1--color) No Caption (Computer) (2--color) No Caption (Cellular Phone) Drawing: (color) No Caption (U.S. Flag) |
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