From: IN%"educom@educom.unc.edu" 27-MAY-1996 14:46:47.89 From: Edupage Editors <educom@educom.unc.edu>
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
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