************************************* CNET NEWS DISPATCH Monday, November 25, 1996 San Francisco, California, USA ************************************* CNET NEWS DISPATCH is a daily newsletter that summarizes the up-to-the minute technology news presented by CNET's NEWS.COM. It tempts readers with coverage of today's hottest stories, news in the making, (in)credible rumors, and other indispensable information. For complete versions of the stories updated all day long, head over to: http://www.news.com/?nd ************************************* CONTENTS SCOOPS AND TOP STORIES Mother of all notebooks to be shot out of Canon in December The Web version of driving your car at blazing speeds of up to 325mph Death, where is thy...ping?(?) "Honey? Could you answer the toaster? I'm talking to Frank on the microwave." Comdex sucks! No, it rules! Sucks! Rules! Does not! Does so! Oh, so that's why O.J. has that battered copy of Neuromacer ANNOUNCEMENTS An easy way for you to customize NEWS.COM Search the site for particular topics and articles Send us your questions, comments, flotsam, and jetsam How to subscribe and unsubscribe Late-breaking stories just a click away with Desk Top News ************************************* SCOOPS AND TOP STORIES MOTHER OF ALL NOTEBOOKS TO BE SHOT OUT OF CANON Here are some numbers that might keep ThinkPad and PowerBook vendors up late at night: 200-MHz Pentium processor, 13.3-inch active-matrix display, 1.4GB hard drive, 8X CD-ROM drive. These formidable figures apply to Canon's 3200FX notebook, appearing in December at a showroom near you. It should thus become the highest-performance notebook on the market --but is it worth the price?... http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C5692%2C00.html?nd ************************************* THE WEB VERSION OF DRIVING YOUR CAR AT 325 MPH Have you been impressed by Peak Technologies' Peak Net.Jet, whose creators have dubbed it the "turbocharger for the Internet"? If so, keep an eye on the horizon for Datalytics' Web accelerator, Blaze, which will supposedly let users surf the Web up to five times faster than they do today. The company claims that four key weapons in Blaze's arsenal give it the edge over existing accelerators, not to mention a team of blue-chip bundling partners... http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C5707%2C00.html?nd ************************************* DEATH, WHERE IS THY...PING?(?) Maybe you've never been pinged. Maybe you've never known the feeling of being on the business end of a huge chunk of data that overwhelms and then shuts down your machine. But if it DOES happen to you (as Karl Malden used to say), what will you do? What WILL you do? StorageTek's Network Systems Group claims it has the magic bullet that is a mere four lines long and takes only seconds to download... http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C5708%2C00.html?nd ************************************* "HONEY? COULD YOU ANSWER THE TOASTER? I'M TALKING TO FRANK ON THE MICROWAVE..." Even before the appearance of the much-awaited "information appliances" that are supposed to help us live like the Jetsons, Mitsubishi Electric America and Diba are trying to drive down their cost by as much as half using new chip technology. Some of the miracle gadgets expected include set-top boxes with email and Web access, Internet-enabled phones with touch-screen interfaces, and a "tour guide" device with a CD-ROM and built-in camera that visitors could use in self-guided tours of museums and exhibits. Oh, and don't forget to ask for the exciting "Toast Waiting" feature... http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C5704%2C00.html ************************************* COMDEX SUCKS! NO, IT RULES! SUCKS! RULES! DOES NOT! DOES TOO! If you've been to Comdex and survived, how did you manage it? NEWS.COM wants your war stories. We will publish the best five, and the winners--picked on a totally subjective basis by our editorial staff--will get supercool CNET T-shirts. Mail suggestions@news.com, and include the words 'Comdex stories' in the subject header of your message. To paraphrase the Prez, "Let us feel yur paynnne..." http://www.news.com/Comdex/?nd ************************************* OH, SO THAT'S WHY O.J. HAS THAT BATTERED COPY OF NEUROMANCER... As humorist Dave Barry might solemnly intone, "We are not making this up." Yes, Virginia, hackers did indeed vandalize the O.J. Simpson civil trial section of AOL's Court TV site. 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