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- La Vie en Rose -- Cruising for love online in France by Andrew Joscelyne. Things have come a long way since 1983, when the first minitel freaks started using a company videotex network somewhere in the east of France to send sizzling messages under fake names to a blushing receptionist. In 1984, some enterprising leatherfolk started leaving messages with a straight minitel job-info service S(erveur) M(édical), apparently attracted by those irresistible access code initials. Finally, the following year, the PTT/Transpac created the "kiosque" messagerie service on the Télétel 3 network in response to this demand by hotshot videotexans, and sex life in France hasn't been the same since.
- New publishing technology at Longman -- A mega exercise in capturing world English by Richard Evans.
"We're the world's best at explaining contemporary English usage - because that's our goal," claims Longman's Nikolai Dejevsky. "Oxford University Press may be looking at the historical usage of words occurring in great works of literature. Here we're going through the Daily Mail." - WordPerfect 5.0. A Preview by Eric Alderman
Relax. take a deep breath. Get a cup of coffee and take a seat. If you're a WordPerfect user, I think you're going to like this. - How to demo a Machine Translator by Claude Bédard
You trust your mother, but you cut the cards. - Document Image Processing - Not just another story about the paperless office by Tony Hendley
If you're the kind of technophnile who thinks there's something under-dressed about information not tucked up in bits, you may be dismayed to discover that the Paperless Office is not just around the corner. In 1987, of the world's printed information, only one percent was held in digital form on computer storage media. - WordWorker - Gerhard Staufenbiel, Technical Writer by Geoff Pogson
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Product news
- Hot from Reference Software - A real grammar checker (Grammatick III)
- CD-ROM set to boom?
- First low cost voice processor (Voyscomputer)
- Are you ready for formware?
- Keyboard of the future
- Minitel - Job search in natural language
- Mac the Mouth -- Emerson and Stern's onscreen speech therapy
- New WordStar WYSIWYG & easy to learn
- Symantec announces special offer - (on Q&A Write wordprocessor software)
- Eurodream: Automatic multilingual office
- Borland to developers: "Build around new Sidekick"
- Talk to DOS in plain English
- 320 dpi mouse
- GE elbows Philips in race for interactive video standard
- At last, computer-prompted translation for the micro
- Help for wordworkers on Minitel
- Now talk your way into this
- Translating advertising
- Wordprocessing for the blind
- Am. Lit. classics now tastefully bound in these lovely diskettes
- Digitized voice messages on disk
- From Houghton Mifflin - Electronic blue pencil
- Termdok on CD-ROM
- Electronic book - "The Functional Use of Computers in Public Relations, Marketing and Advertising"
- Computer-aided learning latest
- Everything but the kitchen sink - (PagePerfect DTP and graphics software)
- Desktop publish in 40 languages (Xerox MultLanguage Documenter)
- Building your own personal workstation - by Charles Hugo
- Neil Postman -- Luddite or devil's advocate? by Geoff Pogson
- Andre Abbou: the state of the language industries
Product reviews
- Where were you when you lost your car keys? A guide to free-form data bases (Micrologic's Tornado, Broderbund's Memorymate, and I-Track Corp.'s Inside Track)
- Not only good, but fun. Microlytics' Word Finder
- McGraw Hill's Science and Tech Reference on CD-ROM
- Easy Touch Keytronic's touch pad keyboard
- Mac to PC -- Maclink Plus
- First review of the shrink-wrapped version of Borland's SPRINT (it's actually not half bad)
- If U CN RD THIS -- Brown Bag's Mindreader RAM resident Word processor -- Innova's TopCopy Plus
- Crunch -- Electronic Text Corp's WordCruncher
- I seem to remember ... Group L's Memory Lane and Microlytics' Gofer
- Redline - Jurisoft's Comparerite
- You better sit down for this one -- these guys say they can generate electricity from the radio waves in the air
- This is the smallest IBM-compatible computer in the world
- Don't breathe (battle for clean air)
- Houseware (smart houses)
- Sodium is bad of you, Right? Wrong!
- Boggleware! A review of Stewart Brand's The Media Lab
- Treasury house of easily accessible knowledge - Wiley's AI Encyclopedia
- Machine translation of online searches in Japanese databases
- Are you bitextual?