Era of high-tech politics is creating opportunities; business provide services from hearings hotlines to mail programs

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A new wave of information services ranging from congressional hearing hot-lines to software to keep tab on fund-raising are emerging to feed the information needs of increasingly high-tech conscious politicos. National Narrowcast Network, an on-line service providing congressional hearings for $20 for the first minute of the call and $15 for each additional 10 minutes, has covered over 200 hearings since July 1991 and plans to expand to the Executive branch and independent government agencies. Political Action Hotline, which began in 1989 to help lobbying at the state level with an overnight mail service, now offers voice mail systems with prerecorded lobbying messages in the form of letters that callers, for a fee, can have sent to their state legislators. Aristotle Industries, a marketer for software used to monitor polling and fund-raising, now offers compact disks that include specific information on voters of a given geographical area.

Information retrieval services, Services, Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, Marketing, High technology, Information services, Politics, Online, Entrepreneur, Trends, Telecommunications Service

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Computer buffs compete via technology to give new freedom to the disabled

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Johns Hopkins University sponsors a national competition for innovative research into the design of computer technology for people with special needs. About 1,500 academics, students and amateur inventors are participating in the 10 regional fairs leading to the 1991 national fair at the Smithsonian Institution on Feb 1-2, 1992. The best 30 entries from the regionals compete for a $10,000 prize at the national. The range of entries matches the range of needs. One is a voice-activated data entry system involving a microphone and known as the DragonDictate-30K for use by people with arthritis or other conditions that make typing difficult or impossible. Other entries include a headset for use at live performances by those with hearing limitations, a computerized tape system to teach language to the developmentally disabled and a simple bar-code scanner device called Stylus to help the disabled shop from home by telephone.

Computer peripheral equipment, not elsewhere classified, Colleges and universities, Research, Industrial research, Competitions, Product introduction, Johns Hopkins University, Computers and disabled persons, Contests, Research and Development, Computer Industry, New Technique, Handicapped

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Family planning: The computer server promises to do to the home what it has already done for business

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Home servers, which represent a new kind of data transmission device, function as hubs for home networking systems. 'Home intranets' are envisioned, based on home server technology, that would tie together PCs, home-security systems and consumer appliances. Already, many households have multiple PCs, and consequently, demand is growing for a convenient way to share printers and files among them. Meanwhile, a new vocabulary is emerging for talking about home servers, including phrases such as 'network utility boxes' and 'data furnaces.' Variations on the new product type include power line devices, from companies such as Intelogis Inc, X-10 Inc and IBM; telephone devices, from Tut Systems Inc and Epigram Inc; wireless, from Sharewave Inc and Data General Corp; and coaxial Ethernet cable, from Linksys, 3Com and Bay Networks.

Electronic Computer Manufacturing, Communications Equipment, Telecommunications Equipment, Communications Equipment Manufacturing, Dedicated Computers, Computer network equipment industry, Usage, Network hardware industry, Equipment and supplies, Telecommunications systems, File servers, Network/file server technology, NFS, Servers (Computers), Intelligent buildings

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