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Unlimited Internet For $15 a
Month 12/06/94 HACKENSACK, NEW
JERSEY, U.S.A., 1994 DEC 6 (NB) --
Internet Online Services (IOS) is
offering unlimited access to the
Internet for $15 or $35 a month,
depending upon the type of access
needed.
The firm has 14.4/28.8 kilobits-
per-second (Kbps) local dial-up nodes
covering New York City's five
boroughs and most of New Jersey, plus
Washington DC, and its Northern
Virginia and Maryland suburbs.
IOS spokesperson Steve Rowe told
Newsbytes that a $15 per month
account provides unlimited local
access to a basic Unix shell account.
Those unfamiliar with Unix can go
from there into what he called a
friendly menu system.
A $35 per month account provides
an individual SLIP (Serial Line
Internet Protocol) or PPP (Point-to-
Point Protocol) account, Rowe said.
SLIP and PPP accounts allow direct
access to the Internet, with full
membership and individual addresses,
via standard phone lines.
Users who need only to "surf the
net" can use a shareware program
called The Internet Adapter, or TIA,
by Drummond Reed of InterMind Crop.
TIA is available on many BBSs
(bulletin board systems), Rowe said.
It is widely supported by Internet
service providers who use Unix
shells, such as Concentric Research
Information Service.
IOS is a division of the
privately held long-distance reseller
International Discount
Telecommunications (IDT). IDT made
news earlier this year by starting a
"Call-Back" program for Europeans who
wanted cheaper access to US parties
than their national monopolies would
provide. That idea made IDT one of
the 10 largest US international
carriers, the firm claims.
Rowe said IOS currently has local
dial-up nodes in the 201, 908 and 212
area codes for New York City and New
Jersey (area 212 is local for the 718
area, he explained). In the
Washington DC area, nodes are
available in the 202, 703, and 301
areas, he said.
IOS technical support
spokesperson Matthew McGehrin added
that, for those who do not care about
direct graphics support, full
services are available through the
Lynx menu system. For those with good
phone connections, he recommended
using either Netscape or a Mosaic
type of browser. Both are compatible
with TIA hookups through the Unix
shell, he said.
(Craig Menefee/19941206/Press
Contact: Steve Rowe, IOL, 201-928-
1000; Reader Contact: IOS, tel 800-
928-1136, fax 800-928-1057)
Seattle FilmWorks Offers Photos
On Disk 12/01/94 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON,
U.S.A., 1994 DEC 1 (NB) -- Seattle
FilmWorks Inc. (NASDAQ: FOTO) has
announced a scanning service that
puts the photographs you take on a
computer disk at 640 by 480
resolution. The company will put a
24-exposure roll of 35 millimeter
(mm) film on a single floppy disk for
$3.95, in addition to the regular
developing and printing charge.
If you order the service, called
Pictures on Disk, Seattle FilmWorks
will also provide you with a two disk
set of software with your first order
that contains Windows and DOS
versions of PhotoWorks, a software
package that lets you run slide
shows, add captions and descriptions
to each photo, export photos to word
processors and other programs, and
crop the pictures. You can also
organize the photos on the disk into
albums and drag-and-drop photos
between albums. The company says
photos on the disk can be exported to
be used as screen savers.
PhotoWorks stores the pictures in
a proprietary file format which can
be converted to any of 57 common file
formats using a conversion routine
included in PhotoWorks and PhotoWorks
Plus.
Seattle FilmWorks also offers a
fully featured version of Photoworks,
called Photoworks Plus. In addition
to the features of the version you
get at no cost with your film order,
the Plus version can import images
created in other software programs,
has an expanded set of transition
effects for slide shows, and can
correct the color of photos. It also
comes with a flash camera and a
certificate for free film processing
of one roll of film, including
Pictures on Disk.
Seattle Film Works charges $8.50
plus $1.45 for shipping to process
and print one 24-exposure roll of
color print film. That includes 3.5-
inch prints and a new roll of Seattle
Filmworks 35mm film. For a roll of
36-exposure film the price is $12.95
for processing and printing plus
$1.45 shipping, and another $5.95 for
Pictures on Disk.
The company says you can also get
existing pictures placed on disk from
prints, slides or negatives.
Turnaround time for mailing and
processing is five to seven days.
To run Photoworks software you
need an IBM-compatible PC powered by
a 386 or higher chip and running
Widows 3.1 or later. A VGA or Super
VGA display is required along with a
3.5-inch high density floppy disk
drive, four megabytes (MB) of
available memory and 2.7MB of hard
disk space.
(Jim Mallory/19941201/Press
contact: Gary Christophersen, Seattle
Filmworks, 206-281-1390)
****Carnegie-Mellon Univ Blocks
Internet Porn 11/23/94 PITTSBURGH,
PENNSYLVANIA, U.S.A., 1994 NOV 23
(NB) -- Students can no longer use
Carnegie-Mellon University's
computers to retrieve pictures via
the Internet containing questionable
sexual content. The university has
blocked access to certain sources of
pictures it considers pornographic.
In a move that has provoked
complaints of censorship and
infringement of academic freedom,
Carnegie-Mellon imposed the
restrictions after seeing the results
of research on online pornography by
a research associate, Martin Rimm.
Rimm, who is studying pornography
in cyberspace, used Carnegie-Mellon's
computers to collect more than
900,000 pictures, ranging from nudes
to bestiality. He also determined
that the pictures had been called up
by computer users over the Internet
more than six million times.
Don Hale, a spokesman for
Carnegie-Mellon, told Newsbytes that
after seeing the results of Rimm's
research, the university could no
longer claim ignorance of the
material available on the Internet.
The administration was concerned that
it could be open to charges of
supplying pornography to minors,
because of programs that allow
students in public schools to use its
computer network.
Asked if the university could not
selectively block access to the
sensitive material by computer users
under 18, Hale said he was not
certain but believed the
administration had been told this
would not be workable.
In response to the
administration's concerns, Hale said,
the university's vice-president of
computing services originally
recommended blocking access to all
material judged obscene, whether
graphics or text. But in the face of
student concern, the university
decided to block access only to
graphic material.
Hale said the university has set
up a committee, made up of students,
faculty, and administration
representatives, to study the issue
further and decide what to do next.
It is possible this committee could
recommend a complete change of
policy, he said. The question of what
material should be blocked is also up
to this committee, Hale said.
(Grant Buckler/19941123/Press
Contact: Don Hale, Carnegie-Mellon
University, 412-268-2900)
T-1 Connectivity By Laser Beam
12/07/94 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA,
U.S.A., 1994 DEC 7 (NB) -- Laser
Communications Inc. (LCI) is shipping
a new laser device that provides T-1,
1.544 megabits-per-second (Mbps)
connectivity between buildings
without wires. The infrared-range
laser requires no permits or heavy
construction and has a range of 1.2
kilometers.
Named OmniBeam 2036, the list
$12,500 device is billed as "an ideal
connectivity solution" for a variety
of short-distance T-1 applications.
The firm cited T-1 tail circuits,
inter-PBX (private branch exchange)
trunking, statistical multiplexer
links, and internetwork connections
between LAN (local area network) hubs
and routers, and digital
teleconferencing as examples.
LCI spokesperson Phil Hall told
Newsbytes the device can be installed
in about a day, making it potentially
useful for disaster recovery as well
as for routine interbuilding
connections. He said some of the
firm's other laser devices had been
used, fo