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- BUSINESS, Page 47Business NotesTECHNOLOGYA Coup for Couch Potatoes
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- If VCRs, cable television and take-out food keep you
- homebound and party-shy, interactive TV may shut down your social
- life altogether. Last week the Federal Communications Commission
- paved the way for the proliferation of a technology that
- permits TV owners to bank, pay bills and order everything from
- Chinese food to tennis shoes through the boob tube. A
- remote-control device accesses menu screens offering up the
- various services.
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- The product of Virginia-based TV Answer Inc., interactive
- television transmits data via radio waves to a base station
- linked by satellite to the firm's headquarters. The systems will
- be available in 25 major cities by the end of this year. While
- the concept may be a boon for exhausted nine-to-fivers too weary
- to dial Domino's, it may be a bane for parents of the always
- hungry twelvesomething set.
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