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| | Infocom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Infocom had sunk much of the money from games sales into Cornerstone; this, in addition to a slump in computer game sales, left the company in a very precarious financial position. | | | Since their games were text-based, patrons of bookstores were drawn to the Infocom games as they were already interested in reading. | | | This was, in part, due to Infocom's long-standing rule of maximum portability; a game that could display graphics on a number of different systems couldn't take advantage of the strengths of any of them. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infocom
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| | History of Infocom |
| | All games up to "Shogun" were done at Infocom's original place in Cambridge, MS. | | | The games published past 1989 were by completely different authors and had little to do with the original idea Infocom had about high class computer games. | | | Infocom still wrote great adventures, but completely lacked the experience of doing graphical games. |
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http://www.infocom-if.org/company/company.html
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| | GameOver Retrospective - Infocom |
| | This was a lot harder to accomplish in the pre-graphics era of computer gaming and the Infocom authors should be commended on their fabulous composition in these games. | | | Following this game, Infocom branched out into a new gaming genre: Comedy. | | | Again, Infocom had produced a myriad of different game styles: Ballyhoo takes place at a circus, Trinity has you as a tourist in London, Leather Goddesses of Phobos places you back in space; Moonmist, despite its name, places you back in England but this time as a detective. |
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http://www.game-over.net/retro/april99/infocom
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| | Interactive fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Infocom's games are now considered the classics of the genre, and the period in which it was active is thought of as the first golden age of interactive fiction. | | | In many areas, the parser was better than the one used by Infocom. | | | For years amateurs formed a small community producing interactive fiction works of relatively limited scope using the Adventure Game Toolkit and similar tools. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_fiction
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| | Collecting and Preserving Infocom Interactive Fiction |
| | One of the last games produced by Infocom, this is a graphical role playing game set in the FASA Battletech universe. | | | Also, the Infocom games were particularly notable not just for the content of their programs, but for the materials that accompanied them. | | | In the case of many Infocom games, they were released for multiple platforms, and versions may be different between and even on the same platform. |
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http://www.adammathes.com/academic/rbsc/infocom.html
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| | MobyGames - Infocom |
| | The number 69,105 was often used as an in-joke in their games. | | | The Infocom Gallery -- If you're looking for high-quality scans of Infocom covers and props, this is the place to go. | | | Their graphical CDROM adventures have been greeted with dour grunts on rec.*.int-fiction, but the games seem to be improving in quality with every new release. |
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http://www.mobygames.com/company/infocom
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| | DNA/Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Infocom Adventure |
| | So when Steve Meretzky of Infocom got together with Douglas Adams to create a game based around the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the result was never going to be less than interesting and more than likely insane. | | | So it proved - the Hitchhiker's Guide adventure game was one of the best-selling games of its era, selling some 350,000 copies. | | | Then graphics games came along and the computer using portion of the human race forgot all about 500,000 years of language evolution and went straight back to the electronic equivalent of banging rocks together - the point'n'click game. |
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http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html
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| | Infocom Classics |
| | The Infocom Gallery If you are looking for the contents of the original boxes (be it Greybox, Folio or Mastertronic version), this is the place to go. | | | Infocom Walkthrough Archive Provides you with step-by-step solutions, in case you don't want to spend time solving the puzzles, but rather enjoying the wonderful descriptions within the game... | | | There are some "magic words" known to be arround in the games of Infocom. |
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http://www.latz.org/infocom/index.shtml
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| | Infocom Authors |
| | Briggs began as many others as a tester for Infocom in 1984 and she went on to write a pioneering game from a woman's perspective with game enough for men to play as well. | | | They were much better than the stuff that's coming out now (laughs)." Moriarty says that the text adventure games didn't have the "twitch" factor, a term used to explain the pulling of a trigger when a shadow slides across the corner of your eye as in the case in many arcade games. | | | He wrote the name on the project board as a joke, but later was asked to develop the game and use that name. |
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http://infocom.gerf.org/authors.html
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| | The Daily Ping: Infocom: King of Text Adventures (9/9/2000) |
| | Infocom games are just hard to find now, it seems. | | | to this day every game i play is a painful reminder that infocom doesn't make games anymore. | | | On the CD were over 30 Infocom games (including a few never before released ones) along with their PDF manuals. |
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http://www.dailyping.com/archive/2000/09/09
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| | Infocom games locally?? |
| | You can find Infocom games, many rare text games, a lot of old BBS doors, and board games on the BBS. | | | In many of the Infocom games, the documentation is absolutely necessary as they used it as a form of copy protection. | | | As for the original Infocom games, the best place to get them is to find a used copy of the Masterpieces of Infocom CD. |
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http://braille.uwo.ca/pipermail/speakup/2002-September/016957.html
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| | XYZZYnews Exclusive: The Complete Infocom Bugs List |
| | At the beginning of each game's description is a chart, showing all known versions of the game, cross-referenced with a column for each bug. | | | I have played through the Infocom line and tried to recreate all of the bugs mentioned in previous installments of this list, to check them out, and to discover exactly which versions the bugs appear in and which they do not. | | | Unfortunately, the Infocom programmers never planned for this, so casting it elsewhere in the game doesn't accomplish anything. |
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http://www.xyzzynews.com/infocombugs.html
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| | An Infocom fan's view on the Lost Treasures of Infocom |
| | Gone are all the freebies that made Infocom game so enjoyable. | | | To begin with, Lost Treasures is a re-release of 20 of Infocom's games. | | | My recommendation is that if you do not have the games in this package and cannot find someone who is selling the original package, then this may be a way for you to fill in the ones you are missing. |
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http://home1.gte.net/longrj2/infocom/losttreasures1.html
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| | Slashdot History Of Infocom aka The Creators Of Zork |
| | Details about infocom and their game titles are available here [beebware.com], while more about Interactive Fiction (that's text based games usually) can be found here [beebware.com]. | | | Infocom produced a virtual machine for all their adventure games, with interpreters for different platforms. | | | Actually, no, Infocom's market dominance was based on the fact their parser was flexible and powerful, and you didn't need to play 'hunt the verb'. |
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http://slashdot.org/articles/00/12/19/1313235.shtml
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| | Home of the Underdogs - Company profile: Infocom |
| | C.E. Forman's one and only Ye Olde Infocom Shoppe is a must-visit for those interesting in collecting Infocom games (and other adventure game classics) | | | The Infocom Gallery contains hi-res, full-color manuals and other scans of all Infocom games. | | | You can now play most Infocom games online and even save your position. |
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http://www.the-underdogs.org/company.php?name=Infocom
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| | New Zork Times, Vol. 4, No. 3 |
| | While there are several puzzles to keep players on their toes, designer Steve Meretzky (author of Planetfall and Sorcerer, and co-author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) concentrated more on immersing the player in a vast, highly detailed, realistic world; a vision of the destiny of mankind. | | | If you dare to take on the competition and cross pens with your Infocom brethren, and are fortunate enough to win, your prize will be a free Infocom game of your choice. | | | I've tried other adventure games, but as soon as the next Infocom adventure is available, they are forgotten and I am once again happily lost in another world of Infocom's making. |
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http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/Articles/NZT/nzt4-3.html
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| | Infocom - Enter an Exciting New Realm of Storytelling. |
| | Here is the definitive source of info on where to find the major game collections by Infocom, so you can play all 35 text adventures on a modern computer platform. | | | Masterpieces of Infocom (has 33 games, the only one with Leather Goddesses of Phobos, however it lacks Hitch and Shogun) | | | To get your quest for adventure started, go to the Infocom Home Page and download the freeware Zork I, II, III, and the recently released new-for-the-'90s mini-Infocom text adventure Zork: The Undiscovered Underground. |
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| | The Infocom Page |
| | At its prime, Infocom was the ruler of the text adventure gaming world. | | | The solutions here are unique in that they are presented in "walkthru" format so as to give you a step-by-step guide through the games. | | | Zork: The Undiscovered Underground comes with a program called WinFrotz, which will enable you to run other Infocom games in Windows if you already own the DOS versions. |
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http://site5.apollohosting.com/bruceasmith.com/httpdocs/Infocom/Infocom.htm
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| | India Infocom 2004 |
| | In range, scale, magnitude and participation, Infocom has assumed proportions that go way beyond that initial dream. | | | As all good things must come to an end, so does Infocom 2004. | | | People mingled and networked as if there’s no tomorrow. |
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| | Waxy.org: Daily Log: InfocomBot for AOL Instant Messenger |
| | You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. | | | I set up an automated bot to play classic Infocom text adventure games from your favorite IM client, T-Mobile Sidekick, or any other device that connects to AIM. | | | I wanted to play these great games, for so long now, and I have just now founda interpretor called Winfrotz 5.3 which works with screen readers like JAWS or JFW, which I use now to manipulate my PC. |
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http://www.waxy.org/archive/2004/03/21/infocomb.shtml
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| | Frotz |
| | Scans of packages and how to acquire Infocom games. | | | Links to where to get new z-machine games and the Old Ones by Infocom. | | | The compiler used to create interactive fiction that Frotz can play. |
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http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~dgriffi/proj/frotz
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| | Infocom |
| | I had of course heard of the ledgendry Infocom but never played any of their adventures, so I bought Ballyhoo and I was hooked. | | | Here you can see some of that work, the images are thumbnails, just click on a picture for a larger image and a contents list of the associated 'bits and pieces' (of the games I have bought new) that came with that particular adventure. | | | I then bought as many different Infocom titles as I could before they disapeared. |
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http://www.retrology.com/infocom.htm
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| | Infocom |
| | Activision has made the Zork games freely availbale. | | | This game was then split up into three parts and converted to a commercial product marketed by | | | They only got to the first part before Infocom took over and marketed the games themselves, bringing the series up to three games, in total more or less corresponding to the original mainframe Zork. |
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http://www.if-legends.org/~adventure/Infocom.html
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| | iFiction - Infocom |
| | Each door has a sign describing a game that is being played inside, but most of the doors are locked tight. | | | This game was developed by Activision and released as a prequel to their adventure "Zork: Grand Inquisitor." | | | ZDungeon is a port to Inform of the original Zork/Dungeon game written in MDL at MIT prior to the founding of Infocom. |
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| | J!NX - Computer Tee - Infocom Tee - Gamer Geek Nerd Hacker Computer |
| | helli0n: Anyone who wants to try some new Interactive Fiction be sure to check out ifcomp.org Every year there is a competition to write adventure games that use Infocom's parser as well as tads, hugo, etc. Great new adventure games. | | | Home >> Product Listing >> Computer Tee - Infocom Tee | | | J!NX - Computer Tee - Infocom Tee - Gamer Geek Nerd Hacker Computer |
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| | INFOCOM |
| | At this site you can find information on all of Infocom's interactive games, Infocom related articles, sample transcripts, InvisiClue hints, walkthroughs, maps, and information on buying Infocom games today. | | | If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions just drop me a line at Peter@Scheyen.com or sign the |
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| | Infocom: Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces - from CD-ROM Access |
| | The mega-anthology that combines games from both The Lost Treasures anthologies I and II, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, and the six never-before-published winners from the annual Text Adventure Authorship Contest. | | | CD-ROM Access has no interest in the trademark of others. | | | In one box, you will own over 30 of Infocom's text-based creations plus six new titles that have never been released - ranging from science fiction to mystery to fantasy. |
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http://www.cdaccess.com/html/shared/infocom.htm
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| | Queeg's Strawberries Presents: Infocom Adventures Online |
| | Infocom nut that I am, I've decided to put my games on the website so that I can | | | These pages use the open source Zplet applet by Matthew Russotto. | | | If you have some how found this site, you can take |
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http://www.the-wildwest.com/Queeg/Infocom
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| | infocom eLIFE - SUBSCRIBERS |
| | Protect your account from unknown usage, enroll in INFOCOM's CALLER LINE IDENTIFICATION (CLI) for FREE! | | | We would like to know so we can attend to your billing concerns. |
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http://www2.info.com.ph/subscribers/subscribers.php?f=webmail
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| | MobyGames - The Lost Treasures of Infocom |
| | Compilation of 20 Infocom games: Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, Zork Zero, Beyond Zork, Enchanter, Sorcerer, Spellbreaker, Deadline, The Witness, Suspect, Ballyhoo, Planetfall, Stationfall, Moonmist, Infidel, Lurking Horror, Starcross, Suspended, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | | | This entry was contributed by Martin Smith (33583) and Tony Van (2541) |
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http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/lost-treasures-of-infocom
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| | The Hitchhiker's Guide Project: An Encyclopedia Of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy |
| | DouglasAdams.com has made it possible to play the original Infocom text adventure online. | | | There are also short stories, a computer game or two, a series of comic books, a series of trading cards, a short-lived stage show, radio shows, television shows, a movie rumoured to be out any year now, and a towel. | | | And last, but certainly not least, the radio show gave way to four singles. |
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| | IGN: Infocom |
| | Its games were noted for having more depth than any other adventure games, before or since. | | | A landmark game developer in the early '80s, Infocom developed text adventures, notably the Zork series. | | | Start with our Superbowl coverage, then read up on our latest reviews and features. |
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http://games.ign.com/objects/025/025423.html
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| | Infocom.Elsewhere.Org |
| | At Activision's request, I have shut down the interactive service whereby you could play Infocom games via telnet. | | | If you're here, you're probably looking for The Infocom Gallery, which contains scanned images of most of the packaging from the original Infocom games. | | | A very cool project to get the original manuals into PDF format, since the manuals which came with LTOI and Masterpieces were so cruddy. |
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http://infocom.elsewhere.org
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| | Iraq domain owner convicted The Register |
| | Bayan moved to the US in 1977, at the age of 22, where he took a masters in computer science and started up an IT research company in California. | | | InfoCom and the Holy Land Foundation moved from different parts of the country to directly opposite one another in Richardson, Texas at the same time. | | | However, the government alleges (see the full case here [pdf]) that Marzook had full control of his assets and the Elashis were in fact helping to protect those assets by concealing them within their company's accounts. |
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/09/iraq_domain_owner_convicted
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| | Infocom |
| | The first Infocom conference took place in 1982. | | | IEEE INFOCOM - The Conference on Computer Communications | | | Typical topics at recent Infocom conferences include, but are not limited to: |
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http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/infocom
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| | IEEE Infocom |
| | The first INFOCOM conferencetook place in 1982 and has since be located at far flung locations as Italy, Japan and most regions of the US. | | | Note to Student Authors/Presenters: You may qualify for a Student Travel Grant to defray some of your costs for presenting a paper at this event. | | | To automatically receive updates on this exciting event, subscribe to the IEEE INFOCOM E-mail Subscription List by sending us your e-mail address! |
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http://www.comsoc.org/confs/infocom
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| | Infocom: communication services |
| | Internet cards "Stimul+" Connect to the Internet with lucidity of mind! | | | July,17th was the first 5 years from the day of foundation of Infocom branch in Dnipropetrovs"k | | | Now students of the Volyn state school of culture and arts have own computer class and Internet access. |
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http://www.infocom.ua/catalogue.jsp?lang=2&catalogueId=3003
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| | Aureus Pharma and Infocom Partner to Make AurSCOPE Databases Available in Japan |
| | Aureus Pharma and Infocom Partner to Make AurSCOPE Databases Available in Japan | | | Further information about Aureus Pharma is available at: http://www.aureus-pharma.com About Infocom Corporation Infocom Corporation headquartered in Tokyo was founded in 1983. | | | Infocom is a comprehensive service IT company carrying out a wide range of business centered on the areas of medical services. |
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| | Infocom Canada Business Consultants Inc. |
| | To that end, we are committed to developing a unique program for each client which provides them with an effective public relations and marketing management strategy specifically designed to meet the goals and objectives of their company. | | | I invite you to explore each of the sections of this site to become more familiar with the services which are available through our company. | | | We look forward to having the opportunity to discuss a strategic plan for the future which will result in a long-term relationship between your company and INFOCOM CANADA Business Consultants Inc.. |
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http://www.infocomcanada.com
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| | Planet Dognine : Infocom Masterpieces |
| | Although Activision continues to release quality graphic-based adventures based upon the Zork universe, the only way to replay the old classics is to try to find an anthology release called The Lost Treasures of Infocom. | | | Developed in the late 70s by a group of MIT hackers, Zork uses a text based interface and a very well written storyline in favor of flashy high-resolution graphics. | | | After discovering how powerful this new medium could be, these programmers went on to found a company called Infocom. |
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http://www.planetdognine.com/features/infocom/index.asp
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| | Infocom: communication services |
| | Over more than 12 years of development it has grown into modern structure integrating high quality telecom services in the whole territory of the country. | | | In 1991 Infocom started creating UkrPack, the first Ukrainian data transmission network. | | | Due to gateways between UkrPack and international networks, Infocom clients do have really unlimited communication possibilities both on the national and global scale. |
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http://www.infocom.ua/catalogue.jsp?lang=2&catalogueId=3001
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| | INFOCOM |
| | Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM 2001, The Conference on Computer Communications, Twentieth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies, Twenty years into the communications odyssey, 22-26 April 2001, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. | | | Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM '92, The Conference on Computer Communications, Eleventh Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies, One World through Communications, May 4-8, 1992, Florence, Italy. | | | Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM 2004, The 23rd Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies, Hong Kong, China, March 7-11, 2004. |
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| | Research @ Infocom |
| | You are here: InfoCom Homepage -> Research -> Research Groups -> VNMRG | | | The Mission of the Visual and New Media Research and Development Group is to conduct research and development into the cultural, aesthetic, creative, social, economic, technical, political and ethical dimensions of visual and new media forms. | | | Validate Last Modified: Fri May 13 11:41:06 2005 by northa. |
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| | Welcome to InfoCom Telecommunications Consultancy. |
| | Liberty Global (LGI), which was the result of the merger of UGC Europe and its mother company, Liberty Media Int'l, continues its M&A strategy in the latter part of 2005, despite having acquired a list of other cable/pay TV operators in Europe (Telecom M&A activities database) | | | Until 2010 the African mobile market is expected to reach around 20bn euros; this corresponds to an annual average growth rate of more than 10%, despite declining ARPU; South Africa will represent about 35% of the overall African market at that time (Teleseeq) | | | Although various mobile operators have mentioned their intention of simplifying and reducing mobile roaming prices, and although the European Commission and other public institutions have put some pressure to that effect, a recent ad-hoc study realised by InfoCom shows that roaming prices in Western Europe are still best qualified as a "jungle" (SIS Services) |
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| | InfoCom Telecommunications Consultancy |
| | Teleseeq is available on-line and provides fundamental market data for the multimedia and telecoms industry in four categories: equipment market, services market, companies’ key figures and socio-economic data. | | | This will mean extra data communications revenues whether or not data traffic grows as much as anticipated. | | | Teleseeq provides in addition company profiles and other customised reports. |
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| | Infocom 2000 Home, Dan Panorama Hotel, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 26-30, 2000 |
| | Infocom 2000 Home, Dan Panorama Hotel, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 26-30, 2000 |
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