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Thursday, January 23, 2003
PC Home Networking On the Rise - Gretchen Hyman, Siliconvalley
Bill Gates calls it the "Digital Decade". Steve Jobs envisions the "Digital Hub". But one thing is for sure - we are connecting to the Internet in some pretty new and original ways. Research released this week by Dallas-based market research and consulting firm Parks Associates indicates that increasing numbers of U.S. households are using media-enabled PCs in the same room as their home entertainment systems. A randomly selected swath of 10,800 Internet-enabled households surveyed by Parks Associates show an increasing trend among consumers to combine the media functionality of their primary PCs with consumer electronics products, such as televisions and stereos.
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