Subscribe But a new program entered for the Independent Award for the Most Innovative Business Use of Multimedia at this year's Multimedia '96
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But a new program, entered for the Independent Award for the Most Innovative Business Use of Multimedia at this year's Multimedia '96 show, could help to raise the credibility of the timeshare industry, and also make it easier for people to find the right holiday home for them. Bringing the Dream Alive! has been developed by the Brighton-based multimedia company EMG for RCI, the world's largest timeshare company, with more than 2 million member families and nearly 3,000 resorts affiliated to it. Every year, thousands of people are attracted by the idea of timeshare ownership. A timeshare involves owning an apartment or villa in a holiday resort for part of the year. When your allotted time slot comes up, you go to your holiday home rather than slumming it in the local hotel.
It sounds appealing, but the image of the timeshare industry has suffered from the antics of some cowboy operators: some timeshare owners have discovered that their holiday dream home turns out to be a half-finished complex on the edge of a dirty beach. Computer Life's - over 1,200 great Internet sites will be sent to the first 300 people to send a postcard with their name and address to INDY/1200, PO Box 797, Croydon, Surrey CR9 1XF.Mine's an e-mail and OrangeDemon Internet, the UK's largest dial-up service provider, has linked up with Orange, the mobile phone company, to help you send e-mails from the pub. Demon says that because no modems are involved, access time is just eight seconds. Ideal for collecting or sending e-mail, but with data transfer at only 9,600bps, you could get bored waiting for World Wide Web graphics to appear Ring 0181 371 1234 for details.. One woman who was tired of another employee making sexist comments challenged him to a game of Doom. "I beat him easily," she says, "and after that the comments stopped.".
Planet's online rate Planet Internet launches its 0800 service next month, turning the traditional payment structure upside down. Instead of paying for the call and getting time free, you dial a free phone number and pay an hourly charge. If you cannot dial a local Net service, this has its advantages. Planet says the cost is below the normal daytime phone rate. The weekday online charge is pounds 1.95 an hour - a local call would cost pounds 2.40 The weekend rate is pounds 1.25. The catch? Well, it's not such a bargain in the evening.Planet is offering extra services, but the real test is how well the service works.
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The advantage of computer games, though, is that they can be played every day, and more or less for free. Some companies encourage them simply because they believe that a lunch-hour game works wonders for managers' morale and effectiveness.There may be other advantages. Those that contain games are reckoned to be effective because they help people to "bond". The most popular games are strategy- and team-based, with strong puzzle-solving elements.