THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, August 21, 1996 TAG: 9608211197
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: D1 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: 48 lines
The Navy delayed choosing the shipyard team to build the next generation of amphibious ships until after Sept. 30, pushing the award into the next federal fiscal year. The 12-ship program was to have been awarded this month. Newport News Shipbuilding is on one of two teams competing for the project. Its partners include Ingalls Shipbuilding and Lockheed Martin Corp. On the other team are Avondale Industries and Bath Iron Works. The program is estimated to be worth $5 billion. The Navy has asked both teams to refine their proposals. (Staff) Sprint the latest to jump into the Internet market
Sprint Corp. became the third major long-distance company to enter the Internet market by starting an access service called Sprint Internet Passport. The telecommunications company will offer it initially to just 200,000 of its long-distance customers. They will get free service until a broader rollout sometime during the last three months of the year. Sprint Internet Passport will be available in 212 U.S. metropolitan areas initially and eventually expand to 300. Sprint will offer a two-tiered payment plan: $19.95 a month for unlimited access; or $1.50 an hour with no minimum usage or charge. (AP) Gateway 2000 to sellnew PC through retailers
Gateway 2000 Inc., breaking away from its traditional business of selling personal computers over the telephone, will offer its new big-screen PC through retailers, the company said. The move is designed to get the new PC, which is equipped with a 31-inch screen and called Destination, in front of more people. The machine, which has a starting price of about $4,000, will be offered in Nobody Beats the Wiz and CompUSA stores. Gateway was first in the PC industry to develop a system that could function in a living room as both a PC and TV. Other home electronics can also be connected through the system. (AP) CBS announces plans for new cable channel
CBS on Tuesday said it is creating a cable channel that will use archives and new programming to air reality-based shows about people. The new channel, Eye On People, is to start on March 31, 1997. CBS said in addition to its archives, the network will draw on its news, sports and entertainment divisions and affiliates for programming about ``the entire range of individual human experience, people caught up in the events that have shaped our lives.'' CBS had been the only traditional network without a cable-programming channel. (AP) by CNB