SAN FRANCISCO — Sony Corp., which late last year began selling the first hand-held CD-ROM player, plans to release a second, more powerful device in the United States this fall that will play more ...

I never thought I`d be able to lift an entire set of encyclopedias with only my little finger, but I recently did just that. Have I been pumping iron? Hardly, but I am pumped up about CD-ROMs, the ...

A CD-ROM drive can be used as a stand-alone unit for playing digital audio CDs without interfacing with a computer. The stereo output of CD player available at the audio jack can be amplified using ...

CD-ROM, a technology that used to be as exciting as a 10,000-page statistical data base, is trying to enter the consumer and education markets on the coattails of its flashier cousin, the audio ...

The prices of personal computers and just about everything associated with them have been in a near free fall for some time, and CD-ROM equipment, for years long on promise but too long as well on ...

Merchandising representatives at computer stores are struggling to keep pace with the hottest accessory for computers: CD-ROM. That stands for compact disc-read only memory. They are similar to the ...

D-ROM is hot. Stores across the country, including some in Orlando, are struggling to keep up with demand as buyers seek compact disc players for their personal computers. A CD-ROM player can turn any ...

Q Some stores and catalogues advertise really cheap computers that they say are factory reconditioned. What exactly are they? Is it okay to buy them? A These are computers that get sent back to the ...