A new company has been set up in Menlo Park, California to cash in on the secret desire of millions of Americans to participate in games shows such as Wheel of Fortune: called Interactive Game Network, the company has been funded to the tune of $1.6m by NBC, United Artists Communications, and United Cable Television, and aims to create a hand-held computer which works along with a televised game show; the unit receives signals via the FM radio band which correspond to questions or puzzles on TV and the responding viewer, after answering the game, can then dump the contents of his unit to a receiving computer via the telephone lines; the technology is drawing on the expertise of Dataspeed, which provides stock market quotes to PCs via the FM radio band, since the president of Interactive, used to work there.
