Technology & You: BULLETIN BOARD: ONLINE SERVICES

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Want to join the online world but don't know which of its options to choose? Online Discovery from Global Village Communication (800 329-9675) may help. The $49 CD-ROM packs a solid communications and fax program. It also includes software and free trial subscriptions to CompuServe, America Online, Prodigy, GEnie, Reuters Money Network, and Netcom, for an Internet hookup. It has a single control panel with speed-dial buttons for online services and a long list of computer bulletin boards. It also lets you program buttons yourself.BY STEPHEN H. WILDSTROM