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Venture Seeks to Tie Personal Computers to Cable TV: Intel Corp. has reached agreements with several major on-line service providers, including Prodigy Services, News Electronic Data and America Online, to deliver interactive services for personal computers via cable. Intel and General Instrument Corp. have been working with Comcast Corp. and Viacom International Inc. to offer high-speed access to services such as the Internet, home shopping and electronic news. Because of the huge amounts of data that can be sent over coaxial cables, data can be transferred to personal computers as much as 1,000 times faster than today’s fastest modems can transmit over the cable infrastructure. Intel said Tele-Communications Inc. and Rogers Cablesystems of Canada have also agreed to work on developing such capabilities.