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(NEWS)(GOVT)(TYO)(00001)

Japanese Ministry Network To Link With Internet 03/23/94
TOKYO, JAPAN, 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- The Japanese Ministry of Posts
and Telecommunication says it will link its local area network
(LAN) with the worldwide Internet this May. Through this network,
the Ministry will reportedly provide the local news in English.

The Ministry's monthly network news is called the MPT news.
It covers assorted Ministry information, including new budget
plans, new and current projects, and agency  policies.

The Ministry is involved in a variety of projects related to
networking and telecommunication. The Ministry is also reportedly
taking the lead with regard to Japan's high definition television
(HDTV) and the Japanese version of the information superhighway.

The Ministry wants to link its network with the Internet via
AT&T's Jens network. The connection will be for an experimental
period of about a year. AT&T's Jens network has also connected
with the ASCII network in Japan, also providing a link with
the Internet.

Many personal computer (PC)-based networks, including NEC's
PC-VAN and Fujitsu's Nifty-Serve, have a connection to the
Internet. Also, Japanese universities are preparing to set up a
formal local internet in Japan. It is already operational on an
experimental basis.

(Masayuki "Massey" Miyazawa/19940322/Press Contact: Ministry
of Posts & Telecommunication, Press Bureau, tel [phone],
fax [phone])


(NEWS)(IBM)(TYO)(00002)

Japan - Proside Intros Pentium-Based PC 03/23/94
TOKYO, JAPAN, 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- Japan-based personal
computer (PC) firm, Proside, has released a Pentium-based PC
costing 447,000 yen ($4,470), a relatively low-cost for the
Japanese market.

The computer is called the JD566PIM, and is equipped with
a 66 megahertz (MHz) Pentium chip. It also has 16 megabytes
(MB) of RAM, a 540MB hard disk, and a powerful graphics bus
system, called the "ATI Mach32AX."

Proside is planning to release a low-cost version of the
Pentium-based PC in early April, called the "JD1995PEM/512."
That PC will also be equipped with a 66MHz Pentium, a PCI/EISA
(Peripheral Component Interconnect/Extended Industry Standard
Architecture) bus and a 512 kilobyte (KB) cache memory. It will
cost 269,000 yen ($2,690).

Tokyo-based Proside was acquired by Toshiba. Pentium-based PCs
are gradually becoming popular, with many of the systems being
produced in the South East Asian region, such as Taiwan and
Hong Kong, to save on manufacturing costs.

(Masayuki "Massey" Miyazawa/19940322/Press Contact: Proside,
tel [phone], fax [phone])


(NEWS)(BUSINESS)(TOR)(00003)

Epoch, Sybase Team Up On Client/Server Backup 03/23/94
WESTBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 23 (NB) --
Epoch Systems Inc., has announced an agreement with Sybase Inc.,
of Emeryville, California, to link backup products from the two
companies. The firms say the combination of their software will
be aimed at customers with enterprise-wide client/server
computing systems.

Epoch Enterprise Backup is backup and storage management software
designed for client/server installations. Sybase Backup Server is
a component of Sybase's SQL Server 10 database software. Both
companies will add application program interfaces (APIs) to their
respective products so they can interact, Epoch spokesman Andrew
Hettinger told Newsbytes.

The main target market is customers with very large databases,
officials said. Sybase said its Backup Server can handle
databases that contain hundreds of gigabytes of data.

The combination will offer Sybase customers support for backup
cataloging, tape and optical robotic systems, and advanced
scheduling and management systems, which will be built into the
Epoch software, according to the companies.

Each company will continue to sell its own software, Hettinger
said. Plans are to have the APIs in place by the third quarter,
he said, and software with the new integration features will be
available worldwide.

(Grant Buckler/19940322/Press Contact: Andrew Hettinger,
Epoch, 508-836-4300; Susan Trainer, Sybase, 510-596-3500)


(NEWS)(GOVT)(TOR)(00004)

Delrina, AlphaNet Telecom Settle Dispute 03/23/94
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- Delrina Corp.,
and AlphaNet Telecom Inc., have announced the settlement of a
dispute that arose out of joint work on fax mailbox technology.

The companies gave no details of the settlement except that it
will allow both Delrina and AlphaNet to develop and deliver fax
mailbox services. AlphaNet had sought to stop Delrina launching
fax mailbox services for which plans were announced last October.

When the lawsuit was filed in January, Al Gordon, chairman of
AlphaNet, said his company worked with Delrina from mid-1992
until late 1993, and showed Delrina technology for a service that
would allow travellers to have faxes sent to a single number and
retrieve them from their PCs.

In December, 1992, Gordon told Newsbytes, the firms signed a deal
including a promise that technology and information AlphaNet made
available to Delrina would not be used or disclosed without
AlphaNet's permission. Last summer, Gordon claimed, Delrina asked
to cancel the formal agreement and rewrite it to change some
details. "The promised re-draft never materialized," Gordon said.

Gordon said his company's agreement with Delrina kept AlphaNet
from entering the PC fax services market from June, 1992, until
October, 1993, adding that he suspects Delrina was negotiating
with others all along.

In October, Delrina set up a communications services division to
provide fax mailboxes as well as other services. The company
also signed alliances with MCI Corp., in the United States, and
Worldlinx Telecommunications Inc., in Canada to provide fax
services linked with its WinFax software.

A statement from Delrina in January rejected the charges,
calling AlphaNet's complaints "sour grapes."

AlphaNet offers fax mailbox services to hotels and travellers.
Delrina sells forms processing and fax software.

(Grant Buckler/19940322/Press Contact: Charles Mathews,
AlphaNet Telecom, tel [phone], fax [phone];
Shelly Sofer, Delrina, tel [phone], fax [phone])


(NEWS)(TRENDS)(LON)(00005)

Cebit - Polaroid Claims Better Screen Filter 03/23/94
HANOVER, GERMANY, 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- Polaroid has announced
a new optical quality CP Universal filter for computer screens.
Known as the CP Universal I, the screen is claimed to have a
number of advantages over existing screens in terms of optical
quality, polarizing technology, and anti-reflection coatings.

According to Lawrence Johnson, the company's European sales
director, the filter has been developed to address well-defined
user needs. "We at Polaroid believe that we have a real world
beater with this product. One which really addresses user needs for
technology, quality, and price -- all from a company renowned for
its expertise in optics," he said. "What makes this new filter so
exciting is that it offers the genuine high performance of circular
polarizers and glass at a price comparable to that of less effective
filters."

Pricing on the new filter depends on user requirements. Officials
with the company explained to Newsbytes at Cebit that the screen
filter is the new flagship of Polaroid's range and can be supplied
for almost any monitor from 10- to 21-inches in size. Budget
versions of the filter, the CP Universal II and CP 60 series, are
also available.

So what makes these new filters better than the competition?
According to Polaroid, the filters make extensive use of circular
polarization techniques to shield users from 99 percent of eye
straining light emissions from the monitor. This technology,
coupled with new anti-reflective technology, means that image
contrast using the CP Universal I filter is almost 14 times that
of conventional filters.

(Steve Gold/19940322/Press & Public Contact: Polaroid Corp.,
tel [phone], fax [phone])


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(LON)(00006)

Cebit - Nokia Signs Turkish Mobile Phone Deal 03/23/94
HANOVER, GERMANY, 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- Nokia Telecommunications,
the Finland-based telecommunications giant, has secured the
contract to extend the Turkish NMT 450 cellular mobile telephone
network. Officials at the Cebit Computer Faire in Germany told
Newsbytes that the company has now received an order and will be
proceeding "very soon."

According to Nokia, this will be the seventh phase of the network
extension and is worth around $5 million to the company. The main
aim of the Turkish network expansion is to complete the coverage of
city centers, as well as the major routes between major cities,
usually covering motorways and main roads.

A key point of the network expansion is to ensure that users of
handheld phones, which are growing in popularity in Turkey, receive
the same quality of service that Class 2 and 3 car mobiles receive.

As part of the new contract. Nokia has been licensed to offer repair
facilities to all users of Nokia hardware delivered during the
earlier phases of the network installation. At present, the Turkish
NMT network, which dates back to 1986, has over 86,000
subscribers and covers most cities and roads.

(Sylvia Dennis/19940322/Press & Public Contact: Nokia Telecom,
tel [phone], fax [phone])


(NEWS)(GOVT)(LON)(00007)

UK - Accountancy Software Ends Up In British Jails 03/23/94
MAIDENHEAD, BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND, 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- Tetra,
which claims to be the leading Open System business software
supplier in the UK, has signed a UKP1,270 million contract to
supply software and services for the FOCUS project prepared
by HM Prison Service.

Terms of the contract call for Tetra to supply and install its
Chameleon 2000 suite, a financial package, for 650 users at 150
sites in the whole of the UK.

According to Tetra officials, FOCUS stands for Finance Outstation
and Central Unified Systems, and aims to provide day-to-day
financial control and management information in line with
centralized monitoring and reporting on a consolidated basis in
all 150 of HM Prison's departments.

The software includes General Ledger Consolidation, Accounts
Receivable, Accounts Payable, Cash Management, and Resource
Accounting, and will be implemented on Bull DPX 20 and XPS-100
Unix-based systems.

"FOCUS will provide the flexibility to meet the Prison Service's
developing accounting needs and changing organization structure.
We look forward to a successful implementation," commented
Chris Crudge, the project manager in charge of the installation.

Paul Wheaton, director of corporate operations with Tetra, said
that the deal illustrates how successful the company has been in
penetrating into the state computer supplies marketplace.
"Tetra is committed to providing key areas of the Public Sector
functionality in its software, taking account of both the
traditional Vote Accounting and Accrual Accounting methodologies,"
he explained.

(Sylvia Dennis/19940322/Press & Public Contact: 44-628-770939)


(NEWS)(GENERAL)(LON)(00008)

UK - Hewlett-Packard Intros Low-Cost Router 03/23/94
BRACKNELL, BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND, 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- Hewlett-
Packard (HP) has announced a low-cost router (at UKP2,375) with
built-in flash memory, advanced network management, and "true
plug-and-play" capabilities.

The new router, the HP J2540A Router PR, expands HP's EtherTwist
family of bridges and routers and is "an ideal remote-access router
for companies that need a cost-effective, easy-to-install, easy-to-
manage routing solution," HP said.

"The new router announced today is yet another example of HP's
continuing commitment to become the leader in cost-effective,
easy-to-use remote-access routing," claimed Mark Hollister, HP's
UK Network Marketing Manager.

HP has also announced that its Embedded Advanced Sampling
Environment (EASE) traffic-sampling technology is scheduled to
be available on the new router and all EtherTwist routers as of
December 1 this year.

According to Hollister, the HP Router PR supports TCP/IP
(Transmission Control Protocol/Internet protocol) and Novell IPX
(Internetwork Packet Exchange) routing protocols as well as bridging.
It also provides one Ethernet port with a choice of AUI or BNC
connector and one synchronous WAN (wide area network) connection
for PPP or ISDN (integrated services digital network) systems. The
HP Router PR offers standards-based network management using
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol).

Router management is available through the router's console
(RS-232) port and via Telnet in-band access over the network.
Newsbytes understands that software upgrades can be made
locally or over the WAN into the router's flash memory.

Newsbytes notes that the HP Router PR comes with the same three-
year, on-site warranty that all HP EtherTwist bridges and routers
have. Many competing vendors offer one-year warranties or less,
and customers must return the equipment to the manufacturer for
repair, the company claims.

(Steve Gold/19940322/Press & Public Contact: Hewlett-Packard,
44-344-369222)


(NEWS)(IBM)(LON)(00009)

Cebit - Hungarian Firm Offers Anti-Virus PC Software 03/23/94
HANOVER, GERMANY, 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- Most security companies
at the Cebit Computer Faire, which has been taking place in Hanover,
are US, UK, and European-based. However, the Hungarian Virus Buster
Team was also on hand presenting their new product -- the Virus
Buster -- in collaboration with other young Hungarian computer
companies at the show.

According to the company, the new package protects computers
against most MS-DOS viruses. It includes a program for the
detection and termination of new virus programs using polymorphic
detection techniques. The package also detects existing viruses,
using conventional virus signature detection techniques.

According to officials with the Virus Buster Team, the CHKVIR
program the company has developed, is the most developed virus
killer around at the moment.

"By using almost all methods of virus searching, it is capable
of looking for, extracting and killing them, on the basis of
information taken from a separate database. It can also detect
mutants and unknown viruses," explained Viktoria Sandor of
HUNIX to Newsbytes.

According to Ms Sandor, the program runs an 80x86 emulation
program within the standard Intel PC environment to ensure that
it can detect a virus program. This approach, the company claims,
allows viruses to "run free" without causing problems in the
main area of the PC.

At the moment, the HUNIX CHKVIR program can recognize about
3,000 viruses, including 300 of which fall within CHKVIR's
killing power, claimed the company.

The VirSec virus guard, meanwhile, has been prepared to protect
individual computers, as well as computer networks, against
viruses. The feature offers flexibility for adjusting the program's
parameters and configure them within a wide range, the company
claims. As a result, the program reportedly provides the "maximum
safety" at any time without triggering a false alarm.

However, HUNIX company officials told Newsbytes that perfect
anti-virus utilities do not exist, though there are many methods
of guarding against them, with many  specific types of activity,
advantages and disadvantages.

(Sylvia Dennis & Steve Gold/19940322/Press & Public Contact:
Viktoria Sandor, HUNIX, tel & fax [phone])


(NEWS)(GENERAL)(LON)(00010)

Cebit - Polish Firm Exhibits Electronic POS System 03/23/94
HANOVER, GERMANY, 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- Elzab, a computer
peripherals manufacturer hailing from Poland, has unveiled a new
electronic point-of-sale (EPOS) unit at the Cebit Computer Faire
in Germany. Known as the VDM 260, the EPOS unit is claimed to be
extremely competitive in pricing terms against its Western
equivalents.

According to Witold Onaczyszyn, Elzab's vice president of sales
and marketing, the VDM 260 can be used in a wide variety of
shops, restaurants, supermarkets, warehouses, hotels, and
filling stations, as an independent (standalone) unit or linked
together with other machines on a network.

The supplied software that drives the EPOS unit operates with
barcode readers, magnetic card readers, general printers, invoice
printers, scales, cash drawers, and almost any customer display.

In use, Onaczyszyn said that the unit can support definitions of
more than 10,000 products in software, generating reports to
disk as required. Up to 99 group ledgers can be created.

According to Onaczyszyn, the VDM 260 operates using various
payment methods: cash, checks, foreign currencies, rebate cards,
surcharges, and all types of purchase taxes, including value-added
tax.

The complete unit weights approximately 15.7 kilos (36 pounds) and
comes as a standard with a 40 megabytes (MB) or larger hard disc,
2MB RAM and an 80386 microprocessor, which can be upgraded for
only UKP50 to an 80486 chipset. The unit comes with a nine-inch
VGA monochrome monitor within its UKP1,400 price tag.

(Sylvia Dennis/19940322/Press & Public Contact: Elzab,
tel [phone], fax [phone])


(NEWS)(IBM)(DEN)(00011)

Can Microsoft Crack Chinese O/S Market? 03/23/94
REDMOND, WASHINGTON, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- Microsoft
Chairman Bill Gates is in China this week to see if his company
can break into the Chinese computer market with its Chinese
version of Windows.

It appears that Microsoft's biggest challenges in China are the
software piracy that is an accepted way of doing business, and the
reluctance of Chinese software developers to let Microsoft enter
the market.

One of the principal Microsoft opponents is reportedly the Ministry
of Electronics Industry (MEI), which supports the use of Chinese
Star, a software program that adds Chinese-language capability
to most Windows-compatible software, including Windows itself.
Chinese Star is bundled with most high-end PCs sold in China.

Microsoft spokesperson Beverley Flower told Newsbytes that
Microsoft has complied with the few Chinese standards available
and will continue to do so. "We will work with them when and if
they set anything new. Until they come out with something we
can't comply with it," she said.

Unlike US personal computer software developers who write their
applications for DOS, Windows or the Apple operating system,
Chinese software developers have to write for a multitude of
platforms to have their products widely accepted. That makes
software development in China expensive and time consuming.

If a Windows were to become popular it would open up a whole
new market for Microsoft applications as well as for other US
software companies. It would also make the job easier for
US companies that build PCs and are currently trying to penetrate
the Chinese market.

The Chinese version of Microsoft Windows reportedly still
needs some work and does not support many software applications,
even some published by Microsoft. If true, that could be because
Microsoft is rushing it to market in order to establish an
operating system beach-head before someone else beats them to
it.

Another problem is reportedly that the Chinese version of Windows
is being developed in Taiwan, the long-time traditional enemy of
China. Microsoft released the Chinese version 3.0 of Windows in
August 1991, and version 3.1 in June 1993.

Unless controlled by the Chinese government, software piracy
could eat a huge hole in potential Microsoft profits from
sales in the country. Although a Chinese court recently convicted
Shenzhen University of making 650,000 counterfeit Microsoft
holograms, the school was fined the equivalent of $260 US dollars.
Microsoft estimates it lost about $30 million dollars as a result
of that incident. The hologram is the emblem affixed to the boxes
of some Microsoft applications to assure the buyer they are
getting a true Microsoft product.

(Jim Mallory/19940322/Press Contact: Microsoft Public
Relations, 206-882-8080)


(NEWS)(TRENDS)(DEN)(00012)

Motorola Intros New Printer Chip 03/23/94
AUSTIN, TEXAS, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- Motorola has introduced
a new printer chip that can support eight page-per-minute (ppm)
printing at 600 dots-per-inch (dpi) on laser printers.

The company's High Performance Microprocessor Division said the
68322 dual-processor chip is the first in a series of new printer
microprocessors that will integrate sophisticated technology and
contain more printer-specific functionality than previous devices.

Motorola says the 68322 was developed with imaging technology
from Peerless Systems Corporation in El Segundo, California. It
offers graphics acceleration using banding techniques that can
reduce memory requirements. Its lower power requirements make
it suitable for printers conforming to the Environmental Protection
Agency's Energy Star printer program specifications.

The new chip contains two processors, a static 68EC000 core
microprocessor and the graphics execution unit (GEU). The GEU is
made up of a reduced instruction-set computing (RISC) graphics
processor and a print engine video controller. Motorola says the
chip is optimized to perform bit-block transfers up to eight times
faster than the most competitive 32-bit general purpose RISC
processors now available.

Mike Frawley, Motorola's M68000 family applications manager,
says the company is launching a full fledged assault on the laser
printer market. "The 68000 family will increase its dominance with
highly integrated, performance optimized, low cost solutions,"
he said. The company claims the new chip can lower the cost of
printers.

The 16 megahertz (MHz) 68322 is priced at $17.95 in quantities of
10,000. Production quantities at speeds of 16MHz and 20MHZ will
be available in mid-May 1994.

(Jim Mallory/19940322/Press Contact: Samantha Rutherford,
Cunningham Communication for Motorola, 617-494-8202; Reader
Contact: Mike Frawley, Motorola, 512-891-2154)


(NEWS)(TRENDS)(LAX)(00013)

CD Write-Once Drives To Reach 1Mil By 1998 - Survey 03/23/94
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- Verbatim,
the company that makes the media for write-once compact disc (CD)
recorders (CD-R), claims that the market will expand to over one
million units by 1998. The CD-R is not the same as a write-once,
read-many (WORM) drive, but offers similar storage capacity. The
CDs written by the drive can be read by standard compact disc
read-only memory (CD-ROM) drives.

JVC, Philips, and Sony are the leaders in CD-R drive
manufacturing, according to Verbatim. However, other companies
make systems using the drives for permanent recordings of data.
While some of the high-end professional systems can retail for
$18,000 or more, Pinnacle Micro of Irvine, California is
marketing CD-R drives for individual use in the $4,000 to $5,000
range.

Sometimes referred to as CD Write-Once or CD WORM drives, the CDs
themselves can hold up to 600 megabytes (MB) of data. The CD is
written by copying data from a hard disk to a specially made
blank disc where the CD-R drive's high powered laser records
marks into a sandwich of polycarbonate substrate, organic dye,
and a reflective layer.

Nearly seven million CD-ROM drives are installed now and while
writing the CDs one at a time might be impractical and expensive
for high-volume production applications, such as publishing CD
titles, it is certainly viable for a variety of low-volume
applications. Some of those might include: scanning articles onto
disc for immediate electronic access, replacing microfilm,
archiving files, storing geological survey data, self-publishing
parts catalogs or training manuals, and technical documentation.

The CD-R discs are retail priced at $35 each for a 63-minute
version (or just over 600MB) and $39 each for a 74-minute version
(or about 650MB).

Verbatim claims CD-R could become the new data distribution
standard. Analysts are estimating more than 200,000 units could
be installed as soon as 1996.

(Linda Rohrbough/19940322/Press Contact: Linda Healy, Verbatim,
704-547-6783; Harry Hoover, Loeffler Ketchum Mountjoy PR for
Verbatim, tel [phone], fax [phone]; Public Contact:
Verbatim, 800-759-3475/PHOTO)


(NEWS)(APPLE)(LAX)(00014)

Timereporter Time/Billing Software For Newton PDA 03/23/94
SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- If you have a
Newton Messagepad personal digital assistant (PDA) and you need
to keep track of your time, Iambic Software's Timereporter may
be the answer. The company said the product works using the
intelligence built into the Newton to report time and expenses
for billing purposes.

Iambic claims the product requires almost no learning or setup
because it is based on the familiar paper time-sheet format for
data entry. Data entry can be done on the Newton, or on the
Macintosh or Windows personal computer (PC) from a keyboard
and transferred to the Newton. In this way client information
can be entered on the user's PC, then the actual time tracking
can be done on the Newton, company officials said.

While users need the cable in the Windows or Macintosh Connection
Kits, a data transfer software program is built into the product
that offers faster data transfer than the Connection Kit software.

Users can choose to see the data entered in varying ways
including: an overview of all entries; percentages of time and
number of hours allotted to individual clients and activities;
and detailed information for entries. Once entered, Iambic claims
the data does not have to be re-entered, and can be resummoned
by code number, first word, or lists of current clients.

The time sheets can be sent by fax or electronic-mail, or printed
from the Newton. The data can also be transferred to a Macintosh
or Windows spreadsheet or database program as it can be exported
in either tab- or comma-delimited formats.

Timereporter takes 320 kilobytes (KB) of storage space to run.
While the program will run on both the Messagepad 100 and the new
Messagepad 110, Messagepad 100 users will need a one megabyte
(MB) Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
(PCMCIA) card that costs about $90 in order to supplement the
150KB of available memory to run the program. Since the
Messagepad 110 has 450KB of memory, no additional memory is
required to run Timereporter, company representatives said.

The program is scheduled to be available from Iambic Software by
the end of March for $129. Two diskettes come with the software,
one for the Macintosh and the other for Windows.

(Linda Rohrbough/19940322/Press Contact: Mary MacGregor, public
relations for Iambic Software, 408-730-4157; Vidal Graupera,
Iambic Software, tel or fax [phone])


(NEWS)(IBM)(DEL)(00015)

India - Wipro Readies Pentium DX4 PCs 03/23/94
BANGALORE, INDIA, 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- Wipro Infotech Ltd., is
likely to be ready with machines based on 90 megahertz (MHz) and
100 MHz Pentium processors by the end of this month. The company
is planning to launch the models in May.

According to a senior Wipro executive, the company's research
and development has almost got the prototypes of the new machines
ready. "We are conducting some compatibility tests," he said, "In
about a month we will be ready with the final product."

Wipro plans to make available both the server and desktop versions
of Pentium 90MHz and 100MHz systems. The servers are being
designed to handle disk-intensive functions, while the desktops
would be positioned as high-end graphics workstations.

The new Pentiums overcome a number of shortcomings in the original
version announced last year. While the earlier chip was five-volts,
the new Pentiums are 3.3-volts and incorporate 0.6 micron
technology. The earlier Pentium reportedly consumed a large amount
of power. The other complaint was that the chip needed heat sinks.
This has reportedly been improved in the new processors. Also, Intel
claims that the new processors are 50 percent faster than the
earlier chip.

While Intel's pricing of the chip is not yet clear, a senior technology
executive at Wipro estimates that the price difference between a
fully configured Pentium 66MHz and a Pentium 90MHz or 100 MHz
would be marginal. "Now Pentiums are priced between R1.25 lakh to
R5 lakh on an average," he said, "The new ones will begin at R1.5 lakh."

(C. T. Mahabharat/19940318)


(NEWS)(GOVT)(TOR)(00016)

 ****Spectrum's Caserta Takes Leave, Following Arrests 03/23/94
MANHASSET, NEW YORK, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- Peter Caserta
will take a leave of absence as president of Spectrum Information
Technologies Inc., following the arrest of one Spectrum employee
and four executives of Caserta's former company, Paradigm Group,
reportedly on charges of mail fraud and conspiracy.

A statement from Spectrum said Caserta, who founded Paradigm,
wanted to take the time to clear his name. The company maintained
Caserta will return to the president's post.

In the meantime, Andy Migliorini, president of technology
subsidiary Spectrum Cellular, will move to the company's head
office to advise Edward Maskaly, the newly appointed chairman
and chief executive officer, on technology issues.

Nobody will be named to the post of president during Caserta's
absence, Bill Campbell, a spokesman for Spectrum, told Newsbytes.

Campbell said Caserta sold Paradigm Group late last year. The one
Spectrum employee arrested was formerly associated with
Paradigm. Spectrum denied reports that five of its employees were
arrested in the case, saying the other four were Paradigm officers
and not associated with Spectrum.

Spectrum is no stranger to controversy, having been in the
spotlight in recent months because of the brief tenure of former
Apple Computer Chairman John Sculley as its chairman.

Sculley took the job last October, then resigned in February and
sued Caserta, claiming the Spectrum president had not informed
him of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of the
company. Caserta countersued soon after, but both lawsuits were
dropped in early March.

Maskaly, formerly chief financial officer of shoe importer
Jasmine Inc., was named chairman and chief executive of
Spectrum on March 21.

(Grant Buckler/19940323/Press Contact: Bill Campbell, Principal
Communications for Spectrum, 212-546-2664)


(NEWS)(IBM)(DEN)(00017)

Shapeware Intros Drawing Program For MS Office 03/23/94
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- Shapeware
Corporation has announced Visio Express for Microsoft Office, a
"drag and drop" drawing program designed specifically for users of
the Microsoft software suite.

Microsoft Office includes Microsoft Word word processor,
spreadsheet Excel, and Powerpoint presentation graphics. Visio
Express gives users of the Windows-based Office the ability to
create business graphics and drop them into the Office application
in the desired location using Microsoft's object linking and
embedding (OLE) 2.0 technology.

"Making it easy to integrate Visio drawings into word processing,
spreadsheet and presentation programs has always been a key
element of our product strategy," according to Morgan Brown, product
manager for Visio. Brown says Visio Express offers the same "look
and feel" as the components of Office.

Included with Visio Express are six stencils that allow the user to
create flowcharts, block diagrams, organizational charts, timeliness,
maps and other common business drawings and diagrams. To add a
diagram the user clicks on the Visio Express icon that the program
installs on the Office application toolbar. That launches Visio
Express, where the user creates the desired drawing, selects the
location in the Office application and returns to the original
document.

Shapeware Vice President Ted Johnson says the days of general
purpose applications are numbered. "Visio Express introduces a
future in which programs will solve specific customer problems.
Users will be able to buy software from different vendors and
confidently expect them to work together.

Visio Express for Microsoft Office has a suggested retail price of
$79 including 90 days of free technical support and a 60-day money-
back guarantee. In addition to Microsoft Office, Visio Express also
works with the standalone versions of the Office suite.

(Jim Mallory/19940323/Press Contact: Morgan Brown, Shapeware
Corporation, 206-521-4449; Reader Contact: Shapeware Corp.,
tel [phone] or 800-446-3335, fax [phone])


(NEWS)(GOVT)(DEN)(00018)

Microsoft Court Ruling Tightens Software Copyright 03/23/94
REDMOND, WASHINGTON, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- The US District
Court, Eastern District of New York, has issued a ruling that
tightens the copyright protection of software.

The case involves a complaint by Microsoft Corporation against
Harmony Computers & Electronics Inc, a Brooklyn, New York firm.
Microsoft alleges that Harmony purchased Microsoft software from a
licensed original equipment manufacturer (OEM) licensee then resold
it "standalone." Microsoft only licenses MS-DOS and Windows for
resale with a personal computer.

In Judge Raymond Dearie's memorandum of decision granting a
preliminary injunction against Harmony, he wrote: "To the extent
that (Harmony) bought their Microsoft products from authorized
Microsoft licensees, they were subject to the same licensing
restrictions under which those licensees operate."

Microsoft says it tries to make it easy for resellers to operate as
licensees, offering various licensing programs. The company says
its Delivery Service Partner program offers resellers and OEMs an
"easy and affordable" way to obtain Microsoft products in smaller
quantities to distribute with their PCs.

Joachim Kempin, senior VP of worldwide OEM sales at Microsoft,
says the company believes some small companies use "gray market"
sources for Microsoft products because they do not realize they
are easily available from Microsoft legitimately. "Gray market" is
the term applied to the unauthorized distribution of software.

David Curtis, associate general counsel at Microsoft, says the
ruling is a big step towards combating software piracy. "This
ruling addresses a common belief in the PC industry that the
problem lies only with an OEM violating its license agreement.
Here, it is clearly stated that any reseller or OEM who sells
unauthorized standalone product is also committing copyright
infringement and is therefore liable for both criminal penalties
and money damages."

Those penalties and damages are spelled out in the Copyright Act
of 1992, which increased criminal penalties for copyright
infringement of software to a maximum of five years in prison,
fines of up to $250,000, or both. That makes copyright
infringement a felony.

Microsoft offers a toll-free Piracy Hotline for users who have
questions about the legitimacy of Microsoft products.

(Jim Mallory/19940323/Press Contact: Erin Carney, Microsoft
Corporation, 206-882-8080; Reader Contact: Microsoft Corp.,
800-785-3448 (for piracy questions), or 800-325-1233
(licensing information)


(NEWS)(BUSINESS)(TOR)(00019)

Delrina Signs Joint Venture With Germany's Zweckform 03/23/94
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- Canadian
software developer Delrina Corp., and business forms maker
Zweckform, of Holzkirchen, Germany, have announced a joint
venture.

Zweckform will work with Delrina on the development of WinForm
Pro, a forms package for small and medium-sized business that
will run on personal computers equipped with Microsoft Corp.'s
Windows software.

Zweckform will sell WinForm Pro through its more than 4,000
distribution outlets in Germany. The German company may also sell
the software in other European countries, said Shelly Sofer, a
spokesman for Delrina.

The relationship will also help Delrina sell its other products
in Germany. Each WinForm box will contain WinFax Lite, the
company's simple facsimile software for Windows, and information
about upgrading to the more complete WinFax Pro and WinFax Pro
for Networks, as well as information about Delrina's FormFlow
work-flow management software.

While Delrina has done some business in Germany in the past,
there is a good deal of untapped potential for the company in
that country, Sofer told Newsbytes. He added that Delrina
believes forms software is the best way for the company to
establish a foothold in the German market.

Sofer likened the Zweckform deal to a joint development
agreement signed with NCR Corp. -- now AT&T Global Information
Solutions -- in July 1992. Both involve development as well as
joint marketing. Delrina has also signed marketing agreements
with major business forms distributors, such as Uarco in the
United States.

Zweckform claims a 75 percent share of the preprinted forms
market in Germany, shipping more than 800 million forms per year.

(Grant Buckler/19940323/Press Contact: Shelly Sofer, Delrina,
416-441-4702)


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(ATL)(00020)

 ****NAB - Silicon Graphics In Sprint Network Deal 03/23/94
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 23 (NB) --  Silicon Graphics
has launched a private Internet network for video developers
through an agreement with Sprint.

At its annual press conference during the National Association of
Broadcasters show, SGI said the new network, called DRUMS, had
10 post-production houses as customers even before it is publicly
announced. Post houses can get a "T-1" speed line for about
$2,200 per month, running at 1.544 million bits-per-second (bps),
or invest about $20,000 per month in a "T-3" line capable of 45
million bps service. The latter offers plenty of speed for passing
full-motion broadcast files back-and-forth, without compression.
The network uses TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet
Protocol), used also on the Internet.

One of the early customers, Wyndham Hannaway of GW Hanaway &
Associates of Boulder, Colorado, told Newsbytes that DRUMS will
save him a $30,000 annual Federal Express bill, while allowing
him to collaborate in real-time with other post companies on both
coasts.

SGI also announced that the Grass Valley Group, a 35 year-old
video company, has ported its Sabre editing system to the SGI
Indigo workstation. Bob Wilson, Grass Valley's president, said
his idea is to "move to industry standards and make computers
more video friendly."

The Grass Valley Group move puts more pressure on Quantel,
another leading broadcast equipment company based on proprietary
computer architectures, to move toward open systems. Among the
other companies announcing they have ported their tools to the
SGI platform were Avid, the industry leader in non-linear editing,
along with Alias, SoftImage, Kodak and Parallax.

"Our corporate goal is to help you move from creation to
distribution" of mass media, explained Dave Larson of SGI. "Last
year we had a lot of promises. This year we have a different
story. Our product technology is more robust. And we have binary
compatibility from the top of the line to the bottom. The focus
on client-server is also critical. We've worked hard to get new
video products," including a video library, on the SGI platform.

(Dana Blankenhorn/19940323/Press Contact: Ginny Babbitt, Silicon
Graphics, tel [phone], fax [phone]; Sprint, Rick
Johnson, 404-859-6095; Grass Valley Group, Ben Stanger,
916-478-3157)


(NEWS)(APPLE)(ATL)(00021)

NAB - Aldus Intros Hitchcock Editor For Mac 03/23/94
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- CoSA, a division
of Aldus, has announced a non-linear editor for the Macintosh,
called Hitchcock.

CoSA is in the process of moving its offices from Providence,
Rhode Island to Seattle, where it will become Aldus' video
division. The product came to CoSA through the bankruptcy of
Digital F/X last year, shortly after CoSA itself announced its
acquisition by Aldus. CoSA acquired Digital F/X' PC product line
in January. Hitchcock will be priced at $1,995, and will ship at the
end of April. Early versions have already won awards from MacUser
and Publish magazines.

CoSA business unit Manager Bill O'Farrell said that Hitchcock
will combine with his company's After Effects, a post-production
program, as a complete low-cost "solution" for program producers.
The Digital F/X acquisition also brought Aldus TitleSoft, a Mac-
based video and title generation program.

Enrique Godreau III, Hitchcock program manager, told Newsbytes
that Digital F/X might still be in business had it started work on
Hitchcock sooner. "That was the end of an interesting era," he said
of Digital F/X's demise. "They were a pioneer in using a personal
computer to deliver functionality to video professionals. What
they didn't see was that their video equipment would become a
commodity."

Godreau predicted that Hitchcock will be for video producers what
PageMaker was for publishers in the 1980s. "Non-linear editing
systems save time and money. We're interested in instrumenting
the process of video production, delivering a 'calculator' for
video professionals. Everybody can create high quality video
productions" with Hitchcock.

Hitchcock offers edit lists, or EDLs, as well as QuickTime movie
export for the Mac, in addition to JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts
Group)-compressed video. To work, it needs a compatible video
board and Sony compatible VTR (video tape recorder). Aldus has
already announced it will support the PowerPC Macintosh, and
making a PowerPC "native" version of Hitchcock available could
help it compete closely with systems based on the Silicon
Graphics Indigo workstation, but at a much lower price.

That is Godreau's plan. "It's a complete system. It's a 'meat and
potatoes' editor for professionals that make 2,000 edit cuts a
day." And it is a professional tool, not based on QuickTime.
"QuickTime doesn't provide the performance. We provide
interoperability, but we have an advantage in non-interleaving,
treating video and audio as separate data streams."

(Dana Blankenhorn/19940323/Press Contact: Tricia Horner,
CoSA, tel [phone], fax [phone])


(NEWS)(GENERAL)(ATL)(00022)

NAB - EON Gets First Interactive TV Station 03/23/94
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- At a press
conference during the National Association of Broadcasters' show,
EON Corp., announced that Allbritton Communications' WJLA-TV in
Washington, DC will be the first station to go interactive with
its system.

EON, formerly TV Answer, said the ABC affiliate will transmit
EON's interactive quiz and game shows, sports events, opinion
polling, advertising and education programming in a market test.

Viewers will be able to respond to shows through the Interactive
Video and Data Services, or IVDS, spectrum, at 218-219 megahertz
(MHz), first set-aside by the Federal Communications Commission
a number of years ago for interactive TV.

ABC owns part of EON, which pushed hard for the IVDS spectrum
award as TV Answer. The commission's decision to award the
frequencies on a local basis instead of through a national license,
however, has greatly slowed adoption of the technology.

Marty Lafferty, EON's vice president of provider services, said
the test will eventually involve hundreds of households in
Fairfax County, a suburb south of the city where EON has its
offices. By the end of the test, users should be trialing all the
initial applications planned for EON's system.

The announcement follows by about a week EON's "type acceptance"
by the FCC for its transmission system, allowing them to operate
on FCC-licensed frequencies. Two IVDS providers were selected in
each of the nation's 10 largest markets last September using a
lottery. Future licenses in other markets will be made through
spectrum auctions, probably next year.

(Dana Blankenhorn/03231994/Press Contact: Pal Sturiale, EON,
tel [phone], fax [phone])


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(ATL)(00023)

NAB - Cyphertech Starts Anti-Piracy Broadcast Tests 03/23/94
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- Cyphertech will
start offering its anti-piracy and logging system in Los Angeles
as early as May, the company said at the National Association of
Broadcasters show.

CypherTech President Dan Wasserman explained that his system
puts an "electronic fingerprint" on work that is sent out via
satellite or broadcast, so it can be identified. "This gives
originators protection for their rights, and insures financial
security," he said. It also helps for logging programs and reporting
those logs to the Federal Communications Commission.

Here's how it works. "We are inaudible material inserted into the
audio track. The system has been tested using a variety of
compression algorithms, as high as 4:1 compression ratios, and
the signatures have come through." Wasserman said he expects
that the FCC will approve a 4:1 compression scheme for satellite
broadcasts in October. He said the system will be tested with
Moving Picture Experts Group-II, or MPEG II, scheme once chip-
sets implementing it are available, but Wasserman expects no
problems.

"We've done testing with major studios, and we're going to test
with others," he added. The system also works for music sent
over-the-air. "We've got commitments from sound facilities in LA.
We're ready to ship pre-production prototypes in 2-3 weeks. We'll
start generating material off those immediately. The target is
the middle of next month to get up, and we'll set up listening
posts for those by the end of May.

After that, CypherTech will try to negotiate real financial
commitments from studios, then roll-out the system to other
markets beyond Los Angeles. " We'll track the big nets and
independents there, then, starting towards the end of summer,
roll out to the top 50 markets. The target is to have the
remaining 200 North American markets up by the end of 1995."

(Dana Blankenhorn/19940323/Press Contact: Dan Wasserman,
CypherTech Systems, tel [phone], fax [phone])


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(ATL)(00024)

NAB - WavePhore Delivers Data Broadcasting Pitch 03/23/94
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- The National
Association of Broadcasters offered its members a technical
lecture on data broadcasting from WavePhore, a company which
leads in the technology. WavePhore's data broadcasting decoder is
called the TCT1/4 video broadcast modem.

Data broadcasting has drawn enormous interest from the NAB as
TV stations prepare to get an extra six megahertz (MHz) of
spectrum, ostensibly for use in sending high definition TV signals.
But Charles Jungo, executive vice president and chief technical
officer for Wavephore, said his system, on which patents are
pending, will let them make lots more money on all kinds of data
applications.

Among possible applications Jungo discussed were delivery of
sports statistics, computer software distribution and updating,
the downloading of games and music, desktop news, data broadcast
publishing, and passing information to point-of-sale terminals.
Among the business applications are updating hot card lists and
catalogs.

Wavephore's aim is to build a network of data broadcasters which
can attract national accounts. "Every newspaper and magazine is a
point to multi-point message," Jungo explained. "The cost of your
subscription is for the distribution of the publication -- the
profit comes from advertising. If you could do that in 7 seconds
thorough a digital datanet it changes the economics of the
publishing industry. As time goes by, you won't receive a hard
copy of those publications. Someone will start delivering those
point-to-multipoint messages in digital form. Our point is it
should be the broadcast industry, using Wavephore technology."

He continued: "The current players include private network
operators, schools, government, and large businesses like JC
Penney, public network operators like broadcasters, application
service operators who will bring in the customers, and system
integrators who'll get the hardware working."

In mass production, he predicted, decoders for data broadcasting
will cost no more than a standard VCR, and could be attached to
PCs or cable set-top converters. He said Wavephore offers a
384,000 bits-per-second (bps) decoder, and over the next year
will get that onto a single chip set. But he said the company thinks
it can boost the speed of its transmissions to 1.544 million bps,
the so-called T-1 trunk line speed, at the same price. "As this
takes place, the technology will be affordable to a variety of
businesses and consumers," he predicted.

"Why should broadcasters be involved?" he continued, "Revenue
potential. In terms of data broadcasting, you have 60 seconds a
minute, 31,560,000 seconds for sale. Whatever they're worth is
not decided yet. But clearly each one spent without your
involvement is not your revenue. So there's a sense of urgency to
involve yourself in data broadcasting and get into this billion
dollar opportunity."

In response to a question from the audience, which mainly
consisted of engineering managers at TV stations, Jungo said his
company supports the creation of a National Data Broadcast
Standards Committee, and added it has filed a petition with the
Federal Communications Commission to allow broadcasters
to use his system. The FCC is considering placing a tax on data
broadcasting revenues as a way to justify this new use of free
spectrum, a move the NAB opposes.

(Dana Blankenhorn/19940323/Press Contact: WavePhore Inc.,
tel [phone], fax [phone])


(NEWS)(TRENDS)(ATL)(00025)

NAB - C-Cube Intros MPEG II Decoder Chips 03/23/94
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- C-Cube
Microsystems has announced the CL9100, a video decoder chip that
can handle Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) I and II, as well as
the Digicipher II system from General Instruments. The
announcement came at the National Association of Broadcasters
show.

Such chips are a necessary ingredient in future set-top
converters that will multiply the number of channels a cable
operator can offer by up to 10 times their present system
capacity. As part of the move toward making the chip, C-Cube
licensed the Digitcipher II technology from its creator, General
Instrument Corp.

Alexandre Balkanski, C-Cube's vice president for sales and
marketing, told an NAB press conference why the news is
important. "All MPEG encoding is now done on C-Cube engines,
either for direct broadcast satellite services like Hughes'
DirecTv or cable. We want encoding to talk with decoding
in a seamless manner, and the idea here is to have all the major
decoding schemes in a single system. Our announcement today
means broad interoperability between the international standard
MPEG II and what General Instruments is doing in Digicipher II,
which has been adopted by the cable industry with TCI leading
the way."

In addition to the General Instruments license, C-Cube announced
that Scientific-Atlanta named C-Cube its supplier of video
compression chips throughout 1994. Also, Vela Research, a unit of
Home Shopping Network Inc., said it will work on video-on-demand
systems using its own video servers and marketing analysis, and
the C-Cube chip. The Vela system stores movies in compressed
digital forms that are still compatible with today's analog cable
systems, allowing cable operators to immediately begin offering
video-on-demand services to consumers.

(Dana Blankenhorn/19940323/Press Contact: Scott St. Clair,
C-Cube Microsystems, 408-944-6300)


(NEWS)(GOVT)(WAS)(00026)

 ****Windows NT In Big Navy CAD Contract 03/23/94
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- Microsoft's
Windows NT 32-bit operating system, preinstalled on Intergraph
TD-2 workstations, will be included in the US Navy's $422
million contract for computer-aided design (CAD) equipment.
The announcement, made at the FOSE trade show for federal
government users in Washington, DC.

The Navy contract will be the first that gives users CAD,
business applications, and personal productivity tools on the
same platform -- Intergraph's Pentium-based workstation. In the
past, the Navy has been buying dedicated CAD machines for the
considerable amount of design and engineering work it does
around the world.

Microsoft also demonstrated Nutcracker, a new product from
DataFocus to help developers port Unix applications to Windows
NT. Nutcracker will allow developers to recompile Unix-based
source code and link it to the product's dynamic link libraries,
resulting in native WIN 32 application programming interface of
Windows NT. Microsoft says Nutcracker includes a collection of
the most widely-used Unix calls based on SVR4 and POSIX, and
supports both the C and C++ programming languages.

The software giant also ran the first US demonstration of
Foxpro 2.6, which it demonstrated earlier at Cebit in Hanover,
Germany. Among the features are automatic recognition of Dbase
components and conversion to Foxpro. Microsoft claims that Foxpro
2.6 offers the easiest way for Dbase users to migrate to Windows.

Also at the FOSE show, Microsoft showed off products designed to
make computing more accessible to people with disabilities, a big
topic in the federal government these days. One product the firm
was showing is the Access Pack for Windows, which offers
features for folks with hearing impairment or limited dexterity.
Also on display was a utility that magnifies information on the
screen and another that allows blind users to read a screen
through synthesized speech or Braille.

(Kennedy Maize/19940323)


(NEWS)(TRENDS)(LAX)(00027)

 ****Infocorp Survey Says Many NetWare Users Unhappy 03/23/94
LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- While it
appears Novell's Netware network operating system (NOS) has a
peaceful stronghold in the client/server NOS world, CI Infocorp
(CII) claims changes may be in store. Novell's lack of responsiveness
in subsequent Netware versions have Netware users looking hard for
alternatives, according to the market research firm.

Of the approximately 29 million NOS users, Netware version 2.x has
36 percent, while Netware 3.x has 35 percent. Netware 2.x is aimed
at workgroup users, with numbers from 25 to 99. However, Novell
has announced it will no longer develop new products for this large
segment of users, focusing instead on the more lucrative
enterprise market, the market research firm said.

Novell has attempted to get Netware 2.x customers, who average
11 users per local area network (LAN) site, to migrate to its
Netware 3.x product, who have an average of 23 users per LAN site,
but without much success. CII said Netware 2.x customers were not
interested in the interoperability offered by Netware 3.x and some
said using it "...would be like using an assault rifle to shoot a fly."

Netware 4.x, designed for enterprise networks with complicated
interoperability requirements, shipped in June of 1992 but has
barely one percent of the market. CII called Netware 4.x "high-
priced," "complex," and "...one of Novell's few failures in recent
years." Netware 4.x costs $50,000 for a 1,000 user license.

Novell has reportedly attempted to force the 4.x version on
Netware 3.x users by pricing Netware 3.2x so it is actually cheaper
to upgrade from a Netware 3.1x version to Netware 4.x instead of
to Netware 3.2x. However, that is not setting well with Netware
3.x customers, reportedly because of the expense involved and
also because much of the functionality in Netware 4.x which was
promised for Netware 3.x, was not delivered.

The survey indicates that the biggest threat to Novell's NOS security
is Unix. Very large companies are seriously looking at getting away
from Netware, but there are not that many places to go. Unix is a
serious contender, but the Unix market is fragmented. Microsoft
has failed twice to get market share away from Netware, once
with its MS-Net product and again with LAN Manager and could
fail again with Windows NT.

Stan Schatt, of CII, said Windows NT is being marketed as a file
server NOS when what the market really wants is an application
server NOS that works with Netware.

Of the two flavors of Windows NT, the Advanced Server product
is expected to do better than Windows NT client, which is the
application-development environment. IBM's LAN Server and
Banyan's Vines are also expected to gain market share as
Netware slowly loses customers through 1997, Schatt asserts.

(Linda Rohrbough/19940323/Press Contact: Stan Schatt, CI
Infocorp, tel [phone], fax [phone])


(NEWS)(GENERAL)(BOS)(00028)

 ****Seybold - First Public Demo Of WordPerfect Envoy 03/23/94
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- WordPerfect
performed the first public demonstration of its WP Envoy
cross-platform document management and viewing software, and
also previewed new search and retrieval software code-named
"Dewey," in a press conference at Seybold Boston '94.

At the news conference, which was attended by Newsbytes, officials
said that WP Envoy consists of three basic components: a printer
driver for creating portable files from any Windows or Macintosh
application; a viewing application for viewing, annotating and
printing WP Envoy files; and a runtime file that is a combination
of a WP Envoy file and a "fully functional" embedded viewer.

In an interview afterward, Don Emery, vice president of electronic
publishing for WordPerfect, said that WordPerfect plans to sell
WP Envoy in retail stores, and is also producing a software
development kit for the document interchange software. Emery told
Newsbytes that WP Envoy will ship in May for a suggested retail
price of $189.

In a demo, Jeff Smith, president of Tumbleweed, the third-party
developer that originated the product, explained that WP Envoy
differs from competing products like Adobe's Acrobat by allowing
the document viewer to travel along with the document from one
Windows or Macintosh user to multiple other users.

In addition, unlike the "miniviewer" to No Hands Software's Common
Ground which allows documents to be viewed and printed only, the
WP Envoy viewer permits other users to work with the document,
highlighting sections, adding sticky notes, and making other
annotations, said Smith.

When the WP Envoy runtime files are returned to the author, the
author can choose to import some, all, or none of the other users'
annotations into the original document, according to Smith. The
software also provides document thumbnails, permits annotations to
be color-coded by user, is able to present a list of annotations by
user.

In two additional demos, officials of Caere and RP Fraik showed how
their companies are using WP Envoy technology within third-party
applications.

John Migliori, COO of Caere, demonstrated the use of WP Envoy with
Caere's OmniPage OCR (optical character recognition) software.
Caere's TruePage technology, which is found in OmniPage, visually
replicates an "exact image" of a scanned document, said Migliori.
WP Envoy then takes the scanned image from OmniPage and allows
the document to be viewed and annotated by other users.

Bob Fraik, president and CEO of RP Fraik, said that his company is
using WP Envoy on KidSoft and its other CD-ROM (compact disk -
read-only memory) disk to allow users to access software titles on
the disks. Users can look at and annotate the runtime files without
modifying the original applications, Fraik explained.

In a fourth demo, WordPerfect showed how "Dewey" lets users
search for words and phrases within multiple third-party reference
works -- such as dictionaries, thesauruses, and foreign language
dictionaries -- from a common user interface.

Emery told Newsbytes afterward that WordPerfect will market the
product that emerges from "Dewey" to OEM (original equipment
manufacturers) for integration into third-party reference works.

Dictionaries and other online reference tools that will work with
WordPerfect's retrieval software will be able to use a special logo
from WordPerfect on the product packaging, said Emery.

WordPerfect's recently announced merger with Novell carries
significant potential for the recently created Electronic
Publishing Division that is overseeing the new WP Envoy document
interchange software, he added.

"The Internet may be the 'information highway,' but Novell will
certainly bring us into the information 'side roads' and 'byways,'"
Emery noted.

(Jacqueline Emigh/19940323/Reader Contact: WordPerfect,
801-225-5000; Press Contact: Gina Trausch, Brodeur and
Partners for WordPerfect, 894-0003)


(NEWS)(IBM)(BOS)(00029)

 ****Seybold - Microsoft Demos Chicago 03/23/94
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- On the
first day of Seybold Boston '94, Microsoft presented one of the
first public demos of its Chicago front-end to Windows, along
with updated delivery plans for Chicago, Daytona, and Cairo.

Key features of Chicago will include an "easier-to-use" graphical
user interface (GUI) with a "start" button and the ability to
configure hardware through "SCSI (small computer systems
interface) plug-and-play," plus preemptive multitasking and a
built-in color model for color calibration that will support
ColorSync, said Alexander St. John, publishing evangelist for
Microsoft, during a Seybold session.

Speaking with Newsbytes after the session, which was called "New
Platforms: PowerPC vs. Windows 'Chicago/NT,'" St. John said that
Chicago will ship in the second half of this year, and that Cairo,
a product that will be a "superset" of Chicago and Daytona, will
follow about six months after the release of Chicago.

Microsoft plans to deliver Daytona, an updated version of the
Windows NT 32-bit operating environment, this summer, in the
"late July-ish time frame," St. John told Newsbytes.

Daytona will add built-in OpenGL, 32-bit OLE (object linking and
embedding) 2.0, Type 1 fonts, a NetWare client, and "faster and
smaller networking in RAM (random access memory)," St. John said.

During the session, Microsoft briefly showed how a new SCSI "plug-
and-play" component in Chicago will allow users to quickly
configure "plug-and-play"-compliant and ISA (Industry Standard
Architecture) hardware. Also during the session, Windows NT was
demonstrated, and Apple officials displayed third-party applications
running on the Power Macintosh, a product launched in New York
City last week.

St. John told Newsbytes that Microsoft just began public demos of
Chicago this week, and that the demo during the Seybold session was
one of the first ever to be held.

Microsoft will not be showing Chicago to the public in its booth at
the Seybold Exposition, he added. The Seybold Conference opened in
Boston yesterday, and the Seybold Expo opens today. Both
components of the Seybold event are being held at the John B. Hynes
Convention Center in Boston.

(Jacqueline Emigh/19940323)


(NEWS)(IBM)(BOS)(00030)

 ****Seybold - Adobe/Aldus Discuss Merger, Intro Products 03/23/94
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- At Seybold
Boston '94, Adobe and Aldus have elaborated on plans to merge the
two companies that were announced last week. In addition, each
vendor has separately announced an array of new products that
include Version 4.0 of the Adobe Premiere video editing application
for Macintosh and a new "open architecture software" for Aldus'
tools for the prepress industry.

In a morning session and again at an afternoon press conference,
Paul Brainerd, president of Aldus, John Warnock, chairman and CEO
of Adobe, and Chuck Geschke, president and COO of Adobe, said that
the two companies, each formed a decade ago in the Silicon Family,
and each focusing on computer publishing tools, have decided to
pool their resources in order to form a single entity with greater
market share and clout. "This isn't 'one plus one equals two,' but
'one plus one equals three,' or 'four,' or 'five,' or whatever,"
Brainerd observed during the morning session.

In both appearances, the trio of top executives explained that,
although the two companies started out by offering computerized
tools for print publishing, the emphasis will now shift toward to
authoring tools for the emerging electronic publishing format.

"We hope to become the (industry's) best producer of electronic
publishing tools, although this will take a while," said Geschke,
also during the morning session. "The employees of both companies
are really excited about the merger," he added.

Decisions have yet to be reached on the name of the merged entity
or where it will be based, the officials said. But Brainerd noted
that many companies now have telephone support staff located at
multiple sites, in a way that is transparent to end users calling
in for technical help.

In the morning session, Jonathan Seybold pointed out that Adobe
and Aldus both have rich traditions with the Seybold Conference.
Geschke joked that unless he knew better, he would guess that
Jonathan Seybold had engineered the timing of the Adobe/Aldus
merger announcement to take place just before Seybold Boston.

In their joint press conference at Seybold, which was attended by
Newsbytes, the executives assured members of the press that the
"high end" of the industry, traditionally served by Aldus, would
not be abandoned as a result of the merger.

At the Adobe press conference, also attended by Newsbytes, Adobe
announced that native Power Macintosh support will be available in
the Macintosh, Power Macintosh, and Deluxe CD-ROM editions of
Adobe Premiere 4.0.

Adobe also displayed new features in Version 4.0 that are aimed at
"video and multimedia professionals." The features include a
trimming window, auto insert edits, improved ripple and rolling
edits, support for the "true" NTSC frame rate (29.97), unattended
batch processing, custom filters and effects, and enhancements to
the preview and Edit Decision List functions.

In addition, Warnock said that Adobe's Acrobat cross-platform
document authoring and viewing software, introduced at Seybold
Boston a year ago, will no longer being sold at retail. Instead,
Adobe will pursue a "systems integration" approach for Acrobat,
he explained. Customers that will be integrating Acrobat into
their applications will include General Electric Information
Systems (GEIS).

Adobe further announced Adobe Brilliant Screens, an "advancement in
FM screening technology" that will be licensed to end users through
Adobe's business partners for integration into imagesetting,
printers, digital proofers, platemakers, and presses starting in
June.

Brilliant Screens is designed to provide platemaking and prepress
professionals with tools for controlling dot size via pixel
cluster, overcoming the problem of "holding small dots."

In addition, said officials, Adobe's Configurable PostScript
Interpreter (CPSI) Level 2 is now available in native mode for the
Power Macintosh, has been licensed by SuperMac and Scitex for use
in Power Mac products, and will be used in the new Fiery 150i Color
Server from Electronics for Imaging (EFI).

SuperMac's SPLASH card will integrate the MIPS version of CPSI on
an add-in connect board for the Macintosh designed to transform
Xerox's Majestik Color Series copiers into networked 400 dots-per-
inch (dpi) color PostScript printers. The board is slated for
availability in April.

Further, GDT's StyleScript software will provide PostScript Level
2 printing capabilities for the new Apple Color Stylewriter Pro,
according to officials.

Adobe also announced that Adobe Photoshop is now shipping for both
Sun and Silicon Graphics workstations. ColorBus has acquired the
rights to distribute Adobe Photoshop.

At the Aldus press conference, which was attended by
Newsbytes, Aldus unveiled the Aldus Open Prepress Environment
(OPEN 1.0) for the Macintosh, an "open architecture framework" for
integrating and automating multivendor tools for trapping, digital
imposition, spooling, color management, color separation, and the
application of Open Prepress Interface (OPI) or Desktop Color
Separation (DCS) substitution effects.

Also at the Aldus press conference, officials announced shipment
of two high-end tools for the prepress market, PressWise 2.0 and
TrapWise 2.0 for the Mac.

Aldus further announced the completion of its acquisition of
Compumation, a major supplier of network-based print and image
management systems, and the shipment of a Windows NT version of
Color Central 2.1, a print/image server acquired as part of Aldus-
purchased of Compumation.

(Jacqueline Emigh/19940323/Reader Contacts: Adobe, 415-961-
4400; Aldus, 206-622-5500; Press Contacts: Michael Wang, Adobe,
415-962-2197; Barbara Burke, Aldus, 206-628-6594)


(NEWS)(BUSINESS)(DEN)(00031)

 ****More On Novell's Wordperfect Acquisition 03/23/94
PROVO, UTAH, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- When Novell officials
announced the company's acquisition of Wordperfect Corporation,
they said the future of computing lies in the networking of
personal computers. "All applications will move toward a
networked application," predicted Novell Executive Vice
President John Edwards.

Novell President Ray Noorda agreed, saying "Stand alone computing
is evolving toward group collaboration." He said his company's
objective is to accelerate that transition by offering new
generations of network applications with the flexibility and
freedom of open interfaces and published standards.

Edwards said his company sees more software distribution via
networks, rather than through retail outlets, but sees that as
another market channel rather than as a replacement. "We're
talking about software distribution, licensing and removing a lot
of the administration and management issues all corporations have
today with respect to a piece of software."

Novell says it plans to use Wordperfect and Quattro Pro, the
spreadsheet it purchased this week from Borland International for
$145 million, as the base for the development of a suite of office
products that will include word processing, spreadsheet and
communications to be used by computers networked with
Novell's Netware and Unixware software.

Wordperfect President and CEO Ad Rietveld told Newsbytes his
organization is already working on components of a software suite.
However, he said it will probably be a year or two before the
company announces a full suite of software applications.

Noorda orchestrated a deal last June to buy AT&T's Unix System
Laboratories in a stock swap that was valued at about $350 million.
Edwards said the company is working to provide standard
applicability between Unix and other platforms, and integrating it
with Netware with common management, a common directory and a
common API (application programming interface) structure. He also
said he expects Unix to become a stronger workstation platform for
users of CAD/CAM (computer-aided design/manufacturing) and
financial multitasking applications and as a develop platform. "It's
one of the hottest development platforms available," according to
Edwards.

Noorda announced last year that he would step down in mid-1994 and
a search was on for his successor. Asked by Newsbytes if Ad Rietveld
might be a leading candidate, Edwards would only say "Ad's a great
guy. Ray has always said he and the board would look at people
internal and external to the company."

Wall Street did not seem impressed by the merger. Novell shares
dropped $3.75 in heavy trading following the announcement. Shares of
Lotus Development Corporation, publisher of the popular spreadsheet
Lotus 1-2-3 rose $1.50. Quattro Pro faces heavy competition from
Lotus and Microsoft Excel. Microsoft stock also rose, while Borland
fell $0.875.

David Coursey, editor of the industry newsletter P.C. Letter said
of the Novell acquisition "This is one of those rare pivotal moments
in the industry." A weakness in the Novell challenge to Microsoft
is its lack of a database program to compete with Microsoft's
Foxpro and Access database software, but Coursey believes the
company will rectify that shortcoming. "They've got Paradox
(a database currently published by Borland), they just don't know it
yet," he told Newsbytes.

Regarding a database, Rietveld told Newsbytes there are already
existing databases, and said its more important to give users
access to information using a database viewer. "We have a product
called Wordperfect Informs that gives the user access to 18
different database formats including all the major databases being
used." He also pointed out that Wordperfect acquired one million
Paradox licenses as part of the Quattro Pro purchase. "We can look
at where the market is going and decide which way we want to go
with the suites in the future," Rietveld told Newsbytes.

Asked for his vision of computing in the future, Rietveld
told Newsbytes he expects computers to be able to recognize
natural voice commands rather than the user having to speak the
commands using particular words in a particular order. He predicts
that built-in voice recognition technology will be a standard
feature of most personal computers. Wordperfect is reportedly
already working on such technology. "In a few years we will just
need to tell people what they can do with computers, not how they
have to do it," he told Newsbytes.

Asked for his view of the merger, Dataquest analyst Chuck Stegman
told Newsbytes that, in the past people have talked about a "Big 2"
in the industry, Microsoft and Lotus. "Now its definitely a Big
Three," he said. Stegman believes the smartest strategy for Novell
is to concentrate on new developments, even though the company will
compete head-to-head with Lotus and Microsoft on some products.

(Jim Mallory/19940323/Press Contact: Wordperfect Corporation,
801-225-5000; Novell Corporation, 801-429-7000)


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(DEN)(00032)

Microsoft & Japan's NTT In Multimedia Network Deal 03/23/94
REDMOND, WASHINGTON, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- Microsoft
Corporation and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)
have announced an agreement in principle to jointly develop
services that will allow users to access multimedia information
on a communications network.

One of the initial results of the Japanese connection will
reportedly enable users to preview contents on an inexpensive
CD-ROM disk and then license only the information or software
applications they need by downloading a special electronic key
over a network. The two companies say they will design the
system to allow participation from third-party hardware,
software and information companies.

Microsoft spokesperson Michele Bourdon told Newsbytes the deal
is primarily the building of a relationship at this point. "They are
going to work together to identify and distribute multimedia
services." she said the services will be CD-ROM based, and the
agreement might eventually lead to online services.

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and NTT President Masahashi Kojima
are scheduled to hold a joint press conference March 24 to explain
the technological alliance. "We are joining hands with Microsoft
Corporation...in the hope of being able to provide first class
network services," said Kojima. He called the alliance "A great
step forward toward integrating networks and consumer equipment."

NTT is the former state-owned telephone company that was
privatized in 1985. It is already working with Microsoft on a
project to ensure compatibility between Microsoft At Work
(MAW) system software and F-Net, NTT's enhanced facsimile
network service. The project is designed to allow users of the
Microsoft Windows operating system and MAW-based applications
to use F-Net fax services such as multiple address, store/forward
and delayed send. Microsoft At Work is software designed to allow
telephones, fax machines, copiers and personal computers to
exchange information.

(Jim Mallory/19940323/Press & Reader Contact: Microsoft
Corporation, 206-882-8080)


(NEWS)(GENERAL)(SFO)(00033)

Newsbytes Daily Summary 03/23/94
PENN VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 23 (NB) -- These are
capsules of all today's news stories:

1 -> Japanese Ministry Network To Link With Internet 03/23/94 The
Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunication says it will
link its local area network (LAN) with the worldwide Internet
this May. Through this network, the Ministry will reportedly
provide the local news in English.

2 -> Japan - Proside Intros Pentium-Based PC 03/23/94 Japan-based
personal computer (PC) firm, Proside, has released a
Pentium-based PC costing 447,000 yen ($4,470), a relatively
low-cost for the Japanese market.

3 -> Epoch, Sybase Team Up On Client/Server Backup 03/23/94 Epoch
Systems Inc., has announced an agreement with Sybase Inc., of
Emeryville, California, to link backup products from the two
companies. The firms say the combination of their software will
be aimed at customers with enterprise-wide client/server
computing systems.

4 -> Delrina, AlphaNet Telecom Settle Dispute 03/23/94 Delrina
Corp., and AlphaNet Telecom Inc., have announced the settlement
of a dispute that arose out of joint work on fax mailbox
technology.

5 -> Cebit - Polaroid Claims Better Screen Filter 03/23/94
Polaroid has announced a new optical quality CP Universal filter
for computer screens. Known as the CP Universal I, the screen is
claimed to have a number of advantages over existing screens in
terms of optical quality, polarizing technology, and
anti-reflection coatings.

6 -> Cebit - Nokia Signs Turkish Mobile Phone Deal 03/23/94 Nokia
Telecommunications, the Finland-based telecommunications giant,
has secured the contract to extend the Turkish NMT 450 cellular
mobile telephone network. Officials at the Cebit Computer Faire
in Germany told Newsbytes that the company has now received an
order and will be proceeding "very soon."

7 -> UK - Accountancy Software Ends Up In British Jails 03/23/94
Tetra, which claims to be the leading Open System business
software supplier in the UK, has signed a UKP1,270 million
contract to supply software and services for the FOCUS project
prepared by HM Prison Service.

8 -> UK - Hewlett-Packard Intros Low-Cost Router 03/23/94
Hewlett- Packard (HP) has announced a low-cost router (at
UKP2,375) with built-in flash memory, advanced network
management, and "true plug-and-play" capabilities.

9 -> Cebit - Hungarian Firm Offers Anti-Virus PC Software
03/23/94 Most security companies at the Cebit Computer Faire,
which has been taking place in Hanover, are US, UK, and
European-based. However, the Hungarian Virus Buster Team was also
on hand presenting their new product -- the Virus Buster -- in
collaboration with other young Hungarian computer companies at
the show.

10 -> Cebit - Polish Firm Exhibits Electronic POS System 03/23/94
Elzab, a computer peripherals manufacturer hailing from Poland,
has unveiled a new electronic point-of-sale (EPOS) unit at the
Cebit Computer Faire in Germany. Known as the VDM 260, the EPOS
unit is claimed to be extremely competitive in pricing terms
against its Western equivalents.

11 -> Can Microsoft Crack Chinese O/S Market? 03/23/94 Microsoft
Chairman Bill Gates is in China this week to see if his company
can break into the Chinese computer market with its Chinese
version of Windows.

12 -> Motorola Intros New Printer Chip 03/23/94 Motorola has
introduced a new printer chip that can support eight
page-per-minute (ppm) printing at 600 dots-per-inch (dpi) on
laser printers.

13 -> CD Write-Once Drives To Reach 1Mil By 1998 - Survey
03/23/94 Verbatim, the company that makes the media for
write-once compact disc (CD) recorders (CD-R), claims that the
market will expand to over one million units by 1998. The CD-R is
not the same as a write-once, read-many (WORM) drive, but offers
similar storage capacity. The CDs written by the drive can be
read by standard compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM) drives.

14 -> Timereporter Time/Billing Software For Newton PDA 03/23/94
If you have a Newton Messagepad personal digital assistant (PDA)
and you need to keep track of your time, Iambic Software's
Timereporter may be the answer. The company said the product
works using the intelligence built into the Newton to report time
and expenses for billing purposes.

15 -> India - Wipro Readies Pentium DX4 PCs 03/23/94 Wipro
Infotech Ltd., is likely to be ready with machines based on 90
megahertz (MHz) and 100 MHz Pentium processors by the end of this
month. The company is planning to launch the models in May.

16 ->  ****Spectrum's Caserta Takes Leave, Following Arrests
03/23/94 Peter Caserta will take a leave of absence as president
of Spectrum Information Technologies Inc., following the arrest
of one Spectrum employee and four executives of Caserta's former
company, Paradigm Group, reportedly on charges of mail fraud and
conspiracy.

17 -> Shapeware Intros Drawing Program For MS Office 03/23/94
Shapeware Corporation has announced Visio Express for Microsoft
Office, a "drag and drop" drawing program designed specifically
for users of the Microsoft software suite.

18 -> Microsoft Court Ruling Tightens Software Copyright 03/23/94
The US District Court, Eastern District of New York, has issued a
ruling that tightens the copyright protection of software.

19 -> Delrina Signs Joint Venture With Germany's Zweckform
03/23/94 Canadian software developer Delrina Corp., and business
forms maker Zweckform, of Holzkirchen, Germany, have announced a
joint venture.

20 ->  ****NAB - Silicon Graphics In Sprint Network Deal 03/23/94
 Silicon Graphics has launched a private Internet network for
video developers through an agreement with Sprint.

21 -> NAB - Aldus Intros Hitchcock Editor For Mac 03/23/94 CoSA,
a division of Aldus, has announced a non-linear editor for the
Macintosh, called Hitchcock.

22 -> NAB - EON Gets First Interactive TV Station 03/23/94 At a
press conference during the National Association of Broadcasters'
show, EON Corp., announced that Allbritton Communications'
WJLA-TV in Washington, DC will be the first station to go
interactive with its system.

23 -> NAB - Cyphertech Starts Anti-Piracy Broadcast Tests
03/23/94 Cyphertech will start offering its anti-piracy and
logging system in Los Angeles as early as May, the company said
at the National Association of Broadcasters show.

24 -> NAB - WavePhore Delivers Data Broadcasting Pitch 03/23/94
The National Association of Broadcasters offered its members a
technical lecture on data broadcasting from WavePhore, a company
which leads in the technology. WavePhore's data broadcasting
decoder is called the TCT1/4 video broadcast modem.

25 -> NAB - C-Cube Intros MPEG II Decoder Chips 03/23/94 C-Cube
Microsystems has announced the CL9100, a video decoder chip that
can handle Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) I and II, as well
as the Digicipher II system from General Instruments. The
announcement came at the National Association of Broadcasters
show.

26 ->  ****Windows NT In Big Navy CAD Contract 03/23/94
Microsoft's Windows NT 32-bit operating system, preinstalled on
Intergraph TD-2 workstations, will be included in the US Navy's
$422 million contract for computer-aided design (CAD) equipment.
The announcement, made at the FOSE trade show for federal
government users in Washington, DC.

27 ->  ****Infocorp Survey Says Many NetWare Users Unhappy
03/23/94 While it appears Novell's Netware network operating
system (NOS) has a peaceful stronghold in the client/server NOS
world, CI Infocorp (CII) claims changes may be in store. Novell's
lack of responsiveness in subsequent Netware versions have
Netware users looking hard for alternatives, according to the
market research firm.

28 ->  ****Seybold - First Public Demo Of WordPerfect Envoy
03/23/94 WordPerfect performed the first public demonstration of
its WP Envoy cross-platform document management and viewing
software, and also previewed new search and retrieval software
code-named "Dewey," in a press conference at Seybold Boston '94.

29 ->  ****Seybold - Microsoft Demos Chicago 03/23/94 On the
first day of Seybold Boston '94, Microsoft presented one of the
first public demos of its Chicago front-end to Windows, along
with updated delivery plans for Chicago, Daytona, and Cairo.

30 ->  ****Seybold - Adobe/Aldus Discuss Merger, Intro Products
03/23/94 At Seybold Boston '94, Adobe and Aldus have elaborated
on plans to merge the two companies that were announced last
week. In addition, each vendor has separately announced an array
of new products that include Version 4.0 of the Adobe Premiere
video editing application for Macintosh and a new "open
architecture software" for Aldus' tools for the prepress
industry.

31 ->  ****More On Novell's Wordperfect Acquisition 03/23/94 When
Novell officials announced the company's acquisition of
Wordperfect Corporation, they said the future of computing lies
in the networking of personal computers. "All applications will
move toward a networked application," predicted Novell Executive
Vice President John Edwards.

32 -> Microsoft & Japan's NTT In Multimedia Network Deal 03/23/94
Microsoft Corporation and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Corporation (NTT) have announced an agreement in principle to
jointly develop services that will allow users to access
multimedia information on a communications network.

(Ian Stokell/19940323)