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Data General Signs Two Storage Deals 03/24/94
WESTBORO, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- Data General
has announced two alliances aimed at boosting its share of the
market for storage peripherals for IBM and other vendors' hardware.
The deals are with Memorex Telex N.V. and with Amdahl Corporation.

Under the terms of the deal, Memorex Telex will resell Data
General's Clariion storage technology as part of its new 3937 Multi-
Platform Disk Array product line, which is meant to work with IBM
AS/400 midrange computers. The companies also said they will work
together to further advance data storage and data management
technologies.

This will be Data General's first run at the AS/400 market, company
spokesman Jim Dunlap told Newsbytes. The company has previously sold
its storage systems to IBM mainframe users through a relationship
with StorageTek Corp.

Data General has also sold storage products to users of IBM's RISC
System/6000, Sun Microsystems' workstations, and Novell's local-area
networks. Memorex Telex also plans to sell the Data General products
in those markets.

Data General said it expects the Memorex Telex deal to bring it
about $75 million in revenue over the next three years.

At the same time, Data General announced a deal with Amdahl, the
Sunnyvale, California, maker of IBM-compatible mainframes. Amdahl
will also resell the Data General storage systems to the RS/6000,
Sun, and Novell NetWare markets, as the Amdahl Series 3000.

This alliance also calls for Data General and Amdahl to collaborate
on advanced data storage and data management technologies. Initial
development work will focus on improving the performance and
availability of the Clariion products when used with Sun
workstations, the companies said.

The disk systems use Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)
technology and incorporate a number of fault-tolerant features.
They can support from five to 40 gigabytes (GB) of data in a single
cabinet.

Data General, a supplier of servers, storage products, and services,
reported revenues of $1.1 billion in fiscal 1993.

(Grant Buckler/19940324/Press Contact: Jim Dunlap, Data General,
508-898-6546; William Stewart, Amdahl, 408-746-6076; Gary Wright,
Memorex Telex, 408-957-2132)


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NAB - A Quick Look Back 03/24/94
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- For fans of the
Information Superhighway, the National Association of Broadcasters'
show is more fun than Comdex, this bureau can report.

To handle 30 frames per second of 525-line moving pictures, computer
makers have to deal with incredible complexity. This show was
testament to their success. There were five vendors offering
functioning, capable non-linear editing machines, based on IBM PCs,
the Apple Macintosh, and Silicon Graphics workstations.

A half-dozen more were promising solutions "real soon now," at
prices as low as $2,000 for the software. Mainframe vendors like IBM
and Hewlett-Packard rubbed elbows with broadcast experts like BTS
and Simi Valley in the race to create video servers. Servers are
seen as a way to sell pay-per-view movies, but they also can be used
by newsrooms, ad agencies, and post-production houses.

Broadcasters, as a group, are willing to spend big for what they
like, and they tend to reach consensus, Newsbytes notes. A favored
solution can win a big, big market share. Sony dominates the markets
for cameras, tape recorders, and other broadcast equipment -- they
brought 900 employees to this show, one for every 70 attendees. Avid
and its Media Composer, a non-linear editor introduced just a few
years ago, is said to hold an 80 percent market share in that fast-
growing market.

The Media Composer, by the way, sells for about $75,000 and up. Its
power as a solution stems from the fact that editors can find any
clip in an instant, cutting and re-cutting as much as they want.
Before the Avid, video editors had to use million-dollar online
suites, where they'd spend hours spinning tapes, at hundreds of
dollars an hour. Non-linear editing is not only cheaper, but it's
lots of fun.

Broadcast markets are also a boon to hard drive makers. A 2 gigabyte
drive might hold just 10 minutes of uncompressed, 30 frame per
second video. BTS' video server is basically a disk array -- you
pile drives on top of one another, then stack new piles next to
them. Once you start using a compression scheme -- JPEG, MPEG,
"S"PEG, or a half-dozen other proprietary systems -- you can store
hundreds of hours of video on such a system.

Compression is an asymetrical process -- it takes a lot more power
to compress than to de-compress a video file. And this is really the
heart of the Information Superhighway. It may take a really powerful
computer to compress a 10 million bit/second feed. But you can put
such a computer at a cable head-end of phone company switching
center, then offer consumers a box containing just a few chips -- a
processor, a de-compression chip set or decoder and some memory
chips, along with software providing a user interface.

That box is your next cable set-top converter, your on-ramp to the
Information Superhighway. The best thing is, your cable company may
not be renting you that box. It could be your phone company, through
a Bell Atlantic service called Stargazer. It could even be your
electric company -- power outfits have been laying fiber cable along
their rights of way for decades for load management, and might like
to carry your phone calls or ESPN, too.

You may have noticed by now that this has run a bit far afield from
the concerns of TV station managers, the heart of the NAB audience.
The average station manager is a middle-aged male whose main
concerns are finding something to run against "Oprah!" at 4 PM and
an anchor team that can beat the competition at 6.

In his spare time he moans about how he's going to find something to
run against "Wheel of Fortune" at 7:30. The strength of this show
lies in the staff of the NAB itself, which is fighting hard to see
that its members don't become roadkill on that Information
Superhighway, and is awfully uncertain whether it's succeeding.

That feeling, that their industry could be executed tomorrow,
concentrates their minds enormously, and has made this show a
technologist's dream.

(Dana Blankenhorn/19940324)


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CD-ROM Market To Continue Boom 03/24/94
SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- The boom in
compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM) drives is expected to
continue stimulated by faster drives, lower prices, and multimedia.

A 63 percent growth rate is expected to put 13.6 million CD-ROM
drives into the market by the end of 1994 and a total of 29.6
million units are expected by 1999, according to Robert Abraham and
Raymond Freeman, authors of the Freeman "Optical Storage Outlook"
Report.

In 1993, CD-ROM drive shipments were up 141 percent over 1992
levels, with revenue growing slower at 55 percent, accounted for by
falling drive and software prices. "A CD-ROM drive has practically
become an impulse buy," said Bob Abraham.

Faster doublespeed drives with sub-400 millisecond access times led
the market in 1993. Quadrupled speed CD-ROM drives are currently in
development and are expected to the market this year, though Freeman
contends doublespeed drives will continue to dominate the market
through 1995.

"Multimedia applications, a steady flow of new titles, Photo CD, and
declining hardware, software, and replication costs continue to
stimulate vigorous demand for CD-ROM technology," said the authors.

The biggest demand for drives is in the computer-attached or
internal CD-ROM drives, where computers come with the drives already
installed. In 1993, the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) CD-ROM
market reached $1.2 billion, but that figure is expected to expand
at a 14 percent compound growth rate to reach $2.8 billion by 1999.

Asian manufacturers, who already have a foothold due to their
existing production of CD audio drives, are expected to continue to
dominate CD-ROM manufacturing. Japanese electronics giant Matsushita
gained 24 percent of the revenue in 1993, followed by Sony with 23
percent, and Toshiba and Mitsumi with 14 percent each.

(Linda Rohrbough/19940324/Press Contact: Bob Abraham, Freeman
Associates, tel [phone], fax [phone])


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Absolut Vodka Virtual Art Museum 03/24/94
LA CRESCENTA, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- The best
Absolut Vodka ads since 1980 have been published in a virtual
"museum" using the 3-D Virtual Zoomscape developed by multimedia
publisher Knowledge Adventure.

Created by the Ogilvy & Mather Direct Interactive Marketing Group
under contract to ad agency TBWA, the Absolut Museum offers users a
"virtual" tour through 210 of the best art works commissioned for
Absolut. The Absolut Museum allows users to navigate through the
virtual museum using the arrow keys or a mouse.

The paintings are by artists Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Kenny
Schart, African-American artists, and 26 paintings by then-Soviet
artists. Also featured are designs by John Saladino, Adam Tihany,
and Mario Buatta and fashions by Josie Natori, Todd Oldham, and
Richard Tyler.

Users can click on the works of art, and each work of art offers
something different when clicked on. Most works offer additional
information about the artist or the art, but a couple of video clips
and a few surprises can be found, company officials said.

While company representatives assured Newsbytes the museum is not
pornographic, only those over 21 will be allowed to purchase the 3
disk set, available for $29.95. A toll-free number has been set up
for orders and the officials said net proceeds of the sales will be
donated to the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR).

Knowledge Adventure, headquartered in La Crescenta, California, said
part of the significance of the project is the title was created
using its publishing engine. The company is a developer of
multimedia educational software products, including 3-D Dinosaur
Adventure, Space Adventure, and Science Adventure.

One analyst told Newsbytes that the titles begin to look very much
the same after a while, which he felt was a drawback. However, that
doesn't seem to have hurt the acceptance of the products as the
company won the 1994 Software Publishers Association with 3-D
Dinosaur Adventure, and its Dinosaur Adventure and Space Adventure
were selected Best Elementary Education and Best Secondary Education
Program, respectively, by the 1993 Software Publishers Association
Awards Program.

(Linda Rohrbough/19940324/Press Contact: Dave Gobal, Knowledge
Adventure, tel [phone], fax [phone]; Public Contact,
Absolut Museum Orders, 800-ABS-OLUT/PHOTO)


(NEWS)(GENERAL)(LON)(00005)

Cebit - Hewlett-Packard Budget Plain Paper Fax Machines 03/24/94
HANOVER, GERMANY, 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- Hewlett-Packard has announced
two budget plain paper fax machines. According to HP, both units,
which were unveiled at the Cebit Computer Faire in Germany this
week, use the company's inkjet technology to offer quality, but low-
cost, printed output that will not fade.

According to HP, The Fax-900 machine provides the benefits of a
plain paper fax at the price of a traditional thermal device. It is
suitable for work groups within large organisations, small
businesses or professional home offices, and costs UKP 850.

The Fax 950 machine is, HP says, an affordable alternative for users
who want more advanced functionality, such as advanced broadcasting,
polling or expandable memory. It is priced at UKP 1,010.

"HP is in an excellent position to provide thermal fax users with a
better alternative through inkjet technology," said Richard Bee,
HP's Fax Programme Manager. "Inkjet printing is an affordable and
very reliable system that produces quality fax output. According to
Dataquest, customers are making a rapid transition from thermal fax
machines to plain-paper devices, if the price is right, plain-paper
is an obvious choice over thermal."

According to Bee, Dataquest reports that HP was the number two
vendor of plain paper fax machines in 1992, "a position HP quickly
established since the introduction of its first stand-alone fax in
June 1991," he said.

HP claims it has been able to keep costs low for these new fax
machines by leveraging the inkjet technology it uses in its popular
HP DeskJet family of printers.

According to Bee, since these faxes use plain paper, customers do
not have to stock special, more expensive office supplies. The
quality of the document produced is greatly enhanced. Faxes produced
on thermal paper tend to curl, fade quickly, and turn yellow.

With plain paper, faxes no longer need to be copied onto plain-paper
by users who want to write notes on them, archive them or fax them
to someone else. This saves labour and copying charges, HP claims.

Another benefit of plain-paper faxes is that these devices help
limit office waste. Because thermal paper is coated with chemicals,
it cannot be recycled. More and more organisations are now recycling
plain white paper.

Users can also save on phone line costs, HP claims, by scanning
documents first into the machine's memory. Documents sent from
memory use less phone- line time and can be stored to be sent during
hours when phone rates are lower. With 256 kilobytes (K) of memory,
the HP FAX-900 can store up to 12 pages.

The memory of the Fax 950, meanwhile, which has a telephone handset
and a confidential mailbox feature, comes standard with 512K,
expandable to 2.5 megabytes (MB) -- enough to store up to 148 pages,
HP claims.

Both fax machines are front-loading, with straight through paper
path and industrial design making it easier to spot incoming faxes
and reducing the likelihood of paper jams. Both models can also make
plain paper copies.

The basic Fax 900 scans at 200 dots per inch (dpi) for sending and
can receive at 300 dpi. Scanning includes 64 halftones to meet the
needs of enhanced graphics and photo transmission. The machine can
be programmed with up to 50 speed-dial numbers.

The Fax 950 uses a 300 dpi scanner and printer for high resolution
and can be programmed to send while a received fax is being printed.
It also has the capability to make copy reductions and uses 64
halftones for improved graphic output. It also has a confidential
mailbox which stores a fax and prints on password command. The unit
can be programmed with up to 99 speed-dial numbers and can broadcast
a message to, or poll from, up to 111 locations.

(Steve Gold/19940324/Press & Public Contact: Hewlett-Packard - Tel:
[phone])


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Cebit - Hewlett-Packard Preparing For Easy Networking 03/24/94
HANOVER, GERMANY, 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- Claiming to be expanding its
NetServer PC family, Hewlett-Packard has announced new and enhanced
network servers as well as a number of server management products.

The company claims that the new midrange HP NetServer LF Series and
the enhanced high-end HP NetServer LM Series are easy-to-manage file
and application servers that provide fast, reliable performance at
aggressive prices.

HP has also announced the latest release of HP NetServer Assistant,
Version 2.0, and the new HP Remote Assistant server management card.
These products complete a flexible, well-integrated network
management solution that meets a wide variety of requirements for
network administrators.

"We've responded to our customers' requests by designing server
management products that will help lower overall network management
costs," said Joanne Talfourd-Cook, HP PC Product Manager.

"Our continuing commitment to the server market is illustrated by
our expanded HP NetServer family. HP paved the way for a new class
of high-performance workgroup servers with its Pentium processor-
based NetServers," she added.

The HP NetServer LF Series servers are designed for medium- to
large-size workgroup environments where performance, investment
protection and management ease are important. Claiming to provide
fast, general-purpose file and application handling with a flexible
growth path, the HP NetServer LF Series servers feature the new
peripheral component interconnect (PCI) local bus technology and the
new IntelDX4 and Pentium CPU technology.

The HP NetServer LF Series include two fast-throughput PCI slots,
for improved I/O performance and maximum expandability, in addition
to seven standard EISA slots. The HP NetServer LF Series models will
be available with the 66MHz Intel486DX2, 100MHz IntelDX4 or the
66MHz Pentium processor.

The HP NetServer LF and LM Series both make use of HP's power
cabinet and modular interior design to provide extensive
expandability and easy access to components for installation,
upgrades and maintenance.

In addition, an optional EISA disk array, with a dual Fast SCSI-2
(small computer system interface type 2) controller, offers hot-swap
and hot spare disk drive capabilities to allow continuous usage of
the server and increase uptime.

HP NetServer Assistant and HP NetServer Remote Assistant provide
complementary functionality to keep servers up and running even when
administrators are not there.

HP Remote Assistant consists of an intelligent EISA card and
software that create a powerful remote solution for server
management. HP Remote Assistant's independent computer-within-a-
computer technology gives administrators anytime server access,
regardless of a server's state.

Unattended remote management, including the ability to power cycle;
continuous environment and server hardware monitoring/logging; and
automatic alerting and recovery capabilities are also offered with
HP Remote Assistant. Through the optimised and bundled Windows based
communication software, or a generic ANSI terminal emulator, HP
Remote Assistant allows for easy communications to the EISA card.

According to officials with the company, all HP NetServer products
and accessories are certified with leading network generating
systems including Novell NetWare, Microsoft OS/2 LAN Manager,
Windows NT, IBM OS/2, SCO Unix, and Banyan Vines. HP offers a
NetServer Compatibility Guarantee under which purchase price is
refunded if an HP NetServer does not work with an industry-standard
peripheral.

The majority of the new HP NetServer products are expected to begin
shipping in April. The HP NetServer LM Series with Pentium 90MHz
Processors are expected to ship in May along with an expected ship
date of June for the HP NetServer LF Series containing the 100MHz
IntelDX4 chip.

Prices for the new HP NetServers are as follows:

[] HP NetServer LF, 486/66 M1050 UKP 4,400
[] HP NetServer LF, 486/Pentium 66 M1050 UKP 6,510
[] HP NetServer LM, 486/Pentium 60 M1050 UKP 6,370
[] HP NetServer LM, 486/Pentium 66 M1050 UKP 7,210

(Steve Gold/19940324/Press & Public Contact: Hewlett-Packard - Tel:
(UK) [phone])


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NAB - The DOS Solution For Video Editing 03/24/94
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- Our last stop at the
National Association of Broadcasters' show was to the suite of
TouchVision Systems of Chicago, in the Desert Inn, for a
demonstration of its D/Vision non-linear editor.

Stefan Bruck, a D/Vision dealer from New York, demonstrated the
system, editing what had been tape from a roller blade race on an
IBM compatible 486-66 with 8 megabytes (MB) of RAM. To run D/Vision,
you'll also need an ActionMedia II card from IBM with a capture
option piggy-backed on it, and one or more Adaptec SCSI drivers for
extra hard-drive storage.

You can use as many as three such cards, with seven drives hanging
off each card, and 3.5 gigabits of storage per card. Using
TouchVision's Super RTV compression algorithm, you can store five
hours of low-resolution footage on a single one of these drives.

After Bruck created a short film with multiple audio tracks on the
machine, we talked with TouchVision president Bruce Rady. He started
by noting that D/Vision doesn't use Windows.

"Windows 3.1 is incredibly slow for video. It's extremely hard to
play synchronous video and audio with high quality on a PC. When you
add the complicating factor of editing video and audio in a
professional way, Windows 3.1 won't cut it," he said.

But Rady hasn't given up on Microsoft: "Lots of interesting things
are happening in Windows," he said. "Video for Windows files
under NT gets around a lot of the slowness. Hopefully Chicago
will also. Many of our concerns are less concerned with the
operating system than performance," he added.

"There are reasons to go to Windows," he continued. "The biggest is
the standardization it implies. One nice thing about Video for
Windows is it defines a file format, with a wide range of
compression algorithms. By going to Windows you can edit many
different file formats. The other thing is you have a true 32 bit
operating system. That's a major advantage over DOS. You get rid of
a lot of constraints you have in DOS. That gives benefits."

"By the time Chicago comes out, we'll have products for it," he
concluded. "But that will take time. NT needs a few upgrades" to be
useful. Meanwhile, TouchVision has over 2,000 customes under MS-DOS
to take care of, including CBS News.

TouchVision trails Avid by a wide margin in market share, but Rady
insisted the two products aren't really competitive. An Avid may
cost $75,000 and up. A complete TouchVision system, including
hardware, might go for $15,000. And Rady said this about his
hardware platform. "Is the PC platform behind in digital video,
behind Silicon Graphics and the Mac? Yes. Is it catching up?
Definitely. Price-performance wise it's always been the leader."

On the subject of compression schemes, Rady got philosophical.
"Every time you decompress and recompress you get a generational
loss. The ultimate ideal solution is to decompress only at the end,
for the end user.

"It's a lot more complicated than even intelligent engineers say,"
he continued, speaking of compression in particular and the
Information Superhighway generally. "The technology is there.
Integrating it together is non-trivial. Making it economical is also
non-trivial." But it's the non-trivial problems which are the most
fun.

(Dana Blankenhorn/19940324/Press Contact: Bruce Rady, TouchVision
Systems, 312/714-1400; FAX: [phone])


(NEWS)(UNIX)(LON)(00008)

Cebit - IDT Announces 133MHz RISC Processor 03/24/94
HANOVER, GERMANY, 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- Integrated Device Technology
(IDT) has unveiled a 133 megahertz (MHz) version of its Orion R4600
reduced instruction set computing (RISC) processor.

Company officials at the Cebit Computer Faire, where the new chip
was launched this week, claim that The R4600 processor is the first
chipset to bring together the combination of very high performance,
dynamic power management, and low price for Windows NT and high-end
embedded applications. The company claims that the R4600 offers much
better than Pentium performance at less than 486DX prices.

"The press and customer feedback since the R4600 was introduced at
Fall Comdex has been exceptional," explained Larry Jordan, IDT's
vice president of marketing.

"The R4600 is experiencing the fastest acceptance rate and bookings
growth we have ever seen with any of our microprocessors. By
extending the performance and flexibility of the R4600, we preserve
our significant price/performance lead versus Pentium, Power PC and
the newly announced Pentium P54C."

The R4600 is billed as a full 64-bit implementation of the MIPS III
instruction set architecture found in the popular R4000PC and
R4400PC, but uses a shorter internal pipeline (5 stages vs. 8
stages) which results in fewer stalls and, therefore, higher
performance. According to company officials, it contains the best
primary cache available in any MIPS processor: 16 kilobytes (K) for
instructions and 16K for data, using a write-back protocol and two
way set-associativity.

The address and data pipeline in the version introduced last
November, the R4600-100, runs at 100MHz, while the newly announced
version runs at 133MHz, twice the clock speed of the fastest
production Pentium on the market and a third greater than the P54C-
100MHz.

Initially packaged in a 179-pin PGA with the same pinouts as the
R4000/R4400PC, the IDT R4600-100MHz is offered at $240 in quantities
of 10,000 pieces. The 133MHz version is available for $370 in
quantities of 10,000 pieces.

(Sylvia Dennis/19930323/Press & Public Contact: IDT - Tel: (US) 408-
727-6116)


(NEWS)(TRENDS)(LON)(00009)

Cebit - Digital Claims Austrian Division Doing Well 03/24/94
HANOVER, GERMANY, 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- Commenting on European sales
of its PCs in the light of the recession that has been sweeping
Europe this past few years, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) has
revealed that its Austrian division has been doing well.

Speaking at the Cebit Computer Faire, which has just closed in
Germany, Michael Aichinger, a press spokesman for the company, said
that the Austrian division of DEC had boosted sales from just 1,000
PCs in 1992 to 10,000 units in 1993.

Aichinger added that the company has no plans to rest on its laurels
either. Plans are in hand to boost sales still further during the
current year to between 15,000 and 20,000 units. The sales boost is
caused by a combination of aggressive marketing and pricing, the
company claims.

The Austrian sales surge at DEC means that the company's Austrian
operations have been spared the axe on jobs which seems to have
affected other divisions around the world. During 1993, DEC Austria
generated a profit of 70 million Austrian Shillings, despite the
fact that DEC's worldwide operations generated a net loss.

(Sylvia Dennis/19940324/Press & Public Contact - DEC (US) - Tel:
508-841-6286)


(NEWS)(IBM)(LON)(00010)

Cebit - IBM/Lotus Announces New OS/2 Sales Agreement 03/24/94
HANOVER, GERMANY, 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- Lotus Development and IBM has
announced an extension of their partnership to include the full
spectrum of Lotus products for IBM's OS/2 2.1 operating system.

According to officials with Lotus at the Cebit Computer Faire, which
has just closed in Germany, the agreement extension follows on from
the June 1991 announcements that Big Blue was to distribute Lotus
Notes and cc:Mail packages. This new extended agreement includes
Lotus Smartsuite.

John Landry, senior vice president and chief technology officer oath
Lotus, claims that Smartsuite for OS/2 has been designed to take
full advantage of the 32 bit functionality, such as multitasking and
faster navigation between applications.

@In our view, OS/2 is an ideal platform for future application
development. The capabilities of OS/2 complement our products. As
you know, Notes was first offered on the OS/2 operating system," he
said.

Commenting on the agreement extension, Lotus Development's director
of European sales, said that OS/2 is growing in importance in
Europe, especially in the corporate sector. "There are about three
million OS/2 licences installed worldwide, primarily among large
customers who reply on the powerful functionality and features of
IBM's 32 bit operating system," he said.

"The extension of our co-operative agreement means that our complete
range of OS/2 software is being sold and supported by IBM. Analysts
are predicting rapid market growth for OS/2 over the coming years,"
he added.

(Steve Gold/19940324/Press & Public Contact: Lotus Development GmbH
- Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone])


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(LON)(00011)

Cebit - Digital Mobile Telephony In The Spotlight 03/24/94
HANOVER, GERMANY, 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- Although Germany's digital
mobile telephone networks are way ahead of those found in the US and
UK, one of the biggest problems facing the European telecoms
administrations is the sheer cost and time it takes to build and
commission a cellular base station.

In cellular telephony, base stations are used at regular intervals,
typically at 5 to 30 mile intervals, to allow the relatively weak
transmissions from the handsets to be received effectively.

Motorola, claiming that it is well aware of this problem, has come
up with a new transportable base station, the Top Cell Radio Unit
(TRU) with fiber optic remote control. The unit, which can be
carried by two people, supports as many as 48 radio channels in a
three sector configuration.

Motorola officials at the Cebit Computer Faire in Germany, where the
unit was unveiled, claim that the system is ideal for use in urban
digital mobile telephony. The system can be set up to work at either
900 megahertz (MHz) (GSM) or 1,800MHz (DCS-1800) frequencies.

According to officials on the Motorola stand at Cebit, the TRU can
be operated remotely meaning that a base station could be installed
in a tunnel to give tunnel service, with the controlling TRU located
elsewhere, operating a small network of cellular base stations in a
star network configuration.

"As the emphasis within the cellular industry shifts towards
personal communications, the ability to provide dense urban coverage
is a key requirement for all operators," explained David Hughes,
corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola's European
cellular infrastructure division.

"TopCell has been designed to meet this need by allowing operators
to make use of sites where restrictions on space and access
previously precluded the use of conventional infrastructure
systems," he added.

(Steve Gold/19940324/Press & Public Contact: Motorola ECID - Tel:
[phone])


(NEWS)(APPLE)(LAX)(00012)

Splash Card Makes Color Copier Into Postscript Printer 03/24/94
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- Supermac, in
cooperation with Adobe Systems, is planning to introduce the Splash
card, a add-on board for the Macintosh that turns a Xerox Majestik
Color Series copier into a networked 400 dot-per-inch (dpi) color
Postscript printer.

The Splash card will connect to a full-size Macintosh Nubus slot.
The card incorporates a 40 megahertz (MHz) reduced instruction set
computing (RISC) processor and Adobe's CPSI that performs the
Postscript page description language rasterization function.

The card also includes an integrated image buffer large enough to
contain a full-page, 24-bit full-color image at 400 dpi and color
correction capabilities to ensure accurate and consistent color,
Supermac said.

Steve MacDonald, senior vice president and general manager of
Adobe's Systems Products Division said: "The combination of high
quality output and powerful color printing capabilities adds to the
appeal (of the Xerox color copiers)."

Xerox and its affiliates will be the exclusive marketers of the
Splash Mx card and the Xerox Majestik port kit. Retail pricing has
been set at $19,900 and the cards are projected for availability
beginning in April of this year.

Supermac, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, is known for its
digital video, accelerated color graphics cards, image-processing
accelerators, large screen color and gray-scale displays, and color
printers aimed at the Macintosh publishing market. Mountain View,
California headquartered Adobe Systems is known for its Postscript
page description language.

(Linda Rohrbough/19940324/Press Contact: Mike Wong, Adobe, tel
415-962-2197, fax [phone])


(NEWS)(TRENDS)(SFO)(00013)

Compaq Comes Top In Server/Superserver Survey 03/24/94
HOUSTON, TEXAS, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- The rise of the server,
and more recently, the superserver, is a direct result of the
current trend towards corporate computing downsizing from
centralized host-based networks towards distributed processing and
client-server architectures. And according to market research
company, International Data Corporation, the leader in both the
server and superserver markets is Compaq Computer.

International Data says that, in 1993, Compaq controlled 37 percent
of the server market worldwide, and 64 percent of the worldwide
superserver market.

According to the market research firm, the top five in the server
market were: Compaq, first with 37 percent; IBM, second with 32
percent; Hewlett-Packard, third with 10.0 percent; AST Research,
fourth with 6.2 percent; and Dell Computer, fifth with 5.0 percent.

Newsbytes notes that, in the superserver market, other companies
feature in the picture. Unlike servers, which are often just high-
powered personal computers (PCs), and are therefore dominated by the
high-profile PC manufacturers, superservers are far more specialized
and have more complex architectures.

In the superserver market the top five were: Compaq, first with a 64
percent share; Advanced Logic Research, second with 7.7 percent;
Tricord, third with 6.7 percent; NetFrame, fourth with 6.4 percent;
and AST Research, fifth with 5.0 percent.

In other Compaq news, the company has outlined its efforts with
Novell designed to "accelerate the development of NetWare
multiprocessing (MP) technology."

Compaq says it has "committed significant resources" to help Novell
define the Distributed Parallel Processing (DPP) hardware
requirements for NetWare 4 (Novell's high-end network operating
system), and to "identify and understand system architecture,
scalability and performance of Compaq servers with multiprocessing
capabilities."

Compaq says that teams of engineers will help Novell development
NetWare multiprocessing technology and test NetWare 4, along with
providing system performance analysis. They will also help develop
support software for Compaq products. Compaq and Novell first signed
an Enterprise Computing Partnership agreement in September, 1993.

Novell is the undisputed NOS leader in the market. According to
International Data, in 1993, 66 percent of network nodes worldwide
ran under NetWare servers.

(Ian Stokell/19930324/Press Contact: John Sweney, 713-374-0484,
Compaq Computer Corporation)


(NEWS)(IBM)(LAX)(00014)

Quarterdeck Ships Desqview/x 2.0 03/24/94
SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- Quarterdeck
Office Systems is shipping the latest version of Desqview/x. The
company says that version 2.0 of its niche market multitasking
graphical user interface (GUI) product adds speed, new networking
support, and symmetrical network printing in addition to allowing
users to work with local and remote applications for DOS, Microsoft
Windows, Unix, and other X platforms.

Quarterdeck claims it has reworked the Win-x portion of the product
that allows Microsoft Windows to become an X-client so users can run
Windows applications in the X-windows environment. The result is
improved performance and the ability to cut and paste between
Microsoft Windows and other X-windows applications, the company
maintains. In addition, the company claims version 2.0 allows the
personal computer (PC) to use the resources of other X-windows
computers on the network and allows those X- window network users to
have full access to the PC running Desqview/x.

In addition, support for additional video cards, including S3 video
cards and video cards with a Video Electronics Standards Association
(VESA) basic input/output system (BIOS) as well as continuing
support for standard graphics displays such as the enhanced graphics
adapter (EGA), video graphics array (VGA), Super VGA, and IBM's
8514A.

Desqview/x 2.0 also supports networking protocol TCP/IP to
communicate with Unix systems, netbios to communicate with other
PCs, and IPX/SPX to communicate with Unixware computers. The
addition of symmetrical network printing capability means the
Desqview/x PC can print to its own printers, the printers on any
other Desqview/x PC, or the printers on any Unix workstation.

Users can also customize the look and feel of Desqview/x so it
conforms to the OSF/Motif or Open Look Unix GUI window managers,
offering users the same look and feel across the entire network.

Desqview/X 2.0 comes ready for remote computing, but requires the
addition of a network card. The suggested price is $275 and includes
the Quarterdeck TCP/IP Transport. Upgrades from earlier versions of
the product are free to those who purchased on or after February 1,
1994 and are $75 to other Desqview users.

Quarterdeck's main claim to fame was the PC memory management
products QEMM and QRAM, and Desqview was one of the first
multitasking products for DOS, which gave the company a strong
and loyal following among PC users.

However, the company has been struggling financially since Microsoft
introduced memory management capability in DOS 6.0. Quarterdeck's
stock prices (NASDAQ: QDEK) have fallen sharply in the last two
years from average prices of $22 per share in February of 1992 to an
average price of just under $3 per share in February of this year.
The company's first quarter results for its 1994 fiscal year showed
red ink on 24 percent lower revenues.

(Linda Rohrbough/19940324/Press Contact: Jeff Greenberg
Quarterdeck Office Systems, tel [phone], fax [phone];
Public Contact: Quarterdeck, 310-392-9851)


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(WAS)(00015)

MCI Tests Bandwith-On-Demand To Chile, Brazil 03/24/94
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 1994 MAR 24 (NB) - MCI, working with
COMSAT, is testing a bandwidth-on-demand service via the Intelsat
system to Chile and Brazil. The service will make 64 kilobit per
second voice, data and video service available.

"When fully developed in the future, the service will enable MCI
users to vary bandwidth in increments of 64 Kbps, switch circuits on
and off, and transmit to multiple locations," said Patricia Benton
of COMSAT.

COMSAT developed the bandwidth-on-demand technology. COMSAT is the
US signatory to the International Telecommunications Satellite
Organization (Intelsat). MCI is testing the service by working with
Chile's ChileSat and Brazil's Embratel. The service works together
with MCI's International 64 service, currently available to 18
countries.

"In 1985, we installed the first digital private line in Mexico,"
said Seth Blumenfeld, president of MCI International, "and now we
are the first to test a more advanced service--bandwidth-on-
demand."

MCI has been active in the Latin American market. Today, the company
says, it has more active digital and analog private line circuits to
Latin America than any other US carrier. The service will give
businesses the ability to do videoconferencing, send and receive
high-speed fax and data, and do imaging, all through Intelsat, the
Washington-based consortium of 131 countries that manages and
operates the global communications satellite system.

(Kennedy Maize/19940324/Contact: John Houser, MCI, 703-506-6092)


(NEWS)(GENERAL)(WAS)(00016)

Telepad Goes National With Reditec 03/24/94
RESTON, VIRGINIA, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- TelePad Corporation
has inked a nationwide distribution deal for its Telepad 3 high-end
notebook computer. Reditec, a Richardson, Texas, company that
specializes in the sale of mobile computing products and custom
software, will handle the Telepad 3.

Reditec has 14 independent regional distributors, with 40 sales
offices and more than 300 outside sales representatives, providing
nationwide sales coverage in the US and Canada. According to
Telepad, of Reston, Va., Reditec has committed to selling more than
1,000 Telepad 3 units, a deal worth more than $3 million.

Announcing the deal, Gary Page, executive director of Reditec, said:
"Reditec is a national organization, but membership is on a regional
basis." "This means that every one of our specialists in the field
knows the customers well, and is in touch with them. We are excited
about bringing TelePad 3 -- a product that redefines computing in
the field -- to our customers," he added.

"Reditec invests a great deal of expertise in technical support, on-
site maintenance, software support and hardware integration," said
Ron Oklewicz, Telepad president and CEO, "so our decision to team-up
with the company was based on more than its impressive national
network."

Telepad 3, which is being manufactured by IBM, will be on the market later
this year. The machine features voice recognition integrated with a pen
interface and a detachable keyboard. It offers three docking bays that can
hold 500 MB hard drives, a CD-ROM drive, digital camera, cellular phone, a
module for global positioning, and slots for PCMCIA cards.

(Kennedy Maize/19940324/Contact: Maryann Karinch, Telepad, 202-785-
1188)


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(SFO)(00017)

Pacific Bell Enters Electronic Publishing 03/24/94
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- There seems
to be an endless amount of talk about the arrival of the
Superhighway of Information, but where is the magical optical fiber
that will pave the road?

Pacific Bell has opened a subsidiary, Pacific Bell Information
Services, to enter into the computer world and eventually travel the
famous Superhighway. Pacific Bell Information Services is
introducing Re:Source Network Solutions, a CD-ROM based magazine
specializing in network hardware, software and services.

The quarterly CD is an interactive catalog, magazine and purchasing
system devoted to those individuals who are involved directly in
network hardware, software and services buying decisions. The first
edition is dedicated to network product users of Apple's computer
line.

Hal Logan, publisher of Re:Source, told Newsbytes: "With the
constant flood of new products and information that a buyer has to
deal with, we decided to create a means of delivering network
information that would ease the overload. Seeing the success that
Apple had with their Network Solutions Guide, we chose to work with
the editor, Mansoor Zakaria of MZ Media, to create our CD magazine."

"A subscriber has three choices on the opening screen: they may go
to the magazine section to read informative articles on technical
issues, tested products, installations and a number of other current
topics; they may choose the catalog section and browse through the
more than 850 entries of products and services; and they may create
a shopping list for the third option of purchasing. Products may be
purchased directly or we offer a quoting service at no additional
cost," he added.

In the future, the company plans to offer an online service with
more current and rapidly changing topics and prices that will
complement their Re:Source CD,

This new business-to-business, subscriber-only CD quarterly is being
offered for $499 annually with site licenses and corporate rates
available. A special introductory rate for the first year is
currently $399, including an external CD-ROM drive, or $299 without
the drive.

And the Superhighway? Yes, it is close. In early 1995, Pacific Bell,
pursuant to their California First program, will have a test area
for the optical fiber system in Milpitas, California. Movies-on-
demand and many other consumer services are planned.

The California First program plans for 50% of the California
customer base to have optical fiber lines by the turn of the century
and the remaining 50% by 2,010.

(Patrick McKenna/19940324/Press Contact: Pat Meier, Pat
Meier Associates P.R., tel [phone])


(NEWS)(GENERAL)(SFO)(00018)

Networks Expo '94 Debuts In San Francisco 03/24/94
FORT LEE, NEW JERSEY, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- On April 19
through 21, Bruno Blenheim will highlight solutions in network
management, workgroup computing, client/server computing and ATM
(asynchronous transfer mode) demonstrations as part of their
Networks Expo '94.

Previously known as NetWorld with expositions in Boston and Dallas,
the show will offer tutorials, exhibits and seminars that cover the
latest network technology and services. Demonstrations of networking
technology will take place under the Tech Solutions Presentations
(TSP) pavilion developed by Dan Spiner, managing director of
Progressive Strategies, in conjunction with David Buerger, editor-
in-chief of Communications Week, for Networks Expo. The pavilion
will offer 16 daily demonstrations in 30 minute presentations of the
latest solutions available in the networking environment.

The show will display, for the first time in San Francisco,
Blenheim's ShowNet, an exclusive working, show network that allows
attendees to view and use mission-critical applications, including
e-mail, and show information, as well as offering a direct
connection to Internet.

With more than 20 stations placed throughout the show floor, ShowNet
offers a hands-on experience for all participants. Gupta, IBM, Cisco
Systems, Artisoft, Cascade, Chipcom, Lotus, Newport Systems,
NetManage and RightFax are among the more than 100 companies
participating in Networks Expo '94.

William C. Keiper, president and CEO of Artisoft, will deliver a
keynote address entitled "The Emergence of Peer Server Technology"
on Tuesday, April 19, 9:00 a.m.

Pre-registration on or before April 8 offers substantial discount on
all entry passes that will begin at $30 advance for one day,
exhibits-only, ($60 advance for three days), with a full conference
advance fee of $395. Additional pricing for a group of tutorials on
April 18 is available upon request.

(Patrick McKenna/19940322/Press Contact: Mark Haviland,
Networks Expo, tel [phone]; Public Information, tel 800-
829-3977 or 201-346-1400)


(NEWS)(IBM)(SYD)(00019)

IBM Announces Uniloc distribution 03/24/94
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- IBM Australia has started
feeding the market with its dealerless Uniloc software distribution
scheme. The Australian-developed Uniloc software padlock works by
interrogating a PC's configuration to develop a unique signature.

Aspects looked at include installed hardware and BIOS versions. If
the signature does not match the pattern stored in the Uniloc
program, the software won't run. The lock can be set so that a demo
version of the software will run on unauthorised machines, then when
the user decides to purchase, a phone call will give them an
authorization code -- providing their credit (or credit card) is
good.

Uniloc leverages the awesome distribution power of software piracy
(copying, to most people). IBM Australia's third party software
manager Sally Rogers told of a teacher who had a Unilocked program.
managing to distribute forty copies of it over one weekend.

Now, instead of being raided by the Business Software Association
for piracy, distributors of Unilocked software can earn frequent-
flyer-like points for each registration of copied software. These
UniPoints can be redeemed in free software from vendors and reward
distributors.

The first Unilocked product - WordPerfect's Presentations - was
given away to people who attended PC'94 show in Sydney last week.
IBM says around 60 mainstream software products will be Unilocked
and 'seeded' to the public during the next two months.

(Computer Daily News and Paul Zucker/19940324)


(NEWS)(IBM)(SYD)(00020)

Using IBM To Win A Car Race - Hopefully 03/22/94
SURFERS PARADISE, AUSTRALIA 1994 MAR 22 (NB) -- IndyCar driver Hiro
Matsushita will be using some new hi-tech aids in Sunday's
Australian Grand Prix race in Surfers Paradise -- a holiday resort
city in the state of Queensland. He will use radio telemetry and IBM
Thinkpad mobile computers to improve the car's performance and
safety.

Matsushita, the first Japanese driver on the IndyCar circuit
recently signed a three year contract with Dick Simon Racing to
drive the #22 Panasonic/Duskin Special Lola Ford/Cosworth XB which
will be prepared for all 1994 races with ThinkPads. The majority of
drivers in this event will be using Thinkpads, including Raul
Boesel, Scott Goodyear, Robby Gordon, Arie Luyendyk and Willy T
Ribbs.

Their cars are equipped with a data acquisition system developed by
Pi Research of Indiana, that constantly and simultaneously monitors
and records digital and analogue data such as forward and lateral G-
forces, oil pressure and temperatures, fuel mix, throttle, braking,
suspension travel, speed, revolutions per minute and so on.

During testing and practice, as the car passes the pits it can
transmit to the team's timing stand. This is passed to the ThinkPad
running Pi Research's analysis software which then processes and
displays the data on the screen. The crew then refer to this when
deciding what adjustments to make to the car.

While in the pits, the data can be transferred by cable. Brian
Harrel, data acquisition manager for Matsushita's car, said it is
usual to talk to the driver and get his feelings then combine this
with the collected data before making adjustments to the car.

The software can also help the driver review his performance by
showing how the car travelled around the track, on an on-screen
map. It shows him all measurements, either in real-time or slowed
to closely study a particular part of the course. Because of the
computer's portability, the results can be reviewed anywhere and
at any time, such as in a hotel room.

(Ngaire Moyes and Paul Zucker/19940324)


(NEWS)(UNIX)(LAX)(00021)

 ****Sun Buys Out Of Novell Unix, Buys Into Netware 03/24/94
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- Sun
Microsystems has bought itself out of a licensing agreement with
leading personal computer (PC) networking vendor Novell to the tune
of $82.5 million. The company has also said its Sunsoft subsidiary
has licensed Novell's popular Netware technology and hopes to
implement a networking Unix operating system on the PowerPC.

Novell obtained the licensing agreement Sun made with American
Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) when it bought Unix operating system
maker Unix System Laboratories (USL) from AT&T.

Sun says that the agreement now releases it from distribution and
licensing restrictions for its Solaris Unix operating system as well
as technology components included in a prior 1987 agreement with
AT&T. Sun asserts it wanted the flexibility to distribute or modify
all existing and future Sun-licensed products using Unix code. While
Sun and Novell have worked together before, Sun said it wanted a
"partner" relationship with Novell, rather than a "vendor-purchaser"
relationship.

As an additional part of the agreement, Sunsoft is licensing
Novell's popular Netware networking software technologies, including
Netware client, the server portion called Netware for Unix, and the
IPX/SPX networking protocol.

Sun said it expects the agreement to mean lower prices to its
customers. Edward Zander, president of Sunsoft said: "By gaining
control of our own technology, we can immediately offer Solaris as
the most cost-effective 32-bit rightsizing environment... We have
more flexibility to price our products competitively and this gives
us the opportunity to gain significant incremental volume."

"This really benefits our hardware OEM (original equipment
manufacturer) partners, volume end users and anyone interested in
our... implementation of Unix System V in source or binary code, as
well as the technology components that comprise Solaris," he added.

Sun is the Unix leader on the desktop with the 32-bit Solaris
operating system on an estimated 1.5 million units. Solaris runs now
on reduced instruction set computing (RISC) platforms as well as
Intel-based complex instruction set computing (CISC) hardware such
as the X86 and Pentium microprocessor chips. However, the company
has already announced it is a year away from an implementation of
Solaris for the new PowerPC microprocessor developed by Apple
Computer, IBM, and Motorola.

Novell has purchased the DR-DOS operating system for PCs from
Digital Research in addition to its purchase of Unix, but its
biggest success has been in networking. Estimates are the company
has as much as two-thirds of the networking market with IBM and
compatible PCs.

Sun asserts that as the industry moves to client-server computing,
the ability to seamlessly talk to personal computers is becoming
more important. Sunsoft hopes to integrate a personal computer-local
area network (PC-LAN) environment into a heterogeneous Unix-based
enterprise with its licensing of Netware.

(Linda Rohrbough/19940324/Press Contact: Carol Sacks, Sunsoft,
415-336-1462, fax [phone])


(NEWS)(IBM)(LAX)(00022)

 ****Versatile CHIPS VGA Controller In Ambra Notebook 03/24/94
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- Chips and
Technologies (CHIPS) has announced that its versatile 65530 video
graphics array (VGA) flat panel controller has been incorporated
into a line of notebook computers from Ambra Computer, a wholly
owned subsidiary of IBM.

The Ambra SN and N 486-based series contain the new 65530 single
chip controller with its design integrated enough to serve for both
monochrome and color flat panel displays as well as Cathode Ray Tube
(CRT) monitors, according to Keith Angelo, vice president of
marketing for CHIPS. The company claims all of its the 655xx
controllers are optimized for minimum power consumption, chip count,
and board space as well as supporting a variety of bus options.

To help original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) incorporate popular
applications, such as Microsoft Windows, the device supports VGA-
compatible basic input/output system (BIOS) utilities and
application drivers provided by CHIPS or by third parties.

David B. Middleton, president and chief executive officer of AMBRA
said: "The CHIPS flat panel controller plays a vital role in
enabling all of our systems to offer the high level of viewing
quality demanded by serious mobile computer users. At the same time,
the device's versatility helped us to differentiate each model for a
specific user profile."

CHIPS also has its 65510 chip, a member of the 655xx family,
incorporated into the Hewlett-Packard Omnibook and the Gateway
monochrome notebook.

(Linda Rohrbough/19940324/Press Contact: Annie Gladue, Chips and
Technologies, 408-434-0600; Matthew Quint, Matthew Quint Public
Relations for CHIPS, tel [phone], fax [phone])


(NEWS)(UNIX)(LAX)(00023)

 ****Intel CEO Says Windows NT Could Bury Unix 03/24/94
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- Andrew Grove,
president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the world's largest
semiconductor manufacturer Intel, says that Microsoft Windows NT
could push Unix out of the picture and become the world's dominant
operating system. The lack of unification in the Unix community is
the biggest reason for its potential failure to Windows NT, Grove
said as the keynote speaker at Uniforum in San Francisco this week.

"Unix faces a focused competitor who needs to spend very little time
in committee meetings," Grove said. "The Unix community must respond
by picking up its own pace, or bit by bit, in the same gradual way
that it ascended to the throne, Unix will fade, split and be
replaced in the center of the castle."

Pointing to two popular Unix systems, Intel's CEO noted that the
Santa Crux Operation (SCO) Unix was on 375 approved systems lists
and Sunsoft Solaris appeared on 34 approved systems lists. However,
after just 12 months, Windows NT has an approved systems list of at
least 1,700. He also pointed to desktop interoperability, where the
marketplace is dominated by Microsoft products and to the speed with
which Microsoft was able to execute new desktop architectures.

Grove said that Intel is still committed to use of Unix internally
because Windows NT still doesn't provide reliable, non-stop
operation. Carlene Ellis, Intel's vice president for information
technology said in an exchange with Grove during the keynote: "We
have to have 24 by 7 by 52. This is the single biggest area of
concern and we need improvement in error handling, fault isolation
and facilities like inbuilt check point restart."

Ellis also added that Intel is looking for standard configuration
management tools that are compatible with each other, instead of
incompatible, and storage management with good, automated,
intelligent back up facilities.

While Windows NT doesn't have those components yet, it is nearly
there, according to Grove. He said Intel is closely evaluating NT
and "we're very impressed."

"Consolidation (among Unix suppliers) is crucial, rather than
splitting. My plea as a customer is for you to set aside your
differences and deliver a multi-vendor, enterprise capable operating
system that will ensure that our investment in Unix has a life,"
Grove remarked.

Networking vendor Novell owns the core of Unix, a technology it
gained when it bought Unix System Laboratories (USL) from American
Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) in 1992. However it is unlikely
Novell will provide any leadership to the Unix community.

Just this month, Sun Microsystems paid Novell $82.5 million to buy
its way out of a 1987 USL licensing agreement owned by Novell. Sun
asserts it wanted control of its Sun-licensed products using Unix
code and said it wanted a "partner" rather than a "vendor-purchaser"
relationship with Novell.

Stan Schatt, Director of Local Area Network Services for Computer
Intelligence Infocorp. (CII) said the problem with Novell no one is
at the helm setting direction. Schatt pointed to Novell's recent
announcement it intends to acquire PC wordprocessing maker
WordPerfect Corporation, as an indication Novell may have too
many irons in the fire.

(Linda Rohrbough/19940324/Press Contact: Sharon Israel, Uniforum
Press Office, tel [phone], fax [phone]/PHOTO)


(NEWS)(IBM)(TOR)(00024)

Reality Offers Money Network for Quicken 03/24/94
KING OF PRUSSIA, PENNSYLVANIA, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- Reality
Technologies has announced Reuters Money Network for Quicken Users,
a version of its personal investing service designed to work with
the Quicken financial planning software from Intuit.

Reuters Money Network is an online service that provides access to
stock quotes and related information such as Reuters and Dow-Jones
news feeds and Standard & Poor's reports. Reuters Money Network for
Quicken Users is software for Microsoft's Windows environment that
works with Quicken, reading a user's portfolio information and using
the online service to retrieve relevant information.

Reuters Money Network does not provide investment advice, explained
Wendy Grubow, a spokeswoman for Reality Technologies. It allows
users to specify the investments they want to follow, which may be
those in which they have investments or simply those they think are
interesting. Reality's software retrieves stock quotes and relevant
news, and can graph the performance of stocks.

The software can also be set up to alert the user on the occurrence
of a specific event, such as the price of a stock reaching a certain
price or rising more than a certain amount in one day. Reality said
it plans to offer online trading facilities on the Money Network
soon.

Reuters Money Network for Quicken requires an 80386-based PC or
better, with four megabytes (MB) of memory, DOS 3.3, Windows 3.1,
and a Hayes-compatible modem able to transmit at least 2,400 bits
per second. It works with Quicken 2.0 or 3.0. The suggested retail
price is $24.95. The software is shipping now in North America,
Grubow told Newsbytes.

Reuters America, a New York-based unit of the worldwide news and
information service, bought 79 percent of Reality Technologies in
January. The online service, formerly called Smart Investor by Money
Magazine, was renamed at that time. Reality claims the online
service has 25,000 subscribers.

(Grant Buckler/19940324/Press Contact: Wendy Grubow, Reality
Technologies, 215-277-7600 ext. 216, fax [phone])


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(TOR)(00025)

Delrina Launches Fax Mailbox Service 03/24/94
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- Freed by the
settlement of a legal dispute with Toronto-based AlphaNet Telecom
Inc., Delrina has lost no time in announcing its own fax mailbox
service. Delrina Fax Mailbox will be offered in North America
initially, company spokesman Shelly Sofer told Newsbytes, though
subscribers will be able to reach their mailboxes from anywhere in
the world.

Fax Mailbox subscribers will have their incoming faxes sent to a
fixed toll-free telephone number, which will store them so the
recipients can retrieve them from wherever they are. Within North
America, subscribers will be able to dial a toll-free number to pick
up their faxes -- the same number senders use to send them.

To retrieve faxes, a subscriber can use a personal computer running
Delrina's WinFax Pro 4.0 fax software. Or, he or she can call the
system from an ordinary telephone and have faxes forwarded to a
convenient fax machine.

Delrina is providing the service using communications services
provided by Pacific Bell, Sofer said. The company said it is
pursuing other co-operative ventures, and also plans to integrate
the service with its full line of fax products, including the entry-
level WinFax Lite software.

The service is to be available within 30 days, and will be promoted
in WinFax Pro 4.0 packages. The cost will start at $9.95 per month,
with international access and paging notification priced at an extra
$4.95 each, plus 25 cents per pager notification. Delrina is also
offering voice mailboxes.

Earlier this week, Delrina and AlphaNet Telecom announced the
settlement of a dispute in which AlphaNet had accused Delrina of
misappropriating its fax mailbox technology. Delrina had been barred
from launching a fax mailbox service pending the resolution of that
dispute. The companies did not disclose the terms of their
settlement.

(Grant Buckler/19940324/Press Contact: Shelly Sofer, Delrina,
416-441-4702)


(NEWS)(TRENDS)(BOS)(00026)

 ****Seybold - Apple Exec Sees Industry At A Crossroads 03/24/94
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- Computer
publishing stands at a crossroads right now, with greater
productivity, the need to deal with intellectual property rights,
and network transmission of electronic documents a few of the
directions lying ahead, said David C. Nagel, senior VP and general
manager of AppleSoft, in a keynote speech at Seybold.

From the fifteenth century onward, the publishing industry has been
"critically linked" to technology, but never before has
technological change proceeded so rapidly, Nagel explained.

So far, computers have been less than a perfect tool for publishers,
acknowledged the senior VP, citing problems that have included slow
and costly application development, "poor printing management," lack
of crossplatform compatibility, and input/output (I/O) bottlenecks,
to name a few.

"But the prognosis for productivity is good," asserted Nagel. CISC
(complex-instruction-set-computers) has given way to RISC (reduced-
instruction-set-computers), and the power of PC processors is
perpetually growing, he added.

It is now possible to buy a Power Macintosh for under $1600 that
produces the kind of power that used to be available only in a
mainframe, he pointed out. In another few years, the power of a
supercomputer will probably be available within a PC, he predicted.

At the same time, the GUI (graphical user interface) will be
replaced by the AUI ("active user interface"), projected the senior
VP of AppleSoft. "The GUI is easy to use, but the user does the
work," he clarified. "In the AUI, the system will do the work."

Meanwhile, networked applications will become increasingly
collaborative. "The information highway won't be where all the
action is," Nagel maintained. Instead, much of this activity will
take place on commercial networks.

"But the Internet will turn out to be a very effective place to
experiment," he added. Individual users will not be alone in
experimenting, according to Nagel. Companies will tend to try out
their ideas on the public network first, before going ahead with
commercial implementations, since use of the Internet is free of
charge to everyone in the US.

Multimedia is another area that is moving along fast, indicated
Nagel. In the UK, he reported, Apple recently completed a test,
conducted in association with British Telecom and Oracle, that
involved transmission of QuickTime 2.0 video to consumers' set top
boxes.

With QuickTime 1.0, he admitted, video has came out looking like a
"postage stamp" unless you use "an expensive accelerator." But in
QuickTime 2.0, which is slated for release later this year, high
resolution video is achieved at 30 frames per second in large
windows, with all processing done in software.

To prove his point, Nagel showed the packed Seybold audience some
QuickTime 2.0 clips, demonstrating a few rock videos first on a
Power Macintosh, and then on one of the set top boxes used in the
UK QuickTime trial.

Members of the crowd chuckled when they saw a screen for the set
top trial that read, "Welcome to the Mac." Acknowledged Nagel:
"The interface (for the trial) was very Mac-like."

Despite all this industry progress, though, other difficulties
could lie ahead, he said. Quoting from an article in Wired magazine
by John Perry Barlow, a musician with the Grateful Dead, the Apple
exec warned that the industry must watch against the devaluation of
"knowledge workers" that could ensue if ideas can be indefinitely
reproduced.

But on the technical side, he said, the computer publishing
industry can look forward to the following enhancements, among
others, to be made by Apple over the coming year: a new user
interface, faster I/O, and support for the OpenDoc crossplatform
document interchange specification, the ColorSync color calibration
model, and QuickDraw GX, a set of advanced graphics and printing
features.

(Jacqueline Emigh/19940324/Reader and press contact: Apple
Computer, 408-996-1010)


(NEWS)(GENERAL)(TOR)(00027)

JetForm Updates Forms Software 03/24/94
WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- JetForm has
announced the first shipments of Version 4.0 of its forms software
suite for Microsoft Corp. Windows, with versions for several other
platforms to follow.

JetForm released JetForm Design 4.0, JetForm Filler 4.0, and JetForm
Server 4.0. Company officials said the update includes new tools for
enterprise-wide forms automation, including forms administration
tools in JetForm Design and JetForm Server and new work-flow
features in JetForm Filler.

JetForm Design and Server 4.0 add features meant to help forms
administrators maintain version control over forms across networks.
The Forms Dictionary in JetForm Design 4.0 lets designers catalogue
forms and form elements (such as logos, fields, and calculations)
for easy retrieval. If a form object is modified, reporting
functions show which existing forms need to be updated and where
they are.

JetForm Server 4.0 has an optional add-on module called the
Distribution Director. Used with the Forms Dictionary, the company
said, it lets a designer distribute an updated form to appropriate
users via electronic mail and have it automatically installed in the
proper directory.

JetForm Server 4.0's Tracking Director can be used to query a
tracking database on criteria such as form type, originator, and
subject. The Fax Director provides server-based forms faxing. The
Filler module also has new work-flow enhancements, including bundled
imaging software and support for multiple views. Similar to Post-it-
Notes, JetNotes let each person on an e-mail routing annotate the
form.

Also new is support for Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) 2.0,
allowing other applications to be called from any form. JetForm
Design 4.0 includes drivers compliant with Open Database
Connectivity (ODBC) specifications, providing access to dBase IV,
Paradox, Oracle Btrieve, SQL Server, IBM DB2, Sybase and other
database software. The software has also been made easier to use,
JetForm said.

All three modules are shipping in English for Windows now, said
Langley Steinert, director of marketing at JetForm. The 4.0 releases
for DOS and Apple Macintosh clients, and for Unix, Windows NT, and
OS/2 servers, are expected to ship in a couple of months, Steinert
told Newsbytes, as are translations into other languages. The
company also sells a server version for Digital Equipment Corp.
VAX/VMS systems. Plans for the 4.0 upgrade of that software remain
uncertain, Steinert said, though version 3.1 continues to ship.

Design 4.0 is priced at $495. Filler 4.0 costs $129 for a single-
user license and $99 per user for a five-user license, with
additional volume pricing available on request. Server 4.0 lists at
$795 for five users and $1,695 for 20 users, with additional volume
pricing available upon request. JetForm has distributors worldwide,
Steinert said.

(Grant Buckler/19940324/Press Contact: Langley Steinert, JetForm,
617-647-7700; Public Contact: Jetform, 800-538-3676)


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(WAS)(00028)

Globalstar Goes After Satellite Wireless Telecoms 03/24/94
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- Count a new, well-
financed competitor among the groups looking for Federal
Communications Commission approval for satellite-based wireless
communications. Globalstar, L.P., is a new limited partnership put
together by Loral that includes a long list of telecommunications
heavy hitters and plans for a constellation of 48 low- Earth-
orbiting satellites offering low-cost voice, data, fax and position
locating services around the world.

The FCC is currently reviewing several applications for the portion
of the spectrum that Globalstar and others want for satellite mobile
communications+. Globalstar is the second startup announced this
week aiming for this market.

The first was the announcement of the startup of Teledesic, with
funding from William Gates of Microsoft and McCaw Cellular's Chris
McCaw. Globalstar says it will begin service in 1998 and will be
worldwide, serving more than 33 million subscribers, by 2012.
According to New York-based Loral, the cost to the user will be
"substantially below existing satellite rates and at only a modest
premium over existing cellular services." Loral said the Globalstar
partnership offerings, at $275 million a pop, were oversubcribed.

Among those who are on board are Alcatel of Paris, France; DACOM
Corporation, Seoul, Korea; Deutsche Aerospace AG, Munich, Germany;
Hyundai Electronics Industries Company, Seoul, Korea; Loral
Corporation; and the Vodafone Group, Newbury, England. AirTouch
Communications, formerly PacTel, os San Francisco, will be a partner
subject to its spin off from Pacific Telesis Group.

Other investors are Alenia Spazio S.p.A, Rome, Italy; QUALCOMM, San
Diego, Calif.; and Space Systems/Loral, Palo Alto, Calif., Loral
satellite-manufacturing subsidiary. The Globalstar partners will
provide service in 33 countries, including 14 countries in Europe,
eight in Asia, five in Africa and six in North and South America.

Loral says the key to Globalstar's cost competitiveness is an
advanced digital transmission technology called code division
multiple access developed by QUALCOMM, which allows crisp reception
and efficient use of the existing radio spectrum.

The system will be compatible with existing wireless communications
technology, including time division multiple access, the European
Global System for Mobile Communications digital standard, and analog
systems. The system will route calls through the world's existing
public and private cellular and fixed telephone networks, making the
system transparent to both caller and receiver.

Users, including those who now use cellular roaming services and
those without any telecommunications services in developing nations,
will be able to make and receive calls with handheld mobile and
remote fixed-site telephones from anywhere to anywhere in the world.

Bernard Schwartz, chairman and chief executive officer of Loral,
said, "Globalstar is one of the most exciting and cost-effective new
offerings in the telecommunications industry. Its low cost and
accessibility, made possible by advanced technology, opens up the
information superhighway even to the remotest parts of the world."

Globalstar's proposal appears less ambitious than the $9 billion
venture Teledesic has in mind. The Teledesic plan is to launch a
global swarm of 840 small, low-Earth-orbit satellites. The total
capital required for Globalstar is $1.8 billion and the partnership
says it has already raised that amount.

Globalstar also appears to be farther along than Teledesic in
building its venture. Space Systems/Loral is developing the
satellites and will be responsible for ground and space station
operations. Loral will be designing and integrating the satellite
operation control center and the telemetry, tracking and command
stations. Alcatel Espace is responsible for the design and delivery
of 56 Globalstar payload modules.

QUALCOMM will design the gateways and ground operations control
centers that will allow subscribers to use the Globalstar system and
communicate worldwide using an interface with existing public
switched and PTT networks. It also is designing the small,
lightweight hand-held telephones that will be able to operate on
either advanced digital or current cellular systems.

(Kennedy Maize/19940324/Contacts: Gerard Corbett, Loral, tel 212-
697-1105; Richard Grannis, QUALCOMM, tel [phone])


(NEWS)(UNIX)(WAS)(00029)

Cray OS Win DOD Security Rating 03/24/94
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- After a four-year
evaluation, Cray Research has won a "red book" security rating from
the Defense Department for its Trusted UNICOS operating system, A
Unix variant.

Cray becomes the first supercomputer firm to complete the National
Security Agency's "trusted product evaluation program" and win the
DOD rating. The red book designation means Cray supercomputers
running the Trusted UNICOS can operate in secure or "trusted"
networks at US government sites.

Cray systems from the EL departmental supercomputers to the top-of-
the-line C90 can all run on Trusted UNICOS. "This higher-level red
book rating means that our systems meet the even more stringent
security requirements needed to interoperate in trusted network
configurations," said Paul Falde, Cray's project leader for Trusted
UNICOS.

He said that winning this status also has implications for
industrial and commercial environments, where network security has
become a concern with the increased use of distributed computing.
Trusted UNICOS is a special configuration of the newest release of
the UNICOS operating system UNICOS 8.0. UNICOS is Cray's Unix-
based,Posix-compliant operating system first available a decade ago.
Cray Research started the trusted evaluation in Jan. 1990.

(Kennedy Maize/19940324/Contact: Mardi Larson, tel [phone])


(NEWS)(GENERAL)(SFO)(00030)

Telescan Announces Interactive Competitive Golf 03/23/94
HOUSTON, TEXAS, U.S.A., 1994 MAR 24 (NB) -- Telescan, in conjunction
with Access Software announced what it claims is the first
interactive computer golf game that allows for controlled play and
scoring.

Offering awards and a competitive pro leader board, The Links Tour
is developed very much like the PGA and LPGA tours and follows
similar rules and conditions. Played off-line, this Windows, gender
inclusive tour offers weekly tournaments that are national and
regional.

Participation in the regionals allows a player to accumulate points
towards qualification for the Pro Tour. The Links Tour uses Access
Software's Links 386 Pro game and Telescan's Computer Sports
Network.

According to Telescan, The Links Tour is unlike other online golf
games or tournaments in that Telescan downloads conditions such as
pin placement and course conditions and then takes control of the
game so that the player may not start over or change a particular
shot until the game is reported back into the Telescan network.

Speaking with Newsbytes, David L. Brown, chairman and CEO of
Telescan, said, "Until now, there has been no means of controlling
players scores; in a tournament, a player could start over and over
until they got a score they were satisfied with. The Links Tour
takes control of the player's computer so that only one game may be
played and then reported to our network. This develops a true sense
of competition and allows a player through success in regional
tournaments to reach the Pro level and then compete in the national
tour."

Running for the calendar year, the Pro Tour rewards top players
according to ranking and all players may customize their clothes,
upload a GIF (computer photo) and meet other players online.

"We offer private games, as well, that online members can arrange
amongst themselves in small parties. The service also allows for e-
mail between players and the tour is available for all ranges of
player-ability at a particular level of tournament play. As much as
possible we try to parallel the PGA guidelines and rules," said
Brown.

The cost of play is based on a $5 entry fee and a logon fee of 50
cents to $1.25 domestically per logon. International participation
is available to any member with access to Sprintnet. A typical game
will cost about $8 with approximately 5 logons.

Online time is limited to only a few minutes of download and upload
time. Membership to The Links Tour includes the software, player's
manual, membership card and access numbers for a onetime cost of
$25. The game requires an 80386 or higher processor, 2 megabytes
(MB) of RAM, a hard disk and a modem.

(Patrick McKenna/19940324/Press Contact: Richard Ames,
Telescan, tel [phone])


(NEWS)(GENERAL)(LON)(00031)

Newsbytes Daily Summary 03/24/94
LONDON, ENGLAND, 1994 MAR 24 (NB) --   These are capsules of all
today's news stories:

1 -> Data General Signs Two Storage Deals 03/24/94 Data General has
announced two alliances aimed at boosting its share of the market for
storage peripherals for IBM and other vendors' hardware. The deals are
with Memorex Telex N.V. and with Amdahl Corporation.

2 -> NAB - A Quick Look Back 03/24/94 For fans of the Information
Superhighway, the National Association of Broadcasters' show is more
fun than Comdex, this bureau can report.

3 -> CD-ROM Market To Continue Boom 03/24/94 The boom in compact disc
read-only memory (CD-ROM) drives is expected to continue stimulated by
faster drives, lower prices, and multimedia.

4 -> Absolut Vodka Virtual Art Museum 03/24/94 The best Absolut Vodka
ads since 1980 have been published in a virtual "museum" using the 3-D
Virtual Zoomscape developed by multimedia publisher Knowledge
Adventure.

5 -> Cebit - Hewlett-Packard Budget Plain Paper Fax Machines 03/24/94
Hewlett-Packard has announced two budget plain paper fax machines.
According to HP, both units, which were unveiled at the Cebit Computer
Faire in Germany this week, use the company's inkjet technology to
offer quality, but low- cost, printed output that will not fade.

6 -> Cebit - Hewlett-Packard Preparing For Easy Networking 03/24/94
Claiming to be expanding its NetServer PC family, Hewlett-Packard has
announced new and enhanced network servers as well as a number of
server management products.

7 -> NAB - The DOS Solution For Video Editing 03/24/94 Our last stop
at the National Association of Broadcasters' show was to the suite of
TouchVision Systems of Chicago, in the Desert Inn, for a demonstration
of its D/Vision non-linear editor.

8 -> Cebit - IDT Announces 133MHz RISC Processor 03/24/94 Integrated
Device Technology (IDT) has unveiled a 133 megahertz (MHz) version of
its Orion R4600 reduced instruction set computing (RISC) processor.

9 -> Cebit - Digital Claims Austrian Division Doing Well 03/24/94
Commenting on European sales of its PCs in the light of the recession
that has been sweeping Europe this past few years, Digital Equipment
Corporation (DEC) has revealed that its Austrian division has been
doing well.

10 -> Cebit - IBM/Lotus Announces New OS/2 Sales Agreement 03/24/94
Lotus Development and IBM has announced an extension of their
partnership to include the full spectrum of Lotus products for IBM's
OS/2 2.1 operating system.

11 -> Cebit - Digital Mobile Telephony In The Spotlight 03/24/94
Although Germany's digital mobile telephone networks are way ahead of
those found in the US and UK, one of the biggest problems facing the
European telecoms administrations is the sheer cost and time it takes
to build and commission a cellular base station.

12 -> Splash Card Makes Color Copier Into Postscript Printer 03/24/94
Supermac, in cooperation with Adobe Systems, is planning to introduce
the Splash card, a add-on board for the Macintosh that turns a Xerox
Majestik Color Series copier into a networked 400 dot-per-inch (dpi)
color Postscript printer.

13 -> Compaq Comes Top In Server/Superserver Survey 03/24/94 The rise
of the server, and more recently, the superserver, is a direct result
of the current trend towards corporate computing downsizing from
centralized host-based networks towards distributed processing and
client-server architectures. And according to market research company,
International Data Corporation, the leader in both the server and
superserver markets is Compaq Computer.

14 -> Quarterdeck Ships Desqview/x 2.0 03/24/94 Quarterdeck Office
Systems is shipping the latest version of Desqview/x. The company says
that version 2.0 of its niche market multitasking graphical user
interface (GUI) product adds speed, new networking support, and
symmetrical network printing in addition to allowing users to work
with local and remote applications for DOS, Microsoft Windows, Unix,
and other X platforms.

15 -> MCI Tests Bandwith-On-Demand To Chile, Brazil 03/24/94 CI,
working with COMSAT, is testing a bandwidth-on-demand service via the
Intelsat system to Chile and Brazil. The service will make 64 kilobit
per second voice, data and video service available.

16 -> Telepad Goes National With Reditec 03/24/94 TelePad Corporation
has inked a nationwide distribution deal for its Telepad 3 high-end
notebook computer. Reditec, a Richardson, Texas, company that
specializes in the sale of mobile computing products and custom
software, will handle the Telepad 3.

17 -> Pacific Bell Enters Electronic Publishing 03/24/94 There seems
to be an endless amount of talk about the arrival of the Superhighway
of Information, but where is the magical optical fiber that will pave
the road?

18 -> Networks Expo '94 Debuts In San Francisco 03/24/94 On April 19
through 21, Bruno Blenheim will highlight solutions in network
management, workgroup computing, client/server computing and ATM
(asynchronous transfer mode) demonstrations as part of their Networks
Expo '94.

19 -> IBM Announces Uniloc distribution 03/24/94 IBM Australia has
started feeding the market with its dealerless Uniloc software
distribution scheme. The Australian-developed Uniloc software padlock
works by interrogating a PC's configuration to develop a unique
signature.

20 -> Using IBM To Win A Car Race - Hopefully 03/22/94 IndyCar driver
Hiro Matsushita will be using some new hi-tech aids in Sunday's
Australian Grand Prix race in Surfers Paradise -- a holiday resort
city in the state of Queensland. He will use radio telemetry and IBM
Thinkpad mobile computers to improve the car's performance and safety.

21 ->  ****Sun Buys Out Of Novell Unix, Buys Into Netware 03/24/94 Sun
Microsystems has bought itself out of a licensing agreement with
leading personal computer (PC) networking vendor Novell to the tune of
$82.5 million. The company has also said its Sunsoft subsidiary has
licensed Novell's popular Netware technology and hopes to implement a
networking Unix operating system on the PowerPC.

22 ->  ****Versatile CHIPS VGA Controller In Ambra Notebook 03/24/94
Chips and Technologies (CHIPS) has announced that its versatile 65530
video graphics array (VGA) flat panel controller has been incorporated
into a line of notebook computers from Ambra Computer, a wholly owned
subsidiary of IBM.

23 ->  ****Intel CEO Says Windows NT Could Bury Unix 03/24/94 Andrew
Grove, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the world's
largest semiconductor manufacturer Intel, says that Microsoft Windows
NT could push Unix out of the picture and become the world's dominant
operating system. The lack of unification in the Unix community is the
biggest reason for its potential failure to Windows NT, Grove said as
the keynote speaker at Uniforum in San Francisco this week.

24 -> Reality Offers Money Network for Quicken 03/24/94 Reality
Technologies has announced Reuters Money Network for Quicken Users, a
version of its personal investing service designed to work with the
Quicken financial planning software from Intuit.

25 -> Delrina Launches Fax Mailbox Service 03/24/94 Freed by the
settlement of a legal dispute with Toronto-based AlphaNet Telecom
Inc., Delrina has lost no time in announcing its own fax mailbox
service. Delrina Fax Mailbox will be offered in North America
initially, company spokesman Shelly Sofer told Newsbytes, though
subscribers will be able to reach their mailboxes from anywhere in the
world.

26 ->  ****Seybold - Apple Exec Sees Industry At A Crossroads 03/24/94
Computer publishing stands at a crossroads right now, with greater
productivity, the need to deal with intellectual property rights, and
network transmission of electronic documents a few of the directions
lying ahead, said David C. Nagel, senior VP and general manager of
AppleSoft, in a keynote speech at Seybold.

27 -> JetForm Updates Forms Software 03/24/94 JetForm has announced
the first shipments of Version 4.0 of its forms software suite for
Microsoft Corp. Windows, with versions for several other platforms to
follow.

28 -> Globalstar Goes After Satellite Wireless Telecoms 03/24/94 Count
a new, well- financed competitor among the groups looking for Federal
Communications Commission approval for satellite-based wireless
communications. Globalstar, L.P., is a new limited partnership put
together by Loral that includes a long list of telecommunications
heavy hitters and plans for a constellation of 48 low- Earth- orbiting
satellites offering low-cost voice, data, fax and position locating
services around the world.

29 -> Cray OS Win DOD Security Rating 03/24/94 After a four-year
evaluation, Cray Research has won a "red book" security rating from
the Defense Department for its Trusted UNICOS operating system, A Unix
variant.

30 -> Telescan Announces Interactive Competitive Golf 03/23/94
Telescan, in conjunction with Access Software announced what it claims
is the first interactive computer golf game that allows for controlled
play and scoring.

(Steve Gold/19940324)