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Apple Ships Power Macs To China 06/02/94
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- Apple Computer
has confirmed that it has begun shipping Power Macintosh computers
to the People's Republic of China. The shipments began Wednesday,
June 1, and are part of Apple's continuing effort to penetrate the
region.

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has said China is a
market to watch from a computing retail standpoint.

CI/Infocorp analyst Matt Sargent told Newsbytes that there are
few direct market research resources in China and that while
there is lots of hype about the potential of the Chinese market,
most of that information is speculative. China is progressing,
Sargent said, and is probably economically on the verge.

Apple sources told Newsbytes the company has been active in
China since it opened a representative office in Beijing in
September and began working with a Chinese distributor there.

Before that, Apple was selling its products through three Hong
Kong-based distributors into the Chinese market. As for the
number of shipments, Apple representatives who could comment
were unavailable by Newsbytes' press time.

The reduced instruction-set computing (RISC)-based Power
Macintosh was introduced by Apple in the US in March of this
year. Apple said in its second quarter earnings statement it had
shipped 145,000 of the PowerPC-based units by April 1, 1994.

(Linda Rohrbough/19940601/Press Contact: Nancy Keith Kelly,
Apple Computer, tel [phone], fax [phone])


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Cadre Upgrades ObjectTeam & Teamwork Tools 06/02/94
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- Cadre has
issued upgrades of its year-old ObjectTeam tools for object-
oriented (00) application development, as well as its long-time
Teamwork tool suite for structured analysis and modeling methods
automation.

ObjectTeam, a product first launched in May, 1993, and used mainly
by large corporations, supports both the Slaer-Mellor and Rumbaugh
et al object-oriented methodologies, according to a company
spokesperson. Teamwork, on the other hand, offers a range of
development tools targeted primarily at smaller and mid-sized
companies, he told Newsbytes.

The new Teamwork 6.0 adds two new modules, along with structured
query language (SQL) generation capabilities for the Informix and
Ingres relational database management systems (RDBMS),
enhancements to the reverse engineering and metrics functions in
the Teamwork/Ada module, and improved document generation.

The new modules are Teamwork/ShortCut (SC) 6.0 for rapid
prototyping, and Teamwork/Dynamic Analysis (DA) 6.0 for "dynamic
model verification" and debugging, the spokesperson said.

The major enhancement in the new ObjectTeam 2.0 is the addition of
"recursive design" support to the Shlaer-Mellor method, he noted.
This feature allows automatic generation of executable C++ code
from C code in the analysis model of an application, he explained.
Previously, developers had to generate C++ code manually.

ObjectTeam 2.0 for Shlaer-Mellor also adds the ability to
"automatically derive and generate" a state transition table, one
of the diagrams specified by the Shlaer-Mellor method.

In addition, developers can now generate documentation in
Department of Defense (DoD)-2167A, DoD-498 (draft), International
Standards Organization (ISO) 9000, and Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standard formats.

The new Teamwork/SC module is designed to let developers quickly
create prototypes, run these prototypes based on "real-time
requirements," and fix any problems before coding begins.

Teamwork/DA is aimed at letting developers troubleshoot and
estimate the performance of structured analysis real-time models
to ward off potential bottlenecks and deadlock conditions.

New capabilities in Teamwork Ada include RevAda, for automatic
generation of graphical designs from Ada source code, and QualGen,
for generation of a variety of quality metrics.

Teamwork's newly added support for Ingres and Informix joins
previously existing support for Oracle, Sybase, and American
National Standards Institute (ANSI) Level 2. Teamwork 6.0 also
brings "push button" documentation for DoD 2167A, DoD-498 (draft),
ISO9000, and IEEE standards, according to the spokesperson.

Also with the new releases, Cadre has added several new features
across its product line, such as first-time support for the Motif
user interface and European characters, and improved editing and
printing capabilities, the spokesperson said.

Pricing starts at $3,995 for ObjectTeam 2.0 and $8,500 for
Teamwork 6.0. The products from Cadre run on Microsoft Windows,
OS/2, AIX, SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, Silicon Graphics' Irix, and DEC's
Ultrix, OSF/1 AXP, and Open VMS.

(Jacqueline Emigh/19940601/Reader Contact: Cadre Technologies,
401-351-5950; Press Contacts: Harry Merkin, Cadre, 401-351-5950;
Mark Nardone, Rourke & Company for Cadre, 617-267-0042)


(NEWS)(APPLE)(DAL)(00003)

Power Mac Success Over Intel Depends On Apps 06/02/94
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- According to
analysts, what will make or break sales of the new Power
Macintosh from Apple Computer is the number of significant
applications for the platform -- applications that will attract
Intel users. While shipments of the new PowerPC-based Macintosh
have been good, speculation continues as to whether or not the
platform will succeed in attracting a large enough market share.

Apple said it plans to transition its line of Macintosh computers
over time from the Motorola 68000 series of microprocessors to
the reduced instruction-set computing (RISC)-based PowerPC
microprocessor, developed jointly by Apple, IBM, and Motorola.

In its 1993 annual report the company said that success
will depend on continuing sales of its 68000-based products
during its transition to the Power Macintosh, gaining market
acceptance of the PowerPC-based products, and coordinating
development and distribution of new versions of commonly-used
software products specifically designed for the PowerPC-based
platform, also known as "native" applications.

Philippe de Marcillac, director and principal analyst of
Dataquest's Personal Computers Worldwide research group said:
"Apple was encouraged by shipping more than 90,000 Power
Macintoshes in the last 18 days of the first quarter, proving
there is pent-up demand among Apple users for more computing
power." Apple said in its second quarter report it shipped more
than 145,000 Power Macintoshes.

However, for Apple it is the "fence-sitters" and the Intel-based
PC user that Apple has to convince now, according to CI/Infocorp
analyst Matt Sargent. The toughest crowd will be Intel users,
Sargent said, and right now there is no incentive for them to
switch because there are few significant applications available
aimed at those users. Of the approximately 80 applications that
are native for the PowerPC, most are desktop publishing titles
aimed at the current Macintosh installed user base.

While applications designed for the Intel platform will run on
the Power Macintosh, they run in emulation mode which is
significantly slower than on the faster Intel-based computers
available.

But there is no indication that Power Macintosh sales are slowing,
Sargent claims. Twenty to 30 percent of Apple's Computer sales
are Power Macintosh, according to Sargent, and that trend appears
to be continuing.

Dataquest's de Marcillac agrees, saying that while Intel-based
personal computer maker Compaq is currently in the computer-
shipment lead, he expects a "three-way" tie by year-end between
Compaq, IBM, and Apple.

(Linda Rohrbough/19940601/Press Contact: Dan Ness, CI/Infocorp,
tel [phone]; Paul Wheaton, Dataquest, 408-437-8312)


(NEWS)(GENERAL)(SFO)(00004)

Accessing Internet For Afro-American Business Leaders 06/02/94
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- At a recent
gathering of Afro-American business leaders in Oakland, California,
Manselmedia produced "Business Opportunities on the Information
Highway," a seminar designed to introduce the audience to
potential advantages available on Internet for business education,
marketing, collaboration, and new business development.

Speakers included Maurice Welsh of Pacific Bell, Ms. Pat Patterson
of Bank of California and Patterson Associates, David Beckemeyer
of Beckemeyer Development, Brian Saunders of Compus Services,
and Michael Heathman of Enterprise Integration Technologies.

Patterson told Newsbytes, "One of the goals tonight is to give the
audience an idea of some of the business strategies that are critical
to being competitive in today's market. Through Internet, a small
company may interact with other businesses to share information
and possibly collaborate on things like group purchases."

Patterson's presentation covered systems contracting and consortium
purchasing as a means of introducing the type of business strategies
that might be incorporated into the local business community.

"Introduction to the Internet," "An Introduction to CommerceNet,"
"PacBell's Resource Network," and "Mosaic" were among the
presentations delivered.

Maurice Welsh, told Newsbytes, "We are not just here for Black
businessmen. We want to bring this technology to all of Oakland's
business community, not only for the access and participation,
but to let others know that Oakland welcomes technology-based
businesses such as multimedia design and production companies."

This first meeting to introduce business leaders to these technology
advantages is the beginning of what Welsh hopes will be a
successful endeavor, similar to Multimedia Development Group of
San Francisco which he co-founded.

Mansel of Manselmedia, said to Newsbytes, "We think it is critical
to let these leaders learn how to make their businesses more
efficient by using information technology. By communicating with
one another we will find out what our different needs are and how
they can be addressed right here in Oakland using the information
highway."

"Business Opportunities of the Information Highway" was sponsored
by Pacific Bell, the Men of Tomorrow (a business development group),
The Small Business Growth Center, and the Black Business Listings
newspaper.

A group of more than 200 business leaders attended and participated
in product demonstrations of Mosaic, PacBell's Re:Source, Compus
back-up and recovery systems, A Family of Electronic Catalogues,
and Internet tours by Beckemeyer Development.

(Patrick McKenna/19940531/Press Contact: Vince Mansel,
Manselmedia, 510-614-0416)


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(SFO)(00005)

Compuserve Offers New Video Games Section 06/02/94
COLUMBUS, OHIO, U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- Game players are being
offered a chance to get together with one another and with game
designers and publishers through Compuserve's two new forums --
Video Game Publishers Forum and Video Games Forum.

In the Video Game Publishers Forum, Compuserve will provide users
an opportunity to meet and discuss ideas and techniques with
representatives of companies such as Accolade, Data East,
Electronic Arts, Game Genie, Koei, Konami, Spectrum Holobyte,
Takara and Working Designs. These companies will provide product
support, screen samples, new product introductions, game hints
and other information.

Meanwhile, the Video Games Forum, will provide a communication
area where players can discuss hardware, the merits of games,
personal tips and suggestions, and their own reviews. Players
of Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, 3DO Multiplayer, Atari Jaguar,
Phillips CD-I, and other game consoles will be able to join with
users of the same systems to expand more specific issues.

Speaking with NewsBytes, Jim Pasqua, Compuserve product
marketing associate, said, "The growth of new game hardware has
produced a new and expanded audience of game players in dramatic
numbers. We felt that we should offer an opportunity for them to
communicate with one another and with the publishers as well. As
well as these new forums, we also provide users with downloadable
and online games in our gaming section. We have more than 18,000
game files for downloading."

Existing members can find the Video Game Publishers Forum by
typing "VIDPUB" at the "GO" command and "VIDGAMES" for the
Video Games Forum. These new forums are not part of the basic
services package offered by Compuserve and users will be charged
$4.80 per hour at 1,200 and 2,400 bits-per-second (bps) speeds
and $9.60 per hour for 9,600 or 14,400 bps.

(Patrick McKenna/19940531/Press Contact: Michelle Moran,
CompuServe, 614-538-3497)


(NEWS)(GENERAL)(TYO)(00006)

Japan - Computer News Roundup 06/02/94
TOKYO, JAPAN, 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- In today's news,
Rohm teams up with Alliance in SRAM business, Oki Electric
to enter TFT LCD driver IC market, and Hitachi to triple color
STN LCD production this year, Kubota Computer markets Unix
server costing less than one-third the price of earlier models
with the same performance, and Sanyo Electric joins hands
with Western Digital in CD-ROM LSI development.

Rohm teams up with Alliance in SRAM business

Rohm has teamed up with Alliance of San Jose, California, in
the SRAM (static RAM) business. The two companies will develop
1Mbit and 256Kbit SRAMs with an access time of 12 nanoseconds
(ns) and a consumption current of less than 100ma. The chips will
be smaller than four millimeters (mm)-square, more than 50%
smaller than conventional 1Mbit SRAM chips. The two firms will also
develop 120ns 1Mbit and 256Mbit SRAMs for use in game machines.
Rohm will be in charge of production and sales in Japan and other
Asian countries. Alliance will OEM (original equipment manufacturer)-
procure chips from Rohm and market them in North America. Sample
shipments and volume production are slated for within the year and
next spring, respectively.

Oki Electric to enter TFT LCD driver IC market

Oki Electric will enter the thin-film transistor LCD driver IC
market. The company, which manufactures 6 million units of
super-twisted nematic and other LCD driver ICs per month, plans
to start producing TFT LCD driver ICs at its Miyazaki plant in
August, but does not intend to invest in new production
equipment. The TFT LCD market is said to exceed 500 billion yen
($4.81 billion) in 1996 or 1997, and targeting PC LCD makers OKI is
aiming to boost TFT LCD driver IC output to over 1 million units
per month within two to three years.

Hitachi to triple color STN LCD production this year

Hitachi intends to nearly triple production of color
super-twisted nematic LCDs this year. While thin-film transistor
LCDs are attracting a great deal of attention in the LCD market,
Hitachi has concluded that demand for STN LCDs will be growing
stronger for use in low-cost PCs and portable data terminals. The
company's Taiwanese subsidiary is scheduled to begin producing
color STN LCDs this fiscal year. Together with a new TFT LCD line
that will begin full-scale production in the second half of this
year, Hitachi's annual LCD business in fiscal 1994 is expected to
reach 50 billion yen ($480.8 million).

Kubota Computer markets Unix server costing less than one-third
the price of earlier models with the same performance

Kubota Computer has begun marketing an entry-level model in
its Titan Server Series of Unix servers which costs less than one-
third the price of earlier models with the same performance. The
Titan Server Model 1300mp can use up to four 190 megahertz (MHz)
DEC 21064 RISC (reduced instruction-set computer) processors and
can have up to two gigabytes (GB) of main memory and up to 32GB
of disk space. The server is priced from 4.78 million yen ($45,962)
and shipments will begin on September 1. First-year sales are
expected to total 500 units.

Sanyo Electric joins hands with Western Digital in CD-ROM LSI
development

Sanyo Electric has joined hands with Western Digital, a US
hard disk drive maker, in CD-ROM LSI development. The companies
will jointly develop a CD-ROM decoder LSI incorporating an
"extended IDE" controller. Western Digital proposes IDE (Integrated
Drive Electronics) as an interface between PCs and peripherals. The
extended IDE interface defines a data transfer capacity of 8.4GB
and is expected to be widely accepted from now. Sanyo, which
plans to start sample shipment by year's end, will be in charge of
production and sales.

(Terry Silveria/19940602)


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Japan - Telecom News Roundup 06/02/94
TOKYO, JAPAN, 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- In today's telecom news from
Japan, MPT's Telecommunications Council reports development
of nationwide optical communications network will cost $721.15
to $913.46 billion, and OKI Electric as well as banks to start full-
motion video on-line shopping service experiment in Tokyo next year.

MPT's Telecommunications Council reports development of nationwide
optical communications network will cost $721.15 to 913.46 billion.

The MPT Telecommunications Council has reported that the
development of a nationwide optical communications network will
cost 75-95 trillion yen ($721.15 to 913.46 billion), including 42
trillion yen ($403.85 billion) estimated to cost to lay optical fiber
cables underground. The council has submitted recommendations
concerning network development to the Minister of Posts and
Telecommunications. The report recommends that the network be
built in three stages until 2010.

The first-phase, which should be completed by 2000, will connect
cities with prefectural government seats covering 20% of population.
The second-phase, which should be finished by 2005, will expand the
network to include cities with a population of over 100,000, covering
60% of population. The third-phase should be completed by 2010. The
council estimates that the development of the network will result
in the creation of a 123 trillion yen ($1.18 trillion) market and the
generation of 2.43 million jobs in 2010.

OKI Electric, banks to start full-motion video on-line shopping
service experiment in Tokyo next year

OKI Electric, in cooperation with city banks and trading
firms, will start a full-motion video on-line shopping service
experiment in the Tokyo metropolitan area next year. The service
will use a video-on-demand system to allow shoppers to view
full-motion product images on home terminals. They will then
order merchandise and transfer payment funds from a bank, all
from the same terminal.

Currently available PC-based shopping services use still-video
images, but OKI's system will be the first to use full-motion video
and the first to offer transaction settlement capability on the
same terminal. The company is now drafting specific system
plans with major city banks and plans to call on trading firms,
supermarkets, and others to participate in the experiment.

(Terry Silveria/19940602)


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Court Computers Offer Near-Realtime Transcripts 06/02/94
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- When
16-year old Jacob Ind, charged with murdering his mother and
stepfather, wants to study what a witness in his trial has just said
all he has to do is press a button. A system, called the Computer
Integrated Courtroom (CIC) in use on an experimental basis in Judge
Jane Looney's 4th Judicial District courtroom, displays every word
spoken in the trail.

The system displays what the court reporter transcribes, showing
the text on terminals in front of the judge, prosecution and defense
about one second after the words have been spoken.

The system is in use in about 30 courtrooms nationwide on a
regular basis, while another seven are testing the system. In
Colorado, CIC is in use in the Colorado Springs and Englewood
district courts, and in federal bankruptcy court in Denver.

In addition to seeing current testimony, users can scroll back
through the text, highlighting or saving portions for future use.

According to Melanie Humphrey-Watkins, president of the Colorado
Court Reporter Association, most judges like it because they can
catch up with the testimony if they are momentarily distracted.

Proponents believe CIC will also allow hearing impaired persons to
serve on juries, since the system can be used to provide captioned
video.

The $10,000 system in Judge Looney's court is the brainchild, and
partially the property of, court reporter Terri Lindblom, in addition
to two out-of-date state computer terminals, some cabling and the
necessary software. Other Colorado judges are comparing CIC with
the current audio recording system.

Court reporters type what is said in court phonetically. CIC's
software converts those words back into English, including any
spelling errors the court reporter makes.

(Jim Mallory/19940602)


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(DEN)(00009)

Company Brings Internet To Your Home - Literally 06/02/94
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- A Seattle company
wants to bring the Internet into your home - literally. Fine.com, a
division of Fine Marketing Communications, says it will come to
your home or business, install a combination of freeware and
shareware on your computer, and teach a single user how to get the
most out of the Internet.

Cost of the personal visit and the software is $249 for a
single-user home or home office installation. You have to agree to
remain on Fine.com's service for at least six months at a rate of
$30 per month for the link.

Fine.com spokesperson Dan Fine told Newsbytes the company provides
a more sophisticated service for commercial users on a network. For
about $4,000 the network user gets an Internet connection for up to
10 users, a file server, modem and the necessary software. The
company also does remote control problem-solving as needed for
commercial users.

Fine says many people are frustrated when they try to connect to the
Internet. "They don't know how to configure it, the don't know
their IP (Internet Protocol) address, and they don't know what to do
when they get on." The software Fine.com provides makes Internet
connecting a point-and-click operation for exchanging electronic-mail,
talking with other users, and finding files.

Fine.com can configure IBM-compatible, Macintosh or Unix systems.
He says the free and low cost software his clients use is less
expensive than commercial programs such as Microsoft Mail and
Lotus Mail. "We're really promoting the freeware/shareware idea,"
Fine told Newsbytes. Freeware is software available without cost,
while shareware is sold for a nominal fee, often $25 to $50. While
the quality of freeware and shareware varies, proponents argue that
much of it is as good as commercial products that cost several
hundred dollars.

Newsbytes recently reported that computer users in Pennsylvania,
Ohio, and West Virginia can exchange mail and obtain files on the
Internet at no cost if they are members of the TEC/Pennsylvania
Small business United organization. Members pay $5.95 for a TEC-
Online subscription. The system allows small businesses to buy,
sell, advertise, and exchange business information, locate economic
development assistance, and find business-related information.
It also carries news and investment information.

A number of companies act as gateways to the Internet, providing the
necessary software to connect the user with the invisible web of
computer systems that link educational institutions and private
users across the globe. However, Fine.com may be the first service
provider that comes to your location to install the software and
teach you how to use it.

Internet users can download and upload files and exchange
electronic mail with users worldwide.

(Jim Mallory/19940602/Press and reader contact: Dan Fine, Fine
Marketing Communications, 206-292-2888)


(NEWS)(GENERAL)(TOR)(00010)

Canadian News Service Based On Lotus Notes 06/02/94
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- Lotus Development
Canada Ltd. and Globe Information Services have announced plans
to use Lotus' Notes workgroup software to deliver an electronic
version of the Toronto-based daily newspaper The Globe and Mail,
as well as a company profiles service.

Globe Information Services is the electronic publishing arm of
The Globe and Mail, a newspaper with national distribution. Globe
Information is working with Lotus and Sandpoint Co., a Cambridge,
Mass., firm whose software is used in several similar services in
the United States, to provide the services. They are to be
available June 6.

The Globe and Mail Electronic Personal Version (EPV) will give
daily access to the full text of The Globe and Mail on a desktop
PC, the companies said. Graphics and charts that accompany news
stories are not yet available online but will be shortly,
according to Globe Information Services. The electronic edition
does not include advertising.

Using Notes, readers will be able to define personal views of the
newspaper or scan pre-defined news by person, organization,
industry, subject, and newspaper section. Stories will be
available at 6:00 am on the issue data and remain in the user's
personal database for a week after publication, said Marsha
Connor of Lotus Development Canada.

The Company Profiles offering will contain briefings on thousands
of Canadian companies, including company description, financial
results, corporate management and directors, and references from
news wires, newspapers, and the trade press.

The companies said they plan to offer expanded company profiles
and a Business Topic Research package this fall.

The services will cost $300 per year, which includes Lotus Notes,
plus a $25-per-month subscription fee to The Globe and Mail,
Connor told Newsbytes. Notes clients are available both for
Intel-based PCs and for Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh.

(Grant Buckler/19940601/Press Contact: Marsha Connor, Lotus
Development Canada, tel [phone], fax [phone]; Josee
Gauthier, Globe Information Services, tel [phone], fax
416-585-5249; Public Contact: Globe Information Services, tel
416-585-5250; Lotus Canada, tel [phone])


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(TOR)(00011)

Toronto Free-Net To Open Soon 06/02/94
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- Toronto is
shortly to be added to the growing list of Canadian cities with
free-nets -- public-access computer networks that provide
access to a variety of information at no cost to the user.

The Toronto Free-Net, now in testing and expected to be open for
public access by the end of June, will have 101 incoming
telephone lines initially, probably growing to 300 or more over
time, Jud Newell, former president and now treasurer of the
project, told Newsbytes.

Newell, founder and former system operator of Canada Remote
Systems, one of North America's largest computer bulletin boards,
said more than 100 information providers, including two major
newspapers, are either committed to the Toronto free-net or
seriously looking at it, and virtually all the public libraries
in Metropolitan Toronto have agreed to provide space for public
access terminals.

Free-nets are accessible using a personal computer and modem as
bulletin boards are, but in order to make the services accessible
to people without access to their own PCs, most free-nets provide
public-access terminals in places like libraries and community
centers.

Equipment has been donated from various sources, including a
batch of modems from Gandalf Data Inc. of Ottawa, Newell said.
Ryerson Polytechnical University in downtown Toronto has donated
space, and Rogers Cablesystems Ltd. is providing operating staff,
Newell said. The Toronto Free-Net is also receiving financial
support from the Province of Ontario.

Canada has operating free-nets in Ottawa and in Victoria and
Trail. British Columbia. Newsbytes has recently reported on
networks that are close to opening in Vancouver and Halifax.
Projects are also under way in Montreal and numerous other
locations.

(Grant Buckler/19940601/Press Contact: Toronto Free-Net,
905-568-9944)


(NEWS)(IBM)(TOR)(00012)

IBM Offers 1 Gigabyte AT Drive For Direct Sale 06/02/94
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- IBM's Storage
Systems Division is now offering its 3.5-inch, one gigabyte (GB)
AT Hard Disk Drive for sale to individual personal computer (PC)
users.

Sold to other system manufacturers since February of this year
and used in some IBM PCs, the drive is now available under IBM's
Options by IBM brand name. It can be used with any PC that uses
the AT bus (also known as the Industry Standard Architecture, or
ISA, bus), a spokeswoman for the company told Newsbytes.

Another 1GB drive that IBM has been selling for some time
requires a small computer systems interface (SCSI) adapter.

The 1GB AT Hard Disk Drive is one inch high, runs at 5,400
revolutions-per-minute (rpm), and has 8.5 millisecond (ms) access
time, according to IBM. The company promises a mean-time-between-
failures of 800,000 hours, and sells the drive with a five-year
warranty.

A key feature of the drive is that it can work in duplex mode,
making it compatible with existing AT basic input-output systems
(BIOS) by having the drive appear as two logical 500 megabyte
(MB) drives. Thus the drive would appear as volumes C and D, each
of 500MB, getting around the inability of older AT BIOS systems
to deal with drives of more than 528MB. No additional device
drivers are needed, IBM said.

It supports the American National Standards Institute's (ANSI) AT
Attachment Interface with Extension (ATA-2). Available now, the
1GB AT Hard Disk Drive has a list price of $785.

(Grant Buckler/19940601/Press Contact: Tom Beermann, IBM, tel
408-256-1925; Linda Garcia, Brodeur & Partners for IBM, tel
408-562-6108; Public Contact: Options by IBM, tel [phone])


(NEWS)(TRENDS)(BOS)(00013)

 ****Sale Of Mobile Devices To Double By 1998 06/02/94
NORWELL, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- True or false?
"The more a professional travels, the more likely that professional
is to have a portable PC." Surprisingly, the answer is "false,"
according to a new study by BIS Strategic Research.

Even more significantly, the survey forecasts that US sales of
mobile devices will soar from 11.2 million units in 1993 to 20.9
million in 1998, nearly doubling in the five-year period.

In an interview with Newsbytes, Jeff Henning, associate director of
publications for BIS, noted that the survey predicts portable PCs
will become an increasingly important part of the expanding mobile
product mix.

In 1993, sales of portable PCs equalled 2.8 million units, meaning
that the computers took third place behind the cellular telephone
and pager in the overall mobile market, he said. By 1997, though,
BIS expects portable PCs to climb to the top spot, with 6.3 million
units in sales.

Pager sales will show steady growth of 10.6 percent annually, to a
total of 4.8 million units in 1998, according to Henning. Cellular
phones and electronic organizers, though, will each "peak" a year
or two from now.

The new category of "PCS (personal communicators) handsets"
will start to hit the market in 1995. In 1996 or so, low-end PDAs
(personal digital assistants) will emerge that offer "more
functionality than organizers."

Henning told Newsbytes that, before embarking on the study, BIS
hypothesized that "high-frequency travelers" -- or professionals
who spend more than 60 percent of their time away from their
desks -- would be more likely than other professionals to have
portable PCs.

But in fact, portable PC use turned out to be the greatest among
professionals who spend 40 to 60 percent of their time away from
their desks. "Generally speaking, people who travel more than that
have never 'stood still' long enough to learn to use a desktop PC.
They don't tend to be interested in having a portable version of
something they've never worked with anyway," Henning explained.

As BIS anticipated, "low-frequency travelers" -- or those who are
away from their desks less than 40 percent of the time -- have
little need for portable PCs, for the very reason that they are
seldom out of the office.

Norwell, Massachusetts-based BIS further found out that, on the
whole, mobile professionals spend less of their time "on the road"
(20 percent) than "away from their desks but in the office building
or on the immediate campus" (28 percent).

Still, though, the demands of remote travel continue to dominate in
currently available mobile products, Henning pointed out. "It might
be easier for you to reach your boss on his car phone than when he
is "`away from his desk but in the office,'" the BIS official
illustrated.

In the future, when patterns of mobile use become clearer, PDAs and
palmtops will be much better positioned to meet the needs of the
"locally mobile," he predicted. Technologies will include wireless
connectivity, PC docking stations, and even, perhaps, LAN (local
area network) access points in conference rooms, and "guest nodes"
in professionals' offices for visitors' PDAs.

Despite the growing popularity of faxing, electronic-mail, and other
text-based ways of getting in touch, the overwhelming majority of
professionals surveyed (89.4 percent) still prefer to communicate
by phone, he noted.

The EO, a voice-capable PDA recently withdrawn from the market, was
a device ahead of its time, according to Henning. "The EO was meant
to be a 'portable smart phone.' But since we don't really even have
'smart phones' yet, few people understood the EO," he told Newsbytes.

In addition, many PDAs still require users to learn new operating
systems, and to purchase special applications and peripherals. "You
have to 'build your own PDA solution,' in a sense," he maintained.
The EO, for instance, used the PenPoint operating system.

Further, he added, the first release of the Newton did not offer
"adequate application software." Apple has since corrected that
situation, though.

One new kind of device that looks likely to emerge in the future is
the "computicator," a "hybrid" of a computer and a communicator,
Henning said. One form of the "computicator" would be a "pocket
messaging terminal" that offers wireless access to voice-mail as
well as e-mail, he proposed.

Also in the future, portable PC makers will continue to enhance
their products with color LCDs (liquid crystal displays), bigger
hard drives, more memory, and better batteries, he suggested.

Henning added that although notebooks will be increasingly popular,
vendors will also develop a super powerful portable PC that he has
nicknamed the "neo-transportable."

These new computers, to be equipped with batteries, will tip the
scales at about six pounds each, in contrast to the 20-pound
weights of their battery-less "transportable" cousins of the early
80s, Newsbytes was told.

The new survey also covers many other aspects of the mobile
computing market. A full copy of the study, "Mobile Professionals
in Focus: Who They Are and How They Work," is available from BIS
Strategic Decisions for $2,450.

(Jacqueline Emigh/19940601/Reader Contact: BIS Strategic Decisions,
617-982-9500; Press Contact: Martha Popoloski, BIS, 617-982-9500)


(NEWS)(GENERAL)(BOS)(00014)

Proteon Launches Nationwide Series Of User Seminars 06/02/94
WESTBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- Proteon
has launched "User Access: The Time Is Now," the third nationwide
series of user seminars to be offered by the vendor over the past
18 months. This time, the focus is on remote access.

Proteon's complimentary seminars are aimed primarily at network
managers, telecommunications specialists, and MIS (management
information systems) directors, a company spokesperson told
Newsbytes. The events are also proving popular with CIOs (chief
information officers), VPs of technology, and network architects,
he added.

Topics covered in the current series include multiprotocol routing
integration and branch office connectivity. Like the two earlier
series, "User Access: The Time Is Now" encompasses eight major
cities in the US, the spokesperson said.

Each half-day seminar in the current series starts out with a
continental breakfast, followed by a keynote speech by Robin
Layland, principal of The Layland Group.

Later in the morning, William Donovan, Proteon's director of
product marketing, delivers a talk on "Innovative Internetworking
Solutions for SNA and Multiprotocol Networks."

The day is capped by an "interactive panel discussion," featuring
questions from the audience. Attendees are invited to bring network
schematics along with them for on-the-spot troubleshooting, or to
fax their schematics or questions in advance.

Upcoming dates in the series are: June 3 in Atlanta; June 9 in Los
Angeles; June 14 in Seattle; June 17 in Boston; and June 23 in New
York City. Seminars were held recently in Wilmington, Delaware, and
in Dallas and Houston, Texas. To register for one of the upcoming
seminars, call 800-698-3719.

(Jacqueline Emigh/19940601/Reader Contact: 800-698-3719; Press
Contacts: Joe Grillo or Karin Bakis, Proteon, 508-898-2800; David
Kitchen or David Copithorne, Copithorne & Bellows for Proteon, 617-
252-0606)


(NEWS)(GOVT)(WAS)(00015)

Soros To Fund Radio Free Europe Digital Archive 06/02/94
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- Financier George
Soros, whom the Wall Street Journal has called "the bad boy of
global finance," has agreed to fund a new research institute to
replace the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty research institute.

The new institute, to be located in Prague, Czech Republic,
will preserve and computerize the research institute's archives
and eventually make them available over the Internet.

The archives include more than 15 million items and reportedly
constitute a "comprehensive collection" documenting the struggle
against Communism. According to the Board for International
Broadcasting (BIB), the federal government agency that oversees
Munich-based Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the archive
includes some of the most detailed biographical files every
compiled of Communist leadership in Eastern Europe and the
former Soviet Union.

A new law enacted this year called for private sector funding
of the research institute and the BIB has given pink slips to
the institutes employees effective at the end of the year.

Congress plans to cut the overall Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty budget by two-thirds to $75 million in fiscal year 1996.

"Federal funds for archive preservation are simply not
available," said Daniel Mica, chairman of the BIB. "Thus we are
extremely pleased the new institute will be able to achieve
this goal and make the rich historic record available via
computer to scholars, journalists and historians worldwide."

Mica is a former Democratic congressman from Florida.
Ironically, his brother John Mica is currently a Republican
congressman from Florida.

Mica said the archives would remain the property of Radio
Free Europe/Radio Liberty, with the new institute, acting in
conjunction with the Central European University, as curator.
Central European University is a Soros-funded graduate school
with campuses in Prague and Budapest.

The funding will come from the Open Society Institute, a New
York-based foundation that Soros has established. OSI will put up
a minimum of $15 million over the next four years to support the
new institute. Mica said the BIB will provide a small, but
unspecified amount, of funds.

Hungarian-born Soros oversees the Quantum fund, which has
assets of some $11 billion. Quantum is a hedge fund that operates
worldwide and has been extremely successful over the years,
according to investment experts.

(Kennedy Maize/19940602/Contact: Richard McBride, BIB,
202-254-8040; Shawn Pattison, OSI, 212-887-0602)


(NEWS)(GOVT)(WAS)(00016)

 ****Government Encryption Plans Hit Patent Problems 06/02/94
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- A Massachusetts
Institute of Technology computer scientist has added his name
to the list of claimants to patents on pieces of the federal
government's encryption initiatives, including both the
controversial Clipper chip and the National Institute of
Standards and Technology's digital signature standard.

Silvio Micali of MIT says a patent granted to him in January
covers a key area of the technology, breaking up the encryption
key into parts held by escrow agents.

Under the Clinton Clipper plan, authorized government agencies
would be able to decode encrypted data by presenting a request
to two escrow agents, which each hold half of the key to
unscramble the code.

Micali wants the government to pay him a license fee. "If they
don't get a license I will sue them," he told the Wall Street
Journal. "There will be a lot of money to be made. There will
be a lot of these Clipper chips."

Philadelphia inventor Andrew Logan claims that his March,
1993, patent also covers Clipper technology. He says NIST once
offered him $500,000 but later changed its mind, which NIST
denies.

NIST also has patent problems with its recently announced
digital signature standard. While the standard is voluntary,
NIST has said it will make the technology available for free.
The standard uses public key-private key technology.

But Public Key Partners, a limited partnership in California,
represents holders of several encryption patents related to the
digital signature technology that RSA Data Security of Redwood
City owns. NIST announced a year ago that it had a tentative
licensing deal with Public Key Partners, but the deal fell
through.

NIST officials confirmed that they are continuing to negotiate
over the patents.

The Clipper chip has also taken a hit from another direction.
The New York Times has reported that AT&T Bell Labs scientist
Matthew Blaze has found a flaw in the design that would allow a
user to scramble a message in a way that the government cannot
decode.

(Kennedy Maize/19940602/Contact: Silvio Micali, MIT,
617-253-1000; Anne Enright Shepherd, NIST, 301-975-4858)


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

 ****MecklerWeb Business Web On Internet Planned 06/02/94
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- MecklerMedia is
planning a worldwide business and commerce web on the Internet,
called MecklerWeb.

Said Christopher Locke, president of newly formed MecklerWeb, in
a press conference given at Internet World in San Jose, California,
"We saw a need to provide Internet users a coherent path to
commercial companies that are interested and willing to explore
the possibility of this new way of doing business."

MecklerMedia has brought together AlterNet, Enterprise Integration
Technologies, WAIS Inc., and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
as its key technology  partners. From the business side, it has
gathered core partners Dun & Bradstreet, Edelman Public Relations
Worldwide, and Ogilvy & Mather Direct, who will design the
on-screen "look and feel" of MecklerWeb.

Christopher Locke told the audience that MecklerWeb will go live in
approximately "60 to 90 days" and, while the initial offering will not
provide online monetary transactions, the investigation into secure
encryption technology for the transfer of funds is currently a
priority.

MecklerWeb follows a recent announcement by CommerceNet, a
group of Silicon Valley businesses collaborating on the exploration
of business potential on the Internet. In a "spirit of cooperation,"
CommerceNet is one of more than 40 companies who have already
confirmed participation in the web of companies MecklerWeb will
offer to Internet users.

"Build it and they will come? No, that is not the motto," said Locke.
"It is more correctly stated -- They are coming, we better build it."

In answer to the questions of "Will it make money" and is the
company "Exploring a dead-end" Locke, said, "We cannot answer that.
What you are seeing is a new frontier in the way we do business.
These companies are the pioneers of a new way of conducting
business -- a way which is faster and cheaper."

He continued: "Out of Control? Absolutely! Like Internet itself, we
are not into control, we invite and encourage participation and
competition. If someone has a better product then they are welcome
to create it." As for the gamble, Locke said, "It is here, but when you
look at companies like DEC and Dun & Bradstreet, and Ogilvy & Mather,
you have to think we are on the right track."

Companies will pay $25,000 annually to participate in MecklerWeb.
That sum will provide them with 10 megabytes (MB) to 20MB on the
web which will be partitioned into area such as medical, technology,
law, sports, environment, finance, arts, manufacturing and education.

Locke offered special thanks to its core partners but singled out DEC
for its contribution that was "almost open-ended". Among the
confirmed partners to date are Sun Microsystems, SunSoft, Spyglass
Inc., The Reference Press, NovX, Pharmaceutical Information
Associates, Cornell Legal Information Institution, American
Cybercasting, KnowledgeWare, and some thirty others.

The Universal Resource Locator for more information on MecklerWeb
is: http://www.mecklerweb.com/demo.html.

(Patrick McKenna/19940602/Press Contact: Diane Carlini, Edelman
Technology Communications, 415-968-4033)


(NEWS)(TRENDS)(ATL)(00018)

 ****Software Moves From Floppy Disks To CD-ROMs 06/02/94
SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- According to
Sanctuary Woods' President Scott Walchek, the software market is
moving away from floppy disk distribution, and onto CD-ROM.

These should be good times for Sanctuary Woods Multimedia. The
company's "Sitting on the Farm" storybook won three "NewMedia
INVISION Multimedia Awards" at Spring Comdex, while its Dennis
Miller CD-ROM drew a good response at the Winter CES. The company
has also announced a definitive merger agreement with Magic Quest
Inc., a privately owned educational software developer based in Palo
Alto, for stock. Magic Quest is best known for MathAce, an arcade-
style math game. Also, Sanctuary Woods is in good shape on
distribution, thanks to its affiliate-label agreement with Electronic
Arts.

In an interview with Newsbytes, Walchek said MathAce, which runs
under MS-DOS, will be out under Windows and on the Mac later this
year. He predicted that by next year most software will be sold on
CD-ROMs, not on floppy disks.

"The advantage of CD for the customer are much richer products.
You can add deeper, richer sounds, he told Newsbytes. "Disk-based
products are often cheap on sound. You can get deeper graphics and
exploration as well, and more problems to be solved. The end user
experience is dramatically different than, say an 8-disk set, which
might hold 20 megabytes (MB). The production cost of CD is also
lower for us. That raises our gross margins, because cost of goods
is significantly lower. The final cost of making a CD, with the
shrink-wrap, is under $1.20, versus 83 cents per disk."

As a result, "Our expectation is that 1994 will represent the year
where we go from majority disk to majority CD. We're seeing that
indication from major retailers who will dedicate much larger
portions of shelf-space to CD products. In 1995 almost everything
will be CD."

But if software is going to CD, why are the packages still so
big? "Packaging hasn't changed yet," he admitted. "The shelf-
space model we inherited is very competitive, and there have been
attempts to do standardized packages but none has succeeded.
People feel they should use packaging as a marketing vehicle. As
shelf space becomes more limited, this season and beyond, people
will by necessity go to smaller packaging, but I doubt it will
ever be standardized, except as a controlling entity like
Nintendo or Sega restricts it on set-tops." They will get smaller
to reduce cost of goods, increase efficiency of shelf space and
ecological reasons, he thinks.

Newsbytes asked about the division of the market between PCs and
game machines, and what Walchek had to say was interesting.
"Right now you have 33% penetration of PCs in the homes,
projected to over 50% by the end of the decade. You have a very
steep, probably 70%, growth in CD-ROM penetration. But you have a
diminishing growth trend of cartridges, particularly 16-bit
cartridges. There are a lot of reasons, from both customer and
vendor viewpoints."

He continued: "From the customer point of view, I can have a
general-purpose tool that I can not only use for telecommuting,
but which will play games. The price-performance curve means that
products going into homes today have super capabilities, which
makes for a wonderful education and entertainment environment.
When I can do that for $2,500 or less, I opt to do that."

Newsbytes asked why cartridge-based games are mostly
"shoot-em-ups," while PC-based games are more complex. Text is one
reason. "The cartridge-based systems, because it's NTSC (National
Television Standards Committee)," with pictures displayed on regular
TV sets, "doesn't support text very well. So PCs use more 'edutainment'
because you can get good text on a desktop machine.

"The games are still driving the revenue in this industry," he
added. "Education programs are still a very small percentage of
the home market category. Games continue to drive things. But the
types of games you're getting on a desktop are different, mostly
because of the sophistication of the processors. Because the set-
top is a single-purpose, graphic machine you don't get the
sophisticated activity you can get on a PC. The tools for
authoring on a PC or Mac allow you to do much deeper products."

Walchek then discussed his company's place in all this. "We're
not a big company. We're a well-funded start-up with several
compelling titles. There's a number of ways marketing takes
place. You can self-publish, affiliate label or partner publish --
and they're all ways to get more marketing resources. But the
channels are changing tremendously this year. We're moving beyond
the specialty store to the mass market venues like video and
audio stores. Those present huge expenses to publishers."

How to market CD-ROMs in this changing environment is a big
problem. "There are only a few ways to do it. There are few
magazines that sell CDs today, so the advertising choices are
difficult and expensive. And the shelf space war is tough.
We try to be innovative and own as much shelf space as possible,
and as much floor space. So we've done point-of-purchase pieces
in order to get additional eye space using traditional techniques
like those in book and record stores. The other thing we do is
leverage our bundling partnerships, those people selling the CD-
ROM and MPC hardware. Usually they're the first line of access
to the customer. We're being very aggressive in going after
bundling deals, then converting those customers."

Still, the selling environment will be very different by
Christmas, 1995. "In a year, most CD-ROMs will still be sold
through computer stores, maybe 75%, with a much greater
percentage after that coming through the mass market venues, like
audio and video stores," as well as warehouse stores like Sam's
Club. "But that's changing. The mass market media, and the
superstores, which will become more media-centric, and will be
doing a much bigger percentage of business."

Newsbytes asked about the subject of rentals, which are big in
the movie-rental stores now starting to stock CD-ROMs. "A few
months ago I would have thought rentals would have to be an
important part of the strategy, but I'm no longer sure that's
going to happen. There's been an outcry from the industry, that
the rental business is something to look at cautiously. Insofar
as Blockbuster and Viacom come to an agreement there may be some
tests, but it won't be as ubiquitous as people thought. We were
in their initial trials, and hits drive the business. It will be
the same thing for rental as well -- there will be a business of
the hits."

Walchek then noted that many big players, including Electronic
Arts and Sega, have pulled out of this month's Summer CES show in
Chicago. "January CES will be a dominant show for buyers," he
said, and Sanctuary Woods took advantage of it this year with a
party starring comedian Dennis Miller, who's done some work for
the company. "But if you're talking about the industry shows,
there are a ton of shows developing clout. Sega has its own
show, and as they get more share in the set-top CD business that
becomes more important, but we still think it's CES January
that's the show for buyers."

The key question, however, is where people will go to learn what
to buy. Newsbytes asked about CD-based magazines. "A number of
people will try it," he said. "My hunch is, that if I were given
the choice between spending time in front of my computer, I
wouldn't be reading a magazine. I might do it to get samples of
stuff to buy at Christmas."

For now, however, parents will do what they did last Christmas.
"We'd like to believe parents will call computer supervisors at
schools for recommendations. There's an important link between
school and home. But the majority of people will go into the store
and ask the clerks what's good. There will be a few people who'll
pick up some magazines, but my hunch is, based on what I hear
from the channel, that people will still use the store as their
buying decision-making venue."

(Dana Blankenhorn/19940602/Press Contact: Sanctuary Woods,
Kristy Sager, 415-578-6349)


(NEWS)(TRENDS)(ATL)(00019)

Storm Takes PhotoCD To Schools 06/02/94
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- Storm
Technology is hoping Kodak's PhotoCD technology can win it a
bigger place in the education market. As a first step in that
strategy, the company has acquired the rights to Kid's Studio, a
multimedia storytelling program developed by CyberPuppy
Software and distributed by Maxis.

Kid's Studio is currently a disk-based product for the Macintosh
that allows children to freely create their own stories using
photo-realistic images, paint, text, sound and special effects.
Using Kodak's PhotoCD technology, children can create
personalized stories using their own photos.

Newsbytes discussed the move, and the strategy, with Storm Vice
President of Marketing Duane Schulz, "We're pushing people to use
photographs," he said. "We want to make them as everyday as
fonts. It turns out one customer category that's natural for that
is kids. We happened to run across Kid's Studio, and felt it was
a perfect fit."

But the educational software market is becoming very crowded and
noisy -- how will Storm break through, Newsbytes asked? "The way
to break through the noise is by focusing on the developmental-
appropriateness of the product. It's a very straightforward
program -- the student doesn't have to deal with frame grabbers,
multimedia and video. They add pictures with Kodak Photo CDs. We
want to make it easy for a kid K-6 to use photographs. We hope to
sell through educators, and make it easy to access."

Storm's distributor, Maxis, is best-known as the publisher of the
game Sim City. But it is not the company's only channel. "We have
a direct relationship with Educational Resources, a subsidiary of
Davidson. We'll be running a hot show special" at the National
Educational Computing Conference in Boston this month "to
encourage trials by educators. We also have a special educator
version of the product, a classic ring-binder with curriculum
notes, CD-ROM and all that stuff inside it."

How will schools use the product? "The way it works is that
families or kids can take their film to anyone who does Kodak
processing and get CDs made. The product comes with hundreds of
images already in it, but what gets kids turned-on is when they
see their own pictures, so we'll be encouraging them to take he
step of going to the drug store and getting things back as CDs,
not just disks. We've got an agreement with Kodak for couponing."

While Kids' Studio was originally a disk-based product, it has
already been introduced on CD-ROM. In addition, development of a
Windows version of the product is ongoing. That could be done by
Christmas.

(Dana Blankenhorn/19940602/Press Contact: Storm Technology,
Duane Schulz, 415/691-6600)


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

McCaw Links With PageNet, While AT&T Pleads Its Case 06/02/94
KIRKLAND, WASHINGTON, U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- McCaw Cellular,
which also owns the nation's fifth largest paging service, signed
an agreement to resell the services of number-one Paging Network
Inc., in those locations where it currently does not do business.

Paging Network uses conventional land-lines and antennas for its
system, and leads the market in part because it charges less for
service than satellite-fed paging networks like SkyTel.

The agreement between the two companies makes McCaw a member
of PageNet's existing affiliate program, said PageNet Chief
Operating Officer Steven Dussek in a press statement.

"We announced that program in January," a PageNet spokesman told
Newsbytes, "and we now have over 4,000 resellers, ranging from
small local companies to McCaw and Ameritech."

McCaw will market the PageNet services under the McCaw name.
PageNet has about 3.3 million pagers in service and also provides
such things as news and stock quotes, voice-mail, fax forwarding
and wireless data transmission to palmtop computers, as well as
regular paging service. McCaw has operations in 42 markets
nationwide.

In other news involving McCaw, AT&T asked US District Court
Judge Harold Greene to waive provisions of the 1982 Bell break-up
decree and let its takeover of McCaw go forward. AT&T said in its
waiver request the takeover would give McCaw the resources to
maintain its network and let it compete with regional Bell
companies, increasing consumer choice.

The regional Bells oppose the merger saying it lets AT&T back into
the local phone business it left following the signing of the decree.

McCaw stock still trades very close to the value of AT&T shares,
which suggests to many analysts that the deal will go through.

(Dana Blankenhorn/19940602/Press Contact: McCaw Cellular,
Theresa Roberts, 206/803-3623; Paging Network, Julie Sullivan,
214/985-6258)


(CORRECTION)(TELECOM)(ATL)(00021)

Correction - WTI RadioMail Bundle Includes Mobidem 06/02/94
ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO, U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- In a recent story
on Wireless Telecom Inc., offering a bundle of RadioMail and RAM
Mobile Data wireless data services, Newsbytes reported that the
Mobidem, a packet data modem needed to access the services, was
not included in the $400 offering.

That was in error, as Wireless Telecom spokesman Kathy
Kriner has pointed out. The bundle, priced at $399, includes an
Ericsson GE Mobidem wireless modem, as well as RadioMail client
software and necessary cabling, plus 12 months of RadioMail
service with unlimited messaging over the RAM Mobile Data
wireless service at $89 per month.

Newsbytes regrets the error.

(Dana Blankenhorn/19940602/Press Contact: Kathy Kriner,
Wireless Telecom, tel [phone], fax [phone])


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

Modern Media Intros Gus And The CyberBuds CD-ROM 06/02/94
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- Modern
Media Ventures Inc., a small multimedia developer, has announced
a new educational title called "Gus and the CyberBuds Sing, Play
and Paint-A-Long" on CD-ROM.

Using the disk, young children enter an environment that allows
them to sing-a-long to a mix of traditional and original songs
while creating scenes to accompany the lyrics.

It was created in-part by  Pat Lewis, who has a master's degree in
education and over 10 years of early education and curriculum
development experience. Terry R. Schussler of Gray Matter Design
co-developed the product -- Terry also worked on the company's
first product, "Gus Goes to CyberTown."

Children's singer-songwriter David Maloney, who created the
soundtrack for Modern Media's "Gus Goes to CyberTown" title, also
contributes original songs composed for the new disk.

The product is available on both the Macintosh and Windows MPC
platforms. Interface controls will be available in English, French,
Spanish, German, and Japanese. The company also announced its
fall release, again based on the Gus character, will be "Gus Goes
to Cyberopolis."

Pat Lewis' husband Bob runs the company, and Newsbytes discussed
the new disk with him. "Gus Goes to Cybertown has gotten good
reviews, and we're winning an award at CES, so it's a quality
product," he said. So far the company has had no problem with
distribution. "We've gotten into Egghead, Software Etc. We're
self-publishing and looking for distributors."

Newsbytes asked how parents can tell what to buy. "Right now it's
by reading magazines and looking at reviews. We're also working
with KidSoft," which distributes program samples on CD-ROM,
"and we'll do a couple of samplers with them, along with one with
EduCorp. We've also got a demo on CD-ROM Today magazine. Those
are good ways to start. There's a couple of organizations
focusing on kids' software, setting up review guidelines. Like
Home PC, Family PC," both new magazines published by Walt
Disney, "and a few newsletters."

Newsbytes asked Lewis what the company's big development
advantage is. "The advantage we have is that my wife Pat was a
pre-school teacher for 10 years, and used a lot of fun activities
in the classroom. She's incorporated them into this program.
There's sound teaching fundamentals. We also teamed up on our
first product with David Maloney, a children's singer-songwriter
who does performances live in front of kids. It's a very strong
team."

The company will not be bringing its wares to the National
Educational Computing Conference in Boston later this month,
which is a show attended by teachers, preferring the Summer
CES instead.

(Dana Blankenhorn/19940602/Press Contact: Bob Lewis, Modern
Media Ventures, 415-546-1515)


(NEWS)(GENERAL)(DEN)(00023)

Cray Claims New Software Saves Engineers Time, Money 06/02/94
EAGAN, MINNESOTA, U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- Cray Research says its
new Hexar software product can save as much as six months of time
and hundreds of thousands of dollars for engineers and researchers.

The company says the software can be used for designers of
everything from sporting equipment to automobiles to automatically
convert raw computer-aided design (CAD) data for complex objects
into a three-dimensional (3-D) computer model used by engineers to
simulate and analyze new products.

The 3-D models are known in the engineering trade as "meshes."
According to development team chief Taza Iaghavi Hexar can create
a mesh in minutes compared to the months required for hand-
generated meshes.

"It could easily take six months and $150,000 or more to develop a
million-element, hexahedral (six-sided) mesh. Now this typically
will take less than 30 minutes using Hexar software on a Cray
Research supercomputer system," according to Iaghavi. He says
competitive products still require substantial manual intervention
or do not produce meshes containing hexahedrals.

The company says Hexar is scheduled to ship in July, 1994, for use
on its line of parallel vector and massively parallel processing
(MPP) systems. Hexar pricing is platform-dependent and starts at
$18,000.

Cray Research says Hexar can produce meshes compatible with most
computer-aided engineering formats, including Patran, Ideas, and
EnSight.

(Jim Mallory/19940602/Press contact: Steve Conway, Cray Research
Inc., 612-683-7133; Reader contact: Cray Research, 612-452-6650)


(NEWS)(BUSINESS)(DEN)(00024)

HRB Acquires Global Positioning System Firm 06/02/94
DALLAS, TEXAS, U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- HRB Systems has
announced the acquisition of Dallas-based Auto-Trac Inc., a
company that provides vehicle location and navigation systems.

HRB, a subsidiary of E-Systems headquartered in State College,
Pennsylvania, had previously purchased a minority interest in
Auto-Trac. E-Systems spokesperson John Kumpf declined to
reveal the purchase price for Auto-Trac.

The combined companies will provide real-time fleet tracking and
management systems using the Navstar global positioning system
(GPS) for government and commercial customers.

The company says it already has a contract to deliver a GPS system
for the County of Lackawanna Transit System in Scranton,
Pennsylvania. That system is designed to use GPS to automatically
trigger audio messages to announce stops on bus routes. The specific
amount of the Lackawanna contract was not disclosed, but Kumpf
told Newsbytes it was "under a million (dollars)."

Vehicle-mounted and hand-held GPS systems use satellite and
ground-based communications to provide very accurate positioning
(within a few meters) of vehicles and individuals. Such technology
was used by the US military during the Persian Gulf war.

Kumpf told Newsbytes the 12 Auto-trac employees will all be
retained. HRB employees 850 people.

(Jim Mallory/19940602/Press contact: John Kumpf, E-Systems,
214-392-4923; Reader contact: Jackie Jones, Auto-Trac Inc.,
214-480-8145)


(NEWS)(IBM)(DEN)(00025)

 ****Another Super-Virus Discovered 06/02/94
BRIER, WASHINGTON, U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- A super-virus that
can create havoc on your computer system has been accidentally
discovered while a sales representative was demonstrating an
anti-virus program for a customer. Called "Junkie," the virus was
discovered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, while a Reflex Inc. rep was
demonstrating the merits of that company's Disknet anti-virus
software.

"Junkie" reportedly has software engineers concerned for several
reasons: It is encrypted, making it difficult to be spotted; it is
polymorphic, meaning it changes each time it replicates; and it
infects both the drive's boot sector and executable files on the
disk. The latter characteristic is called multi-partite by engineers.

Reflex engineers are studying the characteristics of "Junkie" in an
effort to see what other effects it may have on a computer. The
source of the virus is still uncertain, but it was discovered on
pre-installed, shrink-wrapped software.

The PC manufacturer that pre-installed the software was not
identified, but Reflex spokesperson Bob Reed told Newsbytes that
it appears that was not the source of the infection. "The system
was installed for a month before it ("Junkie") showed up," said Reed.

Reflex engineers say "Junkie" is spread by infecting the boot
sector, the portion of the hard disk that contains the startup
instructions for a computer. It can reportedly also infect the boot
sector of a floppy drive and even make an anti-virus program a
carrier.

"Junkie can make anti-virus toolkits spread viruses. Scanners open
files to search for viruses, in turn opening the door for Junkie to
use the scanner itself as a means of spreading the virus," according
to Reflex President Frank Horwitz.

Reed said the Ann Arbor incident is the only time so far "Junkie"
is known to have surfaced. He said there are no visible warnings of
the virus. He stresses the need for having a current backup of your
computer data. "The only known cure is re-formatting the hard disk,"
says Reed. That gets rid of "Junkie." Users are cautioned not to make
a backup copy of a drive that is suspect, since the backup will also
be contaminated.

Most anti-virus programs scan for known viruses, but cannot always
detect a new and different problem such as "Junkie." That makes it
necessary to continually update anti-virus programs, with a
resultant added cost in time and money to make sure your computer
system is virus-free.

(Jim Mallory/19940602/Press contact: Lucy Stokstad, Reed,
Revell-Pechar, 206-462-4777; Reader contact: Reflex Inc.,
800-673-3539)


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(LON)(00026)

Amsterdam Telecoms User Panel Meeting Report 06/02/94
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- The first annual
conference of the European Telecommunications User Panel (ETUP)
was held May 26-27 in Amsterdam. According to Ovum, the
London-based market research company, the conference marked the
culmination of a year-long program of research conducted by Ovum
on behalf of 17 leading telecommunications companies and
communications equipment suppliers.

Ovum claims that the research examined the changing needs of the top
100 users of telecoms products and services in Europe. The market
research company also claims it is working with ETUP in the longer
term by offering independent benchmarking of member's telecoms
products against each other.

Members of ETUP include Alcatel, AT&T, Belgacom, Bell Northern, BT,
Cable & Wireless, Mercury, Ericsson, GPT, Norwegian Telecom, SIP,
Swiss Telecom, Telia, and Telstra.

David Lewin, Ovum's chairman, opened the conference with a keynote
speech, saying that the next five years represent an "enormous
opportunity for the largest companies in Europe to use telecoms to
their competitive advantage. On the one hand, liberalization in Europe
will give them significantly lower prices and greater product
functionality. On the other, they need to use telecoms more effectively
if they are to improve market responsiveness, customer service and
decision making, while lowering unit costs of production."

He added: "The European Telecoms User Panel gives both major users
and their suppliers a unique opportunity to understand and respond
better to this challenge."

The ETUP is a non-profit organization, Sponsorship of the group
costs UKP30,000 a year. Sponsors receive detailed reports at regular
intervals through the year and can attend the annual conference.

Reports from Ovum over the last 12 months have covered ISDN
(integrated services digital networks), attitudes to service
competition, the future of the private network, outsourcing, high
growth applications, and high bandwidth applications.

(Steve Gold/19940602/Press & Reader Contact: Jennie Batchelor,
Ovum, tel [phone], fax [phone])


(NEWS)(BUSINESS)(LON)(00027)

UK - AST Unveils New Retail Sales Strategy 06/02/93
BRENTFORD, MIDDLESEX, ENGLAND, 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- AST Europe has
announced it is launching its Advantage! desktop, multimedia and
mini-tower PCs into the retail channel. The diversification is quite a
major one for the company which, to date, has concentrated on the
business/dealer side of the channel.

Spearheading the move into retail outlets are a series of deals with
Rumbelows, a high street white goods chain, as well as with Byte
and Staples, two UK computer superstore chains.

Announcing the deals and move, Graham Hopper, AST's UK general
manager, said that he is very excited by the potential for sales and
general opportunities for the company's Advantage! range of PCs.
"Increasingly, consumers are demanding brand names over no-name
clones and are able to compare and contrast different systems most
easily in a retail environment," he said.

AST is making a few changes to its Advantage! product specification
before offering them in retail outlets. While the underlying hardware
is the same as in the business channel, based around processors
ranging from 33 megahertz (MHz) 80386 to 66MHz i486DX2 chipsets,
the retail versions come with Microsoft Works, Ami Pro and Lotus
1-2-3, as well as Intuit's Quick home and small business accounts
package.

Further upscale in the retail channel, AST is equipping its Advantage!
PCs with a 16-bit stereo sound card, speakers, microphone and
CD-ROM drive. The idea behind the reconfigured systems is that they
become "perfect family computer systems for education and
entertainment," AST officials claim.

"We offer a strong brand and excellent solutions for the retail
channel. Based on the successful strategy we have developed in the US,
the range of Advantage! systems are designed for the needs of the
small office, home office (SOHO) buyer," explained Frank O'Brien, AST
UK's sales manager. "Our new manufacturing facility in Limerick,
Ireland, also means we will be able to respond quickly to changing
consumer requirements."

The Rumbelows' range of Advantage! PCs start from UKP1,049.99.
For this, buyers get a family pack based on a 33MHz i486SX chipset
configured with four megabytes (MB) of memory, a 170MB hard disk
and VGA graphics. Two other systems, based on 50MHz i486SX2 and
66MHz i486DX2 processors, push the price up to UKP1.499.99.
Rumbelows has 47 outlets in the UK at the moment.

Similar packages are available through the Byte and Staples' computer
superstore outlets, although with the pitch being towards the small
business user as well as consumer users. AST products are already
available through Staples' US outlets, Newsbytes notes.

(Steve Gold/19940602/Press & Reader Contact: Willson Hau, AST,
tel [phone], fax [phone])


(NEWS)(BUSINESS)(DAL)(00028)

Symantec & Central Point Complete Merger 06/02/94
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- The two largest
utility software companies in the personal computer (PC) market
have officially merged. Symantec announced it has completed the
$60 million, stock-swap merger of competitor Beaverton, Oregon-
based Central Point Software.

The goal of the merger is to aim directly at the enterprise
software market, according to Symantec. Company officials did
not have exact figures, but claimed Symantec was the number one
utility software company, while Central Point Software was
rated second.

The combined company will keep the Central Point PC Tools product
and staff in the Beaverton, Oregon office. Chuck Boesenberg,
chief executive officer (CEO) and chairman of Central Point, will
manage the development and shipment of the next-generation Central
Point desktop products, including the PC Tools brand and will take a
seat on the Symantec board of directors. Rick Schell, currently
vice president and general manager of the Central Point Network
Product Group, will also remain.

About 100 Central Point employees will keep their jobs after the
merger out of the Central Point staff of about 280. Other overlapping
products between the two companies may go as well, but company
representative Brett Smith told Newsbytes no definite decisions
have been made.

Gordon Eubanks, Symantec's president and CEO, said the enterprise
software market is one of the fastest growing. "We have already
demonstrated success in this burgeoning market with the release
of Norton Administrator for Networks, which has sold more than
300,000 nodes," Eubanks said. Symantec hopes to strengthen its
resources for developing enterprise software in the merger.

(Linda Rohrbough/19940602/Press Contact: Brett Smith, Symantec,
tel [phone], fax [phone]; Public Contact: Symantec
Product Information, 800-441-7234 or 503-334-6054)


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(SFO)(00029)

Internet World '94 - DEC To Provide Internet Mosaic 06/02/94
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- Taking many
Internet World attendees by surprise, Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC)
demonstrated a strong commitment in support of Internet
connectivity and commercial services.

Its prominent trade floor presentation, "Putting the Internet to
Work for You," featured banking, city services and other commercial
uses of Internet.

Introducing the Internet Electronic Connection, DEC will now offer
information and ordering capabilities to customers of its hardware,
software, services and third-party products, as well as the latest
announcements and special offers.

Under its Digital Internet Services, it will provide software patches
to DEC customers and Digital's Internet Security Services will
provide customers with new measures of security for online
operations.

Among its Internet announcements, DEC revealed a licensing
agreement with the commercial licensee of Mosaic, Spyglass Inc. of
Champaign, Illinois. Mosaic is the browser or graphical user interface
(GUI) that allows Internet users a means of searching, retrieving,
displaying, and storing the massive data available on Internet.

Digital will ship Mosaic on all of its systems. The company also
announced its participation in CommerceNet and the newly
constructed MecklerWeb.

"Digital has long been a supporter of Internet and today we are
demonstrating an even greater support of our belief that this is
the future that will give our customers an advantage over our
competitors," Gail Grant, Digital's manager of Alpha AXP Internet
Program, told Newsbytes.

Digital is providing an Alpha AXP server and systems integration
resources for the launch of the new MecklerWeb.

(Patrick McKenna/19940602/Press Contact: Karen Quatromoni,
Digital Equipment Corp., 508-264-5358)


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

Internet World '94 Opens In San Jose 06/02/94
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- MecklerMedia's
Internet World '94 is being held in San Jose, California, this week.
The show concentrates on the use of the global Internet.

The show includes Internet providers, software developers,
online purchasing and commercial information services, Internet
publications, a look at network connections, and introductory
software and information for novice users.

With about 20 computer stations in the middle of the trade
show floor, participants lined-up to get on the Internet to send
messages, check their mail or just "surf the Net," as several
attendees told Newsbytes.

Ongoing seminars and conferences dealt with legal issues, medical
topics, pricing, networking, security, commercialization, privacy,
and other topics. Lively debates centered around privacy, freedoms,
government influence and legislation, and commercialization.

Highlighting the announcements surrounding the show were
MecklerMedia's new MecklerWeb, Digital Equipment Corp.'s Mosaic
licensing agreement with Spy glass, the Internet Business
Association, and Global Network Navigator's (GNN) "Best of the Net"
awards.

The Internet was routinely applauded for its independence, its
constantly changing identity, and its availability to anyone with a
personal computer, a modem, software and a necessary Internet
provider.

In offering a definition of the Internet, Howard Rheingold, author
and Internet visionary, winner of GNN's First Citizen of the Net
award, said, "When it comes right down to it, the Internet is a bunch
of really cool stuff delivered to the world for everyone to share by
a bunch of really cool people." GNN reportedly gave Howard Rheingold
the award because of his efforts to "identify and guide the
democratic role of life on the Net."

(Patrick McKenna/19940602/Press Contact: Ron Pernick, Niehaus
Ryan Haller Public Relations, 415-615-7891)


(NEWS)(GENERAL)(SFO)(00031)

Newsbytes Daily Summary 06/02/94
PENN VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1994 JUN 2 (NB) -- These are
capsules of all today's news stories:

1 -> Apple Ships Power Macs To China 06/02/94 Apple Computer has
confirmed that it has begun shipping Power Macintosh computers  to the
People's Republic of China. The shipments began Wednesday, June 1, and
are part of Apple's continuing effort to penetrate the region.

2 -> Cadre Upgrades ObjectTeam & Teamwork Tools 06/02/94 Cadre has
issued upgrades of its year-old ObjectTeam tools for object- oriented
(00) application development, as well as its long-time Teamwork tool
suite for structured analysis and modeling methods automation.

3 -> Power Mac Success Over Intel Depends On Apps 06/02/94 According
to analysts, what will make or break sales of the new Power Macintosh
from Apple Computer is the number of significant applications for the
platform -- applications that will attract Intel users. While
shipments of the new PowerPC-based Macintosh have been good,
speculation continues as to whether or not the platform will succeed
in attracting a large enough market share.

4 -> Accessing Internet For Afro-American Business Leaders 06/02/94 At
a recent gathering of Afro-American business leaders in Oakland,
California,  Manselmedia produced "Business Opportunities on the
Information  Highway," a seminar designed to introduce the audience to
potential advantages available on Internet for business education,
marketing, collaboration, and new business development.

5 -> Compuserve Offers New Video Games Section 06/02/94 Game players
are being  offered a chance to get together with one another and with
game  designers and publishers through Compuserve's two new forums --
Video Game Publishers Forum and Video Games Forum.

6 -> Japan - Computer News Roundup 06/02/94 In today's news, Rohm
teams up with Alliance in SRAM business, Oki Electric to enter TFT LCD
driver IC market, and Hitachi to triple color  STN LCD production this
year, Kubota Computer markets Unix  server costing less than one-third
the price of earlier models  with the same performance, and Sanyo
Electric joins hands  with Western Digital in CD-ROM LSI development.

7 -> Japan - Telecom News Roundup 06/02/94 In today's telecom news
from Japan, MPT's Telecommunications Council reports development of
nationwide optical communications network will cost $721.15 to $913.46
billion, and OKI Electric as well as banks to start full- motion video
on-line shopping service experiment in Tokyo next year.

8 -> Court Computers Offer Near-Realtime Transcripts 06/02/94 When
16-year old Jacob Ind, charged with murdering his mother and
stepfather, wants to study what a witness in his trial has just said
all he has to do is press a button. A system, called the Computer
Integrated Courtroom (CIC) in use on an experimental basis in Judge
Jane Looney's 4th Judicial District courtroom, displays every word
spoken in the trail.

9 -> Company Brings Internet To Your Home - Literally 06/02/94 A
Seattle company wants to bring the Internet into your home -
literally. Fine.com, a division of Fine Marketing Communications, says
it will come to your home or business, install a combination of
freeware and shareware on your computer, and teach a single user how
to get the most out of the Internet.

10 -> Canadian News Service Based On Lotus Notes 06/02/94 Lotus
Development Canada Ltd. and Globe Information Services have announced
plans to use Lotus' Notes workgroup software to deliver an electronic
version of the Toronto-based daily newspaper The Globe and Mail, as
well as a company profiles service.

11 -> Toronto Free-Net To Open Soon 06/02/94 Toronto is  shortly to be
added to the growing list of Canadian cities with  free-nets --
public-access computer networks that provide  access to a variety of
information at no cost to the user.

12 -> IBM Offers 1 Gigabyte AT Drive For Direct Sale 06/02/94 IBM's
Storage Systems Division is now offering its 3.5-inch, one gigabyte
(GB) AT Hard Disk Drive for sale to individual personal computer (PC)
users.

13 ->  ****Sale Of Mobile Devices To Double By 1998 06/02/94 True or
false? "The more a professional travels, the more likely that
professional is to have a portable PC." Surprisingly, the answer is
"false," according to a new study by BIS Strategic Research.

14 -> Proteon Launches Nationwide Series Of User Seminars 06/02/94
Proteon  has launched "User Access: The Time Is Now," the third
nationwide series of user seminars to be offered by the vendor over
the past 18 months. This time, the focus is on remote access.

15 -> Soros To Fund Radio Free Europe Digital Archive 06/02/94
Financier George Soros, whom the Wall Street Journal has called "the
bad boy of global finance," has agreed to fund a new research
institute to replace the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty research
institute.

16 ->  ****Government Encryption Plans Hit Patent Problems 06/02/94 A
Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer scientist has added his
name to the list of claimants to patents on pieces of the federal
government's encryption initiatives, including both the controversial
Clipper chip and the National Institute of Standards and Technology's
digital signature standard.

17 ->  ****MecklerWeb Business Web On Internet Planned 06/02/94
MecklerMedia is planning a worldwide business and commerce web on the
Internet,  called MecklerWeb.

18 ->  ****Software Moves From Floppy Disks To CD-ROMs 06/02/94
According to Sanctuary Woods' President Scott Walchek, the software
market is moving away from floppy disk distribution, and onto CD-ROM.

19 -> Storm Takes PhotoCD To Schools 06/02/94 Storm  Technology is
hoping Kodak's PhotoCD technology can win it a  bigger place in the
education market. As a first step in that  strategy, the company has
acquired the rights to Kid's Studio, a  multimedia storytelling
program developed by CyberPuppy  Software and distributed by Maxis.

20 -> McCaw Links With PageNet, While AT&T Pleads Its Case 06/02/94
McCaw Cellular,  which also owns the nation's fifth largest paging
service, signed  an agreement to resell the services of number-one
Paging Network  Inc., in those locations where it currently does not
do business.

21 -> Correction - WTI RadioMail Bundle Includes Mobidem 06/02/94 In a
recent story  on Wireless Telecom Inc., offering a bundle of RadioMail
and RAM  Mobile Data wireless data services, Newsbytes reported that
the  Mobidem, a packet data modem needed to access the services, was
not included in the $400 offering.

22 -> Modern Media Intros Gus And The CyberBuds CD-ROM 06/02/94 Modern
Media Ventures Inc., a small multimedia developer, has announced  a
new educational title called "Gus and the CyberBuds Sing, Play  and
Paint-A-Long" on CD-ROM.

23 -> Cray Claims New Software Saves Engineers Time, Money 06/02/94
Cray Research says its new Hexar software product can save as much as
six months of time and hundreds of thousands of dollars for engineers
and researchers.

24 -> HRB Acquires Global Positioning System Firm 06/02/94 HRB Systems
has  announced the acquisition of Dallas-based Auto-Trac Inc., a
company that provides vehicle location and navigation systems.

25 ->  ****Another Super-Virus Discovered 06/02/94 A super-virus that
can create havoc on your computer system has been accidentally
discovered while a sales representative was demonstrating an
anti-virus program for a customer. Called "Junkie," the virus was
discovered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, while a Reflex Inc. rep was
demonstrating the merits of that company's Disknet anti-virus
software.

26 -> Amsterdam Telecoms User Panel Meeting Report 06/02/94 The first
annual conference of the European Telecommunications User Panel (ETUP)
was held May 26-27 in Amsterdam. According to Ovum, the London-based
market research company, the conference marked the culmination of a
year-long program of research conducted by Ovum  on behalf of 17
leading telecommunications companies and  communications equipment
suppliers.

27 -> UK - AST Unveils New Retail Sales Strategy 06/02/93 AST Europe
has announced it is launching its Advantage! desktop, multimedia and
mini-tower PCs into the retail channel. The diversification is quite a
major one for the company which, to date, has concentrated on the
business/dealer side of the channel.

28 -> Symantec & Central Point Complete Merger 06/02/94 The two
largest utility software companies in the personal computer (PC)
market have officially merged. Symantec announced it has completed the
$60 million, stock-swap merger of competitor Beaverton, Oregon- based
Central Point Software.

29 -> Internet World '94 - DEC To Provide Internet Mosaic 06/02/94
Taking many  Internet World attendees by surprise, Digital Equipment
Corp. (DEC)  demonstrated a strong commitment in support of Internet
connectivity and commercial services.

30 -> Internet World '94 Opens In San Jose 06/02/94 MecklerMedia's
Internet World '94 is being held in San Jose, California, this week.
The show concentrates on the use of the global Internet.

(Ian Stokell/19940602)