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Subject: Edupage, 21 January 1996

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Edupage, 21 January 1996.  Edupage, a summary of news items on information
technology, is provided three times each week as a service by Educom,
a Washington, D.C.-based consortium of leading colleges and universities
seeking to transform education through the use of information technology.
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TOP STORIES
        Apple For Sale
        Scientologists Win Internet Copyright Case
        Sony Aims For 20% Of PC Market
        Compaq Rejoins "Intel Inside" Campaign
        Motorola Pulls Out Of Nationwide Venture

ALSO
        Cooperation On TV Violence
        IBM Faces Bribe Investigations In Argentina
        Internet Child Pornography
        Flexible Monitors

APPLE FOR SALE
Apple Computer is for sale, but no buyers have materialized yet.
Reportedly, Sun Microsystems was in discussions over a buyout as recently as
two weeks ago, but backed off over Apple's price tag.  Others with whom
Apple CEO Michael Spindler has broached the subject include Hewlett-Packard,
Motorola, Toshiba, Sony and IBM, but so far, no company has been willing to
meet Spindler's price.  (Wall Street Journal 19 Jan 96 B2)

SCIENTOLOGISTS WIN INTERNET COPYRIGHT CASE
A federal judge has ruled in favor of the Church of Scientology in a case
in which the church sued a person who posted onto the Internet some
''secret" documents on which it holds a copyright.  The defendant had tried
unsuccessfully to argue that the Church of Scientology had lost its rights
to the documents when they were included in publicly available materials
published in connection with another court case.  (New York Times 20 Jan 96
p19)

SONY AIMS FOR 20% OF PC MARKET
Sony Corp., which is poised to enter the U.S. PC market in a big way, isn't
thinking small -- "I think we can earn at least half the share of Packard
Bell," says an optimistic Sony senior managing director.  Packard Bell
dominated approximately 40% of the home PC market last year.  Sony's plans
include two or three PC models launched in the U.S. this year, with
subsequent ventures planned for Japan and Europe.  (St. Petersburg Times 19
Jan 96 E6)

COMPAQ REJOINS "INTEL INSIDE" CAMPAIGN
After yanking the "Intel Inside" logo off its computers two years ago,
Compaq Computer is rejoining the highly successful chip marketing program.
Compaq's plan to replace Intel microprocessors with those from Cyrix and
Advanced Micro Devices was not successful, and Intel's lock on the Pentium
market drove Compaq back into its arms.  "If you can't beat them, join them,
or rejoin them," says an analyst for Smith Barney.  At the time they pulled
out, Compaq resented Intel's attempts to shift attention from the computer
maker to the component maker, but in the past two years, its lead in market
share has made those concerns less important.  (Wall Street Journal 19 Jan
96 B2)

MOTOROLA PULLS OUT OF NATIONWIDE VENTURE
Motorola's Cellular Infrastructure Group has been "unable to reach
acceptable financial and commercial contract terms" with the Sprint
Telecommunications Venture.  The partnership, which includes
Sprint, Tele-Communications Inc., Comcast Corp. and Cox Communications, is
scheduled to construct a $3-billion nationwide wireless network over the
next two years to be used for personal communications services.  A Motorola
VP says the dispute arose out of "unusual terms related to damages and
financing" required by Sprint.  (Wall Street Journal 19 Jan 96 B2)

COOPERATION ON TV VIOLENCE
The chair of the Canadian radio and TV regulatory commission says he's
now confident that Canada's threat to block some American
programming because of violence or nudity is no longer necessary.
The office of U,S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor pledged to
urge American border stations to adhere to future Canadian action
against such programs.  Two Fox affiliates already are participating
in Canadian testing of V-chip technology for children's programming.
(Toronto Globe & Mail 20 Jan 96 B2)

IBM FACES BRIBE INVESTIGATIONS IN ARGENTINA
IBM is the subject of investigations by the US Securities and Exchange
Commission and the FBI over allegations that the IBM Argentine subsidiary
paid bribes to win a quarter of a million contract with the state-owned
Banco Nacion.  (Financial Times 18 Jan 96 p6)

INTERNET CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police  in Newfoundland set a national precedent
when they chargeda man with possession of child pornography downloaded from
the Internet.  Police say they aren't about to start randomly breaking into
people's computers and will not act without a complaint.  (Ottawa
Citizen 19 Jan 96 A3)

FLEXIBLE MONITORS
Now there are computer monitors that can be flipped around for a
"portrait"-shaped screen, ideal for viewing vertically oriented Web pages.
The MicroScan 17x by ADI Systems and the Pivot 1700 from Portrait Display
Labs can be used either as a conventional monitor, or as a display that's
about 13 inches high by about 9 1/2 inches wide.  Flexibility doesn't come
cheap, however -- each one costs more than double a conventional model --
about $925.  (Business Week 22 Jan 96 p22)

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([e-mail]).  Voice:  404-371-1853, Fax: [phone].

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