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Subject: Edupage, 24 Sep 1995

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Edupage, 24 Sep 95.  Edupage, a summary of news items on information
technology, is provided three times each weeks 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
        Netscape Buys Groupware Company
        Time Warner Buys Turner Broadcasting
        TCI A Winner In Time Warner Deal
        Convex Acquired By Hewlett-Packard
        Set-Top Boxes For Wireless TV

ALSO
        Info Systems Budgets On The Rise
        Realtor Information Network
        Resume Scanning
        Microsoft Envisions "Broadcast PC"

NETSCAPE BUYS GROUPWARE COMPANY
Netscape Communications, the maker of Web browser software, is purchasing
Collabra Software, which makes groupware.  The acquisition signals
Netscape's intent to compete against IBM's Lotus division.  Netscape
believes that the Internet can be used to provide a cheap and easy way of
allowing groups of workers to collaborate on documents and share ideas.
(Wall Street Journal 22 Sep 95 A4)

TIME WARNER BUYS TURNER BROADCASTING
Time Warner is buying Turner Broadcasting for $7.5 billion.  Time Warner
will now be the world's largest communications company, with projected
revenues of $19.8 billion annually.   (New York Times 23 Sep 95 A1)

TCI A WINNER IN TIME WARNER DEAL
Tele-Communications Inc., the nation's largest cable operator, may be the
biggest single winner from Time Warner's purchase of Turner Broadcasting.
TCI's John Malone used his veto power on the Turner board to get
concessions that would give TCI a 450% return on its Turner shares and a
variety of rights to use Turner programming at favorable rates.  (Los
Angeles Times 23 Sep 95 D5)

CONVEX ACQUIRED BY HEWLETT PACKARD
The supercomputer industry shakeout continues with the purchase of Convex
by Hewlett-Packard for $150 million in stock, ending Convex's 13-year
history as a supercomputer company.  Executives for the two companies
pointed out that Convex had already formed a partnership with HP and has
been using HP's microprocessors for some time.  (Wall Street Journal 22 Sep
95 B5)

SET-TOP BOXES FOR WIRELESS TV
Tele-TV Systems (a company owned by Nynex, Pacific Telesis and Bell
Atlantic) will buy more than a billion dollars' worth of set-top boxes from
Thomson Consumer Electronics.  Tele-TV hopes to reach three million
subscribers with a wireless TV system using transmitting towers that send
TV signals via microwave within a radius of about 50 miles.  The signals
will be received by small antennas on the sides of homes and carried to the
set-top boxes.  (Wall Street Journal 22 Sep 95 B5)

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INFO SYSTEMS BUDGETS ON THE RISE
A recent survey by Computer Economics Inc. found that information systems
budgets were up at least 10% over the previous year at 87% of the 350 large
companies and government organizations polled.  At the same time, average
IS budgets fell to 2.32% of overall company revenue, compared with 2.39%
for the same period.  (Information Week 25 Sep 95 p20)

REALTOR INFORMATION NETWORK
The National Association of Realtors is creating a service which will
provide industry professionals to exchange listings and other information
and allow the public to search for homes.  The nationwide system would
provide access to maps, crime statistics, school information, census data,
tax data, etc.  A half million real estate agents have already signed up
for the service, called The Realtors Information Network.  (Wall Street
Journal 22 Sep 95 A7E)

RESUME SCANNING
When health-care products company Johnson & Johnson recently consolidated
the hiring functions of six divisions of the corporation, it used a
computer program to scan employee resumes and classify them.  An executive
of Resumix, a Santa Clara-based company that provides resume-scanning
software, explains:  "A lot of large corporations find themselves getting
hundreds or thousands of unsolicited resumes each month.  It's a big job
trying to get through them and categorize them.  What we have lacked is an
efficient way to marry these candidates with the jobs.  This is helping."
(San Diego Union-Tribune 22 Sep 95 C1)

MICROSOFT ENVISIONS "BROADCAST PC"
"In the future, any standard PC will have some kind of digital broadcast
receiver connected to it (or embedded in it) that would allow it to receive
broadcast video plus any data transmitted in conjunction with the picture,"
says Microsoft's senior VP for its consumer systems division.  "We expect
there is going to be a lot of utility in having computers with digital
broadcast receivers, (bringing) television inside the PC."  (Broadcasting &
Cable 18 Sep 95 p60)

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