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Subject: Edupage, 7 November 1995
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Edupage, 7 Nov 95. 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
Virus-Blocker
GMAT Goes Digital
Sun Workstations Shine
Groupware Or Webware?
Time Moves To Compuserve
Digital Software Lets Alpha Chip Do Windows
Compaq Buys Networth
MCI And Microsoft Agreement
Corbis Gets Electronic Rights To Hermitage Museum
Apple To License Newton Technology
ALSO
Information Technology Conference
Educom Award Winners
Webmasters In Great Demand
Telecom Deregulation Proposal
Samsung To Acquire Control Of AST
PCs By Gender
Fight Looms For Highway Access In Canada
Intellectual Property Discussion
"And On The Left, I'm Off To Microsoft"
VIRUS-BLOCKER
McAfee Associates has a new product called WebScan that identifies
virus-tainted programs before they're downloaded and warns the user not to
continue. Security experts say WebScan is the first product that prevents
viruses from infecting a computer to begin with, rather than attacking the
problem after it's already occurred. (Wall Street Journal 6 Nov 95 B6)
GMAT GOES DIGITAL
Next year students taking the Graduate Management Admissions Test will trade
in their No. 2 pencils for computers at colleges and Sylvan Learning Systems
Inc. test centers. The computerized version of the test will enable
students to "take the test when they want it by calling up a test center and
just making a reservation," says the president of the Graduate Schools
Admission Council, which sponsors the test. (Investor's Business Daily 7
Nov 95 A6)
SUN WORKSTATIONS SHINE
Sun Microsystems' new line of workstations runs about three times faster
than previous models, giving the company its biggest surge in speed since
1989. The machines sport a new UltraSparc microprocessor and new
technologies such as instructions to speed video and 3-D graphics without
expensive add-in cards. The latest workstations build on Sun's market
momentum, thanks to its new Java software which promises to turbocharge the
Web through its "applet" technology. CEO Scott McNealy dismisses the
company's detractors: "It's been 13 years of people thinking we're toast."
(Business Week 13 Nov 95 p48)
GROUPWARE OR WEBWARE?
Companies are beginning to turn to the World Wide Web for their "Intranets"
-- smaller private networks that combine text, graphics and video to
distribute news, answer employee questions, update personnel records and
connect geographically distant workers. Companies note that doing it on the
Web, while less secure, is cheaper, easier to install, more flexible and
requires much less training than using a groupware package such as Lotus
Notes. Sales of Intranet software are on the rise, from $142 million this
year to a predicted $1.2 billion in 1997. And while Notes has 3 million
users, Intranets link about 15 million workers, according to Zona Research
Inc. (Wall Street Journal 7 Nov 95 A1)
TIME MOVES TO COMPUSERVE
Time magazine, one of the first major magazines to go online, is moving its
operation from America Online to CompuServe, which is offering "several
million" dollars a year for the privilege of carrying Time's content. The
Time service generated around 50,000 hours a month of revenue for AOL, and
in return AOL paid the magazine $500,000 a year. AOL also received free
advertising through Time and was able to use its name as leverage in
striking other deals. "This is a major loss to America Online," says an
executive familiar with the situation. (Wall Street Journal 6 Nov 95 B6)
Meanwhile, CompuServe has inked a deal with StrataCom Inc. to buy $30
million worth of high-speed ATM switches over the next two years.
CompuServe plans to use the switches to construct a broadband network for
handling data, audio and video transmissions, both for itself and for its
customers. (Wall Street Journal 7 Nov 95 B8)
DIGITAL SOFTWARE LETS ALPHA CHIP DO WINDOWS
Digital Equipment Corp.'s new FX!32 software allows Windows 95 applications
written for Intel-based computers to run on Digital's high-speed Alpha
chips. The 32-bit Windows applications reportedly run up to 40% faster on
the Alpha than on computers equipped with Intel microprocessors. Beginning
in 1996, FX!32 will be bundled with Windows NT on new Alpha systems.
Current Alpha users will receive the software with their next NT upgrade.
(Wall Street Journal 6 Nov 95 B7)
COMPAQ BUYS NETWORTH
Compaq is acquiring Networth Inc., an Irving, Texas, network products
company, in a move that will strengthen Compaq's position as the leading
maker of PC-based servers. (New York Times 7 Nov 95 C3)
MCI AND MICROSOFT AGREEMENT
MCI and Microsoft have formed an agreement that will give direct access to
networkMCI conferencing services in future versions of Microsoft's Windows
software. (Financial Times 7 Nov 95 p18)
CORBIS GETS ELECTRONIC RIGHTS TO HERMITAGE MUSEUM
Corbis Corp., the company Microsoft's Bill Gates created in 1989 to develop
and market new uses for digital images, has reached an electronic rights
agreement with the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. Corbis
already has agreements with the National Gallery in London, the Bettman
Archive, and various other major collections. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution
7 Nov 95 E2)
APPLE TO LICENSE NEWTON TECHNOLOGY
Apple Computer will license its Newton hand-held computer technology to
Schlumberger Ltd. and Digital Ocean Inc. Schlumberger, an oil services
company, plans to develop portable computers for physicians, and Digital
Ocean will concentrate on making hand-held devices that include global
positioning and navigation capabilities for the transportation and
manufacturing industries. (Investor's Business Daily 6 Nov 95 A7)
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
The CAUSE organization's annual conference on information technology in
higher education is scheduled for the end of this month in New Orleans. The
conference will bring together administrators, academicians and other
managers of information resources. For full conference information check out
<http://cause-www.colorado.edu > or send e-mail to conf@cause.colorado.edu.
EDUCOM AWARD WINNERS
Three professors were awarded Educom medals for their efforts in using
information technology to improve undergraduate instruction. The winners of
the first Educom Medal Awards program were selected by the American
Psychological Association, the American Chemical Society, and the
Mathematical Association of America. Alan M. Lesgold, professor of
psychology and intelligent systems and director of the Learning Research and
Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh, received a medal for his
work in developing "learning-by-doing" systems; Paul F. Schatz, director of
the Organic Laboratories at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, was
recognized for developing software that helps students learn chemistry; and
David A. Smith, an associate professor of mathematics at Duke University,
was awarded a medal for his work in redesigning the calculus curriculum.
(Chronicle of Higher Education 10 Nov 95)
WEBMASTERS IN GREAT DEMAND
A Web Week survey reports that "Webmasters at big companies generally enjoy
responsibility, authority and respectable remuneration." The typical
webmaster is male (87.5%), in his 30s (55%), earns more than $45,000 a year
(57.5%), and often more than $65,000 a year (37.5%). Rather than being
nerdy troglodytes who emerge from their dens only for another meal of
nachos, Cheez Whiz and Jolt cola, Web Week found