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ALEMBIC OFFERS NEWSMAN - A POWERFUL DOW JONES INFORMATION RETRIEVER

Englewood Colorado, February 16, 1994 - Alembic Systems
International announced today that it is shipping NewsMan, a powerful
Dow Jones information retriever for NEXTSTEP. With a flexible and
unique way of retrieving information, NewsMan will connect to more
than 14 Dow Jones Industrial databases for investment analysis and
news gathering.

NewsMan was designed to offer the most efficient information
retrieval tools for stock market investment. Simply drag-and-drop
your investment securities onto a Database window and let NewsMan
retrieve the information for you. NewsMan can also be used to
automatically retrieve batches of requested information periodically
and either post the information on your computer, save it onto your
disk, e-mail, print, or fax it. With API functionality, NewsMan
also allows you to develop personal applications for testing
analytical theories and strategies.

NewsMan allows you to collect more than stock market information.
With just one menu selection, you can create a folder containing
all the Dow Jones industry, government, or miscellaneous codes, and
retrieve news from various topics such as airlines to high tech
medical equipment.

NewsMan features include:

 * Latest Industry, and Government News
 * Latest Company News
 * Latest Business and Financial News
 * Latest Press Release News
 * Latest Commodity, and International News
 * Latest Bond, Futures, Option, Stock,
  and Treasury Quotes
 * Historical Stock Quotes
 * Historical Graphs
 * Latest Mutual Funds Performances
 * Latest Mutual Funds Comparisons
 * Innovest Technical Analysis Report
 * Standard & Poor's Profiles and Earnings
 * Media General Financial Services
 * Insiders Trading
 * Insiders Ownership
 * Symbol Finder
 * Article Searcher
 * Option Builder
 * Futures Builder
 * Encyclopedia
 * Portfolio Folder for easy storage of securities
 * Image Folder for easy storage of Historical Graphs
 * News Folder for easy storage of news articles
 * Automatic data retrieval

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