Newsbytes - Internationa…ews 1983 May to 1994 June/Newsbytes - International Computing Industry News 1994 Edition - May 1983 - June 1994 - Wayzata Technologies (5045) (1994).iso/mac/Text/Mac Text/1993/nb930118

Text File | 1993-01-18 | 57KB | 1,268 lines

(NEWS)(GENERAL)(TOR)(00001)

New Products: CA Apps Development Tools 01/18/93
ISLANDIA, NEW YORK, U.S.A., 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- Computer
Associates International extended its applications
development offerings with new versions of its software component
management tool and new versions of an application generator.

CA unveiled new implementations of CA-PAN/LCM, an integrated
change and configuration management system that controls the
inventory of software components throughout the enterprise.

The announcement includes graphical user interface (GUI) versions
of CA-PAN/LCM that provide graphical access to all CA-PAN/LCM
functions. CA also unveiled two Unix implementations of the
software, for HP-UX and SCO Unix.

A new PAN/LCM Configuration Manager for IBM mainframes running
the MVS and VSE operating systems simplifies the building and
maintenance of mainframe-based software applications, Computer
Associates said.

The company added that users of its CA-Librarian and CA-Panvalet
software will receive the PAN/LCM Configuration Manager at no
additional license fee.

Also, CA announced new target production environments for
CA-Telon, its application generator software. The vendor said
Telon can now create code that works with the following database
software: its own CA-DB; Oracle on Unix, OS/2, and DOS systems;
IBM's SQL/DS on the VSE operating system; Tandem SQL; OS/2
Database Manager; and XDB on OS/2 and DOS systems.

Originally developed for IBM mainframe systems, Telon has
supported development only for the IBM MVS mainframe operating
system, DOS, and OS/2 up to now, said Marc Sokol, CA's director
of product strategy.

(Grant Buckler/19930114/Press Contact: Bob Gordon, Computer
Associates, 516-342-2391)


(NEWS)(GENERAL)(SFO)(00002)

QMS Expands Color Support For Printers 01/18/93
MOBILE, ALABAMA, U.S.A., 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- Following Apple's
introductions at the MacWorld Expo recently, color printer
manufacturers have been scrambling to create color profiles. QMS is
one of the first companies to announce support for Apple's
and EFI's (Electronics For Imaging) color synchronization
software.

QMS has begun shipping color profiles on disks for its color printers.
Specifically mentioned are the Colorscript 210 and Colorscript 230
printers. These printers were traditionally shipped with a diskette
that contained a Postscript Level 2 Color Rendering Dictionary that
worked with EFI's EFIColor application. Now that diskette will also
contain the Apple Colorsync Profile as well as EFI's competing
EFIColor Profile. Current owners of the two printer models affected
should contact QMS or their dealer for a copy of the new color
profiles.

(Naor Wallach/19930114/Press Contact: Ann Strople, QMS, 205-639-4474
PublicContact: QMS, 205-633-4300)


(NEWS)(IBM)(LAX)(00003)

Ventura Offers Windows Publisher's Powerpak 01/18/93
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- Ventura
Software, developer of the popular desktop publishing
application Ventura Publisher, has announced a bundle of
products the company calls the Publisher's Powerpak.

The Powerpak includes Ventura Publisher 4.1 for Windows,
Ventura Database Publisher 4.0 for Windows, Ventura Adpro 1.1
for Windows, and Ventura Picturepro 1.1 for Windows. The four
products separately retail for a total of $2,580, but in the
Powerpak the bundle retails for $995.

Ventura Publisher 4.1 for Windows is the latest version of the
company's flagship desktop publishing product. The Database
Publisher product allows a mail-merge type of preparation of
publishing without the tedious hand-formatting required in the
past. The company suggests the product can be used to automate
the preparation of catalogs and directories as well as other
data-intensive documents. The Database Publisher product also
works with Pagemaker, a competing desktop publishing product.

Adpro 1.1 for Windows is an advertising design and layout tool
to speed up the refining and production of ad concepts and
materials.

Picturepro 1.1 for Windows offers image editing, with a
collection of high-end paint, draw, and editing tools and adds
the ability to interactively edit and integrate art and
bitmapped images.

San Diego, California-based Ventura Software is a subsidiary of
Xerox Corporation.

(Linda Rohrbough/19930114/Press Contact: Susan Fitzgerald,
Ventura Software, tel [phone], fax [phone])


(NEWS)(IBM)(LON)(00004)

New For Windows: Ventura-To-Framemaker File Conversions 01/18/93
DUBLIN, IRELAND, 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- Frame Technology, the electronic
document publishing company, has unveiled a Ventura-to-Framemaker file
conversion filter for Windows-based desktop publishing software.

Frame Technology claims that the introduction of the package is the
result of the growing number of companies standardizing on
Framemaker for Windows, moving across from traditional word processing
and desktop publishing packages.

Geraldine Kelly, vice president of Frame in Europe, said that
the introduction of the utility is an ideal solution for such
companies.

Currently, Ventura Publisher only supports Microsoft Windows. The
utility package, which allows access to all 27 computing platforms
supported by Framemaker, is available free of charge to users of
Framemaker for Windows.

(Steve Gold/19930113/Press & Public Contact: Frame Technology Europe -
Tel: [phone])


(NEWS)(UNIX)(DEL)(00005)

India: Texas Instruments Appoints CASE Developer 01/18/93
BOMBAY, INDIA, 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- Texas Instruments (TI) has
appointed Datamatics Ltd. as its "re-engineering alliance partner."
Under the arrangement, Datamatics will develop enterprise-wide
software applications for the Asia-Pacific region, using TI's
integrated computer-aided software engineering (I-CASE) package
known as Information Engineering Facility (IEF).

Datamatics will license TI's IEF products, including the IEF Central
Encyclopedia and development modules, and will license TI's training
and other professional services. Additionally, Datamatics will train
its personnel in the use and application of IEF products. TI and
Datamatics will provide information systems planning, analysis, design,
and construction services to Datamatics' clients worldwide, as well as
reverse engineering, re-engineering, development, and maintenance
services of the clients' information system.

Bombay-based Tata Consultancy Services and Datamatics are the only two
companies in India that use IEF CASE tools.

(C.T. Mahabharat/19930112)


(NEWS)(APPLE)(LAX)(00006)

Rasterops Offers Video Duomate For Powerbook Duo 01/18/93
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- Rasterops
has announced a portable unit it is calling a docking station,
the Duomate, which connects Apple Macintosh Powerbook Duo notebook
computer to external monitors and video sources.

Apple has introduced a notebook computer and docking station
combination which offers the advantages of a desktop computer
with a notebook. The notebook has the central processing unit (CPU)
and usually the main storage in the form of a internal hard disk
drive. The docking station offers a larger and perhaps color
monitor, connection to a network, floppy disk drives, and
expansion slots for connection to peripherals such as scanners,
compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM) drives, or extra hard disk
storage.

The Rasterops Duomate unit, however, is just designed to connect
to the back of the Powerbook Duo notebook and offers 32-bit bus
architecture for Quadra-like display performance on an external
monitor.

Support for 16-inch, 20-inch and 21-inch Rasterops color
displays is offered as well as a two-page display in full 8-bit
color.

The Duomate can also output directly into a video cassette
recorder (VCR) to produce a videotape. The power supply
circuitry of the Duomate allows the Duo to be used at NTSC,
PAL, or 12-inch, and 13-inch red-green-blue (RGB) resolutions
without an external power adapter. However, Rasterops does
recommend using the external AC adapter at higher resolutions.

The company says on-board video encoding with the use of
convolution filters offers flicker-free NTSC or PAL video
output.

(Linda Rohrbough/19930115/Press Contact: Michele Janin,
Cunningham Communications, tel [phone], fax [phone];
Renee Courington, Rasterops, 408-562-4200)


(NEWS)(UNIX)(SYD)(00007)

Australian Chain Standardizes On NCR Retail System 01/18/93
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- Australian retail chain
Coles Fosseys has downsized to an NCR system, saving money and
improving performance at the same time. The Total Business Solution
runs on three high-end NCR Unix computers.

"This system is unique in the retail industry because of the way it links
merchandising, financials, and point-of-sale information," said the
chain's information systems manager, Tony Sparnenn. "We've been able
to pass our financial savings along to the customer, making us more
competitive."

He said the system provides much faster reporting of what is happening
in the stores, enabling better responses and thereby another competitive
advantage. "We're the first subsidiary in our group to downsize and
despite the risk, we received full support from the group's management.
The board let us choose an open system though we were previously an
IBM closed shop."

The first step in modernizing the computer system was the introduction
of scanning point-of-sale systems from NCR. Then, said Sparnenn, "We
looked for a financial system to replace our old one. It needed to hold
down costs. We chose Unix-based Oracle as it gives us flexibility in
software development while allowing us to downsize the hardware. We
then chose an Australian merchandising software package, Merman, from
Retek. It's also based on Oracle and we used it as a shell to develop
our own merchandising system."

The NCR computers used are the System 3550 which use up to eight 50 MHz
Intel 486 processors. Each has 64 users -- 40 are used for merchandising
and the rest on financials. Sparnenn said he could now do the job of
30 or 40 people with just nine. "And by February we expect to have 40
suppliers connected by Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) for purchase
orders and invoicing. Later we'll install Uniplex e-mail software for
all on-line store communications."

(Paul Zucker/19930315/Contact Jeff Bird at NCR on phone [phone]
or fax [phone])


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(DEL)(00008)

Indian Telecom Giant In Joint Singapore Venture 01/18/93
BANGALORE, INDIA, 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- Indian Telephone Industries Ltd.
(ITI), the public sector telecom giant, has set up a joint venture
in Singapore. The company ITI Communications aims to penetrate the
Southeast Asian markets.

Though the company is not expected to make much headway in Singapore
itself, as telecom giants already have a stronghold there, it is
eying the other countries in the region: Indonesia, Malaysia,
Vietnam, and Sri Lanka.

The company will initially concentrate on rural communications. The
rationale is that with the telecom giants concentrating on higher
capacity exchanges, the potential for smaller exchanges -- especially
the 56 to 2,000 line capacity ones -- would be untapped. On the
transmission equipment front, ITI Communications will explore the
market for Multi-Acess Rural Radio equipment and open wire systems.
The equipment will be supplied by the parent company, ITI Ltd.,
headquartered in Bangalore.

Before the recent industrial liberalization, ITI has enjoyed a
monopoly in telecom manufacturing with its age-old tie-up in
the production of the Alcatel E10B exchanges.

The paid-up capital of the firm is $450,000. Forty-nine percent
of the equity will be held by ITI India, six percent by
ITI-Equatorial Satcom Ltd., and the balance 45 percent by Valvas.

The Singapore-based Valvas is engaged in the manufacture of printed
circuit boards, components and computer systems.

ITI Communications has targeted a turnover of $17 million for the
year ending March 1994.

(C.T. Mahabharat/19930118)


(NEWS)(GENERAL)(TOR)(00009)

Toronto Drive Maker Chooses Coast For Expansion 01/18/93
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA, 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- DynaTek
Automation Systems Inc., a Toronto maker of disk drive arrays,
has chosen an unconventional location for expansion. Keeping some
operations in its present Toronto location, the company is
setting up a new manufacturing, research, and development
operation on Canada's east coast, away from much of the
country's high-technology industry.

DynaTek was lured to Nova Scotia partly by government incentives.
The provincial government will give the company a C$4-million
building loan and a C$3.4-million term loan, in exchange for
shares in the company and first call on its assets in the event
of a default.

DynaTek Marketing Manager Barbara Mighton said the company looked
for a location outside of Toronto because of high costs in
Canada's largest city. Real estate costs and wages are higher in
Toronto than in other parts of Canada. DynaTek considered moving
to the northern United States and also eyed the western province
of Manitoba and other parts of Ontario, she said.

Aside from government incentives, Mighton said, Nova Scotia has a
time zone advantage. The province is in the Atlantic time zone,
which is one hour ahead of Eastern time, putting it exactly
midway between British and California time.

DynaTek, a maker of Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)
storage systems, sells its products in North America, Europe, and
a number of Pacific Rim countries as well as parts of South
America.

Another attraction was a ready supply of workers, Mighton said,
noting that Nova Scotia's several universities produce a number
of graduates with technical backgrounds but there are relatively
few jobs for them in the region.

Unemployment is higher in the Maritime provinces than in central
Canada, and wages tend to be lower.

A few of the company's key people will be moving to Nova Scotia,
Mighton said, but most of those now working in Toronto will
remain. Sales and marketing, technical support, and a satellite
research and development office will stay in Toronto.
DynaTek plans to hire about 100 people in Nova Scotia in the
coming year.

(Grant Buckler/19930114/Press Contact: Barbara Mighton, DynaTek,
416-636-3000, fax [phone])


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(WAS)(00010)

ComNet '93 Show Preview 01/18/93
WASHINGTON, DC, U.S.A., 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- The 15th Annual
ComNet will be held in Washington on February 1-4 both at the
Washington Convention Center and across the street at the Ramada
Renaissance Techworld Hotel. World Expo Corporation says that there
will be more than 250 new product announcements made at ComNet'93
and that the exhibit halls will feature products from 450
companies.

A new high-performance enterprise network running
multimedia and network management features will be running
products from more than 30 companies.

The conference program will include 65 sessions with 33 in-depth
tutorials and two workshops. Some of the ten conference tracks
will include ATM, Broadband-ISDN, and FDDI technology; HIPPI,
Fiber Channel, multimedia, and video applications; connectivity
and migration architectures; internetworking, interoperability,
and LAN strategies; and standards issues.

The theme for this year's exposition and conference is
"Enterprise Networks in Transition: New Applications and
Corporate Profitability."

The keynote presentation on Wednesday, February 3, will feature
Victor A Pelson, president and group executive, communications
services at AT&T, who will speak on the topic of "The Next
Challenge: Democratizing and Globalizing 21st Century
Communications."

(John McCormick/19930115/Press Contact: Rachel Winett, World Expo
Corporation, 508-879-6700)


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(ATL)(00011)

More On Spectrum Cellular License Proposal 01/18/93
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, U.S.A., 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- Spectrum
Information Technology's announcement, saying it would try to patent
technology that helps cellular systems tell data from voice calls,
included statements from analyst Mark Plakias of Strategic
TeleMedia Inc., in New York. Newsbytes contacted him to see if he
was endorsing the company's approach of trying to lock up key
cellular data technologies.

Plakias told Newsbytes that should Spectrum acquire the patents,
its successful litigation could make the company a fortune, but
said he is not endorsing Spectrum's position. "I really don't,"
he said, when asked if he has a position on how Spectrum is handling
the patent claims, "except we're seeing a lot more broad patents
filed in telecommunications than ever before."

TeleMedia publishes a monthly newsletter called Audiotex
Now, at $295 per year. Says Plakias, "I am struck by how many
people are in the patent business."

"All this is good for lawyers," if not for users, he said. "We're
seeing a lot of situations where patents are being defended after
there is considerable marketplace activity. The reasonable
assumption is users are enjoying benefits from technology as it's
developed." But all this litigation is not hurting the market.
"One would be hard pressed to point to a case and say this patent
case or defense has slowed the pace of technology, despite
lawyers' best efforts."

The importance of all the patent activity that it is another step
toward bringing wireless services with the kind of enhanced
capabilities the wired networks have, like directory assistance
with call completion, or call forwarding, he said. "A lot of the
enhanced telephony services, like Caller ID with name display,
must be able to send a little blip of data in the voice band, and
we're only now specifying protocols for the wired network to do
this. You're seeing protocols for screenphones, so a switch
carrying a screenphone session will hold the voice path, allow
data to go down, and toggle to voice. This is not unique to
wireless, it's an increasing requirement regardless."

It's this kind of voice-data toggle that Spectrum is seeking to
patent. "Their take is now they can bill for wireless fax. Right
now no one has a clue what airtime is being used for. Now they
could charge a premium or discount, depending on business
considerations. They want to get beyond vending plain-vanilla
airtime and position the industry to charge a premium for a
value-added service."

The question data users might ask is, if one can send data on a
cellular phone now, where is the added value in having the
cellular company know one is sending data and not making a voice
call? According to Spectrum President Peter Caserta, that knowledge
might let cellular operators charge less for data transmissions.
But if the cost of air time is uniform, where is the value for
carriers in knowing whether a transmission is voice or data?

The debate over this patent application, and its implications,
is sure to continue.

(Dana Blankenhorn/19930115/Press Contact: Mark Plakias, Strategic
Telemedia, 212-366-0895)


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(ATL)(00012)

LDDS - New Long Distance Challenger 01/18/93
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, U.S.A., 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- The US long
distance business continues to consolidate, with former
alternative operator companies and small long distance networks
buying each other up at a furious pace in order to get the size
necessary to compete with AT&T, MCI, and Sprint. LDDS of
Mississippi claims to be the fourth-largest network by
buying Advanced Telecommunications Corporation of Atlanta, while
Metromedia also claims the number four spot through a pending
reverse merger with Resurgens Communications of Atlanta.

Now comes another challenger, out of San Antonio, Texas, called
US Long Distance (USLD) Corporation which plans to acquire
Value-Added Communications Inc., in a stock swap valued at a
minimum of $100 million. USLD now says it will have
$200 million in annual revenues, post-merger. It had sales of
just $85 million a year ago.

A week earlier, USLD announced the acquisition of another
Texas long distance company, Travis Telecom of San Antonio,
Texas. Key to the Value-Added deal is an automated call-
processing technology, which helps in billing for alternative
operator firms serving jails, hotels, and pay telephones.

The man behind USLD is Parris Holmes Jr., who founded the company
in 1987, and as the company grows, his past is coming to light.
The company issued a release admitting he filed for personal
bankruptcy as recently as 1990, and twice plead guilty to
gambling-related charges in the late 1970s and early 1980s,
serving 10 months' probation. The company said it was under no
legal obligation to disclose any of this, but it felt the
disclosures appropriate.

(Dana Blankenhorn/19930115/Press Contact: U.S. Long Distance, Kim
Parma, 210-525-9009)


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(LON)(00013)

UK - Cellnet Vs. Vodafone 01/18/93
LONDON, ENGLAND, 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- Cellnet, one of the two mobile
phone network operators in the UK, reports it has signed 45,000
new subscribers to its Lifetime cellular phone service. This puts
Cellnet on equal terms with Vodafone, which recently announced a
similar number of subscribers to its low-cost residential cellphone
service.

Like Vodafone Lowcall, Cellnet's Lifetime service offers subscribers
the ability to pay around half the business rate for signing up and
renting a number on the cellphone network, but charges around double
for calls during peak times. The idea is to attract occasional off-
peak users of the cellphone networks who are currently put off
subscribing owing to the relatively high costs involved.

Announcing the subscriber levels, Stafford Taylor, Cellnet's managing
director, said that he saw no reason to change his prediction, made at
the launch of Lifetime last November, that it would achieve 200,000
subscribers in its first year.

"I've said that we would put 200,000 customers onto Lifetime in the
first 12 months and I have no reason to decommit that. Everybody said
that I was a lunatic to do that but I'm absolutely convinced that
that's what we'll do," Taylor said.

Taylor said that, of the 45,000 subscribers on the Lifetime
tariff, around 28,000 are new cellular users, rather than subscribers
who have migrated from the business tariffs.

This puts Cellnet slightly ahead in terms of new customers -- only
around half of Vodafone's 45,000 Lowcall subscribers were new
customers. Cellnet currently has around 600,000 subscribers, compared
to around 800,000 on the Vodafone network.

Despite Vodafone's market dominance, Taylor is undaunted. He claimed
that, after a sluggish start, Lifetime subscribers started signing on
the dotted line with great speed in December, presumably in the pre-
Christmas buying spree.

As a result of some keen commissions paid to dealers, Cellnet managed
to secure 62 percent of new subscriber sign-ups in December. Taylor
claimed that this market dominance is matched in January as well.
Taylor's ebullience is logical, since Cellnet has had six weeks less
time to get its low-cost subscribers onto the service. Vodafone
launched its low-cost contracts in October -- six weeks ahead of
Cellnet.

Taylor added that he plans to invest around UKP 30 million this year
in supporting handheld portables on the Cellnet network. Currently,
sales of hand portables are outrunning those of carphones, which can
operate in more remote areas.

(Steve Gold/19930115/Press & Public Contact: Cellnet - Tel: 0753-
504814; Fax - 0753-504063)


(NEWS)(IBM)(LON)(00014)

UK - Alpha Microsystems' 66MHz 486 Star 01/18/93
MAIDENHEAD, BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND, 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- Alpha Microsystems
has announced the availability of a 66 megahertz (MHz) 80486DX2-based
slimline PC. The machine is available in either desktop case format
(the Officestar from UKP 1,605) or tower format (the Deskstar from UKP
1,610).

Because Alpha supplies its machines exclusively through value-added
resellers (VARs), the company tends to build PCs to order.

"Pricing is always very difficult with this type of machine, as it
depends on what specification the user wants," explained a spokesman
for Alpha's sales division, who added that the "basic" specification
comes with zero memory.

For UKP 1,605 or 1,610, the "basic" machine comes with a single
16-bit expansion slot, 128 or 256 kilobytes of disk cache
(depending on the size of the hard disk) and a 52-megabyte
(MB) hard drive. A single 3.5-inch floppy drive is fitted as standard.

"RAM can be up to 32MB. It really depends what the customer wants,"
said Colin Thompson, a member of Alpha's technical support team, who
told Newsbytes that the machines are assembled to customer
requirements from components from Alpha in the US, as well as from
locally sourced components in the UK.

"We tend to shy away from Far Eastern components owing to the
difficulty in getting local support. Our parent company in the US
manufactures and sources its components in the US for this reason," he
said.

The Officestar and Deskstar series are designed to run AMOS, the Alpha
Microsystems' multi-user operating system, as well as DOS, Pick or
Unix environments.

(Steve Gold/19930115/Press & Public Contact: Alpha Microsystems - Tel:
0628-822120)


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(LON)(00015)

UK - Packet Radio A Growing Market 01/18/93
NEWBURY, BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND, 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- Paknet, the public
packet-switched packet radio data network, claims to be growing at a
steady pace. The company has just announced the supply of its
10,000th radio PAD (packet assembler disassembler), a digital radio
device that links into the radio data network.

Paknet was first launched in February 1990 and, according to the
company, the success of the network has been due to its flexibility
and price competitiveness alongside competing mobile data transmission
technology.

"As awareness of Paknet grows, we are continually helping value-added
resellers (VARs) and distributors develop a range of new and exciting
applications," commented John Smith, Paknet's commercial director.

Unlike competing packet radio data network operators Ram Mobile Data
and Cognito, Paknet has concentrated on specialist mobile data
applications. One of its most successful marketing initiatives has
been with wireless alarm systems. These are, Newsbytes notes, immune
from traditional methods of disabling alarms, and an alarm message can
be transmitted over the network in a matter of seconds.

Another area where Paknet has claimed a sales success is in mobile
electronics funds transfer at point of sale (EFTPOS) authorization and
transaction systems. Paknet claims that plastic card transactions can
be authorized "online" over the packet radio data network in five to
six seconds -- a lot faster than using standard telephone-based EFTPOS
terminals.

Paknet currently covers 80 percent of the UK and claims to be CCITT
X.25 compatible, meaning that most X.25-compliant PC switching
technology can be interfaced directly to the service, just as if it
were a standard packet switched data (PDN) link.

(Steve Gold/19930115/Press & Public Contact: Paknet - Tel: 0635-
872311; Fax: [phone])


(NEWS)(IBM)(LON)(00016)

UK - Wordperfect 5.2 For Windows Shipped 01/18/93
LONDON, ENGLAND, 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- Wordperfect UK has announced the
immediate availability of Wordperfect 5.2 for Windows, an upgrade to
WP 5.1 for Windows which was released last November. Existing users of
the WP 5.1 can upgrade to v5.2 for UKP 35.

This new version comes bundled with Grammatik 5, the text analyzer
from Reference Software International, which Wordperfect recently
purchased. In addition WP 5.2 comes with Adobe Type manager (ATM) and a
selection of fonts created specifically for Wordperfect.

The upgrade includes Quickfinder, an indexing and text retrieval
facility, as well as electronic mail features. New macros and a button
bar are also key features of WP 5.2.

Daniel Summer, Wordperfect UK's product marketing manager, said that,
with the upgrade, the company has added "innovative new technology not
found in any other Windows word processor." This, he argues, has made
WP for Windows much easier to use.

"The addition of Grammatik, ATM, the Quickfinder technology and other
new features makes this upgrade great value," he said.

The UKP 35 upgrade kit, unusually, is available from software outlets
selling Wordperfect products. The kit includes an upgrade guide, disks
and a documentation for Grammatik and ATM. A full upgrade pack, which
includes a complete set of WP 5.2 documentation, is also available at
UKP 75.

Wordperfect is also trying to lure users of competing DOS or Windows
word processors to move over to WP 5.2 for Windows. A special trade-up
package is available for these users at UKP 99. This compares
favorably with WP 5.2's retail price of UKP 399, as well as with
Wordstar's similar offer, which also costs UKP 99.

(Steve Gold/19930115/Press & Public Contact: Wordperfect UK - Tel:
0932-850505; Fax: [phone])


(NEWS)(TRENDS)(LAX)(00017)

 ****CD-I Users, Mostly Parents, Satisfied 01/18/93
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- Compact
Disc-Interactive (CD-I) entertainment system owners say they're
happy with their systems, according to a survey by the Compact
Disc Interactive Association (CDIA) of North America.

The CD-I player and titles were introduced for the 1991 holiday
season by Philips and are being carried in Sears retail outlets
for about $700. The units are about the size of a video
cassette recorder (VCR) and are described by Philips as a
multimedia home entertainment system that combines compact
disc-quality sound with video, text, graphics, animation and
interactive capabilities to present information and
entertainment.

The survey of about 2,000 CD-I owners indicated 90 percent
indicated they were satisfied with the unit and 94.5 percent
indicated that they would recommend CD-I to others. Most CD-I
owners are parents (73 percent), and 33 percent of all CD-I
consumers said they purchased the units for educational
purposes -- mostly children's programs -- while another 43
percent said they bought for entertainment.

Of CD-I titles, eight of the top 10 are games. The survey
indicated consumers would like to see more games, as 46 percent
of those who responded requested more game titles.

Further, fifty percent of those surveyed indicated they use
their CD-I system three or more times a week. The CD-I players
can also play audio CDs and Kodak PhotoCDs.

CDIA describes itself as representing international
professionals committed to the growth and development of
Compact Disc-Interactive.

(Linda Rohrbough/19930115/Press Contact: Robert Schettino,
Smith/Fischer & Partners, tel [phone], fax [phone])


(CORRECTION)(BUSINESS)(HKG)(00018)

Correction: Asian Networking Surge For 3Com 01/18/93
CENTRAL, HONG KONG, 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- 3Com has requested a
correction to information provided to Newsbytes which was used
in a wire story with this title from our Hong Kong bureau on
January 13.

The report stated that global data networking company
3Com Corporation announced a 185 percent increase in income
together with record sales and orders for its 1992 second fiscal
quarter. The increase in fact refers not to the 1992 second
fiscal quarter but 1993 second fiscal quarter.

Further, later in the story, Doug Dennerline, general manager of
3Com Asia is quoted as saying, "Fiscal 1992 is proving to be a
fantastic year for 3Com." Please correct this to "Fiscal 1993."

(Brett Cameron/19930113/Press Contact: Doug Dennerline (3Com): Tel:
[phone];HK time is GMT + 8)


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(PAR)(00019)

AT&T Could Lose Italtel Partnership 01/18/93
ROME, ITALY, 1993 JAN 18 (NB) --The much-heralded partnership
between American Telephone and Telegraph and the Milan-based
Italtel, SpA could fall apart in the months to come.

In 1989, Ma Bell signed what should have been an historic agreement
with the state-owned telecommunications manufacturer Italtel.
Italtel was to provide AT&T with an important European foothold.
AT&T was to provide Italtel with the next-generation switch for public
exchanges, one that would be pan-European and which would enable
the Italian manufacturer to break into some other European markets.
For the time being, Italtel's only foreign markets were in Africa.

Little was heard of the results of the accord after the January 1989
agreement. Italtel announced a few intelligent networking products
that stemmed from AT&T.

Then, suddenly, two months ago, Italtel President Salvatore Randi
gave an interview to an Italian newspaper in which he called for
a new partner. Randi insisted that the AT&T accord had been a
success, but he refused to say in what terms, and he called for a
new partner that would bring Italtel forward.

Since then, speculation has been rife about what Randi meant
and why AT&T was no longer a priority for him.

Italtel has persistently refused to comment on the change. AT&T won't
comment either. And analysts simply don't know what to say. "We
thought the AT&T accord would last a long time," says John Dinsdale,
a public telecom analyst with Dataquest in London.

Now Italtel claims to be negotiating with Siemens, AG in Germany,
and France's Alcatel-Alsthom. It is anybody's guess as to what the
future of Italtel holds in store. But analysts agree that little is
to be gained by the company's spreading itself too thin.

(Andrew Rosenbaum/19930119/Press Contact: Giovanna Guzzetti
Italtel, SpA, via via di Tocqueville, Milano, Italy,
tel [phone])


(NEWS)(GENERAL)(PAR)(00020)

Siemens-Nixdorf Faces Tough Challenge 01/18/93
PARIS, FRANCE, 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- Germany's largest computer maker,
Siemens-Nixdorf, a division of the electronics giant Siemens, AG,
faces some tough challenges before assuring its place in the
new single European market.

Siemens-Nixdorf is the fruit of a merger between the bankrupt Nixdorf,
AG, and the computer division of the Siemens electronics conglomerate.

The Munich-based Siemens, AG is more like a bank than an electronics
manufacturer. It sits on a money mountain worth DM 16.9
billion ($9.9 billion) in sales.

But profits have slowed in its other divisions, and the results
of computer company Siemens-Nixdorf have been disastrous,
analysts say.

Siemens refused to provide full results for its computer division.
But it did say that it would lay off about 2,000 employees there.

For most analysts, the difficulty confronting Siemens-Nixdorf is
that it has always privileged engineering at the expense of
sales.

"The German company produces terrific machines regardless of
cost," says Dennis Exton, an analyst with Merrill Lynch in London.
But the computer business in Germany is now dominated by VARS
value-added resellers) who can undercut Siemens-Nixdorf on cost,
Exton adds.

Siemens-Nixdorf also faces grave difficulties outside of Germany.
The company has less than 2 percent of its sales abroad. Even the
acquisition of the French producer IN2 did not significantly raise
the company's share of European sales.

With European competition increasing, as the single internal market
takes shape in Europe, the future looks questionable for Siemens-Nixdorf.
The company needs a product and a market, and there is less and
less time left for a marketing effort that will bring the
company back into the black, analysts agree.

(Andrew Rosenbaum/1993/0119/Press Contact: Siemens-Nixdorf, tel
4989-6360)


(NEWS)(TRENDS)(TYO)(00021)

TV Video Games May Cause Epileptic Fits 01/18/93
TOKYO, JAPAN, 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- Japan's major TV game makers
Nintendo and Sega Enterprises have decided to carry notices of
possible health problems for users of their TV game software
packages in Japan. They warn that too much play may cause epileptic
fits. The warnings are already on the games exported to other
countries.

The decision by Nintendo and Sega is mainly due to the recently
reported death of a British child, who was playing a Nintendo video
game on his TV set. According to British newspaper The Sun, the
child in Essex died from an epileptic fit.

In wake of the news, the British and Japanese governments
each formed a team to investigate the problems caused by TV games.
Nintendo and Sega are currently talking with the doctors and the
Japan Epilepsy Association concerning the actual wording to be
carried on the game packages. The existing warning on Sega's exported
software suggests that the player should take 10 to 20 minute
rests for every hour of play.

Meanwhile, the Reuters news wire recently reported that at least
four Japanese students have also had epileptic fits while playing
computer games on television screens. The most recent case involved
a 20-year-old university student who had a fit and lost consciousness
while playing at an arcade game center late at night. He was
diagnosed as having a kind of epilepsy brought on by
over-sensitivity to bright light, according to a doctor quoted by
Reuters. An identical case involving an 11-year-old boy was also
confirmed in 1989 by a doctor at Tohoku University Hospital in
Northern Japan.

In the US, a suit involving Nintendo's TV game was brought to
a district court in Michigan in January 1991. A 15-year-old
girl was playing the game and suffered an epileptic fit.
A Kyoto newspaper reports that her father is seeking
$2.61 million in damages.

(Masayuki "Massey" Miyazawa/19930118/Press Contact: Nintendo, +81-
75-541-6111, Fax, [phone])


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(MOW)(00022)

Russia: Cellular Tender Results Announced 01/18/92
MOSCOW, RUSSIA, 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- The Russian communications
ministry has announced results of the 900 MHz GSM cellular system
tender for 12 service areas. US West International won eight
licenses, with the rest going to various smaller Russian and
international companies.

US West has received an exclusive license for the Nizhny Novgorod
(formerly Gorky), Samara (formerly Kuibyshev), and Novosibirsk regions.
In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Kamchantka, Far East), Sochi (Black Sea
resort), Vladivostok, Blagoveschensk (both in the Russian Far East) US
West will work jointly with the Russian WART association.

A joint Russian-Canadian company M-Bell won the city of Moscow's
license while Russia's Krakor company got the right to serve
neighboring rural regions.

Telecomm Finnland will serve St Petersbourg, which is located 100
kilometers from the Finnish border, Russia's SMART company will serve
Samara (formerly Kuibishev), and the local phone monopoly, Bashtelecom,
will serve Bashkiria republic, located in the Ural mountains.

Among the losers in Moscow and St Petersbourg are current 450 MHz
cellular providers and Deutsche Bundespost Telecom. NTT lost the
Vladivostok service area. Millicom, which participated in the tender, got
no licenses at all.

The Ministry committee spent three months considering the value of
various proposals against local conditions. All companies has offered
to start the service in 1993. Annual fees will be in US$1500 - US$4000
range, making cellular phone service affordable for large businesses
only.

(Kirill Tchashchin/199206)


(NEWS)(GENERAL)(NYC)(00023)

Phantom Access Foils Cracking Attempt 01/18/93
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, U.S.A., 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- An attempt to
illegally break into, or "crack" the "Mindvox" conferencing stem
contained in Phantom Access, a flat-rate New York-based online
service recently featured in various news publications, was
detected and rebuffed.

Bruce Fancher, co-owner of Phantom Access, told Newsbytes,
"There was no real damage and we have notified all of our
users about the attempt in the hope that they will be even
more conscious of security. The nature of this attempt points
out one of the things that users of any on-line system must be
aware of in order to protect her/his privacy."

The attempt came to the attention of the owners of the system,
Fancher and Patrick Kroupa, when subscribers reported receiving
the following message:

"It has been brought to my attention that your account has been
'hacked' by an outside source. The charges added were quite
significant which is how the error was caught. Please temporarily
change your password to 'DPH7' so that we can judge the severity of
the intrusion. I will notify you when the problems has been taken
care of. Thank you for your help in this matter. -System
Administrator"

The system owners immediately sent a message to all subscribers
declaring the message to be fraudulent. In addition to pointing
out the textual errors in the message -- for example, Mindvox
is a "flat rate" system and charges are not accumulated --
the owners admonished users to both safeguard their passwords
and insure that they are not easy to decipher.

Fancher told Newsbytes that the review of Mindvox in a recent issue of
Mondo 2000, its mention in an issue of Forbes, and his
speaking engagements on behalf of the system have led to more
rapid growth than had been anticipated. He said, "We are moving
to larger space on February 1st and will be upgrading our equipment
from a single Next system to multiple Suns. We will also increase
the number of dial-in ports and greatly increase the speed of our
Internet connection. We are very grateful for the user response to
date."

(Barbara E. McMullen & John F. McMullen/Press Contact: Bruce Fancher,
Phantom Access, [e-mail] (e-mail), 212-254-3226,
voice/19930115)


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(ATL)(00024)

MTel Wins Venture Capital For National Wireless Network 01/18/93
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, U.S.A., 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- Mobile
Telecommunication Technologies Corp., known as MTel, won $6
million in venture funding for its Nationalwide Wireless
Network, or NWN.

MTel, best known for its SkyTel paging service, sees NWN as a
similar offering, but with the capability to send much longer
messages in two directions. SkyTel sends only short, one-way
messages because of its very limited bandwidth.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers of California provided the $6
million. The investment is based in part on a "pioneer's
preference" given MTel by the Federal Communications Commission
last July. The preference, if upheld in proceedings later this
year, would give MTel first crack at a license for wireless
services in the 900 MHz frequency band, meaning it would not
have to go through the lotteries or comparative hearings through
which most frequency seekers must pass. The preference was given in
recognition for its work to develop the idea, and is the idea of
outgoing FCC Chairman Alfred Sikes.

Earlier, MTel said Motorola will provide network equipment and
prototype two-way messaging units for a demonstration of NWN in
the Dallas-Fort Worth area. That is due to be complete by the
end of June. In a field trial of the system near the company's
offices, in Oxford, Mississippi, an experimental receiver was
able to pass data at 24,000 bits/second, using commercial
components and a customized digital signal processing system.
Results were delivered to the FCC January 8.

(Dana Blankenhorn/19930118/Press Contact: David Allan, for Mtel,
212-614-5163)


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(ATL)(00025)

Online Cubs Tickets, Prodigy Surpasses Schwab 01/18/93
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, U.S.A., 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- America Online's
Chicago Online service will begin offering Chicago Cubs tickets
for sale this spring. The service is provided through
Ticketmaster-Chicago Inc.

The Cubs are owned by the Tribune Company, which is also the
local partner of America Online in the Chicago service, and in
others planned for Florida markets where the company has
newspapers. It's the first time Ticketmaster has offered a direct
link in Chicago to its ticket-selling computer system.

A number of teams have tried to be innovative in selling tickets,
but services like Ticketmaster, which usually offer outlets in
record stores and other neighborhood locations, usually represent
the state of the art. Last year IBM demonstrated a ticket-selling
system it put together for the Minnesota Twins, using unattended
kiosks which showed team highlights but allowed buyers to get
views from prospective seats and to print out the tickets they
purchased on the spot.

In other online shopping news, Prodigy said it passed Charles
Schwab Corp. as the nation's largest online broker. It said its
PC Financial network now handles 70,000 accounts and handled $1.5
billion in trades last year. Schwab by year's-end had 53,500,
according to Prodigy. Schwab, however, has de-emphasized its PC-
based trading system in the last few years, in favor of a
telephone-based trading system which uses a toll-free number.

(Dana Blankenhorn/19930118/Press Contact: America Online, 703-
893-6288)


(NEWS)(TELECOM)(ATL)(00026)

Cable Television Update 01/18/93
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- Cable television
pushed itself into the center of American life in the last year,
with the political season providing both highlights and
lowlights.

A highlight, the around-the-clock coverage of the
campaign by the C-Span network, funded by cable operators, won a
Golden Ace award from the industry at its January 17 awards show.
A lowlight may have been pay network HBO's purchase, for a
reported $1.5 million, of exclusive broadcast rights to a "free"
concert heralding the inaugural of President-elect Bill Clinton,
which ran opposite the industry's Ace awards show on the basic
cable service Lifetime. Viewers to C-Span, meanwhile, were
treated to callers complaining that HBO's cameras totally
eliminated any view of the proceedings for the hundreds of
thousands of people who jammed the Capitol Mall for their
promised party, which featured singers Michael Jackson, Aretha
Franklin, and Diana Ross.

On a more serious note, the industry is trying to fight the
impact of a 1992 Reregulation bill passed over a veto of
President Bush. While many operators have filed suit against the
law and pushed through late 1992 rate increases in defiance of
its provisions, Tele-Communications Inc., the largest cable
operator, said it will comply with the new law and even "exceed
in some cases the expectations of Congress" in doing so.

This means TCI customers will no longer have to buy extra "tiers" of
basic service to get premium channels like HBO, starting in
April. The company said it will negotiate with broadcasters on
"must carry" provisions, which mandate that local systems carry
local broadcasters' signals. And the company will create a
$10/month "entry-level basic cable service" consisting of
broadcast stations, local access and public interest channels.

Finally, the company said it will try to exceed customer service
requirements of the act, as mandated by pending regulations from
the Federal Communications Commission.

In the long run, TCI has a plan to add digital compression to its
systems, making them capable of handling 500-750 channels each,
and to make its cable boxes compatible with HDTV requirements,
when a system for that improved service is finally approved. The
company also plans to increase installations of fiber cable, with
90 percent of customers to be served that way within 4 years.
Fiber will also be able to offer high-speed telephone and data
services once switches are bought and permission to offer such
service is received from the FCC, which is expected.

The major news in the industry, meanwhile, is former Fox head
Barry Diller's moves to consolidate cable-based home shopping by
merging the Home Shopping Network and its competitor, QVC. The
Department of Justice is reviewing the plan.

Hughes Aircraft Co., which wants to compete with cable systems
through its DirecTv satellite broadcast project, said it signed
up Paramount Pictures and the Disney Channel to supply programs
to its system, starting in March, 1994. DirecTv will offer up to
150 channels using 18-inch satellite dishes and a proprietary
encryption system incompatible with other satellites. General
Electric Co., owners of the NBC broadcast network, is Hughes'
partner in the project. Hughes itself is a unit of General Motors
Corp. The program-supply agreements were considered key to the
system's potential.

(Dana Blankenhorn/19930118/Press Contact: Lela Cocoros, TCI, 303-
267-5273)


(NEWS)(GOVT)(LON)(00027)

Apricot Secures British Govt Deal Worth UKP 330,000 01/18/93
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- Apricot has been awarded a
contract worth around UKP 330,000 from the Department of Trade and
Industry. Terms of the deal call for Apricot to supply the Enterprise
Initiative Scheme (EIS) with advanced networking computer hardware
and SCO Unix software.

Newsbytes understands that the contract was won against competition
from ICL and NCR. It calls for the supply of 12 FTe fault tolerant
departmental computer file servers running SCO Unix at each of the EIS
offices, along with more than 100 Apricot LS 386SX-based LAN stations
and Xen LS desktop computers.

Chris Buckham, Apricot's marketing director, said that the competition
for the contract was quite serious. The main reason for securing the
contract, other then being the most reasonably priced, according
to Buckham, was that security was a big issue in the DTI.

"It transpired from discussions with the DTI that security was an
issue it was looking to address. Apricot's comprehensive security
system provided an additional option to secure all data held on these
Apricot networks," he said.

(Steve Gold/19930118/Press & Public Contact: Apricot Computers - Tel:
021-717-7171; Fax: [phone])


(NEWS)(IBM)(DEN)(00028)

Tandy Intros Active Matrix Color Laptop 01/18/93
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, U.S.A., 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- Radio Shack is now
shipping its first color laptop computer, the Tandy 3830 SL/C. The
active matrix display system has a suggested list price of $3,299
and can be ordered through Tandy's factory-direct program for
second day delivery at most Radio Shack stores.

The unit is powered by a 25 megahertz (MHz) Intel 80386SL
microprocessor and includes a slot for an optional 80387SX-25 math
coprocessor. Coprocessor chips increase the processing speed of
calculations for spreadsheets and other mathematical-based
applications. Four megabytes (MB) of system memory is standard, and
that can be expanded to 8MB. There's also 16 kilobytes of cache
memory, an internal 80MB hard drive with a 19 millisecond access
time, one high density 3.5-inch floppy disk drive, and a built-in
mini-trackball in place of a mouse.

Users may find the floppy drive more accessible than in other
systems, since it's at the lower right front of the system. The
mini-trackball is centered above the keyboard, with a click button
on each side. A series of indicator LEDs to the right of the
trackball indicate the status of drives and battery condition, as
well as the caps and num lock keys.

Radio Shack says the active matrix liquid crystal display will
provide VGA-quality graphics with 640 X 480 resolution. The screen
measures 8.4 inches diagonally. There's also a plug for simultaneous
use of a desktop VGA monitor. The 3830 uses a nickel metal hydride
battery which the company says will provide up to two hours of
continuous use. Recharge time is said to be two hours when the
system is off, and six hours while you're using the unit.

Tandy spokesperson Fran McGehee told Newsbytes the 3830's various
power saving features include Auto Power Off, LCD shutoff, Hard Disk
Spin Down, and a special Power Failure Resume system that resumes
operation wherever you were when the power failed. A AC adapter
which will run the 3830 on either 110 or 220 volts is included.

The system also includes an expansion bus connector that attaches
the 3830 to the Tandy docking station, with its two 16-bit expansion
slots for higher-resolution graphics cards, external CD-ROM drive
interface cards, or network interface cards.

If you don't want to use the built-in trackball, there's a port for
a two-button mouse. You can also connect an external keyboard,
modem, or 5.25-inch floppy drive. The port cover doubles as a tilt
stand, putting the unit at a slope downward toward the user when
open.

Included with the 3830 are MS-DOS 5.0, Microsoft Windows 3.1,
several utility programs, and software to connect to America Online,
a subscription online service that allows users to share files and
messages with other computer users. Additional optional accessories
include the docking station, an internal 2400 bps/9600 send/receive
fax/data modem for $249.95, a spare battery back priced at $199.95,
and two types of carrying case. The unit weighs 6.9 pounds.

(Jim Mallory/19930118/Press contact: Fran McGehee, Radio Shack,
817-390-3487; Reader contact: 817-390-3487)


(NEWS)(TRENDS)(LAX)(00029)

 ****Borland Price Slashing In Database, Spreadsheet Wars 01/18/93
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- The
spreadsheet and database price wars are on and the winner is
the consumer. Borland just announced it will cut for 90 days
the price on Quattro Pro for Windows and the soon-to-be-
released Paradox for Windows database to $99.95 and $139.95
respectively.

Borland has characteristically taken an aggressive stance in
the software market, according to senior industry analyst Dan
Ness of Computer Intelligence. Microsoft's announcement that
its long-awaited Foxpro for Windows product would ship in two
weeks may have spurred the Borland announcement, which is open
to any customer and does not require proof the customer owns a
competitive product.

Microsoft said the new Foxpro 2.5 in both the Windows and DOS
versions would retail for $495 each, and additional licenses
are $425 each. Upgrades from Foxpro 1.0 and 2.0 to either the
Windows or the DOS product are $99 each before March 31, 1993.
Those who purchased Foxpro after June 1, 1992 can upgrade at no
charge.

Borland's closer equivalent to Microsoft's Foxpro 2.5 for
Windows, dBASE for Windows, is still under development and
Borland officials have declined to offer a second delivery date
after the company missed the delivery deadline it set early
last year. Borland has gone so far as to buy the third party
dBASE compiler development team and product from tiny company
Wordtech late last year in hopes of moving closer to getting
the dBASE for Windows product out the door. Wordtech
demonstrated a Windows version of its dBASE compiler at COMDEX
in November and boasted it would have a product on the market
in the first quarter of 1993.

Both Microsoft and Borland are pointing to tests run by
industry publications comparing previous versions of each
company's products to prove one is better than the other. However,
comparison tests on the current versions of the two products
are not available until after both products have been released.

Quattro Pro for Windows from Borland is also in head-to-head
competition with Microsoft's Excel for Windows spreadsheet
product.

Borland is not saying exactly when Paradox for Windows will
ship. However, an official launch of the product is scheduled
for February 1 in San Francisco, company officials said.

(Linda Rohrbough/19930118/Press Contact: Sandra Hawker,
Borland, tel [phone], fax [phone], Public Contact
800-331-0877; Cindy McKendry, Waggener Edstrom for Microsoft,
tel [phone], fax [phone]; Public Contact 800-426-
9400)


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

Bill Krause Resigns From Adobe's Board 01/18/93
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1993 JAN 18 (NB) -- Storm
Technology's President and Chief Executive Officer L. William
Krause, has resigned as a member of Adobe Systems Inc.'s board
of directors, effective immediately. He has served on the board
since January 1990.

According to a prepared statement from Adobe, Krause resigned
his post "because he recognizes Storm's potential to develop an
important technology relationship with Adobe. With his departure,
he hopes to facilitate the development of color imaging
technology that complements Adobe's technology."

In announcing the resignation, John Warnock, Adobe's chief
executive officer and chairman of the board, said: "Bill has made
a valuable contribution to Adobe's board, and we regret losing
his participation. However, we hope to work together on future
projects that will be mutually beneficial."

Judy Tarabini, spokesperson for Adobe, told Newsbytes that
"We regret losing him as a board member, but because he plans
to be a business partner of ours in the future, he is resigning
to avoid any future conflicts of interest."

A spokesperson at Storm Technology told Newsbytes that
Krause's resignation is "more of a private matter" as it
involves his resignation from the Adobe board.

(Ian Stokell/19930118/Press Contact: Judy Tarabini,
415-962-2100, Adobe Systems Inc.)