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ITNS/INT --------------------------------------------------------------------- Published in Prague by IntelliTech Year 2, Number 24, Wednesday 27. 3. 1996 (ii960327) --------------------------------------------------------------------- EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW Story count: 39 ************ This issue is brought to you with support from paying subscribers (on a non-mandatory paid subscription basis) and the following advertisers: <> Borland s.r.o. (lneveu@wpo.borland.com) <> DATAC (http://www.bohemia.net/) <> DAVIDEO (http://www.davideo.com/) <> Expert & Partner s.r.o., Computer 2000 Group (http://nt.epc2000.cz/) <> Hewlett-Packard s.r.o. (http://www.hp.com/) <> InfraRed Communications (http://www.eline.com/Infrared/) <> Orion Network Systems (7238657@mcimail.com) <> SCO (http://www.sco.com/, zbigz@sco.com) <> Speedware (http://www.speedware.com/) <> Sun Microsystems (http://www.sun.com/) ************ --------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTERS/SYSTEMS (<CS>) Fujitsu claims fastest tablet PC //Fujitsu Personal Systems Inc. has introduced the Stylistic 1000, which the company claims is the world's most powerful color tablet PC. Fujitsu says the the new color tablet PC, powered by a 100 MHz 486 microprocessor, is the fastest available on the market today.// (ii960327-001) (527 words) A banking ATM in your home? //Tom Dittrich wants to install an automatic teller machine (ATM) in your home. However, the ATM would not be one of those refrigerator-sized machines found at most banks, but a software package that provides ATM-like services from your PC.// (ii960327-002) (645 words) --------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY: CHIPS, COMPONENTS, PERIPHERALS (<CT>) AMD ready to ship K5 processor? //Unconfirmed media reports say Advanced Micro Devices is ready to ship its K5 microprocessor to OEMs. Developed to compete with Intel's Pentium chips, AMD's K5, renamed 5K86, will supposedly ship as low-priced 75 and 90 MHz models, while the company secretly focuses on a P7 chip.// (ii960327-003) (521 words) UK -- Chip theft gang caught //British Police have announced they have smashed a computer chip theft gang, following the arrest of five men in an aborted burglary carried out earlier this month on a Southampton high street bank.// (ii960327-004) (431 words) National Semi super I/Os with fast IR //National Semiconductor announced two new Super I/Os with integrated 4Mbpsfast infrared (Fast IR) technology. National's new Fast IR products will provide PC designers with high-speed wireless data transfer with any IrDA (Infrared Data Association) compliant device.// (ii960327-005) (526 words) --------------------------------------------------------------------- SOFTWARE, APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT (<SWAD>) New Fulcrum software builds on text-search engine //Fulcrum Technologies is building on its SearchServer text-retrieval software with two new software products, one of which is the company's first shrink-wrapped package. The company also updated Surfboard, its search software for Internet and Intranet servers.// (ii960327-006) (565 words) North American PC applications sales hit $7.53 Bil in 1995 //Windows are up, while DOS and Macs are down, as PC application software sales in the US and Canada reached $7.53 billion in 1995, a 12% increase from a revised $6.7 billion in 1994, according to the SPA.// (ii960327-007) (538 words) SystemSoft ships Zoomed video software, Toshiba deal //SystemSoft's newly shipping PC Card software, the first PC software to support the PCMCIA's new Zoomed Video specification, will be bundled with Toshiba's upcoming 120 MHz Pentium-based Tecra notebook PCs, said Sue Zaney, SystemSoft's marketing manager.// (ii960327-008) (378 words) --------------------------------------------------------------------- NETWORKING & COMMUNICATIONS HARDWARE (<NCHW>) Racal expands ISDN range for European push //Racal-Datacom, which claims to hold a top-five position in the digital access equipment market, is enhancing its range of ISDN interconnection and access security products, to allow it to grab a greater share of, what it claims is, the "expanding" European ISDN marketplace.// (ii960327-009) (447 words) Alcatel Data Networks gets first Global One sale //Alcatel Data Networks has announced it has started shipping its 1100 PSX switching system. The first customer to take the advanced X.25 telecoms switch is Global One, the newly created international joint venture between Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, and Sprint.// (ii960327-010) (279 words) UK -- Low-cost Internet videoconferencing //Cybertec has broken the UKP200 price barrier in the UK with its mass market videoconferencing system. The V- Com start package, which includes a monochrome camera, hardware and software, costs just UKP199, yet allows users to communicate over virtually any digital carrier technology, including LANs modem links, ISDN channels, and even Internet channels.// (ii960327-011) (495 words) Desktop device tells user if they have voice-mail //Sometimes high-tech products get too fancy. Consumerware claims telephone companies did just that when they created voice-mail and left out the blinking light found on nearly every answering machine.// (ii960327-012) (378 words) --------------------------------------------------------------------- NETWORKING & COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE (<NCSW>) IBM aims Warp Server at Windows NT & NetWare //With OS/2 Warp Server NOS and a supporting reseller strategy, IBM is taking strong aim against both the less "open" and inclusive Windows NT and the "file-and print- oriented" Novell Netware, contended Jim Koerner, manager of systems brand marketing for IBM's Personal Software Products Division. The reseller strategy includes a nationwide series of free seminars for resellers belonging to IBM's BESTeam, he added.// (ii960327-013) (532 words) Sun unveils new versions of SunScreen and firewall security products for Intranet business computing //As part of its several Internet strategy announcements yesterday, Sun Microsystems, Inc., announced enhancements to SunScreen and Solstice Firewall-1 products.// (ii960327-014) (518 words) Sun comprehensive package of Intranet products & services for business //Sun Microsystems, Inc. yesterday introduced the "industry's most comprehensive" set of hardware, software and support tools and services designed to help businesses develop, deploy and manage corporate Intranets to compete in today's increasingly networked global economy. "We're staking our claim on the business side of the Internet explosion," said Scott McNealy, chairman, president and CEO of Sun. "The action is in corporate Intranets, where you will see the real boom in business-to-business and business-to-consumer networked commerce."// (ii960327-015) (1,217 words) Sun announces Joe, a product that connects Java to business applications //As part of its several Internet strategy announcements yesterday, Sun Microsystems, Inc. introduced Joe(TM), a powerful new product written in Java(TM) that enables corporations to extend their sophisticated business applications onto their private Intranets and the public Internet. Joe connects Java applets running on any Java- enabled browser to business applications running on industrial strength corporate networks, according to the company. The beta version of Joe will be made available to selected beta sites in the next thirty days. A beta version will be made generally available for download from Sun's homepage in June.// (ii960327-016) (580 words) Sun extends Netra Web server family with powerful new platforms, Web software and security //As part of its several Internet strategy announcements yesterday, Sun Microsystems, Inc., introduced products and services that help simplify the complex task of deploying Internet technologies within the enterprise, on private corporate Intranets.// (ii960327-017) (883 words) DomainMeter 7000 for LAN Monitoring, "Web reporting" //Technically Elite's newly unveiled DomainMeter 7000 differs from other products in the booming RMON market through capabilities that include a distributed domain- based architecture supporting up to 5,000 users, "World Wide Web-based reporting," and a customizable expert system, according to company executives.// (ii960327-018) (797 words) UK -- Security Dynamics offers remote access technology //Security Dynamics Technologies has teamed up with Livingston Enterprises to link its SecurID and Ace/Server systems together with Livingston's PortMaster Comms Server.// (ii960327-019) (422 words) Bosch's CTI software for Windows //Bosch, a German IT vendor, has taken the wraps off PlusPhone, its Advanced Windows applications software.// (ii960327-020) (437 words) Internet software update //This is today's roundup of new and updated software packages available on the global network, including: NCSA Mosaic; OUI off-line navigator; Remotely Possible/32 Lite; Netfo; Beach Rat; N Plex Web server; better business applications; HTTP Tool.// (ii960327-021) (700 words) Gates -- Internet browsers belong in operating system //Microsoft Chairman William Gates, speaking at the first annual Internet & Electronic Commerce Conference & Exposition at New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, said that he foresees the "Internet Browser' becoming an integral part of the operating system of the computer.// (ii960327-022) (395 words) IBM offers free "Cryptolopes," Internet servers on Web //If you have never seen a "cryptolope," you will get a chance during a 15-day "Cryptolope Countdown" in April, when IBM will offer free cryptolope downloads from its Web home page, said IBM's Julia Binder. Also from the IBM Web site, free downloads of the IBM Internet Connection Server for AIX and OS/2 Warp are available now, and free downloads of a new Windows NT version will become available this Friday.// (ii960327-023) (796 words) Firm claims simultaneous image/voice on Web //On Demand Information(ODI) claims it has developed the world's first simultaneous voice and image comms software/hardware package for the Web. The idea, according to Chris Solbe, a spokesperson for the company, is that the Web becomes a virtual switching point for voice and data calls, using the Internet as the common carrier.// (ii960327-024) (599 words) Database World -- Products to include Web capabilities //Vendors will debut dozens of new products at DCI's Database/Client-Server World in Boston this week, including several notable offerings with Web capabilities.// (ii960327-025) (311 words) --------------------------------------------------------------------- NETWORKING & COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES, BUSINESS (<NCSB>) India makes successful satellite launch //India has reached out for a slice of the multi-billion dollar global satellite market with the successful blasting off of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from the Sriharikota range, near Madras.// (ii960327-026) (278 words) Consumers want cellular phones -- study //You may not have a wireless telephone yet, but according to a recent survey you probably want one. According to a study by Peter D. Hart Research Associates released at this week's Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) "Wireless '96" convention and exposition, wireless, also known as cellular, phones have become so important in the daily lives of Americans that 64 percent of the people who don't already have one say they are likely to buy a wireless phone soon or someday.// (ii960327-027) (554 words) --------------------------------------------------------------------- ONLINE BUSINESS (<OB>) MCI launches Web hosting, content services //MCI said it will offer an Internet World Wide Web hosting and content creation service for businesses that do not want to make an investment in, and upgrades and maintenance to, Web servers. Called "MCI WebSite Services," the program is a part of the company's plan to increase its Internet offerings.// (ii960327-028) (414 words) UK -- Financial Times' FTVision Web site //Financial Times Television, a division of Pearson TV and the broadcasting arm of the Financial Times newspaper, has unveiled FTVision, a complimentary Web site (http://www/ftvision.com/).// (ii960327-029) (368 words) Web Marketplace 96 to examine Web commerce //The present and the future of commerce on the Internet's World Wide Web will be the hot topic at "Web Marketplace '96," being held in Chicago April 9-11 by Jupiter Communications.// (ii960327-030) (375 words) Australia -- Company use of the Internet //Businesses are only just beginning to see the possible uses of the Internet and intranets, Forrester Research executive John McCarthy told the Com Tech Open Systems 6 Forum in Coolum, Queensland, Australia.// (ii960327-031) (250 words) Internet update //This is today's roundup of new and updated resources and services available via the global Internet: in the news - National Education Summit; trial the electronic library; Canadian info guide; Internet news online; BBS and ISP directory; nothing but icons; Internet PC magazine; in the news - Comet Hyakutake; in the news - new US currency issued; Olympic factbook debuts; analyze the market with Java.// (ii960327-032) (908 words) GE to launch Web-based service for small business //GE Information Services, a unit of General Electric Co. has announced a service on the World Wide Web designed for small businesses and home offices.// (ii960327-033) (289 words) --------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL & MISCELLANEOUS (<GM>) Web entrepreneurs series: the project oriented society -- Interview with John Sumser, founder of the Internet Business Network, publisher of "1996 Electronic Recruiting Index" (ii960327-034) (3,518 words) Survey -- Executives uncertain on technology //Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group, in two studies, are making the claim that companies are investing heavily in information technology to transform themselves into "global powerhouses," yet many are failing to perceive the value of these investments. The surveys were released in conjunction with the Consulting Group's sponsorship of the 1996 Harvard Business School Global Alumni Conference, "The Information Revolution: Bridging the Gap."// (ii960327-035) (671 words) Conference to address "year 2000 computer problem" //Credit and cash cards turning up as expired, insurance companies not being able to write policies, and long- distance phone calls being made on the last day of 1999 showing up as year-long talkfests -- all of these scenarios are possible because much of today's technology can't adjust to the year 2000, computer experts say. To address the problem, the "Year 2000 Conference and Exposition" will be held April 3-4 in Chicago.// (ii960327-036) (503 words) Information systems teams not working -- report //It seems teamwork is not all it's cracked up to be. Forrester Research Inc. reports that many teams set up in IT organizations are dysfunctional because they are poorly managed or never should have existed in the first place.// (ii960327-037) (510 words) IBM UK's electronic education technology for engineers //IBM has unveiled a PC multimedia- based learning package that it claims will allow computer service managers to achieve an industry-wide National Vocational Qualification(NVQ) using interactive technology.// (ii960327-038) (768 words) Report lists healthcare telecom opportunities //The US healthcare industry's computer and telecom back-office operations remain outdated and costly, says a new report from Insight Research. Unlike many other industries, the health care industry has not been focused on using technology to control costs and increase efficiency until very recently.// (ii960327-039) (493 words) --------------------------------------------------------------------- For an overview of the commands recognized by this listserver, send "help" in an e-mail message to the address given in the "reply" field of this executive overview (admin@intellitech.cz). ITNS and other IntelliTech publications are also available live, fully linked, and in color on the Web at http://www.intellitech.cz/. --------------------------------------------------------------------- This electronic document or its contents may not be reproduced or republished in excerpt or entirety, in print or electronic form, in any language without permission from IntelliTech s.r.o., Newsbytes News Network and other originators. Copyright(C) 1996 IntelliTech s.r.o. All rights reserved. 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