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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 08:16:59 -0500
From: "Swisher, Bob" <bswisher@ou.edu>
To: "'it-fyi@ou.edu'" <it-fyi@ou.edu>
Subject: Edupage, 21 September 1997
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> TOP STORIES
> Lawmaker Warns Internet Funding May Fall Short
> Compaq, Intel Eye The Ethernet
> Concert Targets Laptop Users
> European Official Cites Need For Data Protection Agency
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> ALSO
> Netscape Chief Predicts PC Give-Away
> Apple's Plans For Macintosh Network Computers
> Does More Time Online Mean Less Time At Tube?
> Microsoft, PBS Team Up On Interactive Barney Show
>
> LAWMAKER WARNS INTERNET FUNDING MAY FALL SHORT
> Representative F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R.-Wisc.), chairman of the
> House Science Committee, says funding for the Clinton Administration's
> Next-Generation Internet project likely will be only about half of the
> $100 million requested, because project leaders took too long to draft
> plans on how the money would be spent. The project involves six
> federal agencies, covered by five separate appropriations bills. "The
> sad state of where we are in appropriations is a result of the fact
> that the appropriations train left the station before we got any type
> of a real concrete request from the Administration on where this money
> should go," says Sensenbrenner. The Next-Generation Internet project
> parallels the university-led Internet 2 project. George Strawn, a
> National Science Foundation networking expert, says failure on
> Congress's part to fully fund the NGI could result in some
> universities being restricted in the research they can conduct over
> the high-speed network. (Chronicle of Higher Education 19 Sep 97)
>
> COMPAQ, INTEL EYE THE ETHERNET
> Compaq Computer and Intel are teaming up to develop 100-megabit
> Ethernet equipment, challenging 3Com's lead in the development of
> higher-speed Ethernet adapters for PCs. "The market is in transition
> right now," says the head of a California research firm. "Now is the
> time for new entrants to strike." The first jointly developed
> products will become available later this year, and the two companies
> plan to extend their alliance to the next generation of Ethernet
> products, which will operate in the 1,000-megabits-per-second range.
> (Wall Street Journal 19 Sep 97)
>
> CONCERT TARGETS LAPTOP USERS
> Concert Communications Services, the joint-venture company of British
> Telecom and MCI, is offering a Remote Internet Access service that
> allows mobile computer users to hook up to the Internet via a network
> of local points of presence (POPs) in 50 countries. The service could
> enable multinational corporations to provide Internet access to their
> overseas employees without having to incur the expense of
> international phone calls to a home server. In addition, smaller
> Internet service providers could use the Concert network to expand
> their international POPs without the expense of building their own
> infrastructure. (InfoWorld Electric 19 Sep 97)
>
> EUROPEAN OFFICIAL CITES NEED FOR DATA PROTECTION AGENCY
> The head of the free flow of information unit at the European
> Commission says the growth of global electronic commerce has created
> the need for transnational regulation of personal data carried over
> computer networks. "I consider it is now desirable to have an
> independent European data-protection agency to meet European treaty
> demands." Although the EC writes the rules for data protection in
> Europe, it's up to individual countries to interpret and enforce those
> rules. The call for a transnational group signals the EC's concern
> that some countries are not implementing data-protection legislation
> as strictly as they should. (TechWire 19 Sep 97)
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> NETSCAPE CHIEF PREDICTS PC GIVE-AWAY
> Netscape Communications CEO James Barksdale says his company will
> begin providing computers and other hardware at no cost to customers
> within a year. "In various parts of the country you will be
> definitely seeing trials within a year -- within a year from now -- of
> these kind of distribution models for appliances, network computers
> and personal computers." The company's strategy is to generate
> revenue through advertising, subscriptions, and a percentage of each
> online purchase made by subscribers. "We learned early on, give them a
> phone," he says of his earlier days at AT&T Wireless Services and
> McCaw Cellular. "They might use it." (Computer News Daily 19 Sep 97)
>
> APPLE'S PLANS FOR MACINTOSH NETWORK COMPUTERS
> Sources close to Apple say that early next year the company will
> introduce a Network Computer (NC) using Mac OS-based client machines
> communicating with servers using Apple's new Rhapsody operating
> systems. Targeted principally at the education market, the NC will be
> sold in the $700-800 range and will run Macintosh application
> software. (MacWeek 18 Sep 97)
>
> DOES MORE TIME ONLINE MEAN LESS TIME AT TUBE?
> AOL Networks online service division president Robert Pittman says
> that people using online services seem to be spending less time
> watching TV and movies. An America Online survey found that 37% of
> AOL subscribers watch less TV than they used to and 22% less video,
> while only 7% watch more TV and 6% more video. "It has had no effect
> on radio, no effect on magazines, and little effect on newspapers."
> (AP 19 Sep 97)
>
> MICROSOFT, PBS TEAM UP ON INTERACTIVE BARNEY SHOW
> Microsoft and PBS are collaborating on a series of "Barney & Friends"
> that will include a specially encoded signal that activates an
> interactive Barney doll. The signal is picked up by a Microsoft-made
> set-top receiver called ActiMates, which then relays it to the doll.
> The doll can then interact both with the show and with the child
> watching it. The shows are scheduled for broadcast beginning Nov. 3.
> (Investor's Business Daily 19 Sep 97)
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