From: rich@tosh.wcc.govt.nz (Richard Naylor )
Newsgroups: nz.comp
Subject: Vogon News - 25 August
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 13:28:16 GMT
Organization: City Net -  Wellington City Council's Community Computer Network

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26-Aug-1992

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VNS COMPUTER NEWS:                            [Tracy Talcott, VNS Computer Desk]
==================                            [Nashua, NH, USA                 ]

    Monday's Market                               Digital Fair Market Value
      Quote     Change                              2-Dec-1991   $60.6875
 IBM	Unavailable				   29-May-1992   $42.4375
                                                   85% of lower  $36.250
    Monday's Market	   Dow Jones    Change      1-Jun-1992   $40.750
 DEC	35	 -  1/8	   3238.17	-25.93

 Digital - Signs agreement with Hughes Aircraft
	{The Wall Street Journal, 13-Aug-92, p. ?}
	{Contributed by: Mary Mistovich}
   Hughes Aircraft Co. signed a milestone pact in its costly bid to take the
 lead in the market for direct satellite-to-home TV service, hiring Digital
 Equipment Corp. and Network Computing Corp. to provide billing services.
   The deal, to be announced today by the Direc-Tv unit of Hughes, has a value
 of as much as $100 million over 10 years to the contracting companies.
 Digital, based in Maynard, Mass., will serve as prime contractor and provide
 hardware. Network Computing, based in Charlotte, N.C., will provide software 
 services.
   The agreement, however, has a greater significance for Hughes. The aerospace
 unit of General Motors Corp., which is investing about $500 million in the
 project, now has put in place all the system hardware needed for a service
 that it hopes will attract 10 million subscribers to the 150-channel operation
 by the end of the decade and eventually compete with cable-TV systems....
   For Digital, the nation's second-largest computer maker, the agreement opens
 a new systems-integration market. Digital is looking at this area to broaden
 its business base, said John O'Keefe, vice president of Digital's U.S.
 Complementary Solutions Organizations group. He said that while the size of
 the new business is being valued at $100 million, that represents a
 conservative estimate, and "we think the contract is almost unlimited" in
 revenue potential.

 Digital - Ex-Digital employee admits parts role
	{The Boston Globe, 22-Aug-92, p. 21}
   A former Digital warehouse supervisor pleaded guilty in US District Court
 yesterday to six counts of interstate transportation of stolen property -
 computer boards. As part of the plea agreement, Joseph McGee, 46, of
 Leominster, is expected to testify for the government at the trial of 11
 co-defendents, including the alleged mastermind of the theft, Philip Mario
 Carnovale. The trail is scheduled to start Sept. 8 and Judge Douglas P.
 Woodstock scheduled McGee's sentencing for Nov. 5. McGee was one of 16 persons
 indicted in July 1991 in the multimillion-dollar scheme to steal computer
 boards from Digital. McGee is the fifth defendant to plead guilty in the case.
 McGee, a Digital employee for 20 years, faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in
 jail and a $1.5 million fine for the six counts. The government is
 recommending a sentence between 30 and 37 months, with additional reductions
 if his testimony is helpful. The stolen computer parts, which were sold for
 more than $6 million, were shipped to California and elsewhere.

 Digital - 'Information Management:  The NEXT Generation' Delphi consulting
	group seminar series
	{Livewire, Worldwide News, 24-Aug-92}
   Digital Sales Reps who attended the DECWORLD '92 presentation by Delphi 
 Consulting Group of Boston -- "Information Management:  The NEXT Generation" 
 (R) -- can attend the complete, comprehensive seminar individually or with 
 their customers who are interested in document management...in 6 major cities
 during Q2-Q3 FY93. Digital Content Based Retrieval solutions will be demoed
 during the Vendor Showcase segment of this series.
   The target audiences are Sales; Sales support and their customers planning
 for or currently involved in the evaluation of a text retrieval, imaging,
 workflow or multimedia system; all levels of IS, MIS, and user departments
 from across industries and organizational disciplines.
   The three-day seminar complements the DECworld '92 Harborside Breakfast 
 presentation "Information Management:  The NEXT Generation" (R) by Delphi 
 Consulting. During the Vendor Showcase, Delphi Consulting Group will be 
 available to answer questions about Text Retrieval, Imaging, Workflow and 
 Multimedia. Attendees can use this opportunity to individually review their 
 applications and site requirements with experts in the field.
   The North American seminar schedule:  Oct. 13-15 - Los Angeles; Oct. 19-21 - 
 Chicago; Nov. 9-11 - Denver; Dec. 8-10 - Boston; Jan. 12-14 - Toronto; and 
 Jan. 26-28 - Washington, DC.
   The European seminar schedule:  Nov. 2-3 - London; Nov. 5-6 - Paris; Feb. 
 15-16 - Geneva; Feb. 18-19 - Brussels.
   There is a discounted registration fee for Digital Sales reps. To register 
 directly, call 617-247-1511.
   For more information about the seminar agenda, contact Joanne Lutian 
 (MRKTNG::LUTIAN or Joanne Lutian @TTB; DTN 264-3444).


VNS TECHNOLOGY WATCH:                           [Mike Taylor, VNS Correspondent]
=====================                           [Littleton, MA, USA            ]

                              UPS goes Cellular

    United Parcel Service has forged an alliance of cellular carriers to
    provide immediate tracking capability for its air and ground movements. 
    Early next year, 50,000 UPS delivery vehicles will be equipped with
    cellular equipment that will transmit package information from the
    vehicles via USPnet, the company's worldwide telecomm network. "We
    have the fleet, we have the worldwide computer communications, and now
    we have the nation's first cellular data network," says Gene Hughes,
    UPS' VP of strategic technology planning. 

    After customers sign the Delivery Information Acquisition Device that
    UPS drivers carry, drivers then place the device into a custom-made
    adapter. Data is transmitted automatically via cellular modem to the
    UPSnet packet switch and then to a mainframe at UPS' information
    services headquarters in New Jersey.
    {Communication News August 1992}


VNS UK SPORTS REPORT:                             [Ken Merrick, VNS Sports Desk]
=====================                             [Valbonne, France            ]

||| CRICKET
    England beat Pakistan in the fifth and final 1-day match to take the series
    4-1.

||| FOOTBALL
    FA Premier League
    Southampton ...... 0  Manchester United .... 1

    News...
    Bayern Munich hope to complete the signing of Lothar Matthaus from Inter
    Milan.


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