Edupage newsletter for 25th July 1996 Edupage newsletter for 25th July 1996 For more information about Edupage and the Educom consortium, click here. The Federal Communication Commission wants to achieve the 10-20 year transition from analog to digital television by assigning each television station a digital frequency between channels 7 and 51, and then requiring all stations to yield the analog channels back to the FCC for auctioning off for other uses. The organization hopes to charge for the time in subsequent years. The purchase will give Cisco access to Telebit's line of high-speed digital modems and other telecommunications technology.
Cisco is the world's biggest maker of networking equipment.
PointCast is working on the problem, but several companies have issued restrictions on how and when employees may used the service, which functions as a screen saver, providing the news when PCs are idle. To alleviate demand overload, PointCast's I-Server, which will be available this fall, will act a local broadcast facility, allowing companies to send internal company news, as well as the external stuff, across an intranet. IBM and Adobe have already settled with E-data over their claims, and say their agreements prohibit them from discussing the terms. Since its plan requires only one orbital slot, the second would be available to other players, leading to a competitive satellite industry. Caldera is backed by Ray Noorda, the former CEO of Novell.