================================================================================ RED CIENTIFICA PERUANA NOTIRED ================================================================================ EDUPAGE. This is EDUPAGE, a summary of some recent news items on information technology, provided as a service by EDUCOM, a consortium of leading colleges and universities seeking to transform education through the use of information technology. INTEL CLEARED. The Federal Trade Commission has found no evidence to support the charges of unfair competition brought by some of Intel's competitors, who alleged antitrust violations and complained that the company has a stranglehold on the chip manufacturing industry. (New York Times 7/15/93 C3) TABLET NEWS. No, not tabloid, tablet. The Knight-Ridder Information Design Labratory is developing a prototype tablet that could be used for reading electronic news services, edited by the same kinds of news organizations that now produce newspapers. Such a tablet would include a wireless telephone and a voice-synthesis chip, and could be loaded with the contents of one or more newspapers several times a day. Unlike network navigating, it would provide a convenient forum for advertising. (The Economist 7/10/93 pg. 77) THE MIND'S EYE. The Eyegaze System developed by the Virginia Center for Innovative Technology allows a person to operate a computer, dial the telephone, or turn on switches simply by glancing at the phrase, word, or number chosen. A small video camera monitors the motion of the eyeball and translates those motions into an action. (Atlanta Constitution 7/15/93 F2) CLASH OVER HIGH-TECH BILL. A dispute between two Senate committees over provisions to create new civilian technologies threatens to derail the effort to pass the $3-billion piece of legislation. The bill (S 4) aims at expanding the government's role in developing communications technologies, funding high-tech startups, and creating network test beds for new manufacturing systems. The controversy centers on whether the new program should housed be at the Commerce Department or at the Small Business Administration. (BNA Daily Report for Executives 7/12/93 A16) MIND OVER MEDIA. That's the title of a new McGraw-Hill book by Mark von Wodtke of Cal Poly at Pomona. The book explores techniques for expanding and enhancing interactive thinking capabilities on the computer. For info send email to mjvonwodtke@csupomona.edu. RETAIL POWER. Apple is considering selling for the first time a version of its Macintosh PowerBook computers through retail outlets and offering with it, as a standard feature, AppleLink communications software to lure customers to its electronic network of services and information, for which users pay Apple $12 to $37 an hour. (Wall Street Journal 7/14/93 B6) SECURITY. Novell is leading a broad industry effort to develop a security standard for dissimilar computers that are networked to each other. (Wall Street Journal 7/14/93 B2) HYPERLEARNING. In response to the interview with Lewis J. Perelman appearing in the current issue of EDUCOM Review, we've been getting a large number of calls asking how to order his book, "School's Out: Hyperlearning, The New Technology, and The End of Education," published by Wm. Morrow. The easiest way may be to call Send-a-Book at 1-800-793-SEND, which promises to deliver anywhere in the US within 48 hrs. (There may be some shipping/handling charge above the cover price of $23.) MULTIMEDIA BOOK. Info about a new book called "Demystifying Multimedia" written for Apple Computer's Multimedia Program can be obtained from ken@vivid.com. DIGITAL OCTUPUSES. The big corporate players in the new world of digitial media are "octupuses with their hands in each other's pockets," said John Malone, CEO of Tele-Communications Inc., the giant cable company. The Wall Street Journal characterizes the emerging alliances as "a looser, more American version of the powerful keiretsu -- the groups of corporations, held together through cross-shareholding, that dominate Japanese industry. The newsletter Digital Media recently compiled a list of media alliances that went on for six pages in small print. (Wall Street Journal 7/14/93 A1) ********************************************************************* INFORMATION ABOUT EDUPAGE To subscribe to EDUPAGE, send a note to edupage@educom.edu with your name, e-mail address, and complete mailing address including institution. Product and other announcements from EDUCOM Corporate Associates are routinely added to the EDUCOM fileserver; those announcements, along with back issues of EDUPAGE, are available by WAIS, Gopher, and anonymous ftp from educom.edu. ********************************************************************** EDUCOM -- Transforming Education Through Information Technology End of EDUPAGE EDUPAGE@EDUCOM.EDU ********************************************************************** .