[PDF] Top 20 Information Society Trends Issue 16, 1994

... US computer software manufacturers Novell and WordPerfect have completed their merger, by which they become the world's third largest software company behind Microsoft and Computer Associates, with revenues of $1.8 ... See full document

... Trends: After the collapse of the TCI-Bell Atlantic merger and other business and legislative events that cast a shadow over the future of multimedia in America, the development of information superhighways ... See full document

... Trends: The bulk of the news in the two last weeks has been legislative with substantial liberalisation of the EU's satellite sector, a Commission's investigation in a planned venture between Siemens and STET, and ... See full document

... Trends: There have been several setbacks in Europe in the last fortnight:for the MSG venture, which was blocked by the Commission; on the employment front, with lay offs by KPN and C&W; for Greece's plans to ... See full document

... Trends: North American news were dominated by a joint attempt by IBM, Apple, AT&T and Siemens to impose a worldwide standard for data transmission. Other major corporate events included the unveiling by Novell ... See full document

... ISPO aims at fostering the setting up of new partnerships by acting as a broker of ideas and expertise, and contributing to the dissemination and sharing of information on experiences and best practices related to ... See full document

... Press Review - Information Society Issue number: 3 1.3.94 - 13.3.94 EDITORIAL A multimedia giant is born in Germany Deutsche Telekom DT, the German national telecoms company, Bertelsmann[r] ... See full document

... Trends: Criticisms and doubts about European governments' willingness and capacity to bring information superhighways to Europe were expressed by leading industrialists last week. Those contrasted sharply ... See full document

... Trends: Asia and Pacific was the centre of a lot of activity in the last two weeks. Japan's ministries and businesses go on multiplying multimedia initiatives on both the legal and services fronts. Liberalisation ... See full document

... Japan's than Prime minister Morihiro HOSOKAWA announced in March the launch of an Information Technology & Telecommunications committee to tackle the sensitive issue of bringing information ... See full document

... Trends: Europe's infrastructure de-monopolisation has further progressed on the margins of the current regulatory framework with the launch of the EVUA private telecoms network, which by-passes existing national ... See full document

... Trends: The week has been quite busy in Europe with a large scope of activities ranging from infrastructure developments in Britain and Portugal, telecoms privatisation in Portugal and Belgium, de-monopolisation ... See full document

... The experiment, which will involve local business PC networks, will display CNN programming that users will be able to store and retrieve. The service will eventually allow users to merge video newscasts with data from ... See full document

... Trends: The first fortnight of the year 1995 has been marked by a intensification of telecoms competition in Europe, in particular in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. A second important trend has been ... See full document

... EDS, the world’s second largest information technologies (IT) services provider after IBM, said it has agreed to spend $1.65 billion on purchasing MCI Systemhouse, the computer services unit of the second-largest ... See full document

... America Online AOL, the world’s leading on-line service provider, and the US regional operator SBC Communications said they have agreed to form a partnership to offer broadband connectiv[r] ... See full document

... Trends: The emphasis is on the European Community with a series of important steps regarding a global Internet Charter (see editorial), Internet telephony, GNSS and the Fifth Framework Programme. At market level, ... See full document

... the issue of Internet access for schools, the Commission will request national telecoms regulatory authorities to encourage operators, including dominant ones, to offer special tariffs to schools ... See full document

... Press Review - Information Society 15.2.94 Issue number: 1 29.1.94 - EDITORIAL IBM survey indicates interest but poor awareness from SMEs of Information Infrastructure According to a sur[r] ... See full document

... Trends: Apart from the alliance with Sprint, the week has been rich in events. On the infrastructure side, France tops the news with the unveiling of some elements of the Théry report and Lasserre's statement that ... See full document