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To: jhild who wrote (10424)	12/10/1997 3:00:00 AM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

Japan: "rose a whopping 220.2 percent in October from a year earlier" Tokyo stocks open lower: Tokyo stocks opened lower Wednesday with the Nikkei slipping 0.21 percent to 16,652. Meanwhile, the surplus in Japan's current account, the broadest measure of trade in goods and services, rose a whopping 220.2 percent in October from a year earlier to 1.08 trillion yen. Oh wow do I ever have a head ache!! Does anyone know if one wheelbarrow of yen equals a wallet full of dollars?

To: jhild who wrote (10424)	12/10/1997 7:06:00 AM
From: Moonray	Respond to of 22053

3Com/USR Unveils Non-PC-Dependent Sportster Modem Newsbytes News Network Tue, Dec 09 1997 READING, BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND, 1997 DEC 9 (NB) -- By Steve Gold, Newsbytes. The ubiquitous US Robotics (USR) Sportster desktop modem now has a big brother, the Sportster MessagePlus, a desktop modem that supports telephone and fax mailbox facilities, but without the requirement of being plugged into a host PC. Pricing in at UKP199 (US$340), the Sportster MessagePlus is around UKP40 more expensive than its long-standing little brother, but has a wealth of features that make it competitive against many other competing modems, Newsbytes notes. According to company officials, using the MessagePlus, messages can be retrieved remotely, even when the PC is switched off, enhancing user flexibility, and so increasing productivity. Newsbytes notes that the modem can store approximately 25 fax pages or 35 voice messages, each of about 20 seconds in length, in its onboard memory, without referral to the host PC. The only slight downside of the modem is that it supports the x2 56k modem technology pioneered by US Robotics last year before the company was acquired by 3Com. Newsbytes notes that the bulk of the 56 kilobits-per-second (Kbps) modem vendor community has embraced the k56flex modem technology developed by Rockwell-Lucent, although virtually all 56Kbps modem vendors -- including 3Com -- have committed to offering an upgrade path to the eventual 56Kbps industry standard, when it is approved (ratified) by the International Telecoms Union (ITU). Fiona Faulkner, 3Com's UK country manager, claims that the independent facilities of the Sportster MessagePlus "represent another industry first for 3Com." Unfortunately for 3Com, it has been beaten on this claim -- in Europe, at least -- by Olitec, the French modem vendor, which released its Autonomous Self Memory (ASM) range of modems across Europe in September of this year. As reported by Newsbytes in that month, the Olitec range of modems includes two models (distributed by NP Datacom in the UK) -- the UKP112 Self Memory 33600 model, which supports data speeds up to 33.6 Kbps; and the UKP143 Self Memory 56000, which supports 56 Kbps data speeds . As well as confirming to the more popular k56flex 56 Kbps modem system, the Self Memory 56000 is some 20 percent cheaper than the new USR desktop modem, yet supports broadly the same feature set, Newsbytes notes. Reported by Newsbytes News Network, newsbytes.com . (19971209/Press & Reader Contact: 3Com/USR +44-1628-897000; NP Datacom, +44-1787-476976) (Copyright 1997) _____via IntellX_____ Copyright 1997, Newsbytes News Network. All rights reserved. Republication and redistribution of Newsbytes News Network content is expressly pr ohibited without the prior written consent of Newsbytes News Network. Newsbytes News Network shall not be liable for errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. o~~~ O