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Technology Stocks : NewKidCo International (OTC:NKCIF) (TSE:NKC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (1800)	6/17/1998 7:34:00 PM
From: esecurities(tm)	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4231

Good news for NewKidCo?:Sony Aims To Launch Windows Set-top Boxes In 1999 TOKYO (Reuters) - "...Sony said today it hopes to launch set-top boxes for interactive cable television compatible with Microsoft's Windows CE operating system as early as in 1999. A Sony spokesman said set-top boxes were likely to be the first products launched as a result of a technology tie-up between Sony and the U.S. software giant on in-home networks. It said they would be launched first in the U.S. market..." source: &copy 1998 dailynews.yahoo.com

To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (1800)	6/19/1998 11:07:00 AM
From: Irish99	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4231

Relaunch HotMetal?? That would take money and most companies wouldn't put money into something that they are trying to sell off. The results of a relaunch and going to the trade show (Web 98 in SF next week) wouldn't be felt for a while. Probably after the sale. HotMetal is a failing product. It's share has fallen from 10.9% in January of 1997 to 4.9% in January of 1998 (http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/printhigh/30298/webchartb.html). They can't compete against Microsoft FrontPage on HTML WYSIWYG authoring and they lost the code centric HTML editing market.