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To: Carl T Hammerdorfer who wrote (36750)	10/14/1998 10:45:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

Rockwell names Bala Iyer to CFO position biz.yahoo.com COSTA MESA, Calif., Oct 14 (Reuters) - Electronic communications and control company Rockwell International Corp. named Wednesday Bala Iyer as senior vice president and chief financial officer of its semiconductor systems unit that will soon be spun off to its shareholders. Effective Oct. 19, Iyer will take over the operation scheduled to be spun off at the end of December and be operated independently. Iyer, 42, is joining Rockwell from VLSI Technology Inc., where he served as senior vice president and chief financial officer responsible for all worldwide financial functions for that company. The company will be based in Newport Beach, Calif., and will begin operations as a $1.2 billion supplier of chipsets and other products for the communications semiconductor market.

To: Carl T Hammerdorfer who wrote (36750)	10/15/1998 3:00:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

EchoStar readies two-way service.......................... skyreport.com EchoStar Buys Media4, Eyes Broadband Satellite Solution EchoStar Communications is acquiring privately-held Media4, an Atlanta, Ga.,-based supplier of broadband satellite networking equipment for personal computers, in its continuing efforts to expand into the data and interactive realm. EchoStar said it would issue approximately 400,000 shares of DISH common stock for 100 percent ownership of Media4. The purchase of Media4 follows EchoStar's other announcement, a partnership with OpenTV. OpenTV's technology will allow the satellite company to provide a nationwide interactive-TV service featuring e-mail, Internet access and electronic commerce. EchoStar will use interactive-TV software and technology from OpenTV. The Mountain View, Calif.,-based company supplies interactive content and services to 1 million TV viewers, mostly in Europe. Media4, founded in 1995, is a supplier of PC-based, digital video broadcast (DVB) compatible satellite transmission products. Its flagship product line - MediaStream - is a software-driven, DVB-compatible satellite uplink system that provides DVB receiver technology and application software. Products can be used for video distribution, distance learning, remote caching and broadband Internet access. Media4 will continue to sell MediaStream to private network operators and corporations that have broadband IP traffic over satellite. The company's 35 employees would become part of EchoStar, and will operate an East Coast base for EchoStar's engineering and satellite services organizations. EchoStar announced plans in August 1998 for broadband data delivery and high-speed satellite broadcast. The goal is to provide subscribers with higher quality video, audio and more multimedia options than that offered in wire-based technology. "By converging TV and the Internet, EchoStar could offer a new medium for producers, broadcasters and viewers to create interactive content for nationwide broadband delivery, allowing subscribers to interact with programming and with other viewers at the same time via personal computers," the company said in a statement.

To: Carl T Hammerdorfer who wrote (36750)	10/15/1998 7:45:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

NTL(Divi customer).......................... exchange2000.com Besides DiviCom's technology, other technology partners are understood to be Power TV (STB middleware), Nagra for conditional access technology, ICL (interactive services and applications), Digital Equipment for Video-on-Demand file servers and Lysis (master scheduler). inside-cable.co.uk 12th October 1998 NTL TO LAUNCH MULTIPLE INTERACTIVE TV -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NTL has announced its plans for TV-based interactive services, available nationally across a variety of interactive TV platforms from 31 March 1999. It expects to be the first interactive provider as neither Sky Digital nor OnDigital will be offering interactive services by then. The first offering will be NTL's TV-based telephone access package later this year although this will offer no TV content. This will be followed by digital terrestrial television with digital cable available in the early summer of 1999. . The digital terrestrial service will come through SDN, the joint venture company with United News and Media and S4C. NTL will deliver interactive services to consumers nationally via two types of TV settop box. The first is connected to a telephone line and will provide TV-based Internet access with a later version offering integrated handling of both digital terrestrial TV and Internet access. In local cable markets NTL Interactive will be available via settop box which uses Microsoft software for the integrated content; PowerTV to implement NTL's choice of Internet standard HTML and JavaScript software, while ICL will be the overall interactive system integrator. NTL expects to have 200,000 interactive customers by the end of 1999 and some 2.0 million within in three years, including all forms of access. Content partners include Microsoft, Barclays Bank, Airtours, Press Association and Universal Studios. NTL is offering an end-to-end service to new-media entrants who wish to market their content, products and services through interactive TV settop boxes. NTL believes that its adoption of Internet software standards means that content partners can leverage investments in existing web sites.