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To: rupert1 who wrote (36884)	11/19/1998 6:22:00 AM
From: rupert1	Respond to of 97611

Awards by Retailers tothe competition mainly. Victor Wednesday November 18, 3:37 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: Ziff-Davis Computer Shopper Presents its 13th Annual Best Buy Awards Annual COMDEX Award Show Raises $500,000 for Charity LAS VEGAS, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Tonight Ziff-Davis' (NYSE: ZD - news) Computer Shopper magazine tonight presented its 13th annual Best Buy Awards at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. The event, which featured comedian Steven Wright and musical legend Huey Lewis and the News, doubled for the 4th year as a fundraiser for Tomorrows Children's Fund, a charity dedicated to helping children suffering from cancer and rare blood disorders. Computer Shopper and its advertising partners have raised over $2,000,000 for the charity to date. Tonight's event raised an additional $500,000.00. Awards were presented to the following companies in the following categories: Best High-end Desktop PC -- Dell Computer Corp [Nasdaq:DELL - news]. -- Dell Dimension XPS R400 Best Value Desktop PC -- Gateway -- Gateway G6-266 Best Home PC - Gateway -- Gateway G6-400 Best High-end Notebook PC -- IBM Personal Computer Corp. -- IBM ThinkPad 770E Best Value Notebook PC -- Toshiba America Information Systems -- Toshiba Satellite 320CDS Best Lightweight Notebook PC -- Micron Electronics -- Micron GoBook 266 Lite Best Palmtop/Handheld PC -- 3Com Corp. -- 3Com Palm III Best Network Server -- Compaq Computer Corp [NYSE:CPQ - news]. -- Compaq ProLiant 7000 Best Motherboard -- ASUSTeK Computer -- Asus P2B Best Monitor -- ViewSonic Corp. -- ViewSonic P815 Best Graphics Card -- Diamond Multimedia Systems -- Diamond Viper V330 Best CD-ROM or DVD-ROM Drive -- Creative Labs -- Creative Labs PC-DVD Encore Dxr2 Best CD-R or CD-RW Drive -- Hewlett-Packard Corp. -- HP SureStore CD-Writer Plus 7200 Best Hard Drive -- Western Digital Corp [NYSE:WDC - news]. -- Western Digital Caviar Series Best Removable/Backup Drive -- Iomega Corp [NYSE:IOM - news]. -- Iomega Zip Drive Best Modem -- 3Com Corp. -- 3Com US Robotics 56K Faxmodem Best Inkjet Printer -- Hewlett-Packard Corp. -- HP DeskJet 722C Best Laser Printer -- Hewlett-Packard Corp. -- HP LaserJet 4000se Best Scanner -- Hewlett-Packard Corp. -- HP ScanJet 5100C Best UPS -- APC -- APC Smart-UPS Best Digital Camera -- Sony Electronics -- Sony MVC-FD7 Digital Mavica Camera Best Business Productivity Software -- Microsoft Corp [Nasdaq:MSFT - news]. -- Microsoft Office 97 for Windows Best Personal Productivity Software -- Microsoft Corp. -- Microsoft Office 97 for Windows Best Graphics/Design Software -- Adobe Systems -- Adobe Photoshop 5.0 Best Web Authoring Software -- Microsoft Corp. -- Microsoft FrontPage 98 for Windows Best Games/Multimedia -- Blizzard Entertainment -- StarCraft Best New Product of '98 -- Microsoft Corp. -- Microsoft Windows 98 Best Place to Buy Desktop PCs -- Dell Computer Corp. Best Place to Buy Notebook PCs -- MicroWarehouse Best Place to Buy Motherboards -- TC Computers Best Place to Buy Printers -- CDW Computer Centers Best Place to Buy Monitors -- CDW Computer Centers Best Place to Buy Multimedia Products -- PC Mall Best Place to Buy Storage -- MegaHaus Best Place to Buy Upgrade Components and Accessories -- CDW Computer Centers Best Place to Buy Software -- The PC Zone Best Service and Support -- Dell Computer Corp. Direct Channel Achievement Award, Systems -- CyberMax Computer Corp. Direct Channel Achievement Award, Peripherals -- MicroWarehouse Industry Trendsetter -- Gateway

To: rupert1 who wrote (36884)	11/19/1998 6:25:00 AM
From: rupert1	Respond to of 97611

Article on the status of COMDEX. Victor Yahoo! News AP Headlines Tuesday November 17 11:59 PM ET Comdex Show Loses Some Luster By DAVID E. KALISH AP Business Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) - The high-tech industry has seen the future - and it looks pretty much like the present. Computers should grow sleeker. Shirt pockets should overflow further with electronic gizmos for keeping appointments. But life, despite the industry hype, will stay about the same - at least judging by some reaction this week to Comdex, the computer industry's largest and glitziest trade show. To some attendees, the most eye-catching exhibits seemed to merely tweak already popular technology. Missing were hot products to rival earlier standouts, such as the Palm Pilot handheld organizer introduced three years ago, which swiftly became essential business gear. ''I didn't see anything exciting and new,'' said Larry Diehl, a software developer with American Airlines. ''Nothing really caught my eye.'' The show has ''lost some of the glitter,'' added veteran Comdex attendee Ronald Harp. The president of Catalina Distributors Inc. of Boca Raton, Fla. has attended 18 shows in the spring and fall since 1990. The dimmed enthusiasm hit some big exhibitors too. IBM Corp., Intel Corp. (Nasdaq:INTC - news) and Dell Computer Corp. (Nasdaq:DELL - news), among the show's largest participants in the past, withdrew this year after finding that jockeying for attention with roughly 2,400 other exhibitors in the sprawling show isn't a cost-effective way to reach potential customers. Exhibitors can spend several million dollars for the biggest displays. To be sure Comdex, which started as the Computer Dealers Exposition in 1979, still attracts tons of attention; an estimated 220,000 people are attending this year's event, up 4 percent from last year. Show director Bill Sell noted that some big exhibitors such as software maker Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq:ORCL - news) and Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE:CPQ - news) feature large displays for the first time, and the event remains the premier showcase for testing customer appetite for new and sometimes offbeat technologies. ''There's still a lot of important innovations,'' Harp said, pointing to new all-in-one digital boxes that sit atop TV sets and help control a variety of functions, from ordering movies to providing Internet access. Turning some heads since the show opened Monday was a crop of unusual personal computers that deviate from the clunky white boxes on most desktops. Intel, despite pulling its exhibit, used an off-site hotel to show off several prototype PCs. One, called Aztec, is orange and shaped like a pyramid cut off at the top. Another, Twister, is a gently bending oval tower. Both are about one-third the size of the typical boxes that encase PC circuitry. Intel officials said they were able to shrink the case by eliminating some older technologies that took up space and introducing new ones. Intel isn't actually making the machines; it's prodding major PC sellers to do so sometime next year. Another eye-catching desktop computer was displayed by Hitachi, the Japanese-owned consumer electronics giant. The VisionDesk 1330 is just 7.5 inches thick, yet includes a built-in monitor that uses liquid crystal to show text and images, instead of electron beam technology. But the all-in-one computer seemed to sacrifice performance in order to achieve the space savings, said Roger Kay, an industry analyst with International Data Corp., who was looking at the exhibit. It costs a relatively steep $2,600 and uses an older version of Intel's Pentium microprocessor for brainpower. ''The Japanese companies in general have overestimated how interested the U.S. market is in (saving) space,'' Kay said. Adding to the futuristic theme, electronics makers displayed banks of flat-panel screens intended to eventually replace the clunky monitors currently in use with desktop computers. Such standouts weren't enough to impress Dave Bowden, another American Airlines software developer, who noted that several innovative software tool developers had pulled out since he last attended two years ago. ''We probably won't be back next year - not unless I see something stunning,'' he said

To: rupert1 who wrote (36884)	11/19/1998 11:07:00 AM
From: John Koligman	Respond to of 97611

Victor - Off Topic LSI can make a solid move into the mid twenties in one week. It's simply a matter of when fund money smells the turnaround, and rotates into the stock. I think there is a good chance that 99 will be the time for the start of a larger move. It's already occurred to some extent with AMAT, even though that part of the industry is still in the dumpster and the CEO's forward looking statements are filled with comments like 'uncertainty going forward'. I think the uncertainty will become more of a 'certainty' next year. John