European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes the Day of wireless computers so Small they fit in your Palm moved closer when the government recently computer tuesday August 3,1993 approved construction of a network for personal communications services. The Federal communications commission opened 11 channels for the a a palmtop computers and gave Mobile  technologies corp. The go ahead to build the  company based in Jackson. Miss., says the network known As own will be operating in at least the top 300 markets in the United states by 1995 and could have 13 million users by 2000. Eventually Consumers will not Only be Able talk Over wireless telephones As they do today but also Send and receive written material in Palm sized computers. A for people who routinely spend time away from their desks own will be As important As the Telephone is today a said Jai Bhagat president of Mitef technologies inc., the subsidiary developing the networks technology. The palmtop computers look like miniature laptops commonly used for word processing by business people on the Road. The laptops must now be plugged into a Telephone line to Send or receive data. But the pc cd a clearance of space on the airwaves Wilt enable the data to go Over the air giving users even greater mobility when away from a Home office. Messages will be sent and received without a need to know even the City in which the other party is. A a Zenith data systems a notebook Ali a a a a up. Announced an Alliance with Packard computer specialist owned by Frances struggling Groupe Bull a has Bell a leading maker of desktop personal computers. The move is the second major consolidation in a month involving two of the nations 10 largest personal computer makers. Zenith data will pay an undisclosed sum for 19,9 percent of privately held Packard Bell. The companies will work together to design and build desktop pcs but will continue to Market products under separate Brand names. Packard Bell based in suburban los Angeles has prospered by Selling pcs through mass merchants like silo stores. Its 1992 Mark share was 5.2 percent according to International Lata corp., making it the fourth largest p j Vendor. Zenith data was no. 10 with a 2 percent share. A a the  International software Industry is losing More than $12 billion a year because of companies and individuals who illegally copy computer programs an Industry group estimates. The biggest software piracy is in Asia with More than 90 percent of the software used in Japan Thailand and Taiwan obtained illegally said business software Alliance president Robert Holleyman. In Spain Italy Mexico Colombia and Venezuela 85 percent or More is illegal Holleyman said. A software is generally protected by copyright Laws around the world but enforcement of those Laws is lax Quot Holleyman said. The loss in possible retail sales caused by illegal use of software is estimated by Bra at $5.4 billion in Asia $4.5 billion in Europe $1.9 billion in the United states and $461 million in latin America. A from w ire reports Laptop Battle heats up by John Burgess the Washington Post a year ago it was the last word in technological stylish Ness. Apple computer inc s sculptured Gray Laptop machine known As the Power Book sold out overnight when supplies reached stores. It turned Heads in boardrooms and Airport lounges with its sound effects its Sharp graphical screen its Clever a a trackball with which the user gave commands. Today the Power Book continues to sell Well but has lost much of its cachet. Closing in Are new and some analysts say in Many ways Superior laptops built to technical standards pioneered by International business machines corp. Among the leaders of that pack is ism itself with its thin pad. A dapple clearly stole the March a said Robert Jordan an attorney at the Law firm of Steptoe amp Johnson who in feb Rusty became an Early thin pad user. A but the ism Side has caught  the Power Book tale offers new proof that the computer business evolves with velocity seen in few other industries. Today shit product must constantly improve and fall in Price to maintain its Edge the analysts and strategists rarely have a Clear idea of where things Are  heat is particularly Strong in the Laptop Market which the inf corp research firm estimates will grow by nearly 60 percent in 1993, to 6 million units worldwide. It forecasts Power Book sales will continue to Rise but not As fast As the Market. As a result its share measured by units sold will fail to 8.8 percent from 11,7 percent. Computer users were sceptical when the Power Book was introduced in the fall of 1991. Apple earlier had tried to make a portable version of its flagship macintosh computer but the Clunky overpriced machines fell Fiat. This time said Gerry Purdy an analyst ibis thin pad has offered stiff Competition for Apple computers laptops. At the research firm Dat quest inc., it was a like opening the floodgates and All this water came Rushing Down a Small Ravine. Apple sold a staggering 400,000 units much Praise went to a single feature that solved a problem Bede Iling the Industry How to move a machine s a a cursor around the screen. Ism Standard laptops had trackballs in the a a first year increasing its Revenue by that clumsily clipped onto the Side and $1 billion. People waited weeks to get had to be attached at each session Apple them they paid Premium prices. Built one right into the machines body Power Book was Light. It was pleasing just below the keyboard to the Eye. It moved onto the Road most in the meantime the huge collection of the famous easy to use features of the of companies making laptops to the ism macintosh. Standard were catching up. The user controlled it by pointing at machines for example came out with Friendly symbols on the screen not by the speedy Intel corp. Microprocessors typing cryptic commands. It had sound known As the 386 and 486, providing the built in a it could record your voice a muscle to run Microsoft  graphical and handled Telephone transmission of windows program that was Selling wildly a set Omar data easily. On the desktop Market. Pacemaker 5.0 Worth the wait by Lance Gurwell United press International pacemaker version 5.0 for windows Isnit your fathers desktop publishing program. But no matter because it probably  run on your fathers computer. Pacemaker 5.0 for windows and an identical macintosh version of the same program have been in the making for More than two years but appear Well Worth the wait. The windows version is available at stores now and the macintosh version is due out within the next month or so. Aldus corp. Has put everything users could Tje sire into the latest release of its popular and powerful desktop publishing program. And in doing so it has jumped at least a step ahead of its major Competition quark press Long considered the program of Choice for professional desktop publishers and the serious Amateur As Well. Quark released a windows version of its popular Mac program last year and Many once Loyal pacemaker users tired of waiting for a new and More powerful version of the Aldus program jumped ship. But Many defectors will return to the fold with pacemaker 5.0, which tops quark in most categories and is easier to use. Aldus has put out what is arguably the finest desktop publishing program available today. The company claims More than 100 improvements Over pacemaker 4.0,. Naturally those improvements increase the Price and require additional computing Power and More disk storage space. To use pacemaker 5,0 for windows Aldus recommends a 386 or 486-based machine with four megabytes of random Access memory windows 3.1 or later an 80-mb hard drive a High Resolution graphics adapter card such As a super via or Aga and a mouse. The Only caveat i found is that while pacemaker 5.0 will run on a computer with a 386 processor some procedures will be frustratingly slow. Ne4v features in pacemaker 5.0 include the ability to work with multiple documents including multiple copies of the same document. The new program also features what Aldus Calls the Panrose font Matching system. When a pacemaker 5.0 document created on another computer appears on your computer screen the Panrose font Matching system automatically tries to match typefaces used in the original document even if those Type fonts Arentt available on your computer. Another area Aldus has strengthened considerably in pacemaker 5.0 is its printing features. Improvements include the ability to perform color separations a dividing full Coler illustrations into four Gray scale panels for use in the commercial color printing process a inside the program itself. In pacemaker 4.0, you had to exit the main program and use a companion module called pre print to create and print color  printing improvements include the ability to overprint spot or process co ors or tints a basically superimposing Type on top of a color background and the ability to automatically Center a Page on available paper. The new version of pacemaker also allows for incremental rotation of Type and graphics and includes an on screen a a palette from which most typographic functions can be controlled. Another new feature of pacemaker 5.0 is a collection of easy to use commands called Aldus additions that automate processes that used to require several Steps. Reprogrammed additions perform a variety of functions a More than 20 in All. A. For example there is an addition to begin a paragraph with a so called a drop Cape a a capital letter that is several lines deep. Just Click on the a drop Cape command in the additions menu and its done although i found this is one of the tasks that seemed to take an inordinately Long time on my 25 Megahertz 386-based computer with 6 my of ram