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From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 09:44:51 -0500
CYBERSPACE MERCHANDISING. The power of cyberspace as a market for electronic products is showing: The Corner Store, which generates sales of OS/2 through messages and BBSs, mainly over CompuServe, hasn't run a single print ad since 1988 and boasts sales of $1 million. Indelible Blue Inc., which also sells OS/2 and applications software, should "easily" have revenue of between $5 million and $10 million this year. An IBM spokesman praised the trend, noting the two businesses are "the first true cyberspace stores I'm aware of." (Wall Street Journal 1/17/94 B1) CANADIAN INFORMATION HIGHWAY. Canada has signed a five-year R&D agreement with the VISTAR division of Spar Aerospace, Quebec Telephone and the Stentor alliance of phone companies that will see wireless information highway technology developed in the government-owned Communications Research Centre. (Ottawa Citizen, 01/15/94 E1). DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARDS. Computer hardware, software, and communications companies, as well a major bank, plan to begin selling products that embed RSA Data Security's data encryption technology, which does not include the "trap door" that the Clinton Administration wanted to allow law enforcement agencies to eavesdrop on digital communications. The Administration's plan was opposed not only by cryptographers but by civil liberties groups. (New York Times, John Markoff, 1/14/94)
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