AT&T defends global services strategy as rival MCI-BT alliance pulls ahead

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Analysts report that AT and T's World Partners program, which targets international corporate customers, has not yielded significant revenues for the telecomunications giant. The World Partners program is aimed at providing international corporate telephone networks, which allow a company's foreign offices to be hooked into the main telephone network of the company. All services found at the company headquarters, including call forwarding, voice mail and faxing, are possible at any site via the corporate network. AT and T's World Partners program is a loose confederation of foreign telecom monopolies that agree to provide services for AT and T's corporate networks. The monopolies have no equity stake in the venture, and no exclusive commitments to AT and T, which means that they have no incentive to provide good service. Rival programs such as Concert, a venture from MCI and British Telecom, have been extremely successful in the corporate network market.

Telecommunications, Telephone Communication, Planning, AT&T Corp., Company business planning, Company Business And Marketing

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AT&T, Sprint holding talks with Kodak: phone firms studying use of technology to send images via phone lines

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Talks are underway between Eastman Kodak Co and long-distance telephone and telecommunications companies Sprint Corp and AT and T that may lead to a technology-sharing agreement. Kodak is reportedly close to signing an agreement with Sprint by which the latter would use Kodak digital imaging technology to transmit high-quality photographic and X-Ray images over long distance telephone wires. Negotiations with AT and T are in an earlier stage, and are reputed to involve a broad range of telecommunications-based imaging services. The cooperative agreements indicate the direction of Eastman Kodak's overall marketing strategy, which is designed to optimize its image processing hardware and software technologies by making them available to a wider range of customers. Specific targets of the latest round of agreements include the medical, advertising, and architectural industries.

Sprint Corp., Cooperative agreement for product marketing, Company marketing practices, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., Telephone systems, Telephone system

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Kodak, in pact with Microsoft, to offer faster way to send images by camera

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Kodak has joined with Microsoft in the development of an imaging technology, called Nifty, that significantly abbreviates the process of altering and transmitting via the computer. The Nifty technology consists of an enhanced file format for the construction of computer images and relies on the Internet for transmission routes. Nifty shortens the time required to display edited changes to an image by working with a low-resolution version until all changes have been completed. The technology then performs the more time-consuming alterations to the final high-resolution version. Nifty will face formidable competition from entrenched imaging companies, and the company's proposed plan to license the technology freely leaves Kodak's revenue stream unclear. The support of both Microsoft and HP is expected to help Kodak substantially.

Prepackaged software, Computer Software, Software Publishers, Computer software industry, Software industry, Software, Product development, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Company technology development, Cooperative agreement for product development, Alliances and partnerships

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