Compaq introduces its redesigned PCs with strong claims and bright hopes
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Compaq announces new models to its ProLinea and Deskpro lines that include built-in management and remote-monitoring features. The new offerings are aimed at garnering Compaq an even larger share of the corporate desktop market. In 1994, the company accounted for approximately 10% of the global computer market and overtook former industry leader IBM. In 1995, the company expects to gain an additional two or three percentage points. The new Compaq systems will be among some of the first to allow network administrators to perform remote monitoring and inventory functions as well as software updates. The systems' hard drives will alert users of potential failures and perform automatic backups to a central server if problems arise. Other PC makers including IBM are expected to tout their systems' network management features in response to Compaq's latest products. Other players such as AST Research, Gateway 2000 and Dell Computer may have a more difficult time offering the same management functions in their wares.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1995
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Five electronics giants hope General Magic will turn the trick; partners in novel software could reap big rewards by linking new devices; living in fear of Microsoft
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Five big electronics firms, hoping to reap big rewards from a future of personal wireless communications, are investing in General Magic Inc, a secretive company founded in 1990 by Apple Computer Inc. General Magic is writing software for personal intelligent communicators (PICs), a next-generation hand-held device that will act as a cellular phone, pager, beeper, fax machine, electronic-mail sender, appointment book, note-taker, and tool for accessing thousands of databases with information on everything from financial markets to restaurant menus. Eventually, PICs may even be able to send and receive short bits of video. Computer firms such as Apple have been loudly talking up PICs for several years, even though none of the devices has yet been shipped. General Magic's software aims to allow PICs made by different vendors to communicate with each other.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1993
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