Is the elusive paperless office about to become a reality?

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Xerox Corp introduces its Paperworks text management software that incorporates a new technology called Glyph and could finally lead the way to the goal of the automated office. A product of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Glyph is a machine readable language that stores information as highly compressed marks on a paper that can be 'read' by facsimile machines and scanners, allowing up to 25 pages of text to be stored on a single sheet of paper. Paperworks, which lets users work with their computers through fax machines at a remote site, uses Glyph for security encoding and instructions. Paperworks reads handwritten information and displays it on a computer, although optical character reader software must be used to translate the handwriting. Xerox is aiming toward using the paper document as more than a content carrier, letting it interact with the computer to blend technologies.

Office machines, not elsewhere classified, Software, Xerox Corp., XRX, Product introduction, Product Announcement, Industrial productivity, Office automation, Information storage and retrieval, Software Packages, Productivity, Facsimile, Paper Systems, Text processing, PaperWorks (Communications software)

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Microsoft and 2 cable giants close to an alliance

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Microsoft Corp, Time Warner Inc and Tele-Communications Inc are setting up a joint venture company tentatively called Cablesoft. The new company intends to establish a standard for software that will allow cable companies to transmit a new generation of interactive programs. The alliance between the largest software company and the two largest cable television companies is significant because of its tremendous potential to dominate the much-coveted control of the emerging interactive television market. An alliance announced earlier between Intel, Microsoft and General Instrument Corp aims to develop a cable converter with built-in microcomputer features.

Cable and other pay TV services, Motion picture & video production, Periodicals, Motion picture theaters, ex drive-in, Computer software industry, Software industry, Microsoft Corp., Joint ventures, Time Warner Inc., Cable television, AT&T Broadband and Internet Services Inc., Market Entry, Interactive Cable

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