Press Cuttings: April 1995

Corporate

• Reports show 94.2% takeup of the 1 for 3 rights issue.
• The Engineer profiles Hermann Hauser - a co-founder of Acorn.

Products

• Eurotrade Computer reports launch of 486 PC card.
• Hants Chronicle profiles 17 year old student who wrote TableCalc.
• Feature on Acorn dealer rhevon and its printer cartridge refill system.
• Profile of Cardigan Electronics - another Acorn dealer.
• CTW reports fall in sales for 1994 of 7.8% for Acorn User magazine.
• Hardware 13 launches Datasafe, a new tape back-up system compatible with all current Acorn systems.
• Transcript of interview on BBC Radio Nottingham with Geoff Potter of Safesell who organised Acorn User Spring Show in Harrogate.
• 2 local papers preview Acorn User Spring Show.
• Communication News - feature on Internet including how Acorn make use of it to interconnect all its subsidiaries.
• Management Graphics launch Bitfolio 7 (CD ROM with 10,000 clipart images) and Bitfolio BorderMaster (software tool for generating borders).
• Scene Double launches 8-port video splitter allowing multiple monitor display.
• CD Sports launches Swimming - an interactive CD tutorial.

Education

• Tonbridge School installs Acorn pre-press publishing system to fulfil over 90% of their printing requirements.
• Several reports on the TES/Acorn Newspaper national competition: - Chase High School, Malvern - Batley Boys High School - Brentwood Ursuline - Shelley High School - Peterhead Academy - Tom Hood School, Leytonstone
• The Guardian reviews how Internet is beginning to be used in schools.
• Cumbernauld Primary win A3010 in Henkel Glue competition.
• Inco Alloys, BT and Sun Valley Poultry donate money to help Sutton St Nicholas School buy 3 Acorn systems.
• Acorn / Marshalls / Evening News offer - 615,000 coupons redeemed by local schools (only 500,000 originally forecast).
• Robocod / Thames Water launch 2 packages, 1 primary and 1 secondary, based on the Thames Water Ring Main - the former involves James Pond.
• Precision Marketing reports on increase of video marketing and highlights Acorn's new video for teachers and governors.
• Article in The Guardian examines use of spreadsheets for investigating properties of numbers.
• TES reviews use of IT and CD ROM technology in the teaching of Religious education.
• LinPac Converters donates RiscPC with CD ROM drive to Bain County Primary School.
• Our Lady's Grammar School, Newry invests £30K to give all 160 pupils in one year a Pocket Book II.
• MEU Cymru launches Acorn system allowing Welsh speakers to use system in their own language.
• Acorn sponsors CAL 95 Conference at Queen's College, Cambridge.
• Sherston Software launches the Talking Oxford Infant Atlas - introduction to early geographical skills.
• Transcripts of interviews on BBC Radio Northampton with Teresa Downey about forum hosted by Acorn on ways of helping children with special needs.
• Huntley school fund raises over £2000 for 2 new Acorn systems and peripherals.
• TES reports on use of multimedia at Roselands Junior School - CD ROM facility gives valuable resource tool to augment printed material as well as developing childrens use of technology.
• Junior Education - feature on how to introduce moving images into presentations using Computer Concepts Eagle II card.
• Computers for Schools - A staggering 127 reports from all over the UK covering the 1995 Tesco scheme. Many were about individual schools requesting shoppers to give them any unwanted vouchers and reporting on what had been purchased through the scheme in previous years.

Family / Home

• Feature on Blaenachddu Computer Centre - an Acorn dealer which prides itself on giving good advice to those looking to buy for the first time for the home / family.
• East Anglian Daily Times reviews Ten Out Of Ten's English for use by home users.
• Computer Buyer article on which computer system is best for the family - a RiscPC with 486 card is favourably reviewed against the competition.

Australia

• Acorn Computers Australia releases Explore with Flossy the Frog. An educational CD ROM developed by the National Institute for Deaf Studies and 4Mation, it is the first CD in text and Australian Sign Language.
• Department of Communications & Arts funding "Australia on CD" project - developers must include Acorn as one of the formats since 90% of West Australian schools use Acorn.
• Article in Interaction on the use of computers in geography at Melbourne High School - 14 RiscPC's bought as part of project.
• Synapse reviews Sibelius 7 - "this package is sure to impress, and . . . you will look no further."
• Set-top Box exhibited at ATUG Conference and Exhibition in Melbourne.
• Article reviewing innovative uses of Acorn systems at Strathcona Baptist Grammar School.

New Zealand

• Whitcoulls recruiting staff to run their new computer departments selling Acorn systems.
• Report by Anne Milne on her visit to BETT '95. She was awarded the 1994 Auckland Primary Principals' Travelling Fellowship, sponsored by Acorn.

ARM

• ARM 7 to be used for Esprit's Cascade project - aimed at developing the smart-card technology.
• Micro Design & Applications reports on development of StrongARM.
• Robin Saxby on panel considering European funding for next phase of collaborative R&D funding.
• Electronic Times reports on redesigned ARM 7 which includes Thumb core for embedded applications.
• VLSI plans to use ARM core in chip it is developing for Wave Systems; the chip could be used in every PC, CD-ROM drive and vending machine in the world.
• 3DO and ARM sign agreement to cross-licence technologies for use in advanced consumer electronic products. Reviews agree ARM is now really 'coming of age' as a standard.
• Electronics Weekly reviews new ARM 7 processor.
• A Plus now appointed to handle ARM's whole European media relations programme.
• Components in Electronics, Electronic Product Design and Micro Design & Applications all review Thumb which allows 32-bit instructions to be compressed to 16-bit code.

Online Media

• National Westminster Bank to provide UK's first cable TV home banking service as part of the Cambridge Cable consortium.
• Online Media to launch interactive TV trial in New Zealand later this year.
• Several reports as Online Media launches second phase of interactive TV trial to 250 homes in Cambridge area.
• THES reported on Mediacomm 95 Conference at which Geoff Vincent demonstrated the Online Media system.
• Article in Electronics Weekly looks at the question of evolving standards for interactive TV and interviews Sophie Wilson.
• FT reports on the 2 UK interactive TV trials currently running - Online Media and BT.
• Online Media to port Oracle New Media software onto set-top box - the first European one to do so.
• Computerworld NZ reports on launch of second phase of Online Media trial.
• Article in Computer Retail News looks at the evolving world of armchair shopping.
• Ian Taylor, Minister for Trade and Technology, visits Online Media for demonstration.
• Advertising Agency, BMP DDB Needham has joined service nursery to help persuade companies to advertise on the system - prizes will be offered to users who respond.
• General Instruments back use of ATM as way of delivering video, etc, to set-top boxes.

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