Tovabbitott Edupage hirek, 1997. szeptember 16.

[Valas Gyorgy]

Tovabbitott Edupage hirek
Tovabbitotta:        Valas Gyorgy      <valas at omk.omikk.hu>

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ARE "INVISIBLE" TRADEMARKS UNFAIR COMPETITION?
Web site operators have found that a sure-fire way to lure visitors is to
incorporate a popular brand name into "invisible" coding on their Web pages,
thereby attracting the attention of the all-important Internet search
engines used by many Net surfers.  Lawyers for Playboy Enterprises are suing
Calvin Designer Label (no relation to Calvin Klein) for copyright
infringement after it incorporated the words "Playboy" and "Playmate" into
the coding on its adult-oriented Web sites.  In another case, National
Envirotech Group, a pipeline-reconstruction company, has agreed to delete
mentions of a larger competitor, Insituform Technologies Inc., from the
hidden coding on its Web site.  Insituform's lawyer says the programming
trick is "very harmful" to a company trying to attract customers on the Web,
and "destroys the value of search engines as a way for people to find
accurate information about companies."  "Intercepting people on the
information superhighway is like putting up big sign on a freeway that says
Exxon, but that's not what you find once you get there," says a law
professor at the University of San Francisco.  (Wall Street Journal 15 Sep
97)

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PENTIUM II PRICES POISED TO PLUNGE (AGAIN)
Intel executives predict that, on top of drastic price cuts already made on
its Pentium II chips, further reductions are in store.  Last month, the
price of Intel's 300-MHz Pentium II was slashed 57% to $1,131, far more than
the typical August cuts of 20% to 30%.  Company officials now are saying
that the prices of 300-MHz Pentium II-based PCs that now sell for $3,500
could drop to less than $2,000.  "It wouldn't surprise me to see that within
the next six months," says Intel's Pentium II market director.  (Investor's
Business Daily 16 Sep 97)

IBM, COMPUSA DISCOVER JUST-IN-TIME PCs
IBM is moving to just-in-time manufacturing and electronic ordering in an
effort to compete with direct-sales PC marketers, reduce costly inventory
stockpiles, and woo corporate customers.  As part of its Advanced
Fulfillment Initiative, IBM is authorizing a few of its large dealers to use
its PC factories to assemble customized computers made from IBM components
and ship them directly to the buyers.  While dealers have been doing some
assembly work on their own since 1995, the new strategy will help speed up
computer deliveries by eliminating the time it was taking IBM to ship partly
assembled PCs to dealer locations.  The company is also initiating a
SystemXtra service program for corporate buyers that, among other things,
allows them to upgrade to more powerful computers after 24 months.  (Wall
Street Journal 15 Sep 97)  Meanwhile, CompUSA is starting its own
custom-built PC brand, with prices ranging from $699 to $3,999.  The
computers will be available through its retail stores, on its Web site, over
a toll-free line, and through its corporate field-sales force.  "There's a
lot of people who want built-to-order computers," says ComUSA's CEO.  "If we
don't have it, they're going to buy it from somebody else."  (Wall Street
Journal 16 Sep 97)

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