------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEWS OF THE WEEK| This section is dedicated to verified news . . . All News (C)opyright Respective Owner - Will Only Reprint ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Creative Labs Drops Plans to Buy Reveal| ---------------------------------------- SINGAPORE, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Creative Technology Ltd. (Nasdaq: CREAF), today announced that its Board of Directors has decided not to proceed with the contemplated acquisition of Reveal Computer Products, Inc., as previously announced on October 25, 1995. As a result, the agreement to acquire Reveal has been terminated by Creative. Creative terminated the merger agreement under an express provision of the Agreement permitting it to do so at its sole discretion. The reasons for this election include the negative reaction of the financial markets and certain major shareholders to the merger -- which, in turn, were based on the substantial additional debt required for the merged entity, the perceived negative effects of the merger on the combined company's future results of operations, and the perceived demands on management resource es it would create. These concerns and others arose subsequent to the execution of the merger agreement and convinced management that the potential short term disruptions caused by the proposed merger would be greater than anticipated and would not be adequately off-set by anticipated long term strategic gains. The Board has authorized management to pay the breakup fee stipulated by the Agreement if so requested by Reveal and if management believes such a break-up fee is called for. The Directors do not anticipate any material adverse consequences resulting either from termination of the Agreement or from any payment of the break-up fee. Creative Technology Ltd. develops, manufactures and markets a family of sound, video, software telephony multimedia products for PCs under the Blaster(TM) family name, and the ShareVision line of desktop video conferencing products for Macintoshes and PCs. The company's Sound Blaster(R) sound platform enables PCs to produce high-quality audio for entertainment, educational, music and productivity applications, and has been accepted as the industry standard sound platform for PC-based software. Creative Technology Ltd. was incorporated in 1983 and is based in Singapore. Creative Technology's U.S. subsidiaries include Creative Labs, Inc., E-mu Systems(R), Inc., Digicom Systems, Inc. and ShareVision(R) Technology, Inc. Creative also has other subsidiaries in Australia, China, Europe, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. The company's stock is traded on Nasdaq under the symbol CREAF and on the Stock Exchange of Singapore. Sound Blaster is a registered trademark and Blaster is a trademark of Creative Technology Ltd. E-mu is a registered trademark of E-mu Systems, inc. and ShareVision is a registered Trademark of ShareVision Technology, Inc. All other products mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners and are hereby recognized as such. ---------------------------------------------------------- Delrina CommSuite 95 runner-up for prestigious BYTE Award| ---------------------------------------------------------- CUPERTINO, Calif., Nov. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Symantec Corporation (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that pcANYWHERE32 for Windows 95 and NT was honored with The Best of COMDEX/Fall award from BYTE Magazine in the communications category. pcANYWHERE32 was announced at COMDEX/Fall and is an exciting new software solution for Windows 95 and NT that provides fast and easy remote control and file transfer to PCs or networks from the home or on the road. Also announced at COMDEX/Fall was Delrina's CommSuite 95, which came in second place in the communications category. Since Symantec recently acquired Delrina, the first and second place wins make Symantec the clear leader in desktop communications software. "We are proud to accept this honor from BYTE Magazine and the validation that pcANYWHERE32 continues to be the clear choice for remote access and file transfer for Windows 95 and NT users," said Gordon E. Eubanks, Jr. Symantec president and CEO. "We are also proud that Symantec and Delrina together comprise the most powerful desktop communications software offering on the market today." The Best of COMDEX/Fall award is considered one of the computer industry's most sought-after recognitions. When evaluating eligible products for the annual awards program, BYTE editors look for innovative new products that demonstrate strong potential influence and impact on business computers worldwide and have strong impact on show attendees. pcANYWHERE32 is the only product of its kind to offer remote control, file transfer and general communications with modem, cable and LAN connections across Windows 95 and Windows NT in one box, with the cable included at no charge. The new program is a true 32-bit application that allows users to take full advantage of the benefits of either operating system and is compatible with other pcANYWHERE versions to access DOS and Windows 3.1 systems. pcANYWHERE32 is the ideal remote access product for IS Managers concerned about supporting multiple operating systems and secure entry to the corporate network and for traveling sales and business managers who need simple, fast and easy access to both applications and data. Delrina's CommSuite 95, available in December, is the complete communications solution for Windows 95 that delivers full-featured, integrated applications for fax, voice, telephony, Internet access, data communications, e-mail and paging. It is designed to attract the non-technical mass market to computer-based communications, while providing the necessary "power" features for more advanced users. CommSuite 95 includes the full-featured versions of: WinFax PRO 7.0, the best way to send, receive and manage faxes for Windows 95; CyberJack 7.0, the best way to access the full power of the Internet; WinComm PRO 7.0, a powerful communications software for easy access to bulletin boards, on-line services, and host sessions; TalkWorks 7.0, the WinFax telephony option which gives the power of voicemail with the ease-of-use of the home answering machine; and Delrina CommBar that sits on the desktop and reports the communications status of the computer, whether the user is using fax, data, e-mail or telephony. Symantec Corporation develops markets and supports a complete line of application and system software products designed to enhance individual and workgroup productivity as well as manage networked computing environments. Platforms supported include IBM personal computers and compatibles, Apple Macintosh computers as well as all major network operating systems. Founded in 1982, the company has offices in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and Europe. Information on the company and its products can be obtained by calling 800-441-7234 toll free, or 541-334-6054. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEWS OF THE WEEK| This section is dedicated to verified news . . . All News (C)opyright Respective Owner - Will Only Reprint ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Smith Micro Stock Falling . . . | --------------------------------- ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Shares of Smith Micro (Nasdaq: SMSI) are down sharply today following a significant decline earlier in the week. In a comment this morning, Charles M. Spear, Chief Financial Officer, said, "there is nothing in our business or our customer relationships to account for this weakness. We are preparing to release our Windows 95 retail software in the next few weeks, which is within the schedule we set prior to our public offering. All of our customer relations hips are intact. We expect that our quarter will compare very favorably with the same quarter in 1994 and we expect that our revenues may set a company record although we cannot predict with certainty how the quarter will conclude." Earlier in the week, Randall Yuen, a securities analyst with Oppenheimer & Co., reduced his forecast of Smith Micro fourth quarter earning from $.10 per share to $.09 per share. The company earned $.01 in the same quarter last year. -------------------------- ADAM CDROM IS Here . . . | -------------------------- ATLANTA, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- For home computer enthusiasts, A.D.A.M. offers the "A.D.A.M. at Home Series." Its award winning "A.D.A.M., The Inside Story" takes the entire family on an interactive adventure into the human body. With over four hours of fun animation, sound and video, "A.D.A.M., The Inside Story" lets you explore all the systems of the body. But for a more specific adventure into the beginnings of life, A.D.A.M. offers "Nine Month Miracle." This extraordinary multimedia journey features fascinating medical animation, dramatic photography inside the mother's body from world- renowned photographer Lennart Nilsson ("A Child is Born"), and video from real life. In the Family Album section, modern-day Adam and Eve join our medical experts on an incredible month-by-month voyage into the body as a new life develops. Touching, real-life drama from the acclaimed "Nine Months" video documentary which shares the multimedia experience of a lifetime with five families -- from conception to birth. Children ages 3-9 will enjoy seeing the baby through the eyes of 7-year- old Emily in a special "Nine Month Miracle" bonus chapter, "Emily's New Sister." A.D.A.M.'s newest release, "Life's Greatest Mysteries" provides answers to many of life's most intriguing questions. Dozens of exciting animations, interactive games and fascinating factoids about the human mind and body will entertain and educate the whole family for hours. Discover the secrets of dreaming, see what makes the heart beat and much more. All guided by delightfully eccentric Bob Winkle. Through an interactive "question and answer" format with over four hours of sound, video and animation, " Life's Greatest Mysteries" is divided into four categories providing the user with a multimedia exploration of the "Mind, Body, Sickness and Curiosities." All three products in the "A.D.A.M. At Home Series" are available in both Windows and Macintosh formats in most computer software stores for $39.95 each. A.D.A.M. Software, Inc. (Animated Dissection of Anatomy for Medicine) is the leading developer of multimedia software featuring the human body. The company was officially incorporated in March 1990, but A.D.A.M.'s team of medical illustrators, graphic designers and multimedia programmers behind A.D.A.M.'s products have been working on these complex and accurate products for the past decade. The company's flagship product, "A.D.A.M. Comprehensive," is used by medical schools and universities worldwide. A.D.A.M. Software, Inc. creates, publishes and markets educational multimedia software products that provide anatomical, medical, scientific, and health-related information for both the academic and consumer markets. A.D.A.M. products incorporate internally-developed, original medical illustrations with text, audio, photography, animation and video in easy-to-use interactive software applications. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEWS OF THE WEEK| This section is dedicated to verified news . . . All News (C)opyright Respective Owner - Will Only Reprint ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Activision Growing Again . . . | -------------------------------- Los Angeles, CA -- December 13, 1995 -- Underscoring its commitment to acquire high-quality games from third-party developers worldwide, Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) has signed an exclusive deal with Adeline Software International to publish Time Commando, the latest title by acclaimed multimedia producer Frederick Raynal (Alone in the Dark, Relentless/Little Big Adventure). Under the terms of the agreement, Activision will distribute the game on Windows=AE 95, MS-DOS=AE and Sony PlayStation in North and South America, Australia and New Zealand. The announcement was made today by Bobby Kotick, Chairman and CEO, Activision, Inc. "This latest agreement reinforces our aim to work with some of the finest creators of interactive entertainment in bringing their products to the marketplace," explains Kotick. "We are committed to providing audiences with the most entertaining, innovative and original games available, and are very excited to be working with Frederick Raynal and his company on this extraordinary new project." A thrilling action game, Time Commando combines sophisticated 3-D gameplay with vivid animated sequences immersing the player into an explosive world of combat. Featuring nine distinct time periods, the player travels deep into the past and forward into the future. In a desperate attempt to return to his own era, the player battles over 60 enemies using 50 different types of weapons. "Activision's strong distribution network and marketing expertise makes this an excellent match," adds Paul de Senneville, CEO, Adeline Software International. "As one of the industry's premiere publishers, Activision is committed to ensuring that Time Commando will receive maximum exposure with audiences worldwide." Adeline Software International is part of the privately owned Delphine Group, headquartered in Paris with offices in Lyon. Established in 1993, Adeline is led by the widely recognized talent of Frederick Raynal. Known worldwide since the release of Alone in the Dark, Raynal and his team completed their first PC CD-ROM title, Relentless /Little Big Adenture, under the Adeline Software International brand in December 1994. Activision, Inc. is a publicly held developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software for Microsoft=AE Windows and MS-DOS=AE-compatible, Macintosh and other computers, as well as Nintendo, Sega, 3DO, and Sony PlayStation game systems. Headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in London, Tokyo and Sydney, the company sells and markets products under the Activision and Infocom trade names. -------------------------- Microrim and R:Web . . . | -------------------------- BELLEVUE, Wash.--(NetPOST)--Dec 15, 1995-- Microrim, Inc., a subsidiary of Abacus Software Group, announces the release of the first real database for the Internet. The product, called R:WEB, was partnered with SBT Internet systems and is the Internet version of Microrim's leading database management software, R:BASE. R:WEB provides companies that want to conduct business over the Internet with an affordable, powerful, and programming-free database solution. R:WEB allows companies to take orders for products or provide services directly through their "home page" on the Internet's graphically- friendly World Wide Web. It automatically links their Web page with their corporate database, whether it's an R:BASE database or any ODBC- compliant database, allowing real-time solutions to product orders and inquiries. R:WEB is designed to run on a Web server, similarly to the way the R:BASE database software runs over a local-area network server. When an Internet user accesses an R:WEB-based form on a Web site, R:WEB generates a connection to the associated database located on the company's network server. R:WEB then creates a Web document based on the form. This form appears on the customer's Internet browser, allowing him or her to input order information directly into the company's database exactly as an employee would input it into the database from an e-mail messaged order--which is currently the most prevalent option. R:WEB requires no Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Common Gateway Interface (CGI), Perl, or C++ programming knowledge. Internet customers can browse through real-time data such as inventory quantities, enter their own shipping and billing information, and easily request information directly from an R:BASE or ODBC-compliant database through the organization's WWW site. "The release of R:WEB opens the door to efficient and affordable Internet data processing. Imagine the power of ordering a product on- line and having the data processing completely automated. No time is lost re-entering e-mail messages from the Net into your database. R:WEB does it for you on the fly, and that saves a lot of money and time," explains Art Miller, President and CEO of Microrim. David Harris, President of SBT Internet Systems, commented: "R:WEB is ideal for companies that want an easy solution to conducting business on the Internet--whether they want to post and update their product catalog while processing orders at the same time, or have remote field sales representatives who need to enter sales orders and figures directly into their corporate database. R:WEB can reduce wide area network costs and long distance charges. Virtually every type and size of business can benefit by using the no-programming R:WEB to streamline their operations on-line." R:WEB includes the newly released R:BASE 5.5 for Windows as a free development tool. R:WEB provides on-line documentation to help users learn how to generate R:WEB-compatible forms. The price of R:WEB (including R:BASE 5.5) is $995 per Web server. It will be available directly from Microrim, through distributors and through various retail outlets. R:WEB and R:BASE 5.5 for Windows (which is required to design the forms) provide a time-tested, powerful fourth generation language (4GL) with embedded SQL and all the graphical interface design tools needed to design a truly powerful, and relatively inexpensive, Internet database solution. With R:BASE's powerful data integrity rules, constraints and password security, organizations using R:WEB forms have complete control of what information an Internet user can or cannot access. SBT Internet Systems is a subsidiary of Software Business Technologies, established in 1980 to develop software solutions for businesses. SBT develops and markets Internet and Database Applications through value added resellers and consultants. For more information about SBT products and services, contact Rich Jenkins, Internet Marketing Director at (415) 444-9967 or e-mail at rjen@sbt.com. SBT headquarters is located at 1401 Los Gamos Drive, San Rafael, California 94903. SBT's web site is http://www.sbt.com. Microrim, founded in 1981, was among the first companies to market databases for personal computers. Privately held until March 1995, Microrim is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the publicly held Abacus Software Group (ASG). ASG also owns the Edmonton-based Abacus Accounting Systems, Inc., producer of the Abacus II accounting software. The Microrim product line includes R:BASE 5.5 for Windows and OS/2 PM, R:BASE 4.5++ for DOS, R:BASE LAN Pack, R:BASE SQL Engine 2.0 for Windows, R:SCOPE, R:BASE Runtime, Westlake Imager, Zolton Graphics and R:BASE books and journals. Microrim headquarters is located at 15395 S.E. 30th Place, Bellevue, WA 98007. Microrim's web site is http://www.microrim.com PG, St. Louis, MO -- patrick@supportu.com On 12/23/95 at 3:16PM -- http://www.crl.com/~supportu/ þ