Ameritech Corp chairman, Richard Notebaert says that while the company will do what it takes to create shareholder value, merging with another telecommunications company does not strike it as the most expeditious route. -o- NEC Corp has become the 20th company to license Santa Clara-based DSP Group Inc’s TrueSpeech compres?sion and decompression algorithms. -o- Trident Systems Inc, Fairfax, Virginia, is looking for a partner to distribute its Unix touch-screens in Europe, a business that it reckons could be worth $250,000 a year. -o- A Garden Grove, California outfit called Hot Coupons has opened for business with what it claims is the world’s biggest Web site offering 30,000 discount coupons that surfers can print out when they tear themselves away from their screen and go shopping. It can be found at See http://www.hotcoupons.com. -o- Infoseek Corporation has added a search-in-context feature to its iSeek Internet search service as well as a content area called iZone. -o- While providing the entertainmentat this week’s European Oracle User Group conference in Amsterdam, Sun Microsystems Inc’s president Scott McNealy said Sun has only ran two adverts mentioning Java so far, and they were recruitment ads in the SanJose Mercury News looking for Java programmers. The prize for the applicant with the most front went to the one who replied: Java programmer – five years experience. -o- Dell Computer Corp opened a customer center in Seoul, South Korea, directly selling desktops and notebook PCs for the first time.
