The Commission of the European Communities has awarded a consultancy contract to Scicon Networks Ltd, of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: Scicon will conduct a study of value added services and will provide a database for forecasting the market value and user demand for them: services to be examined include electronic mail, electronic funds transfer, managed data nets and electronic data interchange. The memory chip heists chronicled in page six today are the count in Orange County alone, but crime has never known any borders, and Compaq Computer Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc have both been hit – Sun for between $5m and $10m of chips, with ones worth only $1.1m recovered, while Compaq was taken for a more modest $50,000; insiders at the firms have been arrested in both cases, says the Financial Times.
