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| 1 | Nintendo Co does plan to use satellites for delivery of computer games : the company says it plans to broadcast a game via satellite in Japan , and owners of its game computers that buy a decoder and adaptor — for about $85 — will be able to pick the thing up ; Nintendo also plans a national competition for high scorers in satellite games ; meantime Nintendo of America is poised for its largest launch of a video game ever this week in a bid to best Sega Enterprises Ltd — it plans to spend up to $15m in a month-long promotion of Star Fox , a science fiction action game inspired by Star Trek and Star Wars that uses its new Super FX technology , which includes a RISC embedded in the $60 games cartridge ; it claims to have 1m advance orders for it . |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp says it plans to lead a campaign against growing software piracy in Japan 's personal computer industry , opening it with a letter to 50 hardware manufacturers and 290 software vendors in Japan alerting them to the problem — the Japanese are generally law-abiding , but Microsoft suspects many are unaware they are doing anything wrong copying software . |
| 3 | S3 Inc , Santa Clara , California graphical user interface accelerator products developer got its initial public offering of 2m shares , all new , away at $15 per share — $2 better than its $11 to $13 target , and says it plans to use the $28m or so net proceeds for working capital . |
| 4 | Computer 2000 AG , Munich computer distributor says it plans to raise the equivalent of $3.2m with a two-for-nine rights issue at 430 marks a share . |
| 5 | Japan turns out a vast number of graduates every year , but it begins to look as if the unthinkable in Tokyo , graduate unemployment , is about to become a serious problem : Fujitsu Ltd says it plans to slash the number of new hirings next spring to less than a seventh of this year 's figure — just 300 engineers , and , for the first year since its founding in 1935 , will take on no staff in its sales and administrative departments ; it will add 2,200 new staff to its 52,000 base this year compared with 3,000 in 1992 and nearly 4,000 in 1991 . |
| 6 | The Belgian state-owned Belgacom says it hopes to pick a partner by July 15 to help it develop its activities in the digital cordless phone market , Reuter reports from Brussels : if the partnership works well , the firm involved might be offered equity participation in a Belgacom mobile telephones company . |
| 7 | It says it hopes to formulate a proposal for the holders in due course . |
| 8 | The company says it hopes to put an end to the smell by the end of the year , but their critics say that 's not good enough . |
| 9 | EDS says it hopes to complete the agreement before summer . |
| 10 | Mr Scargill says the Soviet pitmen 's present was intended for international purposes , but the Soviet democratic labour movement says it meant to ease the hardship of striking British miners . |
| 11 | Auspex says it needed to boost the power to keep ahead of the demand of the latest high-powered workstations , such as the HP 9000/730 and Sun 's Sparcstation 10s . |
| 12 | It says it aims to clarify the story a doubtful claim and to make a strong theatrical impact , which I am sure this production will do . |
| 13 | That firm , Badische Ruckstandsbeseitigung , says it refused to handle the waste . |
| 14 | Saga says it tried to force the hotel to honour the contract , but it refused . |
| 15 | Edinburgh says it wants to use the proceeds to provide an endowment for the care of the remainder of the Torrie collection and for other fine art works . |
| 16 | The company retains major ambitions in China and says it wants to help the country create by the end of the century a network that would be over twice as big as the one operated by British Telecommunications Plc — China plans to raise the number of telephone lines to 100m nationwide by the year 2000 from just 25m now . |
| 17 | Having got rid of its international stores chain with the spin-off of InterTan Inc , Tandy Corp is heading back into the international market again and says it expects to open a second SuperCenter store in Stockholm , Sweden in the third quarter ; the company already operates a third SuperCenter in Copenhagen . |
| 18 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc says it expects to announce an agreement on a foundry for production of Am486s by the end of next month , but it does not see any revenues from the agreement before January next year : it expects to produce about 600,000 to 700,000 Am486 chips this year , and to increase that production to about 1m per quarter by the second quarter of next year ; it is still ‘ negotiating in earnest ’ with several possible foundry candidates . |
| 19 | It says it expects to offer a wireless electronic messaging service by the end of the year , and that it is aiming for beta testing during the summer . |
| 20 | Enterprise Computer Holdings Plc fears it has been misunderstood : the company is keen to stress that Finance Director Les Kemp has the unhappy confusion over last year 's accounting figures under control ( CI No 2,162 ) but wants to know how accountants KPMG Peat Marwick managed not to sign the audit report for subsidiary Enterprise Computer Services ; apparently there was confusion at the time over the verification of certain bank loans ; all should be clear in the next report and the company says it expects to show a return to profit . |
| 21 | Following an integration and final testing phase , the Desktop Management Task Force says it expects to provide a reference implementation of the specification and make a free prototype available later this year . |
| 22 | SGS Thomson says it intends to sample the devices by the year end . |
| 23 | Concurrent Computer Corp , Oceanport , New Jersey says it intends to file a registration statement soon for a public offer of shares sufficient to raise about $60m . |
| 24 | SunPro says it intends to distribute the product at some stage as an add-on to its Sparc works Professional C++ development environment . |
| 25 | Pacific Telesis Group Inc , which wants to separate its regulated and unregulated businesses , has set an initial stock offering for the wireless operations of its PacTel Corp subsidiary , which is to become a separate company by year-end ; the amount to be raised in the offering has yet to be determined , but it has already said it plans to up the capitalisation of the wireless operations by raising at least $750m through public or private sources . |
| 26 | The Government has said it wants to cut the number of smokers from 30 to 20% of the population by the year 2,000 . |
| 27 | It has also introduced ‘ Sunday special ’ low rates , again in response to protests from ordinary consumers , and yesterday said it plans to extend the scheme . |
| 28 | It said it continues to appraise the situation but added that NT is more likely to appear on a Hewlett-Packard Co 's PA-RISC chip before Sparc . |
| 29 | I said women should have a choice : the hospital said it had to have a policy . ’ |
| 30 | Last week the firm said it hoped to agree a sale of part of the 61 per cent stake owned by American Express as part of a deal to inject new equity into the firm . |