AT&T's Kavner will take over troubled unit

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AT&T names Robert M Kavner to head the telecommunications company's Communications Products Group and form a venture capital company to look for new markets. The Communications Products Group accounts for about $6 billion, which is one sixth of AT&T's annual revenue. According to AT&T, Kavner continues to oversee AT&T's merger with NCR Corp, which is expected to be completed by fall 1991. Kavner also continues to manage AT&T's Federal Systems operations and Unix System Laboratories. He also heads the new venture-capital company called AT&T Development Corp, which will exploit ideas and products from Bell Laboratories. Kavner succeeds W Frank Blount, who is on loan to the White House. Blount serves as president of New American Schools Development Corp, which is an organization designed to improve the US educational system.

Officials and employees, Telecommunications equipment industry, Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Employment, Executive, Reorganization, Promotion of Employee, Kavner, Robert, New American Schools Development Corp., Blount, W. Frank, AT and T Communications and Computer Products, Sourcing and Manufacturing

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AT&T unveils a chip set that lets PCs be used for video communication

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AT&T introduces 'codec' chip set that can be incorporated into microcomputers or workstations to provide low-cost desktop videoconferencing. The three-chip set is expected to sell for $400 to manufacturers. Shipments will start in Jul 1992, and AT&T expects to be in full production by the end of the year. The new product functions to compress a video signal and code it, transmit the signal over a communications channel and decode it at its destination. AT&T is one of the first companies to offer chip-sized codecs. Previously, codecs had consisted of circuit boards costing as much as $25,000 each, and they had been used in large, expensive videoconferencing systems. Products such as AT&T's chip set selling in a market characterized by increased competition are expected to drive down the prices of videoconferencing systems.

Equipment and supplies, Videoconferencing, Codecs, Videoconferencing equipment, Chip sets (Computers), Chipsets, Market Analysis, Analog to Digital Converter, Enhancements, Chip Set, Codec

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AT&T jumps into highly competitive network applications software market

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AT&T Computer Systems introduces the Rhapsody Business Orchestration Solution, which is designed to improve group work on computer networks through applications such as electronic mail, an easy-to-use graphical interface and an ability to get information from a common database. The software will also track the status of projects that involve more than one organization in a company. Rhapsody works through a central computer or server running on UNIX, but the program will connect computers that run MS-DOS, and eventually, according to an AT&T spokesman, Rhapsody will also work with OS/2. There is risk in AT&T's marketing strategy: Rhapsody will compete with products offering similar networking functions from IBM, DEC, H-P and Data General Corp.

Prepackaged software, Work group computing, Workgroup computing, Office automation, product announcement, Marketing Strategy, Network Management Software, Rhapsody (Office automation software)

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