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Apple Bundles PowerNeWS Information Retrieval Service With Newton Solution Package


CUPERTINO, California -- Oct. 5, 1994 -- Apple Computer Inc.'s StarCore Newton software publishing and distribution group has announced that it is bundling PenTekk Software Technologies, Inc.'s PowerNeWS(TM), an industry news retrieval and delivery service, with its multi-application The Newton Solution: Professional Idea Manager, allowing mobile business professionals anytime, anywhere access to the day's top news and information.  

The PowerNeWS application is pre-loaded on The Newton Solution: Professional Idea Manager PCMCIA card, along with Notion(TM): The Newton List Manager, Dyno NotePad, MobileMath(TM), and Jigsaw Strategy Game.

PowerNeWS retrieves information via a Newton MessagePad modem and downloads news articles every business day into the subscriber's NewtonMail(TM) or eWorld(TM) account.  PowerNeWS users can subscribe to any number of seven information categories including:

*  Business News:  The day's top business news as reported by Associated Press

*  Wall Street:  Daily stock reports from Associated Press

*  Computer Industry News:  Daily stories on the computer industry from Newsbytes

*  Sports:  The latest sports scores and information from Associated Press

*  Health and Science:  Medical and science news as reported by Associated Press

*  National News:  Headline news from across the nation sourced by Associated Press

*  Entertainment News:  Movie and book reviews and celebrity news from Associated Press

With PowerNeWS, people can connect their Newton MessagePad to a telephone line nightly and wake-up with the latest online reports at their fingertips.  PowerNeWS has a built-in alarm which wakes a sleeping Newton MessagePad and downloads the stories without the user's assistance.  Subscribers can navigate through the news reports by selecting pop-up menus, buttons and scroll arrows. 

Purchasers of The Newton Solution: Professional Idea Manager will receive one month free service for PowerNeWS retrieval.  Monthly subscription fees are linked to the number of subjects a person wishes to receive.  Subscribers can receive two subjects for $6.95 per month; each additional subject is $3.95.  After the initial one-month free trial, PowerNeWS users will need to pay the one-time activation fee of $29.95 for the service.

PowerNeWS is a product of PenTekk Software Technologies, Inc., a hand-held computing product and service company based in Norcross, Georgia.  PowerNeWS is the company's first in a series of personal digital assistant software programs and services for the Newton MessagePad and devices based on Newton technology.

To receive the names of Apple authorized resellers near them, consumers can call 1-800-365-3690 ext. 100 .  For more information on StarCore titles, consumers can call 1-800-708-STAR.  For more information on PowerNeWS, they can call PenTekk Software Technologies, Inc. at 404-564-0977. 

Apple Computer Inc.'s StarCore group, a part of the Personal Interactive Electronics (PIE) Division, publishes and distributes software on PCMCIA cards and floppy diskettes for devices based on Newton technology.


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Apple, the Apple logo, Newton and Macintosh are registered trademarks and MessagePad, NewtonMail, eWorld and StarCore are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.  PowerNeWS is a trademark of PenTekk Software Technologies, Inc..  Notion is a trademark of Eidetic, Inc.  MobileMath is a trademark of MobileSoft.  Dyno NotePad is a trademark of Portfolio Software Inc.
