User group Newsletter Editors: Utilize this content in your newsletter -- PLEASE ... reference The User Group Network _ / _ UG Network Channel _ / _ NEWS_/ _ Rumor Manager The Rumor Manager is looking for your rumors and tidbits... give him a post! ...or subscribe... see subscription notes below 9911.12 Rumor Manager - Compaq High End, Intel 800 Mill, ShareWay/DoorStop **** ShareWay/DoorStop Computer Reseller Newsreported, that- Open Door Networks Inc., the developer of Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac OS 9's Internet file-sharing feature, released ShareWay IP 3.0, an Internet file-sharing program, and DoorStop Personal Edition firewall software. ShareWay pricing ranges from $39 for the personal edition to $1,799 for 50-user licenses. DoorStop, which is expected to ship this month, will cost from $59 for a single license to $1,299 for 50 licenses. If you have one of the cable modems or an ADSL connection, you need to look into getting a firewall program for your computer. **** Compaq's high end machine For the first time, Compaq is offering a high end machine with an AMD chip instead of an Intel one. The new machine, the Presario 5868 uses a 600 MHz Athlon processor. It is priced at $17,000. Comes with 128 MB of SDRAM and a 17 Gig hard drive. While its graphic card may be better than an iMac DV SE, I see no real difference and do not understand why the Voodoo card alone would make it worth 12 times the price. Perhaps the price in the press release was wrong and it should be $1,700. Then again the article was from the South China Morning News. So it might be listed in Hong Kong dollars. (BTW - it also comes with a 15 inch monitor.) **** Intel to Spend $800 Mill on "Intel Inside Message" Advertising Age is reporting, that Intel has established an $800 Million budget for advertising its "Intel Inside Message". It actually will control much more advertising than that since it is for co-payments made to other manufacturers that include that logo in their advertisements. Wonder when the AIM group will advertise PowerPC inside. But since Motorola doesn't even use PowerPC chips in their corporate computers, I guess it probably never will make such a ad. **** Alumni News looking for YOU Someone has put together a listing of what appears to be every High School in America. You go to your city , pick your school and year then add your name and contact point. You can now contact anyone from your class who has already registered. It looks pretty through, although I was only the 4th person in from my class in Henryetta, OK high school that registered. So let's help them get more people registered. http://www.highschoolalumni.com/ I know there is a least one other site doing this also, but I don't have their URL at the moment. **** Slow week, ... what with all the excitement of the Microsoft "Finding of Fact" announcement, no one seems to be making many announcements. www.macrumors.com had some news about Apple purchasing a lot of screens including one small enough to go into a hand held device. So that is one rumor we can spread, even if I haven't verified it. **** What are you missing? Are you missing the list? Speaking of slow week.... not so with the UGNN discussion lists. There has been a lot of talk concerning the Microsoft "Finding of Fact" results, and other issues. REMEMBER: what I put in this column is NOT necessarily what's discussed or posted to both Rumors and TALK. Subscribe and get involved! Don't forget Any suggestions for topics and reports of rumors are always welcome. Please me know at the address below. 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