Edited Edupage, 16 May 1996

["E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>]

From:	IN%"educom@elanor.oit.unc.edu" 16-MAY-1996 23:29:38.03

>AOL TEAMS UP FOR E-COMMERCE
>America Online has cut deals to license encryption, digital signature, and
>electronic transaction and funds transfer technologies from a variety of
>companies, including CyberCash, IBM infoMarket, RSA Data Security, Terisa
>Systems and VeriSign.  "These new relationships will provide the building
>blocks for a secure electronic commerce platform," says AOL's VP of product
>marketing.  The online service plans to integrate the electronic commerce
>technologies into both its online service and its Global Network Navigator
>Internet access service.  (Investor's Business Daily 16 May 96 A9)

	Well, at least they're making moves to get cryptography to the AOL
masses.... although somehow I suspect that they'll roll over and play dead for
any and all GAK pressure, and won't use any variety of truly anonymous digital
cash.

>ATTEMPT TO BLOCK USE OF CANADIAN SATELLITES
>MCI Communications, AT&T and EchoStar Satellite all have filed additional
>complaints this week with the FCC about proposals made by rivals
>Tele-Communications Inc. and TelQuest Ventures that cite Ottawa's refusal to
>allow American companies to beam their programs into the United States as
>cause for the FCC to deny the application. (Toronto Financial Post 16 May 96
>p3)  An ex-FCC official says the American regulator is unlikely to approve
>the use of four Canadian satellites by US-based TelQuest Ventures and
>Tele-Communications Inc. to beam signals to the American market unless
>Canada's market is opened up to U.S. services. (Montreal Gazette 15 May 96 G3)

	One wonders what the FCC would do if they weren't US-based companies,
and if it weren't from satellites from such an interlocked-with-the-US country
as Canada.
	-Allen	

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