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<h1 align="center"><a><img src="ovallogo.gif"
alt="Newstips, Inc., Novelty, Ohio"></a> <br>
<font color="#008080" size="5">What People Say About Newstips</font></h1>
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<dd><h4><a href="#marketing"
name="Articles that have been written on Newstips Inc."><font
color="#008080" size="4">Articles that have been written
about Newstips Inc.</font></a></h4>
</dd>
<dd><a href="#marketing">Dave Dix</a> in <i>Marketing
Computers</i>, May 1994. </dd>
<dd><a href="#invasion">Cheryl Currid</a> in <i>The Electronic Invasion</i>, 1993. </dd> <dd><a href="#graphics"><i>The PC Graphics Report</i></a>, July 20, 1993. </dd>
<dd><a href="#foulks">The Low-Tech Paper Pushers</a> By Thom
Foulks. </dd>
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<dl>
<dd><h4><a href="#silverman"
name="What computer industry luminaries are saying about Newstips Electronic Editorial Bulletins."><font
color="#008080" size="4">What computer industry
luminaries are saying about Newstips Electronic Editorial
Bulletins.</font></a></h4>
</dd>
<dd><a href="#silverman">Dwight Silverman</a>, Computer
columnist &amp; Technology Reporter, <i>The Houston
Chronicle</i> </dd>
<dd><a href="#hart">John Hart, Editor/Publisher</a>, <i>Digital
Future Newsletter</i> </dd>
<dd><a href="#frank">Robert D. Frank</a>, Contributing
Editor, <i>Andrew Seybold's Outlook on Communications and
Computing</i> </dd>
<dd><a href="#jenner">Donald Jenner</a> </dd>
<dd><a href="#barnard">Michael R. Barnard</a> </dd>
<dd><a href="#leibson">Steve Leibson</a>, Editor-in-Chief, <i>EDN
Magazine</i> </dd>
<dd><a href="#glatzer">Hal Glatzer</a> </dd>
<dd><a href="#browde">Dave Browde</a>, <i>WNBC TV: Data File</i>
</dd>
<dd><a href="#menefee">Craing Menefee</a>, <i>Newbytes News
Network</i> </dd>
<dd><a href="#olsen">J.W. Olsen </a></dd>
<dd><a href="#proffit">Brian Proffit</a>, <i>OS/2 Magazine</i>
</dd>
<dd><a href="#gunn">Angela Gunn</a>, Contributing Editor, <i>Home
Office Computing</i> </dd>
<dd><a href="#berst">Jesse Berst</a> </dd>
<dd><a href="#baldwin">Steve Baldwin</a>, Staff Editor, <i>Computer
Shopper Magazine</i> </dd>
<dd><a href="#pournelle">Jerry Pournelle</a></dd>
<dd><a href="#Geiger">Peter Gieger</a></dd>
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<hr>
<p align="center"><font color="#008080" size="5">Articles that
have been written about Newstips Inc.</font></p>
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<td valign="top" width="50%"><p align="center"><a
name="marketing"></a><b>David Dix, </b><b><i>Marketing
Computers</i></b><b>, May 1994 </b></p>
<h4 align="center">PR PROFILE INFO-HIGHWAY ROADHOG </h4>
<p>Agency: Newstips, Inc., Novelty, Ohio <br>
Employees: 1<br>
1993 Billings: $800,000 <br>
Major Clients: Software Publishing, ATI, Hammermill
Papers <br>
</p>
<p>Novelty, Ohio, is located in the maple sugar hills of
Geauga County, about 40 minutes east of Cleveland. In the
basement of one of its houses - unremarkable except
perhaps for a huge mass of telephone cables that cross to
it from the street - Marty Winston and his merry band of
robots conduct one of the most unusual PR operations in
the computer industry.</p>
<p>In the basement there are rows of PCs, CD-ROM data
servers, fax gateways, scanners, modems, laser printers
and wires coming in and going out in almost every
direction. These are some of the key members of the
Newstips, Inc. staff. Over in the corner is the company's
only human, 20-year industry veteran and PR guy Marty
Winston. He works with two big Windows machines, which
are networked to those minions in the back. Across the
room, an open computer chassis is being fitted for a pair
of voice channels so Winston can add fax-on-demand to his
services.</p>
<p>Winston founded NewsTips in 1993, naming his company
after the weekly electronic bulletin that he's been
sending to computer journalists for the past 12 years.
&quot;The newsletter is the best branded and most
successful product of my company,&quot; says Winston.
&quot;It's what people remember.&quot;</p>
<p>Winston is a colorful character, a technology maven
with a flair for the fast life that's slowed down a bit
as he's aged and had children. He started writing
technical articles for the electronics industry back in
1968, and his first computer had slide switches, LEDs and
dry cells.</p>
<p>He spent the '70s working for ad agencies (most of
them are now defunct) and was director of publicity for
Radio Shack during the TRS-80 Model 3 days in 1981 and
1982. Then he struck out on his own, heading up various
high-tech PR agencies in Texas where he employed up to 15
people, before finally settling in Ohio and deciding to
run a one-man operation.</p>
<p>With nearly 30 clients now, Winston's presence has
become a common fixture at every major technology trade
show there is, where his parties are always well
attended. Winston is also an assistant sysop on PRSIG,
the CompuServe PR and Marketing Forum. It's hard to
travel anywhere on CompuServe without running across his
on-line opinions. Winston can be outspoken, but it's
obvious to anyone that he does know his stuff. Even the
management types at companies like Lotus and Novell take
his comments very seriously.</p>
<p>The Newstips bulletin reaches approximately 2,000
computer industry journalists every week. Winston, who
prefers to charge his clients a flat fee instead of
billing by the hour, will sell anything from a one-time
mention in NewsTips for $350 to virtually unlimited
consulting services for $15,000 a month. &quot;I never
liked the idea of charging for time,&quot; he says.
&quot;That penalizes efficiency and rewards sloth, and is
always more in an agency's interest than a
client's.&quot;</p>
<p>Winston says that because he has relationships with
some sought-after columnists, it might take him just 30
seconds to get them to write about his client's product,
whereas it might take a less experienced PR person as
long as six months. If you bill the client based on the
time it takes to get the job done, says Winston,
&quot;the novice makes $8,000 and I make less than $2.00.
That's a solid incentive in favor of incompetence.&quot;</p>
<p>Winston spends a lot of time working in e-mail - he
estimates he sends and receives at least 2,000 messages a
day. How does he manage to do it all? &quot;I skim a lot.
I use rules a lot to eliminate or automate some of it.
And I work incredibly long hours.&quot;</p>
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<p><a name="invasion"></a></p>
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<h4 align="left">Cheryl Currid, <i>The
Electronic Invasion</i> (Chapter 1, Pg 9)
</h4>
<h5 align="left"><font size="3">(Brady
division of Prentice Hall Computer
Publishing, 1993); reprinted with
permission of the author. </font></h5>
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<dd><p align="left">Another example
of the new breed of
technology-empowered guru is
Marty Winston, whose one-man
high-tech PR firm runs circles
around many competitors with
large staffs. Among other things,
Marty publishes electronically a
weekly electronic newsletter
aimed at about 1,500 journalists,
telling about the hot activities
of his clients. He distributes
his newsletter by fax, e-mail,
and airwaves - according to what
his readers prefer to receive. He
maintains and up-to-date database
of industry journalists and knows
who writes about which technology
topics. This gives him a real
edge on getting the right
information to the right people.</p>
</dd>
<dd><p align="left">Marty has built
an action system that helps his
clients send evaluation products
to appropriate journalists for
review. All the journalist has to
do is indicate an interest, and
the system goes into action.
Marty queues up the matching
information and the system
automatically sends a request to
the client, with a courtesy copy
to the journalist. We recently
saw him send out about 60 of
them. Poof, like magic, the
machines took over, writing
informational notes to the
appropriate people. Within
minutes, the process was
complete; the letters were sent,
courtesy copies sent, and
documents were filed
electronically for follow-up.
(Done the old-fashioned way, the
process would have taken days.)</p>
</dd>
<dd><p align="left">Marty likes to
explain his office in exhaustive
technical detail. In his home
office, he has several personal
computers, CD-ROM data servers,
fax gateways, scanners, modems,
and wires coming and going in
almost every direction. He has
even put in uninterruptible power
supply units so that both he and
his system can stay up all the
time.</p>
</dd>
<dd><p align="left">He orchestrates
his business with automated
systems that work like robots. If
a journalist wants to review a
client's product, all Marty has
to do is set up the request one
time; his system does the rest -
contacts the client with a full
set of information, bounces back
information to the journalist,
and automatically and
electronically keeps everybody
connected and in the loop.</p>
</dd>
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<td><a name="graphics"></a> <dl>
<dt><strong><i>The PC Graphics Report<br>
THE JPA Newsletter on Desktop Graphics</i></strong><strong>
</strong></dt>
<dd>&nbsp;</dd>
<dd><font size="3"><strong>Volume VI, Number 29 -
July 20, 1993<br>
Marketing</strong></font><font size="4"><strong><br>
</strong></font></dd>
<dd><strong>Could you use a little help?</strong></dd>
</dl>
<p>It's tough to be heard above the noise out there in PC
land. We know because we have to sift through all the
stuff you and your PR people generate when we're looking
for real information. We get help from a guy in Novelty,
OH; his name is Marty Winston and some of you know him.</p>
<p>Marty is a reporter's
reporter/engineer/philosopher/curmudgeon/marketing/PR
guy. He has a different way of getting the information
out for his select clients. He selects who he will work
for, and it's limited. A master of the paper-less
information age, Marty publishes a newsletter for us, and
in it are succinct newsbites, 'cause Marty knows how busy
we and others like us are, and he informs us weekly about
new developments. This isn't an infomercial; we advise
you regularly about good ideas and good people, and our
advice this week is to give Marty a call and see if you
can get him to take on your company. However, be prepared
to be told what's right and not so right about your
current approach - this ain't no yes-man you're calling
(216.338.8400).</p>
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<blockquote>
<h4 align="left">The Low-Tech Paper
Pushers By Thom Foulks</h4>
<h5 align="left"><font size="3">Thom
Foulks is a contributing writer for PC
World, Boardwatch, Computer Sun Times and
Windows Online Review in addition to the
CPA Network News, and was one of the
first to cover computers in a regularly
scheduled radio broadcast program.</font></h5>
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<p align="left">I just threw a 3-inch
stack of paper into the wastebasket - and
it made me angry. The stack was comprised
of news releases and press materials
received at Cache la Byte in a little
less than two weeks. Now, worthless
(recyclable?) scrap paper. </p>
<p align="left">Ironically, some of the
printouts - replete with fancy logos and
catchy headlines - were about products to
help &quot;revolutionize&quot; the
American office by eliminating
paper-shuffling. What's on the horizon,
we're told, are document-management
systems that will transfer information
electronically and store it in
computer-based files. </p>
<p align="left">There is something
oxymoronic in reading about such
innovations as network fax-servers and
electronic mail systems on laser- printed
paper. One has to wonder if the irony is
even recognized by the people who draft
such epistles, then reproduce them by the
dozens (or more). </p>
<p align="left">Sure, mailed news
releases from public relations firms are
the time-hallowed means by which the
computer industry communicates directly
to the journalists who write about the
new products. But few writers work
directly from a news release. Generally,
such printed information is only the
tip-of-the-iceberg of a product review or
story - the *real* information usually
comes later, testing a product or in
interviews with product managers. </p>
<p align="left">It's a rare news release
that is worth saving more than a couple
of weeks. The information becomes
outdated too rapidly in such a dynamic
industry, and you can build a filing
nightmare by trying to decide whether to
file something by product category,
product name, company name, or
what-have-you. So the paper disappears
rapidly.</p>
<p align="left">Any computer industry
journalist not using a fax and/or e-mail
is not serious about the job. We're all
accessible by electronic transmissions:
Faster, more efficiently, and likely less
expensively. I yearn for the time when I
can log on to CompuServe (74505,74) and
regularly expect to find 2-3 text-based
news releases awaiting me. Of the dozens
of firms with my name on their
distribution list, only Marty Winston's
Newstips consistently provides such
modern, sensible service.</p>
<p align="left">The advent of
high-performance
optical-character-recognition (OCR)
software also gives definitive advantages
to receiving news releases via fax. Fax
image information can be converted to
ASCII, and turned into a
computer-searchable file. Information
that is worth saving can be,
systematically.</p>
<p align="left">Clearly, it's past time
for the high-tech PR firms to break their
low-tech mold, and demonstrate they know
how to use the technology they want us to
help publicize.</p>
<p align="left">I'd have more to write on
this topic, but I've got to go check the
mail.</p>
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<hr>
<p align="center"><font color="#008080" size="5">What computer
industry luminaries are saying about Newstips Electronic
Editorial Bulletins.</font></p>
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<a name="silverman"><font color="#800080"><b>Dwight
Silverman</b></font></a><font color="#800080"><b><br>
Computer columnist &amp; Technology reporter<br>
</b><b><i>The Houston Chronicle</i></b><b><br>
<br>
</b></font></p>
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<dd><font color="#800080"><b>Your bulletins are great
at helping me track product development trends. I
read each one of them, and have opted to review
some products I would not have as a result. I
also am interested in the &quot;Rumors&quot;
section, which sometimes has a news story tip in
it.</b></font></dd>
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<p align="left"><a name="hart"><font
color="#008040"><b>John Hard</b></font></a><font
color="#008040"><b><br>
Editor/Publisher<br>
</b><b><i>Digital Future Newsletter</i></b><b><br>
</b></font></p>
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<div align="left">
<dt><font color="#008040"><b>Very
valuable to me, as editor of a
weekly online newsletter. Keep
'em coming.</b></font></dt>
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<p><font color="#0000A0"><br>
</font><a name="frank"><font color="#0000A0"><b>Robert
D. Frank</b></font></a><font color="#0000A0"> </font></p>
</dd>
<dd><font color="#0000A0">I am a Contributing Editor
for <i>Andrew Seybold's Outlook on Communications
and computing</i>. I also do freelance work for
the Personal Technology Section of the <i>Atlanta
Journal &amp; Constitution.</i></font></dd>
<dd><font color="#0000A0">As you know, I have always
read every single line you write and miss my
Newstips when they don't arrive. I consider the
newsletter an important part of keeping up with
the latest products...even when 2 arrive within
24 hours as you just did to me. I even save them
just to make sure I can find references in the
future. I have recommended to my clients that
they use this service many times. Certainly, your
clients can tell when requests for review
products come as a result of someone reading your
notes. If they don't track them, you should have
everything go through you so you can track it.</font></dd>
<dd><font color="#0000A0">A great service, even if
your rumors are sometime suspect! Keep up the
good work.</font></dd>
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<p><a name="jenner"><font color="#808040"><b>Donald
Jenner</b></font></a><font
color="#808040"><b> </b></font></p>
<p><font color="#808040">I regard
Newstips as one of the best sources of
what is going on in an increasingly
complex industry. I think it was Stewart
Alsop who said that keeping track of the
things that are happening and the
products that are appearing is a
full-time occupation (and that does not
include knowing what those products do,
or how well they do 'em, as I recall the
story). There are many sources one can
track. Newstips is always ahead of the
curve, and therefore makes the punditry
magic look better. Moreover, it is
delivered where I need it -- on my
computer (faxed news releases are a pain
in the butt; press kits -- unless they
include backgrounders -- merely take up
precious desk space). And you can quote
me, and you can refer anyone who asks to
me for comment.</font></p>
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<p><font color="#800040"><br>
</font><a name="barnard"><font color="#800040"><b>Michael
R. Barnard</b></font></a><font color="#800040"><b>
</b></font></p>
</dd>
<dd><font color="#800040">I like Newstips a lot...
even during &quot;slow&quot; times for my
writing, Newstips is the source that keeps me
up-to-date on much of what's happening.<br>
Thanks for your service!</font></dd>
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<p><font color="#008040"><br>
</font><a name="leibson"><font
color="#008040"><b>Steve Leibson</b></font></a><font
color="#008040"><b><br>
Editor-In-Chief<br>
</b><b><i>EDN Magazine</i></b></font></p>
<p><font color="#008040">Since you asked:
EDN is not exactly the sort of magazine
you're targeting. We're a trade magazine
for the electronics OEM, specifically for
the design community. Your clients seem
mostly to target the PC Magazine/PC
World/PC Week/PC Anyoldthing crowd. Many
of our readers design things in this
world. Many more don't.</font></p>
<p><font color="#008040">Nevertheless,
I've found real gold in your Newstips.
Some I've used directly as news items but
many more have served as leads for news
and feature articles. Further, I've made
several good contacts leading to
conference speaking engagements for your
clients. So as you can see, I think
you're providing a full-service
opportunity for your clients.</font></p>
<p><font color="#008040">And thanks for
the opportunity to provide feedback.</font></p>
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<dd>
<p><font color="#808040"><br>
</font><a name="glatzer"><font color="#808040"><b>Hal
Glatzer</b></font></a></p>
</dd>
<dd><font color="#808040">Marty, it's occasionally
valuable, but mostly it's just plain useful, and
that's an accomplishment in itself. Your clients
are in the second- and third-tiers of the
industry, about whom the business pages of the NY
Times et. al. devote no space. Yet there are
viable innovations percolating up all the time.
Keep going.</font></dd>
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<p><font color="#000080"><br>
</font><a name="browde"><font
color="#000080"><b>Dave Browde</b></font></a><font
color="#000080"><b><br>
</b><b><i>WNBC TV: Data File<br>
</i></b></font></p>
<p><font color="#000080">For your survey,
feel free to cite me as one of the
computer reporters whose live would be
immeasurably more difficult without your
help.</font></p>
<p><font color="#000080">Our segment, now
some seven months old, runs weekly,
airing Saturday night and Sunday morning.
You probably can tell me better than I
can tell you how many of your clients
we've used; suffice it to say your track
record with us is superior to any other
publicist/news source.</font></p>
<p><font color="#000080">When you say you
can deliver a product to us with an
interview, you do... and for the most
part we've found the people you represent
to be selling good quality and able to
justify their price.</font></p>
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<p><font color="#800040"><br>
</font><a name="menefee"><font color="#800040"><b>Craing
Menefee</b></font></a><font color="#800040"> </font></p>
</dd>
<dd><font color="#800040">Don't know about
percentages, but this issue I picked out 3 items
that will probably become stories for the 4-5
million readers of Newbytes News Network. I read
all the rest, and several of those might have
become items if they weren't off my telecom beat.
Newstips is, to me, a very valuable tool.</font></dd>
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<p align="left"><font color="#008040"><br>
</font><a name="olsen"><font
color="#008040"><b>J.W. Olsen</b></font></a></p>
<dl>
<dt><font color="#008040">Receiving
diverse story leads in one place
and electronically helps. But at
least as valued is the way you
provide diverse client contact
info in one place--no fuss, no
muss. I send/receive all CIS,
MCI, and Internet e-mail-- and
send faxes--from within one
environment (E-Mail Connection).
So I can contact any of your
clients with a quick
cut-and-paste of the relevant
graf from Newstips into a
&quot;compose&quot; window, add a
&quot;please send&quot; line, and
address the thingie. Repeat that
for all items of interest, click
on send, and in minutes I have
requests for multiple stories on
their way. Thanks for the
convenience. ;-)</font></dt>
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<p><font color="#000080"><br>
</font><a name="gunn"><font
color="#000080"><b>Angela Gunn</b></font></a><font
color="#000080"><b><br>
Contributing Editor<br>
</b><b><i>Home Office Computing</i></b> </font></p>
</dd>
<dd><font color="#000080">Just sitting here
reading Newstips, and you've managed to
deliver me info on no fewer than three
stories I have currently active. Haven't
seen that Marketing Computers piece yet,
but I sure hope it says several times
what a fabulous resource this is. Now,
when are you going to convince all the
other PR firms to send my info
electronically in bite-sized pieces with
accurate phone numbers? <g> Just wanted to
drop you a note saying what a great
service Newstips is. </font></dd>
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<p><font color="#808040"><br>
</font><a name="proffit"><font
color="#808040"><b>Brian Proffit</b></font></a><font
color="#808040"><b><br>
</b><b><i>OS/2 Magazine</i></b> </font></p>
<p><font color="#808040">Marty,<br>
Feel free to tell your clients that in my
opinion, your use of E-mail to get out
these regular bulletins gives me much
better information about their products
than I get from other PR firms.</font></p>
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<p><font color="#800040"><br>
</font><a name="berst"><font color="#800040"><b>Jesse Berst</b></font></a><font
color="#800040"> </font></p>
<p><font color="#800040">I had dinner last night with Michael
Miller, Executive <br>
Editor, and Robin Raskin, Editor, of <i>PC Magazine</i>.</font></p>
<p><font color="#800040">When I started to catch them up on
what I'd been doing, <br>
they said they were already up to date. It turns out they've <br>
been reading my weekly notices in Newstips all these months. <br>
They both confessed that they never fail to skim Newstips <br>
when it shows up in their mailboxes.</font></p>
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<p><font color="#800040">When the two top editors at the
world's number one computer <br>
magazine say they read you faithfully each week, you can
safely <br>
say that you've arrived. Newstips has become an institution
with <br>
this country's computer press.</font></p>
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<font color="#008040"><br>
</font><a name="baldwin"><font
color="#008040"><b>Steven Baldwin</b></font></a><font
color="#008040"><b><br>
Staff Editor<br>
</b><b><i>Computer Shopper Magazine</i></b></font></p>
<p><font color="#008040">Dear Newstips -</font></p>
<p><font color="#008040">What a great
tipsheet! It's one of the few that I really
read, and as always, it contains great
product info I can use, andthat I'll pass on
to others.</font></p>
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<font color="#808040"><br>
</font><a name="pournelle"><font color="#808040"><b>Jerry
Pournelle</b></font></a><font color="#808040"> </font></p>
<p><font color="#808040">I find your news bulletins extremely
useful, and I manage to <br>
read them all, usually within a day of when they come in. You
<br>
can quote me on that.</font></p>
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<p><a name="Geiger"><font color="#0000A0"><strong>Peter
Geiger</strong></font></a><font
color="#0000A0"><strong><br>
Computer Columnist<br>
</strong><em><strong>Elyria
Chronicle-Telegram</strong></em></font></p>
<p><font color="#0000A0"><strong>Newstips is
essential for those of use who cover
computing and software for the daily press.
There is no other means by which we can stay
as current with developments in the field.
The wire services are not as complete; the
weekly industry press not as timely, and the
monthly magazines nowhere near as
comprehensive as Newstips. I am grateful for
the manufacturers, suppliers and providers
who keep me informed by way of Newstips.</strong></font></p>
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