10-4-95. NYPaper: "AT&T Puts New Emphasis On Satellites. 12-Spacecraft Network Proposed to Regulators." The AT&T Corporation, in an early sign of how it plans to pursue its Internet and global communications strategy after the company's planned divestiture, has quietly filed a Federal application to build and launch a multibillion-dollar global satellite network. The system would let computer users bypass local telephone networks and connect directly to the Internet via satellite dish antennas slightly larger than two feet in diameter. "Satellite Services Hear the Naysayers." The concept has great promise: a string of satellites offering global wireless telephone service, where the caller is never out of range. Making the concept reality, however, is proving stubbornly difficult. The four major services in the nascent global wireless business are on the defensive for the first time in their brief history. A pair of troubled debt offerings have raised questions about the viability of so-called global personal communications. "A New Computer Dazzles a Jaded Industry Crowd." The BeBox is incompatible with everything now on the market. But the sheer dazzle of the new personal computer by Jean-Louis Gassee, the former engineering head of Apple Computer Inc., drew a standing ovation from a normally skeptical crowd of 500 of some of the most discerning executives in technology. Trio: PIZ_zaz (16 kb)