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DFC Intelligence and Computer Intelligence sign consulting partnership.


LA JOLLA La Jolla (lə hoi`yə), on the Pacific Ocean, S Calif., an uninc. district within the confines of San Diego; founded 1869. The beautiful ocean beaches, in particular La Jolla shores and Black's Beach, and sea-washed caves attract visitors and , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 1997--

Partnership Offers Clients Unique Insight Into Interactive

Entertainment Industry

DFC DFC - A dataflow language.

["Data Flow Language DFC: Design and Implementation", S. Toshio et al, Systems and Computers in Japan, 20(6):1- 10 (Jun 1989)].
 Intelligence, recognized advisors to the interactive and online entertainment industry, and Computer Intelligence (CI), the leading source of fact-based information for the computer and communications industries communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. , today announced execution of a consulting partnership agreement. As a consulting partner, DFC Intelligence will provide qualitative industry analysis based on CI's extensive data capabilities.

"DFCI's and CI's clients will benefit significantly from this partnership," said David Cole David Cole may refer to:
  • David Cole Elmendorf (born 1949), football player for the Los Angeles Rams
  • David Cole (producer) (1962-1995), music producer for C+C Music Factory
  • David D.
, DFCI DFCI Dana-Farber Cancer Institute  President. "DFCI believes in developing forecasts and planning tools that enable software and hardware providers to make money in this competitive market. With CI's research capabilities and DFCI's analytical expertise, clients will be able to size market potential accurately and select profitable segments."

CI maintains the world's most comprehensive databases on consumer technology use and acquisition trends. Each quarter, CI completes 50,000 telephone interviews with U.S. households to profile their recent purchase activity. In addition, CI also conducts two annual panel surveys with an additional 16,000 households to profile home technology ownership and usage.

"DFCI will enhance our ability to support clients in the multimedia, online, and video game markets," said Mark Nelson, CI Consumer Research Group Vice President. "Home PC owners report entertainment as their number one computer application. The market for interactive entertainment products will continue to explode with growth in Internet usage and evolving media formats like DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
DVD
 in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc

Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology.
. We look forward to providing insightful analysis on these markets for our clients."

DFC Intelligence, with principal research operations in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , is the market research and intelligence division of the Silicon Valley's Digital Futurities Corporation (DFC). DFC is dedicated to prognosticating future possibilities of digital interactive entertainment and providing strategic assistance to DFC's clients. DFC Interactive is DFC's monthly newsletter on trends and thoughts in the interactive entertainment universe. DFC and DFCI maintain offices in San Diego and San Jose San Jose, city, United States
San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850.
, Calif., and Austin, Texas. For more information, see the DFC Web site at http://www.dfcintelligence.com .

Computer Intelligence, a division of Ziff-Davis Inc., is the leading source of fact-based information for the computer and communications industries. CI's Consumer Research Group focuses on the usage of technology products in the home/family, self-employed/work-at-home, and workplace markets. CI's extensive research capabilities provide a wide variety of products and services that help computer and communications companies Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D.  sell and market more effectively. All of the company's products and services are based on proprietary information databases built and maintained by CI specialists.

Headquartered in La Jolla, Computer Intelligence has U.S. offices in Cambridge, Mass., Farmington and Norwalk, Conn.; Sunnyvale, Calif.; and Dallas, Texas “Dallas” redirects here. For other uses, see Dallas (disambiguation).
The City of Dallas (pronounced [ˈdæl.əs] or [ˈdæl.
. CI's European headquarters are in Paris, with sales offices in the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain, and sales agents in Belgium and Switzerland. Samples of CI's extensive market data and research results, timely commentary from industry authorities and previews of upcoming technology events are available on the company's site on the World Wide Web, http://www.ci.zd.com .

Ziff-Davis, a Softbank company, is the leading provider of special-interest content about the Internet and computing. The quality and quantity of this content attract the largest and most powerful audience of early adopters and opinion leaders in both the business and consumer markets. Ziff-Davis enables advertisers to reach this audience effectively and efficiently through an integrated system of on-line, television, and print media.

CONTACT: Judith Vanderkay or Susan Blumenthal

Rogers Communications Rogers Communications Inc. (TSX: RCI.A, TSX: RCI.B, NYSE: RCI) is one of Canada's largest communications companies, particularly in the field of wireless communications and cable television, with additional telecommunications and mass media assets. Edward S.  

(617) 224-1100

jvanderkay@rogerscom.com, sblumenthal@rogerscom.com

or

Glenn Grant

Computer Intelligence

(619) 535-6730

ggrant@zd.com
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