AT&T and Apple Sign Multimedia Communications Co- development/Marketing
Agreement

QuickTime Conferencing, WorldWorx Team Up To Provide Enhanced
Videoconferencing and Collaboration

CUPERTINO, California--May 22, 1995--AT&T and Apple Computer today
announced an agreement to provide videoconferencing and desktop
collaboration capabilities using Apple's QuickTime Conferencing technology
and AT&T's WorldWorxsm Network Services. The agreement provides Macintosh
users with access to other H.320 standards-based videoconferencing
products over AT&T's global wide area network.

Announced in February of this year, Apple's QuickTime Conferencing
technology allows personal computer users to communicate in real time via
audio, video, and data. Users can also share documents, images and movies
across a digital network connection. And because QuickTime Conferencing is
a software-based architecture, application developers, communications
providers, and hardware vendors can easily develop QuickTime
Conferencing-compatible solutions.

AT&T's WorldWorx Network Services, announced in June of 1994, offer a full
range of digital network and videoconference bridging services, as well as
point-to- point voice, video and data conferencing services. Multipoint
voice, video and data bridging services will soon be available.

Together with WorldWorx Alliance members, including Apple Computer,
WorldWorx Network Services is designed to support a wide variety of
videoconferencing devices, including room-based and desktop systems.

The two companies are working together to provide voice, video and data
conferencing and collaboration, both point- to-point and multipoint, to
more than 27 countries worldwide, over LANs and via dial-up services.
Users will be able to benefit from the ease-of-use and multimedia features
Apple has pioneered, and easy access to global connectivity services from
AT&T. And the considerable customer service network of the two companies
combined assures help is close by for trouble-free communications.

"The world is ready for the powerful benefits of communicating in real time
with voice, video and data," said Ernie DeNigris, vice president of
WorldWorx Network Services at AT&T. "We look forward to the broad base of
business, consumer and education users that Apple brings to the table, and
support Apple's commitment to industry standards and an open software
architecture."

Apple and AT&T are both dedicated to the international H.320 ITU
videoconferencing standard. This standard facilitates the interoperability
of different kinds of videoconferencing devices in the area of real-time
audio and video communication. The agreement between Apple and AT&T
ensures that the sharing of documents and applications involving QuickTime
Conferencing and other videoconferencing systems will be possible in
WorldWorx Network Services. Future versions of QuickTime Conferencing will
be extended to take advantage of special WorldWorx features, such as those
involving security and participant identification.

"Our agreement with AT&T is exciting for Apple and a true milestone for our
customers," said Rick Shriner, vice president of the Apple Core Technology
Group. "Apple is now doing for videoconferencing and collaboration what it
has already done for desktop publishing and multimedia development: taking
an expensive, complicated technology, and making it accessible to the
everyday computer-user in the form of an affordable, fully-integrated,
plug-and-play desktop solution -- in other words, doing what Apple does
best."

With real-time videoconferencing and data collaboration, customers can have
access to a wide variety of ways to improve communications in business,
education, publishing and design, medicine and numerous other fields. Some
example applications are:

-- A creative director at an ad agency in New York can view and discuss the
day's fashion shoot with an art director on location in Paris, and with
the client in Los Angeles.

-- A cancer patient and her doctor in North Dakota can consult with leading
oncologists in Boston and New York on her prognosis and course of
treatment. The physicians can view her films and annotate her medical
chart as they converse.

-- Sixth-grade students in Dallas can view the effects of global warming,
and change effects directly, with visualization software on a scientist's
computer at a university in California.

Apple's QuickTime Conferencing is a software-based architecture that is
transport-, compression- and device- independent. QuickTime Conferencing
products will be offered in three affordable solutions, and are expected
to be available in the third quarter of 1995.

Apple Computer, Inc., a recognized pioneer and innovator in the information
industry, creates powerful solutions based on easy-to-use personal
computers, servers, peripherals, software, online services, and personal
digital assistants. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple (NASDAQ:
AAPL) develops, manufactures, licenses and markets products, technologies
and services for the business, education, consumer, scientific &
engineering, and government markets in over 140 countries.

AT&T is the world's networking leader, providing communications services
and products, as well as network equipment and computer systems, to
businesses, consumers, telecommunications services providers and
government agencies.

Apple Computer Inc
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
408-996-1010

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