EDP Weekly's IT Monitor articles from April 2001

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor archives from April 2001

VPI DEMONSTRATES AUTOMATIC PARAMETER EXTRACTOR MODULE AT OFC.(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... VPI Virtual Photonics, the leading developer of design and planning tools for optical components systems and networks, will speed up virtual prototyping with the introduction of the VPIparameterExtractor. The new product complements the...

CISCO SYSTEMS SETTLES PATENT LITIGATION AND ACQUIRES TECHNOLOGY LICENSE FROM HANDTRADE.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... HandTrade.com (HandTrade), a privately held wireless software applications and services company, and Cisco Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCO), the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, have entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement...

SILICON MOTION'S LOW-POWER GRAPHICS CHIP SUPPORTS TABLET PC.(Silicon Motion LynxEM+)(Product Information)
April 2, 2001... Silicon Motion Inc.'s LynxEM+ graphics chip will be supported by Microsoft Corp. and made available to OEMs who plan to design next-generation Tablet PCs. The LynxEM+ incorporates Silicon Motion's ReduceOn technology that increases battery...

TI OPENS INFORMATION APPLIANCE DESIGN CENTER IN TAIWAN.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... With a mission to provide the best in class application support for leading original equipment manufacturers, Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE: TXN) (TI) Asia today announced the opening of the Information Appliance (IA) Design Center in...

STMICROELECTRONICS AND GEMPLUS ANNOUNCE SMART CARD SECURITY CERTIFICATION INCLUDING HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... Gemplus, the world's leading smart card solutions provider, and STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a world leader in designing and manufacturing secure smart card microcontrollers, has announced the successful security certification of a smart...

TSMC'S 0.15-MICRON TECHNOLOGY IN VOLUME PRODUCTION WITH NVIDIA'S GEFORCE3 GPU.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (NYSE:TSM), the world's largest dedicated semiconductor foundry, has announced that it has successfully ramped the foundry industry leading 0.15-micron process to full production status. TSMC has...

SPRINT AND SUN FORM ALLIANCE TO PROVIDE AN INTEGRATED SOLUTION FOR E/BUSINESS CUSTOMERS.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... Sprint Corp. (NYSE: FON) and Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) are aligning sales and marketing teams to create a strategic alliance that will provide an integrated Web solution for customers, enabling both companies to capture revenue and market...

SYMANTEC FIRST TO PROVIDE ANTI-VIRUS AND ENTERPRISE SECURITY MANAGEMENT PROTECTION AGAINST RECENTLY ISSUED FRAUDULENT VERISIGN DIGITAL CERTIFICATES.(with Enterprise Security Manager and Norton AntiVirus)(Product Information)
April 2, 2001... Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq:SYMC) recently announced that its award-winning vulnerability assessment and anti-virus solutions, Enterprise Security Manager and Norton AntiVirus respectively, detect and protect against two recently issued fraudulent...

BILL GATES OUTLINES STRATEGIC PLAN FOR XBOX IN JAPAN.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... In his keynote address at 2001 Spring Tokyo Game Show, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates revealed the company's plans to bring the Xbox video game system to Japan. During the keynote, Gates...

U.S. ONLINE CONSUMERS NOW MORE COMFORTABLE PROVIDING CREDIT CARD AND PERSONAL INFORMATION ONLINE THAN OVER THE PHONE.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... Results of a survey released by Market Facts Interactive (MFi) show that for the first time U.S. online consumers are more comfortable providing credit card numbers and other personal information over the Internet than over the telephone. In...

REAL INTENT INTRODUCES LINUX VERSIONS OF ITS INTENT-DRIVEN FORMAL VERIFICATION SYSTEM, VERIX.(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... Intent Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.), an EDA company that offers products for the formal verification of RTL (Register Transfer Level) designs, has announced that its Verix product now run on the popular Linux operating system from Red Hat...

IBM DELIVERS SELF-MANAGING SOFTWARE FOR ESERVER Z900; Z/OS BRINGS INTELLIGENCE TO THE MAINFRAME.(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... IBM has announced the availability of z/OS, a new self-managing 64-bit operating system for the IBM eServer z900. z/OS features Intelligent Resource Director (IRD), an exclusive IBM technology that makes the z900 the only server capable of...

COMIT SYSTEMS OFFERS DOWNLOADABLE HDL LANGUAGE REFERENCES ON HANDHELD DEVICES.
April 2, 2001... Comit Systems, Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif. has started offering electronic versions of its Hardware Description Language (HDL) Quick Reference Cards on several handheld devices running the Palm OS and the Microsoft Windows CE operating systems....

AMD ANNOUNCES 900MHZ AMD DURON PROCESSOR, RAISING PERFORMANCE FOR EVERYDAY COMPUTING.(Product Announcement)
April 9, 2001... AMD (NYSE:AMD) has announced the availability of the 900MHz AMD Duron(TM) processor, its highest performance AMD Duron processor to date. Designed to meet the needs - today and tomorrow - of value-conscious home and office desktop computer...

AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES AND CALIPER OFFER NEW DNA 1000 LABCHIP(R) KIT FOR FAST, ACCURATE SIZING AND QUANTITATION OF DNA FRAGMENTS.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 9, 2001... Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and Caliper Technologies Corp. (Nasdaq: CALP) today announced the introduction of the DNA 1000 LabChip(R) kit for the automated analysis of DNA fragments to determine their size and concentration. The new...

PINNACLE SYSTEMS BRINGS REAL-TIME UNCOMPRESSED EFFECTS TO FINAL CUT PRO.(Product Development)
April 9, 2001... Pinnacle Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: PCLE), a leader in digital video content creation tools, has announced that CineWave, the Company's award-winning professional video creation solution, will deliver real-time special effects with uncompressed,...

TERADYNE SELLS ITS FIRST IP750 IMAGE SENSOR TEST SYSTEM IN EUROPE TO SILICON VISION AG.(Product Information)
April 9, 2001... Silicon Vision AG has purchased an IP750 Image Sensor test system for multisite testing of CCD and CMOS image sensor devices. The IP750, which is based on the popular INTEGRA J750, has been designed and developed by Teradyne's Japan Division....

EPIX SELECTS ULTIMATE SOFTWARE'S ULTIPRO PEO FOR MANAGING RAPIDLY GROWING EMPLOYEE POOL.(Product Information)
April 9, 2001... Ultimate Software (Nasdaq: ULTI), a leading provider of Web-based payroll and employee management solutions, announced that EPIX, one of the nation's largest privately held professional employer organizations (PEO), has selected Ultimate...

SGI ANNOUNCES THE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPER PROGRAM.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 9, 2001... SGI (NYSE: SGI) has announced the introduction of its Business Intelligence Software Developer Program, reaffirming the company's commitment to the developer community. The Business Intelligence Software Developer Program enables system...

GTSI MMAD-1 CONTRACT AWARD SUSTAINED BY GAO.(Government Activity)
April 9, 2001... GTSI Corp. (Nasdaq: GTSI) has announced that the GAO has sustained the protest filed by GTSI regarding the Maxi-Minis and Databases (MMAD-1) contract. The GAO's decision recommends that the Army Communications and Electronic Command (CECOM)...

CSC SIGNS $350 MILLION DESKTOP SUPPORT CONTRACT EXTENSION WITH RAYTHEON.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 9, 2001... Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) has announced that the desktop support portion of an existing outsourcing agreement with Raytheon Company has been extended for eight years. The contract extension has a projected revenue value to...

PACIFICNET.COM PRESENTS AT U.S. DEPT OF COMMERCE IT TRADE MISSION TO CHINA.(Government Activity)
April 9, 2001... Tony Tong, CEO of PacificNet.com (Nasdaq: PACT), spoke today at the U.S. Information Technology and e-Commerce Trade Mission to China organized by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) and the U.S. Department of Commerce. Mr....

U.S. AIR FORCE SELECTS EMERGENT FOR FOLLOW-ON SUPPORT AT THE NELLIS COMBINED AIR OPERATIONS CENTER -NCAOC-.(Government Activity)
April 9, 2001... The U.S. Air Force selected Emergent Information Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:EITI) to perform additional work to support the Nellis Combined Air Operations Center, its new Command and Control support and training facility being created at Nellis...

ITAA HAILS FCC FILTERING RULES.(Government Activity)
April 9, 2001... The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) has applauded the Federal Communication Commission for issuing regulations on software filtering that provide schools and libraries receiving federal funds with wide latitude on...

TITAN AWARDED $17 MILLION AIR FORCE CONTRACT.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... The Titan Corporation's (NYSE: TTN) wholly owned subsidiary Titan Systems Corporation has been awarded an Air Force contract having a potential value of $17 million. The U.S. Air Force's Electronic Systems Center (ESC), headquartered at...

ITT INDUSTRIES WINS COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT CONTRACT FOR U.S. MILITARY IN SOUTHWEST ASIA.(Government Activity)
April 9, 2001... ITT Industries, Inc. (NYSE: ITT) has been awarded a contract to provide communications support to U.S. military operations in Southwest Asia. The Total Army Communications -- Southwest Asia (TAC-SWA) contract has a five-year value of up to $121...

MILLER ON PROCUREMENT.(Government Activity)(Column)
April 9, 2001... **CHEAT FOR ME** What would you do on a big RFP if the Colonel, the man in charge, were to call you and tell you to watch for the BAFO amendment but you probably don't need to do much since your bid at $16.4 million is way low as the...

Lockheed Martin Corp., Naval Electronics & Surveillance Systems.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... Lockheed Martin Corp., Naval Electronics & Surveillance Systems, Manassas, Va., is being awarded a $6,544,088 cost-plus-fixed-fee award term contract for engineering services for fixed surveillance systems. The purpose of this contract is to...

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space, Sunnyvale, Calif.; TRW Inc., Space and Electronics Group, Redondo Beach, Calif.; and Boeing Satellites and Space, El Segundo, Calif., are being awarded a $86,000,000 firm-fixed-price...

PeopleSoft USA, Inc.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... PeopleSoft USA, Inc., Bethesda, Md., is being awarded a $6,560,812 firm-fixed-price contract to provide a DoD wide enterprise license for Commercial Off The Shelf Human Resources software in support of the Defense Integrated Military Human...

Agilent Technologies Inc.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... Agilent Technologies Inc., Englewood, Colo., was awarded on March 20, 2001, a $919,204 delivery order amount as part of a not-to-exceed $18,689,389 firm-fixed-price, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract for AN/USM-677 Spectrum...

Litton PRC Inc.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... Litton PRC Inc. of McLean, Va., is being awarded a $7,010,871 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for engineering and technical services to support the development, integration and implementation of programs and changes or improvements to programs...

BAE Systems, Information and Electronic Warfare Systems Integration Corp.(Government Activity)
April 9, 2001... BAE Systems, Information and Electronic Warfare Systems Integration Corp., Nashua, N.H., is being awarded a $59,003,220 firm-fixed-price contract for the fabrication, assembly, test and delivery of six low rate initial production AN/ALQ-214(V)...

General Dynamics Government Systems Corp.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... General Dynamics Government Systems Corp., Taunton, Mass., is being awarded a $23,448,687 modification to firm-fixed-price contract DAAB07-94-C-N853, to exercise options for common hardware/software items for Project Manager, Army Tactical...

LANTRONIX INTRODUCES SINGLE CHIP SOLUTION FOR EMBEDDING NETWORK AND INTERNET CONNECTIVITY FOR DEVICES.(Product Announcement)
April 16, 2001... Lantronix Inc. has unveiled its fully integrated semiconductor for embedding Internet and network connectivity into devices. DSTni (Device Server Technology Network Interface) contains essential hardware components for enabling network...

NEXT-GENERATION SSH SECURE SHELL OFFERS SUPPORT FOR PKI, SMART CARDS AND ADVANCED ENCRYPTION STANDARD.(Product Announcement)
April 16, 2001... SSH Communications Security has announced SSH Secure Shell 3.0, the next-generation of its leading encryption software product designed to protect end-users, businesses and developers from the most common break-in method used by hackers --...

APTIX, ARM AND AGILENT INTRODUCE AN INTEGRATED SOC VALIDATION PLATFORM FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEM DESIGN.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 16, 2001... San Jose-based Aptix Corp., a prototyping and verification company, whose products are used to verify embedded system-on-chip (SoC) designs, ARM ((LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY)), the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC processor...

TRW, CHIP MAKERS EXPAND COMMITMENT FOR PRODUCING LIGHT SOURCES FOR NEXT-GEN CHIP-MAKING EQUIPMENT.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 16, 2001... TRW (NYSE:TRW) and the Extreme Ultraviolet Limited Liability Company (EUV LLC), a consortium of semiconductor chip makers, have expanded the scope of a joint development agreement to develop and produce laser-based light sources for the...

IBM SELECTS RAINMAKER SYSTEMS TO INCREASE REVENUES FROM SOFTWARE SUBSCRIPTION CONTRACTS.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 16, 2001... Rainmaker Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMKR), a leading outsource provider of Internet-enabled sales and marketing services, has announced that IBM (NYSE: IBM) will use Rainmaker's Contracts Renewals Plus(SM) (CRP) service to cost-effectively...

PROGENY LINUX SYSTEMS ROLLS OUT PROGENY DEBIAN.(Product Announcement)
April 16, 2001... Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. has released the first edition of Progeny Debian. The download edition is available now at www.progeny.com/download. The box set will be available on April 23rd. Progeny Debian was developed in cooperation with...

PINNACLE SYSTEMS AND SONY CREATE DIGITAL VIDEO BUNDLE.(Product Information)
April 16, 2001... Pinnacle Systems and Sony Electronics are bringing together three of their key products in a bundle deal designed to offer European consumers the ultimate in digital video capture and editing. Sony is set to launch eight new models in its...

VENTURCOM INTRODUCES DCX 1.2; THE REAL-TIME DATA AND CONTROL EXCHANGE FOR WINDOWS-BASED CONTROL APPS.(Product Announcement)
April 16, 2001... VenturCom, Inc., has announced the availability of DCX 1.2, a scaleable middleware for real-time data/control exchange between software components. DCX (Data and Control eXchange) provides a highly configurable real-time inter-process...

TIMES TEN TO DELIVER REAL-TIME DATA MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE ON WIND RIVER'S MARKET-LEADING VXWORKS RTOS.(Product Information)
April 16, 2001... TimesTen Performance Software has launched a new version of TimesTen, the company's popular in-memory database, for Wind River's VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS). The new product will be available for the first time this summer....

NCUBE AND REALNETWORKS TEAM TO PROVIDE SCALABLE STREAMING MEDIA SOLUTIONS FOR BROADBAND PROVIDERS.(Product Announcement)
April 16, 2001... nCUBE, and RealNetworks, Inc., have announced that nCUBE's n4 broadband streaming media solutions now support RealAudio 8 and RealVideo 8. For the first time, broadband providers, such as DSL providers and cable modem networks, will be able to...

GREEN HILLS SOFTWARE'S INTEGRITY RTOS AVAILABLE FOR RATIONAL SOFTWARE'S RATIONAL ROSE REALTIME.(Product Announcement)
April 16, 2001... Green Hills Software Inc., a supplier of embedded software solutions, and a Rational Unified Partner Program member, has announced the availability of its INTEGRITY real-time operating system for Rational Rose RealTime visual development...

KOMODO IDE - THE KILLER MOZILLA APPLICATION.(Product Announcement)
April 16, 2001... ActiveState, a leader in open source programming tools, has released Komodo 1.0, the first Mozilla application by a third party. Komodo is a Perl and Python integrated development environment for programming using the Mozilla application...

TELIA LAUNCHES NEW BROADBAND PORTAL FOR ALL INTERNET USERS.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 16, 2001... Telia's new broadband portal was opened to all Internet users early Tuesday morning, April 10. The portal combines Telia's communication services, such as calendar and webmail functions, with offerings from content providers, such as games,...

NEW IBM CHIPS TO DRIVE INNOVATIVE, LOWER-POWER INTERNET APPLIANCES.(Product Announcement)
April 30, 2001... IBM has announced a new family of chips that are expected to help launch a wave of lower-power Internet-attached consumer electronics. The IBM PowerPC IAP (Internet Appliance Platform) combines a microprocessor with a number of optional...

NEC DEVELOPS 61" XGA PLASMA MONITOR.(NEC PlasmaSync 61MP1)(Product Announcement)
April 30, 2001... NEC (Nasdaq: NIPNY) has unveiled the results of a product development effort intended to deliver the industry's first 61" XGA resolution plasma monitor at the National Association of Broadcaster's Show April 23-26, 2001 in Las Vegas. The...

VERBATIM TO BEGIN DELIVERIES OF 4.7GB DVD-R FOR GENERAL USE MEDIA.(Product Announcement)
April 30, 2001... Verbatim Corporation has announced the company will begin shipping DataLifePlus 4.7GB DVD-Recordable (DVD-R) General Use media in volume this month. To ensure exceptional reliability and durability, the new media incorporates revolutionary...

SYSTEM-ON-A-PROGRAMMABLE CHIP: HERE AND NOW.(from Altera)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 30, 2001... Adding to a history composed of industry firsts, Altera Corporation (Nasdaq:ALTR) brings to life the marriage of programmable logic and embedded processors by delivering their Excalibur embedded processor solutions. For the past 9 months,...

IBM SCIENTISTS DEVELOP BREAKTHROUGH CARBON NANOTUBE TRANSISTOR TECHNOLOGY.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 30, 2001... IBM scientists have developed a breakthrough transistor technology that could enable production of a new class of smaller, faster and lower power computer chips than currently possible with silicon. IBM researchers have built the world's...

512 MB SDRAM MEMORY MODULE FOR APPLE POWERBOOK G4 400-500 MHZ [TITANIUM].(Trans International's Trans International 512 MB SDRAM DIMM)(Product Announcement)
April 30, 2001... Trans Intl. has announced the availability of the industry first low profile 512 MB SDRAM SO-DIMM memory module for Apple's new Powerbook G4 400/500 Mhz [Titanium]. The Powerbook G4 Titanium has two memory expansion slots for main memory...

AMD SUCCESSFULLY UTILIZES CANARY ESD SERVICE FROM DUPONT PHOTOMASKS AND ION TO PROTECT PHOTOMASKS IN FAB 25.
April 30, 2001... DuPont Photomasks, Inc. (Nasdaq:DPMI) and Ion Systems have announced that Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD) successfully utilized the new Canary ESD Service developed by the two companies to qualify and mitigate electrostatic discharge (ESD)...

PIVOTAL SHIPS ADVANCED XML-BASED DEMAND CHAIN PLATFORM.(Product Announcement)
April 30, 2001... Pivotal Corporation (Nasdaq:PVTL) (TSE:PVT.) has announced a major upgrade to the Pivotal ePower platform - an industrial-strength, XML-based platform for demand chain management. This upgrade addresses current market demand for...

GINGER - THE FOURTH GENERATION PC GOES GROCERY SHOPPING.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 30, 2001... Ginger Interactive, Inc., the personal kiosk system, has announced that grocery stores are poised to start using Ginger down their aisles. Ginger is now being delivered with wireless technology allowing grocery store executives the opportunity...

U.S. ARMY SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER FIRST DEFENSE DEPARTMENT SITE TO INSTALL 512-PROCESSOR SGI ORIGIN 3000 SERIES SERVER.(Product Information)
April 30, 2001... The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Major Shared Resource Center (ERDC MSRC), in Vicksburg, Miss., has taken a giant step toward massively parallel computing with the installation of a 512-processor SGI Origin 3800...

DYNAMICS RESEARCH CORPORATION AWARDED U.S. AIR FORCE CONTRACTS VALUED AT $23 MILLION.(Government Activity)
April 30, 2001... The U.S. Air Force Electronic Systems Center has exercised one-year renewal options, effective April 1, 2001, on two information technology service prime contracts with DRC. Revenues from the two renewed contracts are expected to be $23 million...

TRW/RAYTHEON SBIRS LOW TEAM COMPLETES INITIAL SYSTEM DESIGN.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 30, 2001... The TRW/Raytheon (NYSE:TRW) Space Based Infrared System Low (SBIRS Low) team progressed its system design effort with the successful completion of the second of three major program milestones, the System Design Review (SDR). SBIRS Low is...

SGI FEDERAL AND WORLD WIDE TECHNOLOGY AGREE TO SELL SGI PRODUCTS AND SERVICES ON GSA SCHEDULE.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 30, 2001... SGI Federal, has entered into an agreement with World Wide Technology Inc. (WWT) to sell SGI products and services offered on the General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule. WWT is a leader in providing comprehensive,...

MILLER ON PROCUREMENT.(Editorial)
April 30, 2001... The one- percent incentive has made GSA a driven agency. Now they have a new law enforcement schedule for diverse items, which may be sold to police groups. It appears to have no limits including GSA allowing access to state and local police...

CSC WINS SHARE OF $14.5 BILLION U.S. NAVAL SEA SYSTEMS COMMAND CONTRACT.(Government Activity)
April 30, 2001... Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) has been selected by the U.S. Navy as one of 21 vendors for a $14.5 billion contract to provide professional support services for the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) and its affiliated directorates,...

U.S. ARMY SELECTS WEBSENSE TO GUARD AGAINST INAPPROPRIATE WEB USE FOR INTERNET-ENABLED PERSONNEL WORLDWIDE.(Government Activity)
April 30, 2001... In what is believed to be the largest deployment of employee Internet management (EIM) software in history, the U.S. Army has selected Websense Inc. (NASDAQ:WBSN) as its Internet filtering solution of choice. The Army, which has 480,000...

LOCKHEED MARTIN TRAINING AWARDED $25 MILLION CONTRACT.(Government Activity)
April 30, 2001... Lockheed Martin Training has received the U.S. Army's first award under the Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM) Omnibus Contract (STOC) for live domain training. Under the award, Lockheed Martin's Information Systems...