EDP Weekly's IT Monitor articles from April 2002

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor archives from April 2002

ATI'S MOBILITY RADEON SELECTED FOR NEW HP OMNIBOOK XT6200 AND VT6200 NOTEBOOK PCS.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... ATI Technologies has announced that its MOBILITY RADEON graphics processor has been selected for Hewlett-Packard Company's Intel Pentium 4-M powered Omnibook xt6200 and vt200 notebook PCs. The MOBILITY RADEON graphics processor brings all...

NETWORK APPLIANCE AND EDS PLM TEAM TO ENHANCE PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT.
April 1, 2002... Network Appliance, Inc. is teaming with EDS PLM Solutions, a leading software solution provider for product lifecycle management (PLM) in the design and manufacturing industry. Network Appliance and EDS PLM Solutions have agreed to jointly...

SST INTRODUCES STAND-ALONE ATA FLASH DISK CONTROLLER.(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2002... SST brings mass-storage capability to a whole new series of applications by offering its flash-based ATA Flash Disk Controller as a stand-alone product. The ATA Flash Disk Controller is the "heart" of SST's successful ATA-compatible mass...

LINUX BASED POS TERMINALS INCREASE 80% IN 2001.
April 1, 2002... The population of Retail Point of Sale Terminals running Linux in North America increased 80% according to a new study released recently from IHL Consulting Group. However, shipments of the popular open-source operating system actually...

GLOBALSTOR: 1.44TB FIBRE CHANNEL ENTERPRISE DATA WAREHOUSE SOLUTION.(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2002... Globalstor Data Corp. has launched ExtremeStor FC (Fibre Channel), the company's first SAN-ready and host-independent, enterprise data warehouse solution with Fibre Channel interface and a 600GB to 1.44TB data capacity. Available as either...

CMS ADDS BOOTABILITY TO USB 2.0 AND FIREWIRE AUTOMATIC BACKUP SYSTEMS FOR NOTEBOOKS AND DESKTOPS.
April 1, 2002... CMS Peripherals recently announced the addition of complete system bootability for their entire line of USB 2.0 and FireWire Notebook and Desktop Automatic Backup System Plus (ABSplus) for Windows users. Like CMS' PCMCIA notebook version,...

LOGITECH AND ANOTO JOIN FORCES TO INTRODUCE PEN AND PAPER TO THE PC PLATFORM.
April 1, 2002... Logitech (Nasdaq: LOGI) has entered into a formal agreement with Sweden-based Anoto for introducing digital pen and paper solutions to the PC platform. As part of its entry into this new market, Logitech has entered into a strategic...

TOSHIBA SELECTS NEOCIRCUIT FOR AUTOMATED ANALOG CIRCUIT SIZING.
April 1, 2002... Toshiba's System LSI Design Division has chosen Neolinear's NeoCircuit to automate analog circuit sizing. Toshiba previously selected Neolinear's NeoCell for automatic analog cell place and route. Kazuhiro Oda, Mixed-Signal Design Manager...

PMC-SIERRA ANNOUNCES QUADPHY-II XENPAK/10GE EVAL SYSTEM.(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2002... PMC Sierra has announced the PM2373-KIT QuadPHY-II XENPAK/10GE evaluation system, a comprehensive PC-based evaluation and development platform for Metro and Enterprise networking equipment. PMC-Sierra's new evaluation system is designed to...

NEW SERVER APPLIANCE SOFTWARE TACKLES $15 BILLION HUMAN ERROR PROBLEM IN CORPORATE AMERICA.(Executive Software International Undelete SA)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2002... Executive Software International has announced the release of Undelete SA, developed specifically for OEMs and customers using Windows Powered server appliances. Undelete SA provides a cost-effective, instant file recovery solution that...

A2D TECHNOLOGIES LAUNCHES WELL LOG DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES.
April 1, 2002... A2D Technologies, a petroleum well log data and software company, recently announced the formal launch of its well log data management service. This offering is designed with input from industry leaders to accommodate the real world challenges...

IBM, SONY, SCE AND TOSHIBA TO JOINTLY DEVELOP CHIP-MAKING PROCESS TECHNOLOGY.
April 8, 2002... In a unique collaboration, IBM, Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and Toshiba Corporation have signed a multi-year agreement to jointly develop advanced semiconductor technologies based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and other...

ATI'S MOBILITY RADEON 7500 SELECTED FOR NEW PENTIUM 4-M POWERED FUJITSU LIFEBOOK C SERIES.
April 8, 2002... ATI Technologies (TSE:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT), has announced that its MOBILITY RADEON 7500 graphics processor has been selected by Fujitsu PC Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702), for its LifeBook C Series notebook PC,...

DATARAM ANNOUNCES 512MB AND 1GB DDR MEMORY FOR COMPAQ EVO WORKSTATION W4000.
April 8, 2002... Dataram Corporation (NASDAQ: DRAM), a provider of server, workstation, and PC memory, has announced the immediate availability of two new memory upgrades for Compaq's Evo Workstation W4000 DDR, aimed at engineers, artists and producers of...

NOVELL ZENWORKS FOR SERVERS 3 MANAGES CROSS-PLATFORM SERVERS AS ONE NET.(Product Announcement)
April 8, 2002... Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL), a provider of Net business solutions, has announced the availability of Novell ZENworks for Servers 3, Novell's cross-platform solution for centralized, cost-effective management of server content, server...

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS DSPS IMPROVE PROCESSING TIME AND HARD COPY IMAGE QUALITY FOR HP PRODUCTS.(TI TMS320C6000)
April 8, 2002... Underscoring the emergence of digital signal processors (DSPs) as the engine of high-performance imaging appliances, Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) (NYSE: TXN) has announced that the TI DSP platform has been selected for two of Hewlett-Packard...

FUTURE TRENDS FOR MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES OUTLINED BY GARTNER.
April 8, 2002... After several years of rapid growth, the worldwide PDA market slowed considerably in 2001 and this more moderate level of growth is expected to continue in 2002, according to Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT and ITB). ...

PHILIPS CHARACTERIZES THE NEW MATERIALS FOR SEMICONDUCTORS AT SEMICON EUROPA.
April 8, 2002... Philips Analytical expects a major presence at Semicon Europa (16-18 April 2002). Besides showing its spectrum of leading-edge metrology solutions, the company is presenting its unique Lab-2-Fab support, which helps semiconductor manufacturers...

MAGIC SOFTWARE TARGETS IBM AND HARDWARE PARTNERS WITH ENHANCED CHANNEL PROGRAM.(Brief Article)
April 8, 2002... Magic Software Enterprises (Nasdaq:MGIC), a provider of application development technology and business solutions, has announced the launch of its channel expansion campaign and enhanced Magic Solution Partners (MSPs) program. This program is...

ADIC SCALAR STORAGE NETWORKING LIBRARIES ARE NOW ALL 2 GB FIBRE READY.
April 8, 2002... Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC), a provider of Intelligent Storage solutions, announced recently the upgrading of its entire family of Scalar storage networking libraries to 2 Gb/second Fibre Channel interface. The...

FUNK SOFTWARE: ADMITONE VPN CLIENT FOR POCKET PC.
April 8, 2002... Funk Software recently announced the beta release of AdmitOne VPN Client for Pocket PC, software that lets handheld users establish a secure connection over a wireless link to the enterprise network. A trial copy of AdmitOne VPN Client for...

PERCUSSION SOFTWARE, RUBY DIGITAL PROVIDE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SOLUTION TO ONLINE FINANCIAL ADVISOR.
April 8, 2002... Percussion Software has announced that through its relationship with Ruby Digital, a technology consultancy that creates custom business applications, it has added another customer within the financial services sector for its leading content...

MOTOROLA SELECTS QUEST SOFTWARE TO MANAGE WINDOWS 2000 AND ACTIVE DIRECTORY MIGRATION PROJECT.
April 8, 2002... Quest Software Inc. (Nasdaq:QSFT), a provider of application management solutions, has announced that Motorola has selected Quest's FastLane Suite to manage a 90,000 user migration to Windows 2000 and Active Directory. "At Motorola, our...

INTERRA RELEASES MPEG-4 VERIFICATION TOOL.(Interra M4-1000)(Product Announcement)
April 8, 2002... Interra Digital Video Technologies, Inc. has begun commercial shipments of Interra M4, the company's new MPEG-4 conformance analyzer software. The Interra M4-1000 is the first release in the M4 product line and is targeted to organizations...

BLUE TITAN SOFTWARE INTROS MISSION-CRITICAL WEB SERVICES NETWORKING.
April 8, 2002... Blue Titan Software, a new company formed from the merger of two Web services software providers, has introduced the first complete Web services networking solution designed specifically for mission-critical enterprise architectures. Blue...

INVIO UNVEILS NEW ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE FOR AUTOMATION OF NETWORKED STORAGE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES.(Invio Storage Practice Manager, Invio Active Practices and the Invio Storage Practice Foundry)(Product Announcement)
April 8, 2002... Invio Software, Inc. has announced its new product line: the Invio Storage Practice Manager, Invio Active Practices and the Invio Storage Practice Foundry. Invio will make its company debut and unveil its products at the Storage Management 2002...

IBM ATTACKS SUN ON PRICE WITH MIDRANGE UNIX SERVERS.(Product Announcement)
April 15, 2002... (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. Has launched a new line of midrange server computers that steps up the price pressures on its archrival, Sun Microsystems Inc.. IBM said servers in its new p670 line, which is targeted at...

EMACHINES INTROS NEW DESIGN FOR ENTIRE PC LINE.(T1140, T4170)(Product Announcement)
April 15, 2002... eMachines, Inc., the third-leading vendor of desktop PCs sold through U.S. retailers, has announced a new line of affordable yet powerful PCs featuring a new elegant design with "consumer-friendly" features. Prices start at $399 after...

ADIC AND HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS DEMO FASTEST SAN SOLUTION FOR THE RICH MEDIA MARKET.(Advanced Digital Information Corp)
April 15, 2002... Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) and Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. (NYSE:HIT), present the fastest and largest capacity SAN-based video file sharing solution for the video production and...

ATI'S ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 7500 IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR HP PAVILION HOME PCS.(Product Announcement)
April 15, 2002... ATI Technologies Inc. (TSE:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT) has announced that ATI's ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 7500 graphics card is now available on HP Pavilion home desktop PCs using Hewlett-Packard Company's Configure-to-Order program, via www.hpshopping.com...

OVERLAND DATA: SUPPORT FOR IBM TIVOLI STORAGE MANAGER.
April 15, 2002... Overland Data Inc. (NASDAQ:OVRL) has announced that IBM (NYSE:IBM) has certified Overland's comprehensive set of data storage devices for the latest release of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, IBM's industry-leading centralized data protection...

TOSHIBA INTRODUCES INDUSTRY'S FIRST 30GB PER PLATTER 2.5-INCH HARD DISK DRIVE FAMILY.(Toshiba HDD)(Product Announcement)
April 15, 2002... Toshiba's Storage Device Division (SDD), the industry pioneer in small form factor, high-capacity hard disk drives (HDDs), has announced a 60GB 2.5-inch drive -- the first 2.5-inch HDD product based on a 30GB per platter design. Toshiba...

SMC NETWORKS SHIPS TIGERCHASSIS 10/100/1000.(Product Announcement)
April 15, 2002... SMC Networks, a leading solutions provider of networking products engineered to increase the performance and productivity of small-to-medium enterprises, has announced it is now shipping the TigerChassis 10/100/1000 (SMC9712G). It is a...

NETWORK APPLIANCE SHIPS FIRST DAFS-ENABLED STORAGE SOLUTIONS.(DAFS Database Accelerator)(Product Announcement)
April 15, 2002... Network Appliance, Inc. (Nasdaq:NTAP), a provider of enterprise network storage solutions, has announced the industry's first DAFS (Direct Access File System) storage product. DAFS Database Accelerator 1.0 is a high-performance extension to the...

EDO CORPORATION AWARDED U.S. NAVY CONTRACT VALUED UP TO $58 MILLION FOR SONAR TRANSDUCER ARRAY.
April 15, 2002... EDO Corporation (NYSE:EDO) has been awarded a contract to provide AN/SQS-53C sonar arrays to the Naval Sea Systems Command ("NAVSEA") for use on U.S. Navy warships, including the Arleigh Burke Class guided missile destroyers. EDO's initial...

ESI ANNOUNCES E-GOVERNMENT APP THAT DETERMINES, CALCULATES AND EXPLAINS ELIGIBILITY FOR GOVERNMENT BENEFITS.(Expert Solutions International's GovLogist)
April 15, 2002... ESI -- Expert Solutions International (www.esi-knowledge.com) has announced GovLogist -- an e- government application that determines and calculates citizen's eligibility for government benefits such as health insurance, social security...

SAIC TEAM AWARDED TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD CONTRACT.
April 15, 2002... A team led by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) recently announced it is one of three task order contractors selected by the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program,...

MILLER ON PROCUREMENT.
April 15, 2002... ***PRIMES*** The government needs primes badly. Primes provide vital technical skills, personnel and even procurement now that we have reformed the FAR and downsized the procurement staff by hundreds of thousands. But primes present an...

MICROVISION SIGNS DEFENSE SYSTEMS INTEGRATOR TO DISTRIBUTE NOMAD PERSONAL DISPLAY SYSTEM.
April 15, 2002... Omega Systems Will Market Innovative Wearable Display for Homeland Security and Defense Applications Microvision (Nasdaq:MVIS) has signed a distribution reseller agreement with Omega Systems, Inc. (www.omegasys.net), a full service system...

MULTIMAX, INC. ANNOUNCES SIGNIFICANT CONTRACT WINS.
April 15, 2002... U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Department of State and the State of Maryland have each awarded significant additional Information Technology (IT) services business to the company. The combined value to Multimax of the awards is nearly $25...

Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems Inc.(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems Inc., a Lockheed Martin Co., Electronics Park, Syracuse, N.Y., is being awarded a $10,580,805 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-99-C-6212) to exercise an option for...

Lockheed Martin Corp.(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... Lockheed Martin Corp., Naval Electronics and Surveillance Systems, Manassas, Va., is being awarded a not-to-exceed $9,300,000 modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-96-C-6226) for materials and hardware relative to the...

Lockheed Martin, Moorestown, N.J.(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... Lockheed Martin, Moorestown, N.J, is being awarded a $33,500,000 fixed-price requirements, award-fee order under previously awarded Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) production contract (N00024-00-C-5139) for 1,600 items of spare and repair...

Digital System Resources, Inc.(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... Digital System Resources, Inc., Fairfax, Va., is being awarded a $7,463,633 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-01-C-6235) to exercise an option in the Small Business Innovative Research, Phase III program...

Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, Mass., is being awarded a $6,500,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for research and engineering services in support of the Naval Air Warfare Center's...

Northrop Grumman Information Technology, Inc.
April 15, 2002... Northrop Grumman Information Technology, Inc., Defense Mission Systems, Communications and Information Systems Division, San Diego, is being awarded a $6,869,002 cost-plus-fixed-fee services contract for engineering and technical support...

CISCO SYSTEMS: CISCO AIRONET 1200SERIES DUAL RADIO WIRELESS LAN ACCESS POINT.(Product Announcement)
April 22, 2002... Cisco Systems, Inc.(NASDAQ: CSCO), recently launched the Cisco Aironet 1200 Series Access Point (AP) and 5 GHz IEEE 802.11a radios, delivering on the promise of an enterprise-ready Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) infrastructure that provides...

IBM AND TELEFONICA DATA TEAM TO OFFER BUSINESS CONTINUITY SOLUTIONS.
April 22, 2002... Telefonica Data USA, a subsidiary of Telefonica DataCorp S.A., a provider of global corporate telecommunications services, and IBM have announced an agreement to deliver Business Continuity services in the United States. These on-demand...

3D SYSTEMS FILES ACTIONS TO DEFENDLASER SINTERING PATENT RIGHTS.
April 22, 2002... 3D Systems Corp. (Nasdaq:TDSC) has announced it filed court papers in two separate actions on April 16 and one on April 17 seeking injunctions defending its laser sintering (LS) patent rights. The first action was filed in Federal District...

INTERSIL'S PRISM CHIP SET POWERS NEW SHIN YOUNG WIRELESS LAN PRODUCTS.
April 22, 2002... Intersil Corporation (Nasdaq:ISIL), a developer of silicon technology for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), announced recently that its PRISM WLAN chip set is incorporated into two new wireless (802.11b) products from Shin Young Telecom...

XILINX UNVEILS OPEN PROTOCOL INITIATIVE FOR SCALABLE SERIAL CONNECTIVITY.
April 22, 2002... Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) has announced an open protocol initiative to accelerate the industry-wide transition from parallel to serial interconnect architectures. The initiative includes a link-layer protocol code named Aurora, ideally suited...

SPATIAL RECOGNIZES TRACE PARTS FOR INNOVATIVE CAD SOLUTION.
April 22, 2002... Spatial Corp., a provider of 3D development technologies, recognized the accomplishments of OEM partner Trace Parts S.A. for the release of Trace Parts Version 2, a universal standard parts library for CAD/CAM users. The latest version of...

EXPERIO PUTS "HIGH TOUCH" INTO MANUFACTURING.
April 22, 2002... With continued market momentum, Experio Solutions, a Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT) company, moves forward with a new program aimed at "High Touch" manufacturers, and leverages its relationship with Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq:ORCL) by using the Oracle...

MINOLTA-QMS PRINTERS SUPPORT COMMON UNIX PRINTING METHODS.
April 22, 2002... MINOLTA-QMS, Inc. has announced its support for the Common UNIX Printing System, better known as "CUPS," as well as the PDQ printing system in its current color and monochrome network printers. Support for CUPS and PDQ widens the compatibility...

MOBILE AUTOMATION ANNOUNCES FIRST ENTERPRISE-WIDE DEVICE MANAGEMENT PRODUCT.(Mobile Automation 2000 version 4.5)(Product Announcement)
April 22, 2002... Mobile Automation has announced the availability of Mobile Automation 2000 version 4.5, the company's next generation of secure enterprise systems management software. This version of Mobile Automation 2000 provides companies with a single...

ALADDIN'S ESAFE OFFERS DUAL-SOURCE VIRUS PROTECTION THROUGH NEW PARTNERSHIP.
April 22, 2002... Aladdin Knowledge Systems (NASDAQ: ALDN) has announced that Aladdin's eSafe Internet security solution now offers organizations an additional layer of anti-virus protection from Kaspersky Labs, a leading developer of innovative data-security...

ABILIZER LAUNCHES NEXT GEN INFO DELIVERY INFRASTRUCTURE.(Abilizer 6.0)(Product Announcement)
April 22, 2002... Abilizer Solutions, Inc., a provider of Web services and information delivery solutions, has unveiled Abilizer Release 6.0. Building upon Abilizer's existing platform, the new release provides a unified presentation layer that gives end-users a...

BOINGO LEVERAGES PORTAL SOFTWARE FOR INNOVATIVE WIRELESS BROADBAND INTERNET SERVICE.
April 22, 2002... Portal Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:PRSF) has announced that Boingo Wireless, Inc. has implemented Infranet, Portal's market leading billing solution for mobile service providers. Launched in January, Boingo's nationwide wireless service gives...

CONSUL RISK MANAGEMENT UNVEILS CONSUL/ZLOCK.(Product Announcement)
April 22, 2002... CONSUL risk management, an IT security software provider specializing in audit and administration tools for enterprise-wide security management, has announced the availability of Consul/zLock, the latest release in the zSecure Pro Suite....

INTUIT HELPS SMALL BUSINESS RETAILERS COMPETE WITH MEGA-STORES.
April 22, 2002... Of the 1.4 million small business retailers in the United States, 80 percent use rudimentary tools such as calculators and electronic cash registers to manage their businesses(1). With these retailers in mind, Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ:INTU)) has...

QUICKSTREAM AND SAVVION PARTNER TO DELIVER CONTENT AND BUSINESS PROCESS SOLUTIONS.
April 22, 2002... Quickstream Software, a provider of e-Content Management technology, has announced a partnership with Savvion, a provider of automated business process management solutions. The partnership will allow companies to deploy a comprehensive...

ARCOT AND NCIPHER PARTNER TO ENABLE SECURE ONLINE PAYMENT TRANSACTIONS.
April 22, 2002... nCipher plc (LSE:NCH), a provider of cryptographic IT security solutions, and Arcot Systems, a leading provider of solutions for securing e-business, has announced a development partnership which combines nCipher's nShield Hardware Security...

NOVASTOR DELIVERS 9500 BACKUP SOFTWARE LICENSES TO LARGE U.S. BANK.
April 22, 2002... NovaStor Corporation, a leader in backup and disaster recovery software, has just signed an agreement to license its NovaBACKUP software to protect 9500 computers of a large U.S. bank. After extensive testing, NovaStor's desktop backup product...

ATI AND PINNACLE SYSTEMS ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP.
April 29, 2002... ATI Technologies Inc. (TSE:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT) and Pinnacle Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: PCLE) have agreed to join forces to combine ATI's graphics technologies with Pinnacle's video technologies for future product developments. Pinnacle will utilize...

IBM PROPERTY SPECIFICATION LANGUAGE SELECTED AS NEW EDA STANDARD.
April 29, 2002... 'Sugar' Addresses Industry Need For Advanced Verification Tools IBM has announced that the Accellera standards organization has selected IBM's formal property specification language, Sugar 2.0 developed by IBM researchers in Haifa, as a...

ARROW ELECTRONICS TO DISTRIBUTE APPLIED DATA SYSTEMS' EMBEDDED COMPUTER SOLUTIONS.
April 29, 2002... The North American Computer Products group of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW) has announced an agreement with Applied Data Systems (ADS), a leading embedded board manufacturer, to distribute ADS' line of StrongARM[TM] and XScale-based...

ATMEL INTROS INNOVATIVE USB FULL-SPEED SECURE MICROCONTROLLER.(Product Announcement)
April 29, 2002... Atmel Corporation (Nasdaq:ATML) has announced that it is sampling the production release of AT90SC6464C-USB, an AVR -based secure Flash microcontroller. The main innovation of the AT90SC6464C-USB is that its USB Full-Speed interface is combined...

NEW NOKIA IP710 SECURITY PLATFORM SETS THE MARK FOR MID-RANGE SECURITY SYSTEMS.(Product Announcement)
April 29, 2002... Nokia (NYSE:NOK) has announced the Nokia IP710, a mid-range network security platform for enterprises and service providers, and the newest member of the Nokia industry leading Internet security appliance portfolio. The Nokia IP710...

THREE NEW UNISYS CLEARPATH MAINFRAMES MULTIPLY CAPACITY AND SIMPLIFY IT MANAGEMENT.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 29, 2002... Triple Systems Capacity, Double Partitions for Boosting Windows Server Consolidation, Introduce Workload Pricing to Align Costs With Customer Unisys recently announced three new ClearPath Plus servers that not only feature substantial...

XILINX: OPEN PROTOCOL INITIATIVE FOR SCALABLE SERIAL CONNECTIVITY.
April 29, 2002... Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) has announced an open protocol initiative to accelerate the industry-wide transition from parallel to serial interconnect architectures. The initiative includes a link-layer protocol code named Aurora, ideally suited...

NAUTICUS COST EFFECTIVELY IMPROVES PERFORMANCE OF SSL AND LOAD BALANCING IN THE DATA CENTER.(Product Announcement)
April 29, 2002... Nauticus Networks, Inc., recently announced a powerful new line of application switches addressing critical data center requirements to effectively and securely deliver Internet-enabled applications. Based on the innovative Nauticus...

IBM TO BRING HIGH PERFORMANCE, RELIABILITY AND OPENNESS TO BLADE SYSTEMS.(Product Announcement)
April 29, 2002... IBM has announced plans to introduce a powerful blade system that delivers high performance computing in an ultra-dense server. The new IBM eServer BladeCenter system will incorporate eServer, IBM TotalStorage and networking blades that easily...

ANTEON AWARDED THREE NAVY CONTRACTS.
April 29, 2002... Anteon Corporation, an information technology and engineering solutions company, announced recently that it has been awarded three U.S. Navy contracts with a potential value of over $35 million if all options are exercised. Under this GSA...

SIX D TO MARKET NASA TECHNOLOGY.
April 29, 2002... Six D, Inc., has announced that it has obtained the license to market a unique image compression technology developed at NASA. Six D becomes the first company in the United States to acquire a Patent License Agreement from the National...

SIIA URGES FTC: RECONSIDER PROPOSED RULE CHANGE.
April 29, 2002... The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) submitted comments to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently in response to a Notice of Proposed Rule Making on the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR). SIIA is concerned that there are...

MICROVISION AND OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH SHOWCASE NOMAD PERSONAL DISPLAY SYSTEM.
April 29, 2002... Microvision, Inc. (Nasdaq:MVIS) recently showcased a working demonstration of the Nomad Personal Display System on the Office of Naval Research's Afloat Lab, at an invitation only event at the Washington DC Navy Shipyard. The Office of...

BOX: PHILLIP J. BOND, BUSH ADMINISTRATION TECHNOLOGY LEADER, IN SALT LAKE FOR PREMIER WEB SERVICES SUMMIT.(Brief Article)
April 29, 2002... Phillip J. Bond, Under Secretary for Technology in the U.S. Commerce Department, will keynote the opening of a national summit on Web services, presented by the Utah Information Technology Association (UITA). The keynote speech and dinner will...

SIGNAL CORPORATION AWARDED $6 MILLION CONTRACT FROM EPA.
April 29, 2002... Work to Focus on Development of Software Technology to Manage Data Collected by On-Site Response Teams for Hazardous Material and Spills Control SIGNAL Corporation, a leading information technology and engineering & management services...

NIH AWARDS KPMG CONSULTING FOR OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE UNDER CIO-SP2 CONTRACT.
April 29, 2002... KPMG Consulting, Inc. (Nasdaq: KCIN), one of the world's largest consulting and business systems integration firms, has received an award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for Outstanding Performance under the Chief Information...

MCI WorldCom Communications, Inc.(Brief Article)
April 29, 2002... MCI WorldCom Communications, Inc., McLean, Va., is being awarded a firm-fixed-price, indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contract for the Defense Research Engineering Network (DREN). The contract is a follow-on contract to the DREN...

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp.
April 29, 2002... Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Linthicum Heights, Md., is being awarded a $14,264,000 (not-to-exceed) undefinitized contract to provide for five intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance manager and two common imagery processors for the...

TRW Inc.(Brief Article)
April 29, 2002... TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, Calif., is being awarded an $18,398,832 cost-plus-award-fee contract modification to provide for counter communication system. This modification exercises two options included in the previously awarded contract. Option...

Alliant Defense Electronics Systems Inc.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 29, 2002... Alliant Defense Electronics Systems Inc., Clearwater, Fla., is being awarded an $8,038,824 firm-fixed-price contract to provide for a delivery that will be issued for the purchase of common munitions built-in test reprogramming equipment...

McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Boeing Co., St. Louis, is being awarded a $5,386,000 undefinitized contractual action.(Brief Article)
April 29, 2002... McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Boeing Co., St. Louis, is being awarded a $5,386,000 undefinitized contractual action to provide for procurement of the F-15 operation flight program, suite 5, phase I, requirements...