EDP Weekly's IT Monitor articles from January 2001

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor archives from January 2001

NATURAL MICRO SUPPLIES DSP FOR RADCOM'S VOICE QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 8, 2001... Natural MicroSystems (NASDAQ: NMSS), has announced the successful integration of its high-capacity DSP resources, analog and T1/E1 "carrier class" interfaces, in RADCOM's (NASDAQ: RDCM) leading Voice over IP quality management system, Omni-Q....

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS' INTERNET AUDIO DSP SHIPMENTS SURPASS 2 MILLION.(Company Financial Information)
January 8, 2001... Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE: TXN) (TI) Internet Audio organization will celebrate a banner year having shipped its two-millionth Internet Audio digital signal processor (DSP) in late November 2000. Over the past year, TI's programmable...

QUALCOMM ENTERS INTO CDMA ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT AGREEMENT WITH GBASE COMMUNICATIONS.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 8, 2001... QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, has announced that it has entered into a CDMA worldwide enterprise infrastructure equipment license agreement...

PHILIPS EMBEDS DIVIO NW701 DV CODEC INTO DVD+RW VIDEO RECORDERS.(Product Information)
January 8, 2001... Divio Inc. has announced that Philips Consumer Electronics is using Divio's market-leading NW701 Digital Video (DV) video encoder-decoder (CODEC) to provide a DV input in its new DVD+RW video recorder. The NW701's patented compression...

COMVERSE PROVIDES MOBILE DATA APPS PLATFORM TO HLJ MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 8, 2001... Comverse Network Systems, a division of Comverse Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMVT), and the world's leading supplier of software and systems enabling network-based enhanced services, has announced that it has signed a contract with Heilongjiang...

SUN MICROSYSTEMS LEADS CONSUMERS ON A NETWORKED JOURNEY AT CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 8, 2001... Leading consumers on a journey through the connected lifestyle, Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) will showcase a series of Java technology-based products for home, travel and play at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The...

KNOWLEDGELINK LAUNCHES DNA 5.0 FOR THE CE INDUSTRY.(Product Announcement)
January 8, 2001... KnowledgeLINK has announced its technology licensing initiative for CE manufacturers, distributors and retailers. KnowledgeLINK has taken the core technology that powers its successful flagship web portal - www.getplugged.com - and, working...

UNISYS SELECTS ON COMMAND CCM FOR REMOTE SOFTWARE DELIVERY SERVICE.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 8, 2001... ON Technology (NASDAQ: ONTC), a leading provider of remote software delivery solutions, has announced that Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) has signed a global reseller agreement for ON Command CCM software from ON Technology. Unisys now...

IBM ANNOUNCES NEW E-SUPPORT ONLINE SERVICES.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 8, 2001... IBM Personal Systems Group (PSG) has announced enhancements to its online customer support with an automated service infrastructure designed to diagnose and resolve common IT problems. This "self healing" technology significantly reduces the...

NEC TO REALIGN PERSONAL COMPUTER AND SERVER OPS IN NORTH AMERICA.(Company Operations)
January 15, 2001... NEC Corporation (Nasdaq: NIPNY; FTSE: 6701q.l) has announced a realignment of its personal computer and server business in North America. Since January of 2000, NEC has been operating these businesses through NEC Computers Inc., which is a...

GENERAL MICRO SYSTEMS ANNOUNCES 1-GHZ PENTIUM III COMPACT PCI BUS SINGLE-BOARD COMPUTER WITH UP TO FIVE PMC SLOTS.(Product Announcement)
January 15, 2001... General Micro Systems has announced the Mariner II C158, GMS' third-generation Pentium III CompactPCI bus single-board computer. Featuring a peak performance of 1 GHz, the Mariner II C158 provides up to five PMC expansion slots and targets...

CISCO SYSTEMS SUPPORTS NEW V.92 AND V.44 MODEM STANDARDS.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 15, 2001... Cisco Systems, Inc. has announced that its Cisco AS5x00 remote access products will support V.92 and V.44, the latest industry standards for modem technology. With this announcement, Cisco brings a "Broadband-lite" experience to users accessing...

PALMCHIP TO INCLUDE INSILICON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN SYSTEM-ON-CHIP PLATFORMS.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 15, 2001... inSilicon Corporation (Nasdaq:INSN) -- a leading provider of semiconductor intellectual property (IP) communications technology -- has announced that Palmchip Corporation, a leader in developing and licensing re-usable, configurable...

IBM'S NEWEST PC PUTS THE 'NOTE' IN NOTEBOOK.(Product Announcement)
January 15, 2001... International Business Machines Corp. said it will begin selling a laptop computer geared to note-taking professionals that combines a powerful laptop computer with an electronic note pad that stores handwritten notes. The TransNote...

PUMATECH ADOPTS THE ARULA SECURECONSOLE SSL FOR REMOTE, SECURE MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF ITS MISSION-CRITICAL IT DEVICES.
January 15, 2001... Arula Systems Inc. last week announced that Pumatech Inc. (Nasdaq: PUMA) of San Jose, Calif., has adopted the Arula SecureConsoleSSL management appliance for remote, secure management and administration of its mission-critical IT devices. ...

PINNACLE SYSTEMS AND COMPAQ TO OFFER STUDIO DV ON PRESARIO 7000.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 15, 2001... Pinnacle Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: PCLE) has announced the availability of Studio DV on configure-to-order MyMovieSTUDIO Presario 7000 PCs from Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ). Studio DV is the video capture and editing tool in...

MOTOROLA INTEGRATES IBM SOFTWARE INTO INTERACTIVE TELEMATICS SYSTEM.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 15, 2001... Committed to maintaining its position as the leader in Telematics, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has developed the iRadio system, an in-vehicle platform for automakers that combines entertainment, information, navigation, emergency calling and...

AMD ANNOUNCES MOBILE AMD DURON PROCESSOR, FIRST 7TH GEN PROCESSOR FOR NOTEBOOK PCS.(Product Announcement)
January 22, 2001... AMD has made available the Mobile AMD Duron(TM) processor for notebook PCs. The Mobile AMD Duron processor is the first seventh-generation processor to enter the notebook market, and is available in volume today at speed grades of 700 and...

GENERAL MICRO SYSTEMS: 1-GHZ PENTIUM III VMEBUS SINGLE-BOARD COMPUTER WITH UP TO FIVE PMC SLOTS.(Product Announcement)
January 22, 2001... General Micro Systems has announced the Mariner II V158, GMS' third-generation Pentium III VMEbus single-board computer. Featuring a peak performance of 1 GHz, the Mariner II provides up to five PMC expansion slots and targets...

MOTOROLA/C-PORT AND POWER X ANNOUNCE EXPANDED NETWORKING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 22, 2001... C-Port(TM) Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), and Power XTM Networks have entered into an agreement to expand their alliance to jointly provide additional high-level development tools for Internet equipment...

NEC SELECTS ZONE LABS TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE NEW CATEGORY OF PRODUCT SOLUTIONS.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 22, 2001... Zone Labs Inc., developers of the award-winning security products ZoneAlarm(TM) and ZoneAlarm Pro, announced today that NEC Corporation (NEC)(NASDAQ:NIPNY) has begun shipping a new category of product solutions for the Japanese small-to-medium...

TOSHIBA DEMONSTRATES OPERATION OF SINGLE-ELECTRONTRANSISTOR CIRCUIT AT ROOM TEMPERATURE.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 22, 2001... Toshiba has revealed that it has developed a single-electron transistor (SET) circuit of the type essential for future hybrid circuits combining quantum SET devices with conventional electronic devices. While small scale and experimental,...

RF MICRO DEVICES INTRODUCES MODULATOR FOR TETRA SYSTEMS.(Product Announcement)
January 22, 2001... RF Micro Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: RFMD), a provider of proprietary radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for wireless communications applications has announced the introduction of the RF2485 quadrature modulator for Terrestrial Trunked...

PANASONIC DEBUTS PT-L701SDU ULTRA-PORTABLE XGA PROJECTOR.(Product Announcement)
January 22, 2001... Panasonic Broadcast & Television Systems has announced the PT-L701SDU ultra-portable XGA projector, the world's first SD (Secure Digital) Memory Card model. The PT-L701SDU comes complete with 16MB SD Memory Card, a PC card adapter, and...

LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES UNVEILS ULTRA-HIGH-CAPACITY OPTICAL SYSTEM.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 22, 2001... Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) and Time Warner Telecom Inc. (Nasdaq: TWTC) have signed an agreement to deploy the newest Lucent optical networking system, which has the capacity to enable every person in the United States and Canada to...

BALTIMORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES WORLD'S FIRST E-SECURITY SOLUTION FOR WINDOWS 2000.(Product Announcement)
January 22, 2001... Baltimore Technologies (Nasdaq:BALT; London:BLM), a global leader in e-security, has announced worldwide availability of the world's first e-security solution for the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system. Working side-by-side with...

PINNACLE SYSTEMS INC. ACQUIRES DVD TECHNOLOGY FROM MINERVA NETWORKS, INC.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 22, 2001... Pinnacle Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: PCLE has acquired DVD authoring technology from Minerva Networks, Inc. Technology acquired from Minerva Networks includes the Impression family of DVD application software, DVD formatting software and associated...

[0] Lockheed Martin Corp.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Lockheed Martin Corp., Naval Electronics and Surveillance Systems, Moorestown, N.J., is being awarded a $6,529,700 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract N00024-98-G-5105 for labor and materials to perform...

MILLER ON PROCUREMENT.
January 29, 2001... ***NOT ON GSA*** If you are not on GSA, it seems to take a government employee with exceptional skills to know how to deal with that. Often no such employee is in sight. Take this example. A firm came to me at the end of a fiscal year...

Lockheed Martin Corp.
January 29, 2001... Lockheed Martin Corp., Naval Electronics and Surveillance Systems-Baltimore, Baltimore, Md., is being awarded a $19,187,824 modification to previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract N00024-00-C-5486 for engineering services in support of...

Raytheon Systems Co., Reston, Va., is being awarded a $14,802,554 modification to a cost-plus-award-fee contract.
January 29, 2001... Raytheon Systems Co., Reston, Va., is being awarded a $14,802,554 modification to a cost-plus-award-fee contract to provide for integration, software development, and technical services for the Supportability and Sustaining Engineering portion...

Raytheon Systems Co., Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $9,825,527 modification to a firm-fixed-price contract.
January 29, 2001... Raytheon Systems Co., Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $9,825,527 modification to a firm-fixed-price contract to provide for software upgrade and test in support of 2,244 AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles. The work is expected...

Bering Sea Ecotech, Inc.
January 29, 2001... Bering Sea Ecotech, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska, is being awarded a $7,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract to provide for Training Range Multi-Sensor Display Command and Control hardware and software, and associated installation and maintenance...

ADIC SCALAR AIT LIBRARIES SELECTED BY MARINES; WILL PROVIDE WORLDWIDE DATA SECURITY IN MORE THAN 40 NETWORK CENTERS.
January 29, 2001... Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) has announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide automated tape libraries for over 40 United States Marine Corps (USMC) network centers around the world. The contract,...

Raytheon Systems Co., Norfolk, Va., is being awarded a $9,517,195 time and materials contract.
January 29, 2001... Raytheon Systems Co., Norfolk, Va., is being awarded a $9,517,195 time and materials contract for 1,600 repair parts for the sidewinder missile, SPS-49 radar system, NATO sea-sparrow and WSC-6 communication system, and four other weapons...

Boeing Satellite Systems, Inc.
January 29, 2001... Boeing Satellite Systems, Inc., Los Angeles, Calif., was awarded on Jan. 2, a $160,300,000 firm-fixed-price contract to provide for non-recurring design effort and initial advance parts in support of the first three Wideband Gapfiller System...

BAE Systems Applied Technologies, Inc.
January 29, 2001... BAE Systems Applied Technologies, Inc., Rockville, Md., is being awarded a $63,722,346 five year cost-plus-fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for engineering services in support of various programs for the Naval...

CACI Technologies, Inc.
January 29, 2001... CACI Technologies, Inc., Arlington, Va., is being awarded a $48,000,000 cost plus fixed fee contract to provide technical and engineering tasks in support of the Information Technology Division, Information Directorate of the Air Force Research...

EIGHT UNISYS ES7000 SERVERS TO RUN FAST-GROWING WEBSITE, CONSOLIDATE WORKLOAD OF 150 SERVERS AT NETHERLANDS' BANK LABOUCHERE.
January 29, 2001... Building on its initial success with Unisys e-@ction Enterprise Server ES7000 technology, Bank Labouchere has ordered six additional ES7000s to run Alex, its popular e-brokerage website, Unisys said today. Two ES7000s were ordered by Bank...

IBM AND LSI LOGIC ANNOUNCE TECHNOLOGY LICENSING AGREEMENT.
January 29, 2001... IBM and LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE:LSI) have announced a technology licensing agreement intended to accelerate the integration of high performance digital signal processor (DSP) capability into custom chips for next-generation networking...

TRIDENT MICRO AND ACER INTRODUCE FIRST DDRBASED INTEGRATED 3D GRAPHICS/CORE LOGIC NOTEBOOK SOLUTIONS.
January 29, 2001... Trident Microsystems, Inc. and Acer Laboratories Inc. have announced the launch of CyberAladdin and CyberMAGiK, the world's first fully integrated 3D graphics/core logic DDR solutions for the notebook market, supporting Intel and AMD CPU...

OASIS UNITES EFFORTS TO DEVELOP XML SECURITY SERVICES STANDARD.
January 29, 2001... Organizations supporting divergent security standards united in an effort to develop a common XML specification through the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee. OASIS, the global XML interoperability consortium, hosted the first...

SAIC TARGETS MARKETS WITH FRONT PORCH DIGITAL MEDIA CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY.
January 29, 2001... Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of San Diego, CA - one of the largest systems integration companies in the world - will utilize Front Porch Digital Inc.'s (OTC BB:FPDI) media conversion technology and services in solutions...

PHILIPS CHOOSES AUTONOMY TO POWER WORLDWIDE E-BUSINESS OPERATIONS.
January 29, 2001... Autonomy has announced that Europe's largest electronics company, Philips International BV ("Philips"), has adopted Autonomy's technology to power a global e-commerce initiative across multiple areas. Autonomy will also become a Philips...

CARRIER1 OBTAINS COMPREHENSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK COVERAGE INFRASTRUCTURE ACROSS UK.
January 29, 2001... Carrier1 International S.A. (Neuer Markt: CJN; NASDAQ: CONE) has announced that it has reached an in-principle agreement with Atlantic Telecom for 2.5 Gigabit capacity on their UK network covering the majority of the country with 48 points of...

QUALCOMM AND CYBERLANE SIGN CDMA MODEM CARD LICENSE AGREEMENT.
January 29, 2001... QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, has announced that it has entered into a CDMA modem card license agreement with San Diego-based Cyberlane Inc....

CSC WINS STATE DEPARTMENT CONTRACTS VALUED AT $100M TO PROVIDE GLOBAL VISA INFORMATION SERVICES.
January 29, 2001... Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) has been awarded two 10-year contracts by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs, to assist U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide in providing visa information and support services....

PORTERA SIGNS ITT INDUSTRIES, DEFENSE TO ITS ROSTER OF CLIENTS.
January 29, 2001... Portera, the vertical service provider (VSP) that develops and delivers a set of tailored subscription software and outsourcing services to the professional services industry, has announced the signing of ITT Industries, Defense. The agreement...

SGI SYSTEMS WILL MAKE THE OHIO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER A WORLD LEADER IN PRODUCTION CLUSTER COMPUTING.
January 29, 2001... SGI (NYSE: SGI) has announced that it will install the company's first production cluster based A on Intel Itanium processors at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC). The 146-processor system will provide the Ohio research and education...