EDP Weekly's IT Monitor articles from January 2003

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor archives from January 2003

Adexa and IBM deliver planning and performance solutions to Optical Fiber Solutions.
January 6, 2003... Adexa Inc. has announced they have collaborated on a project with OFS (Optical Fiber Solutions), previously Lucent Optical, Norcross GA. The project stems from a recent marketing agreement between Adexa and IBM Business Consulting Services. ...

Tech Data U.S. provides bundled SAN solution for technology resellers.
January 6, 2003... Tech Data Corporation (Nasdaq:TECD), a provider of IT products, logistics management and other value-added services, recently announced it will carry a new bundled storage area network (SAN) solution for its U.S. reseller customers serving the...

PC Guardian and Encryption Plus Hard Disk 7.0 get high ratings from Gartner.
January 6, 2003... PC Guardian recently announced that its boot access control and full-disk data protection software, Encryption Plus Hard Disk 7.0, received high ratings in a newly released study by Gartner, Inc. Gartner is a technology research firm...

Tegal sells 900 Series etch system for biochip fab to Zyomyx.(Tegal 903e)
January 6, 2003... Tegal Corporation (Nasdaq:TGAL) has announced the sale of a 903e plasma etch system to Zyomyx, Inc. The tool, which will manufacture biochip components used in high-throughput, massively parallel protein analysis systems, was selected by Zyomyx...

Sapiens to integrate IBM's WebSphere Portal into its INSIGHT family of insurance solutions.
January 6, 2003... Sapiens International Corporation (Nasdaq:SPNS), a global IT solutions provider, has announced the availability of IBM WebSphere Portal as an optional front end to its INSIGHT family of insurance solutions. Sapiens Policy INSIGHT, its...

SRI study indicates usefulness of handheld computers for scientific inquiry based learning.
January 6, 2003... ImagiWorks, Inc. recently announced that the results of SRI International's two-year study that examined 100 teachers' use of handhelds in teaching and learning projects indicate that its ImagiProbe sensor-based data acquisition system was...

Caixa Catalunya boosts network security with IP VPN solution from Nortel Networks.(Nortel Networks Shasta 5000 Broadband Service Node and Nortel Networks Contivity Secure IP Services Gateways)
January 6, 2003... Caixa Catalunya, leading savings banks in Spain, has deployed a comprehensive access network security framework from Nortel Networks (NYSE:NT)(TSX:NT) including key products from Nortel Networks Unified Security Architecture. Installed in...

Micron Technology, Inc., demos industry's first 0.11 micron 1 Gigabit DDR SDRAMS.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Micron Technology, Inc., has demonstrated the industry's first 1Gigabit (Gb) Double Data Rate (DDR) synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) components manufactured on 0.11 micron process technology. Micron's 2.5 Volt 1Gb DDR SDRAM components are packaged in...

Microsoft awards Software Shelf's File-Rescue Plus 3.0 XP Logo Certification.
January 6, 2003... Software Shelf has announced that Microsoft has just awarded XP Logo certification to their newly released product, File-Rescue Plus 3.0. File Rescue Plus recovers lost or deleted files and photos from pc's, workstations, servers, external...

Hurricane Software releases Hurricane Editor Version 3.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Hurricane Software, Inc has released of Hurricane Editor Version 3. Hurricane Editor is a syntax-highlighting editor designed to enhance the productivity of software developers and integrates with other Hurricane Software products. ...

Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY RTOS flies in F-16 fighter jet.
January 6, 2003... Green Hills Software Inc. has announced that Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. (LM Aero) has selected the INTEGRITY real-time operating system (RTOS) for use in the F-16 fighter jet's on-board Color Display Processor (CDP). The CDP generates...

Resellers nationwide tap SofaWare's security solutions to deploy comprehensive security services to small businesses.
January 6, 2003... SofaWare Technologies, a Check Point Software Technologies (Nasdaq:CHKP) company, has announced value-added resellers (VARs) across the U.S. are leveraging SofaWare's Internet security solutions as the foundation for managed security services...

Complete software dev system from Green Hills available for Intrinsity's 2 GHz embedded processors.
January 6, 2003... Intrinsity, Inc., the high-performance leader in embedded microprocessors, recently announced availability of Green Hills Software's MULTI Integrated Development Environment (IDE), providing FastMATH and FastMIPS customers with an easy-to-use,...

IBM delivers super-computing on demand.
January 13, 2003... IBM has introduced a new option for companies that want supercomputing power, but not the fixed costs and operational responsibility of owning a supercomputer. IBM customers now have the option to either buy POWER or Intel processor-based...

Protegrity Secure.Data F3 with nCipher FIPS 140 validated hardware now available for Microsoft SQL Server 2000.
January 13, 2003... Protegrity, Inc., a Microsoft Certified Partner, has announced the introduction of Secure.Data F3 for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 relational database--a database security solution that combines "out-of-the-box" application transparent software...

Interpeak unveils next gen TCP/IP protocol stacks.(Interpeak IPLITE TCP/IP 4.0 and 6.0)
January 13, 2003... Interpeak continues its mission to provide communications solutions for embedded systems by releasing a new edition of its IPLITE TCP/IP v4 and v6 stack, tailored to Motorola's StarCore-based family of Digital Signal Processors. This forms...

Wave Industries delivers first Bluetooth-enabled 2.4 GHz expandable Cordless Data Phone system for the home.(Olympia CDP-24201)
January 13, 2003... With wireless phones now a standard fixture in most American homes--76 percent of U.S. households have them--tech-savvy consumers are looking ahead to the industry's next innovation. Wave Industries Ltd. has announced availability of the...

eMachines unveils latest array of PCs.(at 2003 Consumer Electronics Show)
January 13, 2003... eMachines Inc., the second-leading vendor of desktop PCs sold through U.S. retailers, recently announced its line-up of affordable, high performance PCs for the beginning of 2003 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Starting at...

ATI Technologies and DivXNetworks form strategic relationship.
January 13, 2003... ATI Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:ATYT) (TSX:ATY) and DivXNetworks, Inc. recently announced a strategic development and marketing agreement to combine ATI's innovative FULLSTREAM technology with widely popular DivX video compression technology for...

Vixel and LangChao Elec partner to deploy SAN solutions.
January 13, 2003... Vixel Corporation (Nasdaq:VIXL), a provider of storage networking technologies, and LangChao Electronics, China's leading national supplier of server products, announced recently that they will partner to bring new SAN solutions to the Chinese...

Voyager Systems awarded $6,960,000 contract by DOT to provide wireless APPS.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2003... Voyager Systems, Inc., a wireless middleware provider specializing in secure data transmission services and wireless applications development, announced recently that it has been awarded a contract by the Department of Transportation valued at...

US Army Europe awards Titan $20 mil Automated Info and Ident Tech contract.
January 13, 2003... The Titan Corporation (NYSE:TTN) announced recently that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army, Europe (USAREUR) having a potential value, with options if exercised, of $20 million through September 2007. Awarded by the USAREUR Deputy...

MTCT awarded $1.2m task order to support Air Force Transformation.(for Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command's Transformation Office)
January 13, 2003... MTC Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:MTCT) has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Modern Technologies Corporation (MTC), with teammates BearingPoint and Jones Technologies, Inc., won the competition for the $1.2 million, one-year task to...

Veteran-owned, Hispanic firm announces E-Gov procurement services.(Technica)
January 13, 2003... Technica Corporation, a network systems integration firm, introduced SolantisGX, a web-based procurement source, servicing the growing IT requirements of the federal government. SolantisGX will initially offer higher-end products generally...

CIBER awarded multi-mil $ contract by U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Ops Command.
January 13, 2003... CIBER, Inc. (NYSE:CBR) has announced it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (USACAPOC), a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC), for IT...

Lockheed Martin completes key computer upgrade at FAA air traffic control centers.
January 13, 2003... Lockheed Martin has completed the nationwide rollout of a critical computer upgrade at 23 air traffic control facilities ahead of schedule, helping the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) continue its modernization of the core en route...

Softchoice/PlanetGov team wins US IRS contract.
January 13, 2003... Softchoice Corporation (TSX: SO), a company that helps North American organizations select, acquire and manage their technology resources, has announced that it will fulfill a contract with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) held by PlanetGov...

GSA announces combination, realignment of some functions in FTS, FSS units.
January 13, 2003... The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has announced its intent to improve its procurement processes by combining and realigning certain functions currently carried out in its Federal Supply Service (FSS) and Federal Technology Service...

Boeing Co.(contract from Air Force Headquarters Electronic Systems Center)(Brief Article)
January 13, 2003... Boeing Co., Seattle is being awarded a $277,766,178 fixed-price-incentive, firm-fixed-price, time and materials, labor hour contract modification to provide for Global Solution, restructures the NATO mid-term EMD portion of the contract (equal...

Raytheon Co., Naval & Maritime Integrated Systems.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2003... Raytheon Co., Naval & Maritime Integrated Systems, San Diego is being awarded a $37,625,753 modification to previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract (N67854-01-C-2089) to fund the Systems Design and Development Common Aviation Command...

Raytheon Technical Services Co.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2003... Raytheon Technical Services Co., Indianapolis is being awarded an $89,653,766 ceiling-priced modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery and indefinite-quantity contract (N00421-02-D-3073) to exercise an option...

BMH Associates, Inc.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2003... BMH Associates, Inc., Norfolk, Va., is being awarded an estimated $17,951,291 cost-plus-fixed fee contract to conduct the research project entitled "Research and Development Associated with Providing Enhancements to the Application of...

Computer Sciences Corp.
January 13, 2003... Computer Sciences Corp., Moorestown, N.J., is being awarded a $20,524,984 modification under previously awarded contract (N00178-99-C-2005) to exercise an option for continued engineering and technical support for maintenance and development of...

BAE Systems Applied Technologies Inc.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2003... BAE Systems Applied Technologies Inc., Rockville, Md., is being awarded an estimated $11,755,325 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee term contract (N00421-02-C-3058) to exercise an option for technical and engineering...

Sony implements GeoPhoenix interface in new CLIE PEG-NZ90 and NX series handhelds.
January 20, 2003... GeoPhoenix, Inc. has announced that its user-friendly Zoomspace interface has been implemented as the demo application on Sony's new CLIE handheld PEG-NZ90 PDA, which Sony unveiled at the CES in Las Vegas. The GeoPhoenix Zoomspace interface can...

DataPower Technology delivers world's fastest XML Web Services Security Gateway.(DataPower XS40 XML Security Gateway)
January 20, 2003... DataPower Technology, Inc., a provider of intelligent XML-aware network infrastructure, has followed up on the success of its DataPower XA35 XML Accelerator and announced the immediate availability of the DataPower XS40 XML Security Gateway, a...

ADIC doubles capacity of LTO library family.(Advanced Digital Information Corporation)
January 20, 2003... Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC), a supplier of storage solutions to the open system market, announced recently that the company is helping IT departments keep up with increasing data protection demands by doubling the...

Marconi chooses Xilinx for next-gen synch digital hierarchy products.
January 20, 2003... Xilinx recently announced that Marconi, the European market leader in Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) selected XilinxVirtex-II Platform FPGAS for gigabit Ethernet traffic over its SONET & SDH products for optical network applications. The...

Transmeta's Crusoe processor selected for Tsinghua Unisplendour Group notebook in China.(Brief Article)
January 20, 2003... Transmeta Corporation (Nasdaq:TMTA) has announced that Tsinghua Unisplendour Group, China's second largest notebook supplier, has selected the energy efficient Crusoe TM5800 processor for a new notebook in the Chinese market. The...

Integrated Circuit Systems announces clock generator with Dynamic Clock Switch.(ICS87993)(Brief Article)
January 20, 2003... Integrated Circuit Systems (NASDAQ:ICST) has announced the ICS87993, a 1-to-5 Differential-to-3.3V LVPECL PLL Clock Driver with Dynamic Clock Switch. Part of ICS' HiPerClockS product family (High Performance Clock Solutions), the ICS87993...

StarGen expands global distribution.(Brief Article)
January 20, 2003... StarGen, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, has announced the expansion of its international operations to include distribution of StarFabric across Asia by Unique Memec, a specialist semiconductor distributor. As the need for switched...

Microsoft and Infowave team for wireless data solutions for mobile network operators.
January 20, 2003... Infowave Software (TSE: IW), a provider of wireless software for mobile professionals, corporations and network operators announced recently that it will collaborate with Microsoft Corporation to develop and market solutions for mobile network...

Xerox makes new programming language for document transformations available for `test drive'.(Brief Article)
January 20, 2003... An experimental programming language now available for testing makes it easy to transform documents and data between specific formats so that documents can be read no matter what application or device is used. It's posted on...

PeopleSoft extends industry-leading financial management solutions.
January 20, 2003... PeopleSoft Inc. (Nasdaq:PSFT) announced significant new enhancements to its CFO Portal solution, including 30 new key performance indicators (KPIs) optimized to deliver greater transparency and improve visibility into financial performance....

Computer virus year 2003 started with a bang.
January 20, 2003... F-Secure (www.F-Secure.com) is alerting computer users as four new Internet worms are crawling across the globe. These new Windows worms were found on Jan. 8 and 9, and they are known as (in order of appearance) as Lirva.A, ExploreZip.E,...

Zeevo's single chip Bluetooth solution gains designed for Windows XP logo.(Brief Article)
January 20, 2003... Zeevo, Inc., a provider of Bluetooth System-on-a-Chip (SOC) solutions for wireless communications, announced recently that its single-chip Bluetooth solution has been awarded the Designed for Windows XP logo. Zeevo's Bluetooth solutions provide...

BFG Technologies includes Ulead video editing software with ASYLUM video cards.
January 20, 2003... Ulead Systems, Inc., a developer of video editing, image editing, and DVD authoring software, and BFG Technologies, a supplier of premium ASYLUM brand 3D video cards, completed an agreement for North America to include Video Studio 6 SE DVD,...

MatchLight Software: release of version 2.0 of its realistic image compositing software.(Brief Article)
January 20, 2003... MatchLight Software, Inc., creator of the world's largest collection of location background images and patent-pending realistic image compositing system, has announced the release of Version 2.0 of its software. MatchLight Software is...

Yankee Group report shows search technology is a critical component of enterprise information management.(Brief Article)
January 20, 2003... According to a new Yankee Group report, search is a critical component of enterprise information management, serving as a bridge between often-disparate components of the information management infrastructure. The report, "Search Has Evolved to...

IBM transforms mid-market eServer with integrated software.
January 27, 2003... In response to customer demand for easy-to-deploy and flexible e-business solutions, IBM has announced the broadest transformation of its IBM eServer iSeries in more than a decade, delivering pre-packaged software, On/Off Capacity Upgrade on...

AMD intros high-performance Flash memory device.(AMD Am29PDL640G)
January 27, 2003... AMD (NYSE:AMD) has introduced the Am29PDL640G, a 64 Mbit page-mode Flash memory device with sophisticated security features, to frustrate would-be hackers and signal thieves with multiple security modes including 64-bit password protection....

Conexant's ADSL chipsets shipping in new broadband products from Zoom.(Zoom Technologies Inc. )
January 27, 2003... Conexant Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CNXT) has announced that Zoom Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:ZOOM), a leading manufacturer of modems and other data communications products, has incorporated Conexant's asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL)...

Equinox ESP-2 MI provides network connectivity anywhere on the LAN.(Network hub)
January 27, 2003... Equinox Systems, an Avocent company, (NASDAQ:AVCT), has announced its newest multi-interface serial hub, the Equinox ESP-2 MI. The ESP-2 MI is a compact, 2-port serial hub that provides versatile support of multi-interface protocols for...

Texas Instruments teams with Silicon Logic Engineering to strengthen ASIC offering.(application specific integrated circuits)
January 27, 2003... Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE:TXN) (TI) and Silicon Logic Engineering Inc. (SLE), have announced an agreement to jointly develop complex application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for TI customers in the wireless and wireline...

Trendium ships innovative configuration security & management application.(ConfigSENTRY )
January 27, 2003... Trendium, Inc. has launched ConfigSENTRY, an innovative application that gives customers a single point of control over the configuration of devices across their network. The new application, which plugs into Trendium's award-winning...

Leader in VPN chooses SBE's Gigabit adapter.(SBE Inc.)
January 27, 2003... SBE Inc., (Nasdaq:SBEI), a supplier of high performance OEM networking solutions, has been selected by a market leader of Virtual Private Networks (VPN) equipment to provide PMC Gigabit Ethernet adapters for its family of products. Pending the...

Hitachi offers first premium portable projectors with optional network and wireless capabilities.(Hitachi CP-X885W and CP-X880W portable LCD projectors)
January 27, 2003... Hitachi America, Ltd., a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan (NYSE:HIT), has announced its two newest premium portable LCD projectors, the CP-X885W and CP-X880W. Featuring exceptional brightness and native XGA resolution for outstanding...

Intelsat signs agreement for REACH Teleport in Asia.
January 27, 2003... Intelsat announced recently at the Pacific Telecommunications Conference (PTC) that it has signed an agreement with REACH to lease teleport services from the company's Stanley Teleport in Hong Kong. The signing of this agreement represents the...

U.S. Navy awards BAE $298 mil contract for AEGIS support.
January 27, 2003... The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE SYSTEMS a $298 million contract for continued support of the Navy's Aegis Combat System. Under the contract, the company's Applied Technologies business will provide systems engineering, test and evaluation,...

Dynamics Research awarded $3 million in contracts to support F/A-22 and Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle programs.(Air Force contract)(Brief Article)
January 27, 2003... Dynamics Research Corporation has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary HJ Ford, has received new prime contract awards totaling $3 million for Advisory & Assistance Services to the Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force...

Cubic wins $3.6 mil contract to aid anti-terrorism protection exercises.(CD-ROM training materials for Army Management Staff College)
January 27, 2003... San Diego's Cubic Corp. (AMEX:CUB) was recently awarded a contract to help support the Army Management Staff College Anti-Terrorism and Force Protection Program in Fort Belvoir, Va. The contract is for a base period and four option years....

Dynamics Research wins $2.3 mil to support defense modeling and simulation office.(system integration contract)(Brief Article)
January 27, 2003... Dynamics Research Corporation (Nasdaq:DRCO) recently announced it was selected to receive contracts with an estimated value of $2.3 million from the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO) to provide system integration and software...

BAE Systems Aerospace Inc.
January 27, 2003... BAE Systems Aerospace Inc., Advance Systems, Greenlawn, N.Y., is being awarded a $7,045,852 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-01-C-0271) to exercise an option for the procurement of 79 AN and UPX-37(V)...

Bell-Boeing Joint Program Office.(Naval Air Systems Command contract)(Brief Article)
January 27, 2003... Bell-Boeing Joint Program Office, Patuxent River, Md., is being awarded a $12,615,103 ceiling-priced delivery order against a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00019-99-D-1536) to support resolution of...

Raytheon Co.(Naval Air Warfare Center simulator contract)(Brief Article)
January 27, 2003... Raytheon Co., Arlington, Texas, is being awarded a $10,285,710 modification to previously awarded fixed-price-incentive-fee contract (N61339-00-C-0002) to exercise an option for Suite 5 of the Aviation Combined Arms Tactical Trainer-Aviation...

Adacel Systems Inc.(air traffic controller simulator contract)(Brief Article)
January 27, 2003... Adacel Systems Inc., Grand Prairie, Texas, is being awarded a $23,696,045 firm-fixed-price contract modification to provide for 46 Tower Simulation Simulators (TSS) to be installed at U.S. Air Force bases throughout the continental United...

Lockheed Martin Corp.(Air Sovereignty Operations Center support contract)(Brief Article)
January 27, 2003... Lockheed Martin Corp., Egan, Minn., is being awarded a $7,250,000 firm-fixed-price, cost reimbursement, labor hour contract to provide support to the Air Sovereignty Operations Center (ASOC) international modernization and sustainment support...

Anteon Corp.(Naval Air Systems Command contract)(Brief Article)
January 27, 2003... Anteon Corp., Fairfax, Va., is being awarded an $11,600,363 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-priced contract (N61339-97-C-0070) to exercise an option for one instrumentation system, the digital multi-purpose range complex to be...

ARINC Inc.(Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center contract)(Brief Article)
January 27, 2003... ARINC Inc., San Diego is being awarded a $5,729,103 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery and indefinite-quantity contract for the evolutionary development of the Navigation Sensor System Interface (NAVSSI), to include technical support of...

Spectrum Astro Inc.(spacecraft contract )(Brief Article)
January 27, 2003... Spectrum Astro Inc., Gilbert, Ariz., is being awarded a cost-plus-award-fee contract modification to deliver a spacecraft and perform mission integration necessary to collect Near Field Infra-Red Experiment data for the Kinetic Energy...