EDP Weekly's IT Monitor articles from June 2000

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor archives from June 2000

SONY TARGETS THE WEB.(PlayStation 2 game console)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
June 5, 2000... Sony Corp. is making a full frontal assault on becoming a leading player on the Web by licensing its PlayStation 2 game console for other digital devices including computer accessories, cable television set top boxes, and other game players....

IBM TO CREATE ONLINE EXCHANGE FOR COMPUTER PARTS.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 5, 2000... In a response to similar efforts by its major rivals, IBM, the world's largest computer maker, has initiated agreements with major partners to establish an online business exchange for the buying and selling of semiconductors and other...

LUCENT ACQUIRES CHROMATIS.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 5, 2000... Virginia based Chromatis, a maker of optical networking equipment for telecommunications providers has been acquired by Lucent Technologies, Inc., for approximately $4.5 billion. Chromatis, a two-year old company, is one of a number of...

GATEWAY TO BUY CHIPS FROM TRANSMETA.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
June 5, 2000... Demonstrating its continued interest in being independent of industry leaders Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp., Gateway has announced that it will use a microprocessor and operating software by Transmeta Corp., in its new Internet appliances,...

INTEL LICENSES SOFTWARE TO ITXC TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF PC-TO-PHONE INTERNET TELEPHONY.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 5, 2000... Intel Corp. announced it is licensing its Internet telephony software technology to ITXC, a leading service provider of Internet telephony. Intel's technology improves the quality of voice communication when making a call from a PC to a phone,...

HP NOW PROVIDES WINDOWS 2000 & LINUX USERS RELIABLE BACKUP & DISASTER-RECOVERY SOLUTIONS.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 5, 2000... Hewlett-Packard Co. announced that it has extended affordable and reliable data protection to small and midsize businesses using Windows 2000 or Linux operating systems, as well as to businesses using IDE-based PC servers and workstations. ...

SUN MICROSYSTEMS STORMS NETWORK ATTACHED STORAGE MARKET.(Product Announcement)
June 5, 2000... Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) introduced the Sun StorEdge N8000 filer product family, a scalable family of Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems. The high-performance, high-availability product line debuts with the entry-level Sun...

Gartner's Dataquest Says Worldwide Semiconductor Market To Grow 31% In 2000.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 5, 2000... Led by a surge in the memory segment, worldwide semiconductor revenue is forecast to reach $222 billion in 2000, an increase of 31 percent over 1999 revenue, according to the latest semiconductor forecast by Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner...

Knowledge Management Services Spending Will Exceed $8 Billion In 2003.(Product Information)
June 5, 2000... Knowledge management is packing up momentum and getting ready to leave the early adopter stage behind. No longer is technology driving interest in knowledge management. Instead, the desire to meet business goals is creating the enthusiasm....

US Industries Are Delegating More Of Their IT Budgets To The Web.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 5, 2000... An increasing portion of US companies' IT budgets is being invested in internal and external Web initiatives. According to IDC, in 1999 just over 12 percent of all US companies' IT spending was on Web initiatives. This percentage will more than...

Demand For Digital Images Push Worldwide Scanner Shipments Past 24 Million In 2000.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 5, 2000... Driven by the Internet and increased demand for digital imaging, the worldwide scanner market has taken off with unit shipments climbing to 24.3 million in 2000. That figure is expected to balloon to 47.7 million by 2004. According to new...

Worldwide IT Training Market To Approach $34 Billion By 2004, IDC Forecasts.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 5, 2000... The IT training market is basking in the recent attention employee training is receiving. IDC forecasts worldwide revenues will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 12 percent from $19.4 billion in 1999 to almost $34 billion in 2004....

Workforce Management Applications Are Addressing Global Talent Shortage, IDC Says.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 5, 2000... Workforce management applications represent one of the hottest segments of the business applications market. Worldwide, IDC expects revenues in this segment will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 39 percent to over $4 billion...

DSL CPE Market Hits $199 Million In 1Q00.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 5, 2000... DSL CPE revenues totaled $199 million in 1Q00 and are forecasted to grow to $635 million in 1Q01, according to Infonetics Research's quarterly worldwide market share and forecast service, "Broadband Hardware: IADs, DSL, and Cable." This is the...

CHAPURA ANNOUNCES SYNCHRONIZATION SOFTWARE FOR PALM HANDHELD COMPUTERS.(Product Announcement)
June 5, 2000... Chapura, a developer of software primarily for handheld computers, announced technology to synchronize a Palm handheld computer with a Microsoft Exchange server. Chapura's Microsoft Exchange synchronization software, when used with the new...

CIC RELEASES NEW VERSION OF WORDCOMPLETE FOR PALM HANDHELDS.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 5, 2000... Communication Intelligence Corp. (CIC) (Nasdaq: CICI), a leading supplier of natural input and electronic signature solutions, announced the release of WordComplete 2.0 for Palm and Visor handheld organizers. The new version of WordComplete...

INTEL INTRODUCES PENTIUM III PROCESSOR AT 933 MHz.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 5, 2000... Intel Corp. introduced the Intel Pentium III processor at 933 MHz. This new processor delivers high performance and is available in high volumes today in systems from a wide variety of personal computer manufacturers. The Pentium III...

MICROSOFT COURT EXPANDS REPLIES - WITH APPEALS IN MIND.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 5, 2000... On May 31st, Microsoft filed a detailed brief and criticism of the government's breakup plan in an attempt to demonstrate the lack of a basis on the record for the government's breakup plan. Microsoft's brief attacked virtually every element of...

Microsoft Delays Announcement On New Web Strategy.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 5, 2000... One immediate negative effect of the pending litigation, and the looming breakup, has been the delay of an announcement by Microsoft of its sweeping new Internet strategy. The company apparently wants to delay any such announcement until June...

CA's UNICENTER TNG GRANTS MAJOR LENDING INSTITUTION SUPERIOR CROSS-PLATFORM ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
June 5, 2000... Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) announced that USa Group (USAG), the nation's largest student loan guarantor and administrator, has standardized on CA's Unicenter TNG. The software will manage the company's heterogeneous IT assets,...

COMPAQ OFFERS LATEST INTEL PROCESSOR TECHNOLOGY IN PROLIANT 8-WAY SERVER LINE.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 5, 2000... Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSA: CPQ) announced ProLiant 8-Way server models featuring the latest Intel Pentium III Xeon processor technology. The ProLiant 8000 and ProLiant 8500, which lead the Intel-based 8-Way server market with 76 percent...

IDC Expects Internet Commerce To Exceed $1.6 Trillion Worldwide By 2003.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
June 12, 2000... Growth of Internet commerce is accelerating and shows no signs of letting up. By the end of this year, 29 percent of people who go online will purchase a good or service, and that percentage will swell to 38 percent by 2003. Not only is the...

CISCO AND GE FORM NETWORKS UNIT.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 12, 2000... Cisco Systems and General Electric Co. have jointly formed a new entity, GE Cisco Industrial Networks, to provide computerized infrastructure for manufacturing and industrial facilities. GE will provide most of the top management level. ...

Competition For Best-in-Class Alliance Partners Heats Up.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 12, 2000... Strategic alliances in the technology industry are no longer an afterthought - they are an imperative. Chosen well and managed wisely, strategic alliances leverage risk, shorten time to market, expand global capabilities, and create new...

INTEL CHAIRMAN GROVE FAVORS INTERNET SALES TAX.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 12, 2000... Breaking with most other industry leaders, Andrew Grove, Intel's chairman, indicated to a Congressional committee that he supported new federal Internet privacy laws, and by implication, Internet sales taxes. Grove indicated that Internet sales...

COMPAQ SELECTS TI PROGRAMMABLE DSP-BASED ADSL TECHNOLOGY FOR NEW PRESARIO INTERNET PCs.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 12, 2000... Extending their efforts to bring high-speed, "always-on" Internet service to consumers and businesses, Compaq (NYSE: CPQ) and Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) announced that TI's programmable digital signal processor (DSP) and analog-based...

ART TECHNOLOGY GROUP & SUN MICROSYSTEMS POWER WIRELESS BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS SOLUTION.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 12, 2000... Art Technology Group Inc. (ATG) (Nasdaq: ARTG), announced that it is working with Sun Microsystems to deliver new WAP-enabled wireless customer relationship management solutions to global customers. In collaboration with MATERNA Information &...

GROWTH IN WORLDWIDE MARKET FOR RUGGEDIZED STATIONARY PCs STRONG THROUGH 2004.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 12, 2000... According to a new study from Venture Development Corp. (VDC) titled "The World Market for Fully Integrated Ruggedized Stationary PCs," the worldwide market for these computers is expected to grow from $735.6 million in 1999 to almost $1,240...

MICROSOFT: BOTH SHOES DROP - MAYBE!(Company Business and Marketing)
June 12, 2000... In the long expected, but still traumatic ruling, Federal Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson at 4:30 p.m. on Wed. June 7, ordered the breakup of Microsoft into two companies, one owning the operating systems, and the other applications and...

INTEL INTRODUCES NEW CHIPSET FOR INTEL PENTIUM III PROCESSOR-BASED PERFORMANCE PCs.(Product Announcement)
June 12, 2000... Intel Corp. introduced a new chipset for Intel Pentium III processor-based PCs targeted at the performance desktop market segment. The Intel 820E Chipset features a new I/O Controller Hub (ICH2) for greater system performance and...

3COM ESTABLISHES NEW COMPANY FOR MODEM BUSINESS.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
June 12, 2000... 3Com Corp. has announced the formation of a new company in partnership with Accton Technology Corp. of Taiwan, and NatSteel Electronics, Ltd. Of Singapore, to handle its modem business. The new company is named U.S. Robotics Corp. 3Com had...

AMD INTRODUCES NEW CHIPS.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 12, 2000... Advance Micro Devices (AMD) introduced this week the latest versions of its Athlon microprocessor as well as new chips from its Duron series. AMD expects these new products to receive an enthusiastic reception and enhance its position as No. 2...

IBM PARTNERSHIP WITH SALESFORCE.com.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 12, 2000... IBM announced plans this week to partner with Salesforce.com, a start-up company that offers software for managing sales information as a subscription service on its Web site. IBM will make the Salesforce.com services available to customers...

Gartner Says TV Portals Are Tuning In To Interactive TV.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
June 12, 2000... Spurred by the success of several Internet portals, television portals are being developed to leverage off of the growing interactive TV market, according to Gartner Group Inc. (NYSE: IT and ITB). Gartner predicts that TV portals in the United...

Gartner Advises On High-Tech Recruiting Boomerang Effect.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 12, 2000... Enterprises are capitalizing on a boomerang effect as they rehire former employees, according to a research report from Gartner Group Inc. (NYSE: IT and ITB). In yet another sign of the tight technology labor market, Gartner predicts that...

China To Overtake Australia As Asia/Pacific's Largest IT Market In 2000.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 12, 2000... China is on the verge of overtaking Australia as Asia/Pacific's (excluding Japan) largest IT market. In 1999, China's IT market was over $11 billion and accounted for 21 percent of the area's IT revenues. IDC expects it will grow to over $14...

Nearly 2.8 Million Small Businesses To Test eCommerce Waters By 2003.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 12, 2000... eCommerce is being embraced as a legitimate way for US small business to expand and prosper. According to new research from IDC, the number of US small businesses engaged in ecommerce will increase from 400,000 in 1998 to almost 2.8 million in...

Bumpy Road For The High-Tech Industry Exchange.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 12, 2000... In an effort to jump-start an emarketplace for high-technology manufacturing, 12 major high-tech firms recently announced they are forming an independent online exchange. While the idea has merit, IDC believes it will be difficult to execute....

IDC Forecasts Online Advertising In Asia/Pacific Will Exceed $1B By 2004.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 12, 2000... Online advertising in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) is gaining momentum and is expected to exceed $1 billion by 2004, according to a new report released by IDC. IDC found that companies are increasingly beginning to view the Internet as a...

IDC Announces The Industry's First Research Program Covering eMarketplace Services.(Editorial)
June 12, 2000... Further demonstrating its leadership role in identifying new market opportunities, IDC became the first market research firm to cover the emarketplace services industry, launching a new program focusing on this quickly emerging opportunity. Dr....

STAR BRIDGE SYSTEMS & NASA IN JOINT AGREEMENT TO BENCHMARK HYPERCOMPUTERS.
June 12, 2000... Utah-based Star Bridge Systems Inc. announced that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (www.nasa.gov), Langley Research Center, and Star Bridge Systems (www.starbridgesystems.com) have signed an agreement to jointly benchmark Star...

DENSE-PAC DELIVERS NEW STACKED FAMILY OF DOUBLE DATA RATE SDRAM.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 12, 2000... Dense-Pac Microsystems (Nasdaq: DPAC), introduced its new LP-Stack DDR series of interchangeable memory devices using its patented stacked semiconductor design technology. The new DDR SDRAM series utilizes industry standard memory chips...

QUANTUM DEVELOPS THIRD GENERATION HARD DRIVE INTERFACE.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 12, 2000... Quantum Corp.'s Hard Disk Drive Group (NYSE: HDD) announced the availability of Ultra ATA/100 - a new high-speed hard disk drive interface designed to enhance data integrity, speed data transfers, and avert future data gridlock between...

LUCENT SPIN-OFF OF MAJOR UNIT.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
June 19, 2000... Lucent Technologies is about to announce that it has decided to spin-off its microelectronics unit in a transaction that could result in a $50 billion company. The spin-off is designed to appease shareholders who have been upset at recent...

SUN MICROSYSTEMS STRATEGY IN DATA-STORAGE MARKET.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 19, 2000... Sun Microsystems, Inc. has unveiled an ambitious data-storage strategy with a new product lineup. Sun will introduce a network-based storage system known as the StorEdge T3, a set of modular hard-disk building blocks that can form storage...

IBM WILL MAKE THINK PAD AVAILABLE WITH LINUX.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 19, 2000... IBM announced this week that some of its Thinkpad laptop computers will be available with the Linux operating system, in a marketing announcement targeted at the technology professionals most involved with the system. Linux is not commonly...

MOTOROLA TO USE BLUETOOTH.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 19, 2000... The Bluetooth wireless technology, a standard for short-range wireless connections, will be manufactured into several of Motorola's new products. The objective is to allow these devices to seamlessly transmit information to each other and the...

IBM EXPANDS SUPPORT FOR LINUX.(Product Information)
June 19, 2000... IBM strengthened its commitment to Linux by announcing several new hardware and software offerings and a broad set of initiatives to help its developer and reseller Partners develop and install Linux solutions for customers worldwide. These...

MICROSOFT & DISCTRONICS ANNOUNCE AGREEMENT IN SOFTWARE COUNTERFEITING ACTION.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 19, 2000... Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Disctronics Texas Inc., an independent US CD manufacturer announce a settlement in connection with the replication of CD-ROMs containing counterfeit Microsoft software. The replication occurred at Disctronics'...

Enterprise Applications Market Will Reach $78 Billion By 2004.(AMR Research forecast)(Industry Trend or Event)
June 19, 2000... AMR Research Inc., a leading industry and market analysis firm specializing in e-business strategy and infrastructure, predicts that the Enterprise Applications Market will reach $78 billion by 2004, with an overall compound annual growth rate...

Worldwide Cable Modem Market Grew Nearly 70% In First Quarter 2000.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 19, 2000... Demand for high-speed broadband access connections outpaced supply of enabling devices during the first quarter of 2000, as worldwide shipments of broadband cable modems exceeded 1.47 million units, according to Dataquest Inc., a unit of...

Gartner Identifies Major Shifts In Chief Information Officer Roles.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 19, 2000... According to research by Gartner Group Inc. (NYSE: IT and ITB), CIOs are not becoming obsolete. Instead, this executive type is mutating into four different species. The roles are being reshaped so that four different CIO types are in the...

Worldwide Outsourcing Spending Will Approach $180 Billion In 2004.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 19, 2000... As the incentives driving worldwide outsourcing shift from optional decisions based on cost savings to almost mandatory matters of survival, the worldwide market will add more than $60 billion to its coffers. IDC reports revenues will increase...

Complexity To Drive Internet Services To $99 Billion.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 19, 2000... Internet service providers are no longer being asked just to help organizations establish a Web presence. Instead, they are expected to help clients transform part of their business to compete in an Internet economy and integrate their...

CISCO & BROCADE ENTER JOINT TECHNOLOGY AGREEMENTTO INTERCONNECT SANs.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 19, 2000... Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO), a leader in networking for the Internet, and Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (BROCADE) (Nasdaq: BRCD), a leading supplier of Fibre Channel fabric solutions for Storage Area Networking, announced a...

IMAGETAG APPROVES CAPTURE APPLIANCES FROM HP, XEROX & RICOH FOR ITS PAPER MGT. SYSTEM.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 19, 2000... To help position the company as the standard for the way the people capture their paper digitally, ImageTag has certified product lines from Hewlett-Packard Co., Xerox and Ricoh for use with its patent-pending paper management system. ImageTag...

INTEL & MICROSOFT TO DEVELOP ROAD MAP FOR NATIVE WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 19, 2000... Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced they are developing a road map to provide native support of the Bluetooth wireless technology for the Microsoft Windows operating system during the first half of 2001. The companies are...

IBM NO. 1 PROVIDER OF STORAGE SERVICES.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 19, 2000... IBM is the storage industry's services revenue leader, according to an analysis report by IDC. IBM generated $3.6B, Hewlett-Packard $1B, Compaq $825M, StorageTek $719M, EMC $350M and Sun $150M in worldwide revenues.

TI TO ACQUIRE BURR-BROWN CHIP MAKERS.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 26, 2000... Texas Instruments will acquire chip manufacturer Burr-Brown Corp. for $7.6 billion, the largest ever acquisition for the Texas company. Burr-Brown manufactures analog chips used in the manufacture of hand-held computers, DVD players, and...

SPRINT-WORLDCOM MERGER FACES EU REJECTION.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 26, 2000... The European Commission (EC) the executive body of the European Union (EU) has joined forces with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and is apparently going to recommend that the $115 billion merger between Sprint Corp. and WorldCom be...

DELL WILL FACTORY INSTALL LINUX ON GLOBAL BASIS.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 26, 2000... Dell announced Linux as the company's third global, strategic operating system to power the front-end of its customers' Internet infrastructure. The Linux operating system joins Microsoft Corp.'s Windows and Novell Inc.'s NetWare as one of...

IBM BROADENS NETVISTA FAMILY WITH NEW BUSINESS DESKTOPS.(Product Announcement)
June 26, 2000... IBM announced the new NetVista A Series of desktop business computers, combining new standards for simplicity, ease of use, and smaller footprints with the security and manageability features required by large enterprise businesses. The...

NEC INTRODUCES NEW DESKTOP PCs WITH FLEXIBLE DESIGNS.(Product Announcement)
June 26, 2000... NEC Computers Inc. introduced the NEC PowerMate CT desktop computer; the most advanced PC system available in its PowerMate desktop product line and also announced that its PowerMate 2000 microdesktop is now available with Intel's Pentium III...

Only A Handful Of Server Vendors Cheered Their 1999 Revenue Results.(Company Financial Information)
June 26, 2000... Revenue growth in the server market was mixed in 1999, according to three new Commercial System and Server bulletins released by IDC. The high-end and midrange server markets posted revenue declines of seven percent and 18 percent,...

IT Vendors Should Study Small Businesses' Differences To Seize Opportunities, IDC Says.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 26, 2000... Often viewed as a single entity, the small business market is very diverse and hard to reach. To be successful targeting the growing small business market, technology providers must recognize and understand the distinctions between small...

Lucent Acquires Herrmann Technology.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2000... Lucent Technology has acquired Herrmann Technology, Inc., a Dallas based private company in the forefront of optical networking technology, which allows large amounts of data to travel over a fiber optic network. This is the latest in a series...

EMC EXPANDS INTEROPERABILITY LAB FOR STORAGE AREA NETWORKS.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2000... EMC Corp. unveiled the EMC E-Infostructure Interoperability Program. With $1 billion over six years invested in storage interoperability testing, EMC is expanding the interoperability-testing program. The enhanced capabilities enable customers...

GLOBAL COMPUTER CO. HITACHI LAUNCHES INTERNET STRATEGY.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 26, 2000... Hitachi Systems and Services (HSS) and Technauts Inc., an Internet software developer, announced a strategic relationship that will allow HSS to distribute Technauts' eServer products and software to its customers. This partnership, launching...

CSC To Acquire Mynd.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2000... Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE: CSC) and Policy Management Systems Corp. (NYSE: PMS), d/b/a Mynd, announced they have entered into an agreement whereby CSC will acquire Columbia, S.C.-based Mynd for $16 per share in an all-cash transaction. ...

BROADBAND GATEWAYS INC. & JETSTREAM COMM. PARTNER TO PROVIDE WIRELESS VOICE & DATA.(Jetstream Communications Inc.)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2000... Broadband Gateways Inc., innovator of the first Intelligent Premises Gateway (IPG), and Jetstream Communications Inc., a leading provider of Voice over DSL (VoDSL) equipment, announced their partnership to provide a new, intelligent voice and...

TROY GROUP DEMONSTRATES WORLD'S FIRST PRODUCT FOR PRINTING FROM PCs.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 26, 2000... TROY Group Inc. (Nasdaq: TROY) announced that its subsidiary TROY XCD has demonstrated a wireless printing connection, allowing a laptop PC to communicate with a printer without cables, using the new Bluetooth wireless technology. At the...

HP LAUNCHES PHASE TWO OF ITS COLORFUL HOME-PC STRATEGY.(HP Pavilion home PCs)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 26, 2000... Hewlett-Packard Co. announced the next phase in its colorful home-PC strategy - color, replaceable parts that enable customers to personalize the look of their HP Pavilion home PCs by choosing from among custom-color kits in cobalt blue,...

RSIS WINS HIGH-PROFILE $75M CONTRACT WITH WPAFB.(RS Information Systems Inc.; Air Force Wright-Patterson AFB)(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2000... RS Information Systems Inc. (RSIS) was recently awarded a combined-ceiling $75 million Information Technology Support contract with the Dept. of the Air Force Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. The Wright-Patterson AFB Information...

MICROSOFT - SURPRISE GOOD NEWS!(antitrust case)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 26, 2000... Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson unexpectedly gave Microsoft a substantial victory by staying the imposition of operating restrictions which flowed from his decision, and simultaneously certified the antitrust case to the Supreme Court. The...

COMPAQ SHOWS NEW HOME-COMPUTER LINE.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 26, 2000... Compaq has introduced a new Presario home PC which will retail at $649 without a monitor. The new PC can be configured with any of five different color panels and will be offered with differently priced services including home installation and...

US GOVT. "CYBER MOD SQUAD" SEEKS TO DISARM CYBER TERRORISTS.
June 26, 2000... The US government's "e-crime fighters" are coming to the rescue of companies that have suffered from lost work hours and months of costly repair following virus or hacker attacks, according to a published report. From denial-of-service...

MERLIN ANNOUNCES PERFECT BACKUP+ PRE-LOAD ON SELECT IBM THINKPADs.(Merlin Software Technologies International Inc.)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2000... Merlin Software Technologies International Inc. (OTCBB: MLSW), a leading developer of Linux based software applications and utilities, announced the pre-loading of PerfectBACKUP+ 6.2 on select models of the recently announced IBM ThinkPad A...

IBM PROGRAMS GET COMPANIES UP & RUNNING QUICKLY.
June 26, 2000... IBM announced three programs aimed at alleviating the problems plaguing startups today - finding financially friendly IT (information technology) fast, gathering sound, relevant business advice and building a successful global business. *...

IBM INTRODUCES DRIVE WITH BILLION BYTES.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2000... IBM has introduced a new match book sized hard drive with a billion byte storage capacity. The drive will be available commercially in Sept., and it is expected that it will be marketed heavily in the digital camera storage device market, the...

AT&T TO ACQUIRE 1.3 MILLION WIRELESS CUSTOMERS.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2000... AT&T has agreed to acquire the wireless operations in San Francisco, San Diego and Houston, from PrimeCo, Vodafone AirTouch P.L.C. and GTE Corp., for a total of $3.3 billion. AT&T will acquire 1.3 million wireless customers and 1,400...