EDP Weekly's IT Monitor articles from November 2000

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor archives from November 2000

V3 SEMICONDUCTOR DELIVERS LINUX SUPPORT FOR PMC-SIERRA'S MIPS PROCESSORS IN EMBEDDED PCI APPLICATIONS.(Company Business and Marketing)
November 6, 2000... V3 Semiconductor Inc. (NASDAQ: VVVI), the Embedded Intelligence Company, a provider of high-performance interconnect and controller solutions for the rapidly expanding Network and Internet infrastructure markets, has announced that it offers...

TECH SOFT AMERICA AND HEWLETT-PACKARD ANNOUNCE DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT FOR HOOPS 3D APPLICATION FRAMEWORK.(Product Information)
November 6, 2000... Tech Soft America (TSA), a provider of OEM graphics technology to the engineering software industry, and developers of the popular HOOPS(R) 3D Application Framework (HOOPS/3dAF), and Hewlett-Packard (HP), have announced a program to freely...

PLIANT SYSTEMS ACHIEVES TL 9000 REGISTRATION.(Company Operations)
November 6, 2000... Pliant Systems Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: PLNS) has announced it has successfully achieved TL 9000 registration, a significant milestone in the company's commitment to becoming a world-class supplier of integrated network access platforms. The...

SRC COMPUTERS PREVIEWS MAJOR INNOVATION IN SERVER ARCHITECTURE AT SC2000.(Product Development)
November 6, 2000... SRC Computers, the company founded by legendary computer architect Seymour R. Cray, will discuss an innovative approach to high performance computing at this year's SC2000 show in Dallas, Texas, this week (November 4-10). The company will...

TI HITS $3 BILLION MARK IN DESIGN-INS FOR ITS HIGH-PERFORMANCE DSP.(Product Information)
November 6, 2000... Illustrating the growing demand for solutions enabling the Internet Age, the Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) TMS320C6000 digital signal processor (DSPs) platform has surpassed $3 billion in projected lifetime net revenue from...

INTEL AND VASCO FORM GLOBAL SECURITY ALLIANCE.(Company Business and Marketing)
November 6, 2000... Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) ( www.intel.com ), the world's largest chip maker and a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products, and VASCO (Nasdaq: VDSI; Easdaq) ( www.vasco.com ), a global provider of...

VAIO(R) PCG-F680 AND PCG-F650 INTEGRATE SONY'S 3MAX+ FEATURE SET.(Product Announcement)
November 6, 2000... Sony is introducing all-in-one convenience that converges the power, portability and versatility of both built-in and removable drive bays and the performance of Intel(R) Pentium(R) III SpeedStep processor technology(1) into its new VAIO...

MICRONPC.COM EXPANDS THE TRANSPORT LINE OF NOTEBOOK COMPUTERS.(Micron ElectronicsTransPort(R) GX and Micron Electronics GX+ notebook computers)(Product Announcement)
November 6, 2000... TransPort(R) GX and GX+ notebook computers, the latest members of the award-winning TransPort family of portable PCs, are now available from Micron Electronics, Inc. (Nasdaq:MUEI). Weighing less than seven pounds and priced competitively at...

HITACHI AMERICA AND 1ST ETECH COLLABORATE ON SMART CARD TECHNOLOGY.(Company Business and Marketing)
November 6, 2000... Hitachi America, Ltd. and 1st eTech have announced that the two companies will collaborate on smart card technology and systems solutions. As part of the agreement, Hitachi America will provide to 1st eTech smart card technology and...

SOFTWARE AG TO ACQUIRE SAGA FOR $360 MILLION.(Company Business and Marketing)
November 6, 2000... Software AG will acquire all outstanding common stock in SAGA Systems for $11.50 per SAGA Systems share in cash, for a total transaction value of approximately $360 million. SAGA Systems markets and services Software AG's products in North and...

MACRO 4 EXTENDS TRACEMASTER WITH SUPPORT FOR CICS APPLICATIONS.(TRACEMASTER 3.1)(Product Announcement)
November 6, 2000... Macro 4 (MAO.L), which earlier this year announced the availability of its new sophisticated interactive program testing product, TRACEMASTER, has announced that its new Version 3.1 adds support for CICS applications in MVS and OS390...

NEC COMPUTERS EQUIPS VERSA NOTEBOOK COMPUTERS WITH INTEL'S LATEST PROCESSORS.(Product Announcement)
November 13, 2000... NEC Computers Inc., has announced the availability of its Versa(R) LXi and Versa SXi notebook computers with Intel's(R) new 800 and 850 MHz Pentium(R) III SpeedStep(TM) processors. The new notebook systems offer NEC customers an increase in...

IBM SHIPS WORLD'S HIGHEST-RESOLUTION COMPUTER DISPLAY.(Product Information)
November 13, 2000... IBM (NYSE:IBM) is shipping the world's clearest computer display -- 12-times sharper than current displays -- 10 years sooner than industry experts said it was possible. The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National...

MANHATTAN SCIENTIFICS ACQUIRES 'TOUCH AND FEEL' COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY.(Company Business and Marketing)
November 13, 2000... Manhattan Scientifics (OTC Bulletin Board: MHTX) has acquired the exclusive global rights to an Internet touch technology that enables anyone to realistically feel images displayed on computer screens. The technology was developed at the Sandia...

EUROLOGIC SYSTEMS ADVANCES STORAGE INDUSTRY STANDARDS FOR FLEXIBILITY.(Product Announcement)
November 13, 2000... Eurologic(TM) Systems, has announced an advance in storage industry standards for flexibility with the launch of a state-of-the-art modular architecture that enables virtually any storage configuration from a single platform. This architecture...

INTERVIDEO LAUNCHES WINRIP MP3 PLAYER/ENCODER WITH DATA INJECTION CAPABILITY.(Product Announcement)
November 13, 2000... InterVideo, Inc., the leading developer of PC multimedia software, has unveiled WinRip(TM), its new MP3 player/encoder containing its exclusive, patent-pending InterVideo Data Injection (IDI) technology. WinRip's unique data injection...

TSMC ACCELERATES ENHANCED PERFORMANCE FOR GRAPHICS ICS AND PLDS.(Company Business and Marketing)
November 13, 2000... Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (NYSE:TSM), the world's largest dedicated semiconductor foundry, has given a boost to graphic chip and programmable logic device (PLD) designers by offering final-version 0.15-micron libraries. ...

LYNUXWORKS INTRODUCES BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY FOR EMBEDDED CODE DEVELOPMENT.(Product Announcement)
November 13, 2000... LynuxWorks, Inc., a provider of open source and true real-time embedded solutions for the post-PC era, has made available a new breakthrough technology, the SpyKer(TM) event trace and visualization tool. SpyKer was developed for software...

SAMSUNG PICKS GENESIS CHIP FOR DUAL-INTERFACE LCD MONITORS.(Product Information)
November 13, 2000... Samsung Electronics has selected the Genesis gm5020 image processor for their dual-interface LCD monitor OEM business. Samsung produces 15-inch XGA LCD panels for many large brand-name monitor manufacturers (non-disclosure agreements...

IBM AND KYMATA TEAM TO DEVELOP OPTICAL CHIPS FOR HIGH SPEED NETWORKS.(Company Business and Marketing)
November 13, 2000... Moving closer to the realization of "all-optical" communications networks, IBM and Kymata Ltd. Have entered into a multi-year agreement to produce next-generation optical networking chips for high-speed e-business applications. Under the...

IOMEGA AND IBM ANNOUNCE PRODUCT SOFTWARE AGREEMENT.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2000... Iomega Corporation (NYSE: IOM), and IBM Corporation (NYSE: IBM) have agreed to include Iomega(R) Quik Sync 2 software with IBM's Microdrive(TM) miniaturized hard disk technology worldwide. Iomega(R) Quik Sync 2 software will provide IBM's...

"CHIEF SOFTWARE ARCHITECT" OF MICROSOFT LAYS OUT BLUEPRINT FOR INTERNET FUTURE.(Company Business and Marketing)
November 20, 2000... In his first year as Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq: MSFT) chief software architect, Bill Gates used his annual "state of the industry" speech to describe sweeping changes he sees in computing and to lay out a visionary blueprint for the next...

SGI DELIVERS FIRST 256-PROCESSOR SGI ORIGIN 3000 SERIES SYSTEM TO ARMYRESEARCH LABORATORY.(Government Activity)
November 20, 2000... SGI (NYSE: SGI) has announced that the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC), Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., has installed a 256-processor SGI Origin 3800 system as part of the Department of Defense (DoD) High...

MCE ANNOUNCES VERSATILE PORTABLE STORAGE DEVICE.(Product Announcement)
November 20, 2000... Mac Components Engineered's PowerBook products division (MCE PowerBook Products, an Apple Developer) Monday announced they will begin shipping immediately their DataShuttle Xtreme, the world's most versatile portable storage device, in 10GB,...

STMICROELECTRONICS ANNOUNCES APPLICATION-SPECIFIC FLASH MEMORY FOR FIRMWARE HUB BIOS.(Product Announcement)
November 20, 2000... STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) has announced the first device in a new family of application-specific Flash memories targeted at high performance PCs employing Intel's Accelerated Hub Architecture. The M50FW040 is a 4 Mbit Flash memory,...

HITACHI CHOOSES TOTAL VIEW TO RUN ON SR8000 SUPERCOMPUTER.(Product Information)
November 20, 2000... Etnus, the leading supplier of parallel application debuggers for the high performance computing community, has announced that the TotalView debugger/analyzer was selected for use on Hitachi SR8000 high performance computing systems, three of...

HP, NOKIA TO DEVELOP INTERNET-BASED PLATFORM FOR IMPROVED MOBILE SERVICES.(Company Business and Marketing)
November 20, 2000... Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HWP) and Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK) has announced an agreement to develop solutions built on an Internet-based platform that is intended to lead to a broad proliferation of mobile e-services. An initial...

3ETI AND JUNGLESOFT, INC. JOIN TO INTEGRATE GPS/WIRELESS HARDWARE/SOFTWARE FOR PALM OS.(Company Business and Marketing)
November 20, 2000... 3e Technologies International, Inc. and JungleSoft, Inc., has announced an agreement to develop location-based services solutions for PalmOS devices by integrating JunglePort, JungleSoft's market leading mobile portal platform, and The GLOVE a...

NEW SOFTWARE ENHANCES SYSTEM MANAGEMENT, MONITORING FOR UNISYS E-@CTION SERVERS.(Product Announcement)
November 20, 2000... Unisys Corporation has announced Unisys e-@ction Enterprise Server Software 3.0, providing enterprise customers with new capabilities for data center-class reliability, performance, manageability and uninterrupted solution availability. ...

CEREBELLUM ECOM INTEGRATOR IS AN INTERNET DATA INTEGRATION PRODUCT FOR BRINGING E-COMMERCE APPLICATIONS TO MARKET FASTER USING ENTERPRISE JAVABEAN TECHNOLOGY.(Product Announcement)
November 20, 2000... Cerebellum Software, Inc., developer of Internet Data Integration (IDI) solutions for bridging e-business applications with corporate data, has announced the availability of Cerebellum eCom Integrator, version 2.1, which speeds the development...

ECI TELECOM SELECTS METALINK'S G.SHDSL TECHNOLOGY FOR NEXT GENERATION PRODUCTS.(Company Business and Marketing)
November 20, 2000... ECI Telecom Ltd. (Nasdaq/NM:ECIL) a leading provider of digital subscriber line (DSL) solutions for business and residential users, has selected the Hydra G.SHDSL chip set from Metalink Ltd. (Nasdaq:MTLK), a fabless semiconductor company and...

IBM SUPERCOMPUTER HELPS U.S. GOVERNMENT IDENTIFY OBJECTS IN SPACE.(Government Activity)
November 27, 2000... IBM has announced that the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) has selected a powerful IBM SP supercomputer to identify objects in space, including old satellites, foreign spacecraft, and unidentified objects. Installed at the...

MILLER ON PROCUREMENT.(Government Activity)
November 27, 2000... SOLE SOURCE: Probably the two most interesting subjects re government contracting are FOIA and sole source. Here are some vignettes re sole source. FOIA is interesting because it is complex, many court cases and the government generally...

L-3 Communications Corp., Communications Systems East.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
November 27, 2000... L-3 Communications Corp., Communications Systems East, Camden, N.J., is being awarded an $18,293,923 firm-fixed-price contract for three and a half AN/STC-2 (V) Integrated Voice Communications Systems (IVCS) for DDG 96, 97, 98, and a...

IBM Global Government Industry.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
November 27, 2000... IBM Global Government Industry, Houston, Texas, is being awarded a $250,000,000 (estimated maximum) firm-fixed-price indefinite quantity contract for picture archiving and communications systems. There were 65 proposals solicited and five...

General Dynamics Government Systems Corp.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
November 27, 2000... General Dynamics Government Systems Corp., Taunton, Mass., is being awarded a $10,893,785 modification to firm-fixed-price contract DAAB07-94-C-N853, to exercise options for common hardware/software items for Project Manager Army Tactical...

Sentel Corp.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
November 27, 2000... Sentel Corp., Alexandria, Va., is being awarded a $9,881,415 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for technical computer engineering, software development, test support and research engineering for the Systems...

Raytheon Systems Company.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
November 27, 2000... Raytheon Systems Company, Goleta, Calif., was awarded on Nov. 20, 2000, a $152,872,700 cost-plus-award-fee contract to provide for Phase II algorithm and design development, investigation and analysis, and construction of three flight...

MILCOM Systems Corp.(Government Activity)
November 27, 2000... MILCOM Systems Corp., Virginia Beach, Va., is being awarded an estimated $79,343,697 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee multiple award contract for shore site and surface ship communications, intelligence, cryptologic...

ManTech Support Technology, Inc.(Government Activity)
November 27, 2000... ManTech Support Technology, Inc., Fairfax, Va., is being awarded an estimated $78,682,680 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee multiple award contract for shore site and surface ship communications, intelligence,...

Raytheon Technical Services Company.(Government Activity)
November 27, 2000... Raytheon Technical Services Company, Norfolk, Va., is being awarded an estimated $75,674,476 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee multiple award contract for shore site and surface ship communications, intelligence,...

Interstate Electronics Corp.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
November 27, 2000... Interstate Electronics Corp., Anaheim, Calif., is being awarded a $28,244,520 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide program management, system engineering support, liaison engineering, documentation, manufacturing support, logistics, contract...

WORLD'S FIRST 1,024-PROCESSOR SGI ORIGIN 3000 SERIES SERVER INSTALLED AT NETHERLANDS NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING FACILITY.(Product Information)
November 27, 2000... The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Netherlands Computing Facilities (NCF) Foundation have implemented an SGI(TM) Origin(TM) 3000 series supercomputer from SGI (NYSE: SGI) at SARA Computing and Networking...

CONEXANT APPLAUDS ITU RATIFICATION OF V.92 STANDARD.(Company Business and Marketing)
November 27, 2000... Conexant Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CNXT) Wednesday announced that it fully supports and endorses the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) ratification in favor of a final set of V.92 modem specifications. Conexant has successfully...

VERPLEX SHIPS FULL-CHIP FORMAL RTL DESIGN VERIFICATION TOOL THAT CUTS LEARNING CURVE.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 27, 2000... Verplex(TM) Systems, Inc., known for its formal verification software, has unveiled BlackTie(TM) functional checker, a full-chip, multi-million gate capacity tool that accelerates the verification of system-on-a-chip (SOC) designs. ...

VIRAGE LOGIC'S CUSTOM-TOUCH STAR COMPILER AVAILABLE IN UMC 0.18 MICRON PROCESS.(Product Announcement)
November 27, 2000... Virage Logic Corp. (Nasdaq: VIRL), a leader in embedded memory solutions, has announced the availability of its Custom-Touch (TM) Self-Test and Repair (STAR) compiler in UMC's (NYSE: UMC) 0.18 micron standard logic process and an agreement with...

THX PICTURE AND SOUND QUALITY NOW AVAILABLE IN COMPUTER PRODUCTS.(Company Business and Marketing)
November 27, 2000... Lucasfilm THX(R) together with Dell has announced the availability of the first THX certified PCs under a newly created THX program designed to deliver the best picture and sound to-date on a personal computer. With consumers increasingly...

PLX TECHNOLOGY INTRODUCES POWERFUL NEW ADAPTIVE SWITCH FABRIC ARCHITECTURE.(Company Business and Marketing)
November 27, 2000... PLX Technology, Inc. has announced its powerful new PLX Adaptive Switch Fabric Architecture that provides the communications infrastructure with unprecedented high availability, scalability and preservation of investment. The PLX Adaptive...

INFINEON INTRODUCES NEW 16-BIT MICROCONTROLLER CORE.(Product Announcement)
November 27, 2000... Infineon Technologies (FSE:IFX) (NYSE:IFX) has released a new, high-performance version of the C166 microcontroller core. Designed to significantly boost system performance and support higher levels of integration in System-on-Chip (SoC) custom...

CONCURRENT'S SUPERIOR VOD SERVER TECHNOLOGY STRENGTHENS LEADERSHIP POSITION.(Product Announcement)
November 27, 2000... Concurrent Computer Corporation (Nasdaq:CCUR) has introduced its new MediaHawk(TM) Model 2000 Video-On-Demand (VOD) Server, offering broadband operators the most reliable and efficient video server available today. Capitalizing on its over...