EDP Weekly's IT Monitor articles from October 2000

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor archives from October 2000

MICROSOFT RENAISSANCE.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 2, 2000... As predicted in recent issues of Software Industry Report, the Supreme Court last week declined to hear a direct appeal of the Microsoft Corp. antitrust case and instructed that the matter be heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District...

IBM CHIPS TO FUEL NEXT-GEN EQUIPMENT FROM CHINA'S LARGEST TELECOM MANUFACTURER.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 2, 2000... IBM and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. have announced a collaborative agreement to accelerate the introduction of Huawei's high performance network communications systems. Under this agreement, IBM will be a key technology supplier for...

IBM AND ONEX COMMUNICATIONS TEAM TO ACCELERATE INTRODUCTION OF OPTICAL NETWORKING CHIPS.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 2, 2000... IBM and Onex Communications have entered into a strategic technology agreement intended to speed the introduction of high speed custom chips for optical communications networks. Under this technology relationship, IBM will manufacture...

CMS EXPANDS FAMILY OF PORTABLE DESKTOP BACKUP AND STORAGE SOLUTIONS.(Product Announcement)
October 2, 2000... Moving into the enterprise and network removable storage arena, CMS Peripherals(R), has expanded their Desktop Automatic Backup System (ABS) for Windows(R) 98 and 2000 users to include 40GB and 60GB capacity solutions. Using a hot...

XEROX LAYS CLAIM TO GRAPHIC ARTS MARKET LEADERSHIP, LAUNCHES POWERFUL PRODUCTS, SOLUTIONS, E-BUSINESS INITIATIVE.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 2, 2000... Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) blew into America's printing heartland this week, unleashing a slew of products, solutions and services that extend the company's range of color printing offerings, advance its position as a graphic arts leader....

SOFTWARE IS BUNDLED WITH HARDWARE COMPANIES THROUGH LINUXBOXEN.COM.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 2, 2000... LinuxBoxen.com has launched its new e-commerce site, which offers customers hardware components bundled with Open-Source Linux drivers and software. "Trying to find the right drivers is time consuming and can be a very frustrating...

KLIPSCH INTRODUCES THX-CERTIFIED COMPUTER AUDIO SYSTEM.(Product Announcement)
October 2, 2000... The electronic entertainment industry has grown to a multi-billion dollar business through mesmerizing advancements in computer technology. But the sound quality of computers has lagged behind, causing great consumer demand for high-performance...

MOTOROLA'S NEW MPC7410 MICROPROCESSOR DELIVERS ON THE PROMISE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE SMART NETWORKS.(Product Announcement)
October 2, 2000... Delivering new levels of performance, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has introduced the second of its fourth- generation (G4) PowerPC microprocessors, the MPC7410 with AltiVec technology. Designed for high-performance, high-bandwidth applications, the...

LOTUS CEO DEFINES NEXT GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES TO EXTEND COLLABORATION THROUGH KNOWLEDGE SHARING.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 2, 2000... Lotus Development Corp. President and CEO, Al Zollar, last week opened Lotusphere Europe 2000 with the company's vision of the next-generation advancements in collaboration through transparent knowledge sharing within and between organizations...

NEC COMPUTERS INC. EXPANDS MARKET PRESENCE THROUGH DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT WITH INGRAM MICRO INC.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 2, 2000... NEC Computers Inc. has announced a strategic relationship with Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE:IM), the largest global wholesale provider of technology products and services, in which Ingram Micro's U.S. region and Canadian subsidiary will distribute...

GENERAL MICRO SYSTEMS SHIPS THE FIRST GIGAHERTZ DUAL PROCESSOR VMEBUS AND COMPACTPCI CPU BOARDS.(Product Announcement)
October 2, 2000... Based on Intel's new one-Gigahertz Processor, the CompactPCI Atlas-C and VMEbus Atlas-V provides built-in support for symmetric and real-time asymmetric multiprocessing. This enables the board's two processors to work together in parallel on...

BELLSOUTH LAUNCHES 'E-PLATFORM' FOR BUSINESS.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 2, 2000... BellSouth (NYSE: BLS) has introduced its "e-Platform" for business, harnessing the power of its extensive fiber-based network to deliver the speed, reliability and security required for today's mission critical e-business applications. The...

TELTRONICS SHIPS FIRST 20-20 IXP SWITCH.(Product Announcement)
October 2, 2000... Teltronics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TELT) has shipped the first of its newest product, the 20-20 IXP switch, to George Washington High School in Manhattan. The company acquired the 20-20 switching product line from the Harris Corporation on June 30,...

ADIC ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR SUPER DLTTAPE DRIVES.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 2, 2000... Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) will more than double the storage capacity and throughput of its DLT storage libraries by integrating Quantum Corporation's (NYSE:DSS) Super DLTtape technology into the current ADIC(R)...

SST REACHES SETTLEMENT OF LAWSUIT WITH WINBOND.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 9, 2000... SST (Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.) (Nasdaq:SSTI) has reached a settlement in its lawsuit with Winbond Electronics of Taiwan. The original suit was filed in the U.S. Distryct Court in San Jose, Calif. in July 1998 pursuant to the termination...

SYMANTEC'S PCANYWHERE IS FIRST REMOTE CONTROL SOFTWARE TO SUPPORT WINDOWS' MILLENNIUM.(Product Information)
October 9, 2000... Symantec's (Nasdaq:SYMC) pcAnywhere is the first remote control software to support Microsoft's new operating system, Window Millennium Edition (Me). This added capability is available free to pcAnywhere 9.2 users via LiveUpdate....

PMC-SIERRA ANNOUNCES INDUSTRY'S FIRST DUAL PORT GIGABIT ETHERNET CHIP WITH POS-PHY LEVEL 3 INTERFACE.(Product Announcement)
October 9, 2000... PMC-Sierra (Nasdaq:PMCS) has announced the PM3386 S/UNI-2xGE dual port Gigabit Ethernet transceiver, the industry's first integrated dual Serializer/Deserializer (SERDES) and Gigabit Media Access Control (MAC) controller with the industry...

WORLDWIDE SEMICONDUCTOR SALES REACH NEW INDUSTRY HIGH FOR 2000.(Industry Trend or Event)
October 9, 2000... Driven by Internet and Wireless Technologies, Sales for August 2000 Reflect a 52% Increase Over August 1999. Worldwide sales of semiconductors once again reached an industry high of $18.19 billion for August 2000, an increase from $11.91...

AT&T BROADBAND TO LAUNCH VIDEO ON DEMAND WITH DIVA SERVICE TO BEGIN IN ATLANTA, FOLLOWED BY LOS ANGELES, THE BAY AREA AND PITTSBURGH.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 9, 2000... AT&T Broadband and DIVA will launch video-on-demand services to AT&T Digital Cable customers in the San Francisco Bay area, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh, the companies said today. Initial markets will include several communities in the East Bay...

STMICROELECTRONICS PROCESSES ONE MILLION WAFERS USING FSI INTERNATIONAL'S OZONE STRIP TECHNOLOGY.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 9, 2000... FSI International has become a significant contributor to STMicroelectronics' drive to makesustainable, environmentally conscious semiconductor manufacturing development part of its corporate mission. Since adopting DIO3-(ozonated water) based...

ORACLE TO DELIVER FIRST DATABASE FOR LINUX CLUSTERS.(Oracle8i Parallel Server for Linux)(Product Announcement)
October 9, 2000... Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL), the largest provider of software for e-business, has announced the industry's first clustered database server on the Linux operating system, Oracle8i Parallel Server. Customers will be able to use the low-cost Linux...

DIGITAL BIOMETRICS TO OEM DBA FINGERPRINT SCANNER PRODUCT.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 9, 2000... Digital Biometrics, Inc. (Nasdaq: DBII), a leader in biometric identification systems and integration services has entered into an agreement which will enable DBI to offer its customers a range of fingerprint card scanners that will capture...

SONY, COMPAQ, HP AND VERITAS SOFTWARE ENDORSE AUXILIARY MEMORY STANDARD FOR ENHANCED TAPE DATA ACCESS AND MANAGEMENT.(Industry Trend or Event)
October 9, 2000... Sony Electronics has announced that the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has approved a new, tape media Auxiliary Memory (AM) content and interface standard. Four companies (Sony Electronics, Compaq Computer Corporation,...

NEW HIGH CAPACITY 32 GB 5400 RPM DRIVE FOR APPLE POWERBOOKS G3 & PC NOTEBOOKS.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 9, 2000... Trans Intl. has announced the online availability of a new high capacity 2.5 inch 32 GB; 5400 rpm hard disk drive for expanding the internal storage of Apple Powerbook G3s and Notebooks. With the availability of this new drive, Apple...

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SELECTS ETNUS DEBUGGER/ANALYZER FOR USE IN WORLD'S FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTER.(Product Information)
October 9, 2000... Etnus TotalView parallel debugger and analyzer will be used in 30 TeraOPS system to be built by Compaq for the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) program Etnus, the leading supplier of parallel application debuggers for the...

CSC WINS $190.5 MILLION CONTRACT IN SUPPORT OF U.S. DOT'S VOLPE CENTER.(Government Activity)
October 9, 2000... Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) announced it has won a contract to provide onsite technical support services to the U.S. Department of Transportation's John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, in Cambridge, Mass. The...

CSC WINS FIVE-YEAR CONTRACT TO SUPPORT AIR FORCE OPERATIONAL TEST AND EVALUATION CENTER.(Government Activity)
October 9, 2000... Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) has been awarded a five-year, $36 million contract to provide rapid test support services for the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. Under the contract,...

ACS POWERS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S LARGEST-EVER ONLINE REVERSE AUCTION.(Government Activity)
October 9, 2000... ACS (NYSE: ACS), a leading provider of commercial and government IT solutions, completed the largest online reverse auction in the history of federal government e-business -- and the first under GSA's Buyers.gov portal. The Defense Finance and...

Raytheon Systems Company.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
October 9, 2000... Raytheon Systems Company, Sensors and Electronic Systems, Goleta, Calif., is being awarded a $15,900,132 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order against previously awarded basic ordering agreement N00019-96-G-0052 for the development of eight...

Charles Stark Draper.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 9, 2000... Charles Stark Draper, Cambridge, Md., is being awarded a $13,685,465 cost-plus-fee contract for the development of a computer based integrated engineering environment to support the replacement of existing technologies for the MK-6 guidance...

COMSAT General Corp.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
October 9, 2000... COMSAT General Corp., Bethesda, Md., was awarded $1,328,996 on Oct. 1, 2000, as part of a not-to-exceed $7,111,980 time and materials contract for the maintenance of satellite communications system and data. Work will be performed in Honolulu,...

The Boeing Company.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
October 9, 2000... The Boeing Company, Seal Beach, Calif. is being awarded a $479,713,427 modification to a fixed-price-award-fee contract to provide for development and support of the Operational Control Segment for the Global Positioning System. This action...

Intelesis Technologies Corp.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
October 9, 2000... Intelesis Technologies Corp., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $13,716,287 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing for research and development targeted at advanced technologies in human and...

BAE Systems Applied Technologies.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
October 9, 2000... BAE Systems Applied Technologies, Rockville, Md., is being awarded a $9,541,152 modification to previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee-term contract N00421-97-C-1308 to exercise an option for technical and engineering services for Radio...

TREX Enterprises Corp.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 9, 2000... TREX Enterprises Corp., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $1,200,000 increment as part of a $4,262,087 cost-plus-fixed-fee/level-of-effort contract, with a cumulative total of $9,929,392, if all options are exercised. The contractor will...

COMMERCE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES WINNER OF GLOBAL INFORMATION SECURITY COMPETITION.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 9, 2000... A worldwide competition to develop a new encryption technique that can be used to protect computerized information ended today when Secretary of Commerce Norman Y. Mineta announced the nation's proposed new Advanced Encryption Standard. ...

IRVINE SENSORS RECEIVES $3.1M R&D CONTRACT DEVELOPING 3D SYSTEM TO PRODUCE HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES FROM LOW RESOLUTION CAMERAS.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 9, 2000... Irvine Sensors Corporation (Nasdaq: IRSN; Boston: ISC) has announced that its Advanced Technology Division (ATD) has received an approximate $3.1 million research and development contract, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...

BILL GATES ANNOUNCES MICROSOFT MANAGEMENT VISION.(Product Announcement)
October 16, 2000... At the Intel Exchange conference, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced a new management solution called Microsoft(R) Operations Manager, a series of standards-based management interfaces called .NET Management Services, and a partner...

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY CENTER CHOOSES GIGANET SYSTEM AREA NETWORKS.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 16, 2000... Microsoft Corp. and Giganet(R), Inc., a provider of VI-based data center networks, has announced that Microsoft has selected Giganet's high-performance Virtual Interface (VI) Networking products as the system area network for the new Microsoft...

PANSTERA'S NEW LCD FLAT-PANEL MONITOR PROCESSOR CHIP IS DVI-COMPLIANT.(Product Announcement)
October 16, 2000... Panstera Inc., a fabless semiconductor company based in Silicon Valley that provides advanced mixed-signal and complex digital-logic solutions, has introduced the DVI-compliant PT68851 flat-panel monitor processor. The attributes of the...

PCS AND PRINTERS PER HOUSEHOLD RISES FOR THIRD STRAIGHT YEAR.(Industry Trend or Event)
October 16, 2000... According to Lyra Research's latest U.S. Home Printing Survey, the overall number of printers owned, the number of printers per PC-owning household, and the number of PCs with connected printers all rose this past year. The survey, conducted...

LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES SOFTWARE IMPROVES CAPACITY AND COVERAGE OF WIRELESS NETS.(Product Announcement)
October 16, 2000... Lucent Technologies (NYSE:LU) has developed a software system that increases the capacity and coverage of wireless networks, which can dramatically reduce dropped or blocked calls. The OCELOT software system, offered as part of Lucent-built...

CMS REDUCES PRICING ON ENTIRE LINE OF 2.5-INCH NOTEBOOK HARD DRIVES AND HARD DRIVE UPGRADE KITS BY UP TO 30 PERCENT.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 16, 2000... CMS Peripherals Inc.(R), one of the industry's leading provider of notebook hard drives and upgrade kits, Monday annoqnced extensive price reductions of up to 30 percent on their entire line of Easy-Plug Easy-Go notebook hard drives and...

SMC ACQUIRES WIDEBAND LICENSE.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 16, 2000... SMC Networks, a provider of networking products, recently entered into a licensing agreement with WideBand Corporation to manufacture and market WideBand and eEthernet (pronounced "Enhanced Ethernet") networking products. SMC is the first...

SPRINT SELECTS ORACLE(R) INTERNET APPLICATION SERVER WIRELESS EDITION FOR NEXT-GENERATION WIRELESS INITIATIVES.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 16, 2000... Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL), the largest provider of software for e-business, and Sprint PCS (NYSE: PCS), the nation's largest all-digital, all-PCS nationwide wireless network, has announced that Sprint PCS has selected Oracle Internet...

NEW VERSION OF ACTAWORKS DATA SERVER ENHANCES B2B ECOMMERCE AND NEXT-GENERATION BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE.(Product Announcement)
October 16, 2000... Acta Technology, Inc., the leader in business-to-business (B2B) data caching, announced today the general availability of ActaWorks 4.3, the latest version of its award winning data movement-and-management server. The core component in the Acta...

ARIEL CORP.'S SS7-ENABLED NETWORK ACCESS SYSTEM DEBUTS WITH NATIONAL INTERNET ACCESS PROVIDER.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 16, 2000... MegaWorld (Nasdaq OTC:MEGW) has selected Ariel's SS7-enabled BypaSS7 network access systems for use in a national Internet backbone access service. MegaWorld will utilize Ariel's BypaSS7 systems in its Co-Location facilities to offer...

NEW FUJITSU DESKTOP HARD DRIVE SERIES OFFERS FASTEST DATA TRANSFER RATE IN THE INDUSTRY.(Product Announcement)
October 16, 2000... Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. (FCPA), one of the world's leading suppliers of hard drives and computer peripherals, has announced its latest 20.4 GB per platter desktop hard disk drives. The MPG3xxxAT/H series offers...

ATTO TECHNOLOGY SELECTED BY PINNACLE SYSTEMS TO PROVIDE ULTRA3 CONNECTIVITY FOR HIGH DEFINITION EDITING.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 16, 2000... ATTO Technology, Inc., a worldwide manufacturer of Fibre Channel and SCSI storage connectivity solutions, has announced that Pinnacle Systems (NASDAQ: PCLE), a leader in digital video broadcast and production solutions, has selected the ATTO...

INFOCROSSING TO OFFER EMC ENTERPRISE STORAGE MANAGED SERVICES APPLICATION INFRASTRUCTURE PROVIDER OFFERS OFFSITE 'FAILSAFE' STORAGE.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 16, 2000... Infocrossing, Inc. (Nasdaq: IFOX), a fast-growing provider of managed hosting services and application infrastructure solutions, has announced an extension of its relationship with EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), that enables Infocrossing to offer...

QUALSTAR CORP. ANNOUNCES 78 TERABYTE TAPE LIBRARY SHIPMENTS; TLS-412600 USES JUST FIVE SQUARE FEET OF FLOOR SPACE.(Product Announcement)
October 16, 2000... Qualstar Corp. (Nasdaq:QBAK) has announced that production shipments of its TLS-412600 and TLS-412300 Tape Libraries have begun. The TLS-412600 and its companion TLS-412300 can house up to 12 tape drives and either 600 or 300 data...

IBM'S SHARK POWERS STORAGE SOLUTION FOR PACIFIC DATA.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 16, 2000... Newly formed information service provider Pacific Data Technology Inc. reeled in a winning data management and growth strategy by choosing an IBM storage system with a "Shark" Enterprise Storage Server as its centerpiece. In today's...

INTERNET SECURITY SYSTEMS RELEASES 98 NEW SECURITY RISK DEFINITIONS.(Product Announcement)
October 16, 2000... Internet Security Systems (Nasdaq: ISSX) (ISS) has announced the availability of 98 new security risk definitions included in four separately released X-Press Updates to its award-winning SAFEsuite(R) security management software platform....

ALTERA'S QUARTUS SOFTWARE BOOSTS PERFORMANCE BY MORE THAN 30 PERCENT.(Product Announcement)
October 16, 2000... Altera Corporation (Nasdaq:ALTR), a leading supplier of programmable logic devices (PLDs), has released its latest version of the Quartus development software. Altera's Quartus software, version 2000.09, features the new PowerFit fitter...

NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR UNVEILS 8-BIT COP8FLASH MICROCONTROLLERS.(Product Announcement)
October 23, 2000... National Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE:NSM) has launched the first in a series of 8-bit COP8FLASH microcontrollers with a menu of special features optimized for the design of web-driven appliances, including the National(R) Geode WebPAD...

AMI DELIVERS 2MIL CONTROL LOGIC ASICS FOR MOBILE PENTIUM III.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 23, 2000... American Microsystems Inc. (AMI) has delivered 2 million control-logic application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for use with the Intel(R) mobile Pentium(R) III processors featuring Intel SpeedStep technology. The company expects to ship...

PEROT SYSTEMS SIGNS FIVE-YEAR IT AGREEMENT WITH FACTOR-E PLC.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 23, 2000... Factor-e plc, a leading provider of Internet financial technologies and solutions, has awarded a five-year technology support contract to Perot Systems Corporation (NYSE: PER). Factor-e plc's technologies and solutions enable financial...

WINFIRST TO INVEST $1B IN BROADBAND, FIBER-TO-THE-HOME NET FROM LUCENT AND AVAYA.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 23, 2000... WINfirst has signed a five-year, $800 million agreement with Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) for equipment, software and services to build a fiber-to-the-home residential network that will provide unparalleled bandwidth for voice, data and video...

SST ENTERS SERIAL FLASH MEMORY ARENA.(Product Announcement)
October 23, 2000... SST (Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.)(Nasdaq:SSTI) has entered the application-specific serial flash memory market with the introduction of a new product family. SST's SPI (serial peripheral interface) serial flash family will initially...

NEC INTROS NEW EXPRESS5800/120LE SERVER.(Product Announcement)
October 23, 2000... NEC Computers Inc., has launched the Express5800/120Le system, an architecturally advanced, dual-processor-capable, Intel(R) Pentium(R) III-based server. A high-performance, expandable server for growing small businesses, school systems and...

TELLUS TO SUPPLY CDPD MODEMS TO DCT.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 23, 2000... Tellus Technology Inc., has reached an agreement with Digital Communications Technologies to supply TPRM 130c CDPD OEM modules. Digital Communications Technologies, a developer and manufacturer of networking-enabled (or 'network-enabling')...

CRUSOE-BASED NOTEBOOK INTRODUCED BY NEC.(Product Information)
October 23, 2000... NEC has introduced a three-pound notebook computer that will operate up to 11 hours on battery power using Transmeta's Crusoe microprocessor. Since early September, Sony, Fujitsu and now NEC have introduced Crusoe-based notebooks....

SKY COMPUTERS TO PROVIDE RUGGED POWERPC-BASED MULTICOMPUTERS.(Product Development)
October 23, 2000... SKY Computers, Inc., a subsidiary of Analogic Corporation, is developing a rugged product line based upon the Company's successful AltiVec PowerPC-based Merlin multicomputer. The new product line, designated Xtreme, will be available directly...

NEC INTEGRATES INTEL CHIPSET INTO POWERMATE.(Product Announcement)
October 23, 2000... NEC has announced a new configuration for its PowerMate(R) CT desktop computer. The new system integrates the Intel(R) 815e chipset in the base system configuration for the PowerMate CT desktop designed to provide customers with a significant...

TOSHIBA LICENSES ARM946E-S CORE FOR TELECOM AND NETWORK PRODUCTS.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 23, 2000... Toshiba Corporation and ARM ((LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY)), the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor technology, have announced that Toshiba has licensed the ARM946E-S core. This license will enable Toshiba to...

NEC COMPUTERS INC. INTRODUCES NEW EXPRESS5800/120LE SERVER.(Product Announcement)
October 23, 2000... NEC Computers Inc has launched the Express5800/120Le system, an architecturally advanced, dual-processor-capable, Intel(R) Pentium(R) III-based server. A high-performance, expandable server for growing small businesses, school systems and...

PINNACLE SYSTEMS' STREAMFACTORY HARDWARE SELECTED BY REALNETWORKS FOR BROADBAND ENCODING.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 30, 2000... Pinnacle Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: PCLE), a leader in streaming video solutions, and Real Broadcast Network (RBN), the webcast hosting services division of RealNetworks(R), Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK), have announced that Pinnacle Systems' StreamFactory...

LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INTRODUCES LOW-COST, HIGH-DENSITY LINE CARD CHIPS FOR TELECOM SWITCHING APPLICATIONS.(Product Announcement)
October 30, 2000... Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) Microelectronics Group, has launched a family of low-cost, high-density subscriber line interface circuit (SLIC) chips targeted for telecommunications switching equipment used in countries with developing...

BULL ANNOUNCES THE SIM ROCK 64 CARD FOR GSM TELEPHONY.(Product Announcement)
October 30, 2000... At the Cartes 2000 exhibition, Bull (Paris Bourse: 52 60 BUL) announced the SIM ROCK card which, with 64 kilobytes of memory, has the biggest storage capacity on today's market. The card is based on the Java platform and complies with WIM...

CISCO SOFTWARE PLATFORM USED BY LEADING CUSTOMERS TO PROVIDE TEXT CHAT AND WEB COLLOBORATION IN MULTI-VENDOR CONTACT CENTERS.(Product Information)
October 30, 2000... Cisco Systems, Inc., has announced that the Cisco customer contact software platform is being used by leading customers for Web and Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) blending in a multi-vendor enterprise-wide environment. The new...

SONY'S POWER-PACKED NOTEBOOK PCS TO FEATURE INTEL 850 MHZ PENTIUM III PROCESSORS WITH SPEEDSTEP TECHNOLOGY.(Product Announcement)
October 30, 2000... Sony's two most powerful notebook PC lines -- the F series and the robust XG series, a favorite among digital video editing enthusiasts -- are among the first to offer super-fast Intel(R) 850 MHz(1) Pentium(R) III processors with SpeedStep...

NEW RULE SETS FOR LEDA CHECKERS ACCELERATE AND DELIVER.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 30, 2000... Synopsys Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS), the technology leader for complex integrated circuit (IC) design, has announced availability of the Altera(R) Coding Style 1.0 policy for Synopsys' LEDA(R) family of hardware description language (HDL) checkers. ...

ADOBE RECOVERS $1.25 MILLION FROM PIRATE RESELLER.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 30, 2000... Setting legal precedent when it comes to copyright, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) has announced that its case against pirate reseller, One Stop Micro d.b.a. Signal Computing, resulted in both a $1.25 million settlement and a...

SAMSUNG TELECOMMUNICATIONS AMERICA UNVEILS THIRD GENERATION CDMA SYSTEM.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 30, 2000... Samsung Telecommunications America, Inc. (Samsung), has introduced its Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) Third Generation (3G) capable network solution. The system includes a Base Station Controller (BSC), a Base Station Manager (BSM),...

RF MICRO DEVICES ANNOUNCES 915 MHZ TRANSCEIVER REFERENCE DESIGN.(Product Announcement)
October 30, 2000... RF Micro Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: RFMD), a provider of proprietary radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for wireless communications applications, introduced last week, at the LPRA Radio Solutions 2000 exhibition, the RD0300, a new 915 MHz...

SYTEL ADOPTS MANAGED OBJECTS' FORMULA AS CORNERSTONE OF ENTERPRISE SERVICES OFFERING.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 30, 2000... Sytel, a privately held e-business infrastructure firm, and Managed Objects, a provider of Internet infrastructure management software, has announced a partnership enabling Sytel to deploy Managed Objects' formula(R) software in the turnkey...

DIADEXUS TO USE AGILENT TECHS' DNA MICROARRAYS TO FURTHER CANCER RESEARCH.(Company Business and Marketing)
October 30, 2000... Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A), a leading provider of innovative technologies for communications and life sciences, has announced that it has entered into a TAP(1) agreement with diaDexus Inc. for gene expression system technology. This...

THIRD GEN MOBILE TECH REPORT NOW AVAILABLE FROM MRG, INC.(Industry Trend or Event)
October 30, 2000... The rapid emergence of wireless products and services is adding a new layer of competition in the high-technology market. With indicators pointing to a PC market slowdown, Internet, hardware, and software suppliers are now moving to other...