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1 Mooney has received a onematch suspension for reaching 21 disciplinary points this season after picking up a booking at Carlisle 12 days ago .
2 Milpitas , California-based Read-Rite Corp has formed a product development alliance with Mitsubishi Kasei Co for the development of magnetic heads and disks : the companies will co-operate to develop thin film heads and disks using inductive data detection for data densities of 500M-bits per square inch of disk , and magnetoresistive products , enabling 600Mb to be crammed onto a single 3.5″ platter ; high capacity drives have several platters in the disk-head assembly .
3 NCR Corp has instituted a trade-in programme to move its installed base of Tower and 3B2 users on to its 3400 servers .
4 In the US , Oracle Corp has introduced a master application programming interface — middleware in its terminology — to connect software running on heterogeneous clients to disparate servers and databases .
5 Unisys Corp has introduced a clustering system for its 2200 series mainframes that it describes as a highly parallel processing technology yielding significantly higher levels of system performance for mainframe servers .
6 As a step in this direction , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp has signed a service alliance agreement with Computer Sciences Corp , El Segundo , California to pursue systems integration business in the wireless telecommunications market .
7 Compaq Computer Corp has signed a distribution agreement with Beijing Stone Group Co Ltd , China 's largest private computer distributor , giving it access to Stone 's 100-plus sales outlets : it already has agreements with five other distributors for the vast Chinese market .
8 Naperville , Illinois-based Unir Corp has signed a distribution agreement with AT&T to sell and support AT&T 's eight-year old object programming language and development environment C3 .
9 Dun & Bradstreet Corp has acquired a majority interest in Gartner Group Inc for $33m from Information Partners Capital Fund LP , which financed the company 's buy-out from Saatchi & Saatchi Plc ; Gartner Group was previously controlled by Boston-based Information Partners , a venture capital firm in which Dun & Bradstreet is a limited partner .
10 Irvine , California-based Western Digital Corp has filed a patent infringement suit against Conner Peripherals Inc over a patent relating to intelligent disk drives — last year Conner and Alps Electric USA Ltd bought the patents of the bankrupt PrairieTek Corp and Western Digital said it expected Conner to sue it based on two of these PrairieTek patents and on two patents developed by Conner , and its own suit is a pre-emptive strike .
11 BRITISH Rail has launched a winter sale , with cut-price deals on long-distance Saver tickets .
12 A self-taught blacksmith has won a prestige commission to create new gates for Hereford Cathedral.The job will take him three months to complete .
13 An American scientist has invented a fuel cell which he claims can store hydrogen safely , thus making possible its commercial use as a power source .
14 A scientist has designed a bank cashpoint machine that you can talk to .
15 For example , if the job change has meant a salary increase , the new scheme will probably be more expensive to buy into as the likelihood is that it will be earnings-related .
16 IBM Corp 's IBM Personal Software Products division has become a charter member of a new Tools Interface Standards committee , an industry group that aims to define specifications that enable vendors to enhance the interoperability and portability of 32-bit development tools and to improve the economics of developing 32-bit applications ; others include Borland International Inc , Intel Corp , Lotus Development Corp , Metaware Inc , Microsoft Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc and Watcom Ltd , which will work to define a set of tool interface specifications for 32-bit operating systems and provide an open forum .
17 As she rightly points out , the effectiveness of metronidazole in rosacea was first reported in Britain and topical metronidazole has become a market leader in the United States .
18 To help , Chase de Vere Investments has produced a PEP guide .
19 Eastman Kodak Co has filed a patent infringement suit against Sony Corp and Sony Corp of America over use of a magnetic recording system that was patented by Kodak which uses a record head with a reduced magnetic gap length : Kodak said it has tried to negotiate a licence agreement with Sony over its use of the patent since the late 1980s .
20 Daewoo Electronics Co has set a conversion price of 14,400 Korean won on its par-priced $70m issue of convertible bonds due December 31 2008 and callable after May 18 1994 .
21 But I think that we can persuade them that it is something that Parliament has said a planning application that deals with local issues can be determined locally .
22 Like the video recorder and the pocket calculator , the PC has become a commodity item .
23 The user has specified a Part Number which is already in use .
24 New advice on ‘ fast-track ’ assessments was issued last week by LGDF , and SCODA has produced a practice guide based on the lessons of the national survey .
25 Loughborough University has built a test rig to compare the new glazing , which Alpine is making .
26 The Auditing Practices Board has issued a Practice Note for Lloyd 's auditors , which has been drawn up in close cooperation with the insurance market .
27 Deborah Warner has become a cult figure for stark and emotive work .
28 With Metal Mickey the chorus has got a guitar line melody .
29 The Solomon Islands health ministry has declared a water disaster in Honiara , the capital , after the tap water supplied by one of the city 's four water sources was found to be highly contaminated .
30 11.57 / 3 Now some of the trees he planted are coming to the end of their natural life and the present Duke of Marlborough has begun a restoration programme to replace them and keep the landscape gardens they were originally laid-out .
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