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| 1 | THE Sedgefield office of Fairclough Building has won a £900,000 contract to build student accommodation at Durham University , designed by Newcastle architect Faulknerbrowns . |
| 2 | To cover the glitch Intel Corp has created with Pentium — see front page — Unisys Corp has created the marketing rationale of the customer selecting the timing of its jump to the next generation rather than being forced to it by the vendor 's phasing out existing technology . |
| 3 | Taking a bizarre leaf out of the Grand Old Duke of York manual of management , Digital Equipment Corp has disbanded the engineering group it created only in February , giving rise to perceptions that the company is in a deeper crisis than observers had previously realised . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Intergraph Corp has landed a $422m share of the US Navy 's $1.5bn CAD-2 programme and is to supply 4,200 workstations and 1,082 servers based on its Clipper RISC . |
| 6 | Digital Equipment Corp has rallied a Laguna Hills , California start-up , Carrera Computers Inc to its Windows NT-on-Alpha cause and the company will begin selling motherboards built around the 150MHz Alpha AXP RISC chip in the third quarter , according to US PC Week . |
| 7 | NCR Corp has instituted a trade-in programme to move its installed base of Tower and 3B2 users on to its 3400 servers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Nashville , Tennessee , Arnet Corp has introduced an X-Windows facsimile viewer programme for Intel iAPX-86 Unix systems : prices start at $1,300 . |
| 11 | Digital Equipment Corp has introduced the StorageWorks product line , claiming that it will deliver a complete range to meet current and future data storage needs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | AT&T Co 's NCR Corp has signed an OEM contract for NetLabs Inc 's new Overlord network management technology for use in its StarSentry product line . |
| 16 | IBM Corp has signed an OEM agreement with Synchronix Diffusion SA , Paris , France , for SX-M-View software which allows users to hot-link applications into graphic X-Terminal environments . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | IBM Corp has sold the marketing rights for its CICS PD/MVS problem determination tool , for an undisclosed sum , back to Compuware Corp , the company that originally developed the system in 1989 . |
| 20 | Microsoft Corp has launched the Microsoft TrueType Master Set , a collection of 102 high-quality TrueType fonts for the Apple Computer Inc Macintosh computer running System 7.0 and higher : the TrueType Master Set is $100 , now . |
| 21 | San Jose , California-based Alliance Semiconductor Corp has bought the Sparc Mbus/Sbus chipset designer Nimbus Technology Inc on undisclosed terms : the Santa Clara , California start-up created a stir last year with its chipset designed for use with the superscalar Sparcs from Texas Instruments Inc and Cypress Semiconductor Corp ( UX No 383 ) — Nimbus received $1.5m funding from Cypress subsidiary Ross Technology Inc . |
| 22 | San Jose , California-based Alliance Semiconductor Corp has bought the Sparc Mbus and Sbus chip set designer Nimbus Technology Inc on undisclosed terms : the Santa Clara , California start-up created a stir last year with its chip set designed for use with the superscalar Sparcs from Texas Instruments Inc and Cypress Semiconductor Corp — Nimbus received $1.5m funding from the Cypress subsidiary Ross Technology Inc . |
| 23 | Digital Equipment Corp has won a $3m contract from China 's Baoshan Steel to link the mill 's computers into the largest network DEC has sold in Asia , regional president Edmund Reilly said : a 40-mile optical fibre system will link all of Baoshan 's existing and future computers into a single , integrated enterprise network , Reilly told Reuter , and will provide videoconferencing services for the plant outside Shanghai ; DEC was chosen because of its well-established Chinese sales and service network that includes licenced local partners and offices in Shanghai , Peking and Guangzhou , Reilly said . |
| 24 | NCR Corp has won a $2m contract to provide Dutch tour operator Arke Reizen NV with one of its massively parallel System 3600 systems : the machine will serve 800 terminals at Arke Reizen 's head office and 9,000 additional remote terminals in offices across the Netherlands , it will also handle some 500,000 bookings a year and calculate and maintain Arke Reizens 's financial accounts ; it is believed to be the first time massively parallel technology has been used to handle day-to-day travel transactions — although a number of travel agents use it to analyse marketing data . |
| 25 | Needham , Massachusetts-based Cognex Corp has won an OEM contract from Tokyo Seimitsu Co Ltd , a manufacturer of semiconductor processing equipment for machine vision systems worth $2m over two years . |
| 26 | Sunnyvale , California-based massively parallel systems builder MasPar Computer Corp has put the Prism video compression software from Prism Interactive Corp , Wheaton , Illinois up on its machines , and claims that the combination is the first system capable of producing broadcast quality Motion Picture Experts Group-compatible video output in real time . |
| 27 | Santa Clara , California-based Mercury Interactive Corp has opened a UK subsidiary in London : Mercury International UK Ltd will market the firm 's XRunner , an application test suite . |
| 28 | The company is no longer going to run freight trains in Western Scotland because British Rail has increased the transport rates by 50 to 80 per cent to cover fixed costs from an ever decreasing user base . |
| 29 | BRITISH Rail has launched a winter sale , with cut-price deals on long-distance Saver tickets . |
| 30 | BRITISH Rail has introduced a £20m package of improvements to North-East services aimed at attracting more travellers on to local trains . |