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| 1 | Nynex Corp 's Nynex CableComms unit has bought three of the eight UK cable television companies that Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's PacTel Cable UK Ltd put on the market last June ( CI No 1,943 ) : Nynex has taken the Greater Manchester , Bolton and Derby franchises and while it did not disclose terms , says it plans to invest £1,000m over the next five to six years to provide local telecommunications networks in its British franchise areas ; the companies it acquired are in franchise areas where it already operates . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Cadence Design Systems Inc , San Jose , California , says it plans to use ObjectStore , to develop the next generation of its electronic design automation tools and its Design Framework II product , and Digital Equipment Corp has also taken ObjectStore with plans to use the database as a data repository with its PowerFrame software . |
| 3 | Iwerks Entertainment Inc , a Burbank , California company that includes Sun Microsystems Inc among its backers , says it plans to open movie park entertainment centres that will combine large-screen formats , simulation and virtual reality technologies to create a futuristic cinematic city : it plans to open the first Cinetropolis in August at the Foxwoods Casino in Ledyard , Connecticut , and has also signed an agreement with the Japanese trading firm Itochu Corp to launch a network of Cinetropolises throughout the Far East and Asia ; Cinetropolis will be a virtual city of cinemas featuring five separate sites : an Iwerks Video 360 circular theatre an Iwerks 870 giant screen theatre , an Iwerks Virtual Reality simulation theatre , and a live performance theatre , all built around a street scene featuring bars , restaurants , retail stores and promotional marketing space . |
| 4 | It says it plans to start US production within two years . |
| 5 | Borland International Inc has now reached agreement with WordPerfect Corp for marketing of the Borland Office for Windows suite in international markets , and says it plans to start shipments within 60 days . |
| 6 | British Telecommunications Plc 's BT North America says it plans to introduce wire and wireless services by the end of the year that will give its daily users better access to its data network : customers will be able to cut costs of on-line network usage by up to 30% and to access network applications and transfer data up to four times faster via its 14.4Kbs local dial service , which will be available from September , and uniform number access wireless cellular and radio , and its switched digital services . |
| 7 | New Haven , Connnecticut-based Southern New England Telecommunications Corp says it plans to try video-on demand services in 500 homes later this year : the phone company says that it intends to charge up to $6 per month to connect to the network , but will it during the trial . |
| 8 | Sybase says it plans to run Gain as a subsidiary at its existing base . |
| 9 | It says it plans to embed Glockenspiel Common View class library technology into its Aspen project to provide portable application development across Windows , OS/2 and Motif — Aspen will produce an object-oriented , graphical user interface-based , high performance compiler for CA-Clipper , CA-dBFast and other dBase-compatible languages . |
| 10 | Kubota was the very first to declare for the Alpha RISC , and the Japanese farm equipment manufacturer says it plans to market DEC computers in Japan and the US . |
| 11 | British Telecom says it plans to develop links between the two companies ' local network management systems — Hewlett-Packard 's OpenView and Sun 's SunNet Manager , and its own Concert system — and chose those two companies as its first partners because it believes that between them they control about 60% of the local network management market . |
| 12 | British Telecom says it plans to develop links between the two companies ' local network management systems — Hewlett-Packard 's OpenView and Sun 's SunNet Manager , and its own Concert system — and chose those two companies as its first partners because it believes that between them they control about 60% of the local network management market . |
| 13 | The county council says it hopes to give residents a choice on where they 'll be moved to and does n't expect compulsory redundancies among care staff . |
| 14 | BR says it hopes to start test runs from London to Glasgow again ‘ soon ’ . |
| 15 | The IRA says it has obtained documents detailing operations by British intelligence to recruit agents within the Irish community on the Continent . |
| 16 | SNA communications house Systems Strategies Inc says it has designated UnixWare as the primary development platform for its new Express 2.0 Unix-to-IBM ( AS/400 and mainframe ) comms software . |
| 17 | Cambridge , Massachusetts-based Gensym Corp , real-time expert system specialist , says it has completed conversion of its G2 Real-Time Expert System software for Digital Equipment Corp 's 64-bit Alpha AXP : Gensym 's G2 and G2 Diagnostic Assistant , Dynamic Scheduling Package , and NeurOn-Line , offer a graphical , object-oriented development and deployment environment for applications that intelligently monitor , diagnose , and control dynamic processes in time-critical environments . |
| 18 | SHL Systemhouse Inc says it has reached agreement with the state-owned Canada Post Corp to negotiate a 10-year facilities management contract covering all of Canada Post 's data processing , telecommunications and system management needs , SHL said in a statement ; the value of the pact was not released ; it will provide full mainframe services from its data centres in Ottawa and Halifax and help Canada Post to accelerate the change from a mainframe environment to distributed client-server architecture . |
| 19 | Dun says it has done $5m of business on SmartStream since launch last summer , has some 30 customers , with five orders over $300,000 : the software is aimed at organisations doing $150m a year and up . |
| 20 | D&B says it has done $5m of business on SmartStream since its debut last summer , has some 30 customers , with five orders worth over $300,000 : the software is aimed at organisations with revenues in excess of $150m . |
| 21 | Personal Computer Products Inc , based in San Diego , California , says it has raised $500,000 with a placing of convertible notes to a group of European banks . |
| 22 | OSF says it has increased consistency with Microsoft Corp Windows , Hewlett-Packard Co 's Presentation Manager and IBM 's Common User Access . |
| 23 | Sharp Corp says it has shifted production of low-value personal computers from Japan to companies in Taiwan and Korea : Taiwan 's Twinhead International Corp will make notebook computers and while South Korea 's Hyundai Electronic Industry Ltd will make desktops ; annual requirement for both types is 40,000 ; the Nara plant in western Japan will now make mainly high value-added products such as the Newton . |
| 24 | But transfer money is not lost to the game — it circulates , by and large — and clubs have used their new wealth in different ways ; Dein says it has helped Arsenal to develop their ground . |
| 25 | Sheffield , Yorkshire-based Prophecy UK Ltd says it has signed Manufacturing Software Portfolio Ltd to market Prosper , its financial and business management software . |
| 26 | Shipments begin this month and the company says it has taken orders totalling more than $4m for systems based on the new chip . |
| 27 | Mountain View , California-based Drexler Technology Corp says it has informed Sony Corp that it believes Sony infringed its patents with a a new eight-track Dynamic Digital Sound system to be introduced this summer in Columbia Picture 's ‘ Last Action Hero ’ movie : Drexler has two patents on the reading of high density optical data in a strip format and believes the two patents may be infringed each time digital sound from the movie track is played back using the Sony system . |
| 28 | Lotus Development Corp says it has started development on the next generation Unix version of Lotus 1–2-3 for DEC 's Alpha workstations . |
| 29 | AMD also says it has started work on developing an Am586 to compete with Intel Corp 's forthcoming Pentium . |
| 30 | It also says it has started work on developing an Am586 to compete with Intel Corp 's forthcoming Pentium . |