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1 Intel Corp has confirmed a report in the San Francisco Chronicle that it will delay introduction of its Pentium microprocessor until May , but denies the paper 's assertion that it is holding the chip back to exploit demand for existing 80486 products .
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 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 .
4 Dallas , Texas-based Saber Software Corp has licensed a subset of the Saber Menu System for MS-DOS , to Novell Inc , which will include the Saber Menu Language in NetWare v4.0 , so it will be goodbye to the old Novell Menu utility MENU.EXE .
5 The fact that IBM Corp has scheduled a board meeting for next Tuesday has analysts speculating like mad that the company may name its new chief executive after the meeting : the only name now being tossed about is that of Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc , who shot to favourite in the betting after USA Today reported that talks between IBM and Gerstner had gone as far as discussion of a compensation package .
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 Digital Equipment Corp has packaged a cost-optimised 100 MIPS 10 Watt Alpha chip , some DECelx and OSF/1 real-time software and services to attract OEM customers in the embedded market , and hardware samples are promised for the summer ; the chips will also be used in single-board computers , the company says .
8 NCR Corp has instituted a trade-in programme to move its installed base of Tower and 3B2 users on to its 3400 servers .
9 Edmonton , Alberta-based Telus Corp has entered a partnership with CUC Broadcasting Ltd to develop UK cable television and telephone operations at half a dozen franchises in the London area : Telus says that it plans to invest about $100m in the effort in the next five years .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Nashville , Tennessee , Arnet Corp has introduced an X-Windows facsimile viewer programme for Intel iAPX-86 Unix systems : prices start at $1,300 .
13 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 .
14 Opportunistically , Roy , Utah-based Iomega Corp has signed a letter of intent to become exclusive worldwide distributor for Nomai SA 's cartridge disks that are compatible with SyQuest Technology Inc drives and over which SyQuest has sued Nomai , trying to prevent the French company from manufacturing and selling cartridges for its drives .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Salt Lake City , Utah-based Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp has signed an agreement with Namco Ltd , Japanese creator of electronic games for technical and market co-operation to explore the possibility of using Evans & Sutherland 's real time graphics products to assist Namco in creating the next generation of amusement arcade games machines .
20 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 .
21 NEC Corp has taken a hit from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which has placed the A-1 commercial paper rating of the NEC Industries Netherlands BV finance subsidiary on CreditWatch with negative implications , citing intensifying competition from local and international firms in Japan 's personal computer market , creating further pressure on profitability .
22 Troubles continue to pile up for Sequoia Systems Inc and now Ultimate Corp has filed a lawsuit against it alleging among other things that Sequoia has sold and attempted to sell its computer systems and maintenance services directly to Ultimate 's dealers and customers in violation of its contractual obligations , that it has disparaged and defamed Ultimate to such customers and dealers , and has interfered with Ultimate 's relationships with such customers and dealers .
23 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 .
24 IBM Corp has filed a $7.3m federal lawsuit against Nutri-System Inc , saying the debt-ridden diet company failed to make payments on 500 personal computers it had leased — but it sounds as if the Armonkeys will have to sing for their money : the suit accuses the Blue Bell , Pennsylvania , company of making no payments since December and of refusing to allow IBM to repossess the machines , but some of Nutri-System 's major franchisees have filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against the company under Chapter 7 of the bankruptcy laws — Chapter 7 means curtains — and last week , banks seized all its cash and bank accounts , forcing the company to close its 283 company-owned weight-loss centres across the US ; while Nutri-System has failed to pay only $965,380 due under its lease with IBM , a default entitles IBM to recover the full lease sum of $7.3m .
25 The US Federal Trade Commission 's investigation of Microsoft Corp has had an air of unreality about it , with few people imagining that it will come to anything very much or lead to any significant change in the market , but now that the thing may be coming to a climax , what are the possible outcomes ?
26 IBM Corp has launched a version of OSF/1 , but only in the ultra low-volume mainframe version of AIX , but Groupe Bull SA is quite happy to add bits of Foundation technology to its Berkeley Unix brought up to Unix System V.3.2 level , and Hewlett-Packard Co is taking the same tack with HP-UX .
27 Informix Corp has bought a stake of about 15% in struggling IntelliCorp Inc , developer of the Knowledge Engineering Environment , ProKappa and Kappa-PC .
28 Denton , Texas-based Scott Instruments Corp has won a development and distribution agreement with Silicon Graphics Inc for its speech recognition systems for workstations but terms were n't disclosed : speech-aware Silicon Graphics workstations , expected to be available in the second half of the year , will respond to spoken commands .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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