Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!usa-post Newsgroups: usa-today.tech From: usa-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: usa-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: tech Wed, Jul 15 1992 Date: Wed, 15 Jul 92 05:08:08 EDT Message-ID: 07-15 0000 DECISIONLINE: Technology USA TODAY Update July 15, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network GULFSTREAM TO CUT JOBS: Gulfstream Aerospace Technologies said Tuesday it will cut 225 jobs from its Oklahoma City plant because of the sluggish economy and downturn in the airline industry. The plant employs about 750 workers currently. The company said it will continue to make parts for its parent, Gulfstream Aerospace, but will no longer build parts for commercial airlines. AUTOTALK BEING USED IN LA: Los Angeles drivers have a new tool to help deal with freeways. A $129 Autotalk decoder box attaches to a car's radio to receive regional traffic reports. The reports are transmitted through SAP (Secondary Audio Program) TV signals. By punching in a code, a driver gets traffic reports for the area he or she needs. Autotalk plans to offer service across the country within five years. RAYTHEON GAINS HAWK CONTRACT: Raytheon Company said Tuesday it has received a $26.9 million production contract to upgrade the Hawk air defense missile system. Under the contract, Raytheon will provide upgrades for 52 Hawk missile launchers - 36 for the U.S. Marine Corps and 16 for the government of Sweden. The upgrade will improve the ability to transport launchers and add a remote-launch capability. INTEGRAPH GAINS CONTRACT: Intergraph Corp. said Tuesday it has been awarded a $4 million contract with an international airport being built in Hong Kong. Intergraph will be the computer-aided design (CAD) systems vendor for the first three phases of the airport. The Intergraph UNIX workstation will be used for road design, terrain modeling, civil and structural engineering, architecture and land reclamation. IDENTIX TO ACQUIRE ANADAC: Identix Inc., a manufacturer of electronic fingerprint scanning systems, Tuesday said it signed a letter of intent to acquire ANADAC Inc. ANADAC provides engineering management and computer software development services to both government and industry clients. The deal calls for Identix to acquire ANADAC for approximately 15% of Identix's stock. DAY RUNNER, TI TO JOIN FORCES: Day Runner Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc. said Tuesday they have signed a cooperative development agreement. They will create products that will integrate electronics and paper to provide users with personal organizers that are more versatile than those currently available, the firms said. They plan to market separate products. BUFFALO ADDS COMPLETE NETWORK: Buffalo Products Inc. has introduced a new peer-to-peer network solution, Complete Network. For the Windows and DOS environments, this product offers connectivity for two to 30 computers in one package. It allows hard drives, printers, software programs and peripherals to be equally shared among all networked users. Prices start at $225. SEAGATE, QUANTUM SIGN AGREEMENT: Seagate Technology and Quantum Corp. have signed a patent cross-licensing agreement which permits each to use technologies covered by the other's patents. Both firms develop and make computer storage systems. The agreement applies to all technology covered by the two companies' existing patents as well as all future patentable developments. GENERAL INSTRUMENT MAKES SALE: General Instrument Corp. said Tuesday it has signed a letter of agreement to provide Satellite Television Asian Regional Ltd. with an international digital satellite TV system. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. General Instrument's DigiCipher satellite system converts TV signals to a digital format, then compresses the signals of as many as 10 channels into one channel's band width. AT&T INTRODUCES SIMUNET: AT&T Network Systems said Tuesday it has introduced a new service capability. It allows phone companies to offer their customers switched digital signal level one (DS-1) rate connections for advanced services such as video teleconferencing and distance learning. Using the Simunet Switched DS-1 System, customers can establish DS-1 calls on a dial-up, on-demand basis. CRAY RESEARCH MAKES SALE: The Minnesota Supercomputer Center Inc. says it has signed an agreement to buy Cray Research Inc.'s newest supercomputer, the CRAY Y-MP C90 system. It will be delivered in the second quarter of 1993. The center will also buy a CRAY Y-MP M92. The agreement is valued in excess of $40 million. The center provides computing services to industrial, government and academic customers. CHIP SUPPLIERS TO VISIT JAPAN: The Electronic Industries Association of Japan has invited U.S. and European semiconductor suppliers to visit Tokyo in July for one-on-one meetings with potential Japanese users. The meetings will take place over the three-day period beginning Wednesday. The purpose of the meetings is to help foreign semiconductor suppliers achieve greater access to the Japanese market. NASA HONORS ROCKWELL: Rockwell International Corp.'s Space Systems Division has received NASA's first-ever Award for World Class Performance in recognition of its work in building the new Space Shuttle orbiter Endeavour. "The flawless performance of Endeavour's first flight," NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin said, "was due to the outstanding effort of two contractors, Rockwell and Lockheed." Technology Editor: Ed Kelleher. (1-919-855-3491) Making copies of USA TODAY Update (Copyright, 1992) for further distribution violates federal law. This article is copyright 1992 Gannett News Service. 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