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 Fri, Aug 14 1992 Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 04:30:56 EDT Message-ID: 08-14 0000 DECISIONLINE: Technology USA TODAY Update Aug. 14-16, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network BOEING TO DO RESEARCH IN MOSCOW: Boeing signed an agreement Thursday to build a research center in Moscow, giving it a foothold in Russia's long-closed aerospace industry. "There is a tremendous amount of technology there," says Larry Clarkson, Boeing vice president for planning and international development. "This will help us get in on the ground floor and establish business ties with that country." (For more, see special Boeing package below.) MARRIETTA RAISES CASH OFFER: Martin Marrietta Corp raised the cash portion of its $440 million bid for LTV's aerospace business by $29 million Thursday. Martin Marietta is now offering to pay $425 million of its bid in cash. A rival group, led by Loral Corp., said it would not change its $475 million bid. Loral has offered to pay $450 million of its bid in cash. XEROX TO SELL APPLE SUPPLIES: Xerox Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. said Thursday they signed an agreement allowing Xerox to market Apple printer supplies. Under the pact, Xerox will market Apple's full line of laser, dot-matrix and ink-jet printer supplies to the 2,500 office-products dealers served by Xerox's Diablo Supplies distribution unit. Diablo will distribute Apple's toner, cartridges, and printer ribbons. TRAVEL AGENCIES MONITOR FARES: A growing number of travel agencies are using their computers to monitor the fares and features being offered by the airline reservations systems, says a study by Travel Weekly. The study, conducted by Louis Harris and Associate , found that 50% of agencies use special software programr at check and recheck air fares booked by the agencies in order to grab lower fares. MICROTEST SELLS TO INTEL: Microtest Inc. Thursday announced an agreement with Intel Corp. involving the sale of Microtest's printer connection technology Intel has used in its NetPort product line. The agreement includes the sale of the technology:source code as well as the acquisition of assets related to the technology. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. DEVICE MEASURES GOLFER'S SWING: A new hand-held device, borrowing on the technology used in radar speed guns, lets you measure the speed of a golfer's club head. Bel-Tronics of Covington, Ga., says its $250 SwingMate device also calculates how far the ball will travel. COMPUADD, SYSOREX TO GAIN DEAL: CompuAdd Computer Corp. and Sysorex Information Systems Inc. appear headed for victory when the Department of Defense awards its Desktop IV contract for personal computers Friday, Bloomberg Business News reports. The bid for 300,000 PCs is valued at $1 billion through 1995. FCC RESTRICTION TO BE FOUGHT: Two Congressmen say they will fight a bill that would prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from reallocating spectrum used in power utilities microwave networks to new technologies such as personal communications services, Network World says. Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., and Rep. Norman Lent, D-S.C., say congress shouldn't be part of the allocation process. APPC:APPN CONFERENCE TO BE HELD: IBM will hold its first-ever Advanced Program-to-Program Communications:Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking (APPC:APPN) developers' conference next week in Raleigh, N.C. More than 60 vendors are expected to attend. IBM says the conference will help it understand vendors' concerns about using APPC:APPN and will help set an agenda for future products. SPECIAL PACKAGE ON BOEING: THIRTY RUSSIANS TO BE EMPLOYED: Boeing plans to open a research center in Moscow. When the center opens early next year, it will operate under Boeing's Commercial Airplane Group. It initially will employ as many as 30 Russian engineers and scientists and a few engineers from Seattle-based Boeing. Research will focus on commercial aviation, Boeing says. RUSSIA HASN'T SHARED INFORMATION: Russia's aerospace technology was long considered top secret, but since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and easing of Cold War tensions, advances from Russia's Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute are coming to light in business ventures. "The technology there is of great value to Boeing and its customers," says Larry Clarkson of Boeing. WIND TUNNEL IS TOP-RATE: An example of Russia's technology with value to the rest of the world is the world-class collection of wind tunnels and aerospace test facilities at the research institute Tsagi. The institute is in the Moscow suburb of Zhukovsky, which is under consideration as the site of the new Boeing center. BOEING SEES BIG MARKET: The agreement is the latest step by Boeing to gain access to the Commonwealth of Independent States, whose state airline, Aeroflot, was the world's largest carrier. Boeing, the world's largest maker of aircraft, views the Commonwealth of Independent States as a market with vast potential. It has projected deliveries of 1,275 airplanes by 2005. (End of package.) 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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