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 Mon, Aug 17 1992 Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 04:19:44 EDT Message-ID: 08-17 0000 DECISIONLINE: Technology USA TODAY Update Aug. 17, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network BROOKTREE SETTLES PATENT SUIT: Brooktree Corp. said Friday that it has settled a patent lawsuit filed by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. The suit was over a Brooktree patent on the process used to make integrated circuits. A Brooktree spokeswoman said a confidentiality agreement signed by both companies means that terms of the settlement cannot be disclosed. She said AMD "agreed to drop the lawsuit." FIRMS HIRING RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS: U.S. high-tech companies see one thing in Russia that they like a lot: Its scientists. So far, some of the most beneficial business ties between the two countries have come from firms such as AT&T hiring a Russian laboratory for research. The deals may help keep scientists in Russia. Other high-tech firms making deals in Russia include Boeing, Apple Computer, GO Corp. and Sun Microsystems. (For more, see special Russia package below.) FIRMS TEAM UP AGAINST IBM: German company Siemens AG and Thomson-CSF of France have undertaken a joint venture to compete against IBM for a contract to build an air traffic control system. Bloomberg Business News reported Sunday that the contract is for 10 to 15 years for a $2 billion to $4 billion European air traffic control system. Thomson on its own has recently won contracts for Greece and the CIS. PRATT & WHITNEY SIGNS DEAL: United Technologies Corp.'s Pratt & Whitney division has signed a letter of intent to supply 80 engines for 20 Russian-made, four-engine Ilyushin aircraft. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The aircraft is scheduled to perform test flights next March and the first aircraft is scheduled for delivery in 1995. PROCESSING MODULE BEING MADE: Republic Technology Corp., a subsidiary of U.S. Technologies Inc. says it will introduce the RPM 3:T, a new version of its Remote Processing Module (RPM) series of secure, diskless workstations. It is designed to serve IBM and compatible Token-Ring workstations. The RPM 3:T is in production now at Republic's Austin, Texas, plant. MICROSOFT BUNDLES UPGRADES: Microsoft has begun shipping a single-install version of its DOS 5.0 upgrade and Windows 3.1 for use on any computer currently running DOS, The $199.95 integrated package allows users to simultaneously upgrade DOS while installing or upgrading Windows using a single installation program. VIRTUAL REALITY MEETING PLANNED: Virtual Reality '92, an exhibition and conference focusing on virtual reality, artificial reality and cyperspace, is scheduled for Sept. 23 through Sept. 25 in San Jose, Calif. It is sponsored by Meckler Corp. in Westport, Conn. NEC TO ENTER VIETNAM MARKET: NEC Corp. soon will be able to export optical telecommunications systems to Vietnam. Japan's Nihon Keizai newspaper said Sunday that its Ministry of International Trade and Industry will allow NEC to export the systems whose sales to communist nations are restricted under international trade rules. The systems will link the country's telephone networks. MCI DEVELOPING ROUTING FEATURE: MCI is developing an intelligent routing feature that will allow users to automatically route incoming toll-free calls among call centers without the need for special automatic call distributor software, Network World reports. The feature would enable users to treat multiple call centers as a single center by routing calls from busy sites to other centers. AT&T has a similar feature. SPECIAL PACKAGE ON RUSSIA: SCIENTISTS STAY IN REGION: Some U.S. firms are setting up labs in Russia. The moves have helped the region to keep its top scientists. The breakup of the Soviet Union has led to a disembowelment of much of the old Soviet defense industry, which paid the salaries of most of the region's top scientists. Some feared the scientists would leave for better job prospects in the West or for countries such as Iran. BOEING TO EMPLOY 30: Boeing says it will create an aerospace research center in Moscow employing up to 30 Russian engineers and scientists. "There is a tremendous amount of technology there," says Larry Clarkson, Boeing vice president for planning and international development. FIRMS TEAM UP WITH PARAGRAPH: Apple Computer and GO Corp. have both signed joint programs to develop computer software with Moscow's ParaGraph. ParaGraph has passed many Western companies in developing a pen-based computer that recognizes cursive handwriting. ParaGraph founder Stepan Pachikov has traveled often to Silicon Valley and working or socializing with most of the industry's top executives. SUN, CORNING, AT&T MAKE DEALS: Sun Microsystems has signed up a branch of Russia's Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Technology to develop internal computer software. Corning will conduct joint glass research with two science institutes in St. Petersburg. AT&T's Bell Labs will employ 100 fiber-optics scientists at Moscow's General Physics Institute. (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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