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 Tue, May 19 1992 Date: Tue, 19 May 92 05:21:11 EDT Message-ID: 05-19 0000 DECISIONLINE: Technology USA TODAY Update May 19, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network APPLE UNVEILS QUADRA 950: Apple Computer unveiled its most advanced personal computer Monday, the Macintosh Quadra 950. The new PC, priced from $7,199 to $10,200, is part of Apple's upscale Quadra line. Apple hopes its Quadra line, introduced late last year, will help it break into the huge business market. Apple says the Quadra 950 ran faster in tests than IBM-compatible machines powered by Intel's 486 chip. MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DEAL MAY FAIL: A Taiwanese group, which had been planning to buy 40% of McDonnell Douglas' commercial-aircraft operation, has offered instead to buy 20 large jets, a report out Monday says. The firm had been counting on the $2 billion investment to help fund a new project. McDonnell says that if it can't line up enough investment, it won't build the MD-12, a jumbo jet that could seat 500. COGNOS, TYMLABS SETTLE: Cognos Inc. announced Monday that it has finalized a new business agreement with Tymlabs Corp. in which Cognos will now license Tymlabs to incorporate the attributes of Cognos QUIZ software into Tymlabs PDQ software product. Also, the two companies have agreed to dismiss the lawsuits pending between them for copyright infringement without any admission of liability. MONORAIL PROJECT IN TURMOIL: A monorail project, authorized in last year's transportation bill, is now the center of a controversy. Pennsylvania Republican Bud Shuster has been accused by a Virginia company of pushing through the $35 million project to benefit a company that employs his daughter and an ex-aide. Officers of Futrex Ind., marketing a competing technology, say the company has been shut out of bidding. VIDEO TELLER MACHINES UNVEILED: NCR has unveiled a new video automated teller machine that allows customers to talk with and see bank officials on a video hookup. The video automated teller machines will be tested later this year in Ohio by Huntington National Bank of Columbus. ATMEL RELEASES NEW PRODUCT: The semiconductor industry's first 3-volt-only Flash memory, designed for portable electronics applications, is now available from Atmel Corp. The AT29LV512 Flash will allow power reductions of up to 90% in the Flash memory sections of various hand-held and portable computing machines. It is priced at $9.90 in quantities of 10,000. MEDICUS BUYS ISSI: Medicus Systems Corporation said Monday it has entered into an agreement to acquire Innovate Software Solutions Inc. for 250,000 shares of Medicus stocks. ISSI develops accounting software. Medicus specializes in software for healthcare providers. FOUR FIRMS SIGN DEAL: Digital Equipment Corporation, RAM Mobile Data and BellSouth Enterprises Inc. Monday announced a worldwide agreement to provide mobile data solutions based on the Mobitex mobile packet radio network. Digital will offer wireless electronic mail to its ALL-IN-1 office system customers early in 1993. Portable computers will have access to the system without using a phone line. ASCNIC, CENTIGRAM TEAM UP: Centigram Communications Corp. and Async, an MCI Communications Corp. company, said Monday they have teamed up. They will give mobile professionals using Async the ability to access to voice, data, electronic mail and facsimile information - all in one call from any touch-tone telephone. Initially, Async will be using a 112 port system that can serve approximately 25,000 individual users. CHERNOBYL SOFTWARE AVAILABLE: The Battelle Memorial Institute in Richland, Wash., has released a computer software package that contains more than 4,500 cited references and abstracts related to the 1987 Chernobyl nuclear accident in the former Soviet Union. It now runs on IBM personal computers and will be offered for Macintoshes in the future. BELL ATLANTIC TO PUBLISH CDS: Capitol Multimedia, Inc. and Bell Atlantic Directory Services Monday announced an agreement to co-publish consumer-oriented programming in the new compact disc format CD-I. CD-I produces voice and video on compact discs. Capitol Multimedia, which is partially owned by N.V. Philips of the Netherlands, publishes titles in the new compact disc format. VIDEOTELECOM SIGNS DEAL: VideoTelecom Corp. has entered into a agreement with Olivetti, an Italian information technology firm, to supply VideoTelecom-approved support services for authorized resellers of VideoTelecom's videoconferencing products. Overseas, Olivetti will provide installation, training and maintenance for VideoTelecom resellers in seven European countries and Japan. 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. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM