The US Justice department is filing an appeal with the US Supreme Court regarding the decision of a Philidelphia court recently, rejecting the Communications Decency Act.
As Computergram predicted (CI No 2,944), Microsoft Corp and Net Logistics officially launched their shipping logistics application, incorporating electronic data interchange (EDI) technology, last Friday. Called WWShipment, if offers tools to help shippers conduct trade over the Internet in real time.
Microsoft Corp has licensed parts of McAfee Associates Inc’s anti-virus software to use in its future Internet software products. The deal includes Santa Clara, California-based McAfee’s Code Matrix Scanning and Code Trace Scanning technology.
Packard Bell Electronics Inc’s Zenith Data Systems unit says the US General Services Administration’s Board of Contract Appeals has dismissed all protests and removed all barriers to its award of the US Air Force Desktop V contract for personal computers, valued at a government-estimated $1,000m-plus.
Redwood City, California-based California Microwave Inc reports a $1.2m contract to supply and instal digital microwave radios in the Republic of Montenegro, it said.
The people that thought up names like Hob Nobs and Boasters, Kaleida and Taligent, Aptiva and Ambra, made fortunes in the 1980s, and it appears that there is still room for their services in the 1990s, even if it is primarily to provide material to fill trivia spots in newspapers: by according to Associated Press, the identity consulting firm Anspach Grossman Enterprise has done a survey that showed that the number of American companies that changed their name during the first half of 1996 w as up 30% compared to the same period last year, with mergers, acquisitions and restructurings accounting for most of the new corporate names (fancy that!).
