Analysis secures $49.6 million Navy contract
NORTH STONINGTON, Conn. – Analysis & Technology, Inc., was awarded a multimillion dollar contract with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport for engineering and technical support of its Undersea Weapon System Program last month. If all options in the contract are exercised over its five year life, the contract would be worth $49.6 million, according to a statement issued by Analysis & Technology, which is a publicly traded company. Among other things, the company will maintain current data collection and display systems for undersea weapons systems test ranges.
Kentucky company to resell Bell Atlantic lines
PROVIDENCE – A Louisville, Kentucky, firm has agreed to resell at least 200,000 Bell Atlantic telephone lines over five years to business customers in the Providence area. UniDial Communications, which will basically be selling Bell Atlantic services to customers at a discounted rate, values the deal at about $300 million over a five year period. Regulations controlling the telecommunications industry mandate that local phone companies, such as Bell Atlantic, sell off some of their local business, before they are allowed to enter the long distance business.
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TECH CORPS’ popular “WebNight” returns
PROVIDENCE — “WebNight 2.0: A Celebration of Teaching and Learning with Technology,” is back by popular demand. The event, a product of TECH CORPS Rhode Island, is being billed as an interactive event and will take place at Johnson & Wales University on June 2, from 5:30 to 8 p.m.
daly.commerce acquires Michigan company
PROVIDENCE – Local software company daly.commerce announced earlier this month it acquired Matrix Computer Systems of Troy, Michigan. The company did not reveal the cost of the deal in its official announcement. Matrix had been a “long-standing member of the daly.commerce Business Partner program, company officials stated. The Troy office will now serve as daly.commerce’s Michigan office. The Providence-based daly.commerce actually changed its name from Daly & Wolcott in January of this year, as part of a campaign to refocus the company’s image on e-commerce and its kin i-commerce. Matrix has played a role in sales and support of daly.commerce products in Michigan.
Fiber optic ring planned in Bay State
WESTBOROUGH, Mass. – NEESCom, the telecommunications subsidiary of New England Electric System, plans to build a 200-mile fiber optic ring in eastern Massachusetts, according to an announcement issued last month. The new fiber optic network would allow telecommunications carriers to offer high-speed, high-capacity data transmission such as Internet, cable television, and telephone capabilities to customers in a number of communities. The project will start at TeleCom City, a center for applied high tech research and product development that straddles Everett, Malden, and Medford. Plans call for the network to proceed north along the Massachusetts coast, turn towards Lawrence, then head south along Route 495, and end in a loop near Quincy, company officials stated.
GTECH cooperating in Irish investigation
WEST GREENWICH — GTECH Holdings Corp. has announced that it has been cooperating with an Irish government investigation into possible corruption. The cooperation centers on a $100,000 investment made by GTECH’S former chairman, Guy B. Snowden, in a company owned by former Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey’s son. The Wall Street Journal reports that the disclosure was filed last week in the annual report of the West Greenwich-based lottery services company. In the filing, GTECH said testimony in the Irish inquiry indicated Snowden made the investment in February 1993, a month before the Irish lottery authority renewed GTECH’s contract to supply the country’s online lottery and its instant lottery with goods and services. GTECH had been the Irish lottery’s primary supplier since 1987. The contract was put up for competitive bidding in 1992, a contest that GTECH won in November 1992. The final contract was signed in March 1993, the company said. Haughey resigned as prime minister in early 1992 but his party remained in power.
Judge’s ruling favors Sun Microsystems
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Several Microsoft Corp. products, including Windows 98, infringed Sun Microsystems Inc.’ copyrights, a federal judge said in a nonbinding, tentative ruling recently. However, the ruling — issued by U.S. District Court in San Jose said that Microsoft can develop and distribute “independently developed” tools that do not comply with a contract with Sun, so long as such products do not infringe any Sun copyright, patent or other intellectual property right. The three-part ruling will be finalized — and possibly changed — after oral arguments scheduled in June. Sun, based in Palo Alto, Calif., has tried to promote its programming language Java as a universal language that can be used with any form of software. The company sued Microsoft, contending that the Redmond, Wash.-based computer company used its licensed version of Java to design a Windows-only form that was incompatible with rival software, in violation of a contract.
