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Scottish Widows, a leading life insurance and investment company, has made a strategic decision to implement Simware's A2B product across its organization. This move aims to enhance connectivity and streamline operations among its 3000 employees, particularly the 200 mobile sales personnel. With A2B, Scottish Widows employees will be
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NationsBank, the fourth-largest bank in the United States with assets of $184 billion, has chosen Sybase's SQL Server 10 as the foundation for its new enterprise-wide client/server environment. The strategic partnership aims to realize operational efficiencies and improve customer service through enhanced data access and manipulation capabilities.
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Unisys Corp. has been certified by Microsoft Corp. as a Microsoft Solution Provider Authorized Support Center (ASC) in Europe, solidifying its position as a leading provider of services and solutions for multivendor desktop and distributed environments. This agreement, announced on April 12, 1995, designates Unisys as one of four companies
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ISDN Systems Corporation's two innovative PC adapter products, the FX-PRI and SecureLink II, have been made available, providing remote users with low-cost, high-speed access to information. The FX-PRI adapter offers primary rate speeds (1.544 Mbps) and frame relay capabilities, while the SecureLink II provides basic rate speeds
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Cisco Systems, a leader in networking, introduced a virtual LAN (VLAN) solution that will allow users to design, modify, and configure their networks with unprecedented flexibility. This solution, which will be available across Cisco's router, switch, and ATM product lines, is a major step forward in network management
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Hewlett-Packard Company has unveiled "Operation Camouflage," a joint initiative with IBM, Microsoft, and Novell, aimed at simplifying network printing. The program focuses on developing and integrating printer-management software into widely used computing platforms, providing users with intuitive, transparent, and powerful network printing capabilities. This announcement comes as network
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NaBANCO, the merchant credit card subsidiary of First Financial Management Corporation, has announced a partnership with Microsoft to provide a secure end-to-end method for processing bankcard payments over online networks. The partnership utilizes Microsoft's secure transaction technology, which enables NaBANCO's merchant customers to accept bankcard payments
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HyperBole Studios, a pioneering force in interactive storytelling, has embarked on a significant partnership with Microsoft in a joint venture that promises to revolutionize the world of interactive entertainment. This collaboration brings together the creativity of Hollywood and the technological prowess of Microsoft, solidifying Seattle's position as a
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Microsoft Corp. and DreamWorks SKG have announced a joint-venture agreement to form a new software company, DreamWorks Interactive, designed to produce interactive and multimedia entertainment properties. The company will be headquartered in Los Angeles, with a sister development and production facility in Redmond, Wash. Initially, the company will focus on
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DreamWorks, the fledgling movie studio founded by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen, has secured $1.6 billion in financing from Chemical Bank and other sources. The investment will help the studio cover its start-up costs, including studio facilities for film and TV production, a record label, and a
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HP and Microsoft have announced full Plug and Play support for the entire HP LaserJet printer line, enabling users to install an HP LaserJet printer simply by plugging it into a PC's parallel port. This eliminates the multistep process of loading a printer-driver disk, running an installation program,
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Microsoft has announced support for Compaq's line of new COMPAQ DESKPRO and ProLinea computers by incorporating Compaq's easy-to-manage systems into the Microsoft Systems Management Server. This integration will simplify network management on personal computers by providing a more advanced level of inventory capability. Microsoft also launched
