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linked with Mitsubishi Electric Mitsubishi is manufacturing the TV phones and both firms are selling them. In other news, NIT has developed a threadimensionalliquidcrystal color display for TV phones. The company has incorporated a technology called alenticular lens, which is curved on both sides. The lens has an LCD on the back It projects an image which looks thr~ ens i onal from all viewing angles. The display is 1$enches large, which is quite sizable for an LCD. The basic technology of this display was developed a year ago, but has been
improved. The previous version required a person to move their head slowly in order toperceive the 8-D effect.The new display is said to be more flexible and easily viewed. NIT's three~ e n sional displayisdesigned to be usedin computers, TVs, and TVphones. NIT has already developed a beta version of a thre~ ens i onal TV phone. With this color display technology, 8-D viewing does not require the use of special 8-D glasses, as has been traditional since the 50s.
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Unix System V Relmse 4 Shipping From Interactive SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA,
JUN 12 (NB) — Interactive Systems an-
nounced at its developers' conference held in Universal City, Cahfornia (the location of Universal Studios), that it has begun shipping Unix SystemVRelease 4 for the Intel 1886/i486 platformL The 1886/1486 are the chips used in the topof4he4ine IBM personal computers and compatibleL The company says that this is its first shipment since its appointment as Principal Publisher of SVR4 by Unix System Laboratories (USL) and Intel earlier this year. Interactive also announced shipment to and support of the Intel SVR4
customer base as well as delivery for its future SVR4releasesandextensions, and a new developer program to support its Unix System V environments. Interactive Systems is a Kodak company and describes itself as a supplier of Unix software products, licensed software technologies and consulting and development services to the Unix iud~ try and open systems market. The company is headquartered at 2401 Colorado
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Lotus releases 1-2-3 For Sun SPARC Systems CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETI'S, JUN 18 (NB) — Lotus will ship in 80 days Lotus I-M for Sun SPARC Systems version 1.1, $695, an upgrade which the company says integrates Lotus' C Add~ Toolkit directly into the product. This newversion also supports X Windows and Lotus Realtime, a sophisticated technology that feeds real%me financial data directly into 1-2-8. Lotus Realtime is intended to enable financial traders, portfolio managers and analysts in investment and commercial banks, bro-
keragehouses,and money management firms to use real-time data in a spread-
sheet environment when making investment decisions.
Lotus Realtime, also available in 80 days for a price of $1,600, can be purchased from Lotus Realtime Business Partner Resellers. The resellers include EJV Partners, LP., ERI, FD Consulting, Inc., Fusion Systems Group, Ltch, FXD/ Telerate Systems Incorporated, Market Vision Corporation, M i crognosis, Qxotron Systems, Inc., Reuters Information Services, Inc., Spreadsheet Solutions, Co. and Teknekron Software Systems, Inc. Realtime Toolkits which allow the developing of feed servers are available directlyfrom Lotus for $25,000 and can be used to write an unlimited number of feed serverL Commenting on its use of Lotus mealtime, Dennis Rohan, the chief executive officer of FXD/Telerate, said, "Lotus Realtime will be a fullyintegrated part of FXD/Telerate's trading room product line. This will be a highqerformance, rea14me spreadsheet that dis-
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plays quotes immediately without any recalculation or other user interaction.
Lotuswill also allow the addition ofFXD/ Telerateproprietaryfunctions and other third~ , ad en functionscovering variouss financial markets." Another Lotus Realtime Business Partner, Tekuekron Software Systems Inc., as part of the Lotus introduction, demonstrated Realtime on its Teknekron
Trader Workstation system. The firm's president, Vivek Ranadive, was quoted as saying, "IMs is not just an enhancement to a spreadsheet. This is a powerful generic tool." Teknekron will funnel the "river of information, carrying live data
to update portfolios," he added "Lotus is
t hefirstcompanytoembraceevents computing." Rauadive predicted that
Lotus could sell a few hundred thousand of the systems in three years
Gerald Mintz, senior sales and marketing executive for EJV Partners, ajoint venture amongaffiliates of Citibank, First Boston Corp., Goldman Sachs 8r. Co., Morgan Stanley Bc Co. Inc., Salomon Brothers Inc. and Shearson Lehman Brothers, enthusiastically endorsed the
Lotus combination, saying, "Lotus did what we needed, real-time spreadsheet control in the hands of people who make hanthe decisionson dling portfolios. The Lotus product will provide E JV users with significant advantagesincluding speed, fiexibjTityandcreative capabilities."
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Contacts: Patty Conley, The Weber Group(for Lotus), 617-661-7900; Whitney Greer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., 415-3364598; Amelia Ross, Telerate Inc., 201-30~ 3 ; K athleen Farmer, Teknekron Software SystemsInc., 415-325-1025.
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