TEDAS's phoneware software controls the telephone interface which connects personal computers with telephone lines. The telephone interface simplifies the physical connection between a telephone and a computer, making possible the addition of PC computing power to the ordinary telephone.
Phoneware introduces a new class of functions to managing the telephone, converting the PC into a personal call center and voice mail system. Phoneware is able to forward urgent messages to a pre-selected list of phone numbers. It tracks outgoing and incoming calls with precise documented time, date and telephone number. The computer telephony know-how utilizing L&H; speech processing technology is also available as a telephone API for system integrators from TEDAS's headquarters in Marburg, Germany.
Automated paging services will be initially offered in Mexico City and other cities in Mexico's major provinces, with subsequent expansion to over 55 cities. Services are expected to be operational by January 1996.
"Since the majority of Mexico's telephone lines do not support dual tone multi-frequency (DTMF), many of the calls placed by numeric paging service subscribers currently require operators or agents to complete these calls," explained Paul Stockford, a communications analyst with Vanguard Communications. "With the continuous voice recognition capability of InterVoice's systems, Radio Laser subscribers will be able to complete virtually all of these calls without operator or agent intervention, resulting in higher percentage of calls completed, faster service and increased privacy."
Concentra's object-oriented technology can be used to route electrical wiring for a range of aircraft without the need to create aircraft-specific applications. Thanks to expert system technology, the wire harness routing application can be used to codify the best practices of electrical routing designers from a range of Boeing groups and uniformly distribute the collective expertise to all groups. Boeing hopes to reduce cycle time, increase accuracy and lower the overall cost of electrical routing for each aircraft.
Bob Davies, former general manager of Trinzic Australasia, has been named vice president in charge of Software Artistry's Asian operations. He is currently negotiating to cement formal business partnerships with key organizations in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
CDNet will combine BrainTech's technology with a new class of Internet software it has developed for Microsoft Windows 95. The resulting product will enable users to link CD-ROM-based video with any Internet WorldWideWeb page without modifying the page's source code. CDNet will use this product to provide companies with a new method to advertise and sell their products over the Internet. The company plans to initially market this service to U.S. corporations with mature consumer distribution channels, such as beverage, catalogue, motion picture and recording companies.
BrainTech's technology will provide the means to make links to scrolling text. This technology implemented as character recognition can adapt to PC users' preferences (type, size, style, color of text, etc.) and follow a predefined piece of text as it is scrolled vertically and horizontally. CDNet's application will be the first commercial use of BrainTech's technology (see ISR, July 1995).
The integrated service is scheduled to be available this month for Windows NT, with versions for Solaris, SunOS and HP-UX scheduled for early next year. First! for the Web is a business information service that runs on a client's private Web server. Based on Individual's SMART agent technology that filters over 600 worldwide sources daily, First! for the Web is delivered every day with relevant documents appearing as HTML pages automatically organized by topic, date and company. A toolbar lets readers navigate the First! database using SMART-based hypertext links. For ad hoc story retrieval, clicking "Search" on the toolbar will allow users to pull up the Verity search function. Keyword combinations search the entire database or a date range, and searches can be saved as personal profiles.
Verity has also signed a licensing agreement with Frontier Technologies Corp. (Mequon, Wis.), a developer of Internet technology, to integrate Verity's Topic search technology into Frontier's client and server products. The first product planned is a new version of Frontier's SuperWeb Server for Windows NT that integrates the Topic search engine and provides users with personalized network access tools - tools that not only find information, but let users know if that information is relevant to their needs and preferences.
Frontier also plans to integrate Topic technology with its client products, such as SuperHighway Access CyberSearch. CyberSearch is a CD-ROM product that integrates a large database of Internet resources with a high-performance Internet browser, allowing users to search for Internet information before they actually connect to the 'Net.
The companies will combine their technologies to produce a variety of notification and reference information tools, products and services. Product development is already underway.
Since filing for Chapter 11 protection last year (see ISR, September 1994), Thinking Machines has cut costs and begun transforming operations to market its parallel software to add value and new levels of performance to mainstream computing systems. Thinking Machines' software extends the power and flexibility of these systems by allowing users to solve many small problems as well as big complex problems, including the mining of very large databases.
On behalf of the company's creditors and equity holders, the proposed plan also provides for the creation of a separate business entity to realize its patent rights. Thinking Machines owns patents to a variety of technologies, some of which have become standards in the computer industry.