"The San Jose, Calif.-based company will announce on Friday $50 rebates on all three of its Series2 digital video recorders. Following the rebates, the 40-hour box will cost $149, the 80-hour $249 and the 140-hour box $349. The rebate offer is good from Feb. 27 to May 31 and doesn't apply to DirecTV systems. Consumers must also purchase the service by June 30 to receive the rebate. A monthly service plan is $12.95, while a lifetime plan, meaning for the recorder, is $299. "

"SAIC was awarded an initial five-month, $1.2 million contract for the development of DHS' enterprise architecture with the possibility of up to $20 million over the next five years. Enterprise architectures provide a high-level conceptual blueprint that will define DHS? day-to-day operations, the various data streams involved, and the technology required to collect that data. The program will guide the organization and mission areas of each agency within DHS.

?The development of the DHS enterprise architecture was extremely challenging, due to the complexity and cultural diversity of the DHS organization, the size of the enterprise, and the short timeframe for completion,? said Wally Kaine, SAIC senior vice president. ?SAIC worked closely with the customer, and our team members' efforts resulted in high quality products that raised the bar for the development time and quality of enterprise architectures for other federal agencies.? "

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"Another fast-growing contractor in FY 2003 was the SAIC Corporation, which saw its contracts increase from $2.1 billion in FY 2002 to $2.6 billion in FY 2003. SAIC does everything from intelligence gathering to missile defense studies to Iraqi rebuilding-related work for the Pentagon. In fact, the company served as the location for a group of 150 pre-selected Iraqi exiles that the Pentagon had decided it wanted to 'drop in' to key Iraqi ministries after the invasion and occupation of Iraq. A Pentagon spokesperson explained that it was better to have them working out of SAIC's offices prior to the U.S. intervention because it would be awkward if they had Pentagon phone numbers."

"Another fast-growing contractor in FY 2003 was the SAIC Corporation, which saw its contracts increase from $2.1 billion in FY 2002 to $2.6 billion in FY 2003. SAIC does everything from intelligence gathering to missile defense studies to Iraqi rebuilding-related work for the Pentagon. In fact, the company served as the location for a group of 150 pre-selected Iraqi exiles that the Pentagon had decided it wanted to 'drop in' to key Iraqi ministries after the invasion and occupation of Iraq. A Pentagon spokesperson explained that it was better to have them working out of SAIC's offices prior to the U.S. intervention because it would be awkward if they had Pentagon phone numbers."

"Telcordia(R) Technologies, Inc., a global provider of telecommunications software and services, today announced it has issued a license for U.S. Patent No. 4,835,763, Survivable Ring Network to NEC USA, Inc. (NEC) and Zhone Technologies, Inc. The survivable ring technology, used to implement Unidirectional Path Switched Rings (UPSR), is part of Telcordia's portfolio of Optical Networking patents. It was created by Telcordia's Applied Research organization, which consists of research specialists with technical expertise spanning from software engineering to optical networking. The applied research organization has helped develop Telcordia's extensive patent portfolio in numerous areas, including SONET, DSL, wireless and optical networking.

The joint agreement states that all NEC optical products are licensed for the life of the patent and permits Zhone, the successor of NEC's eLUMINANT division, to manufacture and sell its VISTA(R) intelligent access multiplexer with embedded UPSR technology. This unique next-generation SONET broadband access system is specifically designed for both access network and local loop transmission of any TDM, IP, frame relay or ATM traffic.

'Telcordia's decision to license its Survivable Ring Network patent further demonstrates the strength of our technological leadership and innovation in an ever-evolving industry,' said Steve Joroff, director of patent licensing, Telcordia Technologies. 'Our licensing agreement will help enable Zhone to further market its VISTA(R) product for optical networks that can offer service providers more efficient communication solutions for its customers.'"

"EDO provides military products and professional services to the United States and allied governments and their prime defense contractors. In 2004, Deltek's ERP solutions will be deployed across three EDO business units -- EDO Marine and Air Division, EDO Electro-Ceramics Products and EDO Reconnaissance and Surveillance Systems -- to integrate its project management, financial accounting, procurement and materials management and client relationship processes. EDO has also signed a corporate agreement to deploy Deltek solutions enterprise-wide through 2005. EDO Corporation is number 10 on Fortune Magazine's Annual List of the 100 Fastest Growing Companies for 2003.

Deltek is recognized as the government contracting industry's preferred provider of front- and back-office ERP solutions, with an industry install base that includes Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, SAIC, L-3 Communications and CSC. Deltek clients number more than 60 percent of the top 100 federal contracting companies, as ranked by Washington Technology magazine in 2003."

"Speaking at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on the subject of East Asian maritime security, Paul Giarra, a senior analyst on Asia-Pacific affairs with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), described President Chen's DMZ proposal as 'counterintuitive.'

Such an idea 'flies in the face of the common national interests' in the region, and 'especially would be an anathema for the United States Navy,' that throughout the Cold War 'strenuously' resisted Soviet attempts to create similar zones, noted Giarra. A DMZ across the Taiwan Strait would not only ensure the mainland does not conduct missile tests in the area, but would safeguard vital sea lanes, on which all countries in the region depend for their economic health, noted Taiwan's deputy representative in Washington, Michael Tsai. "

"“What you’re seeing is true interoperability between solutions,” said Jose Contreras, Hyperion’s advanced technology group senior manager, of his company’s D.C. contract. “A lot of agencies are being asked to come up with specific measures to check their performance. They’re now at a time when they have to deliver on the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993.”

“What they’re seeing is that BPM allows them to … prove their financial and operational performance,” Contreras said.

In the District of Columbia implementation, local agency directors will get a “more granular view,” as Hyperion describes it, of their budgets. This includes up-to-the-minute measures of the effectiveness of various programs compared to the funds allocated to those initiatives. The district’s chief financial officer also will have a much clearer picture of the budget health across all 68 agencies, Hyperion said.

"The Agriculture Department has also implemented interbureau paperless procedures with the company’s software. Mooney also noted her company’s resale relationships in the federal sector. For example, Science Applications International Corp. has bundled Metastorm eWorks into a complete logistic package used by the Army to track supply logistics and coordinate resources and materiel."

These performance gauges allow officials to “understand what services are being demanded and how effectively they are delivering it,” Contreras said. “Performance management has real-time visibility of financial and nonfinancial performance activities, all the way down to specific activities. Status indicators and alerts are triggered if performance is out of a range.” "

"Microsoft also demonstrated 'tamper resistant' biometric ID-card software, developed by its own research arm, that can be used by both small and large companies to create ID cards using a digital camera, an inkjet printer and a business-card scanner. "

"Mr Gehorsam said the world being created will not be a game but instead will be a 'massively multi-user persistent environment' that will model real world physics as closely as possible."

"In the advertisment in question - for Apple's iTunes pay-per-download music store, and aired last year on MTV - a young boy is playing an Apple iPod, the company's personal music player.

The lawsuit, which also names MTV and advertising agency TBWA/Chiat/Day claims the child sings along to the song being played - 'Lose Yourself'. "