IBM, Motorola plan radio link for computers
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IBM and Motorola will enter into a computer network agreement to allow computer users to communicate with each other via radio waves. Corporations with employees who work in the field are the initial target market. Clients will use handheld computers manufactured by Motorola and communicate using the private network that IBM uses to communicate with its 20,000 field representatives. IBM has radio towers reaching across the US that cover more than 90 percent of the country. The market for wireless computer transmission is said to be in the tens of millions of dollars, with a potential to reach the billions in the next decade. The network is constructed to give everyone in the field an open channel and thus constant communication with the network host. Transmissions will occur at 4,800 baud, at least twice as fast as is possible with current microcomputers. Price has not been announced.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1990
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IBM, Microsoft develop pacts on PC software
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IBM and Microsoft Corp announce agreements that should reduce their differences over microcomputer software. IBM will license Microsoft's latest version of Windows, which the company had been resisting, and instead urging customers to use the OS/2 operating system. Now, IBM presumably will market the popular Windows, because OS/2 is not doing well on the market. In turn, Microsoft agrees to add a version of OS/2 to its product line. Also, the companies will realign responsibility for development of OS/2: IBM will be responsible for the next two main versions - one for 80286 microprocessors and one for 80386 and 80486 processors; and Microsoft will be responsible for another version designed for use with microprocessors other than those in the main Intel line.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1990
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IBM invites Motorola to join a project to boost U.S. semiconductor expertise
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IBM agrees to let Motorola Inc participate in a joint research effort aimed at helping the US semiconductor production equipment industry head off Japanese competition. The research project involves X-ray lithography, a production process that could allow memory chips to store one billion bits of information. Motorola will pay a small fee as part of the 21-month agreement. IBM reports it expects industrywide research and development will become more prevalent in semiconductor manufacturing because of the enormous costs involved. A state-of-the-art manufacturing plant now costs $500 million. IBM worries that Japanese companies could take over the production equipment industry and make US semiconductor manufacturers dependent on them.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1989
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