Monday, July 19, 2004iRise Appoints Marketing ExecEl Segundo-based iRise (www.irise.com) has appointed Mitch Bishop as Chief Marketing Officer. Bishop joins from TightLink, and also has served at Scopus, Sybase, Wind River Systems, and Ingres. iRise is developing software which enables companies to prototype software without code development.
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Green Hills Gets Boeing WinSanta Barbara-based Green Hills Software (www.ghs.com) announced that The Boeing Co. has selected the company's real-time operating system and software development tools for the X-45C Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems (J-UCAS). Green Hills' develops tools and software for embedded software development. J-UCAS is a DARPA project to research the military utility of a networked system of unmanned air vehicles.
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Preventsys, SAIC In Co-Marketing AgreementSan Diego-based Preventsys and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) said that they have entered into a co-marketing agreement. The two companies will partner to deliver automated network security auditing solutions, based on Preventsys' software solutions. Sales teams from both companies will work together to promote the two comapny's comprehensive enterprise security management systems.
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Lindows Estimates IPO PricingSan Diego-based Lindows, which develops Linux-based operating system software and services, said that it will price its IPO at between $9.00 and $11.00 per share. The company filed an amended S-1 this morning, which also added JMP Securities, Meerihan Curhan Ford & Co, and Kaufman Bros to its list of underwriters, in addition to Roth Capital Partners. The company removed W+R Hambrecht & Co. from its list of underwriters last month.
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Qualcomm Tests In-Flight Cell Phone Calls With American AirlinesSan Diego-based Qualcomm and American Airlines tested a proof-of-concept, CDMA mobile phone system for commercial planes Thursday. Passengers on a flight from Dallas/Forth Worth made telephone calls using a third generation CDMA-based network, connected from the air to the ground by a satellite link. The proof of concept flight included a cellular basestation onboard, which funneled calls and text messages through the Globalstar satellite system. Qualcomm is working on making cell phone calls le (More info...)
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