Articles from Business Wire (December 22, 1997)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Battery Ventures Invests in SmartPatents Inc.			648
Bay Apartment Communities Acquires 279-Apartment Home Community in Beaverton; Acquisition Marks Company's Initial Entry into Portland Market.			612
Business Objects Delivers WebIntelligence; First Native Web Decision Support Solution with Shared Infrastructure for Full and Thin Clients.			1215
California Microwave Agrees to Sell STS for $27 Million in Cash.			225
California Microwave Settles Class Action Securities Lawsuit.			269
Cisco Systems to Acquire LightSpeed International, Inc.; Cisco Steps Up Voice Protocol Expertise.			564
Clarion House Inc. Announces Pending Acquisition of Triangle Plastics Inc.			188
Cohesant Technologies to Sell Assets of American Chemical Company.			153
Dental/Medical Diagnostic Systems Inc. Places a $2.9 Million Purchase Order With Ion Laser Technology Inc. for the Apollo 9500.			306
Dynatech Corporation Announces $900 Million Recapitalization Plan Led by Dynatech Management and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc.			655
EDO Corp. Awarded $4.9 Million SONAR System Contract.			336
Electrocon International Inc. Announces Financial Results for the 9 Months Ended Sept. 30, 1997.			1296
Electronic Arts Ships FIFA: Road To World Cup 98 For The Nintendo 64.			774
GenRad Selected by Sun Microsystems to Provide High Pin Count Testing Solution.			438
Geron Forms Collaboration with Boehringer Mannheim to Develop and Commercialize New Class of Cancer Diagnostics; Agreement Focuses on Advances in Telomerase Detection Technologies.			585
International Nursing Services Announces Approval of Acquisition of Cymedix Corporation and Launch of Cymedix Lynx Internet Medical Service.			703
InVision Technologies Receives $1.3 Million Follow-On Order From British Airport Authority for CTX 5000; First Unit Ordered for Gatwick International Airport.			235
IPL Systems, Inc. Reports Improvement in the Fourth Quarter.			1406
Java Relational Binding From Unidata Gives Java Developers a Simple and Efficient Solution for Storing and Retrieving Data in a Relational Database.			806
Krantor Begins Shipping Premium Handmade Cigars to Major National Food Wholesalers and Supermarket Accounts.			286
MARTIN MARIETTA MATERIALS, INC. ACQUIRES VIRGINIA QUARRY IN SWAP WITH HANSON.			331
MIDCOM Announces Approval of Asset Sale Procedures; Company Also Announces NASDAQ Decision.			217
Move to Cupertino Accommodates Packeteer Expansion.			391
Neptune Communications to Install the Pacific Express Cable Network Connecting the US West Coast to Hawaii - Guam - Japan - Korea - China - Canada.			595
New PanoView 630MF 12.1" SVGA TFT LCD Flat Panel Monitor in a Rack-Mount Module; CTX Opto Delivers Large Display Solution To Design/OEM Market.			539
Notice of Pendency of Class Action Filed Against Acres Gaming.			336
Royal Jordanian Purchases 182 Sony Video Walkman Players; Nearly 20,000 Video Walkman Now In Flight Worldwide.			546
SCPIE Holdings Inc. Subsidiary to Buy Fremont Medical Malpractice Business.			497
Signal Technology Authorizes Stock Repurchase Program.			311
SoftQuad Announces Panorama CDWeb Publisher.			879
Specialized Health Products International, Inc. Announces A Product Development and Exclusive Worldwide License Agreement with Johnson & Johnson Medical, Inc.			544
Sunquest Managed Care Division Signs Joint Marketing Agreement with HPR Inc.			627
The Lamaur Corporation Announces Cost Reduction Program and Preliminary 1998 Results.			380
Trend Micro Beefs Up Virus Protection for Sun Netra i Server.			504
Tri-Star Computer Teams With Wright America to Target Printing, Publishing and Creative Markets.			572
Ugly Duckling Corp. Completes First Merchants Acceptance Corp. and Securitization Transactions.			470
WinStar Receives CLEC Certification in Missouri.			223
Xionics Announces Expected Second Quarter Results.			435
ZMAX Corp. to be Exclusive North American Provider of P.O.V. Information Technology's Y2K Solution.			449
Zoran Digital Audio Signal Processors in Over 12,000 Dolby Digital Theaters.			637