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• Karen Walton Joins NCI Information Systems, Inc. to Lead Federal Business Development Team; Industry Veteran to Focus on Extending NCI's Capabilities to Civilian Agencies

  - 2002-09-26

  Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers MCLEAN, Va.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 26, 2002 NCI Information Systems, Inc. NCI, the IT systems "partner of choice" for government and commercial customers, announced today that Karen Walton has joined the company as Senior Vice President of business development for the federal civilian agencies. She will...

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• Oracle Chief Announces Resurrection of Network Computer Inc >BY Siobhan Kennedy

  - 1999-10-07

  Larry Ellison, the chairman and CEO of Oracle Corp said yesterday that the company behind its new low-cost hardware platform would probably be called Network Computer Inc, the name given to Oracle's first NC efforts and then promptly dropped after the technology died an embarrassing death. Speaking at the...

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• Oracle Revives Network Computer, This Time With Linux

  - 1999-07-30

  Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison was the network computer's biggest champion. He liked it so much, he started the company, calling it Network Computer Inc. But through most of 1998, network computers were considered a disappointment, since they failed to replace the PC or sell in appliance-like volumes. The term...

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• Network Computer, Inc., unit of Oracle Corp., gained $50 million in financing last week and a new moniker.

  - 1999-05-24

  The funding comes from 11 companies, including Comcast, Cox Communications, General Instrument Corp., Hambrecht & Quist, Lucent Technologies, Marubeni Corp., MediaOne Ventures, Rogers Communications, Shaw Communications, Sun Microsystems and Wind River Systems. NCI has been renamed Liberate Technologies.

  Tags: Comcast Corp., Cox Communications Inc., General Instrument Corp., Hambrecht & Quist, Lucent Technologies Inc., Network Computer Inc., Oracle Corp.

• Lysis Showcases the Market-Leading Digital TV Broadcast Management Solution At NAB'99 - Lysis iDTV

  - 1999-04-21

  LAS VEGAS--BUSINESS WIRE--April 21, 1999-- The Lysis iDTV Software platform receives significant endorsement as the Company announces key partnerships and integrations with Oracle, Compaq, NCI, DiviCom and Thomcast Swiss-based digital TV software provider Lysis is demonstrating at the National Association of Broadcasters NAB convention in Las...

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• Oracle's Nci Bags Four Japanese Service Providers

  - 1998-06-03

  Oracle Corp's Network Computer Inc subsidiary will give itself a booster shot today with the announcement of a new software package for the Japanese television set-top box market and the licensing of the software to four of Japan's largest cable and internet providers offering internet-over-TV services. The four providers have...

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• Oracle, Intel To Take A Slice Of Time Warner Internet

  - 1998-05-05

  Bloomberg reports that Oracle Corp and Intel Corp are to buy an interest in Time Warner Inc's Road Runner high-speed internet- over-cable service. Rumor has it that Oracle subsidiary Network Computer Inc NCI will provide the platform via its digital TV set-top boxes. At the National Cable TV Show in...

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• Oracle Paid $77m In Shares For Navio

  - 1998-04-14

  It turns out that Oracle Corp paid the equivalent of $77m in stock of its Network Computer Inc subsidiary to acquire for it the remainder of the Navio Inc joint venture with Netscape Communications Corp on web and browser software for network computers which it did not already own (CI...

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• Oracle unit lands set-top deal; NCI gains Cable & Wireless UK cable business, more deals predicted. (includes related article on ESPN SportsZone)(Telemedia)

  - 1998-03-16

  NCI gains Cable & Wireless UK cable business, more deals predicted In what it clearly views as a jump start to its nascent digital set-top software business, Oracle Corp.'s NCI subsidiary struck a major deal with Cable & Wireless Commu...

  Tags: cable, Cable and Wireless Plc., ESPN, Network Computer Inc., Oracle Corp., set-top

• Combined Issue: Oracle's Nci Wins C&W For Digital Set-Top Box Platform

  - 1998-03-11

  Oracle Corp's Network Computer Inc NCI subsidiary has won its second major cable customer for its DTV Navigator digital set-top box software platform in the shape of Cable & Wireless Plc. Beginning in the UK at the end of this year, C&W will eventually offer DTV to all of its...

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