Dateline: September 8, 1997

The Electronic Industries Association (EIA, Arlington, VA, http://www.eia.org) will host two conferences designed to cover the trends and sales opportunities within the federal marketplace--the EIA 9th Annual Five-Year FIS Forecast (September 24, 1997) and EIA 33rd Annual Ten-Year Defense Electronics Forecast (October 8-9, 1997)--both to be held at the McLean Hilton, McLean, VA

Cygnet Storage Solutions (San Jose, http://www.cygnet.com) has announced the release of InfiniWriter, the first jukebox configured specifically to automate CD publishing for corporate applications

Infodata Systems (Fairfax, VA, http://www.infodata.com) has announced reseller agreements with BTG (Fairfax, VA, http://www.btg.com) and GE Capital IT Solutions Federal Systems (Gaithersburg, MD, http://www.gecits.ge.com)

Document Technologies (DTI< Sunnyvale, CA, http://www.easyread.com) has appointed Barry Rogers, formerly Xionics Document Technologies’ sales director-image acceleration products, to the post of Eastern Regional sales manager

The Consumer Elecronics Manufacturers Association (CEMA, Arlington, VA, http://www.cemacity.org), working with manufacturers and software companies, has created a new engineering standard, EIA/IS-702, that will safeguard DVD digital-to-analog copyrights

Sharp Electronics (Mahwah, NJ, http://www.sharp-usa.com) announces the availablility of the CE-LT14M, a desktop LCD monitor featuring a 13.8-in. screen size and resoluiton of 1024 x 768

Cybernetics (Yorktown, VA, http://www.cybernetics.com) has introduced the XP series of high-capacity hard disk arrays that provide 30 mb/s throughput by utilizing the read/write performance of multiple drives at once