1.   Alpha Industries Inc., a former defense contractor in Woburn, Mass., also made a name for itself selling equipment used in mobile communications equipment.

2.   Although Mentor and Quickturn both sell products used to design chips, they are in different parts of the business.

3.   Both companies sell software used by engineers to design and test integrated circuits, or microchips.

4.   But her plan was thwarted, when the house was sold, to be used as a corporate retreat, shortly before the auction.

5.   Cadence sells software used by engineers to design and test integrated circuits, or microchips.

6.   FSI International, which sells equipment used to make semiconductors, also did well.

7.   The browser is free, but Phone.com makes money selling software used by purveyors of sites meant for the wireless phones.

8.   The result has been that some of the earlier Cobras are selling used for about what they sold for new.

9.   Ty had complained that his property was sold using fake titles, he added.

10.   Mitsubishi will also sell plants using the VPSA system in Japan and Taiwan by starting to procure orders next month, the officials said.