BRIEF TRANSMISSIONS

Bridge Information Systems, Inc. plans to launch LAN-based futures quote service using Bridge Market Data broadcast feed, says firm's Doug Drawe. Pilots of PC service -- which features windows, color graphics, etc. -- are already installed at several customer sites. Yet-unnamed service is first major upgrade of Bridge's futures business since it acquired Market Data Systems in 1984.

AT&T expects to move forward with plans to develop and market generic receiver for processing and caching digital data feeds. Firm recently distributed questionnaire asking Financial Information Standards Organization members to outline desired features. "We're still fighting the battle internally but I think that battle is basically over and I think we've won it," says source at AT&T.

Interactive Data Corp. has added end-of-day equity, currency, index, debt, and interest rate options pricing to family of mutual fund pricing services.

Teaneck-based Ram Dynamics Inc. has launched Market Maestro quote server system for use with Commodity Quotations, Inc. Comstock feed. Market Maestro comprises server software compatible with any Netbios LAN, company says, and windowed display software for EGA/VGA monitors.

Rose By Any Other Name Dept. Telerate's Standard Output Protocol (SOP) trading room feed will henceforth be known as TDPF -- Telerate Digital Page Feed, company says.

Rose By Any Other Name Dept., Part II. As of May 31st, USFX page on Reuter Monitor Domestic Money service is known as USSP. USFX lives on, however, on SDS2 service.

Next meeting of FISO -- Financial Information Standards Organization -- will be in New York June 20-21.

Helping People Manage Change: At Quotron Systems, Inc., Don Stevens, vice president, customer engineering, takes early retirement, replaced by Thomas Flanagan, ex-Citicorp Management Logistics; Bruce Jackson, executive vice president, hardware engineering, takes early retirement, replaced by Charles Dumas, ex- NBI, who's now vice president, manufacturing operations; Quotron veteran Pier Rossi promoted to vice president, network engineering; Patricia Lowenstem, ex-Citibank Financial Institutions Group, is new vice president, human resources; Sharon Wilson, ex-marketing communications, is now director, public relations and internal communications....Gerry Mintz, former marketing chief at CMQ Communications, moves to New York to become vice president, marketing, for Americas Group at parent Telerate, which also names Steve Popple, ex-Kapiti Asia, marketing manager for Asia-Pacific Group....Ed Parker, co-founder of small-dish satellite pioneer Equatorial Communications Co., resigns as president of Data Networks Division at Contel ASC, which recently acquired Equatorial....Woody Hobbs, systems chief at Charles Schwab & Co., resigns, replaced by Bill Pearson, ex-Beta Systems and ex-Schwab.