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- 'Chummy' Site Milks Coveted Demographic - Questions.net may enter you in a US$1,000 sweepstakes for mouthing off about your online habits and high-tech products - but its methodology is questionable. [Wired News]
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- 'Ready, Set, Pitch!' Makes Great Theater - Nine new-media companies in search of investors staged a cross between a dog-and-pony show and an S/M cabaret to an appreciative audience. [Wired News]
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- 'You've Got Payback!' AOL to Refund User Fees - The company agreed with state attorneys general to refund fees to users who couldn't get in during December and January. [Wired News]
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- 2000: Year of Chicken Little? - Lots of money is being thrown at the "Year 2000 Problem," but everyone agrees on only one thing - it's impossible to tell what damage, if any, is possible. [Wired News]
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- 3-D Dream Job: Production Studio Director - OZ is an Icelandic 3-D entertainment company with new offices in San Francisco that need staffing. [Wired News]
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- 3Com to Buy US Robotics - The deal would be the biggest merger in the data networking industry and give 3Com strength in some of its key markets. [Wired News]
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- 3DO: Consoles 'R' Not Us - After taking a beating from industry big boys, the full-service gamemaker is selling its hardware biz to Samsung and going whole hog into software. [Wired News]
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- 3M Not Happy with Microsoft's Post-It Emulation - 3M is suing Microsoft for using a notes feature it says is 'surprisingly familiar' to its own Post-It notes. [Wired News]
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- @Home Crosses Border - The high-speed access company - heading back from the dead - joins forces with Canadian cable giants. [Wired News]
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- @Home Learns to Sing - The cable-based ISP launches a 24-hour audio service allowing subscribers to download tunes from leading music sites on the Web. [Wired News]
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- @Home Makes Splash with IPO - Investors shrug off the cable-based ISP's recent losses and look instead to its future potential as a high-speed access provider. [Wired News]
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- @Home Pushes @Work with TCG Deal - Upgrade delays have stalled the company's plans to push its high-speed cable-modem service to homes. Now it's trying its luck in companies. [Wired News]
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- @Home Will Deliver Fat Pipes to Hotels - The cable Internet company and a partner plan to install high-speed access in "hundreds" of hotels during the next year. [Wired News]
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- A Future of Free PCs? - Jim Barksdale has a dream - in which computers are given away like cell phones. He may not be far from reality. [Wired News]
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- A Good Plan, Not Hype, Fueled Amazon IPO - Analysts say the online bookseller's strong business model was what made it attractive in the stock's first day of trading. [Wired News]
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- A Mac Star Is Born As Another Burns Out - MacInsider, a purveyor of Apple gossip, staged its own death this week, as an upstart Mac news site unleashed itself on the daily dramas of the Apple soap opera. [Wired News]
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- A PhD is a Terrible Thing to Waste - Financial services company Merrill Lynch offers "Innovation Grants" to remake doctoral students into sharks by mining their dissertations for business ideas. [Wired News]
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- A Star Wars Dream Job at Lucas Learning - George Lucas' one-year-old educational CD-ROM company wants programmers who can turn Luke Skywalker's adventures into lessons. [Wired News]
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- A Vast ISP Market, Just out of Reach - Leading firms see a huge opportunity as Hong Kong's border with China vanishes, but it could be years before they get a chance to exploit it. [Wired News]
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- A Web Start-Up: More Lifestyle Than Labor - Virtual Melanin, a Bedford-Stuyvesant webshop with zero capital and an excess of vision, scrambles to raise consciousness and cash. [Wired News]
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- ABC News - Bugs and All - Arrives on the Web - The network officially launches its new site, and learns that things don't always go as planned in the online world. [Wired News]
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- ABC News Is Desperate to Get Wired - Roone Arledge hangs his hopes on the ABC News site, according to Ned Brainard, but a tussle for control with Starwave may earn him a kick in the teeth. [Wired News]
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- ABC to Offer Online News with AOL, Netscape - The move represents a dramatic shift in thinking for the broadcaster, which last year abandoned plans to start a 24-hour cable news channel to compete with CNN and MSNBC. [Wired News]
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- ABC's Rush on Judgment Is a Red-Faced Flub - Due to a "technical glitch," the network's Web site carries word of Timothy McVeigh's guilt an hour before the jury announced its verdict. [Wired News]
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- ABCNEWS.com Breaks in with 'Special Preview' - It's buggy, and there are plenty of pieces missing, but the TV network's play for a piece of the online news pie goes beta. [Wired News]
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- Ad Dream Job: Saving the Web from Itself - One employee, who found i-traffic a year ago through Dream Jobs and works as targeting technologies specialist, insists that the company is still young and nutty. [Wired News]
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- Ad Networks Band Together - With the racy new name 24/7 Media, Petry Interactive, Interactive Imaginations, and Katz Millennium Marketing are celebrating their merger with a US$10 million cash infusion. [Wired News]
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- Adbot Declares Bankruptcy; CEO Declares Less - The online ad auction house puts out a statement that it's out of business. A subsequent statement from the man suspected of illegally diverting company funds into his own pocket is suspiciously lacking. [Wired News]
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- Adbot Going Once ... Going Twice ... - The owner of the Web's first advertising auction has been accused of diverting $3.4 million in investors funds. Now Adbot is on the block, and things look bleak. [Wired News]
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- Admiral Halsey, You've Got Mail! - It may not be sexy, but email is push media that works. [Wired News]
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- Ailing Kodak Finds Reason to Smile at Birdie - Even in the face of a massive layoff and a $1 billion charge, the film-and-camera company is charging into digital imaging confident that the marketing and distribution dominance it built from its Kodachrome past will carry it into the future. [Wired News]
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- Airline-Union Tensions Amplify on the Net - Things are already tense between American Airlines and the pilots union. Angry posts on Internet the aren't helping any. [Wired News]
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- Allen Invests, Again, in Metricom - His Vulcan Ventures ups its stake to 49 percent of the Ricochet modem-maker and takes a leadership position on the board. [Wired News]
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- Alsop Takes a Seat on Firm's Board - The Fortune magazine columnist and venture capitalist now wears a third hat: Software industry executive. Conflict of interest? Apparently not. [Wired News]
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- AltaVista Searches for an Identity - With the departure of president Ilene Lang, the division of Digital must decide if it will meet the intense competition in the search-engine market. [Wired News]
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- Amazon Reaches Out with New Alliances - The online bookseller's deals with AOL, Yahoo, and Excite aim to let shoppers know it's there, and take them to its site. [Wired News]
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- Amazon.com High on IPO. So Is Its Valuation. - The online bookstore wants cash to help offset its US$6 million operating loss. Investors won't want to hear that a price war could push those losses higher. [Wired News]
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- Amazon.com Moves toward Music, Video Sales - In addition to taking on Barnes Noble, the online bookseller has plans to go up against retail giants Tower Records and Blockbuster Video. [Wired News]
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- Amazon.com Upstages Barnes & Noble - "Earth's biggest bookstore" slashes prices and adds titles before "the world's largest bookseller" gets online. [Wired News]
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- AMCY on the Spot, Files for Chapter 11 - With its president already removed, American Cybercast lays off 25 of its remaining 40 employees. [Wired News]
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- Amdahl Shareholders Sue to Block Buyout - The class-action suit charges that an $850 million offer by Fujitsu "grossly" underestimates the value of the company. [Wired News]
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- Amelio Forges Forward into Apple's Past - As Apple's rank and file brace for more layoffs, the CEO gazes into his crystal ball and sees ... triumphs of yesteryear. [Wired News]
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- Amelio Preaches Doom with Silver Lining - The Apple CEO's speech to shareholders contained a host of grim words - including 23 utterances of "crisis" - but he hints at a brighter future. [Wired News]
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- Amelio the Iconoclast - In his first speech since exiting Apple, Gil Amelio has critical words for Mac loyalists, the press ... everyone but himself. [Wired News]
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- Amelio, Hancock Exit Apple - CFO Fred Anderson, who will lead the company until a new CEO is found, says "cumulative losses" led to Amelio's departure. [Wired News]
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- Amelio, Hancock Exit Apple - The departures of the CEO and VP come on the heels of the company's stock hitting a 12-year low. [Wired News]
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- Ameritech Girds for Long-Distance Fight - Ameritech is the first Baby Bell to seek permission to become a long-distance carrier. The fat cats at long-distance companies are already sharpening their claws. [Wired News]
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- Ameritech Primed to Deliver Long-Distance - The local telco's new long-distance division has 500 employees and no customers. [Wired News]
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- Ameritech Withdraws FCC Petition at Last Minute - The company withdrew its application to become the first Baby Bell to enter the long-distance market four days after an FCC rejection. [Wired News]
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- Amex Launching Millennium Bug Index - Soon you'll be able to hedge your risk or take a crap shoot by investing in companies working to stave off computer calendar disaster in 2000. [Wired News]
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- Amiga Fans Buoyed by Pending Gateway Deal - Whether Gateway 2000 ends up being their white knight remains to be seen. [Wired News]
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- An Ombudsman May Help Polish Apple - Following the lead of other high-tech companies, Apple may hire a neutral representative to take the interests of all parties into consideration, anonymously. [Wired News]
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- Analysis: Raiders of the Lost Mac - Apple needs a new Indiana Jones to lead it out of the jungle. Is Steve Jobs that man? Does he even want the fedora? [Wired News]
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- Analysis: Redmond to Judge - [Expletive Deleted] - It took a lot of listening, but not a lot of imagination, to distill Microsoft's message to the federal jurist who slapped the company with a preliminary injunction last week. [Wired News]
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- Angels Descend on Silicon Alley - New York City officials and private-sector venture capitalists are uniting to make cash flow toward East Coast start-ups. [Wired News]
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- Animator Dream Job: Work for Wild Brain - This 2-year-old animation studio's projects run from Seuss to Spawn, and more animators are needed. [Wired News]
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- Another Big Play in Executive Roulette - What was behind Harry Motro's move from CNN to Infoseek? Ned Brainard gives his spin. [Wired News]
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- AOL Adds CBS Sports to Content Team - The deal provides more bench strength to AOL's sports channel, which already carries content from CBS' rival, ABC Sports. [Wired News]
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- AOL an Easy Target for Scammers - Preying on a false sense of security, con artists keep targeting AOL members with potentially costly ruses that could undermine confidence in e-commerce. [Wired News]
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- AOL Answers Credit Fraud, Cuts Service in Russia - Bills for huge blocks of online time - bills that didn't jibe with AOL's records - prompt the unprecedented action. [Wired News]
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- AOL Appoints VP of Integrity Assurance - It's AOL users - not the company's service - that this former CIA agent will be policing. [Wired News]
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- AOL Asks Online Gamers to Ante Up - AOL launches its new pay-to-play service: No blood 'n' guts, but plenty of mainstream-pleasing card and strategy games. [Wired News]
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- AOL Brings Instant Messaging to Lotus - The online service is spreading its popular service via tech companies. Also: Sony is looking for a piece of the data-over-cable action and is sidling up to Cisco to get it. [Wired News]
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- AOL Buys into ABC Sports Content - The online service hopes to add bench strength to what it says is already the most popular sports site on the Net. [Wired News]
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- AOL Charging 'Rent' for Its Mall - Retailers will have to pay up front - and plenty - for good placement in the service's new Shopping Channel, marking a coming of age for e-commerce. [Wired News]
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- AOL Counsel Brings Media Savvy, Net Innocence - George Vradenburg hopes to bring a big media laywer's experience and a Net newbie's perspective to AOL. [Wired News]
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- AOL Defends Unpublicized Phone Access - The company dismisses as 'ludicrous' a story suggesting it didn't publicize access to Sprint lines because it wants to save money. [Wired News]
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- AOL Exec: All's Well, They Need Us! - AOL network prez Pittman tries turning lead to gold. Chip Bayers reports from the Jupiter conference in New York. [Wired News]
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- AOL Expected to Make a Game-Pricing Play - The company is expected to unveil as early as next week its plan to charge users extra for games, a model that could be applied to other content. [Wired News]
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- AOL Forum Members Plan 'Strike' over New Fees - Some members of AOL's Company Connection feel the world's largest online service is pushing them out to make room for more profitable clients. [Wired News]
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- AOL Gears Up for Another Ad Blitz - A few short months after an aggressive ad campaign clogged AOL's lines with new users, the company is trying to expand its customer base again. [Wired News]
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- AOL Gives Netscape Instant Gratification - The online giants buddy-up to bring AOL's Instant Messenger to more users and generate more ad-fueled cash for themselves. [Wired News]
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- AOL Hangs Up Its Telemarketing Plan - Bowing to criticism, the company backs off from its attempt to give out members' phone numbers. Another day, another crisis. [Wired News]
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- AOL Lets Klan Site Remain - Is it offensive? Of course it is, unless you're of a like mind. And that's where the problem lies. [Wired News]
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- AOL May Fix Logjam, What About Its Credibility? - Steve Case preaches user restraint, as America Online works to overhaul its impacted system. [Wired News]
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- AOL Muscling into Japanese Market - The move is certain to cause waves in a nation unaccustomed to competitive pricing for Net access. [Wired News]
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- AOL Nabs Lightspeed - Like an aspiring Viacom, the megaservice angles for Hollywood limelight, with TV luminary Tartikoff as the titular chairman. [Wired News]
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- AOL Network Snafus Disgruntled Users, Survey Says - Nearly half of AOL's 8 million users were disgruntled enough to consider junking the service during its networking troubles earlier this year, a survey suggests. [Wired News]
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- AOL Posts Sentry against Viruses - With more of its members downloading Trojan horses, the service is introducing an automatic warning system to keep enemies at bay. [Wired News]
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- AOL Pulls Out the Stops to Woo Analysts - Now that it has solved most of its network problems, execs are working to convince investors that the company will thrive over the long haul. [Wired News]
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- AOL Pushes into Desktop Market - The online giant claims 'information that is delivered is worth more,' and promises its Driveway service won't eat up your bandwidth. [Wired News]
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- AOL Red Ink: A Trickle Not a Gush - Before a series of one-off charges are factored in, the world's biggest online service saw net income reach almost $11 million in the latest quarter. [Wired News]
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- AOL Refugees Call on ATT WorldNet - About a third of new sign-ups has come from former AOL users, AT T WorldNet says. [Wired News]
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- AOL Taps High-Power Lawyer for General Counsel - Amid lawsuits over prolonged busy signals and wrangling with state officials on consumer rights, AOL names a leading media lawyer to the post. [Wired News]
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- AOL Users Facing Mail Slowdown - A jump in use earlier this week could extend delays into next week, the company admits. [Wired News]
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- AOL Will Pay Top Dollar to Lease 50,000 Modems - The company intends to pay about four times the usual cost for extra modems - to provide members with reliable connections and (hopefully) encourage users to log off without fear. [Wired News]
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- AOL Wins Easy Money in Booksellers' Battle - What's so "exclusive" about the dueling deals with both Barnes & Noble and Amazon? Looks like it's America Online's grip on that $59 million it's raked in. [Wired News]
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- AOL's Busy Signals May Fade - As part of the CompuServe acquisition, the biggest online service provider gets an expanded network that should help it meet access demand for the first time. [Wired News]
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- AOL's Email System Crashes Twice in One Day - The snafus come as AOL meets with state attorneys general to discuss whether it can meet increased demand from users. [Wired News]
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- AOL's Profit: How Long Can it Last? - Analysts taking a close look at the company's recent earnings report tell Ned Brainard they see one-time slight-of-hand deals bolstering the bottom line. [Wired News]
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- AOL's Self-Fulfilling Prophesy? - AOL Networks president Bob Pittman told folks at the Jupiter Online Conference that ad rates were headed down on the Net. Ned Brainard muses about his motives. [Wired News]
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- AOL, Ailing Vendor Clash over 'Fraud' - A floppy-disk shipper says America Online is driving it out of business. The online giant claims to be a victim of fraud. [Wired News]
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- AOL, BMG to Make Beautiful Marketing Music - The online giant and the music publishing giant are nearing a deal that will package startup software on audio CDs, Wired News has learned. [Wired News]
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- Apple Acolytes Await Steve's Show - Anticipation is high for Jobs' center-stage appearance at Macworld Wednesday morning. [Wired News]
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- Apple and AOL Search for Solutions - Desperate times call for desperate measures at both Apple and AOL, Ned Brainard gossips. [Wired News]
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- Apple Braces for More Restructuring - On the eve of the company's plan to announce organizational changes, one insider says Apple 'is crumbling from the top down.' [Wired News]
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- Apple Dismisses Layoff Reports - For Now - Reports say 2,600 workers will be given pink slips. Apple says it's all speculation. A restructuring announcement is expected Tuesday. [Wired News]
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- Apple Grows Even Leaner, But is it Meaner? - The latest round of job cuts and changes make no big changes to Apple's business model, but should help it strengthen its core business. [Wired News]
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- Apple Kills Clone Market - With Power Computing's Mac license back in Cupertino's hands thanks to a $100 million buyout, the computer maker is closing itself off from the world - again. [Wired News]
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- Apple Loses Another $161 Million - The Cupertino, California, computer-maker has more bad news: overseas sales, especially those in Japan, are way off. The bottom line suffers as a result. [Wired News]
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- Apple Makes Push Play for Mac OS 8 - The computer-maker's new partnerships with PointCast and Marimba may be little more than an attempt to keep up with Redmond. [Wired News]
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- Apple Mum on Jobs Report - A newspaper report says the co-founder, currently an 'adviser,' is going to be the troubled computer maker's new chairman. [Wired News]
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- Apple on the Prowl for a New Ad Agency - The computer company is looking to remake its image, but BBDO took the news as a slap in the face - and won't bid to retain the account. [Wired News]
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- Apple People: Uncle Larry Wants Your Help - Following reports of his plans to take over Apple, Oracle's CEO asks for feedback from Apple employees and users. [Wired News]
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- Apple Powerplay Fouls Cloner's IPO - Power Computing didn't dare file with the SEC without getting Apple's written commitment to continue licensing. Then everything changed in Cupertino. [Wired News]
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- Apple Returns to 1984 - But can the ad agency that created the Mac's legendary TV commercial rekindle the magic of yesteryear? [Wired News]
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- Apple Shuffles Execs, Boosts Founders' Roles - Management overhaul will give Jobs and Wozniak access to CEO Amelio's ear. Developers say the company will get a badly needed boost in marketing. [Wired News]
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- Apple Slashes Prices - With reductions of up to $1,000 on PowerBooks and Power Macs and rebates on peripherals, Cupertino hopes to unload a lot of machines. [Wired News]
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- Apple Slices Off Another $56 Million - Cupertino's third-quarter loss report closes the Gil Amelio chapter on a somewhat dour note, as expected. [Wired News]
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- Apple Spins Off Newton to Ready for Its Sale - By making the Newton Systems Group a separate entity, Apple is hanging a gussied up For Sale sign on the handheld device maker. Analysts like the move. [Wired News]
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- Apple Still Groping for Solutions - The departure of CEO Gil Amelio's right-hand man could mark a turning point for the troubled company. So why is Apple so nonchalant? [Wired News]
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- Apple Sued over Chip Licensing - Exponential Technologies, once a favored future vendor of new high-end chips for the Macintosh, says Apple's clone pullout has effectively killed markets for its X704 processor. [Wired News]
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- Apple Takes $150 Million from Microsoft - Redmond will buy non-voting shares in its main OS competitor, presumably to keep up software sales. Apple's board is also getting an overhaul, with kingmaker Markkula out. [Wired News]
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- Apple Takes Its Lead from Larry - Yes, Cupertino really is considering getting into network computers, and thinks Ellison's brainchild 'could possibly benefit' its customers. [Wired News]
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- Apple to Lay Off a Third of Its Workers - The struggling company's latest restructuring cuts loose 4,100 people, including 2,700 full-timers. [Wired News]
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- Apple Vows to Slash $400 Million from Operating Costs - Executives said they don't know how the cuts will be accomplished, but warned no sector of the company would be spared. [Wired News]
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- Apple Whets Ellison's Appetite - The Oracle CEO is hankering for Apple, but rather than bite, he takes a teasing nibble. [Wired News]
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- Apple's Survival a Priority for Its Partners - Apple's partnership in developing the Power PC chip may not be as dire as a recent report suggests, says Kaitlin Quistgaard. [Wired News]
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- Apple: Learning to Live with Clones - The company's reportedly backing off on plans to jack up operating-system licensing fees. And for good reason. [Wired News]
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- Apple: The Best and Worst of Times - How the company strutted, then stumbled, then staggered into what could be a dead end on its Infinite Loop. [Wired News]
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- Are There Enough Newbies to Go Around? - More online services are trying to challenge AOL for new netizens, but the industry leader's head start may be unbeatable. [Wired News]
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- Aristotle Offers Help against Unwanted Spam - A new service gives registered voters the right to block spam emails and penalizes promoters that misuse information. [Wired News]
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- Arthouse Dream Job: Production Manager - Arthouse is a multimedia center in Dublin that specializes in training and production. [Wired News]
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- Artist Dream Job: In the Halls of Academe - UCSD's Visual Arts Department is hiring a media artist with a focus in film/video and new media. [Wired News]
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- Arty Bay Area Dream Job: Business Manager - Nik Weinstein has been working with glass since his days as a comp. lit. major at Brown. [Wired News]
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- Asia's Racing toward Wiredness - Fortune magazine's 'Asia Info Tech' report says Hong Kong and Singapore are chasing after Japan in the connectivity rush. [Wired News]
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- ASkyB-EchoStar Pact May Reshape Cable Industry - Everyone has an opinion, an angle, or a warning about how the megadeal could affect the way you get your video services. Michael Grebb spells them out. [Wired News]
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- AT&T Abandons Satellite Venture - The telecom giant aims to return to its core business, but pledges to stay in the high-flying satellite game one way or another. [Wired News]
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- AT&T Aims to Put ATM on Your Desktop - Its smartcard-on-the-Web-system will incorporate Mondex chip-to-chip technology, eliminating middlemen like banks that charge extra fees for electronic commerce. [Wired News]
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- AT&T Alleges Fraud, Sues ISPs - But at least two of the ISPs named in the suit say they were also victims of a scam involving reselling toll-free phone lines. [Wired News]
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- AT&T Buys Big into India Mobile-Phone Market - The conglomerate's local joint venture plans to invest $1.5 billion in constructing a system capable of attracting a million subscribers. [Wired News]
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- AT&T Takes Hit, But There's Life in Wireless - Although the phone giant reported grim figures for the quarter, more hires and more revenues are flowing in new services. [Wired News]
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- AT&T To Reorganize, Cut Jobs - The telecom giant announced it would be streamlining operations by centralizing control of myriad businesses and cutting about 1 percent of its work force. [Wired News]
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- ATM Surcharging Under Microscope - A task force throws light on banking machine profits. [Wired News]
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- ATT Says US West Is Dragging Feet on Accord - Ma Bell filed a complaint with the Iowa Utilities Board saying US West isn't complying with an accord on local phone service. [Wired News]
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- Audio Dream Job: Girl-Geared Tech Toys - A product of Interval's research labs, Purple Moon develops interactive media especially for girls. [Wired News]
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- Auditing Applesoft 101 - A lesson in joint history turns up lots of writing on the $150-million wall. [Wired News]
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- Aussies Help Start-Ups Raise Money Online - The Australian Stock Exchange is launching a system that will connect new companies with potential investors through the Web. A report from Sydney. [Wired News]
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- Austin Dream Job: Frogdesign Expands - From an airport terminal and a cruise ship to a digital thermometer, frogdesign goes GUI. [Wired News]
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- Average Salaries Soar for US Engineers - A survey sets the annual average at US$72,000, the highest amount in 25 years. Engineers have the Internet to thank. [Wired News]
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- Avoid Being Hustled - Unless It's Your Thing - The Adult Chamber of Commerce wants to raise the bar for online adult businesses, bringing Better Business Bureau-style ethics and an avenue for customer complaints. [Wired News]
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- Axil Embraces Windows with New Server Line - The move is a departure from Axil's Unix-based machines and is intended to capitalize on the growing worldwide market for Windows systems. [Wired News]
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- Baby Bells Face Conspiracy Claim - GTE filed suit against five telcos, Yahoo, and Netscape, alleging they conspired to quash Internet yellow pages competition. [Wired News]
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- Baby Bells Ring In Online Yellow Pages - By banding together online, the different phone companies hope to drive more traffic to their regional listings. [Wired News]
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- Back to School Dream Job: Bring Youth Online - YouthVillage founders plan to work with teachers and students from six already Net-connected high schools in low-income areas of San Francisco. [Wired News]
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- Ballmer Jumps into Java Fray - Microsoft's most outspoken executive adds his voice to the public-relations posturing around Sun's suit against his company. [Wired News]
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- Bandai Calls Off Planned Merger with Sega - The move came after Bandai's board decided the two companies wouldn't be such a good fit after all. [Wired News]
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- Banner Ads Good for a Look - For brand-building, the latest IAB survey results suggest that the Web may become competition for TV. [Wired News]
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- Barking at the Hand That Feeds - In the wake of embarrassing revelations about the role advertisers play in shaping magazine content, two major trade organizations have finally spoken out. Critics ask, "Censure, where is thy sting?" [Wired News]
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- Barnes & Noble Fetes Online Debut - The big boy of booksellers is throwing a party for itself prior to launching its Web site and taking on Amazon.com, which it's already challenging in court. [Wired News]
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- Barnes & Noble Links with Lycos - The bookseller and directory service announce a three-year deal that virtually mirrors alliances forged by Amazon.com with Yahoo and Excite. [Wired News]
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- Barnes and Noble Undercuts Amazon.com Discount - But will the retail giant score a KO with its AOL alliance? An online price-fight looms. [Wired News]
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- Baseball Trying to Get Control of Netcasts - Major League Baseball persuades most broadcasters to stop putting games on the Web until officials can figure out how to license them. [Wired News]
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- Basic Books Succumbs to Crowded Market - HarperCollins decides to close the forward-looking literary division, handing its remaining titles to the adult trade department. [Wired News]
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- Battle of the 'Nielsen of the Web' Wannabes - As advertisers demand more bang for their cyberbucks, Web-stat trackers vie for the coveted title of Ratings King. [Wired News]
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- Be Retains High Hopes for New OS - Spurned by Apple, the company has released its Be OS to developers in hopes of being the best solution for multimedia. [Wired News]
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- Beeping Once ... Beeping Twice ... - The Auction Universe Web site is adding an Internet paging system to alert bidders who have better things to do 'til there's a transaction to be made. [Wired News]
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- Bell Atlantic Picks Up Pace in High-Speed Access - The telco's plan to launch ADSL service by next year puts it on a collision course with the cable industry. [Wired News]
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- Bell Atlantic Wants End of Rainbow Monopoly - A spat over local sports coverage raises the stakes in growing cable war. [Wired News]
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- Bells About to Toll on TELE-TV - Scale back? Merge? Pull the plug? Judgment day awaits programming venture. [Wired News]
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- Berkeley Buy-Out Brings Layoffs - CUC's acquisition of the wacky game-maker means a management shake-up and staff cuts. [Wired News]
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- Berkeley Dream Job: The Edison of New Media - From surrealist screensavers to online trivia, Berkeley Systems specializes in paradigm shifts. [Wired News]
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- Berkeley Systems Acquired by CUC - The membership shopping service giant says the purchase of the After Dark folks is just a "very small acquisition," but it follows other gaming deals. [Wired News]
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- Berlin Dream Job: Multimedia Creative Director - By typical German corporate standards, Pixelpark is laid back - they call each other by their first names. [Wired News]
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- Better Business Bureau Slaps Seal Online - A new certification program could help to calm anxious consumers. [Wired News]
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- Big Business Getting Cozy with 'Community' - Citibank signs a deal with the Mining Company to mix 'guides,' chat, and financial advice with your bank account. [Wired News]
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- BigBook Trims 20% of Staff - The online yellow pages says it's found two new partners that can take over some tasks from the laid-off workers. [Wired News]
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- BigBook, Direct Marketer to Offer Online Coupons - The alliance will let small businesses offer online coupons and give BigBook a marketing boost. [Wired News]
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- Biggest ISPs Form Group on Net Problems - There's a reason no smaller companies are part of the new organization: membership costs a hefty US$25,000 a year. [Wired News]
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- Blamestorm Swirls around Net Traffic - Salvos - plentiful as they are in Washington these days - are not the solution to fixing Net congestion, Michael B. Grebb finds. [Wired News]
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- Boeing Gives Boost to Spacebound Net - The largest aircraft company in the US has signed on with Gates and McCaw to become the hub of Teledesic's satellite-building and -launching operations. [Wired News]
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- Book-of-the-Month Club Goes Online - By taking a tip from the likes of Amazon.com, the club has introduced its first new distribution channel in more than 70 years. [Wired News]
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- Boston Dream Job: The Computer Museum - Boston's Computer Museum is hiring a director of exhibits. [Wired News]
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- Boston Forging a Silicon Alley Rival - Boston's multimedia companies are tired of watching talent and business get drained to New York. Their solution: Turn an industrial neighborhood into the Cyber District. [Wired News]
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- Boston Mayor Talks Up Cyber District - Beantown's multimedia industry got a shot in the arm when the mayor turned up to christen the city's new Cyber District. [Wired News]
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- Brokerages Charge into Price Wars - Battling to win lasting market share, online traders are cutting commissions down to the cost of seeing a flick - but the strategy is not necessarily going to force a surrender. [Wired News]
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- Brooklyn Dream Job: Help Kids Learn Online - Help the Brooklyn Library develop a program to create Web-savvy, pro-kid learning packages. [Wired News]
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- BT Eyes Network Computers - Cautiously - Working with the Acorn Group, the UK phone giant is asking a sample group whether anyone would want such a thing. [Wired News]
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- BT-MCI Merger Alive, but for Less Cash - British Telecom cuts its offer for MCI by 20 percent in light of the US long-distance carrier's anticipated $800 million loss from offering local phone service. [Wired News]
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- Bull Semen - Sold to the Man on the Web - Going once ... going twice ... going online: Web-based auctions are letting dairy farmers and ranchers join cattle-auction bidding without risking a messy misstep. [Wired News]
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- Business School to Have Knowledge Professor - Fuji Xerox and Xerox are uniting to fund a US$1 million endowment to study information at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. [Wired News]
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- Business Software Piracy Hits US$11 Billion - That's down from more than $13 billion a year earlier, but still a blow to makers' profit margins. [Wired News]
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- Cable Execs Separate Rhetoric, Reality - Attendees of the National Cable Television Association's annual show left with lots of questions, but few answers about the future of cable. [Wired News]
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- Cable Industry Still Pines for Interactive TV - Cable-TV giants TCI and Time Warner aren't junking their dreams of video on demand. They're just scaling them down. [Wired News]
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- Cable Modem 'Giant' Born - with 45,000 Customers - The services merger of US West and Time Warner may make it the biggest of the lot, but it's got a long way to go before it can feed the masses the high-speed Net access they're after. [Wired News]
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- Cablevision Scores a Monopoly in NY Sports - The cable operator's increased interest in Madison Square Garden means New Yorkers can look forward to paying for separate channels for each team rather than having them included as a part of a basic cable package. [Wired News]
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- Can Marimba Put Step in Apple's Finances? - The move may not pull the company out of the fiscal frying pan, but it certainly won't hurt. [Wired News]
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- Can One Dish Serve Net, TV Needs? - Hughes Network Systems is betting its DirecDuo product will appeal to information-entertainment junkies jonesing for bigger bandwidth. [Wired News]
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- Canada: A Nation Sans Spam? - The Canadian Direct Marketing Association just says no to spam. [Wired News]
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- Car-Navigation Market Shifts into High Gear - As computers and cars begin to converge, Japan is leading the market for global positioning by satelling in autos. [Wired News]
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- Cash-Heavy VCs Seek A Few Good Start-Ups - Even though the IPO market has cooled, venture capitalists are jonesing for companies with the promise of profit. [Wired News]
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- CBooks Buys Computer Literacy Bookstores - The online computer-book retailer will bolster its distribution network with Computer Literacy's inventory and strategically located stores. [Wired News]
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- CBS Joins Online Sports Game - A partnership with SportsLine USA will help the Tiffany Network cross-pollinate its media business. [Wired News]
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- CBS Pushes Affiliates Online - With an initiative called CBSnow, the network hopes to scatter its national news across the Internet, piggybacking on sites it's setting up for local stations. [Wired News]
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- CDnow Follows N2K into IPO Market - The leading online music retailer wants to raise as much as $60 million to help it compete in an increasingly crowded market. [Wired News]
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- CDnow Lands VC Bucks - The $10 million financing will help the Web's leading music retailer extend its already significant reach among online shoppers. [Wired News]
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- Cell-Phone Makers Spar over Digitech Patents - Qualcomm has filed suit against Motorola, seeking a "declaratory judgment" that it has not infringed on Motorola's patents. [Wired News]
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- CEO Ouster Signals CompuServe Is on Block? - Analysts speculate on H R Block's spinoff plans, potential buyers, and the need to avoid becoming an albatross around shareholders' necks. [Wired News]
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- CES Crawler: Sourpusses Descend on Vegas - Our man at the Consumer Electronics Show learns why geeks have more fun. [Wired News]
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- Chairman Jobs? The Guessing Goes On - First reports said he's a shoo-in, but today's news has the Apple co-founder spurning leadership requests. Believe what you will. [Wired News]
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- Chasing Angels Online - Start-ups looking for a heavenly cash infusion may see their prospects glimmer, thanks to two new financial matchmaking services. [Wired News]
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- Chat Rooms Welcome AOL's Ad Drive - The competition is hoping the online giant will help educate advertisers on the virtues of virtual communities. [Wired News]
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- Cheap Network Computers Far From Threat to PCs - A new study says the NCs are handy in some areas of companies, but nowhere near a network nirvana. [Wired News]
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- Chicago Dream Job: Interactive Design - Giant Step keeps getting bigger, and needs an interactive designer. [Wired News]
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- Cinemania, Music Central Nearing an End? - With 20 workers' contracts having been canceled, sources in the company confirm reports that Microsoft is withdrawing support for the entertainment Web sites, and may absorb remaining staff into its Sidewalk site. [Wired News]
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- Cisco Goes for Diversity, Links with Alcatel - The networking giant adds two more acquisitions to its ongoing shopping spree, and looks for new technologies to emerge from a tie-up with its French counterpart. [Wired News]
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- CitySearch Battles Sidewalk for Hearts, Minds, Ads - The two online city guides have been competing for local tie-ups, now they're going after big advertisers. [Wired News]
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- CitySearch Cautiously Dabbles in E-Commerce - Starting with its Austin, Texas, site, the online city guide is testing the waters with a new potential revenue stream. [Wired News]
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- CitySearch Partners with Washington Post - The online city guide will enter into an unusual licensing arrangement with the newspaper's Web site to create listings for the capital. [Wired News]
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- CitySearch Races for Overseas Directories - The smallest player in the city-directory race just may win. [Wired News]
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- CityWeb, UltimateTV to Pair Up on Listings - The deal will give UTV a big leg-up in competing against TV Guide in Net-based listings and news. [Wired News]
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- CKS Acquires NY Marketing Firm - SiteSpecific is the latest small, valuable interactive agency to be gobbled up by a big firm. [Wired News]
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- Class-Action Alleges Informix Stock Scheme - A lawsuit charges that the software maker's senior execs kept bad news under wraps until after they'd sold off 640,000 shares. [Wired News]
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- Click Here to Get a Conscience - Judging the Internet an effective medium to promote public awareness, the Ad Council and the Internet Advertising Bureau have initiated a Web-wide program to serve public service announcements in lieu of ads. [Wired News]
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- Click on Through to the Other Side - Free email provider Juno offers a look at the Web - well, to sites built by the people who pay the bills. A fine way to please advertisers, but is the proprietary service driving its members into the arms of an ISP? [Wired News]
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- Clicking for Prizes - Game Shows Hit the Web - A trip to Tahiti could be yours - if it's a prize offered by BJP Interactive's sponsors. [Wired News]
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- CMP Closing NetGuide Magazine - Company execs thought that in NetGuide they had a name that couldn't be beat. They were wrong. [Wired News]
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- CMP Goes Public to Repay Debts - The publisher of print and electronic computer news is seen as being diverse enough to attract investors looking for a new Internet play. [Wired News]
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- CMP Media Quietly Files for IPO - The publisher of computer-industry magazines intends to raise US$115 million to repay debt. [Wired News]
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- CMP Takes Beating on Internet Performance - As the rest of the market took off Tuesday, the Long Island trade-mag publisher paid the price for less than rosy news about its Internet business. Also: Jobs' friends say Jobs isn't interested in Apple job. [Wired News]
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- CNET CEO Coins Lingo for Webheads - Halsey Minor explains the science of "disaggrenomics" at Web Market West. [Wired News]
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- CNET Posts a Profit, Thanks to E Online - Without US$10 million from E, the company would have been in the red for the quarter to the tune of almost $5 million. [Wired News]
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- CNET Readying Hardware Site - The pending computers.com enjoys the indirect support of a hardware heavyweight Intel, which owns a stake in CNET. [Wired News]
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- CNET Takes on AOL, Yahoo with Snap Online - The service, developed under a shroud of secrecy, is a Web directory using distribution relationships with ISPs and others. But the company is taking on better-funded Net giants in a crowded arena. [Wired News]
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- CNET's 'Stealth' Project Overturns Web Model - Sources tell Wired News that the online media company wants to bundle new services inside other companies' products. Chip Bayers reports. [Wired News]
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- Coke ... Nike ... Java? A Battle for Brand - A multimillion-dollar media blitz has bought greater market value and a half-million-strong developers community. Now Sun's efforts to build a Big-Name Brand are at the crossroads of hype and hope. [Wired News]
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- College Grad Dream Job: Executive Editor - U-Wire, a wire service like AP or Reuters but just for school papers, is hiring an exec editor. [Wired News]
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- Community Dream Job: 3-D Infrastructure Guru - Black Sun, creator of virtual community software, is hiring an infrastructure specialist. [Wired News]
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- Community Dream Job: Manager of Satisfaction - iVillage is creating community for the 35- to 50-year-old set, and they're hiring. [Wired News]
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- Community Service Dream Job: Team Tech - AmeriCorps*VISTA Team Tech program focuses on building resources in low-income communities. [Wired News]
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- Companies Hope to Steer the Web onto TVs - Oracle's purchase of Navio underlines the ambition of a number of firms: to nudge the Net off your PC. [Wired News]
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- Company Pledges Security in a Certificate - NCSA offers to approve your site - any unlocked doors? - for network safety. [Wired News]
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- Compaq Boosts High End with Tandem Deal - But the $3 billion acquisition does little to help the world's leading PC-maker fend off competition from the likes of Dell and Gateway 2000. [Wired News]
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- Compaq Cuts Prices as Earnings Soar - The computermaker also says it's shifting to a build-to-order production strategy, in hopes of better competing with Dell and Gateway 2000. [Wired News]
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- CompUSA to Offer Tailor-Made PCs - The retailer is following Compaq into the build-to-order business, hoping to remain competitive with the likes of Dell and Gateway 2000. [Wired News]
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- CompuServe Aims to Survive - on the Web - Like MSN and Prodigy before it, the online service will port its content to the Web. And it won't likely vanish with a sale. [Wired News]
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- CompuServe Faces Shareholder Lawsuit - The latest blow to the online service says shareholders should have been warned of the company's troubles during its IPO. [Wired News]
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- CompuServe Fences Off Naughty Bits - The online service will move all adult content to a not-very-secure gated community of sorts. [Wired News]
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- CompuServe German Chief to Start Own Firm - CompuServe says it has no hard feelings about the departure of Felix Somm, who faces porn distribution charges. It may even sign on as his customer. [Wired News]
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- CompuServe Goes to WorldCom ... and AOL - Ending months of speculation, tax-preparer H&R Block decides to sell CompuServe to the telecom company, which then cuts its own deal with America Online to parcel out CompuServe's assets. [Wired News]
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- CompuServe Going Online in India - The company says it's the first American online service to extend its reach to a country seen as having huge potential for info-tech concerns. [Wired News]
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- CompuServe Heads to the Web - With a seemingly half-hearted approach, the proprietary online service opens its doors to professionals on the Web. [Wired News]
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- CompuServe Lays Off 20 Editorial Staffers - The staffers worked on WOW, the online service's now-defunct family venture. [Wired News]
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- CompuServe Legal Battle Grows Nastier - A former content provider files a new complaint in an ongoing dispute stemming from an alleged breach of contract. [Wired News]
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- CompuServe to Fight German Porn Charges - In supporting its executive, the online service will need to straddle definitions of itself: pipeline or publisher? Plus, censorship and Germany. [Wired News]
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- CompuServe to Mail out 2.5 Million Discs - The online service aims to attract "high-end consumers" with its first direct-mail effort. [Wired News]
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- CompuServe, Time Settle Lawsuit - The two kiss and make up after an ugly dispute over whether Time's content is a poor investment for the online service. [Wired News]
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- Concentric Rule Change Has Members Fuming - Long-term users say they're being jettisoned as another ISP appears to recognize that Internet use is growing too fast to accommodate one-size-fits-all pricing. [Wired News]
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- Constellation On Track, Undaunted by IE4 - Netscape and Microsoft insist their audiences are as different as their networking products - but their timing is remarkably similar. [Wired News]
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- Consultants Cash In on Computer Crash Crisis - One person's computer bug is another's bonanza. Or so many high-priced computer consultants are finding out as fear of a Year 2000 bug spreads. [Wired News]
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- Consumer Groups Seek ATT Rate Hike Warning - Re-classification as a dominant carrier would require the long-distance providers to give notification prior to rate changes. [Wired News]
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- Consumer Reports' Own Test: Web Subscriptions - Without advertising or sponsorships, the buyers' guide set to go live with a deep database of ratings and product evaluations and a $2.95 monthly price tag. [Wired News]
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- Contingencies Carry Retailers in UPS Strike - Even before the delivery service's strike began, darlings of online merchandising set up alternatives to ship their goods. [Wired News]
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- Copyrighted Goods to Carry Photocopy Fee - New software will help collect royalties - and may help stem fears of litigation. [Wired News]
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- Corporate Dream Job: Design for WSJ - In the business of "getting it right," The Wall Street Journal's Interactive Edition is hiring a designer. [Wired News]
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- Corporate Web Sites Await Creative Spark - Annual reports and press releases, the bread and butter of corporate Web sites, just aren't that entertaining or useful. Perhaps the future holds more fun and better design. [Wired News]
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- Countdown to the Digital-Age Bachelor Pad - Cambridge SoundWorks gets together with Creative Technology to make way cool home entertainment stuff. Also: Power Computing is sued by a supplier. A "blast faxer" thinks of teaming up with a voicemailer. [Wired News]
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- Cox Interactive Jumps into City-Guide Slugfest - The online arm of the Cox Communications empire is hustling into the crowded arena of online city guides, setting up 25 of them this year. [Wired News]
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- Cox Weaves Smalltown, USA, into Web - By hitting towns like Nacogdoches, Texas, Cox's local content offerings won't face online arch-rivals Sidewalk and CitySearch - at first. [Wired News]
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- Creditors Scrutinize Bid to Buy Back AMCY - Former execs aim to acquire American Cybercast for $50,000, a bid creditors find "disappointing." [Wired News]
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- Cross-Fertilizing Arts, Technology - Mary DeDanan profiles the creative techies at Avelino Associates. [Wired News]
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- CUC Buys Content Maker Berkeley Systems - The shopping-club company that offers travel deals to members will now be hawking smartass software. [Wired News]
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- CUC Plays WON to Win at Online Gaming - The direct-marketer's new World Opponent Network seeks to connect gamers with the company's retail games - without any of the company's typical cash-generating fees. [Wired News]
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- CUC's AOL Deal May Put Mammoth Marketer on Map - The direct marketer to 68 million people is beefing up its customer base, as it opens a virtual one-stop shopping site sporting a million items. [Wired News]
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- Cut Loose from Prodigy, Stim Goes It Alone - The innovative Web zine is looking for a deep-pocketed patron willing to put cash into the operation. [Wired News]
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- CyberCoin Comes Up Heads on SportsZone - ESPN's wildly popular site will use CyberCash's new system to establish $1 day passes. Such "micro-transactions" could eat into credit-card use. [Wired News]
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- Cyberfreeway Becomes Road Kill - The ISP had hoped it could offer free Net access with support from ad revenues. So far, no company has found that model profitable. [Wired News]
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- DC Dream Job: Design with Philosophers - Magnet Interactive is hiring designers in DC. [Wired News]
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- DC Dream Job: Networking on Capitol Hill - Representative Rick White needs a researcher/sysadmin to help him educate Capitol Hill in the hacker ethic. [Wired News]
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- DC Dream Job: Plugging National Service - Clinton's service org needs a webmaster to defend its do-gooding against budget cuts in Congress. [Wired News]
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- DC Dream Job: Project Associate - Open Studio wants to teach the arts community a new way of thinking. [Wired News]
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- Death of a Car Salesman? Not Just Yet - While the Big Three automakers drive online with publishing prices - and soon, inventory - the industry doesn't expect that its dealers will be run over. [Wired News]
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- Dell Soars to Record Earnings - The mail-order computer-maker saw sales increase by 61 percent - four times the growth rate for the rest of the PC industry. [Wired News]
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- Demo Gods Smile on Apple; Amelio Cheered - All goes well as the Mac-maker shows off its next operating system. And when the CEO spoke of the cross-platform grail, the faithful responded. [Wired News]
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- Demon Puts 49 Percent Share on the Block - Britain's oldest dialup ISP is seeking a partner to help it survive a changing market and growing competition. [Wired News]
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- Design Dream Job: Cyber Salutations - San Francisco start-up Greet Street provides greeting cards and, soon, "E-greetings" over the Web. [Wired News]
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- Design Dream Job: GameWorks - With only 3 of the 100 GameWorks centers done, the designers at Stage 35 are looking for more talent to put the twists and quirks in the buildings' interior design. [Wired News]
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- Design Dream Job: Navio's New Navigation - This Netscape spin-off is melding TV and the Net. [Wired News]
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- Design Dream Job: Our Lady of Push Media - PointCast is hiring a designer to develop graphics for the company's SmartScreens. [Wired News]
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- Design Dream Job: Student Site Goes Pro - Once a home-brewed dorm experiment, Student.net now needs a designer to create a grown-up look. [Wired News]
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- Design Dream Job: The Human Factor - International product-design firm IDEO is in search of a human factors designer. [Wired News]
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- Despite Asian Turmoil, Big Cable Projects Go Ahead - International telecommunications companies are putting some fat pipes on the Pacific floor. [Wired News]
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- Developer Dream Job: Making 'Things' - Out to make an alternative to multimedia tools like Director, Parable is hiring a Java developer. [Wired News]
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- Developers Straying from the MS Way? - Microsoft-watchers say despite its public embrace of the Internet, the company is still shackled to a piece of old thinking: Windows must be Number One. [Wired News]
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- Developers Warm to Apple's OS Plans - Meanwhile, CEO Gil Amelio goes out on a limb and predicts profitability by the fourth quarter. [Wired News]
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- Did 'Gunsmoke' Blow Holes in CNET Stock? - The Internet media company's share price plunges 20 percent. Could a secret development project have caused it? Chip Bayers reports. [Wired News]
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- Digital Cable Converters Readied for Rollout - While the cable industry's tech research consortium debates the standards for digital set-top boxes, the two biggest boxmakers aren't waiting around. [Wired News]
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- Digital City Brings Realtor.com into Fold - The addition of some 750,000 real-estate listings helps shift the online city guide away from the usual arts-and-entertainment fare. [Wired News]
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- Digital City, Sidewalk Try Opposite Strategies - One is courting relationships with local papers and broadcasters in setting up city guides, the other is acting like a predator. Guess which is which. [Wired News]
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- Digital Dream Job: Do Your Own Thing - The creative and technical freedom awaiting a lucky candidate at Digital's Western Research Lab will make your head whirl. [Wired News]
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- Digital Planet to Go Public via Direct IPO - The producer of Madeleine's Mind and other entertainment-oriented Web sites will seek financing on the Web. [Wired News]
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- Digital to Resell Netscape Server Products - The deal reflects a trend for Netscape to sell to small corporate clients through third parties. [Wired News]
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- Dilbert Invades Wall Street Journal - A leading software company is bringing the popular comic strip to the paper's staid pages - but only as a paid ad. [Wired News]
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- Directory Stocks Go Nutty - Infoseek and Yahoo are up. Lycos is down. And Excite is suddenly in orbit. Hello? [Wired News]
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- DirecTV Without a Roof of Your Own - The digital broadcast satellite service is piggybacking its way into apartments on the lines of analog TV companies, so customers don't have to deal with the dish. [Wired News]
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- Discounted Travel That Costs - You get what you pay for when you globe-trot on a budget, but for folks with time on their hands, an online service promises the price is right. [Wired News]
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- Discovery Builds Empire of Vicarious Nature - The people who brought you the Discovery Channel have big plans to cash in on simulacra of the great outdoors. [Wired News]
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- Discovery Dream Job: Executive Producer - Discovery Channel Online will celebrate its second anniversary - with a hire, not a party. [Wired News]
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- Disney Spreads IPO Dust on Starwave Execs - Michael Eisner's reputation for obsessive management meddling must have scared the Boys from Bellevue as Starwave went out of its way to assure even the uninterested that its top execs would be "retained" after Disney took control. [Wired News]
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- Disney Wishing Upon a Starwave Stake? - The companies aren't commenting on a published report, but analysts say the move would help speed up Disney's dream of a major Web presence. [Wired News]
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- Does 'Major Media Partner' Mean 'Bailout?' - As reporters chase down its secret, CNET seeks a partner, and Ned Brainard gossips. [Wired News]
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- Does Informix Have a Chance? - The company's problems go beyond its over-reporting of sales by $250 million in the past couple of years. Changes across the database industry also call the company's future into question. [Wired News]
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- Domain Keepers Crack Down on Delinquents - Network Solutions is in the middle of cracking down on sites that don't pay their domain fees. The punishment: Near-invisibility on the Net. [Wired News]
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- Domain Legal Battle Is Unhealthy - A giant insurer is turning the legal screws on a small health-related Web site to win the domain healthwire.com. [Wired News]
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- Domain Names Cut into Bank Accounts - For hot addresses, the price just keeps climbing. The latest big price tag: US$150,000, for business.com. [Wired News]
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- Don't Blame Asia: The Trouble's at Home - Software and hardware sales are in a slump due to saturated domestic markets, not any Asian flu. But be prepared, the Asian market debacle will make itself felt in the United States too. [Wired News]
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- Don't Touch That Porn - Trojan Horses Hit AOL - The invasive programs are also arriving in screensavers and add-ons. The service's message: Don't take software from strangers. [Wired News]
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- DoubleClick: The Big Fish in a Murky Pond - Announcing its intention to go public, the leading advertising network tests the waters of the still unproven market. [Wired News]
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- Dow Jones News/Retrieval Opens Up to the Web - The company is the latest to join the parade of big news databases marching onto the Net. But will it prove a profitable move? [Wired News]
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- Dow Jones Shutters Its Investor Network - Subscribers logging in were told simply that the site had ceased operations. [Wired News]
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- Dow Jones to Launch Executive Want-Ads - Targeted at The Wall Street Journal's readership, the site will use job listings mostly for well-paid suits. [Wired News]
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- Downloadable Music Ready to Rock - With an AOL music site preparing to offer digital downloads, the business of Web-based tune peddling is about to get as mainstream as the Internet will allow. [Wired News]
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- Dream Jobs: ACLU Seeks Net Defender - The ACLU seeks an organizer and researcher to coordinate its work in connection with the Global Internet Liberty Campaign, a worldwide coalition of organizations committed to the preservation of free speech and privacy online. [Wired News]
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- Drops Heard 'Round the World - A by-the-numbers look at global stock market activity during the past three trading days. [Wired News]
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- DVD Breakthrough: Pact on Licensing - As of 15 April, the creators of digital videodiscs will allow other manufacturers to produce equipment and thus help expand global markets. [Wired News]
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- Dynamic HTML Spells Ease - and Conflict - The Web's easiest markup language livens up. But surprise - Netscape and Microsoft are going separate routes. Developers, choose your weapon. [Wired News]
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- E-Commerce? It's Anyone's Guess - Two new reports agree that the value of online transactions will balloon over the next few years. But they differ widely on the matter of how much. [Wired News]
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- E-Minds Finds Potential Buyer - Durand Communications, a maker of conferencing software, may ride to the rescue of the financially troubled online community. [Wired News]
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- EarthLink 'Made Mistake' on Cash Crisis Claim - The ISP admits it goofed when it reported to regulators that it didn't have enough cash to meet expenses. The company now says it has plenty of money. [Wired News]
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- EarthLink Nips at AOL's Heels - The largest of the independent ISPs takes the next step toward the AOL-dominated newbie market with some very friendly new access software. [Wired News]
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- EarthLink Offers 'Bounty' to Pint-Sized ISPs - The company will pay for subscribers handed over by smaller competitors looking to exit the dial-up business. [Wired News]
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- Editorial Dream Job at CitySearch - CitySearch needs a national editor to help the company push the evolution of the local newspaper. [Wired News]
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- Editorial Dream Job: Beijing Scene - Can there be such a thing as an alternative weekly in the People's Republic of China? Beijing Scene says yes, and it's hiring. [Wired News]
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- Editorial Dream Job: Seattle's SportsZone - The Starwave/ESPN joint venture, SportsZone, is hiring an assistant editor. [Wired News]
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- Editors Reject News Site Ratings - A group of news executives agree that content filtering should be left up to the browser makers - and the users themselves. [Wired News]
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- Education Dream Job: Teach in the Community - For seven years, The Buddy System has been helping the San Francisco Bay Area get educated. [Wired News]
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- Egghead Hatches 'Virtual Store' - The online outlet won't immediately offer downloadable software, but may represent salvation for a company that recently closed about 70 outlets. [Wired News]
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- Either Way You Slice It, MS Cuts Temp Workers - Laid off or not renewed? Redmond goes into full damage-control mode after Microsoft and about 100 temps part ways. [Wired News]
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- Electric Minds May Go Dark Within Weeks - Founder Howard Rheingold says funder Softbank withdrew an offer to tide over the community Web site. [Wired News]
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- Electric Minds Turns Heads with New Model - A new president brings a profitability plan to the virtual community. [Wired News]
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- Electric Utilities Jack into Cable TV Market - Now that phone companies are pulling back from their grandiose plans to take on the cable companies, utilities may become their biggest challenger. [Wired News]
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- Electronic Arts to Buy Maxis for $125 Million - The maker of John Madden Football is buying the maker of SimCity, as heated competition in the gaming industry continues to drive companies into each other's arms. [Wired News]
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- Electronic Paperboy Delivers Local News - New Century Networks is rolling out an HTML email service to deliver customized content from 140 local newspapers - and while hardly revolutionary, the service could be pretty cool. [Wired News]
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- Elitism Will Kill Online Media - This more-wired-than-thou attitude spells disaster, Brooke Shelby Biggs forecasts. [Wired News]
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- Ellison Dodges Stock Woes to Plug NC - The Oracle chief shares his vision of a networked future with Internet World attendees. [Wired News]
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- Ellison Plays, But Oracle's All Business - The database giant shells out $120 million for a financial software maker while speculation mounts that its CEO is about to be appointed to Apple's board. [Wired News]
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- Ellison's Network Computers Take on WebTV - The Oracle chairman is once again tilting at Microsoft's windmills. He's planning to turn his NCs into Web-TV killers. [Wired News]
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- Email As Secure As FedEx? NetDox Insures It. - A new company dedicated to using the Internet to deliver confidential documents backs their promise with US$25,000 coverage - but real privacy demands more than promises. [Wired News]
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- Emergency Dream Job: Protect the Net - CERT rushes to the aid of sysadmins everywhere in instances of network invasions. [Wired News]
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- Engineering Dream Job: Coding for the Cinéaste - Still enjoying their position as the biggest online movie store, Reel is hiring engineers. [Wired News]
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- Engineering Dream Job: Develop for Amazon.com - Without any competition for more than a year, Amazon's primary worry is whether it can keep up with its own growth. You may be able to help. [Wired News]
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- Engineering Dream Job: Hollywood Seeks Geeks - HSX lets Web surfers buy and sell shares in movie stars as if they were companies on the Nasdaq. [Wired News]
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- Entry-Level Dream Job: 3-D Animator - OCS is a family-owned special-effects studio in Southern California that offers a chance to learn and advance. [Wired News]
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- Eric Schmidt Joins Novell as CEO - The man who oversaw the development of Java at Sun now tries his hand at turning around the struggling network software company. [Wired News]
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- Ericsson Builds High-Tech Greenhouse - With a $2.5 million investment, the Swedish cell-phone-maker hopes to attract start-ups and financiers to its new Silicon Alley CyberLab. [Wired News]
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- Etrade Called on Legal Carpet for October Troubles - A disgruntled customer is seeking class-action status for a suit charging the nation's second-largest online brokerage with misrepresenting its fees and system capacity. [Wired News]
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- Etrade Gives Small Fry a Crack at IPOs - The original online-trading firm, offering new issues underwritten by Robertson, Stephens, gives a bit more power to the people. [Wired News]
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- Etrade's Rosy Picture Wilts in Face of Truth - Frenzied market activity this week caught up with the online investing service, as did some irate customers who showed up at the firm's offices demanding action. [Wired News]
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- EU Gives Nod to British Telecom's MCI Buyout - Now US regulators must give their stamp of approval to the US$25 billion deal. [Wired News]
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- Euro Dream Job: Launch the CyberTheatre - This Brussels-based digital hot spot has its sights set on a global takeover. [Wired News]
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- Euro VCs Begin to Mimic Valley Cousins - Old World venture capitalists are giving up their conservative ways and beginning to learn some new tricks of the start-up trade. [Wired News]
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- Eword: Mom and Pop Pay Up - Gone are the days when midsize ISPs and national networks carried each others traffic at no cost. The cooperative spirit of the Net is losing out to cold cash. [Wired News]
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- Eword: Ratings = Censorship - How effective is the proposed N rating which exempts news from censorship filters on the Net? Ask the Ku Klux Klan. [Wired News]
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- Eword: Search Engine Shake Out - As Infoseek and AltaVista's hold in the Internet search engine market weakens, it remains to be seen if they can hold on at all. [Wired News]
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- Eword: Sixth Coming - Gateway 2000 may revive the gone but not forgotton Commodore Amiga. [Wired News]
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- Excite Changing to Channels - The Web service wants to give people what they're already familiar with, a style of online programming some observers see as televisation of the Web. [Wired News]
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- Excite Cuts Editorial Staff in Half - A reorganization of the Web directory to a narrower focus of interests prompts a cutback in staff-generated content. [Wired News]
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- Excite Cuts into Content Crew to Retool Site - The Web directory is moving away from site reviews. Its first step is laying off some of its editorial staff. [Wired News]
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- Excite Reports Loss for Quarter - The earnings announcement follows news that the online directory is partnering with WhoWhere to offer free Web-based email. [Wired News]
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- Excite Strikes $25 Million in New Deals - Prominent ad placement may not be the most aggressive strategy, but the additional revenue should buoy Excite's revenues for the next few years. [Wired News]
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- Excite to Sell Stock - Or Just Buy Time? - The search engine is selling an additional 2.3 million shares to the public amid speculation that it could itself become a target for acquisition. [Wired News]
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- Excite's E-commerce 'Guarantee' Mostly Hype - The directory's money-back 'safe shopping' pledge for online commerce actually may not cover people whose credit card numbers get hacked. [Wired News]
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- Excite, WebTV Extend Tie-Up - The online directory service will remain the main search engine for the TV-based ISP, strengthening Excite's relationship with WebTV's new owner, Microsoft. [Wired News]
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- Execs Surfing the Net Are Most Often Women - Women executives and managers are much more likely than their male counterparts to be heavy Net users. That may say more about their jobs than about the Net. [Wired News]
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- Fan Dream Job: Evangelize for Microsoft - Microsoft's Internet Explorer evangelists are on a mission to win the hearts and minds of the people who build the Web. [Wired News]
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- FCC Head Sings Rate-Cut Praises - Reed Hundt takes to the airwaves after AT T announces reductions of up to 15 percent in long-distance phone rates, in return for a cut in local access fees. [Wired News]
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- Fellows Add Technology to Disney Storytelling - Will these geek's geeks fit in with Mickey? More than you might think, Po Bronson says. [Wired News]
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- Feminist Dream Job: Internet Coordinator - The Feminist Majority needs help furthering its cause on the Web. [Wired News]
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- Feminist Dream Job: Research Director at Ms. - Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Ms. magazine is hiring a research director. [Wired News]
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- Feud Heats Up between Virus Foes - McAfee promises to hit back with a lawsuit of its own after Symantec expands allegations of stolen code. [Wired News]
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- Finance Dream Job: Electronic Brokerage - Schwab's Electronic Brokerage is hiring. [Wired News]
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- Find Porky's; Buy It, Too - Internet Movie Database and Reel.com strike a deal on instant movie sales. [Wired News]
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- Finding a Definitive Way to Count an Audience - To lure more deep-pocketed advertisers to the Internet, companies are trying to find a consistent way to measure a site's audience. [Wired News]
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- Finding Attachment in SI Swimsuits Online - 'Attach rate' is the black Magic Marker to business plans that would otherwise run red, says Ned Brainard. [Wired News]
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- Fireworks but No Bombshells from Apple - A much-hyped event was notable for what it didn't address - the CEO question and Oracle rumors. Still, the theatrical Steve Jobs at least showed that the company could move decisively in some new directions. [Wired News]
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- For Prison Workers, It's Low Tech or No Tech - Private enterprise is finding that prison industries are too good to be true and that for every superficial advantage a hidden disadvantage lurks. [Wired News]
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- For Push Firms, It's the Year of the Rat - Chip Bayers says Freeloader may have missed its chance to challenge PointCast as the leader of push media technology. [Wired News]
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- Forced or Not, PC-Makers Embrace Explorer - Hold the champagne, Netscape. PC-makers aren't exactly dying to wriggle out of the browser deals with Microsoft - and analysts say that before too long, browser-makers may pay for desktop space. [Wired News]
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- Free Slate! Kinsley 'Chickened Out' on Fee - Just as many analysts foresaw, Slate is backing off from charging US$19.95 a month for access to its Web site. [Wired News]
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- Freeloader Pushed Over the Edge - Individual, which bought the Web-casting pioneer for US$38 million last year, announced it is closing the doors to the money-losing venture. [Wired News]
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- FTP Software Slashes 38% of Work Force - Analysts had expected some drastic action after the company made several aggressive acquisitions but didn't enjoy the kind of revenue growth that pleases investors. [Wired News]
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- Gaming Dream Job: Red Orb Seeks Warmongers - Broderbund's Red Orb is looking beyond its educational roots for a hit in the twitch market. [Wired News]
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- Gateway 2000 Sues Consultant Over Domain Name - The PC maker is seeking control of the "gateway.com" domain name, even though the defendant has held it since 1990. [Wired News]
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- Gateway Cuts PC/TV Prices - Even so, the sticker reduction on high-end systems for heat-seeking geeks raises the question: Can PC/TVs ever go mainstream? [Wired News]
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- Gateway Hunting for New President - The departure of Richard Snyder to head a venture-capital fund means CEO Ted Wiatt will likely take a more prominent role. [Wired News]
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- Gateway Sees Spotty Performance - Stock goes into a tailspin after the computer-maker says its quarterly earnings will be lower than expected, prompting many investors - like the PC buyers before them - to turn instead to Dell. [Wired News]
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- Gateway Speaks! Sorry, but Brands Need Protection - The computer maker defends criticism of its lawsuits against little guys as necessary steps in the marketplace. [Wired News]
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- Geek Dream Job: Make Swiss Bank Tech Hum - A small Swiss army of Internet whiz kids seeks help managing its global IT projects. [Wired News]
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- Georgetown Dream Job: Managing Multimedia - Georgetown University needs a director to launch its new-media center. [Wired News]
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- German Dream Job: Design Online for ID-Gruppe - This growing multimedia powerhaus is looking to expand its ranks. [Wired News]
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- Get Yer Info-Nuggets - A research company has a survey on the most popular business directories on the Web. Paying customers only. [Wired News]
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- Getting Into Profit U. - Unveiling extensive community sites, a raft of companies are trying to corral one of the most exclusive and upwardly mobile social groups: Ivy League graduates. [Wired News]
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- Global 800 Numbers Could Slash Overseas Rates - Foreign carriers could be forced to cut international rates if a new system of global toll-free numbers catches on. [Wired News]
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- Got a Yen for a Cheap PC? Try Tokyo - A not-very-scientific study points the way to a bargain. But if you're really looking for a low-end notebook computer, try New York - or almost anywhere else. [Wired News]
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- GT Gobbles Up Gaming Market - The maker of Duke Nukem has bought eight smaller players in the past two years. The latest in this action-packed consolidation is MicroProse. [Wired News]
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- GTE Marks Wireless Milestone - But Now What? - The telecom player signs up its 4-millionth customer, but the industry is slowing and hot new technologies are called for, analysts say. [Wired News]
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- GTE Takes Net Plunge with BBN Buyout - The nation's largest local phone company aims to expand its reach by purchasing one of the "backbone" Internet providers. [Wired News]
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- H&R Block Seen Driving Up CompuServe Price - But analysts say the tax preparer shouldn't hold out too long in its protracted negotiations with America Online. [Wired News]
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- H-P Posts 'Disappointing' Profit - Earnings are up at the second-biggest computer-maker, but not as much as expected due to higher costs and delays in shipping some products. [Wired News]
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- Hail Content: Investors Know Who's King - The people funding content companies still think there's money to be made on the Net - assuming you follow the lessons of old media. Chip Bayers reports. [Wired News]
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- Happy Puppy Snaps Up Games Domain - Moving toward world conquest, the biggest gaming site acquires the second-biggest. [Wired News]
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- Harlem Dream Job: Cybercast Excutive Director - Virtual Melanin, an African American and Latino content producer, is looking for someone to run its community multimedia center. [Wired News]
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- Have a Coke and a Debit Card - Apparently, giving away money is not as easy as it seems, so the Coca-Cola Company has turned to MasterCard to develop a disposable ATM card. [Wired News]
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- Hayes Buys Cardinal; Paul Allen Buys into Hayes - The move could give new vigor to Hayes, which has lapsed from its onetime status as the kingmaker of standards in the modem world. [Wired News]
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- Help Wanted Ad May Betray AOL's News Plans - Though insisting that it's not getting into the news business, the online service won't say why it suddenly has a need for experienced editors. [Wired News]
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- Help Wanted at Apple - With the resignation of another board member, there are plenty of high-level openings at the Cupertino HQ. [Wired News]
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- High-Tech Terror Busied by Stock Falls - Securities law firm Milberg, Weiss has made a specialty of shareholder suits against high-tech companies, and is at it again, targeting Rational Software, one of the latest firms to disappoint Wall Street. [Wired News]
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- High-Tech Ticketing Lifts Ski Area Hopes - From cutting staff costs to tracking lost tykes, smartcard-type lift tickets promise to make life better on the slopes. [Wired News]
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- Higher Net Access Fees Seen as Inevitable - PacTel's request to charge ISPs a cent a minute for its phone lines is drawing fire from Net users. But higher rates may be a matter of time. [Wired News]
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- Historical Computing Site May Soon Be History - Bletchley Park was the home of some of the greatest advances in computing, but there may be few traces left if new funding doesn't come in soon. [Wired News]
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- Hits and Mips: Sucking Processing Power - Michael Schrage says forget the collective mind; the collective processor may power the future. [Wired News]
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- Hitting the IPO Road by Staying at Home - Net Roadshow attempts to leverage the ubiquity of the big network to give greater exposure to firms shopping their initial public offerings. [Wired News]
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- Holy Hollywood Computer Hype, Batman! - Hoping to score starring roles for their machines on the big screen, tech companies are becoming adept at the Tinseltown schmooze and "product placement." [Wired News]
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- Holy Hollywood Computer Hype, Batman! - Hoping to score starring roles for their machines on the big screen, tech companies are becoming adept at the Tinseltown schmooze and "product placement." [Wired News]
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- Homes Not as Wired as You Thought - PC sales are growing fast, but most of the machines bought for home use are going to repeat customers, signalling that the overall installed base is not expanding as fast as once thought. [Wired News]
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- Hoover's Makes Peace with InfoSpace - The reference publisher's aggressive action in federal court hastens a settlement with the directory service. [Wired News]
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- Hoover's Sues Site for Copyright Violation - The business reference publisher says InfoSpace fraudently posted an evaluation copy of its 10,000 company profiles. But late Friday, the parties appeared headed toward a resolution. [Wired News]
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- Hot Links for Sale: An Untapped Market - Michael Schrage wonders, should links from content sites be a revenue source? [Wired News]
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- Hotels Begin Race to Offer Net as Amenity - With Hilton and Hyatt soon to launch beta versions of in-room Internet service in San Jose, it may not be long before online access is part of the lodging package. [Wired News]
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- How an Exit Spurred Reconstruction at Time - After three years of baton-passing, Time Inc. New Media decides to rebuild from the ground up. Chip Bayers reports. [Wired News]
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- How to Buy Friends and Influence Standards - Microsoft reportedly has been spreading billion-dollar offers among major cable interests. But are the cable guys are interested in exclusive hardware and software deals? [Wired News]
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- How to Make PC World's Poor ISP List - For some, it could be as easy as getting trapped in a consumer-oriented survey when you're moving away from the consumer market. For other's, it's having the initials AOL. [Wired News]
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- How US-centrism Hinders Ecommerce - Many Web developers and business people tend to assume that, while the United States is way ahead of the pack in technological sophistication and innovation, the rest of the world is living in an era of TRS-80s and 2400-baud modems. [Wired News]
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- HP May Best Cray, NEC on Supercomputer Deal - The National Center for Atmospheric Research may purchase a new supercomputer from Hewlett-Packard, rather than from battling competitors NEC or Cray. [Wired News]
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- HP to Buy E-Commerce Darling - Ever more prevalent smartcards and secure Net payments should be the ready results of the company's VeriFone deal. [Wired News]
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- i-Pass Expands 'Roaming' Net Access - Ten more small ISPs join an alliance to allow traveling subscribers dialup access from anywhere. [Wired News]
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- IBM Buys Remaining Portion of Advantis - Big Blue aims to enhance its Internet services, which constitute the fastest-growing part of the company's business. [Wired News]
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- IBM Hypes New 'E-Business' Equation - The old-time purveyor of business solutions foregrounds its Web servers and Java-based programming. [Wired News]
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- IBM Japan Goes Shopping for Used PCs - The unusual move is an inducement to get Japanese computer users to upgrade their systems. [Wired News]
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- IBM Jumps Gun on Digital TVs - Big Blue starts to make broadcast equipment, kicking into gear the highly anticipated digital TV revolution. [Wired News]
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- IBM Shuns NetPC - Big Blue is going full-steam ahead with the network computer, but it's no longer wasting its time on the Microsoftian version. [Wired News]
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- IBM Takes a Wrecking Ball to Net 'Mall' - Big Blue will shutter its year-old World Avenue "shopping mall" next month, a grim reminder that if you build it, they won't always come. [Wired News]
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- IBM to Beef Up Global Services Division - The move is part of Big Blue's transformation from a rigid giant to a company more attuned to the Internet. [Wired News]
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- IBM's Deep (Blue) Coverup - Ned Brainard tells a sordid little tale of the paranoiac behavior of IBM's public-relations hordes. Plus: Will heads soon roll at MSN? [Wired News]
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- IBM, Banco do Brasil Brew Some Serious Java - A $180 million deal between Big Blue and Latin America's biggest retail bank sets the stage for one of the largest client investments in Java and OS/2 technology yet. [Wired News]
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- ICG Snaps Up Netcom - The latest in voice-data mergers has an all-but-unknown local telco looking to plug itself in to Net service via an ISP. [Wired News]
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- ideaMarket Dream Job: Product Is Knowledge - Peter Lewis left The New York Times to join the brain trade, and he's hiring a few good editors. [Wired News]
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- IDG, Ziff-Davis Merge Mac Mags - Dwindling circulation and ad sales force Macworld and MacWEEK into a joint venture, while MacUser dies. [Wired News]
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- IDT Pays Up, Cuts Back, Mixes Kosher and Cyber - The ISP agrees to reimburse customers for misleading ads and billing practices, lays off 140 workers, and adds a cyber flavor to its kosher cafe. [Wired News]
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- IE Used by Majority - in Turkey - Microsoft announces milestones for its increasingly popular 3.0 browser, including 50 percent penetration - here and there. [Wired News]
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- If RealNetworks Flies, So Will Charities - Every IPO filing includes an intriguing nugget or two. In RealNetworks' case, it's a promise to give away 5 percent of its profits. Flinty competitors ask, 'Profits? What profits?' [Wired News]
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- If You Can Make It There ... - New York's new-media types, unswayed by California gold, are withstanding the harsh winters, hot summers, and relative dearth of comrades to create a booming industry and bring a bunch of jobs to the city, according to an extensive new survey. [Wired News]
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- Ifusion Wipeout: Too Much, Too Fast - A push-media company implodes, and everyone's pointing fingers at the founder. Chip Bayers reports. [Wired News]
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- ILM Dream Job: Foot in the Door - Geaorge Lucas' special-effects company, Industrial Light Magic, is hiring at the entry level. [Wired News]
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- In the UK, It's an ISP-Eat-ISP Market - Internet service providers in the UK brace for another year of buyouts, failures, and fierce competition. [Wired News]
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- Info's Free, But the Technology Will Cost Ya - As investors rely ever more heavily on real-time information, some trading companies are making waves by increasing the flow of data to their customers. [Wired News]
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- Informix Tries to Sort Out Losses - The database software maker blames accounting errors for a US$120.5 million setback in the latest quarter. Hundreds of employees will pay for the mistakes with their jobs. [Wired News]
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- Infoseek Gives Up on Push - The demise of the Corporate Information Division, a PointCast-like venture, is part of an effort to refocus the directory service on its core strengths. [Wired News]
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- Infoseek Names Motro CEO - First the former CNN Interactive honcho got Robin Johnson's title as president. Now Johnson's resigned as CEO, and Motro is alone at the top. [Wired News]
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- Infoseek Scores Some Microsoftian Manna - With new management and a relaunched site, the struggling search engine manages to snag a deal that just may buoy its chances for success. [Wired News]
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- Infoseek Taps Hoover's for Ad Revenue - In exchange for an equity investment in Hoover's, the search-engine giant will be the exclusive delivery agent for its ad sales. [Wired News]
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- Insurers Offer Millennium Bug Protection - Losses incurred when corporate computers can't handle the shift from 1999 to 2000 can now be insured. [Wired News]
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- Insurers Offer Net Policies - Web-based businesses can now purchase protection against security breaches and other risks, but critics say this will just plug up holes. [Wired News]
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- Intel Buys Notebook Processing Muscle - The purchase of Chips and Technologies, a leading maker of graphics and video capabilities for mobile computers, will allow Intel machines to "smoothly run DVD and 3-D graphics." [Wired News]
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- Intel Denies Digital Patent Violation Charge - The chipmaker says it didn't infringe on 10 separate patents in producing its Pentium microprocessors. [Wired News]
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- Intel Faces FTC 'Business Practice' Probe - The chipmaker announces that it has received a wide-ranging subpoena for information relating to its business practices. It's the second such probe of Intel in the '90s, and the company says it is prepared to cooperate. [Wired News]
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- Intel Goes Inside Web Ads - Way Inside - The company's latest approach to advertising is to sponsor heavy-duty multimedia campaigns that might create demand for its chips. But where's that famous blue logo? [Wired News]
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- Intel Keeps Going and Going after Consumers - With its latest appeal-to-the-masses ad campaign, the chipmaker hopes to turn its BunnyPeople mascots into an unforgettable cultural icon - and sell more computer innards. [Wired News]
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- Intel Stock Spirals Downward - The king of microprocessors, facing growing competition for its Pentium II, warned Wall Street of a drop in revenues. Wall Street wasn't pleased. [Wired News]
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- Intel to Blast Off with European Venture - A joint venture, dubbed European Satellite Multimedia Services, will offer high-speed data transmission throughout the continent via six satellites. [Wired News]
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- Intel Tries Slicing into Apple's Music Market - The chipmaker is looking to win over multimedia types with such high-profile activities as sponsoring the New York Music Festival. [Wired News]
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- Intel Unveils Mobile Processor, Hoards Limelight - As just about every major notebook maker learned Monday, when Intel puts on a show, there's only one place for the supporting cast: In the shadow of the star. [Wired News]
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- Intel Views NC as Its Theater of Operations - With a parade of multimedia business applications, the chipmaker's approach is clear: Turn up the hype. [Wired News]
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- Intel's Top Three Change Titles - The goal appears to be making sure Craig Barrett sports a title commensurate to his role in running the company. [Wired News]
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- Intel, Compaq Join Hands for PC Theatre - The two megacompanies want to be in the emerging market that merges computing with traditional forms of entertainment content on large-screen displays. [Wired News]
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- Intel, DEC Declare Truce - A chipmaking power and a rival put patent-infringement charges aside. [Wired News]
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- Intel, DEC Reported in Talks to Settle Patent Feud - The companies' chiefs are reported to have discussed a deal that would allow Intel to acquire DEC's top-of-the-line Alpha microprocessor in exchange for cash and calling off the legal dogs. [Wired News]
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- Intel, DEC Settle Alpha Chip Dispute - The firms reach a 10-year agreement that includes the $700 million sale of DEC's semiconductor manufacturing operations to Intel, putting a quick end to potentially bruising litigation. [Wired News]
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- Intel, Infoseek Post Mixed Results - In a week filled with earnings reports, the chipmaker reports a decline in quarter-on-quarter earnings, while the directory service posts another quarter of losses. [Wired News]
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- Interface Dream Job: Navio Needs Navigator - Netscape's younger sibling Navio plans to bring the Net to a TV near you. [Wired News]
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- Intern Dream Job: 'Foreign Affairs' Magazine - Foreign Affairs magazine is launching a Web site and needs volunteers to help. [Wired News]
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- Intern Dream Job: NOVA Online - NOVA Online, the webby counterpart of the PBS TV series, is looking for a college intern to work part-time from October until mid-January. [Wired News]
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- Internet IPOs Weather Early Flu Season - Since the mini-crash in October, Internet companies caught a chill in the IPO market and are looking a lot less healthy to investors. [Wired News]
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- Intuit Brings Banking to the Web - The software firm puts emphasis on simple banking transactions, and away from more detailed management of personal finances, like that found in Quicken. [Wired News]
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- Intuit Lays Off 270, Signs Pact with Excite - The company swears the two moves aren't related. But both fit into Intuit's steady move onto the Internet as a personal-finance site. [Wired News]
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- Intuit Says Its Tax Software Has Bug - Taxpayers using Intuit's MacInTax to file returns may find a flaw that doesn't require Mac users to save their files each time they make changes. [Wired News]
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- Intuit Wants to Be Web Financial Superstore - The financial software maker wants to expand its Web presence into a site offering insurance, mortgages, and retirement plans. [Wired News]
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- ISP Competition Forecast - The shooting war that characterized the long-distance phone industry will soon spill over to the Net, an analyst believes. [Wired News]
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- ISP Forecast: Boom for All, Then Bust for Most - A new study suggests the Internet service provider market is headed for burgeoning growth, then a shakeout that will leave a relatively small number of large ISPs as magnates. [Wired News]
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- ISPs Seek to Settle Suit with AT&T - The companies say they were duped by another ISP, which allegedly deceived them with an offer of cut-rate capacity. That capacity was in fact toll-free numbers from AT&T. [Wired News]
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- ISPs Struggle with Pricing Juggle - Netcom has given in to the ugly truth that America Online refuses to confess: Unlimited Net access for US$20 a month comes at the price of quality. [Wired News]
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- ISPs' Complaints Force Tweak of Speed Study - Boardwatch magazine and Keynote Systems will allow ISPs to choose which servers are measured. [Wired News]
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- It'll Be All Work, No Title for SGI's Ewald - The president of Cray Research essentially will serve as president, but a full appointment to the post may take time. [Wired News]
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- It's a DVD World After All - By pledging to have a few titles available on digital video disc by Christmas, Disney provides some much-needed incentive for consumers to buy into the new technology. [Wired News]
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- It's Consolidation Season in the Ad Business - On the heels of this month's I/Pro-NetCount merger, ClickOver and Focalink join forces - putting teeth to the claim that it takes bigger fish to swim in stronger seas. [Wired News]
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- It's Time for Another New Ad Metaphor - Online marketers should look to college radio - not TV or print - to figure out The Next Big Thing. [Wired News]
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- Jack's Hearing a Word from Sponsors: Sold - Berkeley Systems has found success in TV-like commercials for its You Don't Know Jack game that bring in rates even higher than the ones Seinfeld gets. [Wired News]
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- Japan Cracks Down on Tamagotchi Pirates - Struggling Bandai's call brings a rare raid on accused manufacturers of fakes. [Wired News]
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- Japan Unprepared for Tide of Junk PCs - In a country where there's already more trash than they know what to do with, a massive switch to Windows boxes could leave the roadsides and sidewalks littered with old technology. [Wired News]
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- Japan's Computer Makers Mount PC Sales Blitz - Playing up multimedia capabilities, as well as interconnectivity with TVs and digital cameras, Sony, Toshiba, and others aim to boost global market share. [Wired News]
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- Japanese Animator Buys into DirecTV Unit - The parent company of Japan's hottest animation producer will take a 10 percent stake in DirecTV's Japanese subsidiary as the satellite broadcast market in Japan gears for takeoff. [Wired News]
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- Japanese Firms Use Camera as Online Lure - Sony's new digital camera will work with a standard floppy disk; Canon plans to link you to photo processing labs. [Wired News]
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- Japanese Satellite Firms Agree on Standard - Nudged by government, the big three say they'll use a common receiver, allowing consumers to switch between services. [Wired News]
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- Java Dream Job: Direct the Engineers - WebLogic produces products from drivers to server software that provide Java database connectivity. [Wired News]
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- Java Fund Roster Grows by One - The Kleiner keiretsu adds a distribution and service firm to its exclusive list of Java startups. [Wired News]
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- John Malone Sails Uncertain Sea of Damage Control - Ned Brainard gossips about TCI's CEO, AOL's Avalanche, and the 1997 Gates predictions. [Wired News]
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- Journalism Profs: Do Your Homework - Smaller American J-schools have some catching up to do to feed grads into new media. [Wired News]
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- Judge Jackson Leaves 'Em Hanging - The US District Court judge listens to Microsoft's and the Justice Department's sides in the antitrust suit and says he'll be back with a decision. [Wired News]
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- Judge to IBM: It's Not 1956 Anymore - A federal judge has OK'd the lifting of an antitrust decree meant to fetter a different Big Blue. [Wired News]
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- Judges Put Price on PacTel-SBC Merger - Two administrative judges are urging the state's utilities commission to make the merging companies pay $590.5 million accordance with a state law. [Wired News]
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- Juniper Girds for Router War with Cisco - The Silicon Valley start-up receives $40 million from leading telecom firms to develop technology that will accelerate Net traffic - but Cisco says it's not worried. Apparently it has a big head start. [Wired News]
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- Juno Jumps on Spammers - The second-largest email provider goes to court to show it means business against the business of spamming. [Wired News]
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- Jupiter Gets $8 Million from Gartner Group - The little market research firm that gets a lot of attention by making itself available to the media just got something even better than a quote - money. Now the bets are on about when Jupiter will go public. [Wired News]
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- Just Say No Net in Schools - Clinton's Net infatuation exemplifies the nation's misguided education policy, Michael Schrage explains. [Wired News]
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- Keiretsu: That's Java for 'Giant Shortcut' - What Kleiner Perkins provides its Java start-ups is more than any venture capital could buy - a Silicon Valley reputation that gets new companies into doors few can open. [Wired News]
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- Kinsley Deathwatch Update - Slate's editor is buying real estate in the Pacific Northwest. But that doesn't necessarily mean he's putting down roots, Ned Brainard observes. [Wired News]
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- Knight-Ridder Launches SF Online Guide - The site is the latest entry in what may become the bloodiest of battles shaping up among the titans of online city-guides. [Wired News]
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- Kodak Dream Job: Swim Against the Current - In spite of cutbacks, Kodak is reorganizing and hiring adventurous designers in the Web department. [Wired News]
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- Landi Adds to Exodus at Apple - The former chief operating officer surprised few people by leaving Apple after Amelio shifted power to a new cadre of executives. [Wired News]
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- Lawsuits Charge Modem Makers with Fraud - Manufacturers and sellers of 56-Kbps modems are accused of false advertising because most ISPs can't deliver information at such a high speed. [Wired News]
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- Lessons Learned: We Still Don't Get the Web - Content may be king, but without serious attention paid to interactivity, the Web is just repurposed passivity. [Wired News]
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- Lexis-Nexis Will Be Available on the Web - The subscriber fee will still be a hefty US$169 per month, but users won't need special software. [Wired News]
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- Listeners Get a Voice in Radio Programming - Web-based software that lets music fans tell radio stations what they like - for a lot less money than traditional telephone surveys - gets set to rock and roll. [Wired News]
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- Little Agencies Pick Man over Machine - In the shadow of giant automated advertising networks, small Silicon Alley shops use a human touch to put their creations before the right eyes. [Wired News]
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- Logging On, or Not, to a Stock Mess - Many online investors discovered a limitation of electronic brokerages: Servers bogged down under the weight of record traffic. [Wired News]
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- Lotus Positioning a Browser Presence? - Observers are atwitter about a possible foray into the market. [Wired News]
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- Low-Orbit Satellites Jockey for Licenses, Dollars - Technical advances and FCC support will launch an Internet and telephone network into space. [Wired News]
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- Lucent to Buy Octel Communications - The $1.8 billion cash deal is intended to bolster Lucent's messaging capabilities, including unified voice and email for PC users. [Wired News]
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- Lucent, Philips Merge Consumer Units - The new company is expected to generate $2.5 billion in revenue next year, and could be on a footing to compete with giants like Motorola. [Wired News]
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- Lycos, Bertelsmann Unite in Europe - The joint venture aims to have localized navigation sites in 37 European countries, with enhanced search features. [Wired News]
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- Mac Fans Want Apple to Stand by Licensees - Apple's reluctance to renew its vows with clone makers has more than just cloners upset. [Wired News]
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- Mac Masses Unmoved, Exhibitors Bemused - Only divine apparition could have impressed the Apple acolytes. Clone makers and software developers, on the other hand, were sifting through what The Founder did and didn't say for clues about the future. [Wired News]
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- Mac OS 8 Selling Big, but Not Without Woes - Demand for Apple's new operating system is strong, but clone makers still don't have the licenses they need to ship it - and the software is already back ordered in some spots. [Wired News]
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- Made on the Inside for Use on the Outside - From computer components to graduation caps and gowns, a list of prison-made goods. [Wired News]
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- Magazine Dream Job: Business Development - The Web Magazine is banking on its support from PC World and looking for a business-development manager. [Wired News]
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- Magazine Industry Bends Over for Advertisers - In the wake of a half-hearted reversal of Chrysler's policy to control the content of publications in which it advertises, industry leaders celebrate a hollow victory - rather than calling the carmaker to task. [Wired News]
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- Market Crash? What Market Crash? - Though the tech sector was hit hard by the dive, most employees took the news with casual indifference. [Wired News]
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- Marketing Dream Job: Interactive Creative - Know the Web and how to use it for marketing? Miller Kadanoff needs experienced interactive design help who can answer "yes" to both questions for clients like Sun, Oracle, and 3Com. [Wired News]
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- Marketing Dream Job: New-Media Publisher Liaison - Barnes Noble needs help giving Amazon.com a run for its money. [Wired News]
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- Marketing Dream Job: PowerBar - Not everyone at PowerBar is an athlete, but an interest in sports won't hurt prospective employees. [Wired News]
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- Married, with Diller - Barry Diller, czar of Home Shopping Network, announces a merger with Universal Studios TV properties. [Wired News]
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- Mass Illusion Dream Job: Software Developer - The Massachusetts special-effects studio seeks someone to create production tools. [Wired News]
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- Matsushita Backs Off from 64-Bit Game Units - The world's largest electronics company, after stumbling with 32-bit machines, now wonders if it has what it takes to compete against the white-hot Nintendo 64. [Wired News]
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- Maxis Dream Job: Gaming Engineer - Hot on the trail of their smash hit SimCity, Maxis' online action group is gearing up to colonize the moon with Tycho Rising. [Wired News]
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- May I Help You ... Get Online? - A new virtual mall helps newbies shop via PC. [Wired News]
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- McAfee Goes for One-Stop Net Security - The anti-virus software-maker plunked down $1.3 billion to acquire network management pro Network General and become top-dog in network security and management software. [Wired News]
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- MCI Says 'Yes' to WorldCom's $37 Billion - Chased first by British Telecommunications and later by GTE, MCI finally succumbs to an improved offer from the upstart US telco. [Wired News]
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- MCI Stakes Heat Up as GTE Makes Bid - In an effort to short-circuit offers by both British Telecom and WorldCom, GTE reportedly comes forward with a $25 billion offer for the long-distance and networking company. [Wired News]
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- MCI Takes a Look at Video - Primestar disclosed deep inside an FCC filing that MCI has expressed interest in bundling satellite video with phone services. The move is a hedge against the possibility that the market is close to demanding voice-data-video packages. [Wired News]
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- MCI, BT Set Sights on Latin American Market - Soon to be a massive merged entity, the two companies announced plans to link with Portugal Telecom and expand services in both Europe and Latin America, particularly Brazil. [Wired News]
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- McNealy's Memo to Sun Troops - '...This is not some holy war. Your responsibility and my responsibility is to our customers, to our shareholders, partners, and the industry's developers.' And other thoughts from the Sun chief on the Microsoft suit. [Wired News]
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- Measuring Up at the News Urinal - In the new-media world, you have to be freakishly exceptional to stand out in the infinite crowd. [Wired News]
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- Media: The Cyberscare Phenomenon - Traditional media's scaremongers dis the Net out of their own fear. [Wired News]
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- Mercury Mail Changes Name - In response to a lawsuit by the San Jose Mercury News, the email news service will now be called Infobeat. [Wired News]
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- Merrill Lynch to Broker Stocks Online - The company downplayed the significance of this new offering, claiming it is just one more service it will provide its clients. [Wired News]
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- Miami Dream Job: Online Editor - New Times is hiring an online editor to work alongside the print staff in Miami. [Wired News]
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- Michael Wolff Leaves Wolff New Media - With bidders waiting, a brand-name new-media company loses its founder. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Again in the Cross Hairs - The Department of Justice is looking into Microsoft's multiple investments in the streaming-media business, and may be probing as well into the software giant's recent deal with Apple. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft and Intuit in E-Bank Detente - The rivals agree on "Open Financial Exchange," a common standard for online banking and financial transactions. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Angling for US West Stake? - Redmond is reported near a $1 billion investment in the telco's cable-TV operations. Also: PointCast's new boss joins Clinton tech advisory board.... CNET, Borders announce marketing deal. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Appeals Unbundling Order - The software superpower says a federal judge's ruling goes beyond the scope of a government prosecutors' request for action. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Builds Up Its Web Offerings - A partnership with search engine-maker Inktomi is part of Redmond's move to beef up its online content - following the lead of Yahoo and Excite. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Buys into Cambridge R&D Lab - As part of a plan to triple its research budget in the next three years, the software maker looks toward European thinkers. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Buys WebTV - The move is Microsoft's nimble attempt to outmaneuver its rivals in the digital television goldrush. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Closes Montreal Sidewalk - The site hadn't even launched, but Redmond HQ is laying off all nine employees in the Canadian office. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Countersues Sun - The software giant says Sun, not it, is guilty of breach of contract in the Java licensing dispute. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Cries Sheep - Once again the mammoth software-maker hides its wolf-like intentions behind a guise of innocence. Carpoint, Microsoft says, is not meant to compete with auto listings in newspaper classifieds. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Denies Report of CBS Buyout - Executives both in Redmond and at network parent Westinghouse say they have no idea where the New York Post came up with its story about a pending deal. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Faces European Scrutiny - The software maker has gone through one long round of anti-trust probing in the United States and may soon face another. Reports now say the European Union wants to look at the company's licensing, discount, and Internet practices. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Gets Help to Promote Windows NT - After its high-profile investment in Apple, Microsoft lines up an accord with accounting firm KPMG Peat Marwick, which will promote Windows NT to major corporate clients. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Gets Real with Streaming - The software giant will buy a stake in Progressive Networks, maker of RealAudio and RealVideo, and seek to define the industry standard for streaming technology. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Goes Head-to-Head with Dailies - Sidewalk will be a direct assault on the bread and butter of daily newspapers and alternative weeklies: local news and information. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Lands On Boardwalk - Backed by its own Monopoly money, the software giant goes after the real-estate market - to the chagrin of those already there. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Links with HP on E-Commerce - The software giant aims to instill a sense of order in the burgeoning - and lucrative - field of online transactions. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Pads Comcast's Pockets - With the move, Bill Gates again ups the ante in the convergence game of marrying computers to televisions. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Plugs Free Net Content into Win98 - But there's a catch: One-way push of selected content via the TV broadcast spectrum. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Reports Another Hot Quarter - The software giant saw net income of US$1.06 billion, up 86 percent from the year before and completely in line with analysts' expectations. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft to Netscape: Mine's Bigger - As if the 'browser war' wasn't nasty enough, companies are now trading blows over which can best meet the needs of big-bucks corporate clients. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft to Offer Pay-to-Play Games - The move is a big vote of confidence for an increasingly popular revenue model among gamers - charge by the day or month, not the hour. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft to US: You Knew All Along - Company lawyers say documents prove the Justice Department has long been aware of a plan to integrate "Internet technologies" and the OS. But could the government really have foreseen what Redmond had in mind? [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Waives Fees for Online Banking - The move comes as banks and their customers grow increasingly comfortable with online transactions. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft's Interactive Strategy Exec Exits - Eight years older and considerably wealthier, Richard Tait decides to move on to an as-yet undisclosed new project. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft, Dow Jones Team Up on Financial Data - The alliance could change the way Wall Street receives its life blood of market data, and pose a threat to Reuters and Bloomberg. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft, Sun Release the 'Java Papers' - In a textual escalation of its legal battle with Sun Microsystems, Microsoft Web-publishes its Java licensing agreement in an attempt to demonstrate it has not breached the pact. Sun also publishes the document. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft: Court Action Could Harm America - The software superpower asks for quick action on its appeal of a judge's order seeking to clamp down on the company's browser marketing practices. At stake, the company argues, is nothing less than the national well-being. [Wired News]
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- Milking the Net to Go Back in Time - Forget about virtual communities - what the Net makes possible is small-town, 19th-century-style communities of tech types who can telecommute to high-powered jobs. Just ask the folks in Camden, Maine. [Wired News]
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- Milking the WebTV Cash Cow - A leading Wall Street analyst says Microsoft's acquisition of WebTV could pay off big, but it may take some patience. [Wired News]
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- Millennium Costs Dismissed as Buggy - A government report says staving off disaster come 2000 won't be costly, but the computer industry sees a sole, and expensive, solution: a computer-by-computer code fix. [Wired News]
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- Millennium Madness Tops Hype List - Other overhyped memes: Linux, Handheld PCs, and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. [Wired News]
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- Millions Go for Free Email - Hotmail's fee-free services are popular with advertisers, but beg the question: Do you get what you pay for? [Wired News]
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- Millions More Embrace Telecommuting - The number working from home rose 30 percent in the past two years to more than 11 million. Advocates say balking employers must abandon their "patriarchal" thinking. [Wired News]
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- Millions Sought from Deadbeat .coms - The company that collects domain name fees is facing a US$50 million shortfall thanks to 500,000 delinquent account holders. [Wired News]
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- Mitnick Lands in Solitary - Locked up on charges of software theft, Mitnick has now been put into solitary, apparently for hoarding food, his lawyer said. [Wired News]
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- More Apple Losses: $708 Million - The company reported another "disappointing" quarter with US$186 million in operating losses along with restructuring costs and the NeXT write-off. [Wired News]
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- Motion-Simulator Merger is Very Real - A merger of two bigger-screen biggies will create a stronger competitor in an increasingly cutthroat theater. [Wired News]
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- Motorola Kisses Mac Cloning Goodbye - Despite its role in making clonemakers' lives difficult, Apple appears to be unfazed by its partner's decision to quit making the Starmax line. [Wired News]
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- Motorola Sues Qualcomm in Handheld Dispute - Industry giant claims fast-growing competitor violated four patents in its "Q" line of cellular phones. [Wired News]
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- Motorola's Satellite Dreams May Come True - The company is jumping into an already crowded field of multimedia satellite systems. But a look at its FCC filing suggests its plan and its timing look good. [Wired News]
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- Motorola, VeriFone Pioneer Wireless E-Commerce - The companies are working on a fast, secure way to buy products with wireless technology. It's no threat to Net business, but may play well in emerging markets. [Wired News]
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- Move Over, Bill - Diller's Coming to Town - The Home Shopping Network just dropped a chunk of change in the pockets of CitySearch - on the eve of what will surely be an entertaining city-guide showdown. [Wired News]
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- Mpath Changes Course, Takes Free Road - The company is gambling that revenue from advertising, as well as licensing its technology to rivals, will make up for the shortfall in subscription fees. [Wired News]
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- Mpath Teams with Electronic Arts - An exclusive licensing and minority investment deal will deliver EA titles to the Mplayer network - and strikes a blow against gaming rival TEN. [Wired News]
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- MS Earns US$1.04 Billion; Losses for CNET - Two Net companies leaning on advertising took hits in Q1; SGI reports profits of $11 million. [Wired News]
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- MS Embraces Multimedia, Java with Buyout - The software giant's purchase of Dimension X positions Internet Explorer to have a full array of multimedia capabilities. [Wired News]
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- MSN Going After CompuServe, @Home Members - Dual initiatives show that America's third-largest online service has lofty plans for growth. It's the tone of the pitch that's being questioned. [Wired News]
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- MSNBC Brings TV-Style Commercials to Web - The site uses Flash to deliver full-screen, interstitial ads to surfers. [Wired News]
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- MSNBC Pumps Itself Up - By spiffing up its Web site and throwing out a couple million bucks to advertise its new look, the network aims to overcome its lackluster reputation. [Wired News]
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- Multidimensional Merger Draws on Ease - Viewpoint DataLabs and ThinkFish are uniting to provide easy-to-use 3-D graphics for both basic and big-dollar clients. [Wired News]
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- Muppet Dream Job: Henson Tech Director - Jim Henson Interactive, a small division of the production company, is hiring a technical director. [Wired News]
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- Murdoch Banking on Couch Potatoes, Not Webheads - The media baron tells an audience of Asian officials he's convinced that big Internet profits are a long way off and won't arrive until the Net merges with television. [Wired News]
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- Murdoch Seeks Sporting Gold in Rainbow Stake - Following the lead of content rivals Disney and Time Warner, News Corp. is making a big splash in the wide but consolidating world of sports. [Wired News]
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- Museum Dream Job: Experience Music Project - A Paul Allen pet, the Experience Music Project is staffing up to open its museum doors in 1999. [Wired News]
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- Music Dream Job: Indie Label Rep - OM Entertainment Group is a grassroots San Franicsco label looking for some help with promotions. [Wired News]
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- Music to Shop By - and Buy - Would you like some Nat King Cole with your colander? Some Puccini with that push-up bra? [Wired News]
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- N2K Going Public - After deferring once to 'market considerations,' the online music firm hopes to raise about $43 million in its second stab at an IPO. [Wired News]
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- N2K Is Sweet Music for WebTV - The tube-based online service will use the music entertainment company to strengthen its audio and retail offerings as it prepares for a major push for new subscribers. [Wired News]
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- N2K Ponies Up $18M for AOL Exclusive - The hip online music retailer snags a three-year deal to dominate CD sales on America Online - pushing Tower Records into the background. [Wired News]
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- Nano-Entrepreneur Scores Big - A teenage computer troubleshooter is finding success as a bithead businessman. [Wired News]
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- Nasdaq Erects Virtual Trading Room - In a bid to become more photogenic, the computerized stock exchange has built a wall of video to evoke the excitement of a trading floor. [Wired News]
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- Navio Deal Sets Ellison, Gates to Sparring - Oracle's acquisition of the Netscape subsidiary leads to a clash between two of the industry's biggest egos. Plus, how Navio helps other thin-client devices navigate, and how companies hope to steer the Web onto TVs. [Wired News]
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- NBC Jacks into City-Guide Fray - The broadcast giant says its brand can help set its online city guides apart. Some wonder whether the move is an attempt to mollify irked affiliates. [Wired News]
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- NBC Takes Tip from Microsoft, Expands Online - The move shows how new-media and old-media enterprises are uniting to leverage their respective strengths. It also provides Sidewalk with an opportunity to use the familiar NBC brand to reach a whole new audience. [Wired News]
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- NBC, Yahoo Start a Party-Line to the Stars - The network turns to the online guide to co-produce regular chatfests with its TV idols, meaning online exposure for NBC and prime-time exposure for Yahoo. [Wired News]
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- Net Ads Are Bigger, But Not Better - New online models aren't breaking new ground, just taking up more space. [Wired News]
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- Net Bank Pioneer Splits Up Divisions - Security First Network Bank is dividing its banking and software divisions to help turn itself around. [Wired News]
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- Net Becomes Bank's Newest 'Region' - Cyberspace will be treated the same as Huntington Bank's six other geographic zones, making the Net the fiscal equal of Ohio and Florida. [Wired News]
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- Net Firms Awash in IPOptimism - RealNetworks jacked up the price range a couple of bucks for its imminent initial public offering, while a couple of other Net companies gear up to go public too. [Wired News]
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- Net Geeks Slacking all the Way to the Bank? - Ned Brainard ponders whether Mark Andreessen earned his wealth, and if the Kleiner Perkins Caulfield Byers keiretsu is on the wane. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Corporate Sellout - AOL's surrender of its users' digits may have crossed the line in a way the Times couldn't, but the distinction between the sell-offs is less qualitative than quantitative. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Crashing Online - As the market did its spectacular face-plant on 27 October, you could almost hear Jerry Seinfeld's trademark sneer: "This is going to be a shame." [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Microsoft Charity - The $150 million to Apple - roughly the equivalent of what Bill Gates earns in interest in the time it takes to launch and crash IE 4.0 on a Mac - was last week's loudest sneeze. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: Odd Business Tactics - The world of new-product development owes a massive debt to the peanut-butter/chocolate mathematics wrought by Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. [Wired News]
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- Net Surf: The Fate of Plug-Ins - Nothing's more annoying than visiting a hyped site to learn you've got a half-hour's downloading and installing before you can judge it for yourself. [Wired News]
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- Net Survey Flummoxes Big Media's Short Memory - Many media outlets seized on the Nielsen/CommerceNet survey of Net growth. Few recalled its spurious data the last time around. [Wired News]
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- Net's Road to Mass Appeal Full of Corpses - The shakeout among Web publishers will only get shakier. That's the view from Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker in a new book. [Wired News]
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- Netcom Eases Way for Small Firms to Go Online - The ISP's new service, offering both Net access and Web hosting, aims to take the headache out of setting up a site. [Wired News]
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- NetGuide Live Dumps Another Two Dozen - In a wholesale reorganization of its Web efforts, management announced a new round of dismissals at its Web directory service. [Wired News]
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- NetObjects Heads to Land of the Rising Sun - The maker of Web site-building software is teaming up with Mitsubishi to get into Japan's rapidly growing Internet market - but does it have the right stuff? [Wired News]
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- Netplex: A Rival to Neither Valley nor Alley - Washington's tech community has a name - now it just needs an identity and some workers. [Wired News]
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- Netscape Absorbs Server-App Darling Kiva - The browser- and server-maker tries to expand its extranet business with the acquisition of the server-maker-cum-Java-engineering developer. [Wired News]
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- Netscape Fails to Wow Wall Street - Once the hottest stock on Earth, Netscape is struggling to find a spin that can reignite interest among investors. [Wired News]
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- Netscape Gears Up for Communicator 'Release' - The company is planning a glitzy campaign for the official unveiling, complete with prizes in an effort to solidify its market-share advantage against rival Microsoft. [Wired News]
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- Netscape Media Partners Appear Tentative - Some major media players join Marc Andreessen and company for a push press conference, but their prize possessions weren't on hand. Chip Bayers reports. [Wired News]
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- Netscape Proposes Half-Hearted Privacy Standard - The latest method will give users control over the personal data they provide to Web sites, but doesn't attempt to put an end to cookies. [Wired News]
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- Netscape Sheds Baby Skin; Will Market Mature? - The Internet start-up that could is taking on the big boys in the high-stakes market for enterprise computing. In the first of a five-part series, Kaitlin Quistgaard measures the vitals of a company that seeks to develop the first major 21st-century brand. [Wired News]
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- Netscape Shuffles Some Titles - Eric Hahn is the new chief technology officer. Marc Andreessen, still the Internet posterboy, has been reclassified as executive vice president for products. [Wired News]
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- Netscape Speeds Release of Push Product - The company tries to get the jump on Microsoft with today's announcement that its push technology will be released months ahead of schedule. Chip Bayers reports. [Wired News]
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- Netscape Unveils Born-Again Web Site - The company's corporate homepage is being transformed into a business-oriented "Netcenter" to attract new users with what's touted as a free online service. [Wired News]
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- Netscape, Novell Team Up on Server OS - The joint venture announced Friday was described by Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale as part of his company's strategy "to lead the third wave of the Internet." [Wired News]
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- Netscape: High on Earnings and Justice - With quarterly revenues up 50 percent from last year, the browser-maker had reason to celebrate - but most of the executive glee seemed focused on Microsoft's antitrust troubles. [Wired News]
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- Network Solutions Reaches Out with Hard-Luck Tale - The company has hired a spin-meister as others seek to break its monopoly on domain names. [Wired News]
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- Networks as Good as They Ever Were - While the telcos cobble together plans for another network, the ones we've got seem to be handling traffic all right. [Wired News]
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- Neubarth's Dumb Luck Runs Out at Mecklermedia - Ned Brainard gossips about the sordid circumstances of Neubarth's 'resignation' and the threat of more dreary product coverage from Internet World. [Wired News]
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- New Kid on TheStreet.com - The Net-based Bloomberg-wannabe has tapped a 22-year-old as its chief technology officer. [Wired News]
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- New Microsoft Flavor: Snap, Crackle, and Hawk - The software giant and Sony are following mass-marketer AOL into cereal-box promotion, in an attempt to capture that milk-mustachioed market share. [Wired News]
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- New Sites Aim to Provide Forums for Techsperts - Creative Networks and Mainspring are trying to create a new niche - hooking up tech experts with high-level content and each other. [Wired News]
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- New Volley in Fight to Control Online Banking - Financial institutions and IBM's messaging system will go head-to-head with technology industry efforts, a move that could slow the drive toward a unified standard. [Wired News]
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- New York Dream Job for Sesame Street - What the Children's Television Workshop did for TV in the late '60s, they hope to do for the Web. [Wired News]
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- New York Dream Job: Director of Community - StarMedia is taking its Internet brand to Latin America. Help them kick-start an online community. [Wired News]
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- New York Dream Job: Industry Expert - Jupiter is a 10-year-old New York-based market research firm that tries to predict the future of consumer interactivity. [Wired News]
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- New York Graphic Designer Dream Job - To get a design job with R/GA Digital Studios, you should know your serifs from your descenders. [Wired News]
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- New Yorker Critic Irks Web-Savvy - Brooke Shelby Biggs gripes about those who use HotWired columnists to support their anti-Net ravings. [Wired News]
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- News Aggregator to Debut Overhauled Site - After several delays, New Century Network's NewsWorks Web site will be revamped, porting content from about 120 newspapers. [Wired News]
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- News Corp., EchoStar Stoke Digital Flames - Competition between digital broadcasters and the cable TV industry will heat up. Some players stand to get burned. [Wired News]
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- News Makes Circuitous Route to CNN Site - Ned Brainard watches in amazement as the network's television reports turn up on its Web site - under the AP banner. [Wired News]
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- News Media Catch Bill Gates in a Lie - The Ruler of Redmond tells Newspaper Association of America conference goers he's not out to steal their talent. Hah! [Wired News]
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- News Providers Go Traveling - More sites are looking to cash in with online travel bookings - a trend that could create a clash between journalism and commerce. [Wired News]
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- NewsNet Folds, a Victim of Web's Growth - For more than 15 years, the online pioneer profited by aggregating content from about 1,000 different sources. The Internet changed all that. [Wired News]
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- Newspapers Struggle with Online Archives - Pros argue that newspapers have an obligation to keep archives open and free. [Wired News]
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- Newton Gets Reprieve - But Rumors Still Ripe - Apple says its much-anticipated PDA will definitely be released this quarter, but makes no mention of the division's sale. [Wired News]
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- Newtonians Share Angst Over Falling Apple - A report that Apple is secretly about to sell its PDA to raise cash sends Newton's small but dedicated following to the Internet to voice their fears. [Wired News]
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- NeXT Takeover Continues at Apple - No one at NeXT, it seems, wants to get anywhere near the Apple campus and be infected with failure, Ned Brainard carps. [Wired News]
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- NFL Teams Tackle Online Fans - As the season begins, some franchises flex their marketing muscles on the Web. [Wired News]
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- Night of the Living-Dead Sites - Michael Schrage thinks marketing sites should have expiration dates so we can put the stale ones out of our misery. [Wired News]
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- Nike Tests Internet Waters, Big Guns in Tow - The shoemaker is speeding up its low-key approach to Web presence, and has hired Vivid Studios to design "the neatest amusement park on the Internet." [Wired News]
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- Nite Guide Challenges Microsoft in NY - Upstart phone service challenges Sidewalk and Cityscapes' promise of interactive entertainment listings. [Wired News]
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- No-Clicks-No-Fee Web Ads Arrive - DoubleClick's new service is an attempt to lure direct marketers to the Web - much to the consternation of other advertisers. [Wired News]
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- Nonprofit Dream Job: Teaching Teens Tech - A provider of tech-ed resources in poverty-stricken East Palo Alto seeks a director. [Wired News]
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- Not Poaching? Come Again, Bill? - While scads of journalists have been scarfed up by Microsoft, Gates asserts it's not competing with papers for hires. [Wired News]
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- Novell Loses Big, Will Fire One in Five - The troubled software company vows to slash 1,000 jobs to atone for a US$14.6 million second-quarter loss. [Wired News]
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- NY Bulletin Boards Remaking Themselves - ECHO and New York Online start transforming into consulting companies and Web development shops to stay relevant. [Wired News]
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- NY Dream Job: Film Industry Programmer - Thinking Pictures needs programmers to help broadcasters find gold in their archives. [Wired News]
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- NYC Courts New-Media Migration - New offices, cheap rent, and a "community extranet" could lure start-ups out of Silicon Alley. But can geeks find suitable eats after midnight? [Wired News]
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- NYC Dream Job: Design For SonicNet - SonicNet runs reviews, chats, cybercasts, and special features covering the alternative music scene. [Wired News]
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- NYC Dream Job: Multimedia Meets Music - As Atlantic Records hits its 50th anniversary, the compact multimedia division is hiring a designer. [Wired News]
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- Obscure Start-Up, TCI Get Interactive - Wink scores its second coup of the week, with a deal to provide the cable giant with interactive technology. [Wired News]
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- Of Easter Massacre and Net Crucifixion - CMP may be setting up a fall guy; MSNBC does all it can to make the Net the villain in the UFO cult deaths. Ned Brainard observes. [Wired News]
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- Old Media Shows New Optimism over Classifieds - Newspapers have moved from simply shoveling content online to building souped-up classifieds sites to milk money from the very beast that once threatened to steal their business. [Wired News]
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- Online Auction Craze Is Going, Going Gaga - With Times Mirror and OnSale getting into the digital flea market model, eBay is feeling cramped. But, they may all have to learn to live with each other as the auction market grows. [Wired News]
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- Online Book Wars Escalate Further - Book Stacks International tries to steal the spotlight with a pledge of 40-percent discounts on all New York Times bestsellers. But is that approach enough? [Wired News]
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- Online Educator Hits Big Time - Academic Systems gets a new boss, a political bigwig, and millions in venture capital from some of the heaviest hitters in the high-tech arena. [Wired News]
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- Online Investors to Access Brain Capital - A new service by Hambrecht Quist and Goldman Sachs will give smaller-fry investors access to high-power information. [Wired News]
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- Online Mall Buys Online Bookseller - The Books Now purchase gives the operator of the Access Galaxy Mall something it has lacked as a virtual landlord: product. [Wired News]
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- Online Newspapers Jilted by Advertisers - Snazzy Web sites haven't impressed advertisers, and revenues aren't high enough for newspapers to defend themsleves against incursions by Microsoft and others. [Wired News]
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- Online Services Settle with FTC - AOL, CompuServe, and Prodigy agree to better inform their customers that all those free trial offers turn into real debits. The Microsoft Network, while not part of the probe, had better watch it, too. [Wired News]
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- Online Services Step Up Fight Against Spam - But most agree that the unpopular practice is pretty much here to stay, despite legal wins over junk emailers. [Wired News]
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- Online Traders Fight for Customer Custody - With a beefy 30 percent of the discount brokerage business, online-trading firms are taking the market by storm - and preparing to do some serious raining on each other's parades. [Wired News]
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- Online Travel Industry Hit by Turbulence - Airlines are giving online travel agents half the commission that their meatspace counterparts receive. Guess who's pocketing the difference. [Wired News]
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- OnTV Breeds Web, TV Hybrid - The company is broadcasting its Web site to TV sets via the closed-captioning spectrum. It's not interactive, but it delivers data fast. [Wired News]
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- Oracle Breaks Nasdaq Record - In a Bad Way - The company's stock fell nearly 30 percent on heavy trading following a gloomy earnings report. Oracle blames weak Asian markets for its poor showing, but analysts say, worse than that, its database sales growth seems to have dried up. [Wired News]
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- Oracle Helps Customize CNN's Web Site - CNN Interactive adds a feature that gives users a sophisticated way to filter news stories. [Wired News]
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- Oracle Nabs NC Deal With 1-800-FLOWERS - Its first shipment of 2,000 network computers pushes the company out front, and puts networked computing to the test. [Wired News]
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- Oracle Stretching to Reach Consumer Market - Larry Ellison's forays into big-time media this week indicate a revival of his company's drive to succeed in the consumer marketplace. [Wired News]
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- Oracle Ups Ante on TV Web Access - The Network Computer division's upcoming technology promises to make it easier to follow and speculate on Melrose melodrama both on the couch and online. [Wired News]
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- Ovitzes of Web Have Pitch in Hand, Buck in Mind - The founders of the Digital Talent Agency want to put together big ad agencies with a cast of small-outfit talent. [Wired News]
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- Para-Site Draws Ire, Suit from News Giants - CNN, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal are suing TotalNews for copyright infringement. [Wired News]
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- Paradigm Acquires SonicNet from Prodigy - The alternative-music Web site has plans to receive new resources and expand offerings - but it has yet to make money. [Wired News]
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- Paradigm Adds Addicted to Noise to SonicNet - With two of the leading music sites under its belt, Paradigm is shooting to become the biggest online music player. [Wired News]
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- Part 3: Cutting Corners to an IPO - Direct public offerings give companies that might not be able to afford the real thing a chance to raise capital cheaply. But what do they offer investors, besides easy and early access to stock? [Wired News]
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- Part 4: The SEC Tries to Learn New Tricks - The federal Securities and Exchange Commission finds itself at once occupied with minutiae like the goings-on in investor chat rooms and faced with demands that it fully leverage advanced info-tech to create a truly national networked marketplace. [Wired News]
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- Pathfinder Jumps On Free Email Bandwagon - Time Warner will try almost anything to make money off its mega-site - even if it means giving stuff away. [Wired News]
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- Pathfinder Trailblazer Abandons Time - The media giant's online efforts, already adrift, look more confused than ever after exit of Pathfinder co-founder and general manager Bruce Judson. [Wired News]
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- Paul Allen Ventures into Seattle Election - In a special vote on a new stadium for the Seattle Seahawks, the Microsoft co-founder angers many by paying $5 million on a pro-stadium campaign - on top of $4 million to stage the election itself. [Wired News]
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- PBS Seeks New Revenue in Web Ads - Ad-style banners are PBS' answer to dwindling public funds. [Wired News]
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- PC Makers Gird for Digital-TV Standards Battle - They're going to a broadcasting conference to call for the PC, and not the TV, to be the bedrock for next-generation digital television. [Wired News]
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- PC Meter Renames, Remakes Itself - Taking the Media Metrix moniker, the company is trying to end complaints about how it calculates its Net ratings statistics. [Wired News]
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- PC-TV War Waged over Couch, Mouse Potatoes - Microsoft, Intel, and Compaq jury-rig digital television standards to pave the way for - surprise! - computers. But broadcasters aren't in the mood to surrender. [Wired News]
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- PeopleSoft Incorporates Internet Solution - Java brings new tricks to the business-applications software maker. [Wired News]
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- PGP Pretty Good on Privacy of Layoff Details - Privacy technology maven PGP let go of a few workers as part of move to become a security specialist to the Fortune 500. [Wired News]
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- PGP Splashes Crypto Licenses - The firm touts its shepherding of more than 100 companies through the Commerce Department licensing process. But its corporate market play turns out to be little more than a clever game of catch-up. [Wired News]
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- PGP Zooms into Corporate Security - The acquisition of the Toronto-based software company Zoomit will help PGP position itself as a major provider of enterprise-wide security software. [Wired News]
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- Phone Browsing not What It's Cracked up to Be - The technology is promising but dogged by problems that could deter consumers. [Wired News]
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- Pink Slips Arrive as Overseas Hiring Begins - Iomega Corp. isn't the only technology company laying off workers while moving jobs overseas. Marcy Burstiner examines the reasons behind the trend. [Wired News]
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- Piracy Crackdown Brings in Big Bucks - The Business Software Alliance is expecting US$7.5 million in settlement fees this year from US companies it catches illegally copying software. [Wired News]
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- Pitching to the Female Persuasion - New 'women's content networks' lay a welcome mat at advertisers' doors. [Wired News]
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- Pixar Closes CD-ROM Division - The computer-animation studio sold almost 1 million copies of its Toy Story titles, but now it will focus on movie-related projects in partnership with Disney. [Wired News]
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- PlanetOut Channels Dorothy; AOL Needs Absolution - PlanetOut undergoes a "restoration" and AOL takes the concept of "on hold" to new heights - more hot gossip from Ned Brainard's poison pen. [Wired News]
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- Playboy Hopes 'Watermarks' Keep Bunnies Safe - The digital technology lets pirates know they're swiping copyrighted material, and tracks subsequent online appearances. [Wired News]
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- Please Deposit $33 for the Next 15 Minutes - High-tech phone systems arrive in America's prisons. Now who's going to pay for them? [Wired News]
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- Please Insert More Money - New FCC rules guiding pay-phone deregulation could take their toll on your coin purse. [Wired News]
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- PointCast Bags Baby Bell Exec - The push media company on Friday will introduce a new CEO who knows a lot about telecommunications. Can he run a media company? [Wired News]
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- PointCast Goes to Work and School - The push innovator will chase wing-tips and high-tops rather than compete in a going-nowhere market. [Wired News]
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- PointCast Heads to Oval Office - Barely in the door at the push-media company, new CEO David Dorman has been appointed to a presidential advisory board on high-tech issues. Also: CNET snuggles up to Borders. [Wired News]
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- PointCast is Turning Japanese - The push-media pioneer is launching a Japanese version of its service by mid-year. Versions for Korea and Hong Kong will follow soon after. [Wired News]
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- PointCast Primes for Premium Channels - The push-technology pacesetter plans to add subscription-only channels for things like up-to-the-minute financial news. [Wired News]
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- PointCast Seeks New CEO, Maybe an IPO - The push pioneer used the launch of its software upgrade to talk about its broader plans, including a new chief executive. [Wired News]
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- PointCast Set to Unveil New Asian Service - Hong Kong-based China Internet Corp. will join PointCast in establishing PointCast Asia, with content tailored for the Chinese and Southeast Asian markets. [Wired News]
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- PointCast Widens Its Pipes - The push company announces that all Web publishers, large or small, will be able to broadcast on the PointCast Network. [Wired News]
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- PointCast, Counter PointCast - Ned Brainard wonders who the rumor monger driving the Pointcast - News Corp. stories could be, and how they managed to dupe iWorld anaylst Steve Harmon, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. [Wired News]
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- PointCast, DirecTV Focus on Japan - By offering new services in the Japanese market, the two companies are aiming to establish a toehold for other Asian endeavors. [Wired News]
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- Poll: Many Fear, Few Fall Prey to Online Privacy Attacks - A new survey finds that although 1 in 20 Net users says they have had their privacy violated online, half fear it will be. [Wired News]
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- Power Computing Rank and File Grow Restless - In the wake of president Joel Kocher's resignation and amid a battle over Apple's clone licensing, some 300 Power Computing employees came to work in 'full fatigues.' [Wired News]
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- Power Computing Sued by Supplier - The former Mac clonemaker is hit with a $42 million suit by the Taiwan firm that made its casings and internal power supplies. Also: Possible Xpedite, Premiere Technologies merger; while Unisys sucks up to Microsoft. [Wired News]
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- Power Computing Unveils Fastest Mac - The upstart clonemaker is beating Apple to market with new, faster machines. [Wired News]
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- Power Computing Will Go PC, But Not Public - What once was a cause for celebration - the Mac clone-maker's debut of a snazzy PC notebook - is overshadowed by bad news from Apple and the end of its IPO dream. [Wired News]
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- Power Computing: A Cause Without Rebels - The company's MacWorld marketing campaign screams it wants a revolution. We all want to see the plan. [Wired News]
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- PowerPC Chipmaker Shuts Plant, Lays Off 40 - Exponential Technologies will now look to the Windows platform from its remaining base in Texas. [Wired News]
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- Print Execs, Citizen Gates Squabble at Confab - Newspapers publishers, threatened by Microsoft vying for ad dollars and reporters, don't all buy the CEO's appeasing remarks. [Wired News]
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- Print Pubs Prepare for Sidewalk - As the first Microsoft city-guide site launches, some weeklies are posed to collaborate, but others flatly refuse. [Wired News]
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- Prodigy Abandons Network Business - The online service hopes to save millions of dollars by hiring a Texas-based network operator to look after its connections and give members speedier connections. [Wired News]
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- Programming Dream Job: Bring AI to Gaming - Fujitsu Interactive has the AI technology - now they need a serious gamer to help them create a product. [Wired News]
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- Project Tries for Trusty Mark in E-Commerce - TRUSTe, a project originally begun by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to establish a "trustmark" for online commerce, is ready to debut. [Wired News]
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- Prosecutors: Microsoft Is 'Mocking' the Court - The Justice Department says the company should be found in contempt of court for refusing to offer PC-makers a workable version of Windows 95 without Internet Explorer. Meanwhile, nine state attorneys general plot their own antitrust strategy against Microsoft. [Wired News]
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- Publishing Dream Job: Mindscape Online - Pseudo start-up Mindscape Online benefits from parent Pearson's deep pockets. [Wired News]
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- Publishing Dream Job: Peachpit Press - Berkeley-based publishing house Peachpit Press is now a division of textbook giant Addison-Wesley. [Wired News]
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- Pulp Friction - Traditional publications may be slower to ditch newsprint for pixels now that paper costs are declining. [Wired News]
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- Push Hot with Publishers, but Few Agree Why - As media companies on the Net dive head-first into push, confusion about metaphors and meanings is mounting, Chip Bayers reports. [Wired News]
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- Pushed off the Sidewalk - Brooke Shelby Biggs says Microsoft's well-funded Sidewalk project will conquer daily newspapers the same way they did the desktop: With sheer brute force. [Wired News]
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- Questions Await News Corp.-PrimeStar Deal - Nothing soothes hatred among broadcast and cable competitors like a lucrative deal. But regulators may feel a lot of sticky issues are unanswered. Michael Grebb explains. [Wired News]
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- Quiet Blankets Apple Death Watch - Thousands of people are expected to be struck from the 13,000-position payroll, but staffers won't learn until next week whether they'll be keeping their jobs. [Wired News]
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- Qwest Set for Fiber-Optic Expansion - Sinking about $375 million into the expansion of its high-capacity network into California, Texas, and the Southeast, the company is especially keen to sign up Silicon Valley firms. [Wired News]
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- Radio Shack Blocks Smut Shack Trademark - The retailer is worried that search engines will pull up its name alongside the sex-positive site. [Wired News]
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- Rampant Entrepreneurism Spawns Glut of E-Shops - With Web-based software that lets store owners set up shop in minutes, Viaweb stokes the aspirations of mini-businesses. [Wired News]
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- Random House Ending Multimedia Foray - Once upon a time, publishing houses embraced children's multimedia projects. But with mounting losses, Random House wants to close the book on Living Books. [Wired News]
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- Reaction: Another Tricky Day for Apple - Gil Amelio's departure wasn't a surprise, but Apple watchers were thrown by its speed. [Wired News]
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- Read All About It - But Where, and How? - This week's merger of Desktop Data and Individual, like the many electronic news industry deals before it, poses just as many questions about the future of personalized news delivery as it answers. [Wired News]
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- Read No Evil - Customized-information technology encourages narrow thinking and the erosion of community, Brooke Shelby Biggs says. [Wired News]
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- Reader's Digest Mulls Future Online - Readers of the world's best-selling magazine aren't getting any younger. To reach a new audience, the Digest is looking to the Web, or possibly its own online service. [Wired News]
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- RealNetworks' Stock Opens with Bang - The leading streaming media firm sees its brand-new issue rise 60 percent in the first hours of trading. [Wired News]
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- Reception Dream Job: McDougall Creative - The company stages international events from product launches to press conferences and needs someone to answer phones, handle filing and mail, maintain the contact database, and meet and greet office visitors. [Wired News]
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- Reclusive Quark Readies for New Release - The maker of publishing design software has prepared for its first upgrade in four years by quietly laying off about 80 employees. Lots of questions about its direction linger. [Wired News]
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- Red Herring Feeds at the Softbank Trough - Ned Brainard swims with the Herringettes, and sees good news for industry wannabes; elsewhere the green is drying up. [Wired News]
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- Red Herring Plans News, Analysis Offerings - Herring Communications CEO Anthony Perkins jumped the gun Tuesday to announce plans for an online news site and a magazine. [Wired News]
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- Redmond, Beijing Lay Subversion Flap to Rest - Microsoft has corrected programmers' political prank and resumed Windows 95 sales in China. [Wired News]
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- Report Tallies ISP Busy Signals - Inverse Network Technology is compiling data from 17 major service providers, testing everything from call failures to Web-page download time. [Wired News]
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- Research Dream Job: Blast the Bandwidth - SRI is a research institute hiring a lead programmer for a real-world flight simulator. [Wired News]
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- Research Dream Job: Online Gaming Zine - San Francisco's SpotMedia produces online gaming publications and is looking for an audience research manager. [Wired News]
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- Reuters Dumped from Trading Service - The Chicago Mercantile Exchange will switch from Reuters' to a French company's systems and technology in the Globex online trading system. [Wired News]
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- Reuters, CheckFree to Link Quotes, E-Commerce - The partnership is a shrewd move for the two companies, allowing each to make inroads into the other's area of expertise. [Wired News]
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- Revenue Flat, Costs Up at CNET - Revenue growth at the Internet media company slowed to a barely perceptible 3 percent in the three months ended 30 September, the company announced. Its stock's recent dive steepened. [Wired News]
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- Rheingold: E-Minds Layoffs May Be Temporary - Most staffers were laid off Wednesday, but the site's founder hopes to hire many back when expected funds come through. Some will work for free until then. [Wired News]
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- Riddle Me Some Cash - Sandbox Entertainment starts to build castles on the way to an IPO while Riddler grins nervously and rethinks advertising models for online gaming. [Wired News]
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- Rock Dream Jobs: Work for ATN - The Web's best music zine says it finally has the cash flow to do some hiring. [Wired News]
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- Rocket Science Takes a Dive - Despite high-profile games, a lack of big sellers leaves the developer without funding - and many employees in the lurch. [Wired News]
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- Rumored AOL-CompuServe Deal Seen as Good Fit - While both online companies are being elusive, analysts are already finding very good reasons for a possible match. [Wired News]
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- Rumors, Elbows Fly in Broadband Race - It took them a while to even figure out that Internet access might make a nice little sidekick to the voice business, but telephone companies are now quickly recognizing a rosy future. [Wired News]
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- Salon Hooks Up - with Everyone - AOL, Netscape, and WebTV are among the new distribution partners for the cybermag - as is the singles service Match.com, which will host a co-branded site for Salon's singles audience. [Wired News]
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- San Diego Dream Job: Design for PersonaLogic - Gearing up to make 'gazillions' from their 'decision-making machine,' PersonaLogic needs a designer. [Wired News]
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- San Francisco Dream Job: Creative Director - Atomic Vision wants a creative director to give context to Web clients. [Wired News]
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- San Francisco Dream Job: Marketing gay.net - Andy Cramer is looking for help to make gay.net the best online gay community in the world. [Wired News]
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- SBC Taps San Francisco for Net HQ - The Texas telecom titan is looking to build on its acquisition of Pacific Bell, which is the first Baby Bell to reach 100,000 Internet subscribers. [Wired News]
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- Scaled-Down 3DO Charts New Course - The software company posted a third-quarter profit and lined up a joint venture with Samsung. Is the worst over for the company? [Wired News]
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- Scans: Barter for Banners - With the Web's largest ad network, LinkExchange's banner-swapping program helps smaller sites generate more traffic at no cost. Potential investors are taking notes. [Wired News]
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- Scans: Connecting to Cambodia - CamNet, Cambodia's first Internet service provider, is struggling to connect the rising nation to the global community. [Wired News]
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- Scans: Get Paid to Get Spam - Intellipost's BonusMail program attempts to appease anti-spammers with free lunch incentives from airlines, phone companies, and popular retailers. Just fill out the online questionnaire and duck. [Wired News]
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- Scans: Gold Digging in Deep Space - One man's dream to capture a new corner of an old market may become a reality. He plans to mine the rich gold and platinum deposits on asteroids. [Wired News]
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- Scans: The Data Chase - Corporations under subpoena often have the seemingly insurmountable task of tracking intangible digital evidence. The data miners and packet sniffers at EDD are fast on the trail. [Wired News]
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- Schooled for Success - Academic spinoffs exemplify the nimble nature necessary on the Net. [Wired News]
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- Scrapping for Profit - Just Another Day at Netscape - Ned Brainard gossips about the plunging stocks and radical redesign that have the Netscape Powers That Be worried. [Wired News]
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- Seattle Dream Job: Creative Director - Seattle's Sitewerks banks on Bill G's biz, and needs a creative infusion. [Wired News]
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- Seattle Dream Job: Microsoft Multimedia - Microsoft is gobbling up start-ups and hiring like mad. [Wired News]
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- Seattle: Where the Pavement Meets the Pulp - Microsoft again tries print on for size, with a special holiday magazine written in part by the Seattle Sidewalk team - apparently for no better reason than to promote itself. [Wired News]
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- See Ads, Get Cash - Two companies aim to make online advertising pay by paying people to check out the ads. But is it, as one ad insider wonders, little more than couponing? [Wired News]
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- Seeking Heavenly Ratings, Almighty Ad Dollar - A "wholesome" network of independent television stations wants to make a space for local advertisers and "family values" programming. [Wired News]
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- SegaSoft Turns up Heat for Gaming Network - It's the latest - and potentially biggest - in a growing number of Net-based arcades for multiplayer action. [Wired News]
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- Selling WebTV: Tupperware for the Tube - A company called FutureNet hopes to ease the fears of new users by having "consultants" show how the technology works in one's own living room. [Wired News]
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- Senior Editors Exit Washington Post Site - The departures follow the arrival of a new publisher from Disney, who apparently isn't winning any popularity contests. [Wired News]
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- Sex, Digital Style, Boosts Playboy's Fortunes - The world's leading purveyor of air-brushed flesh said its new-media efforts helped its net income nearly double. [Wired News]
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- Seybold Speakers: Can't We Be Friends? - All four keynote presenters at the New York event peered warmly across the divide, stressing that old and new media can complement each other. Steven Johnson reports. [Wired News]
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- Seybold: Bastion of the Apple Faith - Publishers remain steady users, as the company continues to court them - now with Rhapsody. [Wired News]
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- SF Dream Job: Designer's Designer - At MetaDesign, where typography is king, the powers that be are in need of a multimedia designer. [Wired News]
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- SF Dream Job: Marketing to the Masses - NetChannel is the first content provider for the network computer, Larry Ellison's plan to beat Microsoft in the next century. [Wired News]
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- SF Dream Job: Speedy Network Needs Techie - Digital Island buys pure bandwidth, then lets corporate clients distribute data around the globe over the high-speed connections it calls an 'overnet.' [Wired News]
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- SF Dream Job: Swedish Start-Up - Spray USA is a partnership between Spray Interactive Media, a 2-year-old consultancy in Stockholm, and Mondo Media, a San Francisco-based multimedia company. [Wired News]
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- SF Dream Job: The Original Interactive Museum - Pioneers of interactivity long before the Web, the Exploratorium is hiring a multimedia specialist. [Wired News]
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- SF Dream Job: Web Design for Invention Machine - This Boston-based company makes software that helps engineers be more creative in their R D. [Wired News]
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- SGI Loses Money, its CEO, and Cuts Staff - The high-end workstation-maker has hit a low note, with mounting losses and now a mammoth restructuring. [Wired News]
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- SGI Moves to Advance VRML Standard - By purchasing 3-D software maker ParaGraph International and creating a new subsidiary, the company hopes a "Second Web" will soon emerge. [Wired News]
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- Shooting for a Share of Smart Camera Market - Flashpoint Technologies wants to put an OS in your digital camera. With three industry heavyweights signed on, the company may just make a successful end-run around Intel. [Wired News]
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- Shrinking CompuServe Losses Hearten Investors - A rise in the company's stock reflects Wall Street's optimism that CompuServe may at last be on the right track - if it can hold onto its dwindling member base. [Wired News]
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- Sidewalk May Anger Users with Onerous 'Terms' - Visitors to Microsoft's Sidewalk sites may not know it, but when they use the online city guides, they give Microsoft tacit permission to sell their personal information. [Wired News]
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- Sidewalk SF Needs Some Luck - Fat salaries and creative differences go hand in hand at Sidewalk San Francisco. Ned Brainard suggests a lucky rabbits foot. [Wired News]
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- Siskel & Ebert of Tech, in Search of Thumbs Up - The Wall Street Journal's Walter Mossberg and The New York Times' Stephen Manes give the tech industry the once-over in a new PBS program. Now if they can only find a sponsor. [Wired News]
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- Site Aims to Be 'Applets-R-Us' of Web - StockObjects wants to pepper the Web with generic applets, animations, and 3-D models, but some observers wonder how big the market for such products will ever be. [Wired News]
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- Site Offers Solace to Nynex 'Survivors' - Nynexsucks.com visitors can experience the full range of indignities suffered by customers of Manhattan's local phone company. Nynex is listening in. [Wired News]
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- Slimmed-Downed Browser to Take on IE4 - With its market share falling, Netscape will loudly push unbundled Navigator 4.0 into the ring against the Microsoft heavyweight. [Wired News]
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- Small Business Has Yet to Find Value Online - While the majority of small companies have a computer in the office, fewer than half have Net access. They don't see how being wired will boost their bottom line. [Wired News]
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- Smaller ISPs Take Double Hit from Big Guys - UUNET's decision to charge for network access, combined with a new elite grouping of major players, may put the squeeze on small operations. [Wired News]
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- Smaller Manufacturers Shunning the Net - A survey shows that many smaller companies still feel they don't need the Net to get ahead. [Wired News]
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- Snailmail Gets Telecom Boost - The Postal Service gets a new network to compete in the snailmail market. [Wired News]
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- So Cool You Can't Even See It - Online media constantly strive to prove they're on the technological "cutting edge" at the expense of readership. [Wired News]
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- So Long, Delphi UK - Hello, LineOne - News International is ending the text-based Delphi UK to make room for a new online service it's running with British Telecom. [Wired News]
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- So Low It's Insanely Great - Nanoscale commerce? Micropayment service providers, such as Digital Equipment Corp., are first trying to figure out how to minimize overhead costs. [Wired News]
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- Softbank Merger Ties Media to Marketing - The Japanese conglomerate's decision to merge its US publishing and trade show operations failed to shore up its sagging stock - and raised a few question about that old line between editorial and advertising. [Wired News]
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- Softbank Merges US holdings Under Ziff-Davis - With its stock sinking badly, the Japanese company reorganizes, folding its trade-show organizer in with its publisher division. [Wired News]
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- Software Dream Job: Interface Design - Cooper Software plugs into the development process in places where it sees an unfilled need. [Wired News]
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- Software Dream Job: International Finance - Morgan Labs provides software systems for international banking. [Wired News]
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- Software Firm Shows Peril of Outside Funding - The trade-off for venture capital is loss of control over a company's destiny. Three top Vicinity execs learned that the hard way. [Wired News]
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- Software Propels Others into the Digital Age - How a Wright Brothers-style operation set the technology standard for corrections entrepreneurs. [Wired News]
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- SonicNet Sets Course for Japan - The online music magazine has signed a deal with Japanese partners as part of an effort to spread its content abroad. [Wired News]
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- Sony Prepares to Kick-Start Digital TV - The analog mainstay is introducing a full line of digital TV equipment. But plenty of obstacles remain in the path of crystal-clear programming. [Wired News]
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- Sony Shows Fans It's a Trooper - Instead of cracking down on fan sites the way many of its peers do, the studio is encouraging paeans from the people who are into Starship Troopers. [Wired News]
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- Sony Slashes US PlayStation Prices by 25% - The move turns the heat up on Nintendo, whose 64-bit game player has gotten off to a promising if late start. [Wired News]
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- Space, the Fiscal Frontier? Prof Floats Theory - A professor at the London School of Economics says orbiting banks will keep your money safe from the clutches of greedy human hands. Some bankers say the notion's just plain spacey. [Wired News]
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- SpaceDev Stakes Claim to History, Space - A private company launches (well, not literally) its plan for commercial space exploration - with a mission to undercut NASA's big budgets. [Wired News]
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- Spam King Is (Sniff) Orphaned - Backbone provider AGIS kicks Sanford Wallace's Cyber Promotions off its servers. [Wired News]
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- Spammer Ordered to Tweak Tactics - Cyber Promotions' Sanford Wallace says his settlement with AOL is "a perfect compromise." But he'll challenge the CompuServe ban in court. [Wired News]
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- Spelling Selling Virgin Interactive - The Melrosemeister is dumping his majority stake in Branson's former fling. But it's hard to tell who's sticking it to whom. [Wired News]
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- Sportsline IPO: Reality Versus Media Hype - Chip Bayers looks under the hood of an SEC filing, and finds the media herd wanting. [Wired News]
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- Start Spreading the Net: T1s in NY Dwellings - Real-estate developers in New York are adding high-speed amenities in higher-end apartments. [Wired News]
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- Start-Ups Pay Up - One headhunter estimates there are 150 searches for start-up CEOs in Silicon Valley and only about 80 good candidates. The result: executive pay is skyrocketing. [Wired News]
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- Starwave Dream Job: Entertainment Director - Starwave is hiring a director to oversee the cluster of Web sites known as the entertainment group. [Wired News]
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- Starwave Puts Full-Court Press on Security - After more than 2,000 people who purchased goodies at two sports sites had their credit card numbers swiped, the online company goes into damage-control mode. [Wired News]
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- Starwave's CEO: We're Still Independent - Mike Slade talks to Wired News about Disney and says nothing's changed at the company he runs - except the number of his investors. [Wired News]
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- STATS Scores the OK to Broadcast NBA Info - A federal court rules that sites can transmit game scores over the Net without a license. [Wired News]
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- Steve Fails to Make a Case - The AOL chief delivers a lackluster keynote at Internet World, never quite getting 'round to a passionate idea the audience might rally around. [Wired News]
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- Stock Plunge Halts Trading - The Dow suffers its biggest point decline ever and its biggest percentage drop - nearly 7.2 percent - since October '87. [Wired News]
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- Stocks Up, Greenspan Content - The Fed chairman says the market plunge could well be economically "salutary." Markets around the world rally, while New York stabilizes. [Wired News]
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- Strategic Dream Job: Net Biz Consulting - SVIP is hiring consultants to deliver a combo of strategy consulting, Internet design, and systems development and implementation. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Economic Espionage - In John Fialka's new book, the Cold War is alive and well. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Nice Pants - Searching for the perfect fit? A Levi's store in Sacramento uses its computer network to offer custom-tailored jeans, factory direct. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: The Virtual Stagecoach - Wells Fargo's online banking culls high marks from this author. Above all else, it's free and easy - unlike many of the giant's services. [Wired News]
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- Street Cred: Trend-Spotting - A new book, Street Trends, offers a lesson in cool for marketers and a fad guide for 18-to-29ers. [Wired News]
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- Strong Earnings Signal Yahoo! Transformation - The site's advertising success means nothing but trouble for rivals. [Wired News]
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- Study Sings Praises of Building Brand Equity - Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and 3Com win top marks for building their brands among sellers and big business. And among consumers? Don't ask. [Wired News]
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- Study: Glut of IT Openings, Few Candidates - Noting with alarm that the number of college students getting computer science degrees is plummeting, the government says the shortage of information technology workers could have serious economic consequences. [Wired News]
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- Suit Spotlights Time, CompuServe's Ugly Union - CompuServe says an exit clause allowed it to stop running Time content. The magazine says that's far-fetched and is seeking US$3.5 million. [Wired News]
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- Suits Come, Bells Go: Whither CAI Wireless? - CAI's story is one worth studying if you want to find out how litigation attorneys make their living in the world of volatile technology stocks. [Wired News]
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- Sun Buys Diba to Extend Java's Reach - Sun's purchase of the software company will help it create a technology platform to help other companies build Java-based appliances. [Wired News]
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- Sun Shines Up Its Network Computer Offer - JavaPC software promises to turn your PC into an NC - but maybe you'd just rather have a NetPC.... [Wired News]
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- Sun Sues Microsoft, Alleges Java Pact Breach - After a long erosion of the relationship between Java's developer and the behemoth that has more and more sought to turn the language to its own ends, Sun goes to federal court. [Wired News]
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- Sun to Light Intel's Way into High-End Market - A patent's cross-licensing deal between the chipmaker and the server giant could help Intel clobber the next market sector it desires. [Wired News]
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- Sun-Newton Purchase: The Logic of It - An operating system written in Java is about to be released for the CPU inside the top-end Newton. [Wired News]
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- Support Dream Job: Assistive Technology - The company that makes computers for disabled people is looking for customer-service reps. [Wired News]
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- Survey: Many Net Users Looking Beyond PCs - WebTV and handheld terminals strike more than a third of Net-savvy Americans as solid alternatives to sitting in front of a computer. [Wired News]
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- Survey: Most Consumers Aren't Upgrading - Despite the encouragement of computer makers, a survey finds that most home users have yet to embrace Pentium machines and Windows 95. [Wired News]
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- Switchover to Switches Swells Cisco - The router king reports $416 million in earnings this quarter, up 30 percent from a year ago - prompting Wall Street to note that Cisco's focus on the fast-growing switch business is on the mark. [Wired News]
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- Sysadmin Dream Job: Seattle Art Museum - The Seattle Art Museum wants to start networking, but needs a computing staff. [Wired News]
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- Take Your Software for a Spin - With 'try-before-you-buy' software, you can test drive before you pay. Still in the experimental stage, this concept has the potential to sell like killer-app hot cakes as bandwidth increases. [Wired News]
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- Tax Wonk Comes to CompuServe's Aid - The silver lining of the service's woes is beginning to shine thanks to an additional $70 million from parent H R Block related to CompuServe's $120 million loss. [Wired News]
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- TCI Defends 6.8% Price Increase - The cable giant tries to mollify critics by saying the increase is well below both the legal limit and the increase in its programming costs. [Wired News]
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- TCI Gets Addicted to Music - Banking on hipper-than-thou attitude and aficionados, the cable giant's music division merges with online music content company Paradigm Entertainment, which includes the likes of SonicNet and Addicted to Noise. [Wired News]
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- TCI Hands Off Debt to Cablevision - The company sold 10 of its New York properties to Cablevision as part of its new debt-reduction plan. [Wired News]
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- TCI Head Balks on HDTV - The president of the cable giant accuses the government and the consumer electronics industry of ramming HDTV down consumers' throats. [Wired News]
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- TCI May Axe Channel 'Tiers' - The cable giant's well-laid plans to make everyone happy are being received as a sneaky trick by customers. [Wired News]
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- TCI Names Leo Hindery as President - The appointment is a small step by TCI toward winning back the confidence of investors. [Wired News]
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- TCI Shedding Assets and Industry Lead - The cable giant is paring down debt and handing responsibility for customer service to local operators. The move puts TCI behind Time Warner by about 2 million customers. [Wired News]
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- TCI to Add Channels, Boost Net Access - Scrambling to regain favor, the cable company is now promising high-speed Internet service for millions by 2000. But is TCI shooting for the moon? [Wired News]
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- TCI's Digital TV Goal: 5 Million Homes in '97 - The age of digital cable TV services could dawn if TCI follows through on its goal. But with $14 billion in debt, can the company afford to be so ambitious? [Wired News]
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- Tech Dream Job: Cisco Tool Builder - The third-biggest company on the Nasdaq is also a pretty cool place to work. And Cisco is hiring. [Wired News]
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- Tech Earnings Up, Down, and Sideways - Compaq, Digital, Excite, and Sun all make a nice showing of big revenues, if not all nice profits. [Wired News]
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- Tech Exec Dream Job: Business Gaming - Thinking Tools, a developer of business-management simulation software, is looking for a director of engineering. [Wired News]
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- Telco Battle Gets Bloodier - Thirty-three phone companies are protesting SBC's attempts to enter the long-distance market, as AT T inches toward local business in West Virginia. [Wired News]
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- Telco Countersues ATT over 'Disinformation' - The AT&T-Telco litigation loop shows a telecommunications industry attempting to self-regulate. [Wired News]
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- Telcos Play High-Stakes Scrabble - The object of the game: Three-letter phone companies add ISPs. Winners are acquired by even bigger companies. [Wired News]
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- Telepalooza: Entrepreneurs Beat Establishment - A big gathering of telco movers and shakers drives home the room for industry growth - and the prominence of communications technology players in Washington. [Wired News]
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- Testing Dream Job: Keeping the Networks Safe - Hero to sysadmins and maker of network-protocol-testing software, Midnight Networks seeks manager. [Wired News]
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- That Microsoft Touch - WorldCom's announcement that it's looking to buy MCI stunned everyone except maybe Bill Gates. The Redmond giant doesn't want to be a media company - but a telecommunications company? Hmmm. [Wired News]
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- That's Great, Steve, But Who's the CEO? - The crowd at Macworld Expo showered Jobs' announcements with applause and cheers, but many felt let down that he's not filling the hot seat as Apple's CEO. [Wired News]
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- The Certification of Web Workers - The Association for Internet Professionals is developing an accreditation program for people who work in the brave new world of technology, in an attempt to create a standard for Web workers. [Wired News]
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- The Disease of Images - Our culture is increasingly saturated by a flurry of images created not so much for meaningful expression as for the temporary abduction of people's consciousness. [Wired News]
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- The Gates List: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - A copy of the top-secret guest list for Bill Gates' "CEO Summit" shows how much influence a billionaire can throw around. [Wired News]
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- The Great News Suck - Web-based news filters haven't come very far in the so-called information glut. [Wired News]
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- The Great Web Sellout Picks Up Speed - The Web, the great hope for an ad alternative to the tube, needs to become more like TV to draw revenues. Steven Johnson explores this paradox emerging from the Jupiter Conference. [Wired News]
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- The Island Life Offers Speedy Surfing - Honolulu-based Digital Island allows mainland concerns to reach international customers by detouring traffic to a private network. [Wired News]
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- The Net to Cease Publication - After two years, Imagine Publishing pulls the plug - at least for the time being. Despite a respectable circulation, the demographic was a hard sell to advertisers, Imagine says. [Wired News]
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- The Official Story - Hong Kong on the Web - With the help of a US-based ad agency, China is delivering its message to surfers - the "return to sovereignty." [Wired News]
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- The Picture's Lovely, but There's Nothing On - Corporate rugby games? In Japan, digital satellite broadcasters are stretching for fare to fill what could become 800 channels by 2010. [Wired News]
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- The Politics of Division - Which should frighten you more - the blurring of lines between entertainment and information, or the symbiosis of government and the news media? No contest; the latter should scare the hemoglobin out of you. [Wired News]
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- The Street Strikes Back - When Dow Jones Company instituted a subscription fee for The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, many new-media savants predicted its patrons would jump ship. They were wrong. [Wired News]
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- The VC Lifestyle for the Not-So-Rich - Technology Funding wants to give smaller investors the rush - and risks - that deeper-pocketed venture capitalists experience. [Wired News]
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- The Well for Sale? Rumor Rife, Principals Mum - Sources say president Maria Wilhelm is closing in on negotiations to purchase the elite community. But neither she nor owner Bruce Katz are commenting. [Wired News]
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- There's Nothing in Store but Virtual Shopping - The store without merchandise - which already has a Santa Monica, California, outlet - figures if it can make it in New York, it can make it anywhere. [Wired News]
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- Think Like Microsoft ... - Apple says it will go the great Redmond way and charge for phone support. Also: The Learning Company spends $40 million for Creative Wonders. Silicon Graphics faces big organizational changes. [Wired News]
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- Ticketmaster Blocks Sidewalk Users - Clicking from Microsoft's Seattle site now leads to a "dead end." [Wired News]
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- Ticketmaster Picks Excite as Web Partner - After filing suit against Microsoft for linking to its listings, the ticketing company reaches a more amicable (and profitable) deal with Excite. [Wired News]
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- Time Warner Capitulates on VOD - The cable company drops its Orlando project, refocusing video-on-demand strategy on the Web. [Wired News]
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- Time Warner Summons a Better Set-Top Box - Building from the "seeds" of its interactive TV trials, the company is requesting proposals for making your TV a PC and your PC a VCR. [Wired News]
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- Time Warner to Sell Some Cable Assets - The move is a further indication that the entertainment behemoth is standing behind its partnership with US West. [Wired News]
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- Time's Other Debacle: Personal Edition - With sources describing the subscription service as a "technological disaster," the rocky relationship with CompuServe may be facing another big bump. [Wired News]
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- Timeline: Apple, from Garage Days through the Amelio Era - Apple chief Gil Amelio resigned Wednesday, the latest chapter in years of corporate turmoil and poor market performances. [Wired News]
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- Tonga's Big Domain-Name Sale - The South Pacific island kingdom is trying to turn a virtual resource - its national top-level domain name, .to - into cash. [Wired News]
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- Too Clever by Half? Economist to Charge Online Fee - The influential British newsweekly is betting its content is compelling enough to persuade people to pay for it on the Web. [Wired News]
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- TotalNews Pokes a Stick at Big Media Again - They aren't framing the sites of the plaintiffs who had sued them. But they are letting you do it. [Wired News]
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- TotalNews Settles with Media Giants over Links - TotalNews can continue to link to news sites owned by the plaintiffs, but only if it signs "link licenses." [Wired News]
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- Trading Floors Try On New Technology - A system that matches up anonymous buyers and sellers aims to minimize the impact of moving big blocks of stock - and eventually get smaller traders in on some of the deals. [Wired News]
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- Tripod Gets $US10 Million Boost - A group of ad agencies and venture capital firms are making the investment to gain access to the coveted under-30 market. [Wired News]
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- Trolling for Web Shoppers - Coming soon to a virtual merchant near you is the option to earn "click points" - another form of frequent-flier miles. [Wired News]
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- Trouble in the Wind at Electric Minds - Founding members have left Howard Rheingold's Web-based conferencing center, and the company has had problems making payroll. [Wired News]
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- Troubled PC Quote Seeks Suitor - The financial information company is losing money, and an internal audit says prospects are bleak. But its leadership thinks a focus on online services - and a cash infusion - could turn things around. [Wired News]
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- Truths About Net Use Remain Elusive - Recent reports from IntelliQuest and Cowles/Simba offer varying snapshots of Net usage. [Wired News]
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- Turner Dream Job: Tech for Wresting Online - World Championship Wrestling proved the fans are online - now they need tech help to deliver. [Wired News]
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- TV Grabs for Its Share of Classified Ads - With a new online service, CBS is the first of the networks to try to steal business away from daily newspapers, which rely on classified ads for about half their profits. [Wired News]
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- Tweed Meets Greed in Silicon Alley - Traditional universities head downtown to open a hive in the heart of New York's new-media industry and get their cut of the $2.8 billion marketplace. [Wired News]
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- UA Pulls Curtain on Web Site Show Times - United Artists has its own online plans and won't let the combined San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner Web site post theater times. [Wired News]
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- UK Dream Job: In the Expanding ISP Biz - Frontier Internet Services wants to ride the UK's Net growth wave. [Wired News]
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- Unpaid Dream Job: Help to Dole out Cash - Marc Weiss needs intern support as he doles out cash to fund documentary-style Web sites. [Wired News]
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- US Companies Agree to Divvy up Airwaves - The deal, expected to be approved by the FCC later this year, means that ISPs will not have to rely on local phone access in order to provide Net access. [Wired News]
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- US Info-Tech Revenues Keep Climbing - The country's information technology concerns will reach about $1.6 trillion in earnings by 2007, an industry report forecasts. [Wired News]
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- US Robotics CEO Defends Acquisition by 3Com - Short-term stock value? Big deal. He tells stockholders it's all about long-term strategies and "value-building." [Wired News]
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- US Robotics Offers X2 Customers Free Upgrades - The move signals that the war among competing 56-Kbps modems is shifting from technologies to market share. [Wired News]
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- US, Chinese Telecom Giants Sign Pipeline Pact - A joint venture by major telecommunications players opens the door to China, without detours. [Wired News]
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- USPS to Build Better, Faster Mail - In the age of more boxes and smarter tracking, the government postal service has signed a $1.7 billion contract aimed at improving Priority Mail. [Wired News]
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- UUNET Confirms New Fees for ISPs - The world's largest Net access provider says it's purely a matter of economics to force smaller companies to sink or swim. [Wired News]
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- Vancouver Dream Job: Zoo Design - A firm that gets the animals out of their cages and moves the stars through the heavens needs designers. [Wired News]
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- VCs Seed the Ripe and Weed the Hyped - When young start-ups come looking for money in Silicon Valley, sugar daddies are not hard to find. If you have the stuff, that is. [Wired News]
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- VCs to Market: Don't Worry, Be Happy! - Monday's 554-point free fall of the Dow Jones Industrial Average hardly raised a cocky eyebrow among Silicon Valley's venture capitalists and soothsayers. [Wired News]
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- VDOnet Shifts out of Redmond's Way - The video streaming company lays off 20 percent of its workers as part of a restructuring plan to survive in an industry increasingly dominated by Microsoft. [Wired News]
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- ViaTV Serves Up Affordable Video Phone - 8x8's 'granny phone' offers acceptable-quality home videoconferencing on your TV set. But it's not ready for prime time. [Wired News]
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- Video Ads Roll onto Web - So-called V-Banners play the same three-second clip over and over, giving TV spots a second life online. [Wired News]
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- Virtual Wall Street Collides with Hopes - Cheaper, faster, and ostensibly freer than their real-world predecessors, online brokerages promised to revolutionize trading. But in the first installment in a two-part series, Wired News reports that the Net is not proving to be the great equalizer once hoped for. Coming Tuesday: The virtual road show. [Wired News]
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- Visa Seeks the Unwired's Interest in DigiBucks - The credit card folks are on a smartcard crusade to convert the world's cash economies, where mattress-stuffing takes precedence over banking. [Wired News]
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- Vivid To Pay Bills, Workers With New Loan - The pioneering multimedia firm hopes to "get the gears working up to speed again." [Wired News]
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- Volunteer Dream Job: Design for Democracy - The Center for Democracy and Technology wants to improve its image without spending any money. [Wired News]
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- Volunteer Dream Job: Spreading the Spirit - A nexus of community service, San Francisco's Glide Memorial Church is looking for volunteers. [Wired News]
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- VXtreme Fulfills Microsoft's Streaming Dreams - The software company buyout tightens Gates' grip on the emerging standard for the technology that allows broadcasts over the Net. [Wired News]
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- Wall Street Spending 'Billions' on Y-2000 Bug - About $14 billion will be spent annually by securities houses on information technology within three years, a study says. [Wired News]
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- Wanna Pull an All-Nighter, Sans Overtime? - Software developers in Washington state could lose the incentive to stay up late hacking code, as a proposal is considered that would kill their right to overtime pay. [Wired News]
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- Wary Microsoft Partners Take Pragmatic Path - BackWeb and PointCast share at least one business heuristic: Cooperate with Microsoft now if you want to compete with Microsoft in the future. Chip Bayers reports. [Wired News]
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- Web Ad Mavens Sing Same Uncertain Song - The Net ad muckety-mucks are working on changing their complaining tune, and it's only right considering that the industry is growing at an unprecedented rate. [Wired News]
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- Web Ad Revenues Make Great Leap Forward - The total grows by 67 percent between the first and second quarters of 1997, even as CPMs drop. [Wired News]
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- Web Ad Revenues up, up, and Way Big - The dollar figure's soaring because more advertisers like Intel are taking a chance and pumping big bucks into Web ads. [Wired News]
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- Web Ad Sales up, but Not Enough - Online advertising pulled in a record-breaking US$129 million in Q1, but demand is still far from supply. [Wired News]
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- Web Ads Hit the Auction Block - Adbot conducts its first telephone bidding to sell Internet advertising. [Wired News]
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- Web Developer Pulls Plug on Print - The magazine's publisher realized that core readers get their information from the Web, and is revamping its digital offering. [Wired News]
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- Web Dream Job: Lead Designer - Adjacency flees the Snow Belt for the gulch, seeking artistic talent. [Wired News]
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- Web Dream Job: Making like the Movies - CyberStudios contracts with Web developers, like 20th Century Fox hires production houses. [Wired News]
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- Web Dream Job: Promote Your Own Site - The Mining Co. is hiring thousands of Web guides to work from home and promote their own sites. [Wired News]
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- Web Dream Job: Research for Ask Jeeves - Ask Jeeves, the search site with humans rather than spiders behind it, is hiring a researcher. [Wired News]
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- Web Is Still a Draw to Securities Industry - Even as Web publishers seek finances, the finance world seeks new opportunities on the Web - as new announcements from Dow Jones and E-Trade show. [Wired News]
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- Web Production Dream Job: Tech Lead - Calling itself a Web production studio, Rare Medium has been profitable from the get-go. [Wired News]
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- Web Proves Costly to Financial Firms - Institutions are spending as much as US$23 million to switch from purely promotional sites to more complex online offerings. [Wired News]
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- Webby Dream Job: Connecting Women Engineers - MentorNet, an email network linking female engineering students with industry mentors, seeks a Web whiz. [Wired News]
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- Webnostications: Schrage's Survey Says ... - The savvy Packet contingent weighs in with predictions of future Web-business conditions. [Wired News]
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- WebTV Allies with CitySearch and Sidewalk - WebTV's CEO says his company may have committed a 'PR faux pas' by allowing its deal with the Microsoft rival to be announced first. [Wired News]
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- Wedding Bells Ring for High-Tech Firms - National Semiconductor, Intel, and Cisco Systems each take a new better half that helps cover the bases and cut the cost of PC graphics. [Wired News]
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- Weeklies Unfazed by Sidewalk's Expansion - With the latest Microsoft city guide debuting in the Twin Cities, alternative newspapers say they don't yet see much to worry about. [Wired News]
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- What Redmond Integrated, and When - The company's defense to Justice Department allegations it coerced computer-makers into bundling Internet Explorer onto new machines is that the browser is integral to Windows 95. The record isn't so clear. [Wired News]
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- What Was Rupert Murdoch Thinking? - After US$3 billion worth of gambits this week, the News Corp. chairman has capitulated to arch rival Ted Turner, allied himself with Pat Roberson, and left many others scratching their heads. [Wired News]
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- What Would You Like With Your Dog Today? - Sidewalk takes NYC food-cart umbrellas by storm. Also: New financial services for gay community.... Holiday shopping is an e-commerce bonanza.... Overpriced H&Q stock disrupts merger with Merrill Lynch, sending H&Q stock down. [Wired News]
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- What's Microsoft Buying This Week? - The giant software-maker seems to snap up whatever bargains it can find. This week, in a bid to bolster its global appeal, it's help with foreign tongues and computers that listen. [Wired News]
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- What's on TV? Check the Journal - The highly esteemed Wall Street Journal will start running daily TV listings - but only, the paper stresses, in the form of an advertisement. [Wired News]
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- What's So Smart About Military Smartcards? - At bases around the country, chip cards are replacing cash. But so far no one's giving any thought to compatibility. [Wired News]
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- When a Story's Worth a Thousand Emails - Apple enthusiasts, led by an intrepid evangelist, frequently bombard journalists with feedback in hopes of 'educating' them. [Wired News]
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- When Directories and Online Services Collide - It's not quite the Big Bang, but a Web-wide implosion is fusing the once-distinct territories claimed by the Yahoos and AOLs of the world. [Wired News]
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- When Less Is More: Acer's Stripped-Down Plans - The Taiwanese PC-maker announces a line of task-specific devices targeted below the still-unrealized NC and NetPC markets. But will people put up with all the boxes? [Wired News]
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- When Two Cables Are Not Better than One - Australia's two biggest telcos, Telstra and Optus, got the OK to run cable wherever they chose. Eying a rich TV-telephony-Net services prize, the companies spent billions to wire the same territory. Both have suspended new cable-laying until the market dust clears. [Wired News]
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- When You Need a Computer to Buy a Computer - While online computer sales are fast and furious at Dell, the rest of the field is getting into the business. [Wired News]
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- Whole Earth Finds Its Voice - The network access provider that split from The Well is poised to become the first ISP to offer voice services. [Wired News]
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- Whole Earth Networks Fires Leader - Tough negotiations between the ISP and UUNet over an interconnection agreement have resulted in a pink slip and some piercing questions about where the Net's headed. [Wired News]
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- Will a New CEO Mean an IPO for PointCast? - Former Pacific Bell CEO David Dorman has taken the reins of the Internet push company. Now the question is how fast he'll steer PointCast to an IPO. [Wired News]
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- Will CNET's Snap Crackle, or Pop? - In its ambition to court newcomers to the Net, CNET's Snap Online boldly forges ahead into familiar territory. [Wired News]
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- Will It Really Be a Snap? - CNET launches Snap Online with brave promotional talk about knocking off America Online as a Net 'front end.' [Wired News]
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- Will Mirror Sites Reflect Asian Market? - Anticipating substantial revenues in Asia is something of a no-brainer for search companies. Less easy to predict is the behavior of local authorities regarding free access to information. [Wired News]
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- Wired Ventures Seeks New CEO - Louis Rossetto will stay on as company chairman and editor and publisher at Wired magazine. [Wired News]
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- With a New Chief, AT&T Hopes for New Era - Ma Bell's new chairman and CEO, C. Michael Armstrong, has a history of saving companies with smart acquisitions - just what the company needs. [Wired News]
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- World's Largest Mac User Group: We'll Survive - Despite its US$120,000 debt and the shaky prospects of Apple Computer, BMUG appears confident that it will prosper. [Wired News]
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- WorldCom Analysis: Is This a Great Time or What? - MCI's latest marketing slogan aside, a successful WorldCom bid for the long-distance company and its heavy-duty data network will create a corporation without peer and speed up the arrival of new IP-based services. [Wired News]
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- WorldCom Duels BT for MCI - WorldCom, the rapidly growing telephone and networking power, surprises the telecommunications world with a $30 billion offer that aims to woo MCI away from its intended British partner. [Wired News]
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- WorldCom Duels BT for MCI - WorldCom, the rapidly growing telephone and networking power, surprises the telecommunications world with a $30 billion offer intended to woo MCI away from its intended British partner. [Wired News]
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- WorldCom Flashes Fatter Wallet at MCI - With a 66 percent increase in revenues, WorldCom's all-stock $30 billion bid for MCI may look all the more tempting, but MCI remains tight-lipped. [Wired News]
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- WorldCom, MCI: The Basics - A snapshot of the players in what could be the highest-valued telecom merger to date. [Wired News]
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- WorldCom/MCI: Good Giant or Bad? - If WorldCom is successful in acquiring MCI, the resulting company will be without peer in data networking. How would the company use that clout? [Wired News]
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- Worlds Inc. Seeks Buyer - The maker of the Worlds Chat forum is shopping itself around, and hopes to announce a deal within the next two months. [Wired News]
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- Yahoo Buys Four11, Secures Compaq, Gateway Deals - The Net's directory power expands its reach and acquires a service that gives it more oomph in the people-search category. [Wired News]
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- Yahoo Surprises Again with Profitable Quarter - It was a modest $210,000, but the company still managed to surpass its unexpected performance last December. [Wired News]
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- Yahoo Takes It to AOL, Inside PCs - The search-engine company is fast morphing into an online service - to compete head-on with America Online and Snap. [Wired News]
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- Yahoo Teams Up with Research Firm - The Web company will have access to the likes and behaviors of thousands - plus a stream of "factoids." [Wired News]
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- Yahoo Tries On a New Bid for Ubiquity - The Net directory company teams with Sega of America with the hope of placing its brand everywhere you've seen Sonic the Hedgehog - and beyond. [Wired News]
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- Yahoo, Visa Revamp Commerce Ties - A co-branding arrangement - and hefty payoff - replaces the original plan to jointly run an e-commerce Web site. [Wired News]
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- You Are Visitor Number 4,361,024 - Advertisers risk squelching their own market by asking too much from Web media when they demand stricter readership audits from Web publishers than from print or broadcast. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/8411.html
- You've Been Shafted, But AOL Fights Complaints - Frustrated newcomers found that the service's 800-numbers rang their bills from the $19.95 flat monthly rate to six bucks an hour - without warning. AOL denies any sleight-of-screen. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/2966.html
- Your Name Here - Beyond mass production, beyond even niche marketing. MySki produces its goods for a market of one: you. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/2884.html
- Zenith - or Just 'Z' - Braces for Digital Future - Net access and DVD figure strongly in the TV maker's bid to shed its stodgy image in favor of newer, cooler appearance. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/3736.html
- Ziff-Davis to Launch Computer Channel in 1998 - "Can you imagine the year 2000 without a computer channel?" ZD's CEO answers his own question with the announcement of a US$100 million investment in 24-hour cable programming. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/3656.html
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