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- "Body scanner" aims to ease online shopping - British computer scientists have developed a sophisticated body scanner they say provides shoppers with a "virtual changing room" where 300,000 points on the body can be measured with perfect precision. [News.com]
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- "Java everywhere" mantra closer to reality - The "Java everywhere" mantra is taking one more step toward reality. [News.com]
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- 'Geek gods' roll in wealth - Warren Buffet took more than 30 years to make his millions, but the hike was far shorter for Internet entrepreneur Pierre Omidyar. [News.com]
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- 2 firms push thin display technology - [News.com]
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- 24/7, sports firm strike ad deal - Internet advertising network 24/7 Media and sports marketing firm American Cities Studios have teamed up to provide specialized advertising for professional sports organizations, the companies announced. [News.com]
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- 3Com buys EuPhonics - Networking giant 3Com will announce on Friday the acquisition of EuPhonics, a maker of audio software for audio chips and networking cards, for $8.3 million. [News.com]
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- 3Com invests $6 million in wireless firm - 3Com announced today that it is investing $6 million in wireless data service specialist Aether Technologies in an effort to make Palm handheld computers a platform for remote communication. [News.com]
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- 3Com leads networking charge - 3Com shares closed nearly 2 percent lower today, one day after the company gave investors an early Christmas present by beating consensus expectations for its fiscal 1999 second quarter. [News.com]
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- 3Com pushes Y2K awareness - Networking giant 3Com is rolling out a worldwide effort to further awareness of the Year 2000 technology problem among its small- and medium-sized business customers. [News.com]
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- 3Com wins HP card deal - 3Com said today it beat out Intel in an agreement to supply network interface cards across Hewlett-Packard's entire line of personal computers. [News.com]
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- 3Com, Siemens in $100 million venture - Networking firm 3Com and systems giant Siemens are betting $100 million they can jumpstart use of internal corporate layouts for delivering voice, video, and data communications. [News.com]
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- 3D Web developers watching Microsoft plans - As Microsoft shuffles its strategy for Chromeffects, 3D developers are anxiously awaiting the outcome. [News.com]
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- @Bigger.net customers without access - Customers of one-time fee ISP @bigger.net have been without Internet access and email for more than a week, even after Brigadoon.com bailed out the failed Net access provider, Brigadoon executives confirmed. [News.com]
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- @Home buys Full Force Systems - @Home Network, a major provider of Internet access over the cable TV infrastructure, has acquired a company that will bolster @Home's push into the interactive TV arena. [News.com]
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- @Home buys Narrative Communications - @Home Network, a leading provider of Internet services over cable, moved a step closer toward bringing more engaging Internet ads to its users by buying a company that creates high-impact advertising for the Web. [News.com]
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- @Home in deal to boost subscriber base - @Home Network announced here yesterday that it will start a new business aimed at making its high-speed data service available to small- and medium-sized cable operators, a move to expand the company's subscriber base and marketing clout. [News.com]
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- @Home seeks blended ads, commerce - @Home's decision to buy Narrative Communications has as much to do with the future of television advertising and e-commerce as it does with the future of the Net. [News.com]
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- A chip market is born - One of the world's largest makers of Intel-compatible chips may be close to cutting a deal with the chip giant, indicating that the Pentium II chipset market may finally be open for competition. But the price of admission is high. [News.com]
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- A good time for Net profit-taking - Nasdaq stocks fell today as investors took profits from the high-flying Internet sector, which primarily was driven by retail investors, analysts said. [News.com]
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- Adjusting to life under AOL - Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen is considering a move from Silicon Valley to Virginia, while other Netscape employees mull AOL chairman Steve Case's offer of a financial incentive to stay. [News.com]
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- Administration blasts Baby Bells' "stall ball" - A key Clinton administration telecommunications adviser today lashed out at the slow pace of competition in local telecommunications markets, blasting the Baby Bells for dragging their heels in opening their local territories to rivals. [News.com]
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- Adobe earnings beat expectations - Adobe Systems, the top maker of desktop-graphics software, said its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings rose 7 percent and beat expectations as a new version of its Illustrator software helped boost sales. [News.com]
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- Adtran suffers from weaker sales - Adtran shares tumbled after the phone-equipment maker said fourth-quarter sales and profit will be "substantially below" expectations because demand from large phone companies is slowing. [News.com]
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- Allen gives Wink the nod - Wink Communications said that Vulcan Ventures, a firm owned by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, will invest $10 million in the California-based interactive television communications firm. [News.com]
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- Allen sells 3.5 million Microsoft shares - Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen and ten other directors and executives sold a total of more than 4 million shares last month, as the stock of the world's largest software maker climbed to records on optimism for new products. [News.com]
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- Alltel sees gold mine in rural service - Many telecommunications companies look at markets such as Cedar Falls, Iowa, and Hickory, North Carolina, and see corn or cotton. [News.com]
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- Alltel to buy Aliant for $1.5 billion - Rural telephone company Alltel said today that it would buy Aliant Communications, which provides phone, paging, and Internet service in Nebraska, for $1.5 billion in stock. [News.com]
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- Alternative Resources in pact with IBM - Alternative Resources said yesterday that it has reached an agreement with IBM to terminate a $20 million escrow agreement related to its November 1997 acquisition of CGI Systems, an IBM majority-owned company. [News.com]
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- Amazon heads for Nasdaq 100 - No. 1 online bookseller Amazon.com will be included in the Nasdaq 100 Index. Its stock spiked following the news today, hitting a 52-week high. [News.com]
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- Amazon up 46 points; report "clarified" - A Wall Street analyst is explaining the bullish report he issued this morning that sent shares of online bookseller Amazon.com soaring more than 46 points by the closing bell. [News.com]
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- Amazon.com shares take a breather - Shares of Amazon.com, the No. 1 online bookseller, fell as much as 9.8 percent amid concern that expectations for fourth quarter revenue may be too high. [News.com]
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- Amazon.com to offer links to other retailers - Amazon.com today launched a service that lets its users shop other sites on the Web using the company's Junglee comparison-shopping technology, a move that brings Amazon closer to becoming a portal for Web shoppers. [News.com]
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- America Online goes to the majors - The online giant gets its due as its stock is named a Standard & Poor's 500 component. At the same time, Oracle chief Larry Ellison uses the firm's $4.3 billion buyout of Netscape as proof that Microsoft has seriously hurt its competitors. [News.com]
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- Ameritech OKs SBC acquisition - Telecommunications company Ameritech today said its shareholders overwhelmingly approved its acquisition by SBC Communications in a $61 billion stock transaction. [News.com]
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- Analyst recommends services firms - What should investors who are enjoying jaw-dropping gains this year on Internet service stocks like CMGI, Sapient, and USWeb do next? Buy more, said First Albany analyst Ullas Naik. [News.com]
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- Analysts question "cyberterrorism" hype - This morning Network Associates dramatically announced it had identified a new family of computer viruses--the first example, it claimed, of "cyberterrorism"--but victim MCI WorldCom downplayed the incident, saying the virus infection did not affect its customers or operations. [News.com]
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- Andersen takes California Net shopping - Andersen Consulting is taking some Californians Internet shopping. [News.com]
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- Andersen, J. Baker settle Y2K suits - Andersen Consulting and apparel retailer J. Baker have avoided a court battle by settling one of the industry's first Year 2000 contract disputes. [News.com]
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- Andreessen might go to Virginia - Executives at America Online and Netscape are paying close attention to meshing their corporate cultures, according to Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen, who revealed he's not committed to remaining in Silicon Valley after the merger closes next spring. [News.com]
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- Another beta for Windows 98 fixes - Microsoft released a second beta of its Service Pack for Windows 98 for computer manufacturers, but the final version of the fix is still a long way off. [News.com]
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- Another study forecasts holiday spending - Time for another guess at online holiday spending: Internet retail purchases for the holiday season will reach $2.35 billion worldwide as more consumers find online shopping convenient and secure, according to a new study by Dataquest [News.com]
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- Antec shares slump on earnings warning - Antec shares fell 22 percent today after the international communications technology company said it expects to report fourth quarter earnings of 2 to 4 cents a share, falling short of estimates due to lower-than-expected sales. [News.com]
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- AOL climbs on S&P 500 addition - Shares in America Online, the world's largest Internet service provider, rose today after the stock was named a Standard & Poor's 500 component. [News.com]
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- AOL holiday shopping surges 350 percent - America Online said today that holiday traffic on its shopping channel has been three and a half times higher than last year, with shoppers spending an average of 50 percent more than they did in 1997. [News.com]
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- AOL may affect S&P index changes - Standard & Poor's may change the way it delivers news of index changes, after No. 1 online service America Online stock surged when certain traders were told it would join the S&P 500 Index. [News.com]
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- AOL moves into Latin America - America Online, the world's largest Internet service and content provider, just got a little bigger. [News.com]
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- AOL movie at a theater near you - You've Got Mail, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, hits the silver screen today with high expectations of becoming the feel-good romantic comedy of the year. [News.com]
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- AOL now counts 15 million members - America Online's paying audience keeps growing. [News.com]
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- AOL partners with GTE and BellAtlantic - America Online, the world's largest online service, has signed a three-year agreement to carry Bell Atlantic and GTE Yellow Pages in exchange for $31 million in guaranteed revenue. [News.com]
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- AOL plans interactive TV, high-speed Net - America Online is looking for a manufacturer to make television set-top boxes that would allow it to offer interactive television in competition with Microsoft's Web TV, according to reports citing AOL Interactive Services president Barry Schuler. [News.com]
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- AOL shares jump day before S&P debut - Shares of America Online were trading higher today, the last trading day before replacing retailer Venator Group in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index. [News.com]
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- AOL surpasses Disney in market value - America Online 's shares have jumped 55 percent in a week, valuing the No. 1 online service at more than Walt Disney and other major U.S. companies. [News.com]
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- AOL throws the book at spammers - In the latest chapter of its crusade against unsolicited bulk email, America Online today said it has won lawsuits against three spammers and it has filed nine more suits in five states. [News.com]
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- AOL trading on NYSE disrupted - America Online trading was disrupted several times on the New York Stocks Exchange because of an equipment malfunction. [News.com]
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- AOL users get Reel access - Online movie seller Reel.com, a unit of Hollywood Entertainment, said today it will open an Internet store on America Online and will offer discounted products to AOL's customers. [News.com]
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- App server shakeout demands specialization - Application server makers are taking a lesson in anthropology: In the evolution of the market, only the fittest survive. [News.com]
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- Apple cuts PowerBook prices to compete - Apple slashed prices on its PowerBook G3 notebooks this weekend, but it's playing catch-up with prices. [News.com]
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- Apple posts Mac OS 8.5 fixes - Apple has released an update to its Mac OS 8.5, addressing several bugs that have appeared since the release of the latest operating system, the company announced today. [News.com]
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- Apple preps iMac, OS updates - Apple Computer will kick off 1999 at the MacWorld trade show in San Francisco next week with a cavalcade of new products and a promise to start raking in the dough. [News.com]
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- Apple preps snazzy new desktops - Forget the iMac, snazzy business desktops are on the way from Apple. [News.com]
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- Apple's Jobs hints at '99 products - Apple Computer interim chief executive Steve Jobs today offered a view of Apple's product direction at an education conference in Seattle, saying that a new version of the company's QuickTime multimedia software will be introduced next month while a new consumer portable device would not. [News.com]
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- Apple's new computers coming into focus - The thrust of the upcoming Macworld Expo trade show will be Apple's bread and butter desktop computers. Meanwhile, details on the WebMate continue to trickle out. [News.com]
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- Appointments to Net tax panel questioned - U.S. congressional leaders are rethinking some appointments to a blue-ribbon panel on Internet taxation after the nation's counties said the group was stacked with cyberspace industry reps. [News.com]
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- Asia-Pacific PC market on the upswing - Shipments of personal computers in the Asia-Pacific region, excluding Japan, dropped 2.3 percent in the third quarter of 1998, but the downward trend is expected to reverse in the fourth quarter, according to a marketing research firm. [News.com]
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- AT&T buys Big Blue unit for $5 billion - AT&T is buying Big Blue's Global Network unit for $5 billion in cash. [News.com]
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- AT&T job cuts ahead of schedule - AT&T, the largest U.S. long distance phone company, expects to eliminate 18,000 jobs in 1998 alone, putting chief executive C. Michael Armstrong's job-cutting plan well ahead of schedule. [News.com]
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- AT&T racing for the "last mile" - As AT&T's buying frenzy switches into high gear, the telco giant is rumored to be close to a deal with Time Warner to provide phone services over the media company's cable wires. AT&T seems to be making a play to circumvent the Baby Bells in its race to reach the "last mile" into homes, and Wall Street and regulators are watching closely. [News.com]
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- AT&T rolls out premium gaming service - AT&T is launching a new service that's all fun and games. [News.com]
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- AT&T stock touches new high - Ma Bell is on a roll as stock in telecommunications giant AT&T finished at an all-time high today. [News.com]
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- AT&T tests wireless waters with Ericsson - AT&T, the largest long distance phone company, said it is testing equipment made by Ericsson that will allow customers to place wireless phone calls to several people simultaneously. [News.com]
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- AT&T WorldNet revamps pricing - AT&T WorldNet service, AT&T's Internet access service, today announced a new pricing plan and other special new features, including instant messaging and free holiday conference calls. [News.com]
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- AT&T, TCI challenge Portland authorities - AT&T and Tele-Communications Incorporated said they won't abide by a Portland, Oregon, ordinance that requires them to open TCI's cable system to Internet companies. [News.com]
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- AT&T, TCI merger almost a done deal - The Justice Department has given a conditional seal of approval to the $48 billion merger deal between long distance giant AT&T and cable titan Tele-Communications Incorporated. While many believe the megamerger should clear final FCC scrutiny, consumers are left to wonder how the deal may affect them. [News.com]
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- AT&T, Time Warner deal close - AT&T and Time Warner are close to an agreement for the telecommunications giant to provide phone service over the media company's cable wires, but no final deal has been reached, a source familiar with the negotiations said today. [News.com]
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- AT&T, Time Warner near unveiling venture - An AT&T and Time Warner joint venture agreement that would allow the phone giant to use Time Warner's cable lines to provide Internet access could be announced as early as mid-January, according to reports. [News.com]
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- ATI strengthens graphics lead - ATI Technologies continued to strengthen its lead as the top supplier of speedy graphics chips to the computer industry in the third quarter of 1998, according to a report.. [News.com]
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- Auction site eBay hiccups again - Wall Street seems to have turned a blind eye to the series of prolonged outages that online auction site eBay has suffered this week. [News.com]
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- Audiohighway.com signals end of IPO year - The Internet class of 1998 will usher in at least one more member, with Web firm Audiohighway.com planning to price its initial public offering this week. [News.com]
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- Aussie race officials call off search - The search for two missing sailors off the coast of Australia has been called off, wire services are reporting. [News.com]
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- AutoPC goes on sale Friday - The first personal computer for the car, made by Clarion, will go on sale Friday, marking another bold Microsoft step outside of the PC industry. [News.com]
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- Avantel looks to build local network - Avantel, a Mexican telephone venture partly owned by MCI WorldCom, wants to build a local phone network in Mexico to forego the high fees it must pay a rival for carrying such services. [News.com]
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- Baan to take back spin-off - Baan is reining in its company to return to profitability. [News.com]
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- Baby Bells ready to ring in the new year - The face of the U.S. telecommunications industry changed more dramatically in 1998 than in any year since the breakup of Ma Bell, as deregulation and the Net explosion pushed companies to expand their traditional operations. [News.com]
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- Baby Bells' mergers may be blocked by FCC - The Federal Communications Commission may not approve mergers between SBC Communications and Ameritech, and Bell Atlantic and GTE, because of concerns the mergers wouldn't serve the public interest, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Bandwidth boom to bust flat-rate Net - The world is heading irrevocably toward a bandwidth boom. But since there will be a price tag on our megabits per second, today's flat-rate Internet may be crushed under the weight of those thicker pipes, said MCI WorldCom vice chairman John Sidgmore. [News.com]
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- Bangladesh promotes software development - Bangladesh Commerce and Industries Minister Tofael Ahmed today said the Asian country will offer duty free imports and cash incentives as part of its undertaking to become a major developer of computer software. [News.com]
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- Banks halt loans to LG Semicon - Korean banks halted loans to LG Semicon today, accusing it of fighting a promised merger that would create the world's second-largest computer memory chipmaker, according to the Associated Press. [News.com]
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- Barnes & Noble shares enjoy Net spike - Barnes & Noble's stock has surged about 40 percent the past week on optimism for higher Internet sales by the largest U.S. book retailer. [News.com]
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- Barnesandnoble.com stalls in heavy traffic - Barnes & Noble said its Web site slowed and it had trouble completing online orders for several hours yesterday because of two technology glitches amid a sixfold increase in traffic from six months ago. [News.com]
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- Bell Atlantic sues over state competition - Bell Atlantic filed suit against the Maryland Public Service Commission, charging that regulators in that state were illegally forcing them to sell access to their networks to competitors at artificially low prices. [News.com]
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- Bell Atlantic, AirTouch reportedly in talks - Bell Atlantic is in talks to acquire AirTouch Communications, a wireless communications company, for $45 billion in stock, CNBC reported, citing people close to the negotiations. [News.com]
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- Bells enlist Intel, Compaq in data battle - Five of the nation's biggest local phone companies joined with Intel, Compaq, Microsoft and Gateway today to petition the federal government for new rules governing high-speed Internet access. [News.com]
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- Bells still trying to go the distance - The Baby Bells have enlisted another player in their fight to offer long distance services. Technology bellwethers Compaq and Intel today joined up with BellSouth and others to press the FCC to allow the regional Bell companies to build high-speed networks in order to ferry Internet traffic over long distances. [News.com]
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- BellSouth a contender to buy PointCast - BellSouth has surfaced as a leading candidate to acquire PointCast, the push technology pioneer, which has been seeking a strategic partner since it scrapped its IPO plans in July, sources said. [News.com]
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- BellSouth's long distance appeal denied - BellSouth lost its court challenge to legal restrictions that prevent former Bell operating system companies from entering the $70 billion long distance business until they open local markets to competition. [News.com]
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- Big Blue courts small business - Boosting its small-business offerings, IBM will offer a suite of online business tools put together by DigitalWork for small companies. [News.com]
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- Blackout boosts Web outsourcing firms - This week's power outage in the San Francisco area has given Web-hosting companies new ammunition for pitching their services to potential customers that experienced difficulties during the blackout. [News.com]
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- Bluefly shares buzz on Yahoo news - Shares of Bluefly, an online name-brand fashion outlet store, surged by as much as 50 percent today after the company announced that it was launching a co-branded version of its online store on Yahoo Shopping. [News.com]
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- Boeing sends market downward - Stocks fell sharply as aerospace giant Boeing sent jitters through the market, pushing both the Dow and the Nasdaq lower in morning trading. [News.com]
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- Bomb hoax sends EDS workers home - Hundreds of Michigan employees of a data and computer services company went home early yesterday after a caller warned of a bomb planted in protest of U.S. air strikes on Iraq, company executives and police said. [News.com]
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- Book describes Dell's meteoric rise - A book detailing some of the strategies and key events behind Dell Computer will come out in March, a release that will put CEO Michael Dell into the technology author's club. [News.com]
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- Brazil tries to sell telco licenses again - Brazil said it would again attempt to sell two licenses to provide fixed-line telephone service in competition with established operators after failing to attract offers for the concessions on the first try. [News.com]
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- Brilliant Digital inks deal with video retailer - Brilliant Digital Entertainment, an interactive entertainment content and tools developer, signed a revenue sharing agreement with online video retailer DVD Express, to market its Multipath Movie Webisodes and CD-ROM episodes. [News.com]
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- Broadcast.com aims for office users - It's all in the office. [News.com]
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- Broadcast.com soars on Nasdaq deal - Shares of Broadcast.com jumped more than 15 percent today after the Internet broadcasting company announced an investor conference call carriage deal with Nasdaq. [News.com]
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- Broadcast.com, Hoover's tap Amazon - Broadcast.com and Hoover's both sign agreements, tapping Amazon.com as each of the firm's exclusive merchant for books. [News.com]
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- Browser bundling takes center stage - Microsoft abruptly cut short its cross-examination of a Princeton University computer expert after the judge criticized the company's line of questioning. [News.com]
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- Browser makers face developers' complaints - Netscape and Microsoft last night threw themselves to the lions of Web standards advocacy. [News.com]
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- Bug fear may trigger panic in '99 - Even if the "millennium bomb" does not explode in the world's computers just more than a year from now, the coming year is likely to see rising panic as people everywhere take precautions against computer failure triggered by the year 2000. [News.com]
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- Bundling of IE, Windows debated - The forced bundling of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser with Windows 98 creates more harm than benefit to software developers, computer vendors, and end users, a computer consultant hired by the government has testified. [News.com]
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- Burns to reintroduce crypto legislation - A key senator in the fight to loosen U.S. controls on encryption exports today said that he will again try to ease restrictions on the data scrambling technology. [News.com]
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- Business app makers aim for small firms' needs - To lure the lucrative midtier market, service vendors are expanding their outsource offerings and tailoring their services to fit the needs of the not-so-giant. [News.com]
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- Byte makes a comeback - CMP is getting its Byte back. [News.com]
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- C&W Optus signs outsourcing deal with IBM - Australian telecommunications carrier Cable & Wireless Optus said today that it had signed a five-year $460 million outsourcing contract with IBM Australia for the provision of information technology services. [News.com]
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- CA to buy Norwegian software maker - Computer Associates, the fourth-largest U.S. software maker, said it's buying closely held Aventura Systems ASA of Norway to expand its electronic commerce business. [News.com]
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- Cable companies work the pipes - As cable companies chart a future course for the industry at the Western Cable show in Southern California this week, a study says worldwide shipments of cable modems skyrocketed in the first half of 1998, due in part to strong sales in North America. [News.com]
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- Cable cowers under satellite shadow - If there are any long faces at the Western Cable Show, it is because of the progress digital broadcast satellite companies have made in recent years. [News.com]
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- Cable cozy with data, video insulation - The ability of cable's broadband pipes to carry voice, video, and data will help insulate the industry from falling prices as operators begin to offer IP telephony services, cable leaders assured the industry today. [News.com]
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- Cable cringes at government controls - ANAHEIM, Calif.--There is a dark cloud hanging over the bright, interactive future envisioned by the cable television industry--the federal government. [News.com]
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- Cable modems double in 1998 - Worldwide shipments of cable modems skyrocketed in the first half of 1998, due in large part to strong sales in North America, according to a report released today. [News.com]
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- Cable modems get ready for retail - Selling cable modems through retail stores could take longer than some cable operators had hoped as they work with retailers on how to not only market the technology but share the profits. [News.com]
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- Cable rivals shake on satellite service - Telstra and rival Cable & Wireless Optus have agreed to join forces to deliver pay television throughout Australia by satellite, avoiding the costly duplication of their cable roll-outs which has hit the industry with multibillion-dollar losses. [News.com]
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- Cable slips amid satellite competition - Although cable television operators remain the dominant route for accessing video programming, the industry has lost some ground to direct-to-home satellite broadcasters in the last year, a new study shows. [News.com]
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- Cable: An end run for AT&T? - AT&T, tired of waiting for local phone companies to open their markets to competition, seems to be escalating its end run around the Baby Bells. [News.com]
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- Cabletron expects third-quarter loss - Networking equipment provider Cabletron Systems gave Wall Street some bad news today, revealing that results for its fiscal 1999 third quarter will come in far below consensus estimates, resulting in a loss. [News.com]
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- Cabletron Systems continues stock slide - Stock in network equipment provider Cabletron Systems fell more than 8 percent today, one day after the company posted quarterly results below revised estimates. [News.com]
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- Cabletron: Are the glory days over? - The best days for networking pioneer Cabletron Systems may be over. [News.com]
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- Cadence to acquire Quickturn - Cadence Design Systems today moved to acquire Quickturn Design Systems in a $253 million stock deal, apparently topping a hostile bid from Mentor Graphics. [News.com]
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- Callers care most about price, service - In the midst of multimillion-dollar marketing campaigns from telecommunications companies touting new high-tech services, consumers still overwhelmingly care most about price and customer service, a new market research study found. [News.com]
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- Can Disney still be Disney online? - With the highly anticipated beta launch of the Disney-Infoseek joint portal around the corner, Disney is fighting to keep its brand unsullied by the darker elements of the Web. Wall Street appears to be reacting favorably--Infoseek's stock soared after the company announced it would no longer accept adult-oriented advertising. [News.com]
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- Can set-tops live up to the hype? - Much hype has been bestowed upon the television set-top box as provider of interactive computer-like services, but with the upcoming roll-out of Scientific-Atlanta's cable TV set-top box, the technology finally must prove its worth to consumers. [News.com]
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- Cars vulnerable to PalmPilot signals? - The PalmPilot has been touted as capable of doing almost anything--from organizing contacts and email to playing games and eventually providing two-way wireless communications. But these handhelds could now excel at another task--breaking into cars. [News.com]
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- Catalog firm leaps on Excite deal - Genesis Direct's shares more than doubled after the mail-order catalog company said it will sell some merchandise through Excite, the second-biggest Internet directory. [News.com]
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- CBS increases SportsLine stake - SportsLine USA said today that CBS has exercised warrants to buy 380,000 of its common shares for $5.7 million, or $15 per share, boosting the network's stake in the site to 10.4 percent. [News.com]
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- CBS, Time Warner in digital TV deal - CBS said today that the digital signals of its television stations will be carried on Time Warner Cable systems, the first agreement of its kind between a major cable operator and a television broadcaster. [News.com]
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- CBT Group adds Knowledge - CBT Group, an interactive software training company, just got a little smarter. [News.com]
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- CD Warehouse launches Web site - Music retailer CD Warehouse has opened its interactive Web site to sell new and used compact discs available from its chain of more than 300 retail outlets. [News.com]
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- CERT downplays virus attack - Downplaying a recent virus incident on MCI WorldCom's network, a respected computer security clearinghouse has posted an "incident report" on the infection by the "Remote Explorer" virus. [News.com]
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- Certicom creates standards body - Elliptic curve cryptography firm Certicom has created body of customers to create a standard so that different implementations of ECC--considered more efficient for small or mobile devices--will interoperate. [News.com]
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- Challenges mount for cable industry - Cable's biggest and brightest gathered at the Western Cable Show in Southern California this past week to discuss the industry's prospects--and problems--in the months ahead. Cable executives put their collective heads together to discuss how to roll out innovative technology that is user-friendly yet affordable, while keeping other broadband competitors at bay. [News.com]
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- China telecom breakup edging closer - The Chinese government is considering breaking up its state telephone monopoly, a move that could inject a new dose of competition into the country's rapidly growing telecommunications market. [News.com]
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- Chinese hackers sentenced to death - Two hackers who broke into a bank computer network and stole 260,000 yuan ($31,400) have been sentenced to death by a court in eastern China, the official Wenhui Daily said today. [News.com]
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- Chip cavalcade coming from Intel - January will be a big month for Intel as the chip giant plans to roll out a new high-end version of its Xeon processor, a Pentium II processor with integrated memory for mobile computers, and a series of Celeron chips for notebooks and desktops. [News.com]
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- Chip industry group details position on Y2K - As the Year 2000 spotlight turns to chips embedded in consumer electronics systems, a lobbyist group for the semiconductor industry has released a position paper to weed fact from fiction. [News.com]
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- Chip industry, feds form research plan - The U.S. semiconductor industry, the U.S. government and 14 top universities said they have created a network to conduct advanced research in semiconductors. [News.com]
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- Christmas comes early for networkers - A little holiday spirit helped networking stocks soar today, as shares in bellwether Cisco Systems hit a new 52-week high following a favorable analyst report. Cabletron Systems, however, got coal in its stocking for the third quarter, reporting a loss greater than previous estimates. [News.com]
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- Ciena drops on loss - Ciena's stock took a double-digit tumble today, one day after the networking equipment company warned of possible losses next year. [News.com]
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- Cincinnati Bell wants to stay solo - Cincinnati Bell doesn't believe bigger is better. [News.com]
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- Cincinnati Financial sues over Y2K coverage - Cincinnati Insurance has filed a complaint in federal court in what may be the first action concerning an insurance company's Year 2000 obligations, according to a litigation newsletter. [News.com]
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- Cisco adds to networking lines - Cisco Systems has got something for everyone, it seems. [News.com]
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- Cisco builds strategy for home market - Cisco Systems will soon disclose its plans to enter the consumer market, a major departure for a networking equipment firm normally associated with the highly technical workings of the Internet backbone. [News.com]
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- Cisco offers advice on Net business - Cisco has a thing or two to say about the business of the Internet. [News.com]
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- Cisco shines after Wall Street report - Cisco Systems shares rose as much as 6 percent to a record amid expectations that increased use of the Internet will mean higher sales and profit at the No. 1 network-equipment maker. [News.com]
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- Cisco Systems to acquire PipeLinks - Networking giant Cisco Systems today said it has moved to acquire privately held PipeLinks, a maker of high-capacity routers, in a stock deal valued at about $126 million. [News.com]
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- Civil liberties online--the year that was - While major online companies relished their Wall Street wins this year, free speech advocates were busy fighting for the little guys on the Net. [News.com]
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- CNBC suspends analyst after comments - Cable TV business network CNBC has suspended guest analyst James Cramer in light of charges that he tried to "short" the stock of WavePhore, a broadcaster of news and information to personal computers. [News.com]
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- Cognos buys Relational Matters - Cognos is buying itself a $10 million Christmas gift. [News.com]
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- Coke pours Y2K plan into place - Beverage group Coca-Cola said yesterday it has a plan to ensure its worldwide distribution runs smoothly in the face of anticipated Year 2000 computer problems, but it has no control over some elements. [News.com]
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- Comcast to boost Prime's services - Comcast today said it will provide expertise in developing and deploying new, advanced high-speed data and telephony services to Prime Communications LLC's cable systems in parts of Maryland, Virginia, and Chicago. [News.com]
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- Compaq to join rivals with thin notebook - Later this month, Compaq Computer will join American rivals competing to meet Japanese demand for lightweight notebooks. [News.com]
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- Compaq to license digital cash technology - Compaq will license the technology for MilliCent, its digital cash product, to an outside partner. [News.com]
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- Compaq trims Prosignia prices - Compaq Computer cut prices on PCs it sells directly to users by 2 to 7 percent in an effort to woo customers from rival Dell Computer. [News.com]
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- Competitors get fee break in Mexico - Mexico today set new fees paid by upstart long-distance operators to the country's largest telephone operator for use of its local network in a bid to resolve months of disputes. [News.com]
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- Complaint: GoTo favors sister firms - An Internet entrepreneur who made a bid for top billing in results from the GoTo.com shopping search engine funded in part by Bill Gross' idealab contends that GoTo.com gave preferential treatment to a competing auto site that Gross also has invested in. [News.com]
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- CompuServe makes portal play - CompuServe rolled out the first phase of a Web site redesign, suggesting the online service will begin trying to cultivate a mainstream Web audience. [News.com]
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- Computer 2000 meets pretax profit target - Computer 2000 AG, Europe's largest computer distributor, said it reached its pretax profit forecast of $89.4 million in fiscal 1998, boosted by strong demand for computers in the European market. [News.com]
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- Computer Associates keeps it simple - Business software giant Computer Associates wants to keep it simple. [News.com]
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- Computer Sciences sales seen rising 20% - Computer Sciences Corporation sales will rise by about 20 percent next year, fueled by several large commercial computer services contracts, an analyst said. [News.com]
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- Compuware drives away with Ford contract - Enterprise software and services company Compuware today drove away with an outsourcing deal with Ford that could boost the company's future annual revenue by $100 million. [News.com]
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- Concerns about AOL eased at Mozilla - What, mozilla worry? [News.com]
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- Concerns grow over next year's e-rate - School officials are happy to see hefty federal Net access subsidies finally arrive this month, but they are increasingly concerned that the Federal Communications Commission has yet to set funding levels for the so-called e-rate for next year. [News.com]
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- Concord, Cisco in technology pact - Concord Communications, a maker of software that evaluates computer networks, and Cisco Systems said today that they will work together to help customers monitor network performance. [News.com]
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- Concur hooks up with ADP - Concur is hooking up with a staple of corporate computing to advance its position: Automated Data Processing, the payroll processing firm. [News.com]
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- Concur soars in first day of trading - Concur Technologies, which makes software that automates corporate travel and entertainment expense management, rose 56 percent in its first day after a bigger-than-expected initial stock sale. [News.com]
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- Congress spends the year online - Within its critical agenda, not the least of which was impeaching President Clinton, Congress still made time this year for its blooming love affair with Net policy. [News.com]
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- Congress takes aim at the FCC - A group of influential members of Congress is gearing up for a run at the Federal Communications Commission next year, and it may even try to strip the agency of most of its regulatory powers, a congressman said today. [News.com]
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- Consolidation marches through Net security - A new wave of acquisitions, this time among smaller companies, is moving through the Internet security industry, with one acquisition yesterday, another today, and reports of merger talks between two European firms. [News.com]
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- Consumers contemplate AT&T, TCI world - Federal antitrust regulators' approval of AT&T and Tele-Communications Incorporated's pending merger sets the stage for a very different communications world, if not necessarily a cheaper one, for consumers. [News.com]
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- Convergys seeks court backing in dispute - Convergys, which provides billing and customer management services to telecommunications companies, asked a federal court to back its position in a dispute with wireless phone service company Alltel. [News.com]
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- Copyright vote delayed by European Union - A European Parliament committee has postponed a key vote on legislation aimed at deterring piracy on the Internet and other electronic networks, delaying action by the full assembly until at least February. [News.com]
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- Corel settles with Hedy Lamarr - Former Hollywood movie queen Hedy Lamarr has settled a lawsuit that alleged Canadian software maker Corel misappropriated her image. [News.com]
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- Corel, GraphOn extend software pact - Corel and GraphOn are bartering for mutual marketing position. [News.com]
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- Countries follow U.S. on crypto - Clinton administration officials today said they had persuaded other leading countries to impose strict new export controls on computer data-scrambling products under the guise of arms control. [News.com]
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- Critics sound off in Bell merger hearings - Opponents leveled a string of potentially damaging criticisms against two pending Baby Bell mergers today at a hearing in front of the Federal Communications Commission. [News.com]
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- Crypto rules under assault - Two Internet-governance groups protest new, U.S.-driven crypto-export controls. Meanwhile, RSA Data Security gears up for its third annual crypto-cracking contest. [News.com]
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- CSC buys Dutch services firm - Computer Sciences continued to feed its acquisition appetite yesterday, buying a small Dutch services and consulting firm to help boost CSC's European business. [News.com]
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- CSC CEO sees new deals worth billions - Computer Sciences is set to announce several computer services contracts in the coming weeks and is awaiting word on other commercial and government deals, its chief executive said. Analysts estimate the deals could produce several billion dollars in revenue. [News.com]
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- CSC inks deal with Computing Devices - Computer Sciences has inked a 10-year, $62 million IT outsourcing contract with UK-based Computing Devices, a defense electronics systems provider acquired by General Dynamics last year. [News.com]
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- CSC soars on IRS contract win - The audit is over. [News.com]
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- CSC to make takeover offer - Systems integrator CSA Holdings said today that CSC Computer Sciences would make a mandatory takeover offer for CSA after acquiring 26.2 percent of its shares. [News.com]
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- CTS to buy Motorola unit for $145 million - CTS said it agreed to buy Motorola's component products division for $145 million in cash and assumed debt, which will make CTS one of North America's largest makers of wireless equipment components. [News.com]
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- Curtain rising on new Divx player - The newest Divx player will hit stores this weekend, but analysts say chances for technology's long-term success have not improved much. [News.com]
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- Customers don't want IE bundled, exec says - An executive from computer maker Packard Bell NEC testified via video at the Microsoft antitrust trial that a majority of his customers do not want a Web browser forced on them.. [News.com]
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- Cyberian Outpost narrows loss - Cyberian Outpost posted a narrower-than-expected loss for its quarter ended in November as spending on merchandising systems and advertising were offset by surging Net sales. [News.com]
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- CyberShop snags position on MSN - CyberShop International said today that it entered a pact with Microsoft to place two of its Internet shopping sites on the software giant's MSN Shopping channel. [News.com]
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- Cypress warns of fourth-quarter loss - Cypress Semiconductor, one of Silicon Valley's oldest chipmakers, today said it would report a loss for the fourth quarter, instead of the profit that analysts had forecast, because of manufacturing problems. [News.com]
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- Danger on the Net? - A "hole" in TCP/IP, the Net's underlying language, could allow hackers to break into systems and damage targeted Web sites, according to CERT, which yesterday issued an advisory about the security concern. Most systems are not vulnerable, however. Separately, Network Associates yesterday dramatically announced it had identified a new family of computer viruses--the first example, it claimed, of "cyberterrorism"--but victim MCI WorldCom and analysts downplayed the incident. [News.com]
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- Dassault Systemes to buy Matra unit - Software company Dassault Systemes said today that it agreed to buy for an undisclosed sum a subsidiary of Matra Datavision, a unit of the Lagardere group. [News.com]
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- Data Dimensions drops on warning - Shares of Data Dimensions plunged as much as 25 percent in early trading after the Y2K consulting firm today warned that it expects its financial results for the fourth quarter to miss the mark due to Year 2000 budget pressures, delays in IT consulting agreements, and deferral of projects. [News.com]
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- Debate rages over NT virus - Network Associates' handling of a new virus called "Remote Explorer" is prompting heated debate, with critics and rivals contending the company overhyped the problem and didn't share the malicious code quickly enough. [News.com]
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- Defining moments of the Internet, 1998 - It was quite a year for the Internet, a medium that's only recently emerged in the commercial form known to most users. [News.com]
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- Dell adds "plain English" help to Web site - Net software company Ask Jeeves entered an agreement for Dell Computer to use its "plain English" question-and-answer systems on the latter's customer support Web site. [News.com]
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- Dell business desktop down to $850 - Dell will cut prices on corporate desktops computers on Monday, bringing these robust business systems to the $850 mark. [News.com]
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- Dell moves up in workstation market - Dell Computer bumped Compaq Computer out of second place in the booming Intel/Windows NT workstation market during the third quarter, according to a study released today, while the overall lead of Sun Microsystems in workstation revenue continued to shrink. [News.com]
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- Dell revs fast PC modem strategy - Dell Computer continues its push to offer more personal computers with faster Internet connections, now a crucial performance yardstick, by announcing today that its consumer PCs will come equipped with high-speed modems from 3Com. [News.com]
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- Dell sells another 8 million shares - Dell Computer founder Michael Dell sold 8 million company shares in November, boosting to more than $1 billion the value of shares sold by the 33-year-old chief executive this year. [News.com]
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- Dell to feature AOL on consumer PCs - Dell Computer and America Online have joined forces to bring AOL's service to Dell home PCs, the companies said today. [News.com]
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- Dell to sell 4 million more shares - Dell chief executive Michael Dell has filed to sell 4 million shares of his company's stock, a move that comes as the shares have slipped in recent months. [News.com]
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- Dell, Compaq fight for corporate market - Compaq and Dell this week took steps to make their products more appealing to large companies as they battle to win customers for new storage systems, the guts of corporate computer systems. [News.com]
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- Dell, others face monitor patent suits - Dell Computer, the top direct seller of personal computers, and Packard Bell NEC were sued by Britain's Elonex for allegedly using its patented technology for reduced power-consuming color monitors. [News.com]
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- Demand could threaten Net backbone - The global Internet is on the verge of collapse, according to Ovum Research. [News.com]
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- Details of Apple consumer portable emerge - Unconfirmed details of Apple Computer's forthcoming consumer portable have trickled out, though interim Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said the notebook would not debut at a trade show early next month. [News.com]
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- Details of SGI's Windows NT workstations emerging - As Silicon Graphics prepares to realign its mainstay workstation business around the Windows-Intel architecture, new details about the company's major strategic shift are emerging. [News.com]
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- Did foreign firms miss Y2K liability amnesty? - It's sometimes called the Good Samaritan Act, but a new U.S. law may have unneighborly consequences for unwary foreign companies. [News.com]
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- Digital Chef spices up product line - Online gourmet food and kitchenware store Digital Chef has beefed up its kitchen-appliance offerings. The site announced plans to add "hundreds of brand-name kitchenware products" to its site. Digital Chef has made serious inroads into the online food niche. Its most recent deal is with America Online, which features its services as an anchor tenant. The $7.5 million deal, forged last October includes shared revenues. [News.com]
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- Digital gadget revolution to grow - The digital revolution in consumer electronics, including personal computer gadgets, began to gain attention in 1998, and it is expected to take a stronger hold of the market in the coming year. [News.com]
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- Digital wireless phone sales top analogs - U.S. sales of new-generation, digital wireless phones for the first time outpaced sales of traditional, analog phones during the first three quarters of 1998, a market research firm said today. [News.com]
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- DirecTV links up with Hitachi's HDTV - Hitachi has developed a television set capable of receiving high-definition satellite television signals--an interim solution for bringing high-definition viewing to the market today. [News.com]
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- Discounts under the Palm tree - If you have a PalmPilot user on your holiday buying list this year, shopping should be a breeze, especially as discounts bring the highest-end PalmPilots under $300. [News.com]
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- Disney adds online video sales - Gearing up for the highly anticipated holiday e-commerce blitz, Disney's network of Web sites is adding video retailer MovieStreet to its list of commerce partners. [News.com]
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- Disney and Infoseek raise the curtain on Go - Infoseek and Disney are launching a preliminary version of their highly anticipated Web search and content aggregation site, Go Network. [News.com]
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- Disney bets on flower power - Furthering its efforts to capitalize on online holiday shopping, Disney is taking on flowers. [News.com]
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- Disney's dilemma: Family values on the Web - For Disney, image is everything--especially on the Web. [News.com]
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- Distributor woes raise warning flags - Computer distributor stocks got hammered today as two of the largest players said they would miss fourth-quarter revenue targets, a warning sign that PC demand may be slowing. [News.com]
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- DOJ points to Microsoft dictionary - A dictionary published by Microsoft defines a Web browser as an "application," an admission a government attorney said helped bolster earlier testimony by a government witness. [News.com]
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- DOJ: Microsoft may have withheld evidence - The Justice Department wants to reinterview one of Microsoft's highest-ranking executives to learn if the software giant withheld crucial evidence during the discovery phase of the landmark antitrust suit it is battling. [News.com]
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- Dr. Laura concedes in photo lawsuit - When radio celebrity Dr. Laura Schlessinger took her clothes off to pose for private pictures 20 years ago, she likely never imagined that the photos would end up on a global computer network--forever. [News.com]
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- DSL to make its mark in 2000 - Use of cable modems will continue to dominate digital subscriber line (DSL) in the near future, but two new studies show the high-speed data-over-copper technology may get increased play after 2000. [News.com]
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- E*Trade bidding for Quote.com - E*Trade has emerged as another bidder for financial Web site Quote.com, which also has held talks with CNBC and Intuit, sources said. [News.com]
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- E*Trade goes shopping - E*Trade today launched its foray into the bustling online shopping arena. [News.com]
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- E*Trade launches bond trading - E*Trade Group, said today that it's introducing bond trading for retail customers through its Web site, matching larger rival Schwab, which launched online bond trading in 1996. [News.com]
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- E*Trade taps financial Web sites - Online brokerage E*Trade Group said today that it forged a marketing deal with CNNfn.com in a move to snare customers through partnerships with financial Web sites. [News.com]
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- E*Trade targets offline investors - E*Trade is looking to rope in more offline investors to its online brokerage. [News.com]
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- E-greeting card firm wins Microsoft case - A California judge ordered Microsoft to help a Colorado company revise its Internet greeting cards so they aren't blocked by message filters. [News.com]
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- E-shoppers: Be careful out there - The Net is open 24 hours a day, but that doesn't mean online holiday shoppers should wait until the last minute. [News.com]
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- E-Tek shares double in dynamic IPO - E-Tek Dynamics, a maker of parts for fiber-optic networks, more than doubled in its first day of trading after selling its shares at a price one-third higher than expected. [News.com]
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- EarthLink plans stock offering - Internet service provider EarthLink Network said it filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to offer 2.5 million shares of common stock. [News.com]
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- Easy street for enterprise apps - If you make it easy, they will come. As both the time and the cost of installing business software drops, smaller companies are jumping on the ERP bandwagon. SAP is mapping its own plan to make its software more user-friendly. At the same time, other ERP vendors are looking to supplement the drop in revenues by offering additional services and longer term maintenance. [News.com]
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- EchoStar accused of copyright violations - The four major U.S broadcast networks are seeking a preliminary injunction barring EchoStar Communications, the No. 3 U.S. satellite television operator, from transmitting television signals from their local affiliates. [News.com]
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- EDS board shake-up could bring change - Electronic Data Systems could be ringing in the New Year with some new blood and a redefined direction. [News.com]
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- EDS closer to state outsourcing deal - Electronic Data Systems today grabbed negotiating rights to a $1 billion, seven-year outsourcing contract to take over computer systems for the state of Connecticut. [News.com]
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- EDS gets Census Bureau contract - The Census Bureau will be counting on EDS for its Year 2000 report. [News.com]
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- EDS lures Richard Brown from C&W - Electronic Data Systems named Richard Brown, the chief executive of Britain's Cable & Wireless, as it chairman and chief executive. [News.com]
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- EDS says credit card system is Y2K-ready - Electronic Data Systems, the world's second-largest provider of computer services, yesterday said its system for telling companies where, when, and why their employees use corporate credit cards is ready to handle the Year 2000 date change. [News.com]
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- EDS vice chairman to retire - Still searching for a replacement for its chairman and CEO, Electronic Data Systems will now need to find a new vice chairman as well. [News.com]
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- EDS, Oracle team on billing services - EDS wants to put money in the bank. [News.com]
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- Ellison: AOL deal shows Microsoft's clout - Oracle chairman and chief executive Larry Ellison said America Online's $4.3 billion takeover of Netscape Communications proves Microsoft's monopoly in the operating systems market has caused serious damage to its competitors. [News.com]
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- Email shows Gates discussing IBM "hit team" - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, confronted with an email exchange between himself and a company executive discussing a "hit team to attack IBM," today said he couldn't recall a plan to pressure International Business Machines. [News.com]
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- Enterprise apps find niche in financial world - In coming years, the lion's share of the financial services market will be up for grabs to providers of enterprise software that links back-office and front-end operations, according to a report released today. [News.com]
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- Entrust wins landmark Ontario contract - Security software maker Entrust Technologies has won a contract with the Ontario government that could lead to its supplying digital privacy and identification technology for every resident of Canada's most populous province. [News.com]
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- EPA backpedals on online data release - Amid pressure from national security forces, the Environmental Protection Agency has scrapped plans to post online "worst-case" accident scenarios for about 66,000 chemical manufacturers around the country. [News.com]
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- Ericsson sees cash crop in data field - Add wireless telecommunications giant Ericsson to the group of firms who see gold in data networking. [News.com]
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- Ericsson warns of weaker earnings - Ericsson AB, the world's No. 3 mobile phone maker, said fourth-quarter pretax profit will be 15 percent to 20 percent below analysts' estimates, because of weak demand for its fixed-line switches and mobile phones. [News.com]
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- ERP vendors wake up and smell the Java - Java is no longer a novelty. [News.com]
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- EU approves AT&T-TCI merger - The European Commission said today it has granted regulatory clearance to a $48 billion merger between U.S. telephone giant AT&T and Tele-Communications Incorporated. [News.com]
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- EU urges utilities to tackle Y2K bug - European Union leaders said that prompt action is needed to ensure that utilities and small businesses across the 15-member bloc are prepared for the Year 2000 computer glitch. [News.com]
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- EU worried about bug preparations - European Union governments should take urgent action to ensure that public authorities are prepared for the Year 2000 computer glitch, the European Commission says. [News.com]
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- EU-U.S. privacy dispute won't end soon - Talks apparently broke down today between privacy advocates and U.S. officials who met in London to debate U.S. compliance with a strict European Union privacy directive that threatens to cut off data transfers between the two territories. [News.com]
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- Exchange hits the Street - Despite the bumpy ride lately for business software firms' stock, Exchange Applications has decided hit the Street. [News.com]
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- Excite at a crossroads, CEO says - Now that America Online is acquiring Netscape Communications, many observers of the technology industry are wondering what's in store for Excite. [News.com]
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- Excite Mail downed by hardware upgrade - Excite's free email system, Excite Mail, has been suffering from "intermittent" outages and network slowdowns for the past week, hindering many subscribers from accessing their email accounts, the company confirmed today. [News.com]
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- Excite teams with Seattle FilmWorks - Excite is hoping that a picture is worth a thousand clicks. [News.com]
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- Expert says IE can be removed from Windows - It is possible to remove Web browsing from Microsoft's Windows 95 and Windows 98 without harming the non-browser functionality of the operating systems, a computer consultant has testified. [News.com]
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- Experts say Linux attacks not unusual - [News.com]
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- Falwell to preside over virtual wedding - When Dale and Lorrie say, "I do" on New Year's Eve, they'll be virtually married. Married virtually, that is--by none other than the Rev. Jerry Falwell. [News.com]
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- Fast modems, set-tops lead connection frenzy - Dell makes a fast modem push while set-top box makers tout new devices. Getting customers connected to the Net through modems or set-tops is becoming increasingly important in the high-tech arena. [News.com]
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- FCC adopts new anti-slamming rules - The Federal Communications Commission adopted a new set of consumer-friendly rules today aimed at stamping out the practice of slamming, or changing a telephone customer's long distance company without permission. [News.com]
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- FCC assessing local telco competition - Federal regulators are preparing a report on the state of competition in local telephone markets for the House Commerce committee, to be completed early this week. [News.com]
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- FCC dissension likely over telco mergers - In a move that may indicate dissension inside the Federal Communications Commission over the current round of telecommunication mega-mergers, FCC commissioner Michael Powell said today that regulators should be wary of exercising too much control over mergers. [News.com]
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- FCC hits slammers with $1.2 million fine - The Federal Communications Commission levied a $1.2 million fine against a New Jersey long distance telephone company today, marking the first punch in what is likely to be a one-two combination against telephone "slammers" this week. [News.com]
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- FCC may not make AT&T, TCI open pipes - Federal regulators are unlikely to require AT&T and Tele-Communications Incorporated to give Internet service providers unfettered access to their high-speed connections as a condition for approving AT&T's $50 billion purchase of TCI, industry analysts say. [News.com]
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- FCC not yet off the political hook - With a stack of decisions that could reshape the telecommunications industry still on its plate, the Federal Communications Commission heads toward one of its stormiest political years in recent memory. [News.com]
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- FCC questions AT&T, TCI unbundling - Several FCC commissioners gave strong signs today that they are reluctant to force AT&T and Tele-Communications Incorporated to unbundle their cable Internet access system as a condition of their $48 billion merger. [News.com]
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- FCC to stiffen antislamming rules - Next week, U.S. regulators plan to adopt tougher rules to combat the problem of "slamming," when long-distance telephone companies switch consumers' service without permission. [News.com]
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- FCC walks tightrope over ISP calls - Already a month past its own self-imposed deadline, the Federal Communications Commission is close to ruling that local calls to Internet service providers should be treated as long distance, sources say. [News.com]
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- Fed orders bank to bolster Y2K readiness - A New Mexico bank today became only the second U.S. financial institution ordered by the Federal Reserve to beef up its computer systems in preparation for potential Year 2000 problems. [News.com]
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- Federal agencies' Y2K progress improves - A number of agencies in the federal government are still lagging in their efforts to bring their computer systems into Year 2000 compliance, and the cost to rid all systems of the technology glitch will be $1 billion more than earlier estimates, according to the Clinton administration. [News.com]
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- FedEx sees a corporate future - Federal Express sees its biggest e-commerce opportunity in linking its shipping software to corporate enterprise resource planning [ERP] systems, rather than in delivering documents electronically. [News.com]
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- Feds surfing for bogus investment sites - Federal and state regulators have examined hundreds of World Wide Web sites for bogus claims about investment opportunities and could follow up with enforcement action. [News.com]
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- Fingerhut takes stake in FreeShop - Direct marketer and online retailer Fingerhut said has acquired a 19.9 percent equity interest in FreeShop International, which operates an Internet shopping Web site. [News.com]
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- Finnish insurers to limit bug coverage - Finnish insurers will change the terms of voluntary corporate insurance policies to limit their exposure to risks relating to the millennium bug in computers, the Federation of Insurance Companies (SVK) said. [News.com]
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- Firm pulls ad blocking software - When Web software firm ClearWay Technologies posted the final beta version of its ad blocking product to its site this week, it naturally hoped to create an industry buzz. What it got was more like a hornet's nest. [News.com]
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- Firms unveil home network standard - Hitachi, Sony, and Royal Philips Electronics are among the eight Japanese and European consumer electronics makers that will unveil a digital entertainment device standard early next year. [News.com]
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- FlashNet files to go public - FlashNet Communications, which combines the Internet business with Amway-style direct marketing, is the latest online competitor to test the initial public offering market. [News.com]
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- Florida pushes online voting - Florida residents may be the first to cast ballots for general elections using Net protocols, as a plan to set groundbreaking technical standards for online voting in the state moves forward. [News.com]
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- Ford drives workers to Web for training - Ford Motor Company is driving more of its employees to the Web for training. [News.com]
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- Former Cascade execs launch start-up - The brains behind one of the most successful independent networking companies in the post-Cisco Systems era have resurfaced. [News.com]
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- Former Cisco exec starts VC incubator for women - When Catherine Muther retired as a millionaire from Cisco Systems four years ago and became a philanthropist, a still-timely essay by Virginia Woolf called "Three Guineas" came to mind when she needed a name for her foundation. [News.com]
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- French Netizens stage boycott over fees - French Web surfers claimed success today for a weekend Internet strike they staged to let France Telecom know they were angry over soaring phone bills. [News.com]
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- Future looking brighter for Cendant - Direct marketer and franchiser Cendant today said its current expectations for the fourth quarter of 1998 and the full year 1999 are in line with Wall Street analysts' estimates. [News.com]
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- G8 ministers address high-tech crime - Interior and justice ministers of the Group of Eight states held a video conference today on how to combat high-tech and organized crime, Britain's Home Office announced. [News.com]
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- Gadgets galore for the holidays - If that special wireless-wearable-digital-device your loved one wants can be found on store shelves in late December, chances are it's not the high-tech version of the Furby. [News.com]
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- Gates gives $100 million to immunize kids - Microsoft chairman and CEO Bill Gates, together with his wife Melinda, today announced that they are establishing a $100 million children's vaccination program in hopes of giving children in developing nations quicker access to life-saving vaccines. [News.com]
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- Gates invests $3 million in California estate - Bill Gates, the world's richest man, has invested $3 million in a two acre estate in a resort called the Reserve, in the California desert, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Gates on the antitrust suit - The following is Bill Gates's statement to the press regarding the government's antitrust suit against Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Gates: DOJ "dismayed" by AOL-Netscape deal - Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates apparently surmised that the Justice Department (DOJ) would be "very dismayed" by news of a merger agreement between America Online and Netscape Communications. [News.com]
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- Gates: Free IE helped browser competition - Microsoft's chief executive painted a "pro-consumer" picture of the software giant today, saying the company was completely justified in giving its Internet Explorer away for free. [News.com]
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- Gates: Government out to "destroy" Microsoft - Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates said today that the government is out to "destroy" his company by selectively using portions of his sworn testimony in the ongoing antitrust lawsuit under way here. [News.com]
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- Gates: Second baby in Q2 - Microsoft's billionaire chairman Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, are expecting their second child next June, a family spokeswoman said on Friday. [News.com]
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- Gay advocacy groups join forces online - In a move that shows just how crucial the Net has become for political and social activists, gay and lesbian media watchdog group GLAAD will absorb Digital Queers, a grass-roots advocacy organization for both gays and lesbians in high tech and gay nonprofit organizations. [News.com]
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- General DataComm to cut 200 jobs - Data-networking firm General DataComm Industries said today that it would cut 200 jobs, or 14 percent of its worldwide work force, and take a charge of about $2.5 million in a bid to return to profitability. [News.com]
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- General Instrument up on takeover talks - Shares of General Instrument, which makes cable television equipment such as set-top boxes, rose about 11 percent yesterday on rumors that it may be in talks to sell itself or form a joint venture with a larger communications equipment maker, analysts said. [News.com]
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- German, French telcos shake hands - Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom, the dominant phone companies in France and Germany, sealed their alliance today, after buying 2 percent stakes in each other in a transaction with a combined value of $2.8 billion. [News.com]
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- German, Italian firms buy U.S. company - Italy's Olivetti and Germany's Mannesmann agreed to buy U.S.-based Cellular Communications International for $1.4 billion, in a bid to expand in the Italian wireless communications market, the companies said today. [News.com]
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- GI set-tops to support Visa's smart cards - Cable-TV equipment manufacturer General Instrument will support smart cards in a souped-up version of its digital set-top box due to ship by mid-1999, including the ability to download and spend Visa Cash. [News.com]
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- GI, Sony to form home networking alliance - General Instrument and Sony today said they plan to integrate Sony's home entertainment network technology with General Instrument's advanced digital set-top terminals and systems. [News.com]
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- Gingrich names five to Net group - Preparing to leave his post, House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Georgia) has tied up one loose end by appointing five members to an Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce that will study Net taxation issues. [News.com]
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- Global group pushes for mediation on Y2K - Keeping in the peaceful holiday spirit, a multinational group of legal organizations have sparked a drive to get corporations to limit Y2K disputes by settling out of court through mediation. [News.com]
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- Global TeleSystems buys Esprit Telecom - Global TeleSystems Group, a U.S. company backed by billionaire George Soros, agreed to buy rival Esprit Telecom Group for $985 million in stock and assumed debt to create a communications network spanning 19 European nations. [News.com]
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- Gov. Wilson: Keep Net taxes simple, low - With the clock ticking down on the three-year moratorium on Internet taxes, California Gov. Pete Wilson today urged federal and state lawmakers to keep taxes on Internet transactions simple, not duplicative, and low. [News.com]
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- Government e-commerce data scant - Internet sales are racing ahead. Wall Street analysts are huffing and puffing to keep track. But the federal government has barely left the starting gate in providing sales data. [News.com]
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- Government fighting Net voting rumor - The U.S. government is launching a campaign on the Net to counter an email rumor saying the rights of black Americans to vote would expire in 2008. [News.com]
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- Govs offer Net-tax panel slate - The National Governors' Association and other key state and local government groups today recommended a slate of nominees for a new congressionally mandated panel on Internet taxation. [News.com]
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- Greet the new year on the Web - You've decided to ring in the new year with a quiet night at home but you still want a little of that new year cheer--so long as the crowds are virtual only. [News.com]
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- Group: Unplug nuclear plants not Y2K-ready - An environmental group yesterday submitted a petition to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission asking that nuclear power plants be shut down if they cannot prove themselves free of Year 2000 computer bugs. [News.com]
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- Groupe Videotron looks beyond cable - Groupe Videotron, Canada's second-largest cable television operator, said today it was set to launch a bold diversification into the integrated telecommunications services market. [News.com]
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- Headhunter's stock sale has Net appeal - America's most prestigious executive search firm is trying to jump on the Internet stock bandwagon. [News.com]
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- High-speed Net access limps along - The Telecommunications Industry Association is telling federal regulators advanced technology that allows consumers faster access to Internet and other services is not being deployed nationally at a pace Congress had intended. [News.com]
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- Hitachi speeds up chip restructuring - Hitachi, Japan's largest electronics maker, will speed up the restructuring of its ailing microchip business, the Nihon Keizai newspaper reported, citing unnamed company sources. [News.com]
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- Hitting the Net log-on jam - Logging on last month was harder than it's been in six months. [News.com]
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- Holiday shoppers jam merchants' servers - With online retailers reporting record revenue days, Web merchants such as Buy.com and Toys R Us are also experiencing traffic overloads that are slowing or even crashing their sites. [News.com]
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- Holidays live up to expectations - Everybody was expecting a big holiday season for online retailers, and for the most part, the predictions were right on. E-commerce sites were jammed with virtual shoppers, even to the last minute, and Net stocks took off thanks to all the cheery news. [News.com]
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- Home sales of DVD top million mark - One of the most influential figures for the DVD industry this year turned out to be the "Danger, Will Robinson" robot from Lost in Space. [News.com]
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- Hong Kong telco in long distance deal - New T&T said today it signed a partnership deal with Global One--a joint venture of Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom and Sprint--to provide international telephone services. [News.com]
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- Hopeful signs for chipmaking industry - For several months, orders for equipment used to make computer chips have been approaching sales of that equipment, a rosy sign for the beleaguered chip industry. [News.com]
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- Hotmail dams email flood - Microsoft has fixed a problem in Hotmail, its free email service, that was causing email messages to be sent out multiple times. [News.com]
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- Hotmail glitch causing email onslaught - Multiple copies of email from Microsoft's Hotmail, the Internet's largest free email provider, have been jamming up the Internet's mail system today. [News.com]
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- Hotmail hit by delays - MSN Hotmail has suffered from technical glitches since Tuesday, causing a "small percentage" of users to experience delays in receiving mail, the company confirmed today. [News.com]
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- Hotmail membership swells to 30 million - Microsoft said today that its free email service Hotmail has more than 30 million active accounts, a number that puts it well ahead of its competition. [News.com]
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- House targets FCC "threats" - A U.S. House subcommittee is close to issuing a report saying the Federal Communications Commission threatened long distance phone companies in order to further political goals, according to a memo leaked to some trade publications. [News.com]
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- HP "reassured" on AOL-Netscape deal - Hewlett-Packard initially worried about the impact of America Online's acquisition of Netscape, HP CEO Lewis Platt said today, but was soon told that HP could continue selling computer hardware to AOL and reselling Netscape's software. [News.com]
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- HP counts on Web for profit revival - When Lewis Platt became Hewlett-Packard's chief executive in November 1992, the world's third-biggest computer maker was about to report a 27 percent drop in annual earnings. [News.com]
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- HP to appeal part of verdict - Hewlett-Packard said yesterday that it will immediately contest the $6 million portion of a jury verdict awarded to Colossal Graphics. [News.com]
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- HP to cut desktop prices by 20 percent - Hewlett-Packard will cut prices on desktop, notebook, and workstation computers by as much as 20 percent on Monday, matching this week's price drops by rival Compaq Computer. [News.com]
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- HP to use new graphics hardware - Graphics card maker Evans and Sutherland has secured another major customer, Hewlett-Packard, in the burgeoning Intel-based workstation market. [News.com]
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- HP's Platt: PCs are "pretty crude" - Lewis Platt, chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, today talked about the obsolescence of the PC, which he described as "pretty crude." [News.com]
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- HP, Dell grab more of server market - Hewlett-Packard has passed IBM in lower-cost server sales worldwide, but Compaq still ships more than the two other companies combined, a study released today said. [News.com]
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- HP, Toshiba cut PC, notebook prices - Hewlett-Packard cut prices on desktop, notebook, and workstation computers by as much as 20 percent today while Toshiba lopped up to $200 off selected notebooks. [News.com]
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- Hughes buys satellite firm for $1.3 billion - In a move to simplify its DirecTV service, Hughes Electronics has agreed to acquire United States Satellite Broadcasting for $1.3 billion in stock and cash, the company said today. [News.com]
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- IBM e-commerce software goes euro - IBM today announced a new version of its basic e-commerce software, Net.Commerce, that adds support for the euro. [News.com]
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- IBM exec: Data storage costs to plunge - The cost of computer data storage will keep falling sharply, Lucio Stanca, chairman of IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa, said today. [News.com]
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- IBM Japan expects PC shipments to rise - IBM Japan, the Japanese subsidiary of IBM, the world's largest computer maker, said it expects calendar 1999 personal computer shipments to rise more than the 8 percent forecast for the Japanese PC industry. [News.com]
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- IBM lands two NC deals - IBM announced two large network computer deals today, proving that the market isn't dead. It's just growing slower than expected. [News.com]
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- IBM launches new outsourcing service - IBM is sending a little holiday cheer to its core market in the form of a new outsourcing service. [News.com]
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- IBM sees financing arm as growth lever - IBM, on a quest to spark higher revenue growth, is looking to one of its quieter back-office businesses--its finance and lending arm--as the next potential engine for growth, the unit's newly-hired chief said today. [News.com]
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- IBM sharpens "eyes" of digital cameras - IBM said today it has launched image sensor chips for use in consumer and professional digital still cameras. [News.com]
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- IBM slapped with Y2K suit - The legal tornado surrounding the Year 2000 technology problem has claimed another company. [News.com]
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- IBM software to shield email from hackers - IBM will announce today software that protects electronic mail systems against existing vulnerabilities, in an effort to boost confidence that the Internet is a safe place to do business. [News.com]
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- IBM to take J.D. Edwards global - Big Blue is taking an old and loyal friend around the world. [News.com]
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- IBM's albatross, AT&T's treasure - Big Blue chief Lou Gerstner probably heaved a sigh of relief when AT&T said it would buy the company's global network in a multibillion-dollar deal yesterday. [News.com]
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- IBM, Sun boost Java offerings - IBM, piggybacking on the hoopla surrounding Sun Microsystems' rollout of the new version of its Java platform, has announced software updates designed to make Java easier to use in large corporations' e-commerce efforts, while Sun added new 3D support to its new Java technology. [News.com]
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- ICANN names 13 to advisory committee - The new, nongovernmental authority for the Internet's infrastructure today took a small step toward making itself accountable to the public by naming a key advisory committee. [News.com]
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- IDC predicts the Net landscape for 1999 - Media companies that have been watching from the sidelines will finally make their move to invest in--or outright acquire--major Web portals in 1999, leaving the hyper-competitive industry controlled by a handful of behemoths, according to a new study. [News.com]
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- IDT mulls Net group options - Telecommunications company IDT today reported first quarter earnings in line with consensus expectations and announced its intent to spin off its Internet communications services group. [News.com]
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- IE 4.5 for the Mac due at MacWorld - Microsoft will release a new version of its Internet Explorer Web browser for the Macintosh platform at January's Macworld in San Francisco. [News.com]
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- IFS on buying spree - Industrial and Financial Systems is getting its holiday shopping done early. [News.com]
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- Ilog buys Oasis Software - French optimization software maker Ilog is stopping at an Oasis. [News.com]
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- iMac sales have Apple smiling - News that the iMac is the top selling consumer computer in retail helped boost Apple Computer stock for the second day in a row. [News.com]
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- iMac still selling well - Apple's iMac took the top spot in desktop computer superstore sales for three consecutive months this fall, beating out low- and mid-range PC systems. [News.com]
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- iMall shares surge on AT&T agreement - Story Copyright © 1998 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. [News.com]
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- Impeachment dominates news sites - Traffic on Internet news sites surged this weekend, when the House of Representatives passed impeachment charges against President Clinton. [News.com]
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- India's PC sales jump 43 percent - India's personal computer industry is booming despite a nationwide recession, and sales are expected to top one million in the current fiscal year, the country's main industry association said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Indy bookstore blames Net for demise - A big bookstore chain moves to town and the local independent book seller is forced out--it has become a familiar story around the country that even serves as the premise that brings two lovers together in the popular new romantic comedy movie, "You've Got Mail.'' [News.com]
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- Informix readies Linux database, tools - Informix Software has a Christmas gift for Linux developers. [News.com]
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- Informix, HP offer ready-to-go warehouse - Informix is taking a page out of the ERP playbook by hooking up with Hewlett-Packard to offer a ready-to-go data warehouse. [News.com]
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- Informix, Siemens form Munich unit - Informix is making another global move. [News.com]
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- Infoseek says no to adult advertising - Infoseek has taken a step to disassociate itself from the racy side of the Web. [News.com]
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- Infoseek surges on Disney deal buzz - Shares of Infoseek, which long have trailed the rest of the high-flying Internet sector, rallied today as the company prepared to launch its new portal site with partner Walt Disney. [News.com]
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- Infoseek up on Go Network - Shares of Infoseek rose 11 percent today after Merrill Lynch upgraded its rating on the Internet media company's shares. [News.com]
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- InfoSpace ups IPO offerings - Net directory InfoSpace.com said today it had increased the size and price of its initial public offering. [News.com]
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- InfoSpace.com shares surge after IPO - InfoSpace.com, which provides maps, directories, and stock quotes for Internet sites, rose as much as 73 percent when it began trading after its initial stock sale. [News.com]
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- Ingram Micro chief buys 1 million shares - Ingram Micro, the No. 1 personal-computer distributor, said chief executive Jerre Stead bought 1 million shares of Ingram stock, which he plans to keep for the "foreseeable future." [News.com]
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- Ingram Micro down on earnings blow - Ingram Micro, the world's largest personal computer distributor, fell as much as 8.8 percent after it warned fourth-quarter earnings would be below estimates because of slowing sales. [News.com]
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- Ingram Micro says earnings to fall short - Ingram Micro's fourth-quarter earnings will fall below Wall Street expectations because PC resellers are buying fewer machines from the country's largest PC distributor. [News.com]
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- Ingram owners give shares to higher ed - Martha R. Ingram, whose family owns a controlling stake in Ingram Micro, made one of the largest higher education gifts ever, putting 20 million company shares into a trust for Vanderbilt University and other beneficiaries. [News.com]
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- Inktomi up on stock split - Shares in Inktomi jumped as much as 15 percent higher today, one day after the Internet search engine and caching software company announced a 2-for-1 stock split. [News.com]
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- Inprise adds Java to middleware - Software and services provider Inprise is hoping Java will turn its new version of MIDAS into gold. [News.com]
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- Instant messaging in Spanish, Portuguese - Instant messaging will get a little more international in flavor with the launch of client software tailored for Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking users. [News.com]
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- Intel hits record on analyst upgrade - Shares of Intel, the world's largest computer-chip maker, rose as much as 5 percent to a record high after influential Merrill Lynch analyst Tom Kurlak raised his investment rating, partly because more personal computers are being sold than he initially expected. [News.com]
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- Intel in deal for radiation-proof chips - Intel has licensed its Pentium chip technology to the federal government for free to make a radiation-proof Pentium chip that will bring greater processing power to spy satellites and other spacecraft. [News.com]
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- Intel invests in Think3 - Intel has bought an undisclosed, minority stake in Think3, a maker of computer aided design software. [News.com]
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- Intel may sell some Inktomi, CNET shares - Giant chipmaker Intel may sell about $18.3 million worth of Inktomi's common shares and about $4 million of CNET's shares, recent SEC documents showed. [News.com]
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- Intel pays cash for iCat - Pushing further into e-commerce, Intel today acquired catalog software vendor iCat for an undisclosed sum in cash. [News.com]
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- Intel pushing limited-use servers - Intel is leading an industry group that aims to define a new category of limited-use server computers, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Intel quietly cuts Celeron prices - Intel ratcheted up its ongoing price war with Advanced Micro Devices by quietly cutting prices on its Celeron chips by roughly 30 percent this month and releasing a new, even cheaper version of the chip earlier than expected. [News.com]
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- Intel scores in email suit - In what could prove to be an influential ruling, Intel has won a court order to halt mass email messages email messages to its employees criticizing the firm. [News.com]
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- Intel shows off high-speed videophone - Intel is showing off new videophone software for computers with cable modems or other high-speed Internet connection techniques at the Western Cable Show in Anaheim, California. [News.com]
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- Intel, DOE work on radiation-proof chip - Intel and the Department of Energy reportedly are collaborating to make a chip to help satellites withstand the burst of radiation that emanates from a nuclear blast in space. [News.com]
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- Intellicorp focuses on bigger picture - IntelliCorp is starting to focus on the bigger picture. [News.com]
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- Internet antitrust issues on hearing agenda - The Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday said it would continue to examine the role antitrust enforcement could play in fostering competition and innovation on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Internet IPOs back in favor - Growing awareness of the Internet is helping to push initial public offerings in the sector to new heights despite volatile markets, recapturing the IPO momentum that was lost this fall. [News.com]
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- Internet now a necessity, says study - Nearly half of online users say the Internet has become something of a necessity in their lives, and two-thirds would prefer being stranded on an island with an Internet connection than with a phone or television, according to a study released by America Online. [News.com]
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- Intuit chief's testimony irks Microsoft - Microsoft should be regulated to guarantee it does not use its dominant Windows operating system against competitors' software applications or Internet content, Intuit chief executive William Harris will testify next week. [News.com]
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- Intuit testimony backs case against Microsoft - Intuit's chief executive will testify that Microsoft forced it to dump a competitor's software from its best-selling personal finance programs in exchange for a valuable link to Windows, according to a report. [News.com]
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- Intuit wants to rein in Microsoft - Intuit's chief executive will next week call on the federal government to rein in Microsoft by means of a concept he calls "operating system neutrality." [News.com]
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- Iomega shipping new Clik drive - Iomega has begun shipping limited quantities of Clik, its removable drive for mobile digital devices, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Iomega to pay record-setting rebate fine - The Federal Trade Commission today settled charges that removable drive maker Iomega failed to honor rebate promotions in a timely manner in a record-setting cash settlement designed to send a message to other manufacturers. [News.com]
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- Iraq air strikes consume Net news sites - As word got out today that the United States and Britain had begun to bomb Iraq, news Web sites, including several with broadcast capabilities, jumped on the story in hopes of luring people who couldn't simply flip on the TV. [News.com]
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- Iridium buys in-flight telephone company - Iridium, provider of the world's first satellite-based global telephone network, agreed to buy Claircom Communications Group from AT&T and Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications for $65 million as it expands into the in-flight telephone business. [News.com]
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- Is computer stock rally overdone? - As the best four-year stretch for the U.S. market draws to a close, investors are watching computer-related shares soar beyond anyone's expectations--and wincing. [News.com]
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- Is Y2K readiness an issue in megamergers? - Is the Year 2000 getting the short shrift in a recent spate of corporate megamergers? [News.com]
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- ISP Channel inks new cable deals - ISP Channel, an Internet-over-cable data service, has signed agreements with two new mid-sized cable operators, increasing the company's reach in the market for cable services. [News.com]
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- iVillage files to go public - iVillage, an online community for women backed by America Online and NBC, today filed for an initial public offering that could raise as much as $46 million. [News.com]
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- IXC flexes its new Net backbone - IXC Communications today unveiled its new nationwide Internet backbone network designed for commercial and research data traffic. [News.com]
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- IXC looks to next Net backbone - IXC Communications plans to be the latest emerging telecommunications carrier to add to the fiber optic hype. [News.com]
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- J.D. Edwards allies with Arthur Andersen - Business software provider J.D. Edwards today said it has entered into an alliance with accounting and consulting giant Arthur Andersen to provide services to energy and chemical companies. [News.com]
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- J.D. Edwards's profits double - J.D. Edwards can't be stopped, for now. [News.com]
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- J.D. Edwards's tool keeps customizing - J.D Edwards is turning concrete into Jello. [News.com]
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- J.D. Edwards, Arthur Andersen team on services - Business software maker J.D. Edwards and Arthur Andersen Process Solutions (AAPS), the outsourcing service arm of Arthur Andersen, announced today that they have expanded their relationship to offer business outsourcing services to customers worldwide. [News.com]
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- Japan PC market seen falling 2.5 percent - Japan's domestic personal computer shipments will probably fall 2.5 percent in calendar 1998, and hopes for growth in 1999 rest on how successfully the government's latest economic stimulus plan revives spending, a research company said. [News.com]
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- Japan Telecom searches for a partner - Japan Telecom, the nation's fourth-largest telecommunications company, said it will ally with a foreign carrier by May, at least five months later than the company initially planned. [News.com]
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- Japan's PC, chip industries look brighter - Japan's computer and chip industries, mired in historic slumps, could be looking up as PC sales both at home and in the global market seem to be improving. [News.com]
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- Japanese companies team on next-gen Net - Four Japanese companies said today they had agreed to team up to develop next generation Internet technologies featuring advanced, high-speed functionality for large groups of users. [News.com]
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- Java buzz moves to the server - The Java buzz has moved to the server. [News.com]
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- Java software for Web data transfer in beta - DataChannel today released the second beta version of its Java-based XML parser, which interprets code and generates Extensible Markup Language (XML) content. [News.com]
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- Jesus2000.com eyes IPO in 1999 - Jesus2000.com, a Web site launched last week, said it plans to make an initial public offering in the spring of 1999 after negotiating for a private placement to fund the site. [News.com]
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- Judge blocks code-breaking software - A small Florida-based company must stop making software that allows users to "unlock" safeguards against piracy and make illicit copies. [News.com]
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- Judge exits Wal-Mart, Amazon suit - A judge hearing arguments in a lawsuit brought by Wal-Mart Stores against Amazon.com recused himself today after disclosing that he owned stock in the world's largest retailer. [News.com]
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- Judge loses patience with Microsoft, again - A federal judge today repeatedly lost patience with a Microsoft attorney, chiding him for improper and drawn out questioning during a fifth and final day of testimony from an economist hired by the government. [News.com]
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- Judge postpones Mitnick trial - A judge yesterday postponed for three months convicted hacker Kevin Mitnick's trial on federal fraud and theft charges and added that she would probably order a separate trial for his codefendant. [News.com]
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- Judge: AOL-Netscape deal could affect trial - The federal judge overseeing the Microsoft antitrust trial said America Online's $4.3 billion planned acquisition of Netscape Communications could affect the outcome of the case by producing a "very significant change" in the high-tech industry. [News.com]
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- Judge: Did Microsoft make Java better? - The judge hearing the Microsoft antitrust trial under way here today boiled down four days of back-and-forth testimony by asking if a senior Sun Microsystems executive's chief complaint was that the software giant was more nimble and had created a better version of Java. [News.com]
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- Juno gets in on lobbying game - Juno, best known for its free email service, is launching a new service that will make it easier for its members to reach out and touch their congressional representatives. [News.com]
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- K-Tel to report loss, sell fresh stock - Music retailer K-Tel said today that it expects to report a second-quarter loss of $1 million and announced that it will sell more shares to meet the Nasdaq's listing requirements of $4 million in net tangible assets. [News.com]
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- Keane expands management team - IT consulting firm Keane today expanded its senior management team, appointing two new area vice presidents. [News.com]
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- Kmart builds "fun" site - Kmart, the third-largest U.S. retailer, plans to use the Internet to broaden its product offerings beyond its store shelves. [News.com]
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- Kmart estimates Y2K costs at $75 million - Kmart, the third-largest U.S. retailer, estimated the total cost of its year 2000 computer compliance program at $75 million, with $5 million incurred in 1997 and $33 million so far this year. [News.com]
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- Korean Air, IBM in outsourcing deal - Korean Air is catching a flight with IBM Global Networks. [News.com]
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- KPMG says IT key to revenue gains - Professional services firm KPMG International is crediting IT and management consulting for a healthy chunk of its 15 percent revenue leap this year. [News.com]
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- Latching on to Linux - Linux has sprung into a Net-based software phenomenon, with a 212-percent growth rate that outpaces Windows NT, NetWare, and Unix. And with a new software maker pledging Linux support every week, analysts say the free operating system source code is becoming a legitimate competitor to Windows NT. [News.com]
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- Late shoppers flock to Net - Online merchants say online holiday shopping boomed, but analysts say the real challenge lies ahead--turning holiday shoppers into regular customers. [News.com]
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- Leading the cable charge - Cable operators, hungry for new revenue streams envisioned through the introduction of new technologies, will need to roll out their products quickly while keeping prices down, industry experts said today. [News.com]
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- Learning Company sued to stop Mattel buy - The Learning Company, the world's second-largest educational and entertainment software company after Microsoft, was sued by shareholders who say a $3.8 billion stock-swap acquisition by Mattel would not give them enough money for their shares. [News.com]
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- Lernout shares may fall on SEC review - Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, whose shares have fallen about 50 percent from a high of 68 for the year, may drop further on fears it will have to restate earnings because of a Securities and Exchange Commission review, according to reports. [News.com]
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- LG, Hyundai merger unsure - South Korean chipmaker LG Semicon may seek financing abroad if local financial institutions maintain their freeze on fresh credits, the company's chief executive officer said today. [News.com]
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- Linux database support comes at a price - Linux database software is here, but you might have to work a bit harder to find technical support. [News.com]
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- Linux shipments up 212 percent - Shipments of the Linux operating system surged by 212 percent in 1998, a growth rate that outpaced Windows NT, NetWare, Unix, and all others in the server market, according to a new study. [News.com]
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- Live Picture chief quits - Live Picture chief executive Kate Mitchell resigned from the Web imaging company during the past week just as the company slowly began to readjust its business strategy, a company executive said today. [News.com]
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- Live Picture out of focus? - Earlier this month, Live Picture issued a round of job cuts, restructured its operations, and saw chief executive Kate Mitchell resign. [News.com]
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- Lockheed gives up IRS contract fight - Lockheed Martin will not fight its lost bid for the huge IRS computer modernization contract. [News.com]
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- Lockheed may still fight for IRS deal - After meeting with the Internal Revenue Service, Lockheed Martin is now debating whether to appeal last week's loss of a contract to revamp the agency's computer systems. [News.com]
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- Lockheed, CSC vie for IRS contract - Never have so many waited for the IRS to call. [News.com]
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- Looking back at '98, looking forward to '99 - Internet and technology time did not slow in 1998, with sweeping changes taking place all over the sector. CNET News.com examines the events that shaped the year and how they will affect the months to come. [News.com]
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- Looking for leaders in the wireless world - Wireless industry leaders and PC makers have joined forces to speed the adoption of wireless data services, continuing a trend toward partnerships to expand network computing. [News.com]
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- LookSmart abstains from adult advertising - In a move aimed at its "growing mainstream audience," Web directory LookSmart today said it will no longer accept pornographic ads on its site. [News.com]
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- Lotus CEO: Internet needs clarity, not hype - The Internet is changing the world, but its impact risks being lost in a sea of hype, Jeff Papows, president and chief executive of IBM unit Lotus Development, said today. [News.com]
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- Lotus enters Web publishing battleground - Lotus Development will next week take on Microsoft in the Web publishing and development tool arena. [News.com]
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- Lotus turns to services to spur growth - IBM, the world's largest computer maker, in January will unveil a new services division in an attempt to spur growth in its Lotus Development software unit. [News.com]
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- Lovefromhome.com supports troops in Iraq - Because of the current situation in Iraq, thousands of military families will be separated from their loved ones this holiday season. [News.com]
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- Low-cost market using Intel less - Intel continues to be conspicuously absent from some of the latest low-cost computers hitting the market in the holiday season. [News.com]
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- Lucent jumps on conference comments - Shares of telecommunications equipment maker Lucent Technologies and other technology stocks rose today after the companies this week gave upbeat presentations at an investors' conference, analysts and traders said. [News.com]
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- Lucent lays off 1,700 in Mexico - Lucent Technologies began laying off some 1,700 workers today at its Guadalajara, Mexico, plant due to lower year-end demand. [News.com]
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- Lucent sells telephony division - Brooktrout Technology bought a unit of Lucent Technologies to complement its line of electronic communications products, the company announced. [News.com]
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- Lucent, Unisys in voice pact - Lucent Technologies and Unisys Corporation have joined forces in a pact aimed at furthering natural language speech recognition technology. [News.com]
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- Luminate shines free light on SAP - Luminate is shining some free light on SAP. [News.com]
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- Lycos moves into e-tailing - Not only does Lycos want to be an online mall--it wants to be its own department store, too. [News.com]
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- Lycos, NFL team for Super Bowl Web site - Lycos, the No. 3 Internet directory, said it's creating a Web site for the National Football League's Super Bowl, an alliance that could result in millions of dollars in revenue for both parties. [News.com]
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- Magaziner successor ready to work and wonk - As the White House senior e-commerce adviser, Ira Magaziner was a familiar face at high-tech industry events, and often seemed less like a policy wonk and more like an ambassador of goodwill. [News.com]
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- Main Street goes high tech - The most tech-savvy cities of the 21st century may not be found in Silicon Valley, but rather in small communities with big visions, such as one in southern Oregon. [News.com]
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- Manugistics seeks a suitor - Manugistics is willing to sell its soul for a profitable quarter. [News.com]
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- Markets on rise boosted by Net stocks - Wall Street stocks were mostly higher today, boosted once again by Internet-related issues. [News.com]
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- Matsushita facing "severe" 1999 - Matsushita Electric Industrial, the world's largest maker of consumer electronics, faces a "severe" 1999 as prices for computer peripherals continue to slide and orders from domestic businesses remain depressed, company directors said. [News.com]
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- Matsushita licenses Apple's FireWire - Apple is helping Matsushita make the connection between computers and consumer electronics devices. [News.com]
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- Mattel to buy Learning Company - Toy maker Mattel today said it will acquire educational software maker the Learning Company for $3.8 billion in stock. [News.com]
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- MCI WorldCom confirms 2,000 job cuts - MCI WorldCom, the recently merged telecommunications company, will notify about 2,000 employees today that their jobs will be eliminated, a company spokeswoman confirmed. [News.com]
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- MCI WorldCom exec targets mobile phones - MCI WorldCom chairman Bert Roberts said the United States' No. 2 long distance phone company could buy a mobile phone service company in the "next several years" as competition drives down the value of wireless phone companies. [News.com]
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- MCI WorldCom growth to outstrip AT&T - For a few heady moments on Wall Street today, the market value of MCI WorldCom passed up that of the godfather of telephone companies, AT&T. [News.com]
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- MCI WorldCom may sell services unit - MCI WorldCom's chairman has a vision, and MCI Systemhouse may just not fit into it. [News.com]
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- MCI WorldCom places bid for OzEmail - U.S. telecom giant MCI WorldCom yesterday said it has offered to buy Australia's top Internet service, OzEmail, for $322.8 million or $2.20 per share. [News.com]
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- MCI WorldCom plans job cuts - MCI WorldCom, the country's No. 2 long distance phone company, is likely to slash jobs company-wide in an effort to bring down costs, a spokesman said. [News.com]
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- MCI WorldCom slims for the fight - The No. 2 long distance firm says it will slash 2,000 jobs in a vast cost-cutting effort, but analysts and others are watching the merged firm as it gains momentum to fight the almighty AT&T. [News.com]
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- MCI WorldCom, EDS mull joint venture - MCI WorldCom and Electronic Data Systems are in talks to form a joint venture that would provide a broad array of voice, data, and computer systems services to global business customers, according to reports. [News.com]
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- MCY.com offers copyright-friendly service - Against the backdrop of an intensifying battle over the control of music downloads from the Web, one start-up is hoping to start off on the recording industry's good side with an upcoming launch. [News.com]
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- Media Metrix considers IPO - Media Metrix, the top Internet audience-measurement company, said today that it is focusing on tracking electronic commerce data and might take the firm public within a year. [News.com]
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- Medical Manager settles Y2K suit - In what is now just the second court case on the Year 2000 technology problem to be settled, medical equipment vendor Medical Manager will provide a Y2K-ready upgrade without charge to customers who filed suit against the company. [News.com]
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- Mentor raises Quickturn takeover bid - Software maker Mentor Graphics said today that it was raising its takeover bid for Quickturn Design Systems to $14 cash per share, matching a rival offer by Cadence Design Systems. [News.com]
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- Merger experts offer advice in new book - Acquiring is easy. Owning is hard. [News.com]
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- Merrill Lynch delays online trading - Merrill Lynch, the biggest U.S. brokerage, has delayed plans to offer online trading to some of its wealthiest customers until January, the Wall Street Journal Europe reported, citing spokesman Bobbie Collins. [News.com]
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- Micron beats estimates - Computer maker Micron Electronics posted profits and record unit shipment volume for its first fiscal quarter today, but analysts wonder whether the company will be able to break into the top rank of PC companies. [News.com]
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- Micron looking up but questions remain - Computer maker Micron Electronics is expected to show continued profit growth when it reports earnings for its first fiscal quarter today, although analysts say the book is still out on whether the company can break into the ranks of the major brands. [News.com]
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- Micron Technology beats estimates - Micron Technology, one of the biggest makers of computer memory chips, reported a smaller-than-expected loss in the fiscal first quarter as memory chip prices pulled up out of their steep decline. [News.com]
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- Microsoft accuses Sun of double standard - Sun Microsystems unfairly tolerated behavior from a "completely untrustworthy" Netscape Communications that it would not accept from Microsoft, an attorney from the software giant argued today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft aims for Java compliance - Microsoft today released a new version of Java technology for its Windows operating system and Web browser that it says complies with a recent court ruling and improves performance. [News.com]
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- Microsoft asks for Java extension - Microsoft asked the U.S. District Court in San Jose, California, to extend the time it has to comply with a preliminary injunction requiring it to modify software that includes Sun's Java programming language. [News.com]
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- Microsoft backs new Net video technology - A small Boston-area technology start-up received a powerful endorsement from Microsoft on technology aimed at boosting the Internet's ability to deliver television-quality video. [News.com]
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- Microsoft banks on financial software - One year after launching an initiative to get banks to run its Windows NT software, Microsoft hopes to boost that effort by giving source code for its financial toolkit to software developers creating financial applications. [News.com]
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- Microsoft buoyed by judge's take on AOL deal - Comments by the judge in Microsoft's antitrust trial that a formidable new competitor might change "the playing field" in the software industry signals the government may not impose stiff remedies if it wins, experts say. [News.com]
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- Microsoft hit with real estate suit - A Florida man has filed a civil lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging the software giant infringed on patented technology that helps home seekers locate real estate properties for sale. [News.com]
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- Microsoft hit with Y2K compliance suit - Microsoft has gotten caught in the growing litigation storm surrounding the Year 2000 technology problem. [News.com]
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- Microsoft in pact with barnesandnoble.com - Microsoft Corp. said today it has entered a multimillion-dollar marketing and distribution agreement with barnesandnoble.com, Barnes & Noble's online bookstore.. [News.com]
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- Microsoft invests $200 million in Qwest - The Microsoft empire plans to expand its reach even farther by investing in a new fiber-optic network that is on the cutting edge of bandwidth technology. [News.com]
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- Microsoft jabs Sun on Java, browsers - Sun Microsystems oversold the "write once, run anywhere" promise it has used in promoting its Java programming language and agreed to carve up the browser market with Netscape Communications, a Microsoft attorney argued today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft may invest in venture capital firms - Microsoft plans to invest $5 million to $10 million each in as many as ten venture capital firms, giving the world's biggest software maker a way to ally with technology start-ups which traditionally have been hostile to Microsoft, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Microsoft may put Gates on stand - Microsoft is considering putting chairman Bill Gates on the witness stand to restore his credibility with the judge in the landmark antitrust trial against the world's biggest software maker. [News.com]
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- Microsoft moves on Y2K, Java issues - The software giant has issued a fix for a Y2K problem in Windows 98 and also takes a step toward complying with a judge's Java ruling. Meanwhile, Nasdaq gives NT a chance. [News.com]
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- Microsoft names new execs - Microsoft today announced the promotion of two key executives. [News.com]
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- Microsoft paints Farber as out of touch - Engaging in an esoteric, day-long debate over the definition of an operating system, Microsoft today tried to portray a government witness as an academic whose views are out of touch with the realities of the business world. [News.com]
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- Microsoft places its bets on cable - Having placed various bets on the cable industry through investments and acquisitions, Microsoft is now hoping its software can fit the bill for an industry wary of Windows. [News.com]
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- Microsoft posts fix for Excel glitch - Microsoft has issued a patch for a vulnerability in its Excel 97 software that could allow certain malicious applications to be run without the user's knowledge. [News.com]
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- Microsoft readies Exchange 5.5 update - Microsoft is providing an early Christmas present to some of its Exchange messaging server customers. [News.com]
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- Microsoft revs anti-piracy technology - With the release of Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft is expanding its anti-software piracy program to several countries to help reduce theft and simplify registration of the popular desktop productivity suite. [News.com]
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- Microsoft sued over ergonomic mouse - A small peripheral developer has accused Microsoft of stealing its design for an ergonomic computer mouse--and is demanding $1 billion in damages. [News.com]
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- Microsoft takes on "domain squatting" - Microsoft is taking aim at two Texas men who registered domain names that use the word "microsoft." [News.com]
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- Microsoft to appeal Java ruling - Microsoft said today that it will appeal a federal judge's preliminary ruling ordering it to modify its Java products. [News.com]
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- Microsoft trying to match Sun's Jini - Microsoft is scrambling to catch rival Sun Microsystems after falling behind in the race to simplify computer networks. [News.com]
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- Microsoft won't get Netscape tapes - A U.S. appeals court today denied Microsoft's bid to get secret tapes about competitor Netscape from two business school professors who interviewed top executives at the browser company. [News.com]
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- Microsoft's Chromeffects coming out after all - Microsoft's problem-plagued Chromeffects multimedia technology is headed to market after all--in bits and pieces, CNET News.com has learned. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Bristol look forward to trial - Legal adversaries Microsoft and Bristol Technology today both claimed vindication in a federal court ruling and said they looked forward taking their dispute to a jury in 1999. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Compaq in storage pact - Microsoft and Compaq said they are working on software to make it easier to create high-capacity data storage systems that will give the next generation of corporate Windows users rapid access to centrally stored data. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, CTP team for corporate deals - Cambridge Technology Partners is hooking its caboose to the Microsoft train. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, others to buy Thomson stake - Microsoft and three partners will pay $318 million for about a third of French state-owned Thomson Multimedia to help the world's No. 4 consumer electronics maker develop technology for television. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Thingworld.com in streaming deal - Microsoft and multimedia software company Thingworld.com today unveiled a system to send interactive video used to display copyrighted images over the Internet--an idea which sounds sophisticated until you know it's being used by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). [News.com]
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- Microsoft-Bristol spat may go to trial - A federal judge today rejected a small Connecticut software firm's demand for a preliminary injunction against Microsoft that would have forced the software giant to hand over its latest source code immediately, a Microsoft spokesman said. [News.com]
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- Microsoft: Hungry for bandwidth? - Microsoft has turned to a relatively new player in the telecommunications sweepstakes for a boost into an elusive market. [News.com]
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- Microsoft: Sun wanted to destroy Wintel - Stinging from another showing of damaging testimony by Microsoft chief Bill Gates, the software giant today painted Sun Microsystems as an aggressor that plotted to destroy the high-tech industry's biggest players while overselling its Java technology. [News.com]
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- Microsoft: Win 98 has "minor" Y2K problems - Microsoft said its Windows 98 operating system has minor Year 2000 problems and is making an update that fixes the glitch available on the Internet and CD-ROMs. [News.com]
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- MindSpring files to offer more shares - MindSpring Enterprises filed regulatory papers today to offer up to 2.3 million additional shares of stock in the national Internet service provider. [News.com]
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- MindSpring may be telco buyout target - Following speculation earlier this week about Sprint deepening its relationship with EarthLink, analysts say other ISPs--particularly the still independent MindSpring Enterprises--may shortly become acquisition targets for telephone companies. [News.com]
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- Mining Company to make stock offering - The Mining Company, a network of special-interest Net sites and search engine company, has filed to raise as much as $50 million through an initial stock offering. [News.com]
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- Mirapoint readies Net email servers - Messaging software maker Mirapoint later this month will begin shipping its new Internet email servers. [News.com]
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- Mobil, Exxon face Y2K conversion together - Once federal regulators approve the merger of fuel titans Mobil and Exxon, the joined company--soon to be Exxon Mobil--will face a daunting, multimillion-dollar Y2K conversion program together. [News.com]
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- More countries seen ratifying software treaty - More countries were expected to ratify an international anti-software piracy treaty after the United States recently approved legislation updating copyright law, the Business Software Alliance said today. [News.com]
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- More women shopping online - Women--who made up a small minority on the Net just a few years ago--have rushed online this season to hit the virtual malls, a new study shows. [News.com]
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- Motorola to buy Lucent's cellular unit - Lucent Technologies, the world's largest phone-equipment maker, said it sold its cellular phone research division, which it had planned to close, to Motorola for an undisclosed amount. [News.com]
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- Motorola to expand China wireless networks - Motorola's Cellular Infrastructure Group said today it won two contracts with a combined value of $22 million to expand wireless telephone networks in China's Fujian and Shandong provinces. [News.com]
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- MSN inks another ad deal, with John Hancock - Microsoft announced the signing of insurance company John Hancock Mutual Life to a two-year, $7.5 million advertising agreement. [News.com]
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- MSN pulling out of Canada - Microsoft Network has pulled the plug on its Canadian Net access service, the company confirmed today. [News.com]
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- Much ado about fiber optics - A town that became famous for keeping alive much-loved plays from the past stands to gain new notoriety for its futuristic ambitions. [News.com]
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- Multibillion-dollar deal gets DOJ nod - The Justice Department today gave conditional approval to the $48 billion merger between AT&T and Tele-Communications Incorporated, clearing away the first regulatory barrier to the companies' marriage. [News.com]
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- Music download debate continues - Powerful music industry trade group the Recording Industry Association of America announces a project to create a standard for secure downloads on the Internet. On the surface, it seems to indicate consensus between the major record labels represented by the RIAA and technology firms, but some say the move raises more questions than it answers about the group's stated goal. [News.com]
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- Music initiative raises questions - The powerful Recording Industry Association of America is making headlines with an announcement that seemed to indicate consensus between the major record labels and many digital technology firms on an initiative to protect music copyrights on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Nasdaq giving Windows NT a chance - Windows NT will finally get its chance to bat in the major leagues. [News.com]
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- National Semiconductor posts another loss - National Semiconductor, a rival of top computer-chip maker Intel, reported a smaller-than-expected fiscal second-quarter loss, helped by sales of its microprocessors for low-cost PCs. [News.com]
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- NBC spin-off not imminent - While spinning off broadcaster NBC from parent General Electric remains an option, nothing is imminent, an insider at NBC said today. [News.com]
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- NCI in set-top deal with NEC - Network Computer Incorporated clinched another customer for its software for Internet set-top box devices, and, again, the deal takes place overseas. [News.com]
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- NCR, Microsoft bank on financial services - NCR and Microsoft are banking on financial services. [News.com]
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- NEC aims for profits with reorg, job cuts - Saying it needs to improve profitability, NEC Electronics is restructuring the company and has cut about 400 jobs, nearly 13 percent of its total workforce. [News.com]
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- NEC scales back direct sales effort - Packard Bell NEC has discovered that the Dell Computer direct business model isn't for everyone. [News.com]
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- NeoMagic sues Trident - NeoMagic, a designer of graphics accelerator chips, has sued rival Trident Microsystems for allegedly infringing on patents for display technologies. [News.com]
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- Net a focus in human rights struggle - The world observes Human Rights Day and the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights today with a special emphasis on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Net brokerages lobby for bond initiative - Upstart Internet brokerages promise to boost a bond industry initiative aimed at improving price transparency in corporate fixed income products, according to experts in the field. [News.com]
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- Net business trading soaring - While the popular press is focused on consumer holiday shopping, business trade over the Internet is soaring, according to an market research firm thats revised projections made 18 months ago. [News.com]
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- Net firms concede need for taxes - Internet commerce firms in California are signaling that they expect their goods will be subject to sales taxes but are lobbying for fair, simple, and uniform rules. [News.com]
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- Net greeting card firm sues Microsoft - An online greeting card distributor became one of the latest companies to accuse Microsoft of unfair business practices, claiming in a lawsuit that the software giant uses its popular products to "block" the delivery of thousands of electronic greetings that compete with a similar service recently established by Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Net groups protest crypto policy - With Internet pioneer Vint Cerf leading the way, two obscure Internet entities are protesting that U.S.-driven encryption regulations adopted recently by 33 nations will undermine Internet privacy and the growth of electronic commerce. [News.com]
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- Net heavyweights push caching proposal - Four Internet technology heavyweights have teamed up to standardize a key part of the Web caching process. [News.com]
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- Net IPOs expected to make a comeback - Although the Christmas and New Year's holidays have put initial public offerings on hold, the schedule of deals for early 1999 is quickly fattening as demand for recent new issues shows few signs of losing steam. [News.com]
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- Net offers little hope for late shoppers - Data may move across the Net at blazing speeds, but when it comes to moving holiday gifts, it's still up to planes, trains, and automobiles. [News.com]
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- Net retailers carry markets up - Stocks rose today in a narrow year-end rally led by soaring shares of Internet retailers that helped push the Nasdaq index into record territory. [News.com]
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- Net retailers have a green Christmas - The news appears to be all good for online retailers in the wake of the holiday shopping season. Sales were up some 300 percent over last year, analysts and shopkeepers say. Offline retailers didn't seem adversely affected, and the stock market came along for the ride. [News.com]
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- Net stocks abuzz on holiday eve - Many Internet stocks were buzzing today, with the sector lighting up U.S. trading in a shortened session even as most of Wall Street was quiet. [News.com]
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- Net stocks outpacing blue chips - Internet companies are vaulting past their blue-chip brethren in terms of market capitalization--a move that brings more than bragging rights. [News.com]
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- Net stocks ride recent market jumps - Internet stocks, along with the broader market, continued to tumble out the starting gate in early trading as investors continued profit-taking, reaping the rewards of a market that had surged to record levels during the past few weeks. [News.com]
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- Net stocks surge on holiday cheer - Internet stocks surged today, boosted by reports of strong online retail sales over the Christmas holidays. [News.com]
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- Net stocks surge on holiday fervor - Riding a wave of Christmas season euphoria, Internet stocks extended their recent surge, highlighted by Onsale's 30 percent jump after the Web auctioneer announced a site linkage deal with Web portal Yahoo. [News.com]
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- Net stocks trade higher - For the second consecutive day, Internet pixie dust pushed virtually anything with an Internet connection higher in stock trading today. [News.com]
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- Net suicide service investigated in Japan - An Internet suicide service has led to at least one death and seven deliveries of lethal potassium cyanide capsules, Japanese police said. [News.com]
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- Net task force proposes Web standard - Documents may get easier to post to the Web thanks to the advancement this week of a specification called WebDAV. [News.com]
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- Net users flock to E*Trade portal - E*Trade Group said its new Web site has signed up more than 500,000 members since September, when the No. 2 online brokerage began a $100 million marketing campaign to add new brokerage accounts. [News.com]
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- Netiva changes name, goes mobile - With a new name and a new twist to link rentable applications with e-commerce, Portera Systems has unveiled its plan to deliver "business portals" for mobile users in mid-sized companies. [News.com]
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- NetManage readies for Y2K - PC-to-host connectivity applications maker NetManage has announced a slew of Y2K upgrades for its terminal emulation, TCP/IP suite, and PC networking software. [News.com]
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- Netscape aims for smoother e-commerce - Although consumer shopping dominates e-commerce news this month, Netscape and a raft of other vendors this week are releasing software designed to smooth online procurement by businesses. [News.com]
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- Netscape CEO to quit @Home board - Netscape Communications president and chief executive James Barksdale said today that his company's proposed merger with America Online poses potential conflicts with his presence on the board of @Home, and he expects to resign his board seat. [News.com]
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- Netscape looks for a wider audience - Netscape Communications is launching an advertising campaign designed to convert a wide audience, ranging from Martha Stewart Living readers to X-Files aficionados, into Netcenter users.As reported yesterday, Netscape [News.com]
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- Netscape readies affinity portal plan - On Monday, Netscape Communications will announce an initiative to help companies build Netcenter-powered portals that can also serve as corporate intranets. [News.com]
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- Netscape revving up new browser engine - Netscape is revving up a brand new engine for Communicator. [News.com]
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- Netscape to unveil "edgy" ad campaign - Netscape Communications tomorrow is expected to announce the launch of an extensive offline advertising campaign in hopes of boosting the image of its Netcenter portal, according to a source familiar with campaign. [News.com]
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- Netscape workers offered incentive to stay - America Online's top boss is offering employees at its newly acquired company, Netscape Communications, a financial incentive to stay on board. [News.com]
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- Netscapesucks.com asked to cease and desist - Netscape has fired a salvo at one of the Net's most infamous rabble-rousers, ordering him to take the name "Netscape" out of his Netscapesucks.com Web site. [News.com]
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- Network Associates opens "smart portal" - A month later than originally planned, Network Associates is unveiling its "smart portal" in preview mode, giving PC users a Web site to tune up their PCs and collaborate using hosted email, calendars, file storage, and document collaboration. [News.com]
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- Network Solutions' database dilemma - For years the company that holds the government-granted monopoly to administer the Internet's domain name system has opened its directory database--which includes the names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of domain name holders--to anyone who wants it. [News.com]
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- Networkers get dose of holiday cheer - Networking stocks climbed today, spurred on by bullish industry expectations and a dose of overall good cheer on Wall Street. [News.com]
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- Networking-cable marriage in works? - Why would a networking company that counts on huge revenue streams from its sophisticated technology for phone service and the Internet be interested in a box that allows users to order the latest Leonardo DiCaprio movie for $3.95? [News.com]
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- New CEO, move for Deja News - Deja News, the Internet company that has grown from a newsgroup archiving business to a full-fledged portal based on the Net's bulletin boards, is moving its headquarters from the Lone Star State to the Big Apple and picking up a new chief executive along the way, the company announced today. [News.com]
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- New devices aim for more access - Connecting to the Web is driving a swath of new products, including a Chinese-made handheld computer and the new handheld from Palm. [News.com]
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- New E*Trade members get AOL bonus - Online discount broker E*Trade on Wednesday said it has joined with America Online to offer AOL members free time and discounts if they sign up for E*Trade's brokerage services. [News.com]
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- New EDS chief gets warm reception from Street - Wall Street roundly applauded the hiring of former Cable & Wireless CEO Dick Brown as the new head of Electronic Data Systems, predicting he will quickly reenergize the world's second-largest services company. [News.com]
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- New sites to hawk personalized music CDs - National Record Mart, a retailer of music and entertainment products, has announced that it is going online with two retail sites that allow consumers to create their own CDs from a library of songs. [News.com]
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- New Web radio technology aims for masses - Now anyone can be a Web DJ. [News.com]
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- New-age carriers take to the stage - As new telecommunications carriers edge closer to completing their expensive network construction projects, they'll soon have to switch gears and finally make money by providing digital services over those high-speed networks. [News.com]
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- News on portals drawing larger audiences - Web portals bill themselves as hubs for instantaneous information, and a new study has found that they live up to the hype. [News.com]
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- Nokia buys Canadian IP telephony firm - Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia said today that it signed a deal to take over Canadian Internet Protocol telephony company Vienna Systems for about $90 million. [News.com]
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- Nortel to buy Cambrian Systems - Nortel Networks today announced it has moved to acquire Cambrian Systems for $300 million in cash, hoping to bank on a technology developed by the privately-held Canadian company which speeds the flow of network traffic between metropolitan areas and the optical Internet backbone. [News.com]
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- NorthPoint to broaden DSL service - NorthPoint Communications will expand its digital subscriber line services to 25 cities next year, the company will announce today. [News.com]
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- Notes-Domino won't fall into place in '98 - It's going to be a blue Christmas for Lotus customers. [News.com]
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- Novell in deal with Tivoli Systems - Network software provider Novell gained another partner in its push to propel third-party interest in its directory services technology. [News.com]
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- Novell invests in start-ups - Network software provider Novell dipped into its coffers and made a second round of investments in start-ups today totaling $9 million, underscoring the company's interest in Java and directory-based application development. [News.com]
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- Novell rolls out Java toolkit - Novell today gave an early Christmas present to Java developers. [News.com]
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- Novell targets NT with updated directory - Network software provider Novell released two anticipated products today based on its strategic core: directory services software. [News.com]
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- NSI execs sold shares before rise - Network Solutions chairman Michael Daniels and seven other executives sold significant parts of their stock holdings last month for $9.1 million--less than half what those high-flying shares would bring now. [News.com]
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- NSI stock jumps on Yahoo deal - Network Solutions shares rose as much as 13 percent after the world's primary domain name registry agreed to sell Internet addresses on Yahoo's range of Web sites. [News.com]
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- NSI teams with Centraal on Web names - Two Internet addressing systems have joined forces in what promises to be a formidable alliance to govern the naming of Web pages. [News.com]
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- NSI to be promoted on Netcenter - Internet address registrar Network Solutions and software maker Netscape Communications said today that Netscape's Netcenter portal site will promote Network Solutions' registration services. [News.com]
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- NSI's new reality - As Network Solutions prepares to face competition in the spring, it grapples with several unresolved transition issues and heads into uncharted territory regarding matters like privacy. Meanwhile, executives at the domain name registrar have been selling off stock--albeit prematurely. Network Solutions' database dilemma The company that holds the monopoly on administering the Internet's domain name system must decide whether to let competitors access it. [News.com]
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- NT earns attention for its absence - One of the software industry's biggest stories in 1998 involved a product noteworthy because of its absence--the next release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. [News.com]
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- NTL moves to expand British network - NTL, the U.K.'s third-largest cable company by sales, agreed to buy Eastern Group Telecoms for about $153 million, in a move to extend its national phone network across the south and east of England. [News.com]
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- OneMain.com eyes ISP growth via IPO - Jonathan Ledecky, the Washington-based financier who specializes in combining small companies within a single industry, is applying his skills to Internet. [News.com]
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- Online boom has small offline impact - Despite booming online holiday sales, Net retailers have had relatively little short-term impact on brick-and-mortar merchants, analysts say. But online merchants with catalog or phone sales report some shift toward online channels, a direction some applaud. [News.com]
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- Online brokers making waves - Investors are boosting the value of online brokers with a continued rush to trade on the Web. The proof is in the pudding: Charles Schwab's stock leaps, pushing its valuation higher than that of rival Merrill Lynch, while E*Trade says it has signed up more than 500,000 new members since September. [News.com]
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- Online brokers raise margin bar - Online brokerages, concerned about the recent volatility of Internet stocks, are requiring investors to put more money down before trading in certain issues. [News.com]
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- Online calendar services taking off - If you don't know when and where you're going, a lot of sites are springing up on the Web to help you out. [News.com]
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- Online shopping in U.S. surges - Online shopping in the United States was forecast to grow by leaps and bounds this holiday season, and early indications suggest the growth in Internet retailing is meeting those expectations, keeping investors hot on the trail of Internet-related stocks. [News.com]
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- Online shopping slows with approach of Christmas - The online frenzy of holiday shopping is slowing as Christmas approaches, according to new figures from Media Metrix. Traffic to e-commerce sites inched up just 4 percent in the week December 11-17, after jumping 86 percent the previous week. [News.com]
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- Only half of U.S. counties have Y2K plan - It will cost the United States' 3,069 counties about $1.7 billion to fix millennium computer problems, but only half have started the job, the National Association of Counties said today. [News.com]
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- Onsale to link auctions to Yahoo - Live Internet auctioneer Onsale said today that it will provide links from its Internet auctions to the "Small Business" Web page of Internet navigation guide Yahoo. [News.com]
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- Open Text extends offer for PC Docs - Open Text, a Canadian software company, extended its $107 million bid for PC Docs International until Friday, even though PC Docs has rejected the stock offer. [News.com]
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- Open Text woos PC Docs Group - Open Text is making a public marriage proposal to PC Docs Group, but the suitor has yet to respond. [News.com]
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- Opposed groups agree on antispam strategy - A legislative strategy to rid the Net of unwanted commercial email was hammered out Friday by an unlikely alliance of direct marketers and antispam activists. [News.com]
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- Oracle aims for Europe auto manufacturing - Oracle wants a Jaguar, and a Peugot, a Fiat, and perhaps a Volkswagen. Or at least a piece of the lucrative European auto manufacturing business. [News.com]
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- Oracle goes in for the Siebel kill - The Oracle marketing machine is trying to wound Siebel Systems, and then go in for the kill. [News.com]
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- Oracle offers a quick-fix that fits - Oracle is getting lean and fast to lure medium manufacturers. [News.com]
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- Oracle shares spike on earnings news - Shares in database software maker Oracle soared this morning following the company's better-than-expected earnings report. [News.com]
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- Oracle speeds up clock for government - Oracle is speeding up the clock for the government. [News.com]
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- Oracle to offer shares of Japan unit - Oracle is cutting a small piece of Asia loose to raise awareness of its products in the region. [News.com]
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- Oracle unveils billing software - Oracle, leading a flurry of online billing announcements today. jumped into the burgeoning market of vendors pursuing banks, billing services, and billers so they can present bills online and let customers pay them electronically. [News.com]
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- Oracle's Raw Iron plan not fully forged - Oracle's Raw Iron plan isn't fully forged. [News.com]
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- Oracle, Sun forgoing operating systems? - Oracle and Sun Microsystems are set to announce Monday they will work together on a new type of computer that does not require an operating system, analysts and industry sources said. [News.com]
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- Oracle, Sun plans are sans operating system - The operating system is history. [News.com]
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- Oracle, Sun team against Microsoft - The network computer concept isn't dead--it's just moved to servers. [News.com]
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- Oracle: India's bug problem significant - Indian firms have a significant exposure to the millennium bug problem in computers, the manager of the Indian unit of Oracle said today. [News.com]
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- ORBS antispam site shut down - The war on unsolicited email suffered a setback this week as a spam-blocking site was bounced off the Web. [News.com]
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- Pacific Bell denied long distance rights - The California Public Utilities Commission today denied Pacific Bell's request to provide long distance voice service and agreed to set the costs the local phone company is allowed to charge for connections to its network. [News.com]
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- Palm unveils Net handheld device - Palm Computing announced its next-generation PalmPilot handheld device at an industry event today with a host of features tying it much more closely to the Web than previous devices. [News.com]
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- PalmPilot dominance may slip in 1999 - This year, the PalmPilot may have won most of its battles against attacks from Microsoft's Windows CE devices, but industry watchers predict that the handheld computing war is far from over. [News.com]
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- Pamela Anderson barred from future suits - A federal judge has barred television star Pamela Anderson and her estranged husband, Tommy Lee, from any future legal actions designed to prevent Internet Entertainment Group of Seattle from distributing a notorious videotape that shows the couple having intimate sexual relations. [News.com]
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- Papers, Net news in happy cohabitation - Newspapers will exist alongside online news sites long into the next century but branded sites will become more important as trusted sources for data, said speakers at a new media conference. [News.com]
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- Patented technology profiles Net surfers - Online advertisers may have to tread carefully starting today, with the advent of a new patent for targeted Web ad technology. [News.com]
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- Paul Allen stakes Priceline.com - [News.com]
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- PC Docs rejects Open Text merger bid - Open Text is going to need a shotgun if it wants to marry PC Docs. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft adds Distinction to supply chain software - PeopleSoft wants to add a bit of Distinction to its supply chain management software--as much as $10 million worth. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft rides payroll plans overseas - PeopleSoft once again turns to the payroll to grow internationally. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft spins off R&D unit - PeopleSoft gathered some momentum today by spinning off its research and development arm. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft's goal: Fast and focused - PeopleSoft wants its software and services to be fast and focused. [News.com]
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- Phones ring up big sales for Circuit City - Circuit City Group, the No. 2 U.S. consumer-electronics retailer, said fiscal third-quarter earnings rose 14 percent on strong demand for personal computers, cellular phones, and DirecTV. [News.com]
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- PointCast, telco deal in the works? - Is PointCast vying to become to the telcos what @Home Network is to the cable operators, by helping to attract users to high-speed Net access via copper wires? [News.com]
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- Portal envy hits the scene - The year of 1998 witnessed the outbreak of portal envy. [News.com]
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- Premisys issues profit warning - Premisys Communications said its second quarter earnings will fall under Wall Street consensus estimates, on lower than expected orders in international markets and reduced product availability. [News.com]
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- Priceline.com files for IPO - Priceline.com, the online auction service that lets consumers name their own price for airline tickets or hotel rooms, has filed for an initial public offering. [News.com]
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- Prodigy names Trachtenberg to COO post - Prodigy Communications confirmed today that it appointed David Trachtenberg as its new president and chief operating officer. [News.com]
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- Progress doubles income - Progress piled on the profits in 1998, posting more than double income for the period. [News.com]
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- PSINet stakes out more network territory - Global Internet service provider PSINet has purchased high-speed network capacity in the San Francisco Bay Area and has acquired three Web hosting firms in Hong Kong, continuing its international acquisition binge. [News.com]
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- Public signs on to e-commerce in '98 - This will be remembered as the year Internet commerce expanded beyond veteran Net users and hit the mainstream. [News.com]
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- Push for accounting changes makes impact - U.S. companies, under fire from federal regulators to clean up their financial reports, are moving more aggressively to nip accounting manipulation in the bud, financial experts said. [News.com]
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- Quark subsidiary offers publishing services - Quark is hoping to make headlines with a new company focused on providing services to its publishing customers. [News.com]
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- Quickturn scoffs at new Mentor offer - Quickturn Design Systems today rebuffed a sweetened $14-a-share bid by Mentor Graphics, saying it would stand by its $253 million merger deal with Cadence Design Systems. [News.com]
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- Rapper uses Web to fight recording industry - Public Enemy's Chuck D is known for taking on powerful establishments--from the police to politicians--through his incendiary rap lyrics. Now the artist is taking on the entrenched recording industry, using the Web as his primary weapon. [News.com]
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- RCN combines four ISPs under RCN.com - RCN, which provides telecommunications services in the northeastern United States, said today it would combine its four Internet service provider operations into a single group under the common brand name RCN.com. [News.com]
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- Reed buoyed by Microsoft bid talk - Shares in Reed rose today amid talk that Microsoft was mulling a possible bid for the Anglo-Dutch publishing group, and as investors took comfort from a reassuring Pearson trading statement yesterday, dealers said. [News.com]
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- ReplayTV device set for trials - Replay Networks, which recently added Net luminary Marc Andreessen to its list of investors, is set to begin trials of its service for "personalized, on-demand television." [News.com]
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- Report: HDTV's high cost will kill it - Forrester Research is predicting that high-definition television, or HDTV, will fail to offer an affordable digital TV experience. [News.com]
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- Report: Late surge for PC sales - Computer sales in the last quarter of 1998 should surge, and Dell, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Gateway, and Apple will be riding the wave, according to a study released today. [News.com]
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- Report: Low-cost PCs surging - The average price of a consumer PC dropped below $1,000 for the first time in November, a trend driven by increasing demand for low-cost PCs and acceptance of non-Intel processors. [News.com]
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- Report: Size isn't key factor in Web services - Size doesn't matter. [News.com]
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- Report: Y2K may cost insurers $6.58 billion - Insurers may have to pay an especially large premium next year. [News.com]
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- Reports of Y2K failures on the rise - The New Year promises to be one of increased computer problems attributed to the Year 2000 technology glitch, according to a report released today. [News.com]
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- Retail Web sites pack 'em in - Internet merchants report that despite heavier-than-expected sales, they managed to deliver most of their products on time. And so far, not many items are being returned. [News.com]
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- RIAA taking on music downloads - The Recording Industry Association of America today announced the formation of a consortium of record company and technology executives charged with developing a standard method of downloading music off the Internet. [News.com]
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- RIAA to address music downloads - The music industry is gearing up to face a reality it seemingly has tried to avoid.The Recording Industry Association of [News.com]
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- Rightists join Colombia's left in online war - Colombia's ultra right has joined other warring factions in the country's long-running civil conflict in launching a Web page. [News.com]
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- Rogue has help for disparate databases - Rogue Wave Software is teaching old databases new tricks. [News.com]
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- RSA conducts crypto-cracking contest - Crypto firm RSA Data Security next month will launch its third annual crypto-busting contest, designed to illustrate that U.S. encryption export rules are ridiculous. [News.com]
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- Rumors of Schwab tie-up abound - Another day, another rumor about a Japanese tie-up on Internet brokering. On Wednesday, Tokio Marine and Fire Insurance became the latest Japanese company to deny it was negotiating with California-based Charles Schwab. [News.com]
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- S3, Intel in tech licensing deal - Graphics vendor S3 has become the latest company to land a technology licensing deal with Intel, a trend that may lead to the emergence of low-cost parts for set-top boxes, information appliances, and cheap computers based on Intel ideas. [News.com]
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- S3-Intel deal heralds more consolidation - With S3 teaming up with Intel, life just got tougher for other graphics chip companies. [News.com]
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- Safeway, IBM offer remote shopping service - British food retailer Safeway today launched a personalized remote shopping service developed jointly with computer giant IBM. [News.com]
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- San Francisco blackout snarls Web - One of the worst blackouts in the region's history paralyzed much of the San Francisco Bay Area today, knocking out power to nearly 1 million people and disrupting online operations in the process. [News.com]
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- SAP maps a user-friendly plan - SAP is baring its soul to its customers. [News.com]
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- SAP takes over Digital research unit - Software maker SAP announced that it is taking over a research center in Germany with 20 employees that previously belonged to Digital Equipment. [News.com]
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- Satellites get a little help from Congress - Hughes Electronics's DirecTV, EchoStar Communications, and other satellite broadcasters will get help from Congress next year in their battle with cable rivals for the $43.6-billion-a-year subscription television business, analysts said. [News.com]
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- SBC shareholders approve Ameritech purchase - SBC Communications shareholders approved the No. 2 U.S. local phone company's proposed $79.06 billion purchase of No. 5 Ameritech, moving the companies one step closer to completing the combination. [News.com]
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- Schwab expands into Canada - Charles Schwab agreed to buy Priority Brokerage and Porthmeor Securities, two Canadian brokers, expanding the biggest U.S. brokerage into Canada. [News.com]
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- Schwab market cap passes Merrill Lynch - Shares of the biggest online broker Charles Schwab jumped today, pushing the firm's market capitalization ahead of Merrill Lynch on expectations the Internet would replace brokers as the way to buy and sell securities, analysts said. [News.com]
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- Schwab pulls Net firms from online trading - Charles Schwab, the biggest online brokerage, has notified customers on its Web site that they may not place trades online for four recent or pending initial public offerings, three of them Internet stocks. [News.com]
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- Scientific-Atlanta striking set-top deals - A key component in Scientific-Atlanta's push to rev up its TV set-top computer business includes a deal with Intertainer, the well-funded company that is developing ways to meld the Internet and television experiences. [News.com]
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- Scripps invests in BuildingBlocks - Scripps Ventures, the venture capital arm of media company E.W. Scripps, will invest $3.5 million in BuildingBlocks Interactive, publisher of an online home-design shopping guide. The company has now raised a total of $4.25 million from Scripps, Seavest private Investments, Camelot Capital, and Robert Lessin, chairman of Wit Capital. BuildingBlocks offers HomePortfolio, which links shoppers to high-end home-design products. [News.com]
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- Seagram takes over PolyGram - Seagram has become the world's biggest music company as it completed its takeover of PolyGram and announced a reorganization expected to lead to thousands of job cuts and the departure of well-known executives and recording artists. [News.com]
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- SEC searches for improved Y2K disclosure - U.S. regulators have heightened their scrutiny into the information that companies provide to investors about progress in tackling so-called millennium computer bug problems, a top official said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Security firms merge, pass VeriSign - With an eye on the North American market, British network-security firm Zergo Holdings is acquiring Ireland's Baltimore Technologies, creating a digital-certificate company with more revenue than VeriSign. [News.com]
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- Sema wins Olympic Games contract - Sema Group, Europe's second-largest computer services company, said it won a contract worth about $220 million to run the computer systems for the four Olympic Games between 2002 and 2008, replacing IBM. [News.com]
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- Sendmail ships first products - The first line of commercial products from Internet pioneer Eric Allman's new private venture began shipping today. [News.com]
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- Server shipments up, revenues down - Server vendors got a dose of good news-bad news in the third quarter of 1998, according to a new report. [News.com]
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- Services firms get mixed reviews - The new year will bring big expectations for service and consulting rivals EDS and Computer Sciences. [News.com]
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- Services to fight bug on the desktop - Hewlett-Packard announced an alliance today with PC management software maker ClickNet to provide a single package for Year 2000 desktop compliance assessment and repair. [News.com]
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- Set-top giants eye home networking - Two of the TV set-top computer industry's biggest companies are trying to lay the groundwork for their technologies to hold court at the center of future digital living. [News.com]
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- Set-top market kicks into high gear - Advancements in TV set-top boxes and in-home networking technologies are reaching a fever pitch this week as announcements pour out of the Western Cable Show. [News.com]
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- Shareholders line up to sue K-Tel - Music retailer K-Tel faces more than 20 lawsuits alleging it concealed a Nasdaq warning that it faced delisting even as it caused its stock price to leap by promoting alliances with companies such as Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Shareholders sue Cambridge Technology - Cambridge Technology Partners is being sued by former shareholders who are alleging fraud and negligent misrepresentation during the company's acquisition of Excell Data, a systems integrator of Microsoft software. [News.com]
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- Sharper Image online sales up sixfold - Sharper Image, a retailer of unusual gadgets and electronic toys, said sales at its Web site rose sixfold from December 1 to December 21. [News.com]
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- Shipping industry needs Y2K attention - The shipping and maritime industries lag considerably behind worldwide attempts to eliminate the millennium bug computer problem, U.S. officials told a United Nations conference. [News.com]
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- Siemens enters ad-busting space - Some Net users have grown to love programs that wipe out ads on Web pages, but sites that survive on advertising revenues have been watching warily as such programs grow in popularity. [News.com]
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- Singapore sees digital TV as changing image - Television chiefs in Singapore see the digital revolution as giving definition to their bid to become Asia's best broadcaster. [News.com]
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- SkyMall CEO buys out shareholders - In-flight catalog retailer SkyMall, which soared Monday after reporting strong Internet sales, fell 25 percent today on news its chief executive bought out three major shareholders at a steep discount to the stock price. [News.com]
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- Slimmed Communicator for handhelds, PDAs - Netscape Communications today announced a new layout engine for Communicator, dubbed "Gecko," intended in part to bring Web browsing to alternative computing devices. [News.com]
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- Small firms shake up services industry - A once-sleepy services and consulting industry woke up and got a makeover in 1998. [News.com]
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- Small firms take big bites from AT&T's pie - AT&T is losing new ground to rivals like MCI WorldCom and Qwest, but even these companies' growth is being outstripped by much smaller long distance firms, according to statistics released by the Federal Communications Commission today. [News.com]
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- Social Security not bug-free yet - Although the Social Security Administration yesterday said it has cleansed its computer system of the Y2K technology glitch, the agency's chief acknowledged there is still work to be done with the financial agencies it uses to get checks to elderly Americans. [News.com]
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- Social Security stamps out Y2K bug - The White House is claiming an early victory against the Year 2000 technology problem in its ongoing battle to bring federal government computer systems into compliance. [News.com]
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- Softbank gets into insurance business - Softbank today said it had agreed to form a joint venture with a U.S. insurance-related company, with Softbank holding 60 percent of the venture. [News.com]
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- Software piracy costs state millions - Software piracy cost Massachusetts more than 4,300 jobs and at least $850 million in lost wages, tax revenue, and retail sales during 1997, said an industry study released today. [News.com]
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- Software trade groups merge - Members of the Information Industry Association have voted unanimously to merge with the Software Publishers Association, with hopes that the added bulk will boost the groups' lobbying clout. [News.com]
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- Sony and Hasbro take Trivial Pursuit online - Electronics giant Sony and toymaker Hasbro, in a move to capture another piece of the online games pie, today will unveil plans to put best-selling board game Trivial Pursuit on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Sony to delay handheld PlayStation release - Sony will delay by one month the release of a handheld version of its PlayStation video game player because production is behind schedule. [News.com]
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- South Carolina to drop out of Microsoft suit - The state of South Carolina said today it will drop out of the antitrust lawsuit against software giant Microsoft, saying there was sufficient competition in the Internet market. [News.com]
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- Sprint among phone firms eyeing Brazil - Sprint and Canada's BCE were among five international phone companies that bid on licenses to operate fixed-line and long distance telephone service in Brazil, as the country tries to open its phone market to competition. [News.com]
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- Sprint soars on government contract - Sprint shares rose 4 percent today after the company won the first part of an estimated $5 billion contract to provide long distance telephone service to the federal government over eight years. [News.com]
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- Sprint to roll out ION network service - Sprint plans to begin selling a service that combines voice calls, data, and Internet traffic on one network to large businesses nationwide next month, keeping to a debut schedule set in June. [News.com]
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- Sprint to start own DSL services - Sprint, the nation's third largest long distance company, said today it would roll out high-speed digital subscriber lines (DSL) in urban areas around the country beginning next year. [News.com]
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- Sprint, CompUSA to ink marketing deal - Sprint and CompUSA will announce a new marketing campaign tomorrow aimed at promoting the long distance company's voice and Internet services to the computer store's customers. [News.com]
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- Staples to invest $10 million in Net unit - Office supply chain Staples will create a stand alone business unit for its online store, which opened just 30 days ago, and invest an additional $10 million in the fledgling operation next year. [News.com]
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- Star offers desktop suite for free - Software maker Star Division said today that it is offering the latest version of its desktop application suite for free download off its corporate Web site. [News.com]
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- Star Wars trailer goes to highest bidder - The movie isn't out yet, but it's already making money on the Internet. [News.com]
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- StarMedia shrugs off AOL in Latin America - New York-based StarMedia, one of Latin America's most visited Internet sites, has nothing to fear from America Online's planned expansion into the region, according to StarMedia chief executive Fernando Espuelas. [News.com]
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- Start-up sees game future for Linux - While computer heavyweights such as IBM have been focusing on the commercial potential of Linux, a small start-up in Southern California sees a new opportunity in the operating system: the market for computer games. [News.com]
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- Steve Case joins billionaires club - America Online chief executive Steve Case's holdings in the No. 1 Internet service have eclipsed $1 billion in value, as the former pizza-toppings developer reaps the reward of the company's soaring share price. [News.com]
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- Stocks calm in early trading - Stocks were mostly flat or slightly higher in early trading today with little economic news to guide the market. [News.com]
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- Stocks finish day stronger on U.S. data - Stocks shot out of the gate at the opening bell and finished higher amid strong U.S economic data released this morning. [News.com]
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- Stocks jump on e-commerce plans - Flush with the success of holiday e-commerce, traders bid up companies looking to expand online sales. [News.com]
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- Stores cutting iMac prices - Apple's iMac has dropped toward the $1,000 mark in time for the holidays. [News.com]
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- Street bids up uBid; Vignette files for IPO - Shares of online auctioneer Ubid burst the seams today, soaring as high as 60.50 from their opening price of 40, before closing at 48 on their first day of trading. [News.com]
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- Student prevails in court battle over site - A federal judge has ruled that a Missouri high school violated a student's free speech after he was suspended for critical--and sometimes vulgar--remarks about the school posted on his Web site. [News.com]
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- Study: Business software to surge - Corporations are spending their information technology dollars up front. [News.com]
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- Study: E-commerce needs cooperation - Collaboration between businesses and government agencies is vital to achieving the full potential of Internet commerce, according to a new study. [News.com]
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- Suits fly over monitors, scanners - A British company is going after Dell, Packard Bell, and Micron regarding monitor patents. Meanwhile, Umax gets an injunction and Iomega must pay up. [News.com]
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- Sun attempts to revive JavaStation - Although the JavaStation failed to catch fire the first time around, Sun cut prices on the systems today and will launch a series of pilots with airlines next year in an effort to revive its network computing dream. [News.com]
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- Sun cuts motherboard prices - Sun Microsystems today said it cut prices up to 22 percent on SPARCEngine circuit boards. [News.com]
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- Sun exec says Microsoft undermined Java - Microsoft has undermined the cross-platform promise of Sun Microsystems' Java by "flooding the market" with an implementation of the programming language that contains proprietary extensions which are incompatible with rival versions, a senior executive from Sun has testified. [News.com]
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- Sun guarded about Netscape software - Sun Microsystems isn't saying much about its plans for the Netscape enterprise software that Sun will gain rights to when America Online closes its purchase of Netscape next spring. [News.com]
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- Sun moves to relax Java grip - Sun Microsystems, faced with criticism from the computer industry, moved to relax its tight grip on the Java language in an announcement at Java Business Expo today. [News.com]
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- Sun names Bill Joy as chief scientist - Sun Microsystems on Friday named Bill Joy, a cofounder of the network computing company and well-respected industry innovator, as its chief scientist. [News.com]
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- Sun promoting Linux for UltraSparc chips - Sun Microsystems is helping the Linux community port its Unix-like operating system to Sun's UltraSparc platform, the company announced today. [News.com]
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- Sun shines light on Y2K bug - Sun Microsystems today released a Year 2000 compliance tool to help its customers assess the readiness of their computer systems. [News.com]
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- Sun shows off Jini - Sun Microsystems executives have begun publicly showing off Jini, a technology they hope will let anybody plug anything into the Internet. [News.com]
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- Sun takes jovial jabs at "AOLscape" deal - It's well known that laughter is the best medicine. [News.com]
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- Sun trumpets next version of Java - With great fanfare Sun Microsystems today trumpeted the arrival of the next version of its Java technology on the first day of its three-day Java Business Expo. [News.com]
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- Sun, Alcatel building Internet phone - Sun Microsystems and French telecommunications giant Alcatel are working together to develop a consumer electronics device with lots of space-age style: Internet screen phones. [News.com]
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- Sun, Java group mending fences - Sun Microsystems and a disgruntled industry group may be mending their fences, a step that could lead to the software's incorporation into industrial equipment. [News.com]
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- Supercomputer squabble heats up - The U.S. International Trade Commission will take another look at an anti-dumping verdict against NEC and other Japanese supercomputer companies that has effectively shut them out of the U.S. market. [News.com]
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- Swiss aim to fight Net hate speech - Switzerland is offering to organize an international conference on how to stop racists from using the Internet to spread their views. [News.com]
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- Sybase forms new divisions - Sybase is continuing to reshuffle its deck chairs. [News.com]
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- Sybase, Pinpoint crunch the numbers - Sybase and insurance and financial software company Pinpoint Solutions say they have developed a number-crunching database intended to help the insurance industry maximize profit. [News.com]
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- SyQuest comes back to life, barely - Struggling storage manufacturer SyQuest has reopened its Web site and is answering customer complaints, but recovery is still a long way off. [News.com]
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- Taiwan SIS says near Intel chipset deal - Taiwan's Silicon Integrated Systems said today that it was close to signing a licensing deal with giant Intel to make chipsets using Intel's Pentium II processors. [News.com]
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- TCI, Time Warner trade more cable systems - TCI Communications, the cable television systems arm of Tele-Communications Incorporated, and Time Warner signed a definitive agreement to trade certain cable systems. [News.com]
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- TCP/IP "hole" leads to alert - A "hole" in the underlying language of the Internet could allow hackers to cause an array of disruptions to targeted Web sites and Internet systems, according to a computer security watchdog. [News.com]
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- Tech industry steps up lobbying efforts - The high-tech lobby knows you gotta pay to play. [News.com]
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- Tech stocks and Nasdaq lead market rally - Stocks rallied to reverse today's earlier losses, with technology issues sparking a surge that pushed both the Nasdaq and Dow into positive territory. [News.com]
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- Tech stocks push Nasdaq to new high - Markets zigzagged today, but technology issues rode out the volatility to push the Nasdaq to a new record high. [News.com]
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- Tech stocks up, others mixed - The Nasdaq Index climbed higher on a solid performance by technology stocks, while blue chips zigzagged in early trading despite the news of coordinated interest rate cuts by major European central banks. [News.com]
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- Technical problems plague eBay again - Popular auction site eBay is having technical problems again. The site went down for just over three hours this morning but is now fully operating. [News.com]
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- Tel-Save sees a return to profits - Tel-Save.com, the telephone company that offers discount long-distance service through America Online, said today it expects to see a profit this quarter for the first time in over a year. [News.com]
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- Telcel sees cellular subscriber growth - Leading Venezuelan cellular phone company Telcel, a unit of U.S.-based BellSouth, expects 40 to 50 percent growth in subscribers in 1999 despite a downturn in economic growth, a company official said today. [News.com]
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- Telcos keeping FCC busy - With all the merger activity in the local and long distance telephone industries, the FCC has had no shortage of things to do of late. But hints of unrest within the FCC and the looming threat that Congress will strip it of its regulatory power are on the horizon. [News.com]
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- Telcos tackle Net subsidy program - SBC Communications and GTE went to court today in an attempt to overturn the way the U.S. government has implemented subsidies for rural telephone service and Internet connections for schools and libraries. [News.com]
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- Telcos waver on residential service - Bell Atlantic and GTE didn't make a firm commitment to selling their services to residential telephone customers in new markets in a carefully worded regulatory filing today. [News.com]
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- Telcos wrestle for dominance - In a move to expand its services arm, AT&T yesterday signed a deal to buy IBM's Global Network unit for $5 billion in cash. Yet the long distance spinoff of old Ma Bell is still looking over its shoulder, as rival MCI WorldCom gains in size and strength. What's a telco to do in these competitive days? AT&T's answer seems clear: Buy more. [News.com]
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- Telcos, others to lean on FCC over mergers - MCI WorldCom and Sprint executives, along with the Rev. Jesse Jackson and consumer advocates, are scheduled on Monday to urge federal regulators to reject three massive telecommunications combinations. [News.com]
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- Telecom carriers create coalition - A group of new telecommunications carriers announced the formation of a coalition today, aimed at easing the transfer of voice and data between IP-based networks and traditional circuit-switched phone networks. [News.com]
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- Telecom Italia close to pay TV deal - Telecom Italia is likely to seal a long-awaited accord with Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and French station TF1 for a new pay-TV venture by the weekend, a Telecom spokesman said. [News.com]
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- Tellabs, Sprint in deal for data network - Tellabs and Sprint, the No. 3 U.S. long distance phone company, signed a $100 million multi-year deal to use Tellabs products in its new high-speed data network. [News.com]
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- Telscape starts satellite Net service - Telecommunications firm Telscape International has launched Internet service via satellite, targeting Internet service providers, foreign carriers, and multi-national corporations and institutions. [News.com]
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- TEN lines up eight distribution deals - Total Entertainment Network has cut distribution and revenue-sharing deals with some of the most popular sites on the Net, the online gaming company will announce today. [News.com]
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- Test version of Windows 2000 due - The vaporware clouds may be clearing in Redmond. [News.com]
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- The masses weigh in on Microsoft trial - A war of words over the Microsoft antitrust trial is exploding outside the courtroom. [News.com]
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- The missing links to domain competition - As the new year approaches, players who want to compete with the world's dominant domain name registrar, Network Solutions, are still waiting for crucial information that could stand between them and lucrative ".com" sales. [News.com]
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- The Net of 1999 - Next year the Internet will be a little easier to use, data will be simpler to find, some connections will be faster, and many Web sites will be more personal with more incentives to shop online, according to analysts. [News.com]
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- The week's news: Blackout! - One of the worst blackouts in San Francisco's history disrupted power to nearly 1 million people on Tuesday, snarling online operations at the Internet's ground zero. [News.com]
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- The week's news: Cable modems seize the day - Excitement over cable modem technology--especially TV set-top boxes and high-speed Net access--crested as announcements poured out of the Western Show. High-tech companies ranging from Scientific Atlanta (SA) and General Instrument (GI) to Microsoft see great promise in cable modems, which are far speedier than the conventional dial-up variety. [News.com]
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- The week's news: Intel opens door to chip secrets - Intel again struck an agreement to license technology critical to making components that are compatible with its market-leading Pentium II processor architecture. [News.com]
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- TheStreet.com considering public offering - TheStreet.com will consider selling shares to the public next year, according to the chief executive of the Internet financial news publication. [News.com]
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- TI focuses on faster modems - Texas Instruments said it is developing chipsets for speedy modems which will provide connection speeds that dwarf the fastest transmissions available today, as the company broadens its digital signal processor business. [News.com]
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- Ticketmaster Online shares nearly triple - Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch an online seller of tickets and city guides, almost tripled in its first day of trading, fueled by investor demand for new Internet issues. [News.com]
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- TiVo launches "smart TV" trial - TiVo has started field trials of a service that will enable old-fashioned analog TVs to pause, rewind, and play back television programs as well as seek out programs that might be useful to their owners. [News.com]
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- Tokyo exchange asks for Y2K disclosure - The Tokyo Stock Exchange said today it had asked companies that list their shares on the bourse to disclose measures taken to tackle possible problems with their computer systems related to the millennium. [News.com]
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- Top Java hawker leaves for start-up - It's time for Java to fledge from its nest at Sun Microsystems, one of Java's chief advocates says. [News.com]
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- Toronto bank stock higher on Net frenzy - Toronto-Dominion Bank shares rode the Internet stock craze higher on Tuesday in Toronto on speculation that its Waterhouse Securities unit in the United States could cash on in cyberspace trading. [News.com]
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- Toshiba beefs up servers - Toshiba has beefed up its relatively new server line to include faster chips and options for PC server installations in a bid to garner attention from corporate customers. [News.com]
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- Toshiba cuts notebook prices - Toshiba cut prices today on its high-end notebook PCs by up to 11 percent as part of its effort to retain its lead in the increasingly competitive laptop market. [News.com]
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- Toshiba touts new hard drives - Toshiba says it has developed two types of high-capacity 2.5-inch hard disk drives for use in slim portable computers. [News.com]
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- Toshiba's credit rating cut - Toshiba, Japan's largest maker of notebook computers, had its long-term credit rating cut by Standard & Poor's, which cited pressure on the company's earnings potential. [News.com]
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- Toshiba, Fujitsu team on new DRAM chip - Leading Japanese chipmakers Toshiba and Fujitsu today announced plans to jointly develop and launch one-gigabit dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips by the end of March 2002. [News.com]
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- Track Data shares surge on Net plans - Track Data shares more than doubled after the company said it will offer online trading by the end of the first quarter, making the financial information provider the latest beneficiary of an investor rush to companies that let people trade stocks over the Internet. [News.com]
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- Transaction Systems to buy rest of U.S. Processing - Transaction Systems Architects, a maker of banking software, said it agreed to buy the 81.1 percent of U.S. Processing that it doesn't already own as the company positions itself for an expected increase in electronic fund transfers. [News.com]
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- Tricks of the bandwidth trade - Level 3 Communications said today it will lease a portion of a competitors' high-speed network, continuing a trend in which emerging carriers use bandwidth as currency to fund expansion. [News.com]
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- Tut Systems, Motorola in licensing pact - Home networking Tut Systems today added another company to its list of technology licensees, with Motorola becoming the latest to see the benefits of the start-up's telephone line-based technology. [News.com]
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- U.K. Navy computers said unchecked for bug - Almost 90 percent of the British Navy's vital computer systems, including those that control its nuclear missiles, are still not protected against the millennium bug, according to a leaked defense ministry review. [News.com]
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- U.K. orders reduction in cell phone charges - The British government ordered three leading phone companies to lower the price of calls to mobile phones, after concluding they are "too high" in relation to costs and "against the public interest." [News.com]
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- U.K. retailer vies to become a Net stock - Britain's electronics retailer Dixons Group, whose storefonts are a familiar site at nearly every British shopping row, doesn't look like a stellar Internet stock. [News.com]
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- U.N. panel talks Y2K - A United Nations' task force today is engaged in closed-door discussions on the global implications of the Year 2000 computer glitch, and is discussing how to handle international failure scenarios. [News.com]
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- U.S. calls for wireless competition - U.S. officials called on the European Commission to allow U.S. third-generation wireless technology the chance to compete in the European market. [News.com]
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- U.S. eases export limits on encryption - The U.S. Commerce Department has issued its expected rules relaxing U.S. export limits on encryption, the data scrambling technology considered vital for secure electronic commerce and digital communication. [News.com]
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- U.S., Canada backbones to be connected - Research and educational high-speed networks took a crucial step toward internationalization today with an agreement to link dedicated networks in the United States and Canada. [News.com]
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- Umax hit with injunction - Umax Technologies, one of the top makers of scanners and digital imaging products, has been hit with a preliminary injunction, forcing the company to re-label its scanners and change its advertising practices. [News.com]
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- Unisys in service pact with Gateway - Unisys has inked a deal with Gateway to provide on-site service for Gateway's corporate customers. [News.com]
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- United Nations hosts Y2K forum - The Clinton administration's point man on the Year 2000 technology problem joined ambassadors of the United Nations here today to kick off a global forum on the millennium glitch. [News.com]
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- Unix trounces Windows NT in testing - Windows takes a shellacking when stacked up against Unix, according to a newly released study. [News.com]
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- US West touts $3 billion investment plans - US West said today it would invest more than $3 billion to upgrade its telephone network and roll out new high-speed Internet and wireless telephone service in 1999. [News.com]
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- USWeb founder on quest for ET truth - Joseph Firmage, the young founder of USWeb, is thinking a little farther outside the box than are most Silicon Valley executives. [News.com]
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- USWeb, CKS complete merger deal - Internet consulting companies USWeb and CKS sealed their marriage agreement today, with shareholders approving the $540 million merger. [News.com]
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- Vendors stand behind telephony standard - A group of networking and software vendors today announced new support for an effort to provide standard-based interoperability among telephony platforms. [News.com]
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- Venezuela telco sees strong growth - Venezuela's leading cellular phone company Telcel, a unit of U.S. local telephone company BellSouth, will end a flourishing 1998 with 1.3 million clients, its president of operations said. [News.com]
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- Victoria's Secret site up and running - Victoria's Secret tonight made its much-anticipated, blushing debut. [News.com]
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- Virginia library moves against Net filters - Virginia's Loudoun County Library is putting into place new Net usage rules following a landmark federal ruling that deemed its policy to filter online access for all patrons a violation of the First Amendment. [News.com]
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- Virginia Net policies taking center stage - Lawmakers in the "Silicon Dominion" are trying to attract high-tech companies through a seven-point package addressing online child porn, consumer privacy, fraud, and spam. Meanwhile, prominent policy questions take center stage and legislators are turning up in vital federal roles, as Virginia seeks to usurp California's position as the country's leading jurisdiction for Net policy. [News.com]
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- Virginia proposes Net policy act - No wonder Steve Case hangs his hat in Virginia. [News.com]
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- Virus hits MCI WorldCom systems - A new computer virus has attacked telecommunications giant MCI Worldcom in what security firm Network Associates claims is a new method of antivirus attack. [News.com]
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- Vitria, Inventa try united front - Vitria Technology is looking to its consulting friends to help guard its market share. [News.com]
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- Vive le CD-ROM! says France - French people are increasingly buying computers with CD-ROM players to play games and consult reference titles, but use of the Internet remains low, according to a survey. [News.com]
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- Volatile Net stocks concern brokerages - Onsale, Books-A-Million, and tiny Connect were among Internet stocks that experienced unusually frenzied trading the day after Thanksgiving amid evidence that the stocks were bid up by individual investors, also known as "day traders", trading online, according to reports. [News.com]
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- WavePhore blames TV show for stock drop - WavePhore said it has contacted the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Nasdaq stock market to investigate what it contends are damaging comments made on CNBC television by a guest host about the Web broadcaster of news, advertisements, and other Internet programming. [News.com]
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- WavePhore hangs 10 - Shares of WavePhore rocketed skyward today after the data broadcasting company announced the launch of a new "broadcast mall." [News.com]
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- Web holiday shopping triples - Online holiday shopping this year approximately tripled over 1997, according to reports from Internet merchants and e-commerce analysts. [News.com]
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- WebGear joins home networking push - WebGear became the latest company to weigh in on the home networking front, saying it will offer products in early 1999 for connecting PCs, printers, and even entertainment devices into a wireless local network. [News.com]
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- WebTV coming to high-speed cable - Microsoft has inked a deal with cable TV hardware giant Scientific-Atlanta that will make the WebTV service available over the high-speed cable TV infrastructure for the first time and pave the way for use of the Windows CE operating system. [News.com]
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- WebTV turnaround on Real Audio - In what appears to be an about-face, WebTV has revealed that it will support some popular Internet multimedia technologies it just recently deemed too unwieldy for the low-cost set-top box. [News.com]
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- Western, Sony bet on home servers - Western Digital hopes to boost its fortunes in the hard disk drive industry by digging into the prospective market for information appliances. [News.com]
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- What does Sun get out of Java? - Sun Microsystems touts Java as a technology capable of revolutionizing the basis of computing, but when it comes to the bottom line, Java is supposed to play a more traditional role--namely, sell other Sun products. [News.com]
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- Where old computers go to live - What happens to old computers when they don't die--but are outdated? [News.com]
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- Will bug cause chemical accidents? - Despite the dark clouds of impeachment hanging over the White House, the Clinton administration is pressing ahead with its efforts to bring the nation's computers into Year 2000 compliance. [News.com]
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- Windows CE future seen in Chinese handheld - The first Chinese-made palm-size computer includes a color display, while devices coming out in mid-1999 in the United States are expected to offer advanced wireless technology. [News.com]
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- Windows CE names to be simplified - Microsoft is simplifying the naming of the different flavors of its Windows CE operating system in an attempt to alleviate consumer confusion, the company said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Windows CE upgrades due - Two manufacturers of handheld devices running Microsoft's Windows CE will begin offering upgrades to the latest version of the operating system today, but it is unclear if older devices will really benefit from installation. [News.com]
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- WinStar, Williams to swap network capacity - Upstart telecommunications company WinStar Communications has forged an agreement to swap capacity on its network with Williams Communications and plans to double the reach of its domestic network and expand internationally. [News.com]
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- Women shoppers crowd Internet stores - Women flocked to online stores in droves this holiday season, signaling a major change in the typically male-dominated medium. [News.com]
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- WordPerfect jumps on Linux bandwagon - Corel is going loopy for Linux. [News.com]
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- WorldNet works on portal strategy - With a string of new services and a revamped pricing structure, AT&T's WorldNet service is beginning to regain momentum lost over several years of lackluster marketing. [News.com]
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- XML to "revolutionize" info exchange - XML will revolutionize the exchange of business information similar to the way the phone, fax machine, and photocopier did when those devices were invented, a new report says. [News.com]
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- Xoom.com shares skyrocket after IPO - Shares of Xoom.com spiked 200 percent higher before settling some after the direct marketing community site went public today. [News.com]
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- Y2K bug will cost Israeli banks $100 million - Israeli banks will spend $100 million to solve computer problems in the year 2000, a date systems may have difficulty recognizing, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Y2K software suit dismissed - A judge has dismissed a class action lawsuit against Macola Software, a decision that may set a precedent for Year 2000 compliance issues, attorneys said. [News.com]
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- Y2K suits against Intuit dismissed - Three Year 2000 lawsuits filed against Intuit in New York have been dismissed. A California judge dismissed a similar suit against Intuit in August, but that lawsuit has been revived. [News.com]
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- Yahoo to test PalmPilot system - Yahoo, one of the most popular destinations for news and information on the Internet, today said it will offer an easier way for computer users to update scheduling and contact data on computers using the Yahoo Web site as a transfer point. [News.com]
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- Year 2000 case law emerging - As the first wave of Year 2000-related lawsuits come to a close, precedents are being set that foreshadow what is to come for companies on both sides of the issue. [News.com]
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- Zapata plans Net comeback - Zapata, a fish oil and meat-casings company, wants to start trolling again for Internet businesses. [News.com]
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- Ziff-Davis preps for ZDNet IPO - Ziff-Davis has filed for an initial public offering of stock that will track the performance of ZDNet, its online business unit, in a move it said could raise as much as $115 million. [News.com]
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