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- $280 billion seen for millennium fix - Spending on systems integration, professional services, and outsourcing to address the Year 2000 problem in computers will reach $280 billion between 1997 and 2002, according to a new study. [News.com]
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- "Megan's law" taken online - A California parent has decided to make public information on sex offenders even more public by posting their names on the Internet, in spite of a warning from the state attorney general's office. [News.com]
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- 128Mb memory chips on tap for '98 - Memory chip manufacturers will release 128-megabit dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips in 1998 as a way to meet the demands of computer makers and their own bottom lines. [News.com]
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- 268 million PCs due online by 2001 - Some 82 million personal computers will be connected to the Net by year's end, up 71 percent from last year, a study by Dataquest said today. [News.com]
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- 3Com sees merger charge up to $375 million - Computer networking company 3Com (COMS) said in a filing with federal regulators that it expects to incur restructuring charges of up to $375 million as a result of its merger with U.S. Robotics, a maker of computer modems. [News.com]
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- 56-kbps modem standard delayed - Consumers waiting for modem manufacturers to adopt standards that will allow 56-kbps modems to work with each other may encounter a longer wait than expected. [News.com]
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- 56-kbps modems struggling - As next month's meeting to set preliminary 56-kbps modem standards draws near, 3Com's U.S. Robotics (COMS) and Hayes Communications expect sales of 56-kbps modems to increase. [News.com]
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- A computer in every classroom? - Americans favor a computer in every classroom, national standards for measuring academic performance, and getting rid of troublemakers to improve public schools, according to a new poll. [News.com]
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- A new technology: paper - The days of the paperless office are numbered, or so it seems to Cobblestone Software. [News.com]
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- Acer adopts K6 for the home - Acer America has adopted the K6 and K5 microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in over half its new home computers, including two models that will retail for under $1,000. [News.com]
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- Acer drops notebook prices - Following the lead of other vendors, Acer America has dropped the prices on its notebooks by up to 11 percent. [News.com]
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- Acer eyes low-end retail - Hoping to chip away at Packard Bell's omnipresence on low-end retail store shelves, Acer America today announced that its computers will soon be available at Circuit City, Sears, and Wal-Mart Stores. [News.com]
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- Acer unveils 166-MHz Extensa - Acer America today announced its TI Extensa 670 notebook, a midrange business system based on Intel's 166-MHz Pentium. [News.com]
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- ACLU paper slams filters, ratings - The American Civil Liberties Union today sent a paper to government officials and leaders in the Internet industry warning that the use of ratings and blocking systems will inevitably lead to censorship. [News.com]
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- Ad service gives cash back - A new Internet advertising service being unveiled today promises to deliver promotional offers and cash back to consumers, as well as a targeted audience to advertisers. [News.com]
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- Afrocentric site targets community - With this week's relaunch, The Black World Today is hoping to capitalize on a largely untapped online market: the African American community. [News.com]
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- All-in-one video chip debuts - C-Cube Microsystems has unveiled a computer chip that it says is the first that can both record and play back video in digital format. [News.com]
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- Allen sells Microsoft shares - Microsoft (MSFT) cofounder Paul Allen told federal regulators that he has sold 3 million shares in the company since mid May. [News.com]
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- ALR debuts chip-savvy server - Advanced Logic Research (AALR) introduced a server that will ease the transition to new processor technologies by providing for easier upgrades from 200-MHz Pentium Pros to Pentium II chips running at up to 300 MHz. [News.com]
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- AlterNIC founder sorry, won't quit - Eugene Kashpureff is sorry. [News.com]
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- AltoCom moves into modems - AltoCom, a spinoff from General Magic, is making moves into the modem market with a software-based modem technology for set-top boxes, handheld devices, and fax machines. Its product line is called SoftModem. [News.com]
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- AMD ceases K5 production - The K5, a chip with a checkered past, has finally been put to rest as the low-end K6 gets set to take its place. [News.com]
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- AMD lands IBM - Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) quest for a top-tier manufacturer to adopt the K6 processor came to fruition today as the company announced that IBM would adopt the microprocessor for certain models in the Aptiva line. [News.com]
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- Ameritech long distance bid endangered - Federal regulators are expected to reject Ameritech's (AIT) bid today to become the first Baby Bell to enter the $80 billion U.S. long distance business, government officials said. [News.com]
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- AMS, Micron prep Tillamook books - Notebook vendors AMS Tech and Micron have announced that they too will release Tillamook notebooks concurrent with Intel's roll out of the chip on September 8. [News.com]
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- Analysts await clear AOL report - America Online (AOL) is about to come clean. [News.com]
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- ANS launches new firewall service - On the eve of a major ISP trade show in San Francisco, two network providers today said they're launching new initiatives for companies that want to outsource their intranets. [News.com]
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- AOL Germany to 400,000 users - The German service of America Online (AOL) said today it planned to expand its operations and services after membership doubled in the last nine months to more than 400,000 users. [News.com]
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- AOL member, protect thyself - America Online's (AOL) subscribers can do as much, if not more than the company can, to protect themselves from online theft and fraud, a company executive said today following a recent scam. [News.com]
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- AOL posts profit, reports charge - America Online (AOL) today reported a fourth-quarter operating profit but also posted a $24.5 million charge that it had incurred earlier in the year. [News.com]
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- AOL's Tartikoff dead at 48 - Brandon Tartikoff, the programming whiz who transformed NBC and the chairman of America Online's Entertainment Asylum, died today after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 48. [News.com]
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- AOL, columnist face libel suit - A White House adviser today filed a $30 million libel lawsuit against America Online and one of its columnists. [News.com]
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- Apartheid architects take it online - South Africa's most powerful secret society has come out of the closet and onto the Internet. [News.com]
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- Apple changes rules on Mac OS - Apple tightened the screws on Macintosh clone vendors yesterday by discontinuing an offer of software upgrades to customers of clone vendors. [News.com]
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- Apple execs cash in - Former Apple Computer (AAPL) executives are getting out while the getting is good--they reportedly filed to sell off chunks of their shares while the stock is trading near its 52-week high. [News.com]
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- Apple gets tough on cloning - In the first response from a high-level Apple executive, Chief Financial Officer Fred Anderson today dashed cold water on any hope for progress in the stalemated talks with Apple clone manufacturers over rights to use Apple technology in their products. [News.com]
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- Apple looks to Asia to boost sales - Apple Computer (AAPL) is broadening its strategy in Asia to increase business, a senior company official said today. [News.com]
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- Apple picks U.S. sales VP - Although still in search of a CEO, Apple (AAPL) today picked a new senior vice president for Americas commerce. [News.com]
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- Apple product strategy still murky - In the afterglow of yesterday's upbeat news that Microsoft (MSFT) agreed to continue to develop crucial software applications for the Macintosh platfom, questions now arise regarding Apple's (AAPL) specific battle plan to regain momentum. [News.com]
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- Apple stock slips as week ends - Apple Computer (AAPL) gave back some of its gains from the past few days on Wall Street, falling as low as 10.5 percent in trading today. [News.com]
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- Apple to see more red - Apple Computer (AAPL) today officially revealed that it will stay in the red through its fourth quarter. [News.com]
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- Apple unleashes 350-MHz machine - On the eve of Macworld Boston, Apple Computer announced new Power Macintosh systems that use the new OS 8 operating system and pack PowerPC processors running as fast as 350 MHz. The company also made a slew of other new product announcements. [News.com]
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- Apple will reunite with ad agency - Apple Computer (AAPL) will reunite with the advertising agency that created one of the most famous commercials in the computer industry. [News.com]
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- Apple's European business slows - Apple Computer (AAPL) shouldn't plan on using Europe as a springboard for a comeback in the personal computer business, a market researcher said today after releasing second-quarter shipment estimates. [News.com]
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- Apple: No clear strategy - A cash infusion from Microsoft, a new board, and a tough stand on clone makers have combined to ensure that Apple remains the talk of Silicon Valley. But a clear turnaround strategy has yet to emerge after Macworld Expo in Boston. CNET's NEWS.COM follows all the steps in its ongoing special coverage. [News.com]
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- Ascend files bad month - In an unusual filing, Ascend Communications (ASND) has revealed that its sales and net income for the month failed to meet expectations. [News.com]
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- Ascend secures remote access - Stepping up pressure on its networking competitors, Ascend Communication (ASND) today announced new remote access hardware and software for the Internet. [News.com]
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- Asia, Latin PC markets growing - The computer markets for Asia and the Pacific region (excluding Japan) and Latin America are growing at 15 and 19.8 percent, respectively, on par with the worldwide PC market. But in many ways that's where the similarity ends. [News.com]
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- Autodesk beats the Street - With the successful release of AutoCAD Release 14, the latest version of its flagship product, Autodesk (ADSK) saw its second-quarter earnings and revenues soar past analysts estimates. [News.com]
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- BackOffice opens for small business - Having already announced plans to develop an upscale version of its BackOffice server application bundle, Microsoft (MSFT) will next month turn its attention to small business owners with the debut of a scaled-down BackOffice package. [News.com]
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- BackWeb to push to big browsers - As top-tier software firms Microsoft and Netscape roll out their competing channel systems, push software maker BackWeb is upgrading its products to work with the larger companies' browsers. [News.com]
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- Basque site finds new home - A controversial Web site promoting Basque independence is back online today after being yanked off the Net more than a month ago. [News.com]
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- Battle over simulated child porn - Free speech advocates are battling yet another high-tech porn law, which aims to deter pedophiles by outlawing computer-generated images of an "apparent" minor engaged in sexual activity. [News.com]
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- Bay router thinks small - Continuing its push into all corners of the networking market, Bay Networks (BAY) will introduce a router for small businesses next week that aspires to take the complexity out of the network experience. [News.com]
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- Bay up on earnings hopes - Bay Networks (BAY) today saw its stock jump after it announced its first-quarter revenues will likely exceed analysts' expectations. [News.com]
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- BBC goes commercial with Beeb.com - As part of an overall effort to revamp its venerable public radio and television network, Britain's BBC today formally launched a commercial Web entertainment and information service called Beeb.com. [News.com]
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- Be demos BeOS for Intel PCs - The Be operating system (BeOS) was demonstrated running on an Intel-based personal computer today at the Be Developer Conference in Boston. The company then announced that it will release Intel and PowerPC versions of its operating system in January. [News.com]
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- Beating the Net traffic jam - GlobalCenter, a Silicon Valley company, next week will announce a new architecture aimed at helping large sites deliver data quickly and efficiently to Netizens, wherever they are. [News.com]
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- Bell Atlantic starts mobile service - Bell Atlantic Mobile said it has introduced an easier, more affordable service that allows customers access to the Internet and their corporate intranets while away from the office. [News.com]
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- Bellcore revamps S/Key security - Bellcore, the former research arm of the six Baby Bells turned software vendor, today announced a new version of its S/KEY security software. [News.com]
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- Big Blue revamps AS/400 line - Setting its sights on the budding electonic commerce market, IBM (IBM) unveiled a computer family designed to conduct a wide range of businesses on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Big guns upgrade network gear - Summer vacation for networking companies is over. [News.com]
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- Boca announces 56K upgrade policy - Modem maker Boca Research has announced it will offer users of its 56-kbps modems a free software upgrade to the ITU 56-kbps standard once it is approved. The ITU standard will allow all 56-kbps modems to interoperate. [News.com]
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- British bookstores open online - Two of Britain's leading booksellers announced today they would launch Internet stores, joining the trend of chains seeking wider sales on the Web. [News.com]
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- British relent on banned report - Score a victory for the Internet: A local government in England, which had been fighting to stop the distribution of a banned government report on the Net, has withdrawn from the fight, leaving the other side to claim victory. [News.com]
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- British warned of Web scams - Britain's Securities and Investments Board has issued warnings to investors using the Internet about bogus Web sites, which copy the Web pages of a genuine firm. [News.com]
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- BT gets MCI at 20% off - British Telecommunications (BTY) and MCI Communications (MCIC) agreed today to go ahead with their merger on cut-price terms. [News.com]
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- Business e-commerce upgraded - E-commerce software firm Fisher Technology Group on Monday will release an upgraded version of its CornerStone software to streamline business-to-business buying over the Internet, one of the hottest sectors in electronic commerce. [News.com]
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- BuyersZone in market for leads - BuyersZone today joined the ranks of Internet middlemen that get paid before anything gets sold. [News.com]
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- Cable modem customers complain - You can't please all the people all the time. Just ask some customers of @Home (ATHM) and Time Warner's (TWX) Road Runner, two leaders in the race to offer high-speed Net access via cable modems. [News.com]
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- Cable-based Net access growing - Jones Intercable (JOIN), one among the nation's ten largest cable television operators, will announce Tuesday the rollout of high-speed Internet access in Virginia. [News.com]
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- Cabletron founder, CEO to resign - Cabletron Systems (CS) founder, president, and chief executive S. Robert Levine today voluntarily stepped down as chairman of the board and CEO of the company. [News.com]
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- Cabletron plans its comeback - Just as frigid New Hampshire winters eventually give way to spring, executives at Cabletron Systems (CS) hope that a change at the top will reverse a brief downturn in its fortunes. [News.com]
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- Canon to launch digital camcorder - Canon said today that it will enter the digital camcorder market by launching a camcorder in September that produces both movies and still pictures. [News.com]
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- Car market next chip bonanza - Sales of computer chips for in-car navigation systems will jump sevenfold to $1.7 billion by 2001, as tracking systems become standard equipment in cars, market researcher Dataquest said today. [News.com]
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- Castanet shaking Java-centric focus - Castanet: it's not just for Java anymore. [News.com]
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- CBS stations to sell classifieds - Ten CBS television affiliates are jumping into online classified advertising, hoping to grab a share of a $17 billion market that historically has been dominated by local newspapers. [News.com]
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- CDA dead--permanently - The judges who first deemed the Communications Decency Act unconstitutional have quietly signed the law's official death certificate. [News.com]
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- Centennial restarts with new CEO - It's been a rough year for Centennial Technologies (CENL), but today the company tried for a fresh start with the announcement of a new president and chief executive. [News.com]
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- Certicom offers alternative to RSA - Canadian company Certicom is making inroads into the encryption market by giving users the option of using its elliptic curve cryptography rather than the more common RSA Data Security code. [News.com]
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- CheckFree's progress misses mark - Despite missing analysts' expectations, CheckFree (CKFR) grew its revenue and shrunk its losses. [News.com]
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- China develops color LCDs - China has begun production of color liquid crystal display (LCD) systems after three years of research by the Dalian Dongfang Computer Holding Company (Dongfang), the Xinhua news agency said. [News.com]
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- Cisco earnings top 30 percent - Cisco Systems (CSCO) capped a strong year with fourth-quarter growth of over 30 percent. [News.com]
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- Cisco to build Taiwan lab - Cisco Systems (CSCO) today announced it will build its first laboratory outside the United States via a joint venture in Taiwan. [News.com]
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- CitySearch partners with WebTV - In an announcement that has some industry watchers scratching their heads, CitySearch, which competes with Microsoft's (MSFT) localized content service Sidewalk, announced today that it has cut a deal with WebTV. [News.com]
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- Clancy adds star quality to Net game - Best-selling author Tom Clancy is jumping into the online gaming arena by offering his name for a new book and multimedia game to be released this fall. [News.com]
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- Clarify organizes customer service - In an effort to streamline communications between computer customers and vendors, Clarify today rolled out a new customer service delivery system. [News.com]
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- Clinton vows to be ready for 2000 - President Bill Clinton has pledged government computers would not be plagued by the millennium bug, a flaw that will have some systems mistakenly calculating the year 2000 as 1900. [News.com]
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- Cloners, Apple haggle over OS - Despite continued haggling with Apple (AAPL), clone vendors will ship the latest operating system from Apple because they maintain they already have the right to do so. [News.com]
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- Colleges assailed for SSN use - Valerie Kurkas isn't a privacy expert, but she knows what can happen if Social Security numbers fall into the wrong hands--more so in the digital age. [News.com]
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- Comcast posts loss, sells Nextel stake - Comcast (CMCSA) reported a second-quarter loss due to various start-up costs and said it sold its remaining position in Nextel Communications (NXTL) last month for $73.4 million. [News.com]
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- Commerce One wins over MCI - Internet commerce vendor Commerce One has scored a major win in the business-to-business space, signing up MCI Communications (MCIC) to host supplier catalogs for Commerce One's procurement system. [News.com]
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- Communicator in 3 new flavors - Netscape Communications (NSCP) is continuing its Communicator rollout with three new versions of the software suite for the retail market. [News.com]
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- Compaq cuts notebook prices - Compaq (CPQ) cut prices on high-end notebook computer models today: the company's mantra continues to be "market share, market share." [News.com]
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- Compaq partners with SCO - Compaq (CPQ) and Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), a leading supplier of Unix software, have signed a contract establishing a "strategic alliance" which targets large corporate customers who use the Unix operating system. [News.com]
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- Compaq slashes notebook prices - Compaq Computer made cuts of up to 25 percent today on its low-end and midrange Armada notebook PC lines. The discounts come amid price reductions by other major notebook vendors, including Hewlett-Packard, Acer America, Apple Computer, and Toshiba. [News.com]
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- Compaq-Tandem deal approved - Tandem Computer (TDM) shareholders voted overwhelmingly today to approve the company's acquisition by giant PC maker Compaq Computer (CPQ). [News.com]
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- CompUSA earnings set records - Crediting "standout" sales, computer superstore chain CompUSA (CPU) is reporting record fiscal fourth-quarter profits that represent a 94 percent increase and beat analysts' forecasts. [News.com]
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- CompuServe could still see spin-off - Even as buyout rumors engulf CompuServe (CSRV), following yet another executive's departure, analysts say it is more likely that H&R Block will go back to its original plan and complete a spin-off of the online service. [News.com]
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- CompuServe stock surge brief - CompuServe (CSRV) today saw its stock briefly rise as high as 5.7 percent in morning trading, after it shrunk its first-quarter loss, exceeded forecasts by Wall Street analysts, and announced plans for flat-rate pricing yesterday. [News.com]
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- CompuServe to offer flat rate - CompuServe (CSRV) said today that it plans to introduce a $24.95 monthly flat-rate price as of October 1, hoping that its reputation for network speed and reliability will be worth the extra money. [News.com]
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- CompuServe traffics overseas - CompuServe Network Services struck deals with four major international networks today to carry Net traffic throughout Europe and Asia. [News.com]
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- CompuServe's Web launch coming - CompuServe (CSRV), in its continuing efforts to get back to profitability, is expanding its foray onto the Web. [News.com]
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- CompuServer now ClickOver CEO - Just a few weeks ago, Scott Kauffman, vice president of interactive services for CompuServe (CSRV), was making inspirational speeches to his colleagues in Ohio about the embattled online service's future. [News.com]
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- Computer stocks' surge no fluke - Six weeks of booming growth have helped computer companies overcome seasonal depression. [News.com]
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- Copyright bill splits PC industry - In May, graphics software company SciTech received an email threat: Hand over $25,000 or we'll post instructions on the Internet telling users how disable your 30-day trial timer and keep using your software for free. The blackmailer's big mistake was not hacking copyrighted software, but asking the company for money. [News.com]
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- CORBA crusader hired on at Novell - The man responsible for making CORBA a household acronym at Internet software companies is embarking on a new crusade. [News.com]
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- Corel tweaks Java strategy - Corel is adding a new twist to its Java strategy to make network computers--including its own--more appealing to corporate users, CEO Michael Cowpland said today. [News.com]
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- Cray fires shot on supercomputers - The president of Cray Research and other company executives testified today before the U.S. International Trade Commission, saying that Japanese manufacturers have doubled their market share for supercomputers over the past four years by offering vector supercomputers at prices well below development costs. [News.com]
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- Cray wins dumping suit - Cray Research won a victory in the Court of International Trade's affirmation of a ruling that NEC and Fujitsu have violated U.S. antidumping laws by selling supercomputers at less than fair value in the U.S. [News.com]
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- Credit cards still seen as No. 1 - Most consumers will use credit cards, not e-cash or smart cards, to make purchases over the Internet, according to a new study from research institute SRI Consulting. [News.com]
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- Credit report site pulled - Just one day after launching its online credit report service, credit bureau Experian has pulled the service from the Web because of technical glitches, company officials told CNET's NEWS.COM today. [News.com]
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- Credit reports taken off Net - Just one day after launching its online credit report service, credit bureau Experian has pulled the service off the Web because of technical problems, company representatives told CNET's NEWS.COM today. [News.com]
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- Crypto ruling impact unclear - While university professor Daniel Bernstein celebrates his most recent victory in a court battle challenging governmental restrictions on the export of encryption, attorneys and academics were still trying to figure out what yesterday's federal court ruling means for the high-tech industry. [News.com]
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- Cyber Promotions under siege - The most well-known spammer on the Net, Cyber Promotions, is under siege. [News.com]
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- CyberCash raises equity capital - E-commerce firm CyberCash said it raised $15 million in equity capital through a private placement. [News.com]
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- CyberCash, Security First get cash - Online financial services firms CyberCash and Security First have both announced infusions of approximately $15 million through private placements. [News.com]
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- Cyrix issues chip recall - Cyrix (CYRK) has recalled some 10,000 of its 200-MHz 6x86MX processors after discovering higher-than-average failure rates. [News.com]
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- Death penalty lifted against UUNet - Usenet activists are lifting a "death penalty" against backbone Internet provider UUNet (UUNT), saying that spam from the ISP's customers to newsgroups has dropped so dramatically that the action is no longer necessary. [News.com]
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- Dell gains in Europe - Dell Computer said today soaring server sales powered a 42-percent rise in European sales, to $620 million, in its fiscal second quarter, despite the effects of the strong dollar in two key markets. [News.com]
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- Dell notebook comes loaded - Dell Computer (DELL) will give notebook aficionados just about everything they need in a notebook for well under $3,000, including a large high-quality screen, an MMX Pentium processor, and a fast CD-ROM drive. [News.com]
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- Dell numbers surpass expectations - Dell Computer (DELL), which saw its server sales capture a larger portion of revenues, today posted second-quarter results that beat expectations. [News.com]
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- Dell offers PC leasing - Dell Computer (DELL) announced the establishment of a new business unit devoted to pursuing the consumer market, and the introduction of a new personal leasing option for consumers intended to spur repeat sales of PCs. [News.com]
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- Dell unaffected by UPS strike - Dell Computer (DELL), the leader in direct PC sales, said the United Parcel Service strike was having no impact on its operations. [News.com]
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- Digital cuts notebook prices - Digital (DEC) cut prices today on its HiNote VP 500 line of notebook computers, by an average of 11 percent. [News.com]
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- Digital High plan approved - California Gov. Pete Wilson signed the long-overdue state budget yesterday, approving $100 million for the Digital High School initiative, aimed at grooming graduating seniors for high-tech jobs. [News.com]
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- Digital moves to bar Intel claim - Digital Equipment (DEC), in a move to keep its patent infringement suit against Intel (INTC)on track, argued in court this week that claims by the chip maker should not be allowed to complicate the case. [News.com]
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- Digital sheds printer business - Digital Equipment (DEC) has sold its printing systems business to Genicom (GECM), and rumors are swirling that the company is planning to sell off other divisions. [News.com]
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- Digital to ship SAP R/3 on servers - Digital Equipment (DEC) has rolled out a series of servers bundled with business application software from SAP. [News.com]
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- Digital TV gets a step closer - Lacking support from both television broadcasters and other computer companies for their own digital television standards, Compaq, Microsoft, and Intel will work with Lucent Technologies to speed the deployment of digital television technology in computers and televisions along lines favored by the broadcasting industry. [News.com]
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- Digital unveils "big screen" portable - Digital is set to ship one of the first of a new breed of portables that have panoramic, 14.1-inch LCD displays, which are equivalent in screen real estate to a 15- or some 17-inch desktop CRT monitors. [News.com]
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- Doctor malpractice info online - If a California-licensed physician or surgeon has been sued for malpractice, disciplined by the state medical board, or terminated from a hospital, Netizens will be able to access that information online, according to a new law. [News.com]
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- DOJ appeals crypto ruling - Justice Department lawyers asked a federal court yesterday to delay allowing Professor Daniel Bernstein to publish a version of his computer encoding and decoding software on the Internet. [News.com]
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- DOJ probes Microsoft buyouts - Microsoft (MSFT) said tonight that it is under investigation by the Justice Department for its acquisitions and investments in the video streaming market. [News.com]
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- DOJ scrutinizes Microsoft buyouts - The Justice Department is probing Microsoft (MSFT) for its acquisitions and investments in the video streaming market, as well its stake in Apple Computer. [News.com]
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- Domain enemies battle out of court - Network Solutions today canceled a hearing for a permanent restraining order against the AlterNIC because the two are negotiating an out-of-court settlement, according to a Network Solutions spokesman. [News.com]
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- Domain name strategy outlined - In a step designed to foster business use of the Net, the Internet Society has outlined its plan to end Network Solutions' monopoly on the registration of domain names to the Commerce Department. [News.com]
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- DoubleClick networks in Asia - Internet advertising network DoubleClick announced today that it will launch DoubleClick Japan, a network focused on the Pacific Rim. [News.com]
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- Dow Jones doing tech, money site - Dow Jones & Company (DJ) apparently is gearing up to expand its online offerings in technology and personal finance, part of a package that will cost $29 to $49 annually. [News.com]
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- Dow Jones gets more secure - VeriSign will develop a digital security infrastructure for Dow Jones Markets' intranet-based financial information and transaction applications, the companies announced today. [News.com]
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- DRAM prices drag Micron down - As worldwide DRAM prices continue to fall, Wall Street's estimation of DRAM maker Micron Technology (MU) has fallen along with them. [News.com]
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- DVD forum courting NEC - The DVD Forum, a group of ten digital versatile disc developers led by Toshiba, will ask NEC Computer to join the group in an effort to avert a format war over next-generation rewritable data storage discs, a Toshiba spokesman said today. [News.com]
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- E*Trade accepts e-checks - Online brokerage E*Trade (EGRP) now lets investors transfer cash into their brokerage accounts from their checking accounts over the Internet. [News.com]
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- E-commerce duo may be unstoppable - Hewlett-Packard's (HWP) acquisition of VeriFone this year has created a major player in Internet commerce, a new report concludes. [News.com]
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- E-commerce software courts MS - Inex has announced a catalog and Web storefront management tool to work with Microsoft's (MSFT) Site Server, enterprise edition. [News.com]
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- E-commerce venture on slow road - The Internet commerce joint venture of SAP and Intel (INTC) is planning a slow ramp-up over the next year and a half, despite its vast long-term potential, SAP officials said. [News.com]
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- E-trading commissions to multiply - Who says nobody has figured out how to make money on the Internet? [News.com]
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- EarthLink to refile harsh SEC report - EarthLink Network's (ELNK) stock fell nearly 14 percent in early trading today after the company filed an unintentionally harsh financial report yesterday, which it then rescinded. [News.com]
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- EarthLink tones down SEC filing - EarthLink Network (ELNK) tried to mend its wounds today by filing a softer financial report, after a harshly worded SEC filing sunk its stock about 14 percent. [News.com]
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- Egghead makes direct sales pitch - Hoping to grab a share of the direct software market, shareholders of struggling retail vendor Egghead Software (EGGS) today approved the acquisition of Surplus Direct, a direct marketer of computers and software, in a $31.5 million stock swap deal. [News.com]
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- Eight-way servers on tap - Four- and eight-way servers, along with "hot plug" technology that allow users to swap out network cards and other components without turning a server off, are the foundation of Compaq Computer's (CPQ) efforts to get into the enterprise-class server market. [News.com]
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- Ellison says he'll join Apple board - Oracle (ORCL) chairman and chief executive Larry Ellison said in a published interview that he expects to be named to the board of Apple Computer (AAPL) as part of a new management team headed by Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. [News.com]
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- Elvis crypto has not left the building - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) said today that Russian-made encryption software based on Sun technology has slipped its ship date with no revised schedule. [News.com]
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- Elvis site-ings reported - Amid this week's 20th anniversary of the singer's popularly disputed death, Elvis Presley sites are as common as Elvis Presley sightings and as busy as the King's hips on the Ed Sullivan show. [News.com]
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- Entrust fills in its email strategy - Aiming to be the glue that ties together secure email systems for giant companies, Entrust Technologies today said its plug-ins for two Microsoft (MSFT) email products are now shipping. Plug-ins for other email packages go into beta this month. [News.com]
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- Entrust to enter SET fray - Entrust Technologies, which builds software to issue digital certificates for corporations, will announce next week that it's jumping into the certificate business for secure credit card purchases over the Internet. [News.com]
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- Excite promotion to build brand - In its latest attempt to draw eyeballs, search engine Excite (XCIT) has announced a reward for the discovery of the real "Dot Com." [News.com]
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- Excite stock rocketing - Excite's (XCIT) stock has rocketed in the last two days, driven by better-than-expected results from competitor Lycos (LCOS) and a dose of positive reinforcement from analysts. [News.com]
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- Experian to help email marketers - Fresh from its failure to provide secure online credit reports, credit bureau Experian is teaming with two other companies to create a massive marketing database that critics say will only create more bulk email. [News.com]
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- Exponential patents buyer undisclosed - A single, undisclosed buyer scooped up all 45 of the pending and issued patents of defunct vendor Exponential Technology in the final round of a sealed-bid auction last Friday, but fingers are pointing at Intel. [News.com]
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- Exponential patents on auction - The next two weeks may be crucial to Intel's hammerlock on the microprocessor industry. [News.com]
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- Fast Pentium IIs fall to desktops - Intel's (INTC) fastest Pentium II microprocessor, currently found only in the premier NT workstation and server computers, will make its way into PCs by late this quarter or early the next. [News.com]
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- FCC's Kennard to replace Hundt - President Clinton said today that he has named a replacement for outgoing Federal Communications Commission chairman Reed Hundt, who announced his resignation in May. [News.com]
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- Fed sites living in glass houses - While the Clinton administration is pressuring companies with Internet sites to respect the privacy of Web surfers, a new survey finds the government itself is far from perfect. [News.com]
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- Final Netcaster needs Communicator upgrade - If you want to use Netcaster, don't get too attached to your current browser. When Netscape Communications (NSCP) releases the final version of Netcaster--its all-Java "push" channel software--this month, you'll have to download a new version of Communicator with it. [News.com]
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- Firewall appliance market takes off - A firewall software firm called Technologic is joining the move toward firewall appliances, hardware devices that are bundled with firewall software to keep outside intruders off corporate networks and control access to sensitive data within an organization. [News.com]
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- Firms focus on Net ads - Two companies announced new programs yesterday to put more power into the hands of businesses interested in advertising on the Internet. [News.com]
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- First Year 2000 case goes to court - In the first of what could be a blizzard of related suits, a Detroit-area produce supplier has filed suit because its cash registers can't handle sales billed to credit cards expiring in the year 2000. [News.com]
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- Foiling the millennium bug - Some computer users could avoid the millennium bug, which threatens to bring computers crashing down at the start of the year 2000, simply by turning off their machines on New Year's Eve 1999, Britain's weekly New Scientist magazine said today. [News.com]
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- France to support Net, not Minitel - Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, seeking to move France more quickly on the Internet, said today that the print media would be given public subsidies to put their content on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Free crypto plan could hurt RSA - In a move that could undermine an old rival, Cylink (CYLK) is licensing its security technology free to Phaos Technology for incorporation into Phaos's Java-based security toolkit. [News.com]
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- Freelancers spurned in rights case - Freelance writers can have their work reprinted into electronic forms without their consent or compensation from publishers, a New York judge has ruled. [News.com]
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- FrontPage 98 going beta - Microsoft (MSFT) will give Web designers next week a beta version of FrontPage 98, the latest edition of its Web site authoring and management tool. [News.com]
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- FTC goes after domain broker - An Australian company's Net domain registry, at "www.internic.com," is under fire by the Federal Trade Commission today. [News.com]
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- FTC probes Chips, Intel deal - The Federal Trade Commission has requested additional information from Chips and Technologies (CHPS) regarding Intel's (INTC) offer to buy all the outstanding shares of the San Jose, California-based graphics chip manufacturer. [News.com]
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- FTC warns of coupon scams - Netizens, beware: New scams are circulating on the Web. [News.com]
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- Fuji-Kodak dispute moves to Net - Fuji Photo Film has moved to cyberspace with a public relations campaign to counteract a complaint by Eastman Kodak that Japan has thwarted foreign competition in its photo film market. [News.com]
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- Fujitsu scans the Web - The paperless office isn't here yet, so Fujitsu Computer Products of America is offering a way to reduce piles of paper with a new hardware and software package that will help companies scan and publish documents to the Internet and intranets. [News.com]
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- Gambling site beta rolls out - Net gambling has another player. [News.com]
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- Gamer's AOL contract zapped - America Online (AOL) suffered slings and arrows today from MetaCreations, a longtime content provider that charged AOL with abruptly canceling its online game contract, affecting 80,000 subscribers. [News.com]
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- Gateway plans NT workstations - Gateway 2000 (GTW) announced it will deliver a series of NT workstations based on the Intel Pentium II processor by the end of this year. [News.com]
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- Gateway to open call center - Gateway 2000 said that it has chosen Colorado Springs, Colorado, as the site for a new technical support call center. [News.com]
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- General Magic redoes board - General Magic (GMGC) today announced the appointment of three new directors, doubling the board's size. [News.com]
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- General Magic: Good show - General Magic (GMGC) has shrunk its losses by sharply cutting operating expenses for the second quarter ended June 30. [News.com]
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- German telco buys into Net phones - Europe's largest telecommunications company is dipping into the telephony business: Deutsche Telekom has bought a 21.1 percent stake in VocalTec Communications. [News.com]
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- Gift registry wedded to Web - Watch out, Macy's. The newest place for high-tech couples to register for their gifts may not even be in your ballpark if they're looking for housing in Silicon Valley. [News.com]
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- Graphics chips to support AGP - Graphics chips companies are quickly jumping on the bandwagon in support of a new Intel (INTC) technology that should make 3D graphics a more affordable option for computers. [News.com]
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- GTE to upgrade ISP email - GTE Internet Solutions, the ISP arm of the GTE (GTE) phone company, will announce next week that it's upgrading its email infrastructure using software from Software.com. [News.com]
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- GTE-BBN merger complete - GTE (GTE) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of BBN (BBN), which has become a wholly owned subsidiary of GTE, in a deal worth roughly $616 million. [News.com]
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- Harvard to host class online - Harvard University will offer its first course held entirely over the Internet this fall, but only for students in a technical graduate course. [News.com]
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- Hawaiian TV station to go digital - An ABC affiliate in Honolulu is gearing up to become the first TV station in the country to transform itself into a fully digital operation. [News.com]
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- Head scientist leaves Apple - Apple Computer's (AAPL) head scientist, Lawrence Tesler, has left the computer maker for a start-up software company just as Apple is about to unveil new products and a new business strategy. [News.com]
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- Hewlett-Packard plays catch-up - Hewlett-Packard (HWP), seen as an Internet laggard even by some of its own managers, is readying a new initiative to raise its Net profile and give crucial resellers of its hardware an Internet story to sell. [News.com]
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- High-tech political donations jump - After years of acting aloof from the Washington political scene, the computer industry is finally throwing its weight around in the realm of political donations. [News.com]
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- How Dell stocks up vs. Gateway - When Dell Computer (DELL) reported its second quarter today its net profits doubled and its revenues grew by leaps and bounds. [News.com]
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- HP abandons India plant plans - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) has abandoned plans to locate a $400 million inkjet printer plant in India, the head of the company's India unit said on Friday. [News.com]
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- HP centralizes distributed apps - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) today announced a new release of its Distributed Computing Environment (DCE/9000) software, due to ship by year's end. [News.com]
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- HP debuts all-in-one printer - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) today will introduce a $600 combination fax, printer, and copier for small businesses and home offices, expanding its products in the fast-growing market segment. [News.com]
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- HP does 3D graphics workstations - Powerful 3D graphics, the strong suit of Unix workstations, were brought to Windows NT systems by Hewlett-Packard (HWP) at Siggraph 97 today. [News.com]
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- HP misses the mark - Falling short of Wall Street expectations, Hewlett-Packard (HWP) today reported a moderate fiscal third-quarter net income because of slow medical equipment sales and higher costs. [News.com]
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- HP slashes OmniBook prices - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) today cut list prices by up to 17 percent on its line of HP OmniBook notebook personal computers. [News.com]
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- Hundreds of films come to DVD - A raft of new DVD movies from major Hollywood studios could provide a boost to the fledgling digital video disc industry, which has been in dire need of more titles. [News.com]
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- IBM adopts Cyrix 6x86 chip - IBM (IBM) has become the first top-tier U.S. PC manufacturer to adopt Cyrix's (CYRX) 6x86 Pentium-compatible processor, offering proof that Cyrix continues to make headway with its processors. [News.com]
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- IBM ads to target small business - IBM (IBM) will reportedly launch an advertising campaign Saturday aimed at owners of small businesses. [News.com]
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- IBM brings SAP closer to home - In a continuing effort to expand into the small business market, SAP and IBM (IBM) today announced joint packages to be debuted at next week's Sapphire '97 conference in Orlando, Florida. [News.com]
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- IBM centralizes telco management - IBM (IBM) will soon offer telecommunications firms management tools that can be viewed from the popular TME 10 platform of Big Blue subsidiary Tivoli Systems. [News.com]
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- IBM challenges Dell - IBM (IBM) has announced an addition to its line of desktop PCs for the corporate market that will be priced to compete more aggressively against direct vendors such as Dell. [News.com]
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- IBM cuts workstation prices - IBM announced aggressive price cuts on IntelliStation models, including a 20-percent reduction on its new 300-MHz IntelliStation M Pro Model 36U. [News.com]
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- IBM Japan to slash PC prices - IBM Japan will slash wholesale prices on personal computers by up to 15 percent to stimulate flagging demand, a major Japanese financial daily reported. [News.com]
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- IBM Japan, Kojima to sell direct - IBM Japan and major home electronics retail chain Kojima have begun cooperating on a direct-order sales scheme for personal computers, sources from the two firms said Thursday. [News.com]
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- IBM ships speech software - IBM (IBM) has rolled out speech recognition software that lets users dictate commands and documents. [News.com]
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- IBM to resell BEA Systems software - BEA Systems (BEAS) said today that IBM (IBM) RS/6000 division agreed to resell BEA's transaction software. [News.com]
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- IBM, General Patent settle suit - International technology transfer company General Patent said today it had reached an out-of-court settlement in its patent infringement suit with IBM (IBM). [News.com]
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- IDSI to buy purchasing firm - Intelligent Decision Systems (IDSI) and National Purchasing of Irvine, California, said they signed a letter of intent to merge in a transaction that could be valued at more than $30 million. [News.com]
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- IE 4 to patch in news Web rating - Microsoft (MSFT) won't have built-in support for a proposed "news" rating in its Internet Explorer 4.0 browser, but if the proposed rating is adopted its users will be able to download a file to support it. [News.com]
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- IE 4 to ship September 30 - Microsoft (MSFT) announced today that Internet Explorer 4.0 will be publicly available on September 30. [News.com]
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- IE flaw permits Java mischief - A Java developer in Colorado says he has discovered a flaw in Microsoft's (MSFT) Internet Explorer that lets Java applets make mischief on users' systems. [News.com]
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- India lures high-tech investment - After years of neglect, India is luring foreign high-tech businesses that had avoided setting up shop in the country because of political and infrastructure concerns. [News.com]
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- Informix gets cash infusion - Informix Software (IFMX) said today it has received a $40 million equity investment from Fletcher International Limited. [News.com]
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- Informix hits rock bottom - On the side of Route 101, just a few hundred feet from database software maker Oracle's front door, is a billboard that Informix Software has for years used as a platform for hurling barbs and mild insults at the database software behemoth. Now Oracle might have the last word. [News.com]
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- Informix reports losses, errors - The bad news keeps flowing from database software maker Informix Software (IFMX). [News.com]
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- Infoseek names Les Wright CFO - With the appointment of Les Wright as its chief financial officer, Infoseek (SEEK) has fit one of the last remaining pieces into its management puzzle. [News.com]
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- Injunction blocked in crypto case - A federal judge has temporarily blocked an injunction issued earlier this week in a closely watched case testing government restrictions on the export of encryption, an attorney involved in the case said today. [News.com]
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- Insurer covers cars online - Consumers can buy auto insurance over the Internet under a new program launched by Progressive, believed to the first major U.S. insurer to set up its own Web site to sell policies. [News.com]
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- Integrion buys Visa Interactive - Integrion Financial Network today acquired Visa Interactive, consolidating two major technology providers for online banking. [News.com]
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- Intel charts course for Pentium II - Intel (INTC) today detailed the road map for the Pentium II processor, which includes new Pentium IIs running at 333 MHz when they debut in 1998 and chips running as fast as 400 MHz later in the year. [News.com]
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- Intel files suit against Digital - Intel (INTC) has filed a lawsuit against Digital Equipment (DEC) attacking the chipmaker over 14 key technologies. [News.com]
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- Intel gets PCs under control - Intel (INTC) has released the next wave of technology intended to make the PC more manageable. [News.com]
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- Intel has new chipset for 3D graphics - New chips and software that optimize how computers process 3D graphics were announced today by Intel. Pentium II systems based on this technology will follow, albeit gradually. [News.com]
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- Intel links PCs, support software - Chip giant Intel (INTC) announced a new software module that will allow support personnel to extract information from desktops when users call with a problem, a key element in an industrywide effort to reduce the costs associated with PCs. [News.com]
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- Intel merger raises concerns - Intel's (INTC) buyout of Chips and Technologies has raised questions about a potentially anticompetitive fallout from the deal. [News.com]
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- Intel pushes into notebook market - Further evidence of Intel's (INTC) aggressive push into the notebook PC space will surface next month when the company brings the first of a series of desktop-class processors to the notebook PC market. The processors will quickly find their way into redesigned, high-speed Pentium MMX laptops. [News.com]
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- Intel tells Japan to cut PC prices - Intel (INTC) has recommended that major Japanese personal computer makers ought to cut their prices to stimulate the market, industry sources are reportedly saying. [News.com]
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- Intel Tillamook chip coming - Tillamook, Intel's new Pentium MMX processor for mobile computers, will be released on September 8 at a press conference at the company's Santa Clara, California, headquarters. [News.com]
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- Intel, 3Com battle for Ethernet - 3Com says it's leading, Intel says it's growing. They're both right. [News.com]
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- Intel, universities in research pact - A computing center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will join Intel (INTC) and the University of California, Berkeley, to create a new "system of computer systems" to do research and evaluate technologies for new supercomputers. [News.com]
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- Internet an addiction? - The Internet has joined the ranks of gambling and alcohol as an addiction that people use to escape from real life, a new study says. [News.com]
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- Iris posts antidote for disk virus - Israel's Iris Software announced today that it had developed a cure for the One-Half virus, which has plagued computers for more than two years. [News.com]
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- IRS to overhaul its system - Information technology consulting firm Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has put together a team of information services firms in pursuit of the Internal Revenue Service's Modernization PRIME Integration Services contract. [News.com]
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- ISP lawsuit charges spam scam - Saying it is fed up with online scams, Concentric Network (CNCX) has filed a lawsuit charging that fraudulent email is being sent to the ISP's subscribers. [News.com]
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- ISP price trend not clear - Analysts agree on at least one thing about CompuServe's (CSRV) new $24.95 monthly flat-rate price: It's about time. [News.com]
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- ISPs find safety in small numbers - When Terry Womack offered Net access in Duncan, Oklahoma, two years ago, it made the front page of the small town's newspaper. [News.com]
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- It's official: Jobs sold Apple stock - Ending a brief mystery he created, cofounder Steve Jobs disclosed in an interview that he sold 1.5 million shares of Apple Computer stock two months ago because he had lost faith in the company. [News.com]
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- Japan ISP sues spammer - Tokyo-based Internet service provider Typhoon has filed a lawsuit against Paging America, alleging the pager company flooded its servers and placed a false Typhoon return address on unsolicited junk email. [News.com]
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- Java bug demo has its own flaw - First and foremost, it's a cautionary tale. The Java developer whose Web site demonstrates a flaw in Microsoft's (MSFT) Internet Explorer had to disable his demo because the applet he wrote was itself flawed. [News.com]
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- Java questions answered - Java, the programming language first developed by Sun Microsystems seven years ago for consumer devices such as set-top boxes, has been hyped using countless coffee puns as everything from a software developer's dream to a Windows killer. [News.com]
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- Jobs memo outlines cost-cutting - An internal memo from cofounder Steve Jobs to employees of Apple Computer (AAPL) today outlined reduced compensation and severance packages. [News.com]
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- Jobs memo trims Apple perks - Steve Jobs's plans to slash perks at Apple Computer (AAPL) may amount to treating symptoms rather than the disease. [News.com]
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- Jobs names new Apple board - Apple Computer (AAPL) cofounder Steve Jobs announced new board members and an expanded partnership with Microsoft during an upbeat keynote here at this week's Macworld Expo Boston. [News.com]
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- Jobs offers tough love for Apple - Making his entrance to 36 seconds of thunderous applause here at Macworld Expo, it was an older, wiser Steve Jobs who said that the fading Apple Computer can still be healthy--as long as it's realistic. [News.com]
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- Journalists meeting on ratings - A group of media companies are holding a private meeting in New York tomorrow to discuss the idea of applying a "news" label to their Web content in order to bypass technology that censors violent or sexual Net sites. [News.com]
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- Journalists weigh in on news ratings - More journalists are taking sides today over whether an "N" rating should be applied to online news sites in order to skirt technology that blocks violent, sexual, and crude content. [News.com]
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- Keywords said to violate trademark - A recent lawsuit involving alleged Net trademark infringement, among the first to focus on the unauthorized use of hidden keywords used to identify Web pages, is gaining attention from lawyers and site operators across the country. [News.com]
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- Kodak debuts digital camera kit - Eastman Kodak (EK) has released an all-in-one hardware and software bundle for digital photography that will allow users to take pictures and then send them through email or post them on a Web site. [News.com]
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- Kodak launches Picture Network - Eastman Kodak (EK) was founded in 1888 on the motto that says "you push the button, we do the rest." Now, the camera maker is pitching the same message to Web surfers and online publishers. [News.com]
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- Large ISPs feel the pinch - After migrating to flat-rate pricing at about $20 a month, Internet access providers are facing a shakeup in their industry. Ironically, the small, local ISPs are more likely to find a port in the coming storm as they are able to provide customers with a reliable network and hands-on service, both of which have been a challenge for larger players. America Online may be looking to advertising and marketing deals to boost revenues, but CompuServe is moving away from industry-standard monthly fees. [News.com]
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- Latest crypto ruling appealed - U.S. attorneys intend to file an emergency appeal to stay an injunction issued in a closely watched case testing the government's restrictions on encryption, an attorney involved in the case said today. [News.com]
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- Latest PowerPC chips debut - Motorola (MOT) and IBM (IBM) today introduced two completely redesigned PowerPC processors and a super-fast version of an existing design. [News.com]
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- Law on fake child porn upheld - A federal judge here today upheld the Child Pornography Prevention Act, which makes it a felony to create computer images depicting "simulated" sex with minors. [News.com]
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- Libel suit could chill Net publishing - After a $30 million lawsuit was filed against Internet columnist Matt Drudge and America Online (AOL), some Web publishers are scrambling to read up on such issues as "libel" and "reckless disregard of truth." [News.com]
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- Local ISPs may survive shakeout - In another doomsday pronouncement for Internet service providers, the Gartner Group predicted today that a large majority of the 4,500 ISPs in the United States will be forced out of business in the next five years. [News.com]
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- LookSmart to be ISP home page - Reader's Digest subsidiary LookSmart today launched a content partnership with Internet service providers, the latest effort by a print media giant to print money on the Net. [News.com]
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- Lost sales sink Komag stock - Komag (KMAG), a maker of thin-film components for disk drives, today saw its shares fall as much as 16.4 percent in morning trading, after it said it will close two plants and cut up to 350 jobs in a restructuring prompted by declining orders from one of its largest customers. [News.com]
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- Lotus makes SAP connection - Lotus Development will give users of its desktop applications easier access to data stored in SAP's R/3 business software with an updated SmartSuite Bonus Pack due to ship later this fall. [News.com]
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- Lotus ships Domino Web server - Lotus said today that its basic Web server package, bundled with tools for authoring and JavaBeans, is now available for download from its Web site for $200 less than was previously announced. [News.com]
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- Lukewarm response on domains - The Commerce Department's request for public comment on administration of the Internet's domain naming system drew about 300 filed responses, but most of the major commercial online players remained silent. [News.com]
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- Lycos lights up search sector - Look out, Yahoo (YHOO) and Excite (XCIT). The race isn't over yet. [News.com]
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- Lycos rallies on e-commerce deal - Lycos (LCOS) stock shot up 20 percent today after the search engine company announced a three-year e-commerce partnership with BarnesandNoble.com. [News.com]
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- Lycos up on smaller losses - Lycos (LCOS) shares rose as much as 7.5 percent in trading this morning after the search engine company's fourth-quarter performance beat expectations. [News.com]
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- Mac clone notebooks still in limbo - Apple's (AAPL) strategy to rein in Macintosh clone manufacturers extends to entire product markets that Apple would prefer to keep to itself--most vitally, notebook computers. [News.com]
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- Mac cloner loses president - Power Computing today announced the resignation of its president and chief operating officer, Joel Kocher. [News.com]
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- Mac cloners to bundle Virtual PC - Connectix, a developer of Macintosh software utilities, today said that its PC emulation software will be bundled on the systems of all major Macintosh clone vendors. [News.com]
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- Mac OS 8 sales on fire - Apple Computer (AAPL) says sales for the recently released Mac OS 8 have exceeded expectations by fourfold. [News.com]
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- Macworld: Once again, from the top - Macworld used to be a showcase event for Apple Computer (AAPL), a sort of high-tech cotillion featuring the hottest technologies replete with the glitz and glamour befitting the industry's riches. Now, it has become a gathering place for a virtual deathwatch on a company that once defined the elan of Silicon Valley. [News.com]
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- Managing PCs after hours - Computer Associates and Advanced Micro Devices today said they have integrated their desktop management programs, creating a package that allows system managers to perform a variety of maintenance operations even when networked PCs are turned off. [News.com]
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- Manzi fights over Nets Inc. loan - Nets Incorporated's former chief executive Jim Manzi says he lent the bankrupt company around $1.7 million--and now he wants to be among the first creditors to collect. [News.com]
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- Market yawns at Concentric IPO - Concentric Network (CNCX) today left the IPO chute at a less exorbitant rate of speed than other recent high-flying technology offerings. [News.com]
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- Mars rover heads uphill - The Mars rover is set to embark on its most ambitious journey yet--a hike up a hill that will give scientists a new view of the Red Planet. [News.com]
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- Martha Stewart to spruce up Web - Martha Stewart, the happy homemaker of the 1990s, discloses in her magazine's latest edition that she is launching a Web site September 8. [News.com]
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- Massachusetts stalls ISP taxes - Declaring Massachusetts an "Internet tax-free zone," acting governor Paul Cellucci declared a 16-month moratorium on collecting a 5 percent sales tax from Internet service providers. [News.com]
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- McAfee rolls up Net security - McAfee (MCAF) today announced new security products and a management console that, combined with traditional McAfee virus-fighting software, guard desktop machines, servers, and Internet gateways from external and internal threats. [News.com]
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- McAfee sues for $1 billion - Like cats and dogs, McAfee (MCAF) and Symantec (SYMC) are at it again in the latest battle of the virus busters. [News.com]
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- MCI, BT rethink merger terms - MCI Communications said late yesterday it was in talks with British Telecommunications about the terms of their $28.7 billion merger and that it could not guarantee the outcome. [News.com]
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- Microcontroller hits 200 MHz - NEC Computer said it will debut a powerful microcontroller today at the Hot Chips IX conference in Palo Alto, California, featuring MPEG-2 full-motion video playback and high-speed Rambus memory technology. [News.com]
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- Micron to spark price war in Japan - Capitalizing on the rising acceptance of U.S. PCs, the Japanese division of Micron Electronics (MU) has announced plans to become the low-price leader in Japan within three years, according to a report in Nikkei Personal Computing, a major Japanese computer publication. [News.com]
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- Micronics to lay off 30 percent - As sales to equipment manufacturers and government markets deteriorate, troubled Micronics Computers is planning to chop its workforce by 30 percent. [News.com]
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- Microsoft extends its stream - Everybody who's anybody in the streaming media market seems to be tied to Microsoft (MSFT), which today made another step toward consolidation of the market around its Active Streaming Format with its purchase of VXtreme. [News.com]
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- Microsoft Mac support may change little - While Apple (AAPL) got a boost from Microsoft's (MSFT) renewed commitment to release software for the Macintosh platform, questions remain about whether Microsoft's pledge really means that any new, positive changes will occur at Apple as a result. [News.com]
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- Microsoft plans education software - Mighty Microsoft (MSFT) is muscling into another crowded software sector with its launch next month of the first in a projected line of products to help build children's math and reading skills. [News.com]
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- Microsoft posts Beta 2 of Win 98 - The betas never stop at Microsoft (MSFT). [News.com]
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- Microsoft sees media slowdown - Microsoft's (MSFT) money-losing interactive media group will expand its work force by 15 to 20 percent in the next year, down from a more than 40 percent increase last year, a company executive said today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft touts NT scalability - Microsoft (MSFT) senior researcher James Gray crawled out of his lab to persuade Windows NT devotees at the Windows NT Intranet Solutions conference that the operating system will soon be ready to take on Unix. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Netscape agree on 3D - In a rare sign of unity, Microsoft (MSFT) and Netscape Communications (NSCP) have agreed on a standard for three-dimensional Web technology. [News.com]
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- Microsoft-WebTV deal cleared - After a "thorough investigation," the Justice Department said today that it has approved Microsoft's proposed acquisition of WebTV Networks. [News.com]
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- Microsoft: Yukon ho? - Microsoft (MSFT), which seeks to be as big on the Internet as it is in the software business, will be building one of the last missing blocks in its strategy with a search engine, according to published accounts. [News.com]
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- Millions more may use Explorer - In giving Apple Computer (AAPL) a hand up with the $150 million agreement announced at Macworld today, Microsoft (MSFT) may have managed to simultaneously give rival Netscape Communications (NSCP) a black eye. [News.com]
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- MIT team shows experimental chip - A Massachusetts Institute of Technology research team is working on a powerful new microprocessor architecture for supercomputers. [News.com]
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- Mixed reaction to Apple's message - On the show floor at Macworld Expo today, reaction to Apple's message was mixed, with many Mac fans expressing concern over Microsoft's $150 million investment in the company. [News.com]
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- Mobile Net standards in the works - Nokia, Europe's largest mobile phone maker, said it has sealed a pact with Alcatel, Ericsson, and Siemens to work together on a technology that will carry Internet access, full-motion video, and other digital traffic to wireless communications products. [News.com]
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- More confusion over DVD format - The much-heralded advance of the DVD into the homes and minds of the world's electronics consumers may have hit a speed bump--and it's a bump that looks familiar to consumers and manufacturers alike. [News.com]
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- More network modems for MSN - Software giant Microsoft (MSFT) said today it plans to sharply increase the number of modems available to U.S. members of its Microsoft Network. [News.com]
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- Motorola chips ahead of Intel - Motorola (MOT) demonstrated yesterday that super-fast PowerPC processors should keep Apple Computer ahead in the race for the fastest mobile computer chip. [News.com]
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- Motorola plans large China venture - Motorola reportedly plans to spend more than $200 million to expand a joint semiconductor venture in China's southwestern province of Sichuan. [News.com]
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- Mourning the dead online - A Methodist preacher is taking to the Internet to offer mourners a chance to pay respects at virtual graves. [News.com]
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- Moving? Don't forget to log on - A high-tech dream job can bring home a fat paycheck, creative freedom, and in many cases, the movers. [News.com]
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- MS retools for browser apps - Microsoft (MSFT) has added new features to its Visual Basic development tool to make it easier to create Web-based ActiveX controls. [News.com]
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- MS to invest $150 million in Apple - Microsoft (MSFT) is lending Apple Computer (AAPL) an unexpected and somewhat controversial helping hand. [News.com]
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- MS, Marimba to work on standards - Microsoft (MSFT) and Marimba today proposed what they called the first open industry data format to automate software distribution over the Internet or corporate intranets. [News.com]
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- MS, NEC form alliance - Microsoft (MSFT) and NEC will team up on a series of server and mainframe projects that may help NEC build a brand in the U.S. market while boosting Microsoft's Windows NT efforts in Japan. [News.com]
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- Nat Semi does LCD - National Semiconductor (NSM) and Three-Five Systems (TFS) will develop and manufacture LCD display technology for use in next-generation information appliances and monitors. [News.com]
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- Navigator may be split from Communicator - Netscape Communications has told some of its partners that it will separate Navigator from the Communicator software package and market the browser as a separate product, as it was originally, sources said today. [News.com]
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- Navigator split from Communicator - Saying that it was planned all along, Netscape Communications (NSCP) is offering a standalone version of the Navigator 4.0 browser that includes the Netcaster push software but no email or newsreader client. [News.com]
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- NC standard on the way - The Open Group, a network computer (NC) standards group originally formed and funded by the NC proponents, will establish a testing and branding process for third-party manufacturers that will allow them to ensure customers that their products comply with the NC framework. [News.com]
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- NCI boosts Net TV prospects - Network Computer Incorporated, an Oracle subsidary, says it will deliver technology enabling users to link the Web on their TV screens, a longtime goal of set-top box makers that is expected to make Net access relatively painless. [News.com]
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- NCR turns to Sun Solaris - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) today signed up $7 billion systems stalwart NCR (NCR), adding a giant reseller of its operating system software. [News.com]
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- NEC does five-color printing - NEC Technologies introduced the SuperScript 750C, a color ink jet printer that utilizes a novel five-color printing scheme and variable-drop-size (VDS) technology to improve print quality. [News.com]
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- NEC plans 5.2GB disk - Electronics giant NEC next year will reportedly begin to market a computer disk system that will hold 5.2GB of data, a storage capacity that exceeds the capacity of two other proposed storage technologies, including DVD technology. [News.com]
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- NEC protests chip-dumping verdict - NEC Computer (NIPNY) has blasted the Commerce Department's conclusion that NEC violated U.S. antidumping laws by selling vector supercomputers well below cost, calling the findings "unfounded" and "unfair and biased." [News.com]
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- NEC releases Pentium II server - NEC Computer Systems has released its Pentium II-based LE2200 workgroup server as an inexpensive option for small to medium businesses. [News.com]
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- NEC rolls out new Versas - NEC Computer Systems Division today launched the Versa 2700 series of notebooks and added a new model to its 6000 line. [News.com]
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- NEC unveils four-way servers - NEC Computer (NIPNY) today announced its Express5800 HX server can henceforth incorporate four Pentium Pro processors. [News.com]
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- Net calendaring standard coming - The Internet Engineering Task Force says a standard to make scheduling and calendaring software from multiple vendors communicate over the Net is on track for delivery in October. [News.com]
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- Net crime begs questions: Who to call? - On June 10, out of the blue, Bruce Hovland's business phone started ringing off the hook. The people calling weren't happy. [News.com]
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- Net start-up has rich friends - Start-up Juniper Networks today received a $40 million influx of cash from a wide range of networking powerhouses. [News.com]
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- Net telephony OK'd in Japan - Japanese phone customers are expected to benefit from deregulation of the nation's telecommunications market as Internet providers get the go-ahead to offer international call services at low rates via the Net later this month. [News.com]
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- Net to affect DHL's bottom line - Shipping and distribution company DHL Worldwide Express said it expects to lose as much as 18 percent of its document transport business because of electronic communications. [News.com]
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- Net vendors feel UPS strike pinch - The strike by the Teamsters against United Parcel Service is having serious repercussions in the world of Internet shopping, particularly for smaller retailers. [News.com]
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- Netcaster shipping this week - Netscape Communications (NSCP) will ship its Netcaster "push" channel software this week, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Netcaster to ship this week - Netscape Communications (NSCP) will ship its Netcaster "push" channel software this week with support from media giants Walt Disney Company, Time Incorporated, and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Netcom's CFO jumps ship - Business Objects (BOBJY) today said Netcom Online Communications' (NETC) recently departed chief financial officer Clifton "Thom" Weatherford Jr. would fill its vacant CFO post. [News.com]
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- Netizens blast FTC privacy report - Privacy advocates are charging today that the Federal Trade Commission is underestimating consumers' desire for new laws to protect online privacy. [News.com]
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- Netizens find who's watching them - Edward Allburn makes no bones about his background: "I've been working for the privacy bad guys for the bulk of my career." [News.com]
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- NetObjects slashes price of Fusion 2.0 - Aiming to rapidly grow its user base, Web development tool maker NetObjects today slashed the price of its Fusion 2.0 toolset and announced that it is building a high-end version of the package. [News.com]
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- NeTpower adds new Pentium Pro - NeTpower today announced it's adding Intel's upgraded Pentium Pro with 1MB of L2 cache to its Sparta server product line. [News.com]
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- Netscape add-ons work remotely - Netscape Communications (NSCP) today disclosed its timetable to give Navigator 4.0 users email and calendar capabilities. [News.com]
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- Netscape backtracks on Java flaw - After telling CNET's NEWS.COM yesterday that its software was not affected by a reported Java flaw, Netscape Communications (NSCP) backtracked today and said the problem in fact exists and will be patched in the upcoming version of Communicator. [News.com]
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- Netscape blares browser reports - In the wake of several setbacks this week, Netscape Communications (NSCP) is trumpeting two studies that it says show the company is the clear leader in the Web browser market, but industry analysts say the strongest challenge from rival Microsoft (MSFT) has yet to come. [News.com]
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- Netscape can't shake bug blues - Just two weeks after issuing an updated browser that fixed a series of bugs, Netscape Communications (NSCP) is once again breaking out the bug spray, this time to fix three problems in its just-released Navigator 4.02. [News.com]
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- Netscape communicates with smart cards - Netscape (NSCP) and friends today underscored their support for using smart cards or other hardware tokens for security on corporate networks by unveiling a set of products that will work with the new Communicator 4.0 Web browser. [News.com]
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- Netscape loses KPMG to Microsoft - As Big Six consultancy KPMG Peat Marwick announced it would create a 500-person consulting group devoted to Microsoft (MSFT) standards and technology, it is easy to forget that the consulting partnership was, until recently, a staunch ally of Netscape Communications (NSCP). [News.com]
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- Netscape posts Netcaster - Netscape Communications (NSCP) has posted its Netcaster "push" channel software as expected this evening as part of its upgraded Communicator suite. [News.com]
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- Netscape posts standalone Navigator - Netscape Communications (NSCP) has ended rampant speculation by posting a standalone version of the Navigator 4.x browser on its FTP site. [News.com]
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- Netscape strategy questioned - Netscape Communications (NSCP) is in danger of losing its hard-won presence in Fortune 1,000 corporations, according to a white paper released today by the Aberdeen Group, a market research firm. [News.com]
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- Netscape updates Communicator, Java tool - Netscape Communications (NSCP) has posted an update to its Communicator bundle along and the latest test version of its new Java development tool. [News.com]
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- Netword lets you surf with keywords - A new product lets Net users forget the "dot-com" in Net addresses, if they can remember a simple keyword. [News.com]
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- Networkers gun for remote access - Cabletron Systems (CS) and Bay Networks (BAY) added to their remote access arsenals this week, the latest signs that networking vendors are girding for battle with dollar signs in their eyes. [News.com]
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- New Bay gear dials up ISPs - Bay Networks (BAY) will next week up the ante for remote dial access boxes with the introduction of new gear targeted at corporate networks and midsized Internet service providers. [News.com]
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- New criteria for Microsoft seal - Microsoft (MSFT) has updated the criteria that Windows software developers must follow if they want the official Microsoft seal of approval on their applications. [News.com]
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- New crypto rules deemed unconstitutional - Dealing the U.S. government yet another sharp rebuke, a federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that recently revised regulations limiting the exporting of encryption are unconstitutional. [News.com]
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- New family site launched - For people who find browsing the Internet technologically challenging, help is coming in the form of a new site launched today that mimics the layout of a theme park. [News.com]
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- New firewall for the little guy - Cisco (CSCO) will release on September 1 a Windows NT firewall called Centri targeted at small businesses. [News.com]
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- New NECs do network - NEC Computer Systems has announced one of the first build-to-order computers available through its new NEC Now direct sales model. [News.com]
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- New Pentium II PCs on market - Dell, NEC Computer Systems, Micron, Hewlett-Packard, and others today announced new lines of Pentium II computers with enhanced graphics capabilities and relatively low prices that owe to ongoing processor price cuts. [News.com]
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- New Pentium Pro not cheap - Intel (INTC) today announced the availability of what will probably be the last version of the Pentium Pro processor, at an unexpectedly high price. [News.com]
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- New PowerPC chips put to work - Power Computing unveiled systems today with speedy new PowerPC processors, catapulting their performance past current Macintosh systems and pointing the way toward a new generation of Macintosh computers. [News.com]
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- New servers get Pentium Pro - Top-tier PC manufacturers will unveil new servers today that use a revamped Pentium Pro processor from Intel (INTC), boosting the capabilities of powerful server computers which use up to four processors. [News.com]
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- New ThinkPads fully loaded - IBM's (IBM) new line of ThinkPad notebook computers, due next month, will have DVD drives and 233-MHz MMX Pentiums--and that's just for starters. [News.com]
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- New tool aids DVD production - Pioneer New Media Technologies has developed a new authoring tool that could make it easier for producers and publishers to bring out new DVD video titles. [News.com]
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- News rating proposal rejected - A prominent group of online news companies said they will not rate or apply a "news" label to their Web content to bypass software that censors violent or sexual Net sites. [News.com]
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- Northwest offers 2 for 1 online - Airlines are adding special incentives to entice Netizens from the virtual world of cyberspace to real world of travel. [News.com]
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- Not your father's browsers - In a newsy week for browser software, Netscape unbundled Navigator from Communicator and released it as a standalone browser. The company had been under pressure from some partners who have their own groupware suites, such as Lotus Development; Netscape maintained the move had been planned. Users later complained that the unbundled Navigator lacked certain features. Also, Microsoft continued its marketing campaign for Internet Explorer 4.0, currently in beta, by announcing its ship date. [News.com]
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- Notebook fire sale - It's almost the season to buy a notebook. [News.com]
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- Novadigm back on attack over patent - Everyone wants that last word, and today Albion Fitzgerald, chairman and CEO of Novadigm (NVDM), shot back at Marimba CEO Kim Polese over her comments regarding the pending lawsuit between the two companies. [News.com]
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- Novell down as buyout denied - Novell (NOVL) shares fell more than 10 percent this morning after chairman and chief executive Eric Schmidt said the company "is not for sale." [News.com]
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- Novell heads to the Border - Novell (NOVL) today shipped its BorderManager suite of network-based services for the Internet and intranets. [News.com]
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- Novell losses worse than expected - Struggling networking software maker Novell (NOVL) today missed analysts' mark by wide margin, reporting shrunken revenues as charges and reduced shipments took their toll. [News.com]
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- Novell up on rumored IBM buyout - Novell (NOVL) shares rose more than 10 percent in trading today on rumors of a buyout by IBM (IBM). [News.com]
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- Now playing: film sites - Film buffs who turn to the Internet for information on their favorite subject now have new movie sites to visit. [News.com]
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- NSI readies for public domain - Network Solutions is gearing up to jump into the public domain, setting its IPO price range this week to generate upwards of $36.8 million. [News.com]
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- Office 98 for the Mac - In the first concrete example of its renewed commitment to the Macintosh platform, Microsoft (MSFT) yesterday demonstrated Office 98 for Macintosh. [News.com]
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- One-fee ISP faces challenges - When @bigger.net launched its lifelong Net access for just $59.95, it aimed to lure frustrated Netizens such as America Online members who couldn't log onto the overtaxed service. [News.com]
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- Online ad spending to skyrocket - The much-ballyhooed merging of online advertising and direct marketing continues apace, according to a new study from Jupiter Communications, which estimates that by 2002 online publishers will count $7.7 billion in ad revenue and $1.3 billion in direct marketing income. [News.com]
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- Online booksellers in price war - Signaling that fierce competition among online booksellers won't die down anytime soon, Book Stacks Unlimited announced today that it is further slashing the prices it charges for books it sells on the Net. [News.com]
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- Online campus to open gates - Well Engaged and Golden Gate University tomorrow will announce the launch of a CyberCampus on the Web, the latest example of the boom in educational efforts online. [News.com]
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- Oracle buys financial software maker - Oracle (ORCL) said today it will acquire Treasury Services Corporation (TSC), a privately held firm that provides profitability and risk analysis software, in a merger valued at up to $120 million. [News.com]
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- Oracle Express Server 6.0 set to roll - Continuing its embrace of Windows NT, Oracle (ORCL) will tomorrow announce that it is shipping its Express Server 6.0 decision-support database for NT running on servers powered by Digital Equipment's Alpha processors. [News.com]
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- Oracle to pitch video streaming - Oracle (ORCL) seems to be battling Microsoft (MSFT) on all fronts these days. Now you can add streaming video to the list. [News.com]
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- Oracle updates video server - As part of a concerted effort to expand its role in delivering video over a network, Oracle debuted a new version of its video server that provides users with an assortment of compression formats, opening the platform to a wide variety of video. [News.com]
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- Palace works on presentation - The Palace will announce Tuesday that it is relaunching its Web site, selling banner ads, and touting a new logo as part of a new marketing strategy. [News.com]
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- Panasonic unveils DVD notebook - Panasonic has introduced the first notebook PC to pack a DVD-ROM drive, a harbinger of a spate of DVD-capable notebooks coming in the next 6 to 12 months. [News.com]
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- Papers may get into auctions - Back in January, Mark Del Vecchio, general manager of electronic publishing for the Hartford Courant, a Times Mirror newspaper, was trolling newsgroups for old movie posters. At one point, he came across an URL for an auction site--and nothing's been the same since. [News.com]
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- Patent auction could hurt Intel - Big semiconductor companies are preparing to bid for patents held by a defunct Silicon Valley company that could make it easier to compete with or license patents from Intel (INTC), the Wall Street Journal reported. [News.com]
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- PC makers deny UPS problems - UPS strike? What UPS strike? [News.com]
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- PC sales strong in Europe - Sales of personal computers in western Europe gathered pace in the first half of 1997 and are likely to accelerate in the second half, according to a report published today. [News.com]
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- PCAnywhere32 8.0 set to roll - Next week Symantec (SYMC) will debut the latest upgrade to its remote access software PCAnywhere32. [News.com]
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- Pentium II PCs will get faster design - Seeking to speed up and smooth out data flow on its premier processor, Intel (INTC) is bent on releasing future Pentium II chips built around a faster overall PC system design. [News.com]
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- Pentium Pro's last gasp - Intel (INTC) next week is expected to announce what will probably be the last version of the Pentium Pro processor. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft retools for Java - Enterprise application software maker PeopleSoft (PSFT) next week will roll out the next generation of its application package, PeopleSoft 7, which will include new Java client software and multitiered deployment options. [News.com]
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- PGP fixes flaw in crypto software - Pretty Good Privacy, maker of popular encryption software, says it's fixed a security hole in version 5.0 of its flagship software that allows individuals to encrypt email messages and files. [News.com]
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- Philips develops DTV chip - Philips Semiconductors detailed plans for using its TriMedia processor in set-top boxes and next-generation digital televisions that can be upgraded as cable companies and broadcasters add new services in the coming years. [News.com]
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- Pioneer on path to recovery - Japanese audio-visual equipment maker Pioneer Electronic is back on a recovery track, pulling itself out of a rut created by sluggish sales of its mainstay laser disc players. [News.com]
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- Plan to limit Net data transfers - Seeking to squeeze extra bandwidth out of an increasingly congested Internet, Marimba and a host of big-name industry partners are proposing a new protocol for distributing data across the Net, but Microsoft isn't likely to put its considerable weight behind the idea. [News.com]
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- PlusLotto adds more Net games - PlusLotto, a well-publicized site that debuted last March, has made some changes to its lineup, the latest sign of the increased demand for Net lottery games. [News.com]
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- PointCast goes to college - PointCast's latest feature, the PointCast College Network, is available for downloading today, while the company continues to narrow its search for a new chief executive officer. [News.com]
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- Post Office gets high-tech help - The Postal Service will soon make its rounds with some high-tech help from Charlotte, North Carolina-based Hand Held Products. [News.com]
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- Postal Service discovers email - The U.S. Postal Service has discovered electronic mail. But is it too late? [News.com]
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- Power Computing braces itself - Power Computing continues to smart from Apple Computer's (AAPL) reluctance to license the Macintosh operating system and certify new computer designs, amid rumors that Apple may buy the clone maker. [News.com]
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- Power Computing IPO at risk - Power Computing, the largest Macintosh clone maker, is facing a tough road ahead for its initial public offering, as it leads a vocal fight with Apple Computer (AAPL) over licensing the latest Macintosh operating system. [News.com]
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- PowerBook prices cut $500 - Apple Computer (AAPL) cut prices today on its PowerBook 3400 notebook PC by up to $500 and is offering promotions such as free memory. [News.com]
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- PowerPC 750 upgrade card debuts - Boston--Newer Technology, a small company known primarily to Macintosh users, is making waves here at Macworld Expo with several PowerPC 750 upgrade products that not only raise the performance of Macintosh-compatible systems but in some cases push them beyond the fastest systems available today. [News.com]
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- PowerStations reach 600 MHz - Tri-Star Computer refreshed its PowerStation line with the 600-MHz Alpha processor from Digital Semiconductor. [News.com]
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- Prodigy outsources connections - Prodigy, one of the oldest online services, will now rely on a third party, newly formed SplitRock Services, based in Texas, to get its customers hooked up to the Internet. [News.com]
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- Prodigy sells network - Prodigy is out of the plumbing business. [News.com]
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- Programmer writes spam bomb - Ron Guilmette is a self-appointed soldier in the battle against spam. Now he thinks he's developed the ultimate weapon. [News.com]
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- PSINet to peer with small potatoes - After tapping a wellspring of bandwidth earlier this year, PSINet (PSIX) now plans to share the wealth with small Internet service providers by letting them interconnect with its network for free. [News.com]
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- Pure Java Navigator brewing - Netscape Communications (NSCP) is putting its all-Java browser plans on a fast track by licensing technology from Sun Microsystems (SUNW), the companies said today. [News.com]
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- Quarterdeck fights viruses - A new contender in the increasingly crowded ring of antivirus companies, Quarterdeck (QDEK) today announced a licensing agreement for Israeli antivirus firm EliaShim's technology. [News.com]
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- Racal dials up new business - A technology company with roots dating back to the 1950s is turning to the Internet to help it generate profits in the highly competitive remote access hardware market. [News.com]
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- Radnet connects workers on the move - Radnet today rolled out the latest addition to its Web-based application package. [News.com]
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- Rating boosts @Home stock - Cable access provider @Home (ATHM) saw its stock jump nearly 20 percent today after a bit of positive reinforcement. [News.com]
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- Resellers provide credit reports online - When credit bureau Experian flubbed its first effort last week to offer consumers their credit reports online, the snafu quickly became a cautionary tale about the danger and immaturity of the Internet. But smaller companies that buy and resell credit information are pressing ahead to give consumers and businesses the same type of access to credit reports. [News.com]
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- Reuters sells 500,000 Yahoo shares - Reuters New Media, a unit of Reuters Holdings, disclosed a proposed sale of common shares in Yahoo (YHOO) that it valued at about $24.9 million. [News.com]
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- Rheingold still with E-Minds - Howard Rheingold, founder and former chief executive of online community Electric Minds, today said he signed a deal to produce and host an online conference under the aegis of his former company. [News.com]
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- Ricoh to adopt Sony DVD format - Ricoh is developing a large-capacity storage system that will use a new method for recordable DVD, signaling that the market for such drives might splinter into two camps with incompatible technologies. [News.com]
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- Rights group opposes ISP attack - Civil libertarians from 17 of the Net's most powerful rights groups have come out as one against an organized protest that resulted in a denial of service attack and mailbombing campaign, forcing the shutdown of a Web site promoting Basque independence. [News.com]
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- Rivals roll dice on Net gambling - Rivals of a proposed federal ban on Internet gambling are rallying troops to fight the legislation due to word that a companion bill is in the works in the House of Representatives. [News.com]
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- RSA losing email standard fight - The global effort to create a common protocol for encrypting email is getting turned on its head. [News.com]
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- RSA ships secure email tools - RSA Data Security has begun shipping its S/MAIL 1.0 software tools for building secure communication applications, including email based on the S/MIME protocol. [News.com]
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- S&P rates Data General, SGI - Debt ratings agency Standard & Poor's today placed Data General (DGN) on its CreditWatch with positive implications, and gave Silicon Graphics (SGI) a stable outlook forecast and issued a "BBB-" rating for its debt offering. [News.com]
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- S. Korean DRAM battle heats up - A fierce battle between U.S. and Asian companies in the memory chip market is escalating to new heights. [News.com]
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- Samsung completes AST merger - Samsung Electronics said it completed buying the 54 percent of computer maker AST Research it did not already own for $170 million. [News.com]
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- Samsung faces tough road in U.S. - South Korean government regulators today gave Samsung Electronics the thumbs-up on its acquisition of AST Research (ASTA), but the electronics giant appears headed for a wall of competition and few immediate rewards. [News.com]
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- SAP charts its course - Dr. Hasso Plattner, cofounder of business application software company SAP, today laid out a plan to support component software in the company's R/3 application package, and addressed criticisms that R/3 is too complex for the small-to-medium sized businesses that the company has targeted as a future growth market. [News.com]
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- SAP targets public sector - SAP America has announced the start-up of a new subsidiary. [News.com]
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- SAP, Compaq team for small business - Business application software maker SAP continues to court small businesses. [News.com]
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- SAP, Intel team on e-commerce - Intel (INTC) and the U.S. arm of German enterprise software giant SAP today teamed up to form a new company that will offer a turnkey Internet commerce service. [News.com]
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- SAP, Intel to join for e-commerce - Intel (INTC) and the U.S. arm of German enterprise software giant SAP next week will unveil new Internet commerce offerings for the business market. [News.com]
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- Schools benefit from tax law - California companies are cheering a homegrown effort that won President Clinton's approval of a tax deduction for computer donations to schools. [News.com]
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- SEC sets example with AOL - America Online (AOL) is the biggest, and now it is paying for it. [News.com]
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- Second VP quits CompuServe - Another high-ranking executive--the second vice president in a month--has left CompuServe (CSRV), CNET's NEWS.COM has learned, causing rumors about a possible buyout of the company to go into overtime. [News.com]
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- Sequent servers add new Pentium - Sequent (SQNT) became the latest vendor to announce it will ship servers based on the upgraded Pentium Pro server, which features 1MB of L2 cache memory. [News.com]
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- Service to target email, not spam - PowerAgent, based in Menlo Park, California, is gearing up to launch a new product that lets small business eschew spam and send targeted messages to interested consumers, who don't have to reveal their email addresses. [News.com]
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- Sex tops Net research topics - What is the most searched-for topic on the Internet? [News.com]
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- SGI slashes prices for Siggraph - On the heels of higher-than-expected profits, Silicon Graphics (SGI) today slashed prices on its midrange workstations by up to 20 percent and beefed up capabilities in its low-end models to make its mark at the Siggraph 97 computer graphics technology show in Los Angeles. [News.com]
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- Shiva boosts Web surfing speed - New technology from Shiva (SHVA) will soon give Web users up to a 200 percent performance boost, according to the company. [News.com]
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- ShortTake: HP introduces ScanJet 6100C scanner - Hewlett-Packard introduced the HP ScanJet 6100C Professional, a color/grayscale flatbed scanner expected to sell for about $800. Available in Macintosh- and PC-compatible models, the ScanJet features Intelligent Scanning Technology, an internal image-processing technology said to produce faster scans, smaller file sizes, and less distortion. The scanner comes with Adobe Acrobat 3.0 and the Corel Web Graphics Suite (for Windows only) so that users can easily publish on the Internet or company intranets. [News.com]
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- Siemens, HP sign telecom pact - German industrial group Siemens AG said on Monday its public communications (ON) group agreed to form a strategic alliance with Hewlett-Packard (HWP). [News.com]
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- Singapore firm denies piracy charge - A computer piracy watchdog organization today accused a top Singapore CD-ROM maker of being a major player in the Southeast Asia illegal software business after a raid on its factory. [News.com]
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- Sites vulnerable to redirects - Network Solutions together with the CERT Coordination Center are hoping to protect the Internet from a vulnerability that could be used to redirect Netizens from their destinations. [News.com]
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- Smart cards to do Windows - In a move that could boost widespread adoption of smart cards, Microsoft (MSFT) today released a development kit to allow smart cards to work with Windows 95 and Windows NT. [News.com]
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- Software gets export tax exemption - President Clinton cut software exporters a tax break today that could save the industry an estimated $1.6 billion over the next decade, according to Congress. [News.com]
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- Software sales pick up on Net - Software has long been one of the most popular commodities sold on the Internet, but the market has yet to really take off. That finally may be about to change. [News.com]
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- Software streams into banners - Repositioning itself as a technology supplier for Internet advertising, Narrative Communications today released a new version of its Enliven media streaming software. [News.com]
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- Software to smooth the enterprise - Enterprise software manufacturers Baan and Welcom Software Technology have joined forces to integrate and jointly sell their products. [News.com]
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- Sony abandons DVD-RAM format - Sony is working with Philips Electronics, Hewlett-Packard (HWP), and other unannounced partners on a new recordable DVD storage technology that will eventually be promoted as the basis for hard drives and disk systems in PCs. [News.com]
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- Sony to boost PlayStation output - Sony Computer Entertainment, a unit of Sony, said today that it would increase monthly production of its PlayStation game console to two million units from the current 1.5 million, starting in October. [News.com]
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- Spam forged, Samsung says - Samsung and a lawyer representing the company have found out first-hand the power of the Internet in the hands of someone with malicious intentions. [News.com]
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- Sports deals shoot and score - America Online (AOL) and NetChannel announced separate sports programming deals today, more evidence that this is one of the hottest categories--and biggest traffic generators--on the Net. [News.com]
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- Spyglass filtering for future gold - While a shift to the Internet device market from the desktop market has deteriorated Spyglass's (SPYG) revenues, one seed of business is sprouting thanks to the downfall of the Communications Decency Act. [News.com]
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- State kills Net access tax - Massachusetts Gov. Paul Cellucci signed legislation today to exempt Internet service providers from a five percent telecommunications sales tax. [News.com]
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- States not afraid to go digital - Net democracy is catching on, according to a new study that rated states' online government resources. [News.com]
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- States opening campaign books - While Congress and journalists focus on alleged campaign finance violations, state lawmakers are quietly working to let wired citizens dissect the records for themselves. [News.com]
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- Steve Jobs, then and now - Over the last couple of years, Apple Computer cofounder Steve Jobs has missed few opportunities to slam Microsoft and its founder in the media. But since he and Bill Gates announced Microsoft's multimillion-dollar investment in the foundering Apple, Jobs has been uncharacteristically reticent when it comes to what used to be his favorite pastime: battering Bill in the press. [News.com]
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- Stream team works for multicasting - MCI Communications (MCIC) has teamed with Progressive Networks to market an Internet broadcasting service so broadcasters, cable channels, and sports networks can reach PC users via the Net. [News.com]
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- Strong quarter expected from HP - Strong sales, especially in the corporate market, should propel Hewlett Packard (HWP) to report improved earnings for the quarter that ended in July and set the stage for continued growth. [News.com]
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- Study: Microsoft may not rule Net - Microsoft's total domination of the Internet market is not yet a "foregone conclusion," according to a study from Jupiter Communications. [News.com]
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- Study: Service will be key for ISPs - Consumer online services are expected to rake in $14.9 billion by 2002, according to a new study, but veterans like America Online (AOL) won't get all the money: National and mom-and-pop Net access providers will also lure customers and dollars. [News.com]
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- Sun adds capabilities, cuts prices - In an effort to maintain an edge over servers based on the Microsoft Windows NT operating system, Sun Microsystems (SUNW) will incorporate technologies that will make its Ultra Enterprise server computers more manageable, even while cutting prices. [News.com]
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- Sun bridging Java-to-database gulf - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) is building software to bridge the gulf between Java applications and corporate databases. [News.com]
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- Sun CEO sees Java everywhere - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) CEO Scott McNealy led a merry band of Java devotees to the Big Apple to show that the Java programming language will run on everything from upcoming Web phones to mainframe computers. [News.com]
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- Sun fights NT encroachment - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) will launch a new series of machines next week based on its own technology that will be comparable in cost to those built using hardware from Intel and software from Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Sun improves Solaris OS - Sun Microsystems announced today at Siggraph 97 a new graphics programming interface for the Solaris operating system that it says will boost performance threefold. [News.com]
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- Sun server strategy solid - It's time to put up or shut up. [News.com]
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- Sun takes aim at MS - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) is aiming its Unix cannons at the Microsoft-Intel camp. [News.com]
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- Sun to buy smarts for Java card - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) is acquiring a Silicon Valley start-up to boost its efforts to add Java to smart cards, the company announced today. [News.com]
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- Swiss pair held in child porn case - A Swiss couple was charged yesterday with transporting child pornography to the United States and selling it over the Internet. Authorities say their 2-year-old daughter may be one of the victims. [News.com]
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- Sybase CEO sees no revolution - Sybase (SYBS) CEO Mitchell Kertzman pronounced that the Net is an evolutionary shift in computing, not a paradigm chasm capable of toppling prevailing market leaders. [News.com]
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- Sybase hopes for Java boost - Sybase (SYBS) will next week debut the first part of a wave of new technology that it hopes will reignite revenue growth. [News.com]
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- Sybase to support business apps - Making good on a promise made to its users earlier this year, Sybase (SYBS) today said it will add new technology to an upcoming release of its database server software to better support popular shrink-wrapped business applications. [News.com]
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- Symantec retreats in antivirus war - Turning away from its previous comments, Symantec (SYMC) issued a public apology to rival McAfee (MCAF), regarding comments that it has won the pending copyright infringement suit. [News.com]
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- SyQuest stock jumps 23% - SyQuest (SYQT), which today saw its share price soar 23 percent prior to its after-market earnings announcement, reported a jump in third-quarter revenues that sliced away at losses. [News.com]
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- SystemSoft stock loses 25% - SystemSoft (SYSF) stock plunged today after the company fell far short of Wall Street expectations for second-quarter earnings. [News.com]
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- Tabloid ready to dish it online - The National Enquirer is bringing to the Net more hot gossip, celebrity diets, and lurid tales when it relaunches its Web site tomorrow. [News.com]
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- Taiwan firms adopt Cyrix chips - Taiwanese PC manufacturers Tatung and First International Computer are expected to adopt the Cyrix MediaGX microprocessor. [News.com]
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- Talk City chats up longer ads - Hoping to take advantage of the longer times that Internet chatters hang out online, chat site Talk City will announce a new kind of banner ad today that tells a story lasting up to four minutes. [News.com]
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- Tandem cozies up to NT - Like much of the industry, Tandem Computers (TDM) CEO Roel Pieper is falling in love with Microsoft Windows NT. [News.com]
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- Tandem strings together NT servers - Tandem Computers today announced a high-performance Windows NT server featuring clustering technology. [News.com]
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- Task force tackles campaign filings - A group of states want local candidates to post information about their financial backers on the Net. But digitizing paper files can be a tangled process, especially when there are 50 ways to do it. [News.com]
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- TCI chief chides Gates - Tele-Communications Incorporated (TCOMA) chairman John Malone used the cable company's annual meeting as a chance to take a shot at Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, who recently made a high-profile investment in the cable business. [News.com]
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- TDK profits on the rise - TDK, a Japanese manufacturer of electronic components, today reported an increase in group profits for the April-to-June period, while analysts predicted its earnings and share price would perform well in the current fiscal year. [News.com]
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- Tech firms drive VC investment - Venture capital investment activity maintained its record pace in the second quarter with technology companies driving the growth, according to a survey by Price Waterhouse. [News.com]
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- Tech IPOs: The thrill is back - The excitement for high-tech IPOs has returned and Concentric Network (CNCX) today became the latest link in a recent chain of successful launches after the tech IPO market bottomed out earlier this year. [News.com]
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- Tech stocks slide - It has been a roller-coaster week on Wall Street, and today's volatility was further fueled by economic concerns and a downgrade of the microprocessor sector's shining star. [News.com]
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- TechNet spoof called good fun - You know you've made it on the Web when your site is spoofed. At least that's what executives are thinking at the Technology Network, a Silicon Valley political action group. [News.com]
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- Tel-Save outlines charges for AOL deal - Tel-Save Holdings (TALK) said today that its pact to deliver long distance telephone service to America Online (AOL) customers will result in charges of about $26 million, $25 million, and $12 million, respectively, for the next three quarters. [News.com]
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- Telcos abroad casting for Net - Europe's biggest telecommunications companies are racing to increase their Internet access business, while at the same time competing with the Internet by expanding their own online services, a research consultant group said. [News.com]
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- Telstra to test Net phone device - Telstra said today it plans to trial technology that will allow customers with one telephone line to receive and make calls on their personal computers while they are using the Internet. [News.com]
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- The antitrust maze - How far can antitrust authorities go in regulating the take-no-prisoners industry of high technology? That key question is at the heart of the Justice Department's latest investigation into Microsoft's business practices. CNET'S NEWS.COM breaks down the legalese to give you a first-hand look at what antitrust really means. [News.com]
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- Tibco pushes onto the Web - Tibco Software is taking on Microsoft and IBM with new push-based messaging software. [News.com]
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- Tivoli links PC, network-wide tools - Tivoli Systems today rolled out a new tool to tie popular PC management tools into network-wide systems administration packages. [News.com]
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- Tool weighs effect of push products - Addressing a big worry for network managers, Ganymede Software has released new scripts for its Chariot software to predict how push technologies such as BackWeb or Marimba will affect network traffic. [News.com]
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- Toshiba cuts notebook prices - Toshiba announced today price cuts of up to $1,300 on several notebooks--the Tecra, the Satellite Pro, and the Portege models--as well as reductions on the Equium desktop PC and the TekBright monitor. [News.com]
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- Toshiba does DVD for portables - Toshiba has released a slim DVD-ROM drive for notebooks, and next month will begin to ship samples of a recordable DVD-RAM drive. [News.com]
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- Toshiba losing notebook lead - The U.S. notebook PC market is getting a face-lift. [News.com]
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- Toshiba updates Equium line - Toshiba has updated its Equium line of business PCs with two new models. The 5230D comes with a 233-MHz MMX Pentium processor and the 6230D comes equipped with a 233-MHz MMX Pentium II processor. Both systems support remote management technologies. The Equium 5230D is currently available for $1,869. The 6230D will sell for $2,249, starting the first week of September. [News.com]
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- Tumbleweed gets more VC cash - Tumbleweed Software caught an $8 million tailwind, as the company on Monday is expected to announce it has secured a second round of venture funding. [News.com]
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- Umax enters the picture - Umax Technologies, best known for its scanners, is making its first foray into digital photography with a new camera, while a company called Eiger Labs has introduced an inexpensive device for printing pictures, as the digital photography market takes on more players and more products. [News.com]
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- Umax shows $1,000 Mac clones - Macintosh clone maker Umax has announced four new computer systems based on the 603e PowerPC processor priced around the $1,000 mark, offering some of the fastest processor speeds available in that price range. [News.com]
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- Under the hoods of search engines - Less than a year ago, Wall Street was openly pondering the demise of the search engine market as company stock prices plummeted to single digits. [News.com]
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- UPS delivers message on Net - In perhaps a harbinger of times to come, UPS is turning to the Web and to email during its strike to reach out nearly instantaneously to its customers, many of whom are Net-savvy. [News.com]
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- Users weigh in on Navigator - Netscape Communications (NSCP) may have pleased its industry partners by unbundling Navigator from the Communicator groupware suite, but the reaction from users has been mixed at best. [News.com]
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- Utility bills to be paid online - CheckFree (CKFR) has signed up New England's largest electric utility system to use its E-Bill service, which lets customers view and pay utility bills on their bank's Web site. [News.com]
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- Video camera on a chip debuts - The Optical Systems division of Marshall Electronics has developed a full-color, live-video camera on a single integrated circuit. The low-cost, compact device is targeted for applications such as security surveillance, infant monitoring, video telephones, pattern recognition systems, and low-resolution computer input. [News.com]
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- Virus program cleans email hubs - Bigfoot International and McAfee Associates today teamed up to offer another email virus protection program, but this one works in email hubs, not desktops. [News.com]
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- Visio unveils next-generation tools - Visio will debut the next generation of its Windows-based business diagramming and drawing tools next week. [News.com]
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- VocalTec thinks vocally, acts globally - Internet telephone company VocalTec Communications today released a new version of its software in an effort to create a worldwide network that lets users make cheap long distance phone calls through their PCs. [News.com]
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- Wait and see on DVD, analysts say - Analysts say it is premature to predict that this week's apparent split over the development of digital versatle discs (DVDs) will flare into a war, blighting the market for the promising new product. [News.com]
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- Wang earnings beat marks - Wang Laboratories (WANG) today reported earnings of $12.4 million or 24 cents per share for the quarter ended June 30, beating Wall Street expectations. [News.com]
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- Watchdogs howl at FBI wiretap plans - Privacy advocates are trying to derail efforts by the FBI to expand its wiretapping authority in order to get easier access to communications sent over Net backbones or wireless devices. [News.com]
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- Web host's domain nixed again - WebCom's business strategy is simple: offer reliable Web site hosting at an affordable price. But for the second time this summer, the InterNIC--the Internet's official domain registry--has undermined WebCom's service by putting its Net address on hold, possibly leaving thousands of sites inaccessible this weekend. [News.com]
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- Web Sprinter races at 7 mbps - The options for high-speed Internet access keep multiplying. [News.com]
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- What exactly is CHRP anyway? - A technology called CHRP is at the heart of whether the Macintosh market will open up and become less tied to Apple's competition-sapping regulation of the clone market. [News.com]
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- White Pine grows loss - Weighed down by unpopular products, White Pine Software (WPNE) reported a growing second-quarter net loss as it rebuilds its executive team and takes charges relating to its reorganization. [News.com]
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- Who gets credit for Digital's upswing? - Does shareholder activism lead to company turnaround? There may not be a clear-cut answer, but shareholder activists may be able to take some of the credit for Digital Equipment's (DEC) focus on its core business and recent stock performance. [News.com]
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- Why's everybody buying Apple? - On Wall Street, perception is reality. [News.com]
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- Will firewall makers crumble? - News today that networking behemoth Cisco (CSCO) and antivirus vendor McAfee (MCAF) next month will ship firewall software puts new pressure on pure-play firewall vendors, industry and financial analysts say. [News.com]
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- Will screen phones ring up sales? - Depending on who's talking, the announcement that three major telephone technology providers have licensed Sun Microsystems' Java programming language to make Internet-enabled phones is either the latest milestone in a soon-to-explode convergence of voice and data communication or just another announcement. [News.com]
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- Will Windows NT take over? - People's perspective of Windows NT Server scalability is like parents' view of their rebellious teenager: They accept the nose ring as a phase, but hope the stage passes as quickly as possible. [News.com]
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- Wilson: Fast times at Digital High - Emerging from the second-longest budget battle in California, Republican Gov. Pete Wilson today held a small victory party at Oracle here, where he plugged the company's network computer and boosted his $100 million Digital High School initiative aimed at grooming graduates for high-tech jobs. [News.com]
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- Windows NT 5.0 put to the test - The hottest CD in San Diego this September won't be found at Tower Records. [News.com]
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- Wireless initiative bundles services - Cable and phone companies already are battling it out to bring surfers fast, reliable Net access. Now, chipmaker Intel (INTC) is stepping up to promote wireless services for business globe-trotters. [News.com]
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- Word of UUNet truce stifled - As far as its organizers are concerned, the "Usenet death penalty" that was called against backbone Internet provider UUNet (UUNT) has been lifted. [News.com]
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- Workstations to get boost - Micron Electronics will be one of the first companies to a ship a computer with 64-bit technology for improved performance in high-end workstation computers. [News.com]
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- WSJ enters online sports fray - Breaking its hardcore financial news mold, the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition beefed up its sports section today, adding 24-hour coverage and game statistics through a deal with Total Sports. [News.com]
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- Xerox heads for home - Xerox wants to copy its way into your home. [News.com]
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- Yahoo looking into free email - Is Yahoo (YHOO) quietly laying plans to offer free Web-based email later this year? [News.com]
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- Yahoo to buy NetControls - Search engine company Yahoo (YHOO) has announced plans to acquire Internet tools company NetControls in a $1.4 million stock deal. [News.com]
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- Yahoo, CDnow strike a deal - Yahoo (YHOO) will announce today that CDnow will become the premier music seller featured on the popular Net directory, another example of the surge in music retailing online. [News.com]
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- Yellow page alliance called unfair - Switchboard, a leader in online yellow page directory listings, has sent a letter to Rep. Edward Markey (D-Massachusetts) and the Justice Department, alleging that Netscape Communications (NSCP), Yahoo (YHOO), and five Baby Bells are trying to monopolize the directory listings business on the Net. [News.com]
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- Ziff, IDG combine Mac mags - A new joint venture will consolidate the Macintosh publications of technology publishing giants Ziff-Davis and International Data Group (IDG). [News.com]
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