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- "ER" premiere hyped online - One thing Hollywood is sure to be wondering this weekend is whether Webcasting, as they say, has legs. [News.com]
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- 3Com full steam ahead - 3Com (COMS) today reported a 28 percent jump in first-quarter revenues and met Wall Street's estimates, as it absorbed the benefits of its recent merger with modem maker U.S. Robotics. [News.com]
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- 3Com offers Net gear under $500 - 3Com (COMS) may force the hand of competitors with an introduction next week that lowers the price for ISDN routers for small sites. [News.com]
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- 3Com plans 56-kbps licenses - 3Com (COMS), which earlier this year purchased modem maker U.S. Robotics, will sell off 56-kbps modem patents based in part on an obscure inventor's technology, putting the patent ball in Rockwell's court. [News.com]
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- 3Com rolls out ADSL products - Networking company 3Com (COMS) is giving high-speed Net access a boost this week with the launch of a second generation of ADSL products. [News.com]
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- 3Com says USR merger reaping rewards - Computer giant 3Com (COMS) believes its recent merger with U.S. Robotics is already paying off and will allow the combined company to successfully attack new consumer markets outside the U.S. [News.com]
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- 56-kbps standard seen delayed - Users hoping for help in deciding whether to buy a 56-kbps modem will have to wait at least until January, as manufacturers at a recent industry meeting failed to adopt standards that will allow 56-kbps modems to interoperate with one another. [News.com]
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- 6GB disc spec may be near - A specification for recordable advanced storage magneto-optical discs could emerge as early as this month, according to industry observers quoted today by Nikkei's Japan BizTech news service. [News.com]
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- A new game for Broderbund - Broderbund Software (BROD) is expected to announce next week the creation of a division to develop new products for the Internet and to adapt existing titles to the global network, the company said today. [News.com]
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- A Webmaster in the boudoir - Jennifer Ringley is her own paparazzo. [News.com]
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- Accountants to certify commerce - Professional accounting standard boards in the U.S. and Canada unveiled a joint program to certify the security and business practices of commercial sites on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Adding intelligence to networks - Bridgewater Systems is among a growing number of internetworking software players jumping into a new market for providing tools to allow ISPs (Internet service providers) to offer diverse services. [News.com]
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- Adobe reports revenue record - Adobe Systems (ADBE) said today it expects to report record revenue and strong earnings for its third fiscal quarter, due to a surge in shipments during the final week of the period. [News.com]
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- Adobe shakes up top spots - Adobe Systems (ADBE) today announced that its chief operating officer has resigned, and that it plans a string of organizational changes. [News.com]
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- Adobe surpasses expectations - Adobe Systems (ADBE) lived up to its own hype today as it chalked up better-than-expected earnings due to strong shipments of Windows-based products and solid performance for Macintosh applications, the company said. [News.com]
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- Alexa accessorizes browsers - Alexa Internet released today the first commercial version of its reference and navigation tool that plugs into a browser and provides background information on Web sites. [News.com]
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- Alleged Diana photo appears online - A photo said to show Princess Diana in the car wreck that killed her is circulating on the Web, stirring an ethical debate and prompting one Web site host, GeoCities, to delete it. [News.com]
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- Alliance named in dumping case - SAN JOSE, CaliforniaThe U.S. Department of Commerce has dealt a blow to some foreign chip makers and to one U.S. firm in an anti-dumping case. [News.com]
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- ALR leads Gateway onto new turf - New desktops and the first notebook PCs from Advanced Logic Research will nudge parent company and direct-marketing giant Gateway 2000 (GTW) into a more indirect sales strategy for certain models and into corporate territory currently dominated by leading PC vendors such as Compaq and IBM. [News.com]
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- AltaVista head quits over IPO - Digital Equipment (DEC) said Ilene Lang, chief executive of its AltaVista Internet Software unit, resigned, the Wall Street Journal reported. [News.com]
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- AltaVista searches for new market - Digital Equipment (DEC), a lagging computer maker and service provider, is looking to push its AltaVista search engine into new markets at a time when the its top dog has resigned. [News.com]
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- Alteon speeds ahead with new deals - Gigabit-speed start-up Alteon Networks continues to make deals and deliver new gear that could separate it from a crowded field. [News.com]
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- Amazon.com stock jumps 20% - Leaping over its previous all-time high, the stock of online bookseller Amazon.com (AMZN) jumped 20 percent today, after the company announced a new incentive in an effort to bolster its Web presence. [News.com]
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- Amazon.com stock spikes - Amazon.com (AMZN) stock was up almost 20 percent today on an analyst's initiation of coverage as an "outperform" stock. [News.com]
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- AMD reports gloomier outlook - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) today revised its previous warning of a third-quarter loss to a more dour update. [News.com]
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- AMD struggles to keep up - Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) K6 processor is burdened with ongoing production snags, leading some to wonder whether the company can meet market expectations and really compete with Intel (INTC). [News.com]
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- AMD targets NCs with chip - Advanced Micro Devices will work with IGS Technologies to offer building blocks for Intel-compatible, low-cost Internet access devices, network computers, and digital set-top boxes--a market that arch-rival Intel has yet to enter. [News.com]
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- AMD warns of loss - Advanced Micro Devices can't seem to make enough K6 microprocessors--to make a profit that is. [News.com]
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- AMD, Cyrix to tell of chip advances - Toward the end of the year, both Cyrix (CYRX) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will start to unveil new chip technologies that could well raise competitive pressures on chip giant Intel. [News.com]
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- Amelio: Jobs a cheerleader, not manager - If you had randomly tuned in to this morning's two-hour live interview with Gil Amelio, you might have thought that the ousted CEO of Apple Computer (AAPL) was still running the company. [News.com]
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- Analysts bullish on PC market - Even as analysts adjust their expectations downward for Gateway 2000 (GTW), analysts project the overall PC market will remain healthy. [News.com]
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- Analysts study Apple's direction - Apple Computer's (AAPL) recent moves to halt its licensing strategy will have serious detrimental effects that will lead to the demise of the troubled computer maker, Dataquest said in a report released Monday. [News.com]
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- ANS adds 56-kbps access - Corporate network service provider ANS Communications announced 56-kbps dial-up service for its customers in 95 U.S. cities today, the latest example of the Internet access technology's expansion. [News.com]
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- Antitrust questions dog Microsoft - On the day of its latest Internet Explorer launch, Microsoft is facing renewed criticism from consumer groups that charge that the software giant's methods of marketing its software are anticompetitive. [News.com]
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- Antivirus lawsuit takes a twist - Adding another wrinkle to an already complex legal situation, Hilgraeve, a small Michigan-based software firm, has filed a lawsuit against Symantec and McAfee, claiming both companies have violated its software patent. [News.com]
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- AOL buys rival service - The $1.2 billion sale of CompuServe will reshape the industry's landscape, strengthening America Online as the leading online service and bolstering WorldCom in the backbone business. NEWS.COM examines what the deal means for the Internet service market and its consumers. [News.com]
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- AOL counts 9 million members - America Online (AOL) announced today that it now has more than 9 million members, less than 1 million shy of its year-end goal of having 10 million members worldwide. [News.com]
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- AOL Germany mulls online trading - The German unit of America Online (AOL) is considering setting up an online trading room for companies too small for traditional stock exchanges, an AOL executive said. [News.com]
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- AOL in retailing pact with N2K - America Online (AOL) said today it reached agreement with N2K to create a cobranded version of N2K's online music sales service for AOL subscribers and to take a small ownership stake in the music retailer. [News.com]
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- AOL nixes serial killer site - Facing threats of a national boycott, America Online (AOL) decided to take down a member's Web site that focused on serial killers, saying the site is offensive and violates its terms of service. [News.com]
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- AOL sheds big problem: networks - If the three-way deal among WorldCom (WCOM), America Online (AOL), and CompuServe (CSRV) goes through, AOL will go from being the 500-pound gorilla to the King Kong of online services, with dominance of about half the market. [News.com]
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- AOL wants Slate, IE channel - In yet another instance that shows how the Internet can make bedfellows out of rivals, America Online (AOL) will be teaming up with its competitor, Microsoft (MSFT), for new online offerings. [News.com]
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- AOL: Why CompuServe will stand alone - America Online (AOL) executives assured CompuServe (CSRV) employees today that the company plans to keep CompuServe as a separate unit with its own brand identity. [News.com]
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- Apple acquires Power Computing - The rumors have come true. Apple Computer (AAPL) has purchased the core operations of Power Computing, the largest Mac clone maker, in a stock deal worth $100 million. [News.com]
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- Apple adds to Power Mac line - Apple Computer (AAPL) is now offering a Macintosh model, the Power Macintosh 8600/250, that had been available only outside the United States. [News.com]
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- Apple board eyes CEO candidate - As the beefed-up board of directors at Apple Computer (AAPL) holds its first face-to-face meeting, observers speculate that the group is mulling over candidates for a new CEO to head the beleaguered company. [News.com]
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- Apple CEO search narrows - As Apple Computer (AAPL) sorts through its list of potential candidates for its chief executive slot, a short list has developed, according to a published report today. [News.com]
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- Apple exodus continues as De Luca departs - Apple Computer (AAPL) today announced another departure of a high-ranking executive. [News.com]
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- Apple faithful losing faith - As Apple Computer (AAPL) begins to effectively shut down most of its competition in the Macintosh market, many users are feeling betrayed and afraid that their buying choices will be greatly limited as that market contracts. [News.com]
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- Apple names general counsel - Apple (AAPL) today named a new general counsel to its management team, marking the latest executive to be pulled from the ranks of interim CEO Steve Jobs's former company, Next. [News.com]
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- Apple prospects hold steady - Despite a quarter that's been jam-packed with management changes and competitor cloners slashing their prices, Apple Computer (AAPL) analysts are holding their ratings and earnings expectations steady for the current quarter that ends this month. [News.com]
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- Apple purchases Power Computing - The rumors have come true. Apple Computer (AAPL) has purchased major operations of Power Computing, the largest Mac clone maker, in a stock deal worth $100 million. [News.com]
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- Apple revisiting failed strategy - Apple Computer has embarked upon a new distribution strategy that will allow more computer resellers to buy computers directly from the company, thereby cutting out the markup added by distributors. [News.com]
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- Apple shows off Rhapsody OS - Apple gave one of the first public demonstrations of the developer release of Rhapsody, the company's next generation operating system, in an effort to woo programmers, but questions remain about where Rhapsody will be used. [News.com]
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- Apple to make NCs - Apple Computer (AAPL) may rest a portion of its future on the emerging network computer (NC) market. [News.com]
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- Apple to take fastest desktops off market - Apple Computer (AAPL) will stop taking orders for its fastest 350-MHz desktop computers because the company cannot build enough of them for customers. [News.com]
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- Apple to write off Power buyout - Apple Computer (AAPL) said today that it expects to write off a significant portion of the $100 million acquisition of Power Computing in its fourth quarter. [News.com]
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- Apple unveils Mac OS 8 machines - Apple Computer (AAPL) today announced its first Macintosh desktop systems to ship with its new operating system, as the company refreshed its Power Macintosh 6500 line of computers for consumers and small businesses. [News.com]
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- Ascend helps handle ISPs - Network hardware provider Ascend Communications next week will roll out tools designed to let Internet service providers get a grip on management of vast communications networks. [News.com]
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- Ascend slides on earnings worries - Stock of Ascend Communications (ASCN) opened lower again today after sliding yesterday on concerns the computer networking company's earnings will be hurt by falling prices, weak European sales, and competitive new products. [News.com]
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- Ascend, Western to fall short - Shares of Ascend Communications (ASND) plummeted as low as 15 percent and Western Digital (WDC) tumbled a slight 3 percent in morning trading after the companies chalked up their shortfalls and said their quarterly results would fall short of analysts' expectations. [News.com]
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- Assured Access Technology gets $13 million VC investment - Assured Access Technology, Inc., a developer of WAN access switches for public data networks, today announced it has closed a $13 million financing deal through Mayfield Fund, Sequoia Capital, and Worldview Technology Partners, as well as company founders. Next week, Assured Access Technology will introduce a family of WAN access switches designed and built specifically for public data networking, the first such switches that are easy to install, operate and maintain. [News.com]
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- Audio, video added to CORBA - The Object Management Group (OMG), the organization responsible for promoting the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), has ratified a new standard for managing the broadcast of audio and visual data, making possible the development of full interactive multimedia applications built to the CORBA standard. [News.com]
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- Aussie tech firm nets China deal - Australian high-tech company Coms21 announced today a deal to make smart cards for China's largest life insurer that it said could be worth more than $1.08 billion. [News.com]
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- Avant loses ground in legal battle - Shares of Avant (AVNT) tumbled 9 percent in trading today, following a federal appeals court ruling that forbid the company from selling its older-version software and may pave the way for a similar ruling on its flagship product. [News.com]
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- Avant, TMA announce merger - Avant (AVNT) and Technology Modeling Associates (TMAI) (TMAI) announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to merge in a $150 million stock deal. [News.com]
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- Baan fights for middle kingdom - Just because Baan (BAANF) doesn't get as much ink as its competitors doesn't mean the Dutch company isn't a player in the business application software arena. [News.com]
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- Baby Bell threat raises issues - A Bell Atlantic executive, whose home phone and address were posted online by a critic of the telephone company's support for new Net access fees, has threatened the site's host with legal action if the Web page is not removed. [News.com]
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- Backlash among Mac faithful - The Mac faithful are mad as hell, and they're not going to buy it anymore. [News.com]
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- Barksdale, Homer pitch strategy - Offering a glimpse into its nascent, aggressive enterprise strategy, Netscape Communications (NSCP) CEO Jim Barksdale and vice president of sales and marketing Mike Homer spoke to a gathered group of analysts and press here today. [News.com]
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- Barnes & Noble lands new partners - BarnesandNoble.com, the division of Barnes & Noble (BKS), announced it has added two more online marketing deals to its war chest, cementing partnerships with search engine WebCrawler and yellow page directory InfoSpace. [News.com]
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- BBC to Webcast Diana funeral - Since Princess Diana's death last weekend, the Internet has been inundated with remembrances, eulogies, and news updates. The outpouring continues tonight with the BBC's Webcast of the slain royal's funeral. [News.com]
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- Bells oppose encryption controls - Five Baby Bell regional telephone companies joined a coalition yesterday urging Congress to reject a proposal to give U.S. law enforcement agencies access to otherwise secure computer files. [News.com]
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- Bertelsmann sees AOL deal as a win-win - German media conglomerate Bertelsmann said today that its European joint venture with America Online (AOL) would benefit from the takeover of rival CompuServe (CSRV). [News.com]
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- BigBook announces new president - BigBook has made some big changes to its executive lineup and is expanding its services to grow the business, attract new users, and increase its revenue. [News.com]
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- Bill Gates gets a pay raise - Microsoft (MFST) chairman, billionaire Bill Gates, got a modest 5 percent raise in the latest fiscal year, earning $591,352 in salary and bonuses, according to documents filed today. [News.com]
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- Bill to make pirates walk plank - Legislation to enact strict criminal penalties on software pirates in cyberspace was passed by a House subcommittee today. [News.com]
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- Blue Note Web suit loses appeal - The mere establishment of a Web site in one state--without engaging in activities such as Internet commerce--does not expose the host to lawsuits filed in other states, a New York federal appeals court has ruled. [News.com]
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- Booksellers: partner or perish? - BarnesandNoble.com, the online division of bookstore giant Barnes & Noble (BKS), announced partnerships with more than 40 companies today. [News.com]
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- Booming European IT market seen - The European information technology market has improved in 1997, and this renewed strength looks like it will continue into 1998, Compaq Computer (CPQ) said. [News.com]
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- Borland and Microsoft settle - Borland International (BORL) and Microsoft (MSFT) today announced that they have settled a lawsuit brought by Borland in May alleging that the software giant was hiring away Borland's key employees in an attempt to put it out of business. [News.com]
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- Borland banking on Java tools - Borland International (BORL), still struggling to grow its software business after three years, will today unveil a product designed to tap the phenomenal demand for programs written in the Java programming language. [News.com]
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- Boundless to make NCs for NCR - NCR (NCR) is moving into the market for "dumb terminal" replacements with the help of Boundless Technologies (BDLS), which will manufacture a line of network computers for the Dayton, Ohio-based data warehousing giant. The agreement was announced today. [News.com]
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- Bounty offered for stock tipster - Someone who goes by "Steve Pluvia" likes to lurk in and out of online investor bulletin boards, swapping his stock research and analyses with other market speculators. [News.com]
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- Bug can crash IE 3, IE 4 beta - Microsoft (MSFT) confirmed today that a combination of factors, including encryption on a Web site, can crash certain versions of its Internet Explorer browser. [News.com]
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- Bug delays Domino Go release - A security flaw is delaying the release of Lotus's Domino Go Webserver and Domino Go Webserver Pro 4.6. [News.com]
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- Buyout a double-edged sword for Apple - The acquisition of Power Computing has opened the door for Apple to become a mail order giant that competes with Dell and Gateway 2000. [News.com]
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- Cable modem standard could be near - A long-awaited standard for cable modems is gathering steam. [News.com]
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- Cabletron beats analysts' estimates - Leading networking company Cabletron Systems (CS) today reported a jump in second-quarter earnings and handily beat analysts' estimates as acceptance of its switching technology appears to be taking hold. [News.com]
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- Cabletron buys into router start-up - Networking hardware player Cabletron Systems will augment its support for routing technology in its line of switches with the announcement Monday of an equity investment in start-up Yago Systems. [News.com]
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- Calif. legislature ends with Net law - As lawmakers from California wrap up the legislative year, another law concerning the global network was sent to the governor while two more awaited approval. [News.com]
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- California Net bills approved - Before California wrapped up its legislative session yesterday, lawmakers passed a handful of new cyberspace regulations, including criminalizing the online seduction of minors and mandating digitized campaign finance records. [News.com]
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- CD products head to market - While DVD has been stealing the limelight of late, a raft of recordable CD-ROM products is now hitting the market, showing that CDs are by no means a thing of the past. [News.com]
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- Check Point merges Net traffic - Already dominant in the security firewall market, Check Point Software (CHKPF) will announce next week that it is moving into a new arena--helping companies manage heavy traffic pouring onto their networks from the Net. [News.com]
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- Check Point secures dial-up users - Security firm Check Point Software Technologies (CHKPF) today released an enhancement to its client encryption software to let remote users connect securely to virtual private networks through dial-up links over the Net. [News.com]
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- Child porn sting snags suspects - Federal and state authorities have nabbed more than 120 people suspected of sending child pornography over the Net, according to the New York state attorney general's office. [News.com]
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- Chromatic to release combo chip - Chromatic Research and its manufacturing partners next week will preview an all-in-one media accelerator that combines 3D and 2D graphics with Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) functionality on a single piece of silicon. [News.com]
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- Cisco cuts switch prices - Cisco Systems (CSCO) continues to push the density envelope in Ethernet-based switching. [News.com]
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- Cisco gives gear more teeth - In consecutive weeks, Cisco Systems (CSCO) has given new functions to its remote-access packages, an indication that the company does not intend to let competitors such as Ascend Communications and 3Com roll through the exploding market. [News.com]
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- Claris rebuilds FileMaker, Home Page - Apple subsidiary Claris next week will announce the newest versions of its FileMaker Pro 4.0 database software package and Home Page 3.0 Web authoring application. [News.com]
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- CNET debuts Snap Online - After a year of behind-the-scenes development, CNET: The Computer Network (CNWK) is launching its new consumer online service today, called Snap Online. [News.com]
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- CNET Special Feature: 8 myths about the millennium bug - Boosters of information technology, flush from the cost savings and increased productivity they attributed to computer systems and high-tech automation, took it right in the solar plexus when a report surfaced that global expenditures for fixing the millennium bug could be as high $600 billion. Media outlets, including CNET'S NEWS.COM, began exploring arcane issues such as the renewed demand for COBOL programmers and the legacy mainframes that will spit out incorrect data and make Social Security checks bounce. [News.com]
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- Cognos reports Q2 profit jump - Business software maker Cognos (COGNF) today reported a jump in second-quarter earnings and announced that it plans to buy a private software developer of Web-based information access applications. [News.com]
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- Compaq builds to order in Japan - Compaq Computer (CPQ) is set to escalate the PC price war in Japan as it readies the launch of its build-to-order initiative next month. [News.com]
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- Compaq buys into Ramp Networks - Compaq (CPQ) has made an undisclosed equity investment in Ramp Networks, which makes network connectivity devices for small and medium-sized businesses. It's the second major investment Compaq has made in networking this year. [News.com]
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- Compaq cuts prices, beefs up notebooks - Compaq Computer (CPQ) today cut prices on its Deskpro business PCs and its Armada notebook line, as personal computer prices continue to drop across the board. [News.com]
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- Compaq debuts build-to-order PCs - Compaq (CPQ) has come out with a new desktop that mimics nearly all the characteristics of a Net PC. [News.com]
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- Compaq debuts first Net PC - Compaq Computer (CPQ) today introduced the Compaq Deskpro 4000N, the first Net PC to hit the market, amid speculation over who will buy these new stripped-down, network-centric computers. [News.com]
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- Compaq debuts low-end workstation - Compaq (CPQ) continued its onslaught on the workstation market today by releasing the Professional Workstation 5100, a Pentium II-based workstation starting at under $3,500 without monitor. [News.com]
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- Compaq forms storage deals - Compaq Computer (CPQ) today announced two new partnerships aimed at developing high-end storage technologies for businesses. [News.com]
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- Compaq notebook not a breakthrough - They took the handle off. [News.com]
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- Compaq to unveil Net PCs - Compaq Computer (CPQ) has quietly begun shipping the first Net PC on the market and will officially announce it in the next two weeks, giving a shot in the arm to a technology that lately has taken some hits from detractors such as IBM, CNET's NEWS.COM has learned. [News.com]
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- Compaq woos ISP market - Compaq has released a series of servers and workstations bundled with Internet software from Microsoft, Adobe, and others in an attempt to woo more of the small to medium-size Internet service provider market. [News.com]
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- Compaq's networking strategy - What is Compaq Computer (CPQ) up to? [News.com]
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- Components for your IE 4 only - Microsoft (MSFT) will add support for reusable components in Internet Explorer 4.0 when it ships at the end of the month, but the components, called "scriptlets," will be viewable only with the new browser, the company said today. [News.com]
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- CompuServe creates spam filter - In the continuing battle to combat junk email, CompuServe (CSRV) today announced it has built a better spam trap. [News.com]
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- CompuServe lashes out over forums - CompuServe (CSRV) says it won't stand for Microsoft Network snagging its forum managers. [News.com]
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- CompuServe sell-off coming soon - A deal to sell off H&R Block's (HRB) remaining controlling interest in CompuServe (CSRV) is coming "soon," according to company officials. [News.com]
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- CompuServe up on new rumors - CompuServe (CSRV) stock rose nearly 5 percent after new rumors of an imminent buyout surfaced today. [News.com]
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- CompuServe, AOL opening virtual shops - CompuServe (CSRV) and America Online (AOL), soon to be merged, announced two separate deals today involving online shopping. [News.com]
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- Congress confronts copyrights - When two international treaties were adopted last year to expand copyright protection on the Internet, 157 world delegates struggled to compromise. [News.com]
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- Congress mulls laptops in sessions - The tapping of typists on computer keyboards is by now a familiar sound in the hallowed halls of Congress. In most cases, it comes from House and Senate staffers banging out speeches, drafts of bills, or emails to alert legislators and lobbyists of upcoming hearings. [News.com]
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- Congress studies domain future - Congress today is examining what role it should play in pulling the government out of the Internet domain game. [News.com]
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- Consortium to pursue superchip - The Department of Energy, Intel, AMD, Motorola and the premier U.S.-owned research labs have formed a company that will seek to devise a new semiconductor manufacturing process resulting in smaller, faster processors by 2002. [News.com]
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- Cooks in Clinton crypto kitchen - Deciphering the Clinton administration's people and policy on encryption is about as tough as understanding the technology itself. [News.com]
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- Copyright law revision urged - Buying Microsoft Office or the latest Rolling Stones album can cost a pretty penny in the physical world. But as Congress heard this week, the Net makes it all too easy to get copies of the same copyrighted material for free. [News.com]
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- Corel sees $32 million loss - Software maker Corel (COSFF) today said it will report a loss of about $32 million for the third quarter, following an accounting change. [News.com]
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- Corel stock takes a tumble - Corel (COSFF) stock plummeted 21.14 percent today, following the software maker's announcement that it was selling off its Computer Aided Design (CAD) division, which came one day after it reported a drop in third-quarter revenues and a widening net loss. [News.com]
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- Court says state can regulate Net gambling - In a case sparked by controversy over Internet gambling sites, Minnesota's Court of Appeals has ruled that the state has jurisdiction over online activity originating outside its borders. [News.com]
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- Cross-platform email crypto questioned - Internet postings by a well-known expert on computer security are sparking controversy over just how reliable cross-platform encryption features are in email sent via programs such as Netscape's Communicator and Microsoft's Outlook Express. [News.com]
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- Crypto bill SAFE out of committee - Fierce lobbying on behalf of the high-tech industry appears to have paid off in its holy war over encryption, as a key committee in the House of Representatives approved a closely watched bill that would loosen the government's control on the export of encryption products. [News.com]
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- Crypto bill talks deadlocked - Like many who have tried to broach a compromise on the knotty issue of regulating computer encoding technology, members of the House Commerce Committee are finding negotiation efforts futile, people involved said. [News.com]
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- Crypto class case at square one - Cleveland law professor Peter Junger today filed a new challenge to federal regulations that prevent him from teaching encryption technology to foreign students or posting his course on the Net. [News.com]
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- CWC to debut sales tools - Business software maker CWC tomorrow will roll out Signature Plus 4.5, the latest version of its sales management tools. [News.com]
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- Cylink barges into RSA market - Cylink (CYLK) has won deals to supply security technology to both Microsoft (MSFT) and Sun Microsystems (SUNW). [News.com]
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- Cylink to buy Israeli security firm - Expanding its network security offerings, Cylink (CYLK) today said it will acquire Israel-based Algorithmic Research for $44 million in cash and 2.9 million shares of common stock. [News.com]
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- Database makers plan upgrades - IBM (IBM) and Sybase (SYBS), locked in a battle for the number two slot among database software providers, will next week launch upgrades to their flagship products. [News.com]
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- Dell fills out notebook line - Dell launched two new Inspiron 3000 notebooks today, filling out the month-old line of portables. [News.com]
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- Dell launches 233-MHz notebook - Dell Computer (DELL) today introduced a new line of notebooks, including a 233-MHz model for under $4,000. [News.com]
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- Dell No. 1 in notebook survey - Dell can seem to do no wrong. [News.com]
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- Dell releases managed PCs - Dell Computer (DELL) has released its first computers incorporating industry-standard PC management software, a move which may obviate the need for Dell to bring out a separate "Net PC" computer. [News.com]
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- Dell sees continued growth - Dell Computer (DELL) expects workstations and its position in the corporate market to continue to be its market-drivers, but the consumer market also has been slated as an accelerator, the company's chief financial officer said at an analyst conference today. [News.com]
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- Dell shipping servers in Japan - Dell (DELL) said it has begun shipping workstation and midrange servers in Japan. [News.com]
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- Dell to put service channel on desktops - Dell (DELL) will open a "push" channel next month for service, support, and equipment upgrades, the latest step in the company's effort to improve support. [News.com]
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- Dell tops business desktop market - Dell Computer (DELL) became the No. 1 supplier of desktop PCs to U.S. corporations last quarter, toppling market leader Compaq (CPQ), according to a major marketing research firm. [News.com]
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- Deutsche Telekom to sell PCs - Deutsche Telekom AG announced a drive to sell personal computers ready to hook up to the Internet straight out of the box. [News.com]
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- Developers like COM, not hype - Microsoft (MSFT) is spending this week trying to convince developers to take advantage of Windows' built-in component architecture called COM (Component Object Model). So far, developers have mostly the same reaction: yes to COM but no to Microsoft's marketing strategy. [News.com]
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- Developers to Gates: Adopt Java - A grassroots organization of Java software developers has issued an open letter calling on Microsoft (MSFT) and chairman Bill Gates to embrace the Java platform fully. [News.com]
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- Di crash photo called fake - French authorities said today that a photo circulating on the Web, allegedly of Princess Diana in the car wreck that killed her, is a fake. [News.com]
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- Diana spam selling T-shirts - Some Netizens were shocked when they got an unsolicited piece of junk email that capitalized on Princess Diana's death by advertising T-shirts. [News.com]
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- Diana: The Internet mourns - The loss of Princess Diana in a Paris car accident was a story that was made for television. News coverage of the tragedy, however, was also extensive on the Internet, which played its own role in dealing with her death. Netizens had heated discussions over the media role, with particular attention to the potential online appearance of grisly photos of the crash scene. In addition, at least one spammer exploited the event to make a buck. Now, the BBC is ramping up its online efforts to broadcast her funeral live over the Web. [News.com]
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- Digital cameras not a threat to silver demand - Digital cameras are selling well, but conventional cameras are likely to dominate the photography market for the foreseeable future and thus sustain the photographic demand for silver, said Peter Krause, an industry expert and consultant to the Washington, D.C.-based Silver Institute. [News.com]
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- Digital revamps StrongArm chip - Digital Equipment today unveiled the latest version of its StrongArm microprocessor, used in handheld personal computers and cellular phones. [News.com]
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- Digital TV alliance criticized - German public television executives attending a trade show in France criticized a digital TV alliance created this summer by Bertelsmann and its rival, Leo Kirch. [News.com]
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- Digital, Wells team for merchants - Digital Equipment (DEC) on Tuesday will unveil a distribution partnership with Wells Fargo (WFC) to offer the bank's merchants turnkey software for setting up Internet storefronts running on Windows NT. [News.com]
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- Disney enters DVD market - Walt Disney Corp., the leading seller of home videos worldwide, on Thursday gave a strong boost to the emerging market for digital versatile discs (DVDs) with plans to sell DVD movies this holiday season. [News.com]
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- Do PC vendors feel pressured to use Intel? - Against the backdrop of a Federal Trade Commission investigation into Intel's (INTC) business practices, questions are surfacing about how the chipmaker keeps PC vendors wedded to its processors, and chip rivals Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Cyrix cut off from the lions share of the business. [News.com]
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- Domain name suit to include NSF - Just months before the National Science Foundation was to rid itself of its involvement in the domain name registration business, PGMedia amended its antitrust lawsuit over the registration system to include the government organization. [News.com]
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- Domain plan takes database bids - The interim Policy Oversight Committee (iPOC) will soon open bidding for plans to build the central database for a new Internet domain name registration system that aims to replace the InterNIC. [News.com]
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- Domain transition said to lack plan - The U.S. government may not be ready to hand over control of the Internet domain name system to the public sector by next winter, according to testimony before Congress today. [News.com]
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- DRAM prices fall again - Toshiba and Hitachi both admitted that prices for 16-megabit DRAM chips declined again in August, and there's no turnaround on the horizon. [News.com]
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- DVD market roiled by competing products - Once it stood for digital versatile disc. Then it became digital video disc. [News.com]
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- DVD owners dis Divx - Owners of DVD players are up in arms over news that some consumer electronics companies, retailers, and movie studios will join forces to promote a digital content format that could make current DVD hardware obsolete. [News.com]
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- DVD products launched - Japanese manufacturers of digital versatile disc (DVD) players unveiled new products today and predicted that DVD sales, disappointing so far, would boom as more movie and music titles become available in the new format. [News.com]
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- DVD recordable drives coming - Sony is expected to show off its new recordable DVD technology at Fall Comdex '97 as it begins shipping samples of the drives to manufacturers in November, according to Nikkei's JapanBizTech news service. [News.com]
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- DVD-RAM may store more - The standard capacity of DVD-RAM could nearly double under new standards being considered by the DVD Forum. [News.com]
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- EarthLink CFO resigns - EarthLink Network's (MACR) chief financial officer Barry Hall resigned today following yesterdays announcement of a $15 million round of financing backed by billionaire George Soros. [News.com]
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- EarthLink gets $15 million - Allaying concerns that it was running out of cash, EarthLink Network (ELNK) said today that financier George Soros has increased his stake in the company. [News.com]
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- EarthLink to launch Net mall - Internet service provider EarthLink Network (ELNK) will launch an online shopping mall next week, the company announced today. [News.com]
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- Egghead redoes Web storefront - Retailer Egghead Computer (EGGS) announced today it has revamped its Web site in an effort to make online transactions easier and faster for customers. [News.com]
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- Embedded chip market to soar - Embedded processors, the low-cost microchips that serve as the brains behind cellular phones and other non-PC devices and account for $15 billion in annual sales, represent one of the stronger opportunities for semiconductor manufacturers around, according to analysts. [News.com]
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- Embedded show hears from Motorola, IBM - Motorola's (MOT) Semiconductor Products group today introduced a new chip for embedded systems and IBM (IBM) corralled Windows CE support for its embedded processors as the two companies increasingly focus on non-PC markets for their PowerPC processors. [News.com]
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- Encryption battle shaping up - The quiet battle for the future of encryption is heating up. [News.com]
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- Enterprise edition of NT Server unleashed - The onslaught of bundled releases continues for software giant Microsoft (MSFT). [News.com]
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- EU official seeks global Net charter - The top telecommunications official of the European Union today called for an international charter to regulate the Internet and other electronic networks. [News.com]
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- Europe a hot spot for tech growth - Americans flocked to Europe in record numbers this summer, not for the usual lure of art and culture, but for the prospects of a burgeoning technology market. [News.com]
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- Ex-student charged with Net fraud - A former graduate student in Florida was charged yesterday with trying to fraudulently obtain credit cards on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Exchange 5.5 beta boosts integration, security - Microsoft (MSFT) today unleashed the beta version of an update to its Exchange messaging and collaboration package. [News.com]
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- Excite searches for e-shoppers - Search engine firm Excite (XCIT) launched an Internet commerce initiative today that includes a shopping channel, a guarantee against credit card fraud, and a certified merchant program that identifies online merchants. [News.com]
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- Excite, Preview Travel beef up deal - Excite (XCIT) and Preview Travel announced today that they are expanding their marketing partnership on the Web for online travel. [News.com]
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- Experian backs away from venture - One of the nation's largest credit bureaus is withdrawing from an online direct marketing venture in the face of Internet users' privacy concerns. [News.com]
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- Experts think action unlikely - Intel (INTC) is likely to walk away unscathed from the federal antitrust investigation that was unveiled Wednesday, antitrust experts said today. [News.com]
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- Exponential sues Apple - Exponential Technologies, a now-defunct chip vendor that just a year ago represented the cutting edge in microprocessors, has filed suit against former ally Apple for allegedly breaking off a supply contract earlier this year and also interfering with sales to Apple clone vendors, a situation that ultimately forced Exponential to shutter most of its operations. [News.com]
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- FCC in transition after Hundt - The Internet community will be wise to watch today and tomorrow as the Senate holds confirmation hearings to fill four out of five open commissioner seats at the Federal Communications Commission. [News.com]
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- Fed Year 2000 price tag up $1 billion - The number of government computer systems that need to be fixed or replaced before the year 2000 has jumped while the estimated cost has soared by $1 billion, the U.S. government said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Fidelity upgrades its advisers - Fidelity Investments, in an effort to capture more of the $140 billion in assets managed by registered investment advisers, said Tuesday it was updating its software and creating a Web page just for them. [News.com]
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- Firewall application shored up - WatchGuard Technologies, formerly called Seattle Software Labs, next week will ship a new version of its firewall appliance, a hardware device with bundled software dedicated to guarding corporate networks from intruders. [News.com]
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- Firms eye software compatibility - Eleven of Japan's more prominent hardware makers and systems developers, including Toshiba and IBM Japan, have agreed to jointly develop software linking computers, Internet-capable phones, and other information equipment, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported yesterday. [News.com]
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- FTC casts wide net in Intel probe - The Federal Trade Commission is seeking documents from a wide swath of technology companies as part of its investigation into whether Intel has engaged in unfair, monopolistic business practices. [News.com]
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- FTC investigating Intel - The Federal Trade Commission has served a subpoena to investigate Intel (INTC) for evidence of unfair competition in the semiconductor market. [News.com]
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- FTC nomination goes to Senate - The Senate Commerce Committee today approved Sheila Foster Anthony's nomination to the Federal Trade Commission. [News.com]
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- Gates addresses speech-to-text - Forget that keyboard and mouse. If Bill Gates is right, it may not be long before you talk your personal computer into doing your bidding. [News.com]
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- Gates wraps up MS show - Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Bill Gates closed this week's Professional Developers Conference by offering Windows programmers a glimpse of future developments in human interaction with computers and stressing the bets the company is making on Windows NT. [News.com]
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- Gateway eyes corporate market - Gateway 2000 (GTW) will detail its strategy for large corporate customers next week in New York. [News.com]
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- Gateway lays off 300 employees - Gateway (GTW) said today that it will cut 300 employees worldwide as it undergoes a restructuring. [News.com]
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- Gateway releases new servers - Gateway 2000 (GTW) officially entered the server market today with the release of the NS server line, while ALR, a company Gateway bought earlier this year, slashed prices up to 35 percent on its multiprocessor servers. [News.com]
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- Gateway to fall short of expectations - Gateway 2000 (GTW) stock fell more than 10 percent today after the company announced that net income will not meet analysts' expectations for the third quarter. [News.com]
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- Gateway upgrades its PC-TV - Gateway 2000 (GTW) has beefed up its 300-MHz Pentium II Destination PC-TV with better screen technology and more graphics horsepower. [News.com]
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- Gay.Net taps college market - Andy Cramer, chief executive of Gay.Net, remembers what it felt like to be gay and go to an Ivy League college 30 years ago: "terrifying." [News.com]
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- GE service builds extranets - GE Information Services, a unit of General Electric (GE), today launched a new version of its GE InterBusiness Partner service, which lets companies set up extranets using GEIS's infrastructure. [News.com]
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- German group to gauge ads' reach - Next month, Germany will launch its first system that uses a neutral source to judge the impact of Internet advertising, the Statistical Information Center of Advertising Media, or IVW, said today. [News.com]
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- German media oppose MSNBC deal - A group of German newspaper publishers and TV broadcasters said today they would challenge an Internet information service created by an alliance of MSNBC and German public broadcaster ZDF. [News.com]
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- Germany awaits DTV launch - German phone giant Deutsche Telekom said it will press ahead with plans to launch pay digital television next month despite criticism of its pact with Bertelsmann and Bavarian magnate Leo Kirch. [News.com]
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- Getting a handle on notebook heat - Notebook PCs over the next two years will include everything that's in a high-end, "dream-machine" multimedia desktop, but only if the industry can lower power consumption. [News.com]
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- Gigabit-speed start-ups vie for niche - Start-up networking companies continue to hope the need for speed from administrators will go on unabated. [News.com]
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- Global domain registrars planned - An ad hoc group is working this week to hammer out the kinks and critiques of its proposal to create seven new Internet domains and to approve "official" name registrars around the world. [News.com]
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- Gore calls for piracy crackdown - Addressing the Software Publishers Association this morning, Vice President Al Gore issued a directive to federal agencies, ordering them to crack down on pirated software in their departments, a hot-button issue for the industry. [News.com]
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- Great Plains surpasses estimates - Great Plains Software (GPSI) today announced a jump in revenue that exceeds analyst estimates. [News.com]
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- Grove soft on NCs, Net PCs - Network Computers (NCs) and Net PCs may have their cheerleaders, but Andy Grove doesn't seem to be one of them. [News.com]
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- Grove tells of "bifurcation" - "Multiple bifurcation" will be one way to describe Intel's future product strategy, according to chief executive officer Andy Grove. [News.com]
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- Gulf oil giants open Net sites - The giant state-owned oil firms of the Persian Gulf are tentatively setting out on the information superhighway, launching sites on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Hackers hit Coke site - Coca-Cola was forced to take down its Web site this weekend after being hacked. [News.com]
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- Hahn to join Netscape's inner circle - Eric Hahn, who joined Netscape Communications (NSCP) when it acquired his company Collabra Software two years ago, has taken a sabbatical and will return to the company next month in a different capacity. [News.com]
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- Hands-off policy on Net phones - The White House's point man on telecommunications says the federal government, at least for the time being, should not regulate telephone calls over the Net. [News.com]
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- High-tech firms set sights on Egypt - Computer firms are laying the groundwork for increased market share and investment in Egypt by lobbying to end software piracy and lax laws on intellectual property rights, executives said today. [News.com]
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- Hitachi weighs in on DVD-RAM - Hitachi announced today that it has developed DVD-RAM technology that provides a capacity of 4.7GB per side, almost doubling the amount of data which can be stored and offering a challenge to renegade manufacturers such as Sony. [News.com]
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- Hitachi, Legend in PC tie-up - Japanese electronics giant Hitachi today said it has set up an alliance with leading Chinese computer company Legend Group to cooperate in the personal computer business in the Chinese market. [News.com]
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- Hotmail offering premium service - Joining a trend to charge users for extra features, Hotmail will offer digital greeting cards from Greet Street. The price: 50 cents each. [News.com]
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- HP cuts notebook prices - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) dropped prices on two models of its OmniBook line of notebook PCs. [News.com]
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- HP debuts $999 small-business PC - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) today unveiled a new line of PCs starting at $999 and targeted at the needs of small businesses, as reported by CNET's NEWS.COM last Friday. [News.com]
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- HP debuts Pentium II servers - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) has released its first Pentium II server. Like most other servers using the chip, the NetServer E45 is being targeted at small and medium-sized businesses. [News.com]
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- HP fights to keep its Unix edge - Normally stoic Hewlett-Packard (HWP) is coming out swinging in its bid to keep its HP-UX brand of Unix a relevant player in the enterprise network operating system market. [News.com]
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- HP handhelds take on PC features - Although handheld computing devices still seem to fall into the category of gadgetry, Hewlett-Packard (HWP) is targeting its marketing and development efforts toward evolving these devices as the latest extension of business computing. [News.com]
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- HP releases new TopTools - Hewlett-Packard this week unveiled the second version of TopTools, an inventory and diagnostic software package that the company will include on its corporate computers and workstations. [News.com]
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- HP revamps poster printers - In an attempt to be all things to all people in the printer market, Hewlett-Packard (HWP) today introduced a new series of large-format inkjet printers. [News.com]
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- HP says it didn't spam - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) today denied that it had deliberately spammed people over the weekend, despite the protests of Net users who claim they never signed up for a newsletter on HP scanners. [News.com]
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- HP sets sights on Compaq - Hewlett-Packard (HPW) has revamped, refreshed, and reorganized its desktop and notebook computer lines in an effort to become a leader in nearly all markets by year 2000. [News.com]
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- HP ships rewritable CD drive - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) is shipping a rewritable CD drive, which can serve as a high-capacity floppy drive to record multimedia data. [News.com]
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- HP to rival copier giants - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) today will unveil plans to extend its presence in the $200-billion-a-year printing market with high-tech products that could rival photocopier giants like Xerox. [News.com]
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- HP unveils 300-MHz desktop - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) will introduce two 300-MHz Pentium II desktops and cut prices across selected Vectra lines by approximately ten percent in October, following price cuts earlier in the week from Compaq. [News.com]
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- HP WebTV printer soon available - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) says that its DeskJet 670TV printer, which allows the printing of Internet pages accessed via television sets, should be available in the U.S. beginning October 31. [News.com]
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- HP, Mitsubishi form notebook team - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) and Mitsubishi announced they will partner in producing a superlight notebook computer using Intel's new Tillamook microprocessor. [News.com]
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- IBM backs clustered NT servers - IBM (IBM) announced it is broadening its support of data storage for clustered Windows NT servers, yet more evidence of a major vendor chiming in with support of this high-end corporate computing technology. [News.com]
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- IBM develops new chip technology - IBM (IBM) today announced that it has discovered a way to wire semiconductors with copper, a move company executives and analysts say should dramatically change the process and business of making chips. [News.com]
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- IBM drops NetPC - The stampede to provide corporate customers with a NetPC thinned out today as IBM (IBM) decided to drop its version of the product. [News.com]
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- IBM extends manageability - IBM (IBM) has made its computer manageability software compatible with the bulk of its desktop lineup, the latest bit of one-upsmanship in the "managed PC" features war among the top PC vendors. [News.com]
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- IBM fights Year 2000 bug - IBM (IBM) is adding extensions to its development tools that could help big companies stamp out the millennium bug. [News.com]
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- IBM forges e-commerce tools - Hoping to garner a share of the booming market for e-commerce development tools, IBM (IBM) has reworked its VisualAge tool lineup to ease the linkage of Web client systems to enterprise applications. [News.com]
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- IBM Japan, MS form server alliance - IBM Japan (IBM) is expected to form an alliance with Microsoft (MSFT) that will allow the company to sell servers based on the Windows NT operating system. [News.com]
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- IBM launches new handheld PC - IBM (IBM) has announced a new handheld device based on the PalmPilot technology. [News.com]
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- IBM likely to quit Mac OS licensing - IBM (IBM) is likely to cease its efforts in sublicensing the Macintosh operating system to other hardware manufacturers, continuing the fallout from Apple Computer's (AAPL) decision to reverse its licensing practice. [News.com]
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- IBM offering rebates on workstations - IBM workstation buyers will receive a rebate of up to 33 percent, the company announced today. [News.com]
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- IBM redoes assembly scheme - IBM (IBM) is fine-tuning its distributed manufacturing scheme, a move the company believes will eventually shave the price of a PC. [News.com]
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- IBM retires Deep Blue from chess - IBM (IBM) has retired Deep Blue, the supercomputer that made history when it defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in May, a company spokeswoman said today. [News.com]
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- IBM reworks e-commerce lineup - IBM (IBM) is refreshing its e-commerce lineup. [News.com]
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- IBM says no to NetPC - IBM (IBM) has decided not to sell stripped-down desktop machines called NetPCs due to lack of customer demand, the Wall Street Journal reported today. [News.com]
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- IBM shows off new servers - IBM (IBM) took the covers off a new line of Intel-based servers that will compete with recent offerings from Compaq and Hewlett-Packard. [News.com]
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- IBM spruces up Aptiva line - IBM (IBM) revamped its consumer Aptiva PCs with superfast 300-MHz Pentium II models and systems with processors from both Cyrix and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) as well as consumer-friendly features such as a new mouse design. [News.com]
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- IBM stock falls; currency fears cited - IBM (IBM) stock fell today after a late sell-off that traders attributed to market concerns about currency levels. [News.com]
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- IBM stock rallies for copper chip - IBM's (IBM) stock rallied in response to the company's announcement that it has developed a new technology for making chips with copper instead of aluminum circuitry. [News.com]
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- IBM to sell handheld computer - IBM is set to announce next week a new handheld device based on the PalmPilot technology. [News.com]
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- IBM upgrades Deep Blue - IBM (IBM) announced a new version of the RS/6000 SP, the supercomputer that powered Deep Blue. The latest generation of the chess whiz and Web server is armed with a new chip and software that will increase speeds by up to 58 percent and expand scalability. [News.com]
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- IBM: Customers will rule banking - In the networked world of the Internet, financial services power will be held by customers, not by the brokers and bankers and insurance companies that hold sway today, a top IBM's (IBM) executive warned. [News.com]
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- IBM: No Net taxes down under - The managing director and chief executive of IBM Australia, Bob Savage, today urged the Australian government to consider making Internet transactions duty-free. [News.com]
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- IE 4 beta bug risks hard disks - A flaw in Microsoft's (MSFT) Internet Explorer 4.0 beta 2 puts users of the browser at risk of file corruption on their hard drives. [News.com]
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- IE 4 gets ISP backing - Two days after trumpeting deals to bundle Internet Explorer 4.0 on the PCs of more than 50 hardware makers, Microsoft (MSFT) has struck similar deals with leading Internet service providers. [News.com]
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- IE 4 won't activate Mac, Win3.1 - When versions of Microsoft's (MSFT) Internet Explorer 4.0 ship for the Macintosh and Windows 3.1 later this fall, they will have some of the goodies IE 4.0 for Windows 95 and NT has--push channels, support for Dynamic HTML, and the Outlook Express mail client--but they won't have the Active Desktop or Web integration, features currently possible only by the integration of Windows and IE 4.0. [News.com]
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- IE 4.0 channel to have India sites - Microsoft's (MSFT) India unit said today that it has included the addresses of five Indian Web sites in its soon-to-be-released browser, Internet Explorer 4.0. [News.com]
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- India cashes in on Y2K bug - Indian software firms are eyeing $5 billion in business stemming from the Year 2000 (Y2K) problem, the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) said. [News.com]
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- Industrial-strength catalogs - Rounding out its Internet commerce software offerings, Open Market (OMKT) next week will release new software for building "industrial-strength" online catalogs. [News.com]
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- Industry to study notebook heat - The Mobile Power Initiative, a committee of leading hardware and software providers, will seek to address a looming problem in the notebook world: heat. [News.com]
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- Informix audit spurs stock plunge - As the Nasdaq works to de-list Informix (IFMXE) as a result of the company's delay in filing a quarterly financial report and its subsequent announcement that it would likely double the amount of its restated 1996 financial results and add 1995 to the audit, the company's stock today dropped as much as 30 percent in morning trading. [News.com]
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- Infoseek latest to get patent - Search engine and Internet guide Infoseek (SEEK) said today it has received a patent for its method of searching multiple databases on the Web. [News.com]
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- Initiative aims to create superchip - Major U.S. chip makers will share the stage with the U.S. Department of Energy tomorrow in announcing the formation of a consortium devoted to the creating a superchip 100 times more powerful than current chips. [News.com]
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- Inquiry.com shutters Web site - Once considered by many in the industry to be the one-stop research site for IT professionals, Inquiry.com today closed shop after failing to attract needed corporate funding, according to the company. [News.com]
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- Integrion gets financial boost - Electronic commerce venture Integrion Financial Network has gained a financial boost from Citibank and First Union, which have bought stakes in the bank consortium. [News.com]
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- Intel acquires chipmaker Corollary - Intel (INTC) today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Corollary, a privately held supplier of Intel-based multiprocessing technology. [News.com]
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- Intel aims to put the PC on the road - Intel (INTC) wants you to surf the information highway--even if you are cruising on the autobahn. [News.com]
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- Intel debuts PC communications bundle - Intel (INTC) today announced a package of hardware and software for manipulating video and photo images. [News.com]
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- Intel developer forum starts - Making multimedia a moving experience will be the main theme at the Intel Developer Conference that begins today. [News.com]
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- Intel eyes small-business market - Intel (INTC), in an effort to expand its reach into the networking market for small businesses, today announced it will acquire Dayna Communications. [News.com]
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- Intel launches flash memory chip - Intel (INTC) today launched a powerful 64-megabit flash memory chip, in which the data storage capacity of each memory cell is double that of conventional chips. [News.com]
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- Intel lends performance to embedded chips - Intel (INTC) is now offering up one of the highest performance Pentium platforms for the embedded market. [News.com]
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- Intel stock weathers storm - Intel (INTC) shares held relatively steady today after the Federal Trade Commission yesterday launched a formal investigation into the chip giant's business practices, though the chip maker's competitors captured some gains. [News.com]
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- Intel to accelerate Web - Intel is expected to announce a new technology tomorrow that will speed up the delivery of graphically rich Web pages, according to industry sources. [News.com]
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- Intel to rivals: innovate - Intel (INTC) will become an aggressive player in the graphics chips market and has no misgivings about its Pentium II strategy, which could freeze out rivals Advanced Micro Devices and Cyrix, according to an Intel vice president. [News.com]
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- Intel under scrutiny - Intel, which dominates the market for computer microprocessors, is being investigated by the Federal Trade Commission for evidence of unfair competition in the semiconductor market, a probe that now is cutting across that industry. The company has been subjected to numerous allegations that its business practices violate antitrust laws and that it strong-arms large customers from buying its competitors' products. [News.com]
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- Intel unveils new network cards - A new line of network cards from Intel (INTC) combines several related functions into one chip, improving performance by up to 30 percent, according to the company. [News.com]
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- Intel's "revolutionary" memory isn't quite so - The same memory technology that Intel (INTC) announced today was unveiled by Intel more than three years ago, amid similar fanfare. [News.com]
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- Intel's new notebook chip arrives - Intel has announced its much-anticipated Tillamook processor for mobile computers. [News.com]
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- Intel, Compaq form alliance - The two biggest drivers of the personal computer industry will join forces tomorrow to speed adoption of networking technology. [News.com]
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- Intel, Ticketmaster in Web deal - Ticketmaster Group (TKTM) has signed an agreement with Intel (INTC) to develop e-commerce technology for Ticketmaster's Web site that will allow ticket buyers to see the view of the field or stage from the seats they are purchasing. [News.com]
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- Internet imaging players teaming up - Interactive Pictures and Live Picture have made up and are now in the process of making a new product together. [News.com]
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- Investors sue Macromedia again - Macromedia has been hit by another shareholder lawsuit, its second this summer. [News.com]
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- Iomega sues Nomai, again - Iomega today moved again to stop would-be competitor Nomai from selling 100MB diskettes compatible with Iomega's high-capacity storage products. [News.com]
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- Iomega to compete with Nomai - Iomega, which makes removable storage products for desktop computers, could face competition from French company Nomai, which makes advanced digital-data and multimedia storage solutions, according to business newspaper Barron's. [News.com]
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- Iona brewing new Java tools - Iona Technologies (IONAY) is brewing new tools for building server-based Java applications. [News.com]
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- IPOs coming online in a month - After nearly a year's silence, Wit Capital today introduced online investment banking through its Web site, allowing investors to sign up to invest in future IPOs underwritten by major investment banking firms. [News.com]
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- ISP censorship seen as trend - Chris Ellison, a founder of a U.K.-based cyberliberties group, is upset that a British Internet service provider took down his organization's Web site. But he's more distressed about what he sees as a growing trend: ISPs' increasing willingness to censor sites hosted on their servers. [News.com]
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- ISP told to allow spammer, for now - A federal judge today ordered AGIS to restore service to Cyber Promotions, ruling that the junk emailer's termination earlier this month was an improper breach of contract between the two companies. [News.com]
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- IT will push broadcast industry - The television industry is underestimating the threat from information technology, a News Corp. executive said at an information technology conference in Hungary. [News.com]
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- It's official: Apple keeps Newton - After much internal confusion, Apple Computer (AAPL) said today that it will not spin off its Newton subsidiary. [News.com]
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- Japan to get cheaper Compaq PCs - Compaq Computer (CPQ) said today that it will begin shipping its first low-priced personal computer for the Japanese market on Friday. [News.com]
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- Japan's server market surging - Strong demand from corporations is driving demand for server computers, according to a report in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japans largest business daily. [News.com]
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- Japan: supercomputer talks needed - Japan plans to urge the United States to start consultations on the procurement of supercomputers following last week's U.S. decision to impose antidumping duties on supercomputers from Japan, vice trade minister Osamu Watanabe told a news conference today. [News.com]
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- Java heats up at Oracle meeting - Oracle (ORCL) today put Java squarely on the front burner at its Oracle Open World user meeting in Los Angeles. [News.com]
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- Java preachers try to recruit SPA - On this Sunday morning, preachers of Java religion evangelized for their favorite programming language, exhorting members of the Software Publishers Association to join the crusade because it will usher in an era of competition, not monopoly, in software. [News.com]
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- Job funds come closer to high-tech home - High-tech and Internet companies may need to rely on their local communities, not the federal government, to fund job training for their employee-hungry industries if the Senate approves legislation aimed at dismantling the nation's workforce training system. [News.com]
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- Jobs move seen as necessary step - What goes around, comes around. And in that spirit, Apple Computer (AAPL) today named cofounder and board member Steve Jobs interim CEO, raising new questions about the potential of his expanding role and the search for a replacement to ousted chief executive Gilbert Amelio. [News.com]
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- Jobs named interim Apple CEO - Amid much speculation and concerns over an eventual power struggle, Apple Computer (AAPL) today announced that cofounder and quasi-leader Steve Jobs would take the top post--at least temporarily. [News.com]
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- Jobs-sharing is fine with Pixar - Is absentee Pixar (PIXR) CEO Steve Jobs forgotten as well as gone? [News.com]
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- Johnny Cash sings copyright blues - Wearing his trademark black suit, country singer Johnny Cash was supposed to tell Congress today that his songs are in desperate need of copyright protection in cyberspace. [News.com]
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- Judge acts in "metatag" case - A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction forbidding a Web publisher from embedding keywords in its site that exploit the popularity of a competing site, a practice that is rampant on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Judge weighs ISP vs. spammer - A federal judge is expected to rule soon whether backbone provider AGIS must reconnect Cyber Promotions' Internet service as demanded in a lawsuit filed by the mass emailer, people involved in the case said. [News.com]
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- Kodak has new digital camera - Kodak today said that it has introduced a new high-end digital camera and software for processing digital photos. [News.com]
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- Lawmakers irked over telecom law - Eighteen months after passage of a landmark telecommunications law, lawmakers are set to probe why the act is not generating the fierce competition in the telephone business that politicians had promised. [News.com]
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- Librarians, locals mull Net filters - Before the William T. Cozby Public Library in Coppell, Texas, offers public Net access, the town council will decide today whether to block sexually explicit sites or let patrons surf without content controls. [News.com]
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- Libraries debate Net filtering - The notion of filtering Net access at public libraries received very different reactions from the city councils of Coppell, Texas, and San Jose, California, yesterday, where officials tried to balance concerns about online pornography with cries of censorship. [News.com]
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- Lotus delays Notes, Domino releases - Lotus is delaying its rollout of Notes 5.0 and Domino 5.0 until the first half of 1998, company officials said. [News.com]
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- Lotus rolls out messaging upgrades - IBM subsidiary Lotus Development today rolled out the latest versions of its groupware and messaging packages. [News.com]
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- Low-cost vendors expanding in workstations - Gateway 2000's push into workstations makes the sophisticated, traditionally pricey machines available by mail order for around $3,500, changing the landscape of a market previously considered the domain of elitist manufacturers and resellers. [News.com]
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- Lucent licensing 56-kbps technology - Lucent Technologies (LU) said today it is willing to license 56-kbps modem technology for use by other vendors in order to advance an industry standard for the technology, but licensees may have to pony up significant fees. [News.com]
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- Lucent lowers NIC prices - MURRAY HILL, N.J.--Lucent Technologies today announced reduced prices for key components of its WaveLAN products. [News.com]
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- Lucent unveils chips for telecom gear - MURRAY HILL, N.J.--Lucent Technologies has unveiled a family of computer chips designed to lower the cost of making telecommunications gear by reducing power consumption. [News.com]
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- Lycos picked for Explorer channels - Lycos (LCOS) and Microsoft (MSFT) get cozy in an exclusive deal that makes Lycos the sole search engine for the Active Channel Guide in Internet Explorer 4.0, set to be released later this month. [News.com]
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- Mac firms shifting focus, analysts say - Apple Computer's (AAPL) alienation of clone makers will push companies that make Macintosh products further toward the Windows market, analysts say. [News.com]
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- Mac price cuts coming - Motorola (MOT) and Power Computing are leaving the Mac market, but in the wake of their departure, consumers will get some very good deals on Mac-compatible computers. [News.com]
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- Macintosh meltdown - Aftershocks continue to follow last week's announcement of Apple's $100 million buyout of Power Computing's "key assets," forcing Power out of the Mac business. CNET's NEWS.COM examines the consequences of the recent developments for Apple and the Macintosh. [News.com]
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- MacWorld moves to New York - IDG Expo Management said yesterday it is moving the 1998 East Coast MacWorld convention to New York from Boston, where it had been held for 13 years. [News.com]
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- Malaysia's high-tech moneymaker - KUALA LUMPUR-Malaysia said today it expects revenue from its high-tech, information technology Multimedia Super Corridor zone (MSC) to be around $3.33 billion over a five-year period. [News.com]
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- Marimba lands more financing - Marimba is shaking up its budget with a $14.5 million second round of financing, the push technology company said today. [News.com]
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- McAfee to unveil Java filters - McAfee Associates (MCAF) next week will unveil a new feature for its security server software that detects and blocks hostile Java applets and ActiveX controls. [News.com]
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- McAfee told to preserve evidence - Symantec (SYMC) today said Magistrate Judge Edward A. Infante has ordered McAfee Associates to preserve evidence in the copyright infringement case filed by Symantec earlier this year. [News.com]
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- MCI to connect fiber networks - MCI Communications (MCIC) said today it unveiled a new data service that will allow businesses to exchange information at very high speeds. [News.com]
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- McNealy to percolate Java - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) will pursue standardizing its Java programming language even if current efforts with the International Standards Organization (ISO) don't result in making Java a standard, company chief executive Scott McNealy told CNET's NEWS.COM today in an exclusive interview. [News.com]
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- Media moguls lobby for copyright bill - Software, communications, and entertainment firms have been shelling out the lobbying dollars as they push Congress to pass a copyright bill favorable to their industries, the Center for Responsive Politics said in an alert released this week. [News.com]
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- Micron profits fall short - Micron Technology Inc. (MU) said late Monday that its fiscal fourth-quarter net income more than tripled. But it was still far less than Wall Street had expected because of a sharp drop in computer memory chip prices. [News.com]
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- Micron unveils fall PC lineup - Nampa, Idaho--Micron Electronics unveiled its fall 1997 line of personal computers including desktop, notebooks, and network-ready PCs. [News.com]
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- Micronics shakes up management - Floundering system-board manufacturer Micronics (MCRN) announced a shake-up of its senior management today that officials say will restore the companys status as a Silicon Valley success story. [News.com]
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- Microsoft CFO "leery" of valuation - Microsoft's (MSFT) chief financial officer is "leery" of the current valuation of the company's stock, Barron's reported in its September 15 edition. [News.com]
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- Microsoft changes IE 4 - A month before the release of its Internet Explorer 4.0 browser, Microsoft (MSFT) is making changes to the program's interface to respond to user feedback and complaints. [News.com]
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- Microsoft locks up online banking - Microsoft (MSFT) today announced new 128-bit encryption software intended to secure online financial transactions. [News.com]
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- Microsoft mints new Money - Microsoft (MSFT) will today roll out its latest personal finance management package, Money 98. [News.com]
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- Microsoft passed on CompuServe - Microsoft Network briefly flirted with the idea of buying CompuServe (CSRV), a move that surely would have threatened online giant America Online (AOL), according to a statement posted on MSN last night. [News.com]
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- Microsoft plots Windows upgrades - Microsoft (MSFT) officials said they will provide an easy upgrade path from Windows 3.x to the upcoming Windows NT 5.0. [News.com]
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- Microsoft preps Windows CE 2.0 - Microsoft (MSFT) is readying the next version of the Windows CE for release at the end of the month, a move that is expected to give rise to a host of new portable computing devices. [News.com]
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- Microsoft releases Windows CE 2.0 - At the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, California, Microsoft (MSFT) today officially released a new version of its Windows CE operating system that could be used in set-top boxes and larger handheld devices as well. [News.com]
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- Microsoft site purging Java - If you're looking for Java on Microsoft's (MSFT) home page, you'd better look fast. [News.com]
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- Microsoft still on antitrust hook - Now that the Federal Trade Commission is officially investigating Intel's (INTC) business practices, federal regulators have both halves of "Wintel" under scrutiny. [News.com]
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- Microsoft updates Project 98 - Microsoft (MSFT) has today released an upgrade for its project management software for the Windows operating system. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, AT&T invest in E-Stamp - E-Stamp, which has created a system for buying postage stamps over the Internet, will announce Monday that Microsoft (MSFT) and AT&T Ventures (T) have both taken ten-percent equity shares in the three-year-old firm. [News.com]
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- MindSpring buys Delphi customers - In the latest example of consolidation among Internet service providers, national ISP MindSpring (MSPG) said today it would acquire the dial-up Net subscribers of Delphi Internet Services. [News.com]
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- Mishaps cause small outage - Internet access for more than 1,000 surfers in Southern California was disrupted Friday and today for up to four hours, after fiber-optic cable was inadvertently cut by two different construction crews. [News.com]
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- Mita to sell multifunction device - Mita has joined the rapidly expanding multifunctional peripheral (MFP) market, competing with recent releases from Hewlett-Packard and Xerox. [News.com]
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- Moore says Moore's Law to hit wall - Moore's Law is coming into direct conflict with the law of nature. So says Gordon Moore. [News.com]
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- More 56-kbps products on tap - Manufacturers are pressing ahead with products based on 56-kbps technology, despite the likelihood that a preliminary 56-kbps modem standard will not emerge this month. [News.com]
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- More layoffs expected at Apple - More executive departures and layoffs are expected at Apple Computer (AAPL) as interim chief executive Steve Jobs continues to shake up the computer company. [News.com]
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- Motorola cuts modem prices - Motorola (MOT) is cutting prices by almost 40 percent on some 56-kbps modems in an effort to spur sales as users continue to debate whether or not they want to buy non-standard equipment, while Xircom is forging ahead with new 56-kbps modems for notebook users. [News.com]
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- Motorola gives up Macs - Motorola Computer Group will cease development of its StarMax line of Macintosh-compatible computers, the company announced today, confirming a report yesterday by CNET's NEWS.COM. [News.com]
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- Motorola halting Mac development - Motorola is expected to stop development of Macintosh-compatible computers, CNET's NEWS.COM has learned. [News.com]
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- Motorola has a copper chip too - Motorola's Semiconductor Product Group wants the world to know it has a "copper chip" too. [News.com]
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- Motorola looks beyond Macs - Motorola's (MOT) Semiconductor Products group, which is responsible for PowerPC processors, signaled it will shift its business increasingly away from computers and further toward non-PC markets. [News.com]
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- Motorola may shift chip strategy - Motorola's (MOT) PowerPC processor group is expected to make an announcement Monday that could shift its business away from computers and further toward non-PC markets. [News.com]
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- Motorola posts $95 million charge - Motorola (MOT) said today that it would post a special $95 million charge in the third quarter as a result of its exit from the Mac clone business and weakness in the paging market. [News.com]
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- Moving day nears for Gates - Microsoft (MSFT) chairman Bill Gates and his family are finally moving into their $60 million lakefront mansion, which was under construction for seven years. [News.com]
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- MS bets the company on NT 5.0 - SAN DIEGOMicrosoft (MSFT) is betting the company on its upcoming Windows NT 5.0 operating system, senior vice president Jim Allchin said today. [News.com]
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- MS buys stake in software maker - Microsoft (MSFT) says it has agreed to buy a 20 percent stake in Trados GmbH, a German-based maker of translation software. [News.com]
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- MS claims trademark on "NT" - Now that Windows NT has become the fastest-growing operating system for corporate networks, Microsoft (MSFT) is tightening the screws on companies using the initials "NT." [News.com]
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- MS execs top richest 100 - You don't have to be a college graduate to make millions--or even billions--in the digital age, and Microsoft's (MSFT) chairman and CEO has proven that time and again. [News.com]
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- MS forges new tools - Microsoft (MSFT) has blanketed attendees at this week's Professional Developers Conference with new technologies and broad frameworks. On Friday, the company will get down to the nitty-gritty of explaining its next generation of development tools for building software to support those new technologies. [News.com]
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- MS sees Windows in cars, phones - If Microsoft (MSFT) has its way, some 1999 model cars will come equipped with Windows as well as windows. [News.com]
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- MS sets up BaseCamp - Corporate users of Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows operating system will soon be able to make an easier remote connection, according to company officials. [News.com]
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- MS takes stake in speech firm - Microsoft (MSFT) has invested $45 million in Belgian speech technology firm Lernout & Hauspie (LHSPF) with the intent of enabling Windows to recognize and respond to spoken commands. [News.com]
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- MS to license Intel software - Microsoft (MSFT) will license Intel (INTC) technology that boosts software speed. [News.com]
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- MS tunes up Windows NT - On the eve of its annual Professional Developer's Conference, Microsoft (MSFT) posted a new package of enhancements for its Windows NT Server version 4.0 operating system. [News.com]
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- MS, Cisco team for Unix Active Directory - Unix-based versions of Microsoft's (MSFT) Active Directory technology will follow Windows NT 5.0 down the development path, according to officials from Cisco Systems, who are spearheading the development. [News.com]
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- MS, Netscape agree on Individual - Customized news delivery company Individual (INDV) has profited from its newly announced partnership with Netscape Communications. As a result, Microsoft is pocketing some cash. [News.com]
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- MS, Sega team on PC games - Sega Enterprises and Microsoft (MSFT) are negotiating the joint development of computer games that will run on a 128-bit machine for the first time, according to reports in a Japanese newspaper. [News.com]
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- MS: COM+, DNA, IE 4 will dominate - One week before the commercial launch of Internet Explorer 4.0, Microsoft (MSFT) group vice president of applications and platforms Paul Maritz opened the company's Professional Developer Conference here today by predicting the new browser would carry Microsoft past Netscape Communications (NSCP) in browser share. [News.com]
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- MSN has uphill battle - When America Online (AOL) announced its plans to acquire CompuServe (CSRV), the Microsoft Network's world changed. [News.com]
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- MSNBC braves email ads - MSNBC is boldly going where few other mainstream companies have dared to go on the Internet: in your email box. [News.com]
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- MSNBC tech show off the air - The Site has gone dark. [News.com]
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- Nasdaq targets British investors - LONDON-The Nasdaq stock market announced plans Wednesday for a $10.5 million advertising drive aimed at attracting British retail investors who can buy stocks via the Internet. [News.com]
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- Nasdaq to monitor stock chat sites - The Nasdaq will keep an eye on free-flying sensitive financial data online in an effort to curb the spread of erroneous information, which can affect stock prices. [News.com]
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- National Semi posts big earnings - National Semiconductor (NSM) reported quarterly earnings of $70.1 million, a surprising surge led by a 40 percent increase in analog and communications chip sales. [News.com]
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- NCD announces new NCs - Network Computing Devices announced new versions of its network computers even while the market for terminal replacements awaits the official imprimatur of Microsoft. [News.com]
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- NEC announces Pentium II server - NEC Computer (NIPNY) today announced a new Pentium II server intended for the lower end of the market, as previously reported by CNET's NEWS.COM. [News.com]
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- NEC Japan quits closed design - Pressed by an eroding lead in Japan's personal computer market, NEC Computer (NIPNY) said on Wednesday that next month it would begin selling PCs based on a global standard promoted by Microsoft and Intel. [News.com]
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- NEC to release larger Pentium II servers - NEC Computer will unveil a new Pentium II server on Monday that's targeted at the more price-sensitive segment of the server computer market. [News.com]
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- NEC to revamp PC models - NEC Computer today said it plans to start selling a new personal computer based on the formats set by Microsoft software and Intel microprocessors by the end of this year. [News.com]
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- Net access from 52,000 feet - In a plan befitting Ripley's Believe It or Not, a St. Louis-based start-up is laying the groundwork to offer wireless high-speed Internet access using airplanes circling target markets at high altitudes. [News.com]
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- Net house hunters get foot in door - In the ongoing search for moneymaking opportunities on the Net, Stuart Wolff, chief executive of Realtor.com, is convinced he's found a pot of gold. [News.com]
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- Net management latest hot topic - Industry trade shows often take on a certain theme, and this year at Networld+Interop, it appears everyone will be talking about network management software. [News.com]
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- Net mourns Di, debates media role - Princess Diana's royal life was filled with "visual stories," and so it was chronicled on television and in tabloids and celebrity magazines. [News.com]
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- Net overload may force split - The Internet is growing so fast that it may be impossible to keep it as one worldwide compatible system, participants at a technology conference in Hungary said. [News.com]
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- Net prayers for Mother Teresa - Mother Teresa's death last week has inspired a flurry of memorials on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Net vendors gear up for speed - A slew of new gear from both major networking players and eager start-ups will pepper the landscape from now until next month's Networld+Interop in Atlanta. [News.com]
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- Netcom PoP restored in Bay Area - Some Netcom (NETC) users in the San Francisco Bay Area experienced problems connecting to the Internet in the past 24 hours, but the problem has been fixed, a company vice president said today. [News.com]
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- Netizens seeing less spam - Just as people cheer when a bully slips in the mud, antispammers are delighting in the misfortunes of bulk emailer Sanford Wallace this week. [News.com]
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- Netscape dials up telcos - In the hopes of spreading the power of the Internet to more businesses, large and small, Netscape Communications (NSCP) said today that it will offer an enhanced version of its server software to enable telecommunications companies to offer Internet, intranet, and extranet services to their customers. [News.com]
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- Netscape offers Individual service - Netscape Communications (NSCP) is giving Individual, a company known for its customized daily news deliveries, the reins of Industry Watch, a section of the Netcenter Web-based service. [News.com]
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- Netscape patents crypto protocol - Netscape Communications (NSCP) quietly received a patent last month for one of the most popular types of encryption on the Internet, but the company says it will continue to give it away for free. [News.com]
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- Netscape previews Aurora - Angling to steal Microsoft's thunder, Netscape Communications today previewed new technology called Aurora designed to integrate a user's data into a single Webtop that houses information from the Internet, the desktop, email, push channels, personal bookmarks, and databases. [News.com]
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- Netscape reworks Web publishing - Netscape Communications (NSCP) and Actra, a Netscape joint venture with GE Information Services (GE), will release a new version of Netscape's two-year-old Web site publishing software by the end of the month. [News.com]
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- Netscape says it fits the bill - Netscape Communications (NSCP) is preparing to give businesses and Web surfers an opportunity to present and pay bills online. [News.com]
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- Netscape takes standard control - Politics and sausage are ugly to watch in the making, as the saying goes. One could add technical standards to that list. [News.com]
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- Netscape to launch Netcenter, China site - Netscape Communications (NSCP) is reorganizing its Web site to include a free "members-only" service that gathers together news, community groups, and software. [News.com]
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- Network Solutions IPO on track - Conventional wisdom says that any company that is about to lose a contract that provides it with the majority of its business should not launch an initial public offering. Analysts say that in Network Solutions case, that may not be true. [News.com]
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- Network Solutions nets strong trade - Network Solutions (NSOL) this morning jumped into the public arena with a strong showing, as its first trade hit the market at nearly 40 percent above its target price. [News.com]
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- Networkers fight for remote - Networking players continue to gang-tackle the booming remote access market in an effort to expand their lineup of wares for small businesses, enterprise networks, and service providers. [News.com]
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- Networking slump affects stocks - Despite the fact that it is facing some problems that go beyond an industry-wide slowdown, Ascends (ASND) announcement that it would miss expectations pushed a number of networking stocks slightly down today. [News.com]
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- New app synchs site builders - NetObjects is trying to centralize control in the Web site building process with its release of a new client-server application that provides joint authoring, centralized control, and automated content control. [News.com]
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- New Apple ads to debut Sunday - Apple Computer (AAPL) will launch a new advertising campaign beginning this Sunday, the company said. [News.com]
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- New Cisco router to unclog ISPs - Networking giant Cisco Systems (CSCO) next month will ship a long-awaited router line intended to unclog congested Internet service provider (ISP) networks. [News.com]
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- New DVD format announced - A recordable format from the DVD Forum will help the producers of multimedia software bring content to the mass market, but technology that consumers can afford isn't in the cards. [News.com]
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- New Net ads make a noise - Web surfers used to cool, quiet Internet waters are in for a surprise this week from ads that not only blink and dance for attention but also bang and yell at users. [News.com]
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- New Net may not get '98 funding - Despite the White House's wishes and academia's needs for a better Net, Congress probably won't allot $100 million to the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative for 1998, the chair of the House Science Committee said today. [News.com]
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- New security for e-commerce - Internet security firm Cylink (CYLK) today introduced PrivateWire encryption software for sending sensitive data securely over the Net. [News.com]
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- New site for women in works - In the latest effort to deliver content to the growing numbers of female Web surfers, online content and community company iVillage has announced the launch of its newest site, Life Soup: The Women's Network. [News.com]
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- New software to shield privacy - Symantec (SYMC) today introduced new software that protects the privacy and PCs of Internet users. [News.com]
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- New spec for data warehousing - Microsoft (MSFT) today introduced a new specification aimed at making esoteric data-warehousing technology as easy to use as its packaged application software. [News.com]
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- New spin on DVD - As two new companies join the DVD Forum, the industry consortium working on setting recordable DVD standards, Hewlett-Packard is casting doubts on whether the standard will fly with consumers. [News.com]
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- New Sun NCs, software on way - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) will release two new JavaStations and a new complement of software this fall, though the potential market for these machines remains in flux. [News.com]
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- New system for Web bill payments - Internet payments firm CyberCash (CYCH) and software vendor BlueGill Technologies today announced a joint solution that lets companies issue bills online and allows customers to pay those bills on the Web. [News.com]
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- News Corp. game unit sues AOL - Kesmai, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, filed suit today against America Online (AOL), charging "flagrant violation of federal antitrust laws" in the online gaming market. [News.com]
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- News Corp. set for further global growth - News Corp. has cash balances of more than $2.7 billion and is in a strong financial position to pursue its global growth strategy, chairman Rupert Murdoch said Wednesday. "These cash resources, together with our established cash flows, give us the flexibility to finance future investments without jeopardizing our investment-grade credit ratings," Murdoch said in News Corp.'s annual report, issued Wednesday. [News.com]
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- News of losses cuts Intuit stock - Weighed down by a restructuring charge, Intuit (INTU) today reported a widened net loss, which caused the stock to slip in after-hours trading. [News.com]
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- Nomai ships super floppy amid legal wrangling - After months of legal wrangling between Iomega (IOM) and a European competitor, Iomega's popular Zip drive diskettes may have to make room for a lower-priced alternative. [News.com]
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- Novatel has wireless modem for PalmPilot - Novatel Wireless has begun shipping a wireless modem for U.S. Robotics' popular PalmPilot handheld computer. [News.com]
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- Novell adds to BorderManager - Novell (NOVL) released more details today on promised technology to speed Web page viewing and ease network access management. [News.com]
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- Novell debuts groupware upgrade - Novell (NOVL) today rolled out GroupWise 5.2, an upgrade to the company's messaging and collaboration software package with new support for Internet collaboration standards and Java applets. [News.com]
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- NT could gain at corporations - Sequent Computer Systems (SQNT) and Dell (DELL) showed off technology that allows multiple Windows NT servers to be strung together for improved performance and reliability, boosting the prospects for Microsoft's software in high-end corporate computing where Unix has traditionally been strong. [News.com]
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- Older Netizens to throw weight - Watch out, Generation-Xers. A study released today says that baby boomers are poised to stake their claim in cyberspace. [News.com]
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- Olivetti plans a rebound - Olivetti Computers, the personal computer manufacturer spun off by Italy's Olivetti Spa earlier this year, vowed on Tuesday that it was back in the game. [News.com]
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- Online stock talk fuels lawsuit - Underscoring a problem attorneys say will only become more prevalent, a company today sued three individuals for allegedly using the Internet to manipulate stock prices. [News.com]
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- Onsale broadens products, partners - At most Net auctions, the most you can hope to walk away with is a mouse, a keyboard, or maybe a computer. But if Web auction house Onsale (ONSL) has its way, you could one day log off the Net as the proud owner of a frozen steak. [News.com]
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- Oracle downgraded after report - Oracle (ORCL) stock dropped more than 7 percent this morning, a day after the No. 2 software maker released its quarterly earnings report. [News.com]
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- Oracle expands applications lineup - Continuing its push into vertical markets,Oracle (ORCL) today said it is adding more industry-specific applications to its business software roster. [News.com]
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- Oracle meets rosy expectations - On an operating level, Oracle (ORCL) today hit analysts' expectations, but profits were dragged down by a one-time charge associated with acquisitions made during the quarter. [News.com]
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- Oracle on fiscal-year growth spurt - Oracle (ORCL) chairman and chief executive Larry Ellison said today that earnings growth for the rest of fiscal 1998 will outpace the company's first-quarter growth. [News.com]
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- Oracle online NC store ready - Network Computer Incorporated (NCI), the Oracle (ORCL) division that creates software for network computers, tomorrow will launch its NC Online Store to sell products online. [News.com]
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- Oracle puts Java on front burner - Oracle (ORCL) plans to spotlight new Java-enabled products at its Oracle Open World user meeting next week in Los Angeles. [News.com]
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- Oracle shelves Sedona toolset - Rumors of Sedona's death have not been greatly exaggerated. [News.com]
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- Overhaul of SAFE bill approved - In a setback to the high-tech industry and privacy advocates in cyberspace, a House committee today overwhelmingly approved an amendment that would overhaul the Security and Freedom through Encryption Act. [News.com]
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- Pandesic e-business system debuts - Pandesic, the joint e-commerce venture of Intel (INTC) and SAP will roll out its first e-business system by month's end, the company said today at the Internet Commerce Expo in Los Angeles. [News.com]
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- Patent may let Lycos license spiders - Lycos (LCOS) owns spiders. [News.com]
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- Paul Allen eyes Metricom shares - Metricom (MCOM) today said Paul Allen plans to up his stake in the wireless data communications company with the purchase of an additional 2.58 million shares of its stock. [News.com]
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- PC card uses Intel's new flash memory chip - Electronic Designs has rolled out a new generation of its Linear Flash PCMCIA cards that includes the new StrataFlash flash memory chips from Intel, a technology shift which will boost memory capacity on PCMCIA flash memory cards approximately 22 percent. [News.com]
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- PC makers eye Japanese market - U.S. personal computer makers are gearing up to boost their presence in Japan's 2 trillion yen ($16.2 billion) PC market, which is at a major turning point after three years of spectacular growth. [News.com]
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- PC makers will bundle IE 4 - Microsoft (MSFT), which is shipping its Internet Explorer 4.0 at the end of the month, said today that more than 50 PC manufacturers will be bundling the new version of the browser with their machines. [News.com]
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- PC of future packs 350 MHz, DVD - Intel (INTC) today demonstrated a next-generation PC that should be adept at playing back DVD titles directly on the PC when it hits the market in volume by mid-1998. [News.com]
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- PC sales in Japan seen slowing - Most Japanese PC manufacturers expect domestic sales this year to expand by less than the industry-wide forecast of 22 percent. The bearish outlook reflects sluggish growth in sales to individual consumers for most of 1997, though analysts say corporate demand remains strong, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported Wednesday. [News.com]
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- Pentium II ads cost Intel $100 million - Intel (INTC) will spend more than $100 million this autumn, the most it has ever spent for a fall campaign, to promote its new Pentium II microprocessors on television, in print and on radio. [News.com]
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- Philips markets new DVD player - Philips Electronics announced a new version of its DVD video player. [News.com]
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- Philips to offer PC-TV - Philips Electronics, one of the world's largest consumer electronics companies, is setting its sights on the U.S. market with a PC-TV convergence product that can serve as the centerpiece of a home entertainment network. The device is expected to compete with offerings from Gateway 2000 and Compaq. [News.com]
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- Photo finish for Sony alliance - Sony and PictureVision, a Herndon, Virginia-based maker of photo development software, are teaming up to sell turnkey digital photo finishing systems for camera shops and other photo developing outlets, which should ease the transition from print film to digital photography. [News.com]
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- Pinnacle Micro plans workforce cuts - Pinnacle Micro (PNCL), an optical storage technology company, said today it plans "significant" workforce reductions in its Irvine, California and Colorado Springs, Colorado operations and expects its third-quarter revenues to be significantly below second-quarter revenues. [News.com]
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- Pittman: Cyberspace is splitting - The cyberspace market may be splitting into those users who want more sophisticated computer services and those who want things kept nice and simple, AOL Networks (AOL) chief executive Robert Pittman said. [News.com]
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- PointCast to push new networks - PointCast announced it is rolling out ten new networks for ten key industries, such as telecommunications, legal, and real estate, the latest attempt to help users sort through the plethora of information on the Net. [News.com]
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- Politics, courts stall encryption - The past two weeks have brought key cases on encryption as well as policy debates about its regulation to the fore. In the courts are two professors who are testing their legal rights to use and teach cryptography. On Capitol Hill are the politicians, law enforcement officials, bureaucrats, companies, and advocates advancing and opposing export restrictions and mandatory key recovery. Here's a look at the most recent stories. [News.com]
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- Power announces deep price cuts - Power Computing announced immediate price cuts and memory upgrades for midrange and high-end desktops. [News.com]
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- Power called more harm than good - Apple Computer detailed its reasoning behind the purchase of Power Computing at a press conference today, saying in essence that it bought the company because Power didn't expand the market for the Mac OS. [News.com]
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- Power cutting Mac prices - Now that it's getting out of the Macintosh business and jumping into the Intel-compatible PC market, Power Computing has cut prices on its main Macintosh computer lines. [News.com]
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- Power jumps right in - Less than ten days after agreeing to surrender its license to produce Macintosh clone PCs, Power Computing marked its transition to the Intel-based market by formally announcing a notebook line that features the brand-new Tillamook chip. [News.com]
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- Power out to prove new strategy - Power Computing, virtually forced into selling its Macintosh direct sales business to Apple (AAPL) and left to refocus its business on the highly competitive PC arena, has a short timeline to prove its new business model before its money runs out, analysts say. [News.com]
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- Power turns attention to Intel - Intel is in and Apple is out. [News.com]
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- PowerAgent shuts doors - Internet marketing and advertising start-up PowerAgent has shut down just weeks shy of launching its flagship service, said its chief executive. [News.com]
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- Prodigy ad gets in users' faces - Prodigy Internet thinks it has found the perfect online ad, but some of its subscribers think otherwise. [News.com]
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- Prodigy adds Solutions division - Prodigy said today it is restructuring the company into three divisions and announced that chief executive Paul DeLacey is stepping down to serve as strategic adviser to the chairman. [News.com]
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- Profiting from the Year 2000 bug - If you believe the doomsayers, the Year 2000 problem will cause havoc for companies and federal institutions increasingly dependent on their computer systems. The upside, if you believe Wall Street, is that the so-called millenium bug will be a moneymaking opportunity for a handful of software makers and consulting firms. [News.com]
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- Progressive Networks gets real - Call it a busy day for Progressive Networks. [News.com]
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- PSINet peers with smaller ISPs - PSINet (PSIX) came through with its promise today to let small Internet service providers interconnect with its network for free. [News.com]
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- Purple Moon taps new market - Why do far more boys than girls play computer games? According to conventional wisdom, it's obvious. [News.com]
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- Quarterdeck looks for a new niche - Quarterdeck (QDEK), looking for a new niche in the software business, will begin selling TuneUp, a program that uses the Internet to automatically update popular software products, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Red-light domain sought for porn - An influential Internet policy group is considering adding a ".xxx" domain, which would be reserved solely for sites featuring pornographic content. [News.com]
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- Regional DVD takes hold - DVD users are facing yet another hurdle as DVD drives and discs begin to proliferate throughout the world. [News.com]
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- Rockwell produces Java chip - Rockwell Avionics and Communications, a division of Rockwell (ROK), says it has produced the first Java processor that can directly execute Java programs, but questions remain about how Java processors will fare in the competitive, low-margin market for embedded processors. [News.com]
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- RSA crypto export gets thumbs-up - Security Dynamics (SDTI) today announced that its RSA Data Security subsidiary has won U.S. approval to export RSA's SecurPC 2.0 software, a 128-bit encryption product for securing desktop PCs. [News.com]
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- RSA suit against PGP back on track - A suit between arch rivals RSA Data Security and Pretty Good Privacy is back on track now that a third party, Cylink, has decided to bow out of the legal battle. [News.com]
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- RSAC shelves news rating - WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Recreational Software Advisory Council, which has created an Internet ratings system for Web sites, has put its controversial plan to create a special label for news-oriented sites on hold. [News.com]
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- SAFE crypto bill cracked again - For the second time in a week, a House committee has made significant changes to the Security and Freedom through Encryption (SAFE) Act to mandate that domestic encryption products give law enforcement agencies access to users' messages. [News.com]
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- Samsung starts alpha chip production - South Korea's Samsung Electronics said it has begun producing Alpha microprocessors developed in an alliance with Digital Equipment. [News.com]
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- Screen progress boosts stock - Westaim shares rose on the Toronto Stock Exchange today after the company announced a breakthrough in its effort to produce full-color, flat-panel screens for computers and televisions. [News.com]
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- Search engine stocks look good - Search companies are expected to report improved quarterly results for the most part. The results may push their stock prices, which recently were fueled by a number of announced deals and partnerships, even higher. [News.com]
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- SecurID tightens security - Security Dynamics Technologies (SDTI) will incorporate its SecurID hardware token into virtual private network offerings from several hardware and software vendors. [News.com]
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- Security Dynamics plans second offering - Security Dynamics Technologies (SDTI) today announced it is heading back to the public to round up some additional funding in a secondary offering that is expected to generate $91.4 million. [News.com]
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- Sega accused of contract breach - Stepping up tensions in a high-tech love triangle, 3Dfx Interactive (TDFX) has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Sega Enterprises (SEGNY) and NEC over the cancellation of a contract with 3Dfx. [News.com]
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- SEMI posts August ratio - MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--The North American semiconductor equipment industry posted a book-to-bill ratio of 1.11 for August 1997, Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International reported. [News.com]
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- Semiconductor revenues to reach $300 billion - Global revenues in the semiconductor market are on track to surpass $300 billion by the year 2001, the research firm Dataquest said today. [News.com]
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- Semiconductor sales surge - Semiconductor sales surged 13.3 percent worldwide and 19.4 percent in the U.S. in the month of July, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. The growth rate tracks PC sales. [News.com]
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- Senate debates online weapon info - Politicians frequently praise the Information Age boom. Whether the Net makes it easier for hostile nations to construct better bombs, however, is causing concern in the Senate this week. [News.com]
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- Senators back encryption limits - Several senators, supported by FBI chief Louis Freeh, said yesterday they would favor imposing domestic limits on computer encoding technology, shocking opponents of current limits on its export. [News.com]
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- Serial-killer site owner defends work - A journalist who has made a specialty of covering serial killers said yesterday she was delighted that America Online (AOL) had dumped her serial-killer home page off the Internet. [News.com]
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- Service to gather content for teachers - Philips Electronics is launching a new Net service called PlanetSearch Networks, which will aggregate content and news for professionals and Net users with common interests. [News.com]
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- SGI plans Intel workstations - Silicon Graphics is planning to enter the Intel-processor-based workstation market in 1998 with a second-generation Pentium II chip. [News.com]
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- SGI, Netscape to build servers - Netscape Communications (NSCP) and Silicon Graphics (SGI) are combining their software and hardware to create high-end Internet servers targeted at media-intensive Web "supersites" and major Internet service providers, the companies said today. [News.com]
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- Sharp making Windows CE handheld - Sharp Electronics announced it is developing a handheld PC based on the Windows CE operating system. [News.com]
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- Singapore fund taps global tech - A U.S. and Singaporean bank joined forces today to launch a mutual fund that will allow Singapore investors to put money into global technology stocks. [News.com]
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- Site connects 16,000 schools - In what its organizers are calling the largest educational initiative on the Internet, the Family Education Network has connected more than 16,000 school districts via its Web site. [News.com]
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- Site offers free legal help - As with health care, legal advice is finding its place on the Net. [News.com]
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- Sites call for censorship awareness - As Banned Books Week kicks off Monday, the Internet and the blocking software used to prevent children from accessing adult content will be focal points for the event. [News.com]
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- Small investors to get shot at IPOs - Developments on Wall Street and in Washington combined today to level the financial playing field a bit more for the individual investor. [News.com]
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- Small ISPs yawn at AOL deal - To Tom Simonds, president of a regional Internet service provider, the pending merger of America Online (AOL) and CompuServe (CSRV) is a simple matter of numbers, more for AOL and less for others. [News.com]
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- Smart card industry reps meet - Representatives of the Smart Card Forum called for companies to join together to use existing technology in developing a single card for consumers that can be used for multiple daily functions. [News.com]
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- Social Security info back online - The Social Security Administration will reinstate an Internet site that was shuttered in April because of privacy concerns, giving taxpayers access to calculations of their future retirement benefits. [News.com]
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- Social Security still a sticky issue - The Social Security Administration announced today that it will reopen its Web site to allow taxpayers to access its information via the Internet. Although it says it has learned from its previous effort and reached out to privacy experts, consumer advocates, and Netizens for input, it will be venturing again into one of the most delicate aspects of cyberspace and the Information Age: ensuring that personal information is safe and accessible to its rightful owners and users. The question remains whether it or other government and commercial firms will get the benefit of the doubt. [News.com]
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- Softbank ad unit starts network - Softbank Interactive Marketing, which sells advertising for Web sites, today launched its own ad network with 38 sites and seven channels of sites in different content areas. [News.com]
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- Softbank considers reorganization - Softbank, the Japanese firm that owns computer publishing giant Ziff-Davis and trade show operator Comdex, is discussing a major reorganization of its media properties in the United States, industry sources say. [News.com]
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- Sony beefs up consumer PCs - Sony Electronics introduced a slew of new products today, including consumer PCs featuring the 300-MHz MMX Pentium II processor and advanced 3D graphics and audio, along with new peripherals such as video cameras. [News.com]
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- Sony releases DVD drive bundle - Sony Computer (SNE) today announced the availability of its first DVD drive kit. [News.com]
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- Sony tells of DVD alternative - Sony Computer and five other companies today announced their own standard for large-capacity, rewritable data storage discs for computers and digital versatile disc (DVD) players. [News.com]
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- Sony to begin direct sales - In an apparent effort to boost its flagging VAIO line, the U.S. unit of Sony Electronics today said that it will sell consumer PC desktops, laptops, and Sony peripherals direct from its Web site, by phone, and through the mail. [News.com]
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- Spam nets catching innocents - In a way, Marguerite Bader can now empathize with dolphins that inadvertently get snagged in drift nets meant for tuna. Fishermen don't intend to catch anything but tuna, but that doesn't make the dolphins feel any better. [News.com]
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- SportsLine prepares for IPO - After five months of silence, Sportsline USA has resurfaced with an official filing preparing the investment community for its initial public offering. [News.com]
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- Spree.com, Sprint in domain squabble - If Spree.com loses its domain name, the online storefront says it'll go out of business. [News.com]
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- Standards delay troubles 3Com - Following a meeting of modem-makers in which it was concluded that they could not decide on a preliminary standard for 56 kpbs, 3Com (COMS) is one of the latest to acknowledge this delay will hurt sales. [News.com]
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- Start-up technology rivals WebTV - A new technology that harnesses analog cable systems could mean faster Internet access via TV sets, at a comparatively low price, although some observers are casting doubt on the viability of the technology. [News.com]
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- Storage-maker stocks tumble - Shares of computer storage-maker stocks fell like dominos today after Western Digital (WDC) said its earnings will come in short of estimates, reflecting the fact that the industry is grappling with excess inventory. [News.com]
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- Study reveals IT spending patterns - Insurance and finance companies spend more on information technology than health care companies do. And companies that spend the most on IT tend to outsource their technology needs more than those with less IT spending. [News.com]
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- Subcommittee still worries about SSA site - Just days after the Social Security Administration announced the reopening of its Internet site that offers taxpayers access to calculations of their future retirement benefits, a congressional subcommittee has asked that the agency delay the move until further measures are taken to protect users' privacy. [News.com]
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- Sun asked to cede Java - Intel (INTC), Microsoft (MSFT), Digital Equipment (DEC), and Compaq Computer (CPQ) asked Sun Microsystems (SUNW) today to cede control of the Java computer programming language to an international standard-setting organization. [News.com]
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- Sun back to the Java table - Rebuffed in its first step to make Java an international standard, Sun Microsystems (SUNW) modified its original proposal today in hope that the second time's a charm. [News.com]
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- Sun deal points to non-PC devices - Pursuing its plan to make Java the lingua franca of computing, Sun Microsystems today acquired a company that makes operating systems for telecommunications products and created a division to develop lightweight Java systems for non-PC devices. [News.com]
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- Sun exec cools threats to MS - A key Sun Microsystems (SUNW) executive today backed off comments made Monday by Sun chief executive Scott McNealy, who had appeared to threaten Microsoft (MSFT) with pulling its license for the Java programming language. [News.com]
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- Sun pushes Java - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) continues to push Java into as many markets as it can. [News.com]
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- Sun revs new Java WorkShop - Sun Microsystems' SunSoft division is ready to release the latest version of its pure-Java Java WorkShop development tool with promises of better performance and a revamped interface. [News.com]
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- Sun rises in Morocco - Sun Microsystems said it has started business in Morocco in partnership with the already established German group Siemens Nixdorf. [News.com]
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- Sun SET on the horizon - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) announced an agreement with GlobeSet to deliver electronic commerce packages using the Java programming language and the emerging SET standard for secure transactions. [News.com]
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- Surf's up for Net in Australia - Australia's major media groups are investing serious money in cyberspace. [News.com]
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- Surfers flocking to local content - The Web may have worldwide reach, but about half its users are overwhelmingly interested in local information, according to a report released today. [News.com]
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- Survey: PCs waste 3 weeks a year - Every employee who uses a personal computer can lose up to three weeks of working time per year tackling technology problems on his or her desk, according to a survey published today. [News.com]
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- Survivor Umax boosts Mac role - Umax Computer, which will soon stand alone as the only major company to make Mac OS clone computers, is hoping to play an increased role in helping Apple (AAPL) regain its footing in the PC industry. [News.com]
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- Sybase revamps PowerBuilder - Sybase (SYBS) is making good on its promise to deliver Web-ready development tools to its users. [News.com]
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- Tech fund to seed start-ups - Interactive Minds plans to announce a multimillion-dollar fund Monday, designed to give it an additional role as "venture catalyst" to technology start-ups. [News.com]
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- TechWave opens online store network - Online software store TechWave today unveiled the first affiliates in its network of Internet storefronts that uses TechWave's infrastructure to sell software on the Net. [News.com]
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- The Exponential-Apple fight - Was it coincidence or conspiracy? That is the question which lay at the base of the claim Exponential Technologies has filed against Apple Computer. [News.com]
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- The Hub to sell Capitol single - The Hub plans to be the next provider to jump on the digital downloading bandwagon with a deal next week to let fans buy songs at their computers with the click of a mouse. [News.com]
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- Three-way deal skirts the taxman - In a roundabout way, following months of speculation, America Online (AOL) today got what it was after: CompuServe's (CSRV) subscriber base. It also got it at minimal tax expense, according to tax specialists. [News.com]
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- TI catches DSP wave - San Francisco--As part of a continued effort to reinvent his company, Texas Instruments' (TXN) CEO today stressed the importance of digital-signal processing (DSP) and its upside potential to analysts and investors here at an analyst conference. [News.com]
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- TI to appeal top Japan court in chip row - Texas Instruments said today that it would appeal to the Japanese Supreme Court in its dispute with Fujitsu over semiconductor patents. [News.com]
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- Tivoli Systems acquires Unison - IBM subsidiary Tivoli Systems used its deep pockets to fill holes in its suite of systems and application management software by nabbing Unison Software (UNSN) for $170 million in stock. [News.com]
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- Toshiba notebooks have virus - Computer makers typically offer free accessories, software, and service with their computers, but last month Toshiba America inadvertently included something else with its notebooks: a virus. [News.com]
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- Toshiba, IBM team up on DRAM - Toshiba said on Tuesday that a joint venture with IBM in the U.S. has completed construction of a factory for making 64MB DRAM chips. [News.com]
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- TRUSTe marks down privacy labels - The online privacy and e-commerce advocacy group, TRUSTe, is overhauling its "trustmarks" program, which is designed to let surfers know how Web sites will use their personal information. [News.com]
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- Trying to protect copyrights on DVD - Macrovision and Digimarc will combine software products to provide a copyright protection package for digital materials. [News.com]
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- Two Bills to make high-tech visits - Call it a case of dueling dinner parties. [News.com]
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- U.S. said to violate global crypto policy - The U.S. government is failing to live up to an international agreement it signed only six months ago, two privacy advocate groups charged today at a global conference on encryption. [News.com]
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- U.S. to impose duties on Japanese supercomputers - The U.S. International Trade Commission voted 3-0 today to impose hefty antidumping duties on imports from Japan of specialized vector supercomputers. [News.com]
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- Umax gains Mac OS 8 license - Umax Computer Company officials today confirmed for the first time that they have reached an agreement with Apple Computer to sell computers with the newest version of the Macintosh operating system, called Mac OS 8. [News.com]
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- Umax to build Intel NCs - Umax Data Systems has announced that it will start selling network computers (NCs) based on Intel processors and software from Network Computers Inc. (NCI) this November, although observers have noted that the actual cost savings the NC platform is supposed to deliver may not be that significant. [News.com]
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- Umax to license Mac OS, Motorola in limbo - Umax Computer Company has reportedly reached a licensing agreement with Apple Computer. Meanwhile, Motorola has been left in the lurch. [News.com]
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- Umax to make Intel notebook - Umax will enter the Intel-based notebook market with 233-MHz models later this year. [News.com]
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- Umax unveils model with OS 8 - Umax Computer today unveiled a computer using the Macintosh OS 8, the first new model from a major clone maker to appear since the resolution of the fracas about Mac OS licensing. [News.com]
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- Unisys names new top exec - Unisys (UIS) today found a new driver. [News.com]
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- Upgrade piracy case goes to trial - Marking the first software piracy case involving upgraded products to reach a trial judgment, a federal judge has awarded Novell (NOVL) $4.3 million dollars, the company said. [News.com]
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- Upgraded SiteMinder toughens security - Netegrity (NETE) today released a new version of its SiteMinder software for security management of intranets and extranets. [News.com]
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- Upgrading business rules for e-commerce - As meetings wind down to make the sprawling code underlying all commercial transactions compatible with the emerging electronic marketplace, unresolved issues remain that could profoundly affect its future. [News.com]
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- Users may get IE 4 in advance - The official release of the much-ballyhooed Internet Explorer 4.0 browser isn't until tomorrow, but CD-ROMs with the software already have shipped. [News.com]
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- USWeb snares 6 companies - Six more companies have gotten snared by USWeb. [News.com]
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- Utility could reveal password cache - To its makers, it helps absent-minded computer users who can't remember all their passwords. [News.com]
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- UUNet chases European market - UUNet (UUNT) announced today that it has acquired the Netherlands' largest Internet service provider, NLnet, the latest in a string of European acquisitions by major Net providers. [News.com]
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- UUNet streams into multicasting - Targeting online news services and real-time broadcasters, WorldCom's (WCOM) Internet access company, UUNet, announced a new service today that lets content providers send large packets of data to thousands of Net users at once. [News.com]
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- Valley breeding ground for laws - A breeding ground for Internet development and high-tech start-ups, California has quickly become a hotbed for online politics with a batch of new Net laws moving toward passage this week. [News.com]
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- VDOnet expands repertoire - VDOnet today announced the release of VDOMaster, a management system for Internet service providers, telecommunications companies, cable providers, and information systems managers that will deliver video applications. [News.com]
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- VeriSign brings companies their own digital IDs - VeriSign, adding a new twist to its digital certificate offerings, today unveiled a hybrid product called OnSite, which lets companies issue their own digital IDs as a certificate authority. [News.com]
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- Verity predicts 40% shortfall - Verity (VRTY) took a beating in trading today after it announced revenues would fall 40 percent as the company transitions into its new management team. [News.com]
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- Verity turmoil reflected in Q1 report - Management turmoil at Verity (VRTY) took its toll on the software company's first-quarter performance as it posted a widening loss and fell far short of analysts' expectations. [News.com]
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- ViaVoice learns Chinese - IBM (IBM) launched its Chinese ViaVoice speech recognition system in Beijing on Thursday. Company officials vowed to make the program a standard item in Chinese personal computers by 2000. [News.com]
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- Vignette updates StoryServer platform - Vignette next week will announce StoryServer 3, an update to its Web site production platform for Internet-based delivery of content and applications. [News.com]
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- Virtual wineries in arms over state laws - Wine lovers who shop by phone or Web from California's boutique vintners have discovered that new laws can put them at risk of becoming chardonnay felons. [News.com]
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- Vivo boosts NetShow support - Streaming audio and video software maker Vivo Software released a new development tool for distributing content across the Net from Microsoft's NetShow servers. [News.com]
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- VLSI names two senior vice presidents - VLSI Technology Inc. (VLSI), designer and manufacturer of System-Level Silicon integrated circuits, today announced the promotions of Bala Iyer and Ted Malanczuk to the position of senior vice president. Iyer will be senior vice president, chief financial officer of VLSI Technology, where he will oversee the company's worldwide finance, tax and treasury activities, and Malanczuk will be senior vice president, operations. [News.com]
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- Wal-Mart, CompUSA selling branded PCs - Wal-Mart and CompUSA are not satisfied with selling you PCs. Now they want to build them for you, too. [News.com]
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- Wallace: "I'll be back" - Although Sanford Wallace is hailing today's court ruling forcing AGIS to put his Cyber Promotions back online, he's also scrambling to remake his business so it can survive without AGIS. [News.com]
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- Warning on Net medicine sales - Three Washington state doctors have issued a warning about medicinal products available over the Internet, citing the case of a man who suffered kidney failure from an elixir he bought through his home computer. [News.com]
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- Web ad study boosts banners - The Internet Advertising Bureau released an independent study today that claims Web banner ads can be an effective way for advertisers to reach Internet users, challenging the prevalent view that banners don't work for branding. [News.com]
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- Web site traffic: Who's counting? - Internet companies continue to grapple with how to measure traffic at Web sites for the purpose of selling advertising. [News.com]
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- WebTV R&D costs MS $300 million - Microsoft (MSFT) will write off $300 million in the current quarter for in-process research and development in connection with its purchase of WebTV Networks, the company said in its annual report to shareholders. [News.com]
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- WebTV unveils major upgrade - Two leaders in the embryonic Net TV market have taken the wraps off new technologies this week as the market splinters into two incompatible camps, one led by Microsoft, the other by Oracle. [News.com]
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- What's on Allchin's mind? - Microsoft (MSFT) senior vice president Jim Allchin has a lot to think about these days. [News.com]
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- White House crypto controls make rounds - Despite public statements to the contrary, the Clinton administration is helping pave the way for mandatory controls on the domestic use of encryption through proposed legislation that may be offered up to Congress as early as tomorrow, according to staffers on Capitol Hill. [News.com]
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- White House shuns FBI crypto plan - Bowing to political pressures and what legal experts said would be inevitable constitutional attacks, the Clinton administration's top official on encryption policy has backed away from a controversial proposal to regulate domestic use of encryption. [News.com]
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- Whitehouse.com goes to porn - Some people already suspected that Hillary Clinton liked leading her husband around, but not with a leash and studded collar. [News.com]
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- Will WorldCom own the backbone business? - Forget about America Online (AOL) and CompuServe (CSRV). The company giving those on the network side of the business the jitters is WorldCom (WCOM). [News.com]
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- Windows 98 delayed - Microsoft (MSFT) is delaying the release of its Windows 98 operating system, a move that already has caused the company's stock to drop. [News.com]
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- Wired schools tackle Net pitfalls - As more politicians push for classroom Net access, parents and teachers are struggling to come up with solutions for some of the problems that come along with the Internet. [News.com]
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- Wit Capital to offer one of the first online IPOs - Online investment bank and brokerage Wit Capital will offer one of the first IPOs on the Net. Wit has filed a preliminary prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission for Radcom, a data communications networks maker and marketer. Through its underwriter, Radcom expects to float out 2.25 million shares with an anticipated price range of $7.50 to $9.50 per share. Once approved, Wit then plans to sell the IPO shares via its online service. [News.com]
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- Women laud opportunities online - It's still tough going for women in the high-tech industry, but they are thriving, especially in opportunities created by the Internet. [News.com]
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- WorldCom becoming one-stop provider - WorldCom's buyout of CompuServe today for $1.2 billion brings it a step closer to becoming a one-stop shop for telecommunications services, this time by connecting businesses via the Net. [News.com]
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- WorldCom sees no antitrust snags - A key executive of WorldCom (WCOM) predicted today that the complex deal splitting up CompuServe (CSRV) will survive antitrust scrutiny by the Justice Department. [News.com]
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- WorldCom, AOL in deal for CompuServe - WorldCom (WCOM) said today it would buy CompuServe (CSRV) for $1.2 billion in stock from H&R Block (HRB) and then shed CompuServe's interactive services division to America Online (AOL). [News.com]
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- Xerox to show network printers - Xerox (XRX) is expected to step up its fight with Hewlett-Packard for the top spot in the network printing market when new president Rick Thoman unveils new products and strategy Monday. [News.com]
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- Yahoo now in Korea - Yahoo (YHOO) is expected to announce the launch of another international site tomorrow, its latest in the Asia-Pacific region. [News.com]
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- Yahoo stock stumbles - Pulling back on the reins of Yahoo's (YHOO) momentum, analysts issued a downgrade today, warning the stock is "ahead of the company's fundamentals." [News.com]
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- Yahoo, Visa set up shop site - Yahoo (YHOO) and Visa today launched the Visa Shopping Guide by Yahoo, a service designed to simplify online shopping. [News.com]
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- Yamaha ships rewritable CD drive - Yamaha today began shipping a rewritable CD drive, a device that enables special CDs to function as high-capacity floppy disks. [News.com]
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- Year 2000 date change risky for financial markets - New York Federal Reserve Bank president William McDonough said the year 2000 software date change poses a major risk for world financial markets, and, if botched, could hurt the world economy. [News.com]
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- Zenith Media seeking partner - Zenith Media Worldwide, a leading global media-buying specialist, announced Wednesday it was actively talking to other companies in hopes of finding a partner to help it expand. [News.com]
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- Zenith trumpets Divx for DVD - Thomson Consumer Electronics and Zenith (ZE) announced plans to make DVD players next year with new technology that could reduce the threat of pirated content and make playback of high-quality movies more affordable for consumers. [News.com]
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- Zona Research downplays NCs - While NC proponents Oracle (ORCL) and Sun Microsystems (SUNW) talk up network computers at Oracle's annual developers conference in Los Angeles, researcher Zona Research today issued some sobering numbers about corporate interest in thin-client systems. [News.com]
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- Zuno zones in on print publishers - A new firm backed by some major technology interests announced its presence on the Web software scene as well as its first product: a system for Net publishing. [News.com]
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- Zytec, Computer Products announce merger - BOCA RATON, Fla.-- Computer Products Inc. and Zytec Corp., which both manufacture power supply products, announced plans Wednesday to merge in a $468 million stock transaction, sending their stocks sharply in opposite directions. [News.com]
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