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- Ending the "World Wide Wait" - Inktomi today launched "Traffic Server," its commercial network cache designed to increase network efficiency and end what is often called the "World Wide Wait." [News.com]
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- 128-megabit DRAMs due next year - Hitachi (HIT) and NEC will begin producing 128-megabit DRAM chips in the first quarter of 1998 and hope to begin shipping in next year's second quarter. [News.com]
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- 14% of U.S. children online - About 14 percent of U.S. children and teenagers log onto the Internet, making it one of the fastest-growing segments of the industry, according to a new study by Find/SVP. [News.com]
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- 2,000 firms license IE 4 - Less than two weeks after reporting 1 million Internet Explorer 4.0 downloads from its Web site, Microsoft (MSFT) announced that more than 2,000 corporations have licensed the browser's administration kit. [News.com]
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- 3Com claims 1,000 ISPs use x2 - The war of words about whose modem technology rules rages on. [News.com]
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- 3Com networks small business - With the growing use of networking cards that speed data at 10 times the rate of traditional desktop Ethernet technology, the need for small-office networking gear that supports this faster standard is growing. [News.com]
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- 3Com secures Net for business - 3Com (COMS) is willing to wager that communications service providers will come to them for upgrades when the market for secure connections over the Net explodes. [News.com]
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- 50% growth expected for Microsoft - Microsoft (MSFT) is expected to report another solid quarter of nearly 50 percent earnings growth next week, showing no evidence yet of a slowdown predicted for later in its fiscal year. [News.com]
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- 64-megabit DRAM on the rise - A joint venture involving Siemens Semiconductors and Taiwan-based Mosel Vitelic announced it will begin producing next-generation, 64-megabit memory chips by December. [News.com]
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- @Home beats estimates of a loss - @Home Network (ATHM) today reported a loss of $11.9 million, or 10 cents per share, for the third quarter ended September 30, compared with a loss of $7.2 million, or 7 cents per share, last year. [News.com]
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- @Home stock soars on new deal - @Home's (ATHM) stock hit a record high today after the company announced an alliance yesterday with Cablevision Systems to deliver high-speed Internet access to Northeastern markets. [News.com]
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- A history of Microsoft investigations - Microsoft, facing antitrust investigations at the federal and state levels, today faced new action by the Justice Department. The department, which some critics complain has been slow to move against the software giant, charged Microsoft with violating a 1995 court order. [News.com]
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- A less complex R/3 from SAP - German enterprise software maker SAP will attempt to give more of its users access to core software product R/3 with the release of Employee Self Service Intranet Application Components 2.0 later this year. [News.com]
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- A smarter distribution tool - Open Software Associates says it has a better way to distribute software. [News.com]
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- Access One debuts new Net service - Internet service provider Access One, a unit of Solution 6 Holdings, said today it is launching a new Internet service called Access Two, aimed at the consumer market. [News.com]
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- Acer rebounds on the horizon - Taiwan computer giant Acer said today that it expects a "significant increase" in its fourth-quarter sales and profits after setbacks in the first three quarters undermined its share price. [News.com]
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- ACLU may sue library - The American Civil Liberties Union is considering filing a landmark lawsuit against a Southern California county over its policy to filter Net access at public libraries. [News.com]
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- Acorn launches fast home NC - Acorn launched one of the fastest set-top boxes today, one with a with 233-MHz processor, more evidence that the newest generation of simplified Internet access devices are gaining desktop PC-like power. [News.com]
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- Actra ships e-commerce software - E-commerce software vendor Actra, a joint venture of Netscape (NSCP) and GE Information Systems (GE), will announce tomorrow that it is shipping three products for the Windows NT platform. [News.com]
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- Alpha supercomputer for MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will get a healthy dose of computing power, thanks to a $1.5 million grant from Digital Equipment in the form of seven server computers based on Alpha processors. [News.com]
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- Altris Software sees Q3 loss - Altris Software said it expects to report a net loss of $2.5 million, or 26 cents a share, for the third quarter after a $1.1 million charge for potential bad debt. [News.com]
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- Amazon, B&N settle lawsuit - Rival online booksellers Barnes & Noble (BKS) and Amazon.com (AMZN) announced today that they have agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by Barnes & Noble. [News.com]
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- AMD falls short in Q3 - Despite two earlier warnings in a month that it would miss analysts' estimates, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) today reported a larger loss than expected for its third quarter. [News.com]
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- AMD hints at partnership with Digital - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) unveiled new K6 chips today and also hinted that it will cooperate with Digital Equipment (DEC) in technologies used in AMD's future K7 chip. [News.com]
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- AMD problems won't go away - Any opportunity for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to grab market share away from rival Intel appears to be slipping away due to manufacturing problems. [News.com]
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- AmeriTrade cuts online fees - AmeriTrade Holding said it opened a new discount securities brokerage company, AmeriTrade, and slashed online trading commissions by one-third as it starts a $20-million-plus advertising and promotion campaign for fiscal 1998. [News.com]
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- Amex takes e-commerce plunge - American Express, off to a late start in promoting use of its charge card for Internet commerce, has licensed e-commerce software from Mercantec and will resell it to Internet merchants. [News.com]
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- An e-commerce pack from Lotus - Continuing its efforts to court small and medium-sized businesses, IBM (IBM) subsidiary Lotus Development plans to roll out an Internet-commerce server package in January, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Analysts divided on skittish Street - It was another skittish day on Wall Street today, as PC and chip stocks were hurt by analysts' war of words. [News.com]
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- Annoy.com attacks CDA provision - The publishers of the seething commentary site, Annoy.com, will face the government Monday in their case to kill a section of the Communications Decency Act that is still alive despite the Supreme Court's rejection of the overall law as unconstitutional earlier this year. [News.com]
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- Annoy.com CDA challenge heard - A three-judge panel hearing a challenge to surviving sections of the Communications Decency Act appeared sympathetic to plaintiffs arguing that the provision is unconstitutional. [News.com]
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- Another partner in the NT push - Microsoft (MSFT) continues to seek help as it attempts to drive its Windows NT operating system into larger accounts. [News.com]
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- Antitax bill clears roadblock - A proposed federal law to keep the Internet free of state and federal taxes took a significant step toward reality when an opposing senator agreed to drop his objections for the time being, a Senate aide said today. [News.com]
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- AOL expands Web services - America Online is stepping out on the Web. [News.com]
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- AOL broadcasts new channels - Internet service provider America Online (AOL) today debuted its new AOL channel lineup, the first phase of its launch of new AOL version 4.0 software. [News.com]
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- AOL cookie rumor called hoax - The chain email going around the Net this week about America Online (AOL) would have alarmed anyone: It claimed to contain information from AOL developers who discovered a devious cookie in the next version of the online service's software that would peek at the contents of users' computer and report them back to the company. [News.com]
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- AOL drops Dow Jones - Usually when America Online (AOL) partners leave the service, they do so quietly. But when AOL decided to drop the Dow Jones Business Center, the Center's editor posted a letter informing its apparently loyal members and took the online giant to task for its decision. [News.com]
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- AOL execs report salaries to SEC - America Online (AOL) chief executive officer, president, and chairman of the board Steve Case got a 36 percent raise this year. [News.com]
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- AOL files suit against spammer - In an effort to send a message to mass emailers everywhere, America Online (AOL) has filed a suit in federal court against a Nevada company, which the online service claims has repeatedly spammed AOL members despite repeated requests to stop doing so. [News.com]
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- AOL growth drives advertising - AOL International, the overseas version of Internet service provider America Online (AOL), is generating little money from advertising. But revenues are expected to rise as the subscriber base grows, said Jack Davies, president of AOL International, Friday. [News.com]
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- AOL sells some Excite shares - America Online (AOL) has sold about 6 percent of the 3.3 million shares it received from Excite (XCIT) through the sale of its search engine, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [News.com]
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- AOL service restored - America Online (AOL) this morning is completely restored. [News.com]
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- AOL sues junk emailer - For the second time in a month, America Online (AOL) is using federal court to try to rid its network of junk emailers. [News.com]
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- Apple broadens rebate offer - Apple Computer (AAPL) today announced rebates of up to $200 on its Power Macintosh 6500 series computers in an effort to position itself for strong sales in the Christmas season. [News.com]
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- Apple cuts prices in Japan - Apple Computer (AAPL) said today it has reduced wholesale prices of its Power Macintosh personal computers by a maximum of 26 percent in Japan. [News.com]
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- Apple cuts prices, offers rebates - Having transformed the Macintosh market, Apple Computer (AAPL) is now slashing prices on some notebook and desktop computers by as much as $1,000 and offering rebates on some printers and imaging devices. [News.com]
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- Apple reports $161 million loss - Apple (AAPL) today missed analysts estimates for its fourth quarter loss, citing sluggish demand overseas, especially in Japan. [News.com]
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- Apple shutters Advanced Technology Group - Few of the numerous organizational changes ongoing at Apple Computer (AAPL) symbolize the "new" Apple quite like the decision to close down the Apple Research Labs (ARL). [News.com]
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- Apple struggles in Japan - The Japanese subsidiary of Radius, the U.S.-based maker of graphics and video equipment, announced it will introduce a new Mac clone with Mac OS 8, as other Japanese Mac clone vendors fall by the wayside and Apple Japan sees a dramatic drop-off in sales. [News.com]
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- Apple to slash notebook prices - Apple Computer is set to drastically slash prices on some PowerBook notebook computers, by as much as $1,000, as it makes way for updated notebooks with the recently announced PowerPC 750 processor. The company is also expected to cut prices on high-end desktop computers. [News.com]
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- Apple upgrades MessagePad - An upgrade to Apple Computer's (AAPL) MessagePad device, launched today, will offer more memory and enhanced networking capabilities. [News.com]
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- Apple's S&P rating lowered - Standard & Poors today said it has lowered its rating on Apples (AAPL) debt, citing concerns over the company's operating losses and its management turnover. [News.com]
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- Ariba links to PeopleSoft apps - In a move to boost the start-up's credibility in the market, Ariba Technologies will announce Monday that that it will integrate its e-commerce software with PeopleSofts (PSFT) enterprise applications. [News.com]
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- Ascend builds the backbone - Ascend Communications (ASND) hopes a new strategy incorporating technology acquired this summer will lift it out of its financial doldrums. [News.com]
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- Ascend CEO looks ahead - Ascend Communications (ASND) may make a variety of powerful equipment that connects users to service providers and corporate networks, but its CEO believes no one is currently building the gear to handle the exponential growth in data traffic across the Net. [News.com]
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- Ascend faces sales slowdown - Ascend Communications (ASND) today brought closure to a rough quarter faced with product delays and a slowdown in sales. [News.com]
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- Asia piracy rate falling - The rate of piracy in the Asia Pacific region has fallen amid stricter government enforcement, but losses are rising as the volume of business expands, according to the Political & Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC). [News.com]
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- Asia turmoil troubles Matsushita - Japanese electronics giant Matsushita Electric Industrial is expected to have recorded a healthy rise in profits in the first half of the business year, but economic turmoil in Southeast Asia is clouding the company's outlook, analysts say. [News.com]
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- AST servers come with 300-MHz Pentium II - AST announced new server computers using the 300-MHz Pentium II processor and boasting advanced features that target computing environments at large corporations. [News.com]
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- AST uses Intel RISC chip - Next week AST Research (ASTA) will unveil a new Pentium II server that uses a separate RISC chip for input/output (I/O) functions. [News.com]
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- AT&T cell phone offers Net access - AT&T Wireless Services today launched a retail version of a product that ties email and limited Internet content into a special cellular phone, a device two analysts said was a step in the right direction, but riddled with too many shortcomings to make it into the mainstream. [News.com]
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- AT&T reaches out to Armstrong - Ending a three-month quest to fill its driver's seat, AT&T (T) officially named Hughes Electronics chairman C. Michael Armstrong, 59, to succeed chairman and CEO Robert E. Allen. [News.com]
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- AT&T, Bay offer Net access tools - AT&T today announced at NetWorld+Interop that it is introducing a new Internet/intranet access and firewall solution with Bay Networks and Anixter in a bid to boost its corporate Internet business. [News.com]
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- Attorneys weigh online jurisdiction - When the single-employee consulting firm Clue Computing got dragged into a legal battle with multibillion-dollar gamemaker Hasbro over use of the domain name "clue.com," the Colorado start-up argued that Hasbro lacked legal standing to bring the suit in its home state of Massachusetts, thousands of miles away. [News.com]
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- Axent to thwart hacker technique - Network security firm Axent Technologies (AXNT) expects to announce Monday an upgrade that will give network managers an easy way to control access to root privileges on Unix machines. "Seizing root" is a technique hackers/crackers often use to break into computer networks. [News.com]
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- Baan updates business software - Baan has rolled out the latest upgrade of its business software package, the last before a planned next-generation release due early next year. [News.com]
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- BackOffice for small business - Having already announced plans to develop an upscale version of its BackOffice server application bundle, Microsoft (MSFT) will today turn its attention to small-business owners with the debut of a scaled-down BackOffice package. [News.com]
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- Banking deal may threaten MS - In a move that could isolate Microsoft (MSFT), Integrion Financial Network and CheckFree (CKFR) today announced a wide-ranging online banking agreement. [News.com]
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- Barksdale: Browser war a boon - When it comes to public discourse, the browser-war story is going to wallop the LDAP-is-a-great-directory story every time. [News.com]
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- Barnes & Noble stock stumbles - Barnes & Nobles (BKS) stock took a tumble today after the company told market analysts that its Internet business wont be profitable this year because of higher-than-expected marketing expenses and lower price margins. [News.com]
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- Bay makes play for big business - It's not just a network anymore. [News.com]
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- Bay sees record revenue - Bay Networks' renaissance as a viable industry player continued unabated today. The company released a first-quarter earnings report highlighted by record revenue, underscoring strong demand for its networking gear. [News.com]
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- Bay targets old networks - When networking provider Bay Networks (BAY) was in the midst of serious financial woes last year, many industry pundits pointed to the company's relative lack of presence among sellers of gear to network carriers and Internet service providers as a source of its troubles. [News.com]
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- BBC to launch news site - Watch out CNN Interactive, ABC, and MSNBC: here comes the BBC. [News.com]
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- Bell Labs to help users filter spam - Nearly every time you register or volunteer information on a Web site, you're risking that the site will use your email address to send you spam. [News.com]
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- BeOS beta released - Be took another step toward the final version of its operating system software with today's introduction of BeOS Preview Release 2 for PowerPC-based machines. [News.com]
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- Big Blue sees green - Big Blue is looking for lots of green in Internet commerce. [News.com]
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- BMI automates copyright vigilance - BMI's staff used to surf the Net manually to monitor the online use of copyrighted songs, a tedious practice. Today the group that protects licensed music unleashed a new robot that automatically scours the Net 24 hours a day, tracking the whereabouts of digital tunes. [News.com]
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- BofA, Visa test smart cards - Bank of America and Visa will announce tomorrow that they are running the first U.S.-based test of smart cards that use two chips to combine payment functions with security applications. [News.com]
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- Bogus email at IBM - Members of IBM Internet Connection have been getting a little surprise in their email: a letter trying to trick them into giving up personal information, including their credit card numbers. [News.com]
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- Borland booms in second quarter - Del Yocam wants you to know that Borland International (BORL) is alive and kicking. [News.com]
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- Britannica to debut Web guide - Encyclopedia Britannica is betting that its reputation for aggregating information in its print publication will draw eyeballs to the Britannica Internet Guide when it launches next Tuesday. [News.com]
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- Britons indifferent to high tech - Just two weeks after computer software mogul Bill Gates endorsed British prime minister Tony Blair's drive to connect all 32,000 of the United Kingdom's schools to the Internet, a study released today shows that the initiative is sorely needed. [News.com]
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- Broderbund sees wide Q4 loss - Broderbund (BROD) today missed analysts' expectations of a fourth-quarter loss by a wide margin, as the software company encountered higher operating costs associated with pumping money into its new product marketing. [News.com]
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- Browser links to mainframe data - Monday FTP Software (FTPS) will announce a new set of tools that allows users to connect to mainframe data through a Web browser. [News.com]
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- BT may prevail in MCI bid - British Telecommunications (BTY) likely will attempt to use a 20 percent stake in its U.S. partner, MCI Communications (MCI), as a key bargaining chip as formal talks with two other MCI suitors begin on Thursday. [News.com]
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- Bug bites Macintosh Java - Mac users who are browsing the Web with Apple Computer's (AAPL) latest Java technology could be exposing their local files to risk. [News.com]
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- Bug lurks in Mac OS - Apple Computer (AAPL) is enjoying brisk sales of the newest version of its Mac OS, but the success has not been without a few glitches. [News.com]
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- Bug skews numbers in Excel - Lotus Development has confirmed reports of a bug in its Notes 4.x's viewer when displaying Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. [News.com]
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- Businesses don't get Net - Most businesses finding their way online completely misunderstand the Internet, the chief of an online consumer services firm said today. [News.com]
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- Busy day for tech earnings reports - CNET: The Computer Network (CNWK) reported a widening third-quarter loss today after announcing earlier this month that expenses associated with building services and brand identity would cause the company to miss expectations. [News.com]
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- Cable modem use growing - Like the mouse that roared, high-speed Net access via cable systems finally is making itself heard in a cutthroat market. [News.com]
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- Cabletron faces class-action suit - Cabletron Systems (CS), a supplier of computer network equipment, was named in a U.S. federal class-action suit that accuses the company of misleading shareholders about its prospects, attorneys of the plaintiffs said on Friday. [News.com]
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- Cabletron moving forward - Cabletron Systems is facing challenges on many fronts in the networking industry. What was once a collection of four principle contenders for the networking infrastructure throne has been segmented into two camps in the aftermath of the merger of 3Com and U.S. Robotics. [News.com]
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- Caching: New hope for congestion - It's the caching, stupid. [News.com]
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- Cadence CEO resigns - Cadence Design Systems (CDN) today announced that its chief executive officer, Joe Costello, has abruptly resigned. [News.com]
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- Caleb announces 144MB floppy - Boulder, Colorado-based start-up Caleb Technology announced plans to market a 144MB floppy drive that will also read current 1.44MB, 3.5-inch floppy disks. [News.com]
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- Calif. campaign filings to go online - Capping nearly three years of political wrangling, California will join a growing number of states to put campaign finance reports online. [News.com]
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- Canon debuts seven-color printer - Canon Computer Systems is shipping a seven-color ink jet printer priced under $450 and aimed at home users and small businesses that need to generate images comparable to 35mm photos in quality. [News.com]
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- Case tops long list of MS probes - Today's decisive action against Microsoft by the Justice Department is the latest in a long list of investigations into the software giant's business practices. [News.com]
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- CBS to launch online news service - CBS plans to launch CBSnow, a new 24-hour online news service with 110 broadcast affiliates signed on to provide local content, in January. [News.com]
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- CD-ROM drive clusters get faster - Cutting Edge has announced CD-ROM array technology which makes clusters of CD-ROM drives attach to servers faster. [News.com]
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- CEO quits SGI; 1,000 may lose jobs - Silicon Graphics (SGI) announced today that longtime chairman and chief executive Edward McCracken will step down and that the company will lay off up to 1,000 employees. [News.com]
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- Check Point defends its turf - Seeking to defend its firewall franchise, Check Point Software (CHKPF) on Wednesday expects to announce new software to let companies manage network security centrally for all access points to the network. [News.com]
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- Chinese firms to invest in Net tech - New World Infrastructure and a Hong Kong Internet provider said today they are teaming up to beef up China's technology infrastructure. [News.com]
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- Chip business slowing down - Turbulent international economic considerations, among other factors, likely will flatten revenue and earnings for semiconductor manufacturers in the quarter just ended and in the current period as well. [News.com]
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- Chips sales expected to rise - The Semiconductor Industry Association today released its forecasts for the global chip market, predicting that it will expand at a brisk 16.8 percent in 1998. Rebounding from a sluggish 1997, memory chips will lead the way. [News.com]
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- Cisco adds firewalls to routers - Cisco Systems (CSCO) will add a set of security and firewall features by early next year to its line of low-end routers targeted at the booming small-business market. [News.com]
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- Cisco sees integrated-network future - There might not be another company that has more to gain from the widely expected merger of voice, video, and data on one network than networking giant Cisco Systems (CSCO). [News.com]
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- Cisco's aim to meld voice, multimedia continues - Get used to it. [News.com]
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- Claris revenues at all-time high - Claris, a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple Computer( AAPL ) announced today record revenue of $91.1 million for its fourth quarter which ended September 26. [News.com]
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- Clustering tools slowly emerge - The push by PC-based software vendors to enter the clustering software jungle is slowly getting off the ground, but eventually their efforts may yield the performance benefits that manufacturers need to target large accounts. [News.com]
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- CNET warns of widening loss - CNET: The Computer Network (CNWK) warned today that its third-quarter loss will be wider than analysts expected, largely because of the development of a new site called COMPUTERS.COM. [News.com]
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- CNN to add more multimedia - Executives of CNN Interactive disclosed plans today to beef up the Web site to include more video and audio in about a month, not only with live news feeds but also Webcasts of popular shows such as Larry King Live. [News.com]
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- College sues term paper sites - After ordering research papers through an online "sting" operation, Boston University is suing eight Internet sites it claims are breaking a Massachusetts law prohibiting the sale of term papers. [News.com]
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- CommTouch has free email plan - Isabel Maxwell, president of CommTouch, thinks she has something better to offer the Internet than the free email companies such as Hotmail and RocketMail. Her company will allow any Web site to offer its own free, self-branded email. [News.com]
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- Compaq big winner in PC shipments - The big got bigger and the rich got richer in the third quarter. [News.com]
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- Compaq considering the K6 - Compaq is in negotiations to adopt the K6 microprocessor from Advanced Micro Devices, according to sources, a potentially major design win that would also present significant challenges for the feisty chipmaker. [News.com]
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- Compaq cuts workstation prices - For the second time in a week,Compaq Computer (CPQ) has slashed prices on a major product line. [News.com]
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- Compaq expands Armada line - Compaq Computer (CPQ) today announced it is shipping its highest-performance notebook PC in the flagship Armada line. [News.com]
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- Compaq reports record sales - Compaq Computer (CPQ) today reported record sales of $6.5 billion for its third quarter, reflecting a strong start for its build-to-order model. [News.com]
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- Compaq sees growth in Europe - Compaq (CPQ) does not expect Europe's lagging high-tech markets to stop it from reaching its ambitious growth target over the next three years, the company's European chief said today. [News.com]
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- Compaq server for small business - Compaq (CPQ) will begin offering pricey yet fully loaded servers for small businesses, as it reasserts itself in this burgeoning market and tries to simplify management of these complex machines. [News.com]
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- Compaq tests Web sales waters - Compaq (CPQ), which has contemplated getting deeper into direct sales nearly all year, opened a home page this month dedicated to selling computers directly to consumers. [News.com]
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- Compaq, Corollary to build eight-way server design - Compaq and upcoming Intel acquisition Corollary will work together to develop licensable designs for multiprocessor Pentium II servers, the companies announced today. [News.com]
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- CompUSA posts record profit - CompUSA's profits jumped by 60 percent in its fiscal first quarter to a record $23.5 million, the company said yesterday. [News.com]
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- CompuServe back in China - After being shut out of the China market for several months, CompuServe Network Services has formed a partnership with a Chinese company and is set to return, company president Peter Van Camp said today. [News.com]
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- CompuServe defections drive industry down - CompuServe (CSRV) has lost a substantial number of customers in the last three months, according to a quarterly study on Internet usage by industry newsletter Interactive Services Report. [News.com]
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- CompuServe introduces flat rates - CompuServe (CSRV) members get in sync with almost all other ISP subscribers with the option to switch to flat-rate pricing starting today. [News.com]
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- CompuServe nails new forums - CompuServe (CSRV) said today that it has signed contracts with 58 independent business partners to manage 425 forums for its new C from CompuServe service, which is due by the end of the year. [News.com]
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- CompuServe ready for the Web - CompuServe (CSRV) outlined details of its long-awaited Web-based service today, with features that include free and for-pay information, research, and database searches, electronic commerce, and discussion groups, the company said. [News.com]
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- CompuServe Web effort to leverage strengths - It can't hurt and it might actually help a lot. [News.com]
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- CompuServe, IBM help secure Net - Hundreds of banks and their merchants will be able to process credit card payments securely over the Internet under an agreement announced today between CompuServe Networks and IBM (IBM). [News.com]
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- Computer Associates beats Street - Systems-management and business software giant Computer Associates (CA) today beat analysts' second-quarter estimates, buoyed by strong sales of its flagship product. [News.com]
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- Computer sector alive and kicking - Despite facing a strong U.S. dollar, a delay in the shipment of Windows 98, and a weak Japanese economy--not to mention the purchasing delays and shifts in technology budgets that have resulted from the Millennium Bug--the personal computer sector is alive and kicking. [News.com]
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- Copyright bill may offer compromise - The fierce debate over the copyrighting of databases may have taken a significant step toward compromise with a little-known bill just introduced in Congress. [News.com]
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- Corel debuts analysis tool - Corel (COSFF) today announced the launch of Corel Resero, its new online analytical processing (OLAP) tool for reporting and analysis of corporate data. [News.com]
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- Corel previews multimedia NC - Corel (COSFF) hardware spin-off Corel Computer today previewed its long-awaited Video Network Computer. [News.com]
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- Court throws FCC Net rules out - Internet providers' plans to provide more efficient, cost-effective service could be dampened by a federal appeals court ruling issued late yesterday, experts said. [News.com]
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- Creative pumps up audio, value - Creative Technologies (CREAF), maker of multimedia technology for PCs, announced today that it plans to acquire audio equipment maker Cambridge SoundWorks (HIFI) in a deal worth $38 million. [News.com]
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- Creative upgrades DVD drive - Creative Labs released a new version of its DVD drive with improved features and a significantly lower price tag. [News.com]
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- CrossRoute links suppliers, customers via Net - CrossRoute Software today announced new e-commerce software that lets companies link to suppliers, distributors, and customers via the Internet or extranets. [News.com]
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- Crypto donated for domain system - In an effort to reduce unwanted email and Internet fraud, RSA Data Security will donate encryption software to a nonprofit Internet group that creates software to route email and Internet traffic to their proper locations. [News.com]
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- Cyber Promotions sued again - After a three-week absence from the Net, Cyber Promotions is back online, but a suit filed against the junk emailer today and other mounting pressures indicate that opposition to its business practice is stiffer than ever. [News.com]
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- Cylink, HP secure digital images - Cylink today said it will work with Hewlett-Packard to jointly develop computer security products that will authenticate images created with digital cameras, copiers, and scanners. [News.com]
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- Cyrix claims rights to Pentium II, Slot 1 secrets - Intel may have left the door open on the Pentium II after all. [News.com]
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- Cyrix falls short of profitability - Profitability eluded Cyrix once again as the microprocessor manufacturer posted a net loss for the third quarter, missing analysts' expectations for a profit. [News.com]
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- Database debate heard in Congress - Legislation to protect the hard work and deep pockets of electronic database companies is being debated in Congress, with those in the academic and science communities throwing up red flags. [News.com]
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- Database vendors eye a la carte pricing - Faced with declining sales and the reduction of their core technology to a commodity business, database software vendors are eyeing a la carte pricing and new technology areas in an effort to propup revenues. [News.com]
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- DEC introduces new AlphaServer - Digital Equipment (DEC) today said it is introducing new AlphaServer systems, designed for businesses that use Internet-based applications. The new systems will be available immediately with prices starting at $174,900. [News.com]
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- DEC up due to proposed Intel deal - Investors bid up shares of Digital Equipment (DEC) today on rumors of Intel's (INTC) buyout of the company's Alpha chip technology. But some analysts cast doubt that a deal will go through, and note that any affect on DECs long-term strategy would be minimal. [News.com]
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- Dell CEO says: "Business is good" - Dell Computer (DELL) chairman and CEO Michael Dell said that business was good during the third quarter and that the company expects to do well in the second half of the year. [News.com]
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- Dell clusters servers with Microsoft - Reaching deeper into the big-computer "back rooms" at corporations, Dell Computer (DELL) will unveil tomorrow its plans for stringing a number of servers together to create powerful computer clusters, based on Microsoft (MSFT) technology. [News.com]
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- Dell cuts workstation prices - Dell Computer (DELL) reduced workstation prices up to 20 percent, the first price cuts since it entered the workstation market back in July. [News.com]
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- Dell seeks new site in Texas - Dell Computer (DELL) said today it is looking into building a 570-acre campus in Austin, Texas, to accommodate its future manufacturing needs. [News.com]
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- Dell's Web sales climbing - Though Dell Computer (DELL) is already racking up an industry-leading $3 million a day in Internet-based sales, future online sales could soar well beyond this figure thanks to an aggressive new strategy in the works. [News.com]
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- Dell: Apple should close shop - When it comes to the state of Apple Computer, everyone has an opinion. [News.com]
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- Despite MS dominance, prices fall - Whose budget has been adversely affected by the allegedly unfair business practices of Microsoft and Intel? Most likely, it's not yours. [News.com]
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- Developers warm to Java, ActiveX - New tools just now hitting developers' desks will make building component-based Java and ActiveX business applications much simpler, and may pave the way for a clear winner to emerge between the competing architectures. [News.com]
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- Digital beats Street by a penny - Fueled by strong Windows NT-based server sales, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) today reported a net income of $25 million, or 11 cents per share, for its first quarter, beating Wall Street estimates by one cent. [News.com]
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- Digital benefits from settlement - Digital(DEC), in settling its closely watched patent lawsuit with Intel (INTC), today walks away with more pocket change for its operations and, potentially, for investors as well. [News.com]
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- Digital camera prices plummet - Polaroid yesterday said that it has cut by more than half the suggested U.S. list price of its PDC-2000 digital cameras as a result of the falling cost of technology. [News.com]
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- Digital has new Alpha, Intel servers - Digital Equipment (DEC) introduced new Intel- and Alpha-based servers today running on Microsoft's Windows NT as it seeks to build on last quarter's improved financial results. [News.com]
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- Digital signature laws discouraged - The Clinton administration urged Congress not to enact uniform legislation governing digital signatures, despite varying laws adopted by some states and other countries. [News.com]
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- Digital stands behind Alpha - The head of sales for Digital Equipment (DEC), in a letter to his sales force on Thursday, said the company was committed to supporting its 64-bit Alpha chip technology. [News.com]
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- Digital to make $900 business PC - Digital will push the envelope on business PCs when it announces a sub-$900 machine packing the K6 processor from Advanced Micro Devices on Monday. [News.com]
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- Digital, Intel settle score - Digital Equipment and Intel have reached a tentative settlement in a patent infringement lawsuit, an agreement that could have broad impact on the semiconductor industry. The terms include the cross-licensing of patents, the sale of a Digital chip plant for $700 million, and the development of future Alpha systems based on Intel's forthcoming 64-bit microprocessors. NEWS.COM examines the effects of the deal on the high-tech market and beyond. [News.com]
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- Digital, Sun tell of new chips - At the Microprocessor Forum today, Digital Equipment detailed a processor for use in small devices to rival the performance of desktop processors such as Intel's Pentium II, while Sun showed off its "Java-centric" processor. [News.com]
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- Disabled considered in Net access - WASHINGTON, D.C.--For more than 50 million disabled Americans, the Internet is often an inhospitable jumble, but access could be dramatically improved under a new program. [News.com]
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- Disney gets a new face - The Walt Disney Company has quietly redesigned its flagship Disney.com Web site, one of the most visited sites in cyberspace, to include channels that provide free daily content for families including games, ideas on parenting, and electronic postcards dubbed "D-cards." [News.com]
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- Dive computers recalled - WASHINGTON, D.C.--Mares America of Norwalk, Connecticut, is recalling about 1,200 dive computers after 45 incidents of malfunction, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says. [News.com]
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- Doctors sue over Net privacy - In the latest skirmish over making public information available on the Net, a doctors' union has sued a California regulatory agency over its practice of listing physicians' addresses online. [News.com]
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- DOJ charges Microsoft violations - The Justice Department charged today that Microsoft (MSFT) has violated terms of a 1995 consent decree governing its licensing practices. [News.com]
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- DOJ: MS violated consent decree - The Justice Department charged today that Microsoft (MSFT) has violated terms of a 1995 consent decree governing its licensing practices. [News.com]
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- Domain fund marked for next Net - Congress has finally tapped a $34.2 million fund set up to "preserve and enhance" the infrastructure of the Internet, but questions remained today as to how the rest of the money will be used. [News.com]
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- Domain suit shows no mercy - Two charities that use the Internet to enlist others to their cause have become embroiled in a trademark dispute over the word "compassion," of all things. [News.com]
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- Dorman takes over PointCast - Back in June, Christopher Hassett, chief executive and cofounder of PointCast, said he would wear the chairman's hat, but would step aside to make way for a new CEO. [News.com]
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- DoubleClick goes to Canada - DoubleClick, the online advertising company, today launched a network in Canada. [News.com]
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- DVD Video Web page woos public - In an effort to woo an increasingly gun-shy DVD video market, an industry consortium has launched a Web site to promote the new technology. [News.com]
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- DVD-R standard already in flux - A week after the DVD-R Forum established a target storage capacity for the first generation of DVD-R disks, two companies are already planning to show products that exceed it. [News.com]
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- E-commerce off the shelf - E-commerce provider Viaweb and Staples (SPLS), the giant office-supply superstore chain, have hooked up to offer retail customers off-the-shelf Internet storefronts. [News.com]
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- EC report counterpoint to Clinton crypto - A report released today by the European Commission is putting more pressure on the Clinton administration as it attempts to forge a policy on encryption that is palatable to law enforcement agencies and national security interests. [News.com]
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- Edify heads to NT - Edify (EDFY), which generated $33 million in revenue in 1996 writing software for Web- and phone-based self-service on the OS/2 platform, said today its software is now available on Windows NT. [News.com]
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- Egghead beefs up Web store - Egghead Computer (EGGS) today continued its push into e-commerce and its retreat from selling hardware and software at its actual stores, in an attempt to resuscitate itself after several turbulent quarters. [News.com]
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- Electric utilities getting wired - Northern Telecom (NT) and British electricity supplier United Utilities announced a plan today to provide high-speed Internet access via electric lines. [News.com]
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- Electronic Arts profits double - Electronic Arts said its fiscal second-quarter profit from operations more than doubled--beating most Wall Street estimates--on strong sales of its video games. [News.com]
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- Engines firing up - The crowded field of search engines, which analysts have long said is due for a shakeout, is growing increasingly competitive. The differentiation one company sought by adding, say, free email, is quickly rendered irrelevant as rivals rush to enter the space. NEWS.COM's roundup shows how search engines are attempting to outmaneuver each other by adding new features and signing marketing deals. At the same time, Microsoft seems to think there's room on the Net for one more search player. [News.com]
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- Europe boosts Iomega sales - Data-storage company Iomega is expecting surging European sales to stand out in its third-quarter results, due later this month. [News.com]
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- Europe embraces online banking - European consumers are starting to do their buying, banking, and trading on the Internet, creating both opportunities and headaches for financial service providers, experts said. [News.com]
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- Europe firms warned on currency - Only 12 percent of Europe's small- and medium-sized businesses have prepared for European economic and monetary union, IBM Europe said today, citing a survey it had commissioned. [News.com]
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- Europe to get faster Net - High-speed Net access over phone lines, dubbed ADSL, is poised to take off in Europe, thanks largely to deregulation of the European telecommunications market, according to industry experts who met recently. [News.com]
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- European sales boost Iomega - Data-storage company Iomega today beat analysts' third-quarter earnings estimates, in part due to strong sales in Europe. [News.com]
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- Excite launches business channel - Today Excite (XCIT) and Intuit (INTU) are unveiling the first fruits of their seven-year partnership -- a new business and investing channel on Excite. [News.com]
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- Excite partners for Japan - Excite (XCIT) is planting its digital flag in Japan with a joint launch of a service there, the company announced tonight. [News.com]
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- Excite to buy NetBot - Internet media company Excite (XCIT) today said it will buy Net shopping technology maker NetBot in a $35 million stock deal. [News.com]
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- Excite tops estimates, cuts loss - Excite (XCIT) today blew past analysts' estimates, benefiting from a round of e-commerce deals. [News.com]
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- Execs say e-commerce needs better PR - Shopping through the Internet is failing to take off because the information technology industry has not yet persuaded potential customers that the system is safe, industry officials said. [News.com]
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- Export rules could ban some PCs - Some personal computers could be banned under proposed federal export leglislation designed to keep supercomputers from falling into the wrong hands overseas. [News.com]
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- Extra credit for viewing ads - In the first system of its kind, CyberGold announced today that it will begin crediting consumers' Visa bills when they view advertisements on the company's Web site or on sites that carry a CyberGold logo. [News.com]
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- Fall classic goes online - Baseball fans can get most of the thrills of the World Series online this year, including tickets to the games between the Florida Marlins and the Cleveland Indians. [News.com]
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- Fast memory to boost PC speeds - Personal computer performance is expected to speed up dramatically when memory technology from Rambus is introduced in 1999. [News.com]
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- Faster DRAM product announced - A South Korean firm today announced a high-speed memory chip built to take advantage of Intel's next-generation Pentium II architecture, called Deschutes. [News.com]
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- Fax machine works via the Net - Panasonic announced a machine that will send a fax for the price of an email. [News.com]
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- FCC confirmations blocked - The confirmations of all four nominees to the Federal Communications Commission were held up today by Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Montana), who wants the agency to revamp telephone and online "universal service" rates for rural areas of the country. [News.com]
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- FCC nominee vows low rates - President Clinton's choice to head the Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday his top priority will be to break open to competition the $100 billion local telephone business controlled by the Baby Bells. [News.com]
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- FCC nominees approved - The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee today approved the nominations of four key appointments to the Federal Communications Commission, including that of William Kennard as chairman. [News.com]
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- FCC nominees confirmed - William Kennard was confirmed as the Federal Communications Commission chairman today, with one lone Republican senator voting against the appointment. [News.com]
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- FCC plans PC V-chip - Parts of the Net may look and act like TV, but so far cyberspace has managed to steer clear of broadcast content regulations. But as the tube and PCs with Net connections converge, the line between the devices and the laws governing them continue to blur. [News.com]
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- Fighting El Niño online - While the world braces for the onslaught of storms related to El Niño, a host of federal agencies and other organizations are using the Internet to help people get ready for what is expected to be a disastrous rainy season. [News.com]
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- Firefly to sell music site - Firefly Networks, which creates software to personalize Web sites, will announce tomorrow that it's selling its music Web site, Bignote, to Launch, which publishes a bimonthly music magazine on CD-ROM. [News.com]
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- Firms agree on DVD licensing - Six major developers of digital versatle disc (DVD) technology said today they have agreed on a joint patent licensing program for DVD. The six companies are Hitachi, Matsushita Electric, Mitsubishi Electric, Time Warner, Toshiba, and Victor of Japan. [News.com]
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- Firms join Japan digital TV study - Japan's Posts and Telecommunications Ministry said today representatives from Microsoft (MSFT), Intel (INTC), and Compaq (CPQ) will join the ministry's study group to set up a standard for Japanese digital satellite broadcasting. [News.com]
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- Flash memory capacity grows - SanDisk has completed development of what it says is one of the world's highest-capacity flash memory disks. [News.com]
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- Following Intel, AMD to cut prices - Despite low chip yields and recent financial losses, Advanced Micro Devices will cut prices on its K6 microprocessors by an estimated 15 to 23 percent Monday to keep pace with archrival Intel. [News.com]
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- Food purchasing moves online - Instill has moved its electronic purchasing system called e·store for restaurants and food distributors to the Internet. [News.com]
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- Fore shifts focus to ATM services - The words coming out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Fore Systems (FORE) sound a lot different from those spoken only a short time ago. [News.com]
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- Four11 costs Yahoo $4 million - Yahoo (YHOO) said Thursday it completed its acquisition of Four11 and expects the transition to generate an one-time charge of about $4 million in the fiscal fourth quarter. [News.com]
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- Freelancers sue Knight-Ridder - A group of California freelance writers is suing Knight-Ridder Information, alleging that its Web- and fax-based article delivery services violated the authors' copyrights. [News.com]
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- Fujitsu debuts a "mega-notebook" - Fujitsu PC and NEC Computer Systems today introduced new notebook computers with big screens and big brains. [News.com]
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- Future DVD products displayed - Though the first generation of DVD drives is just beginning to flood the market, next-generation devices that offer much higher data capacity and more portability are coming. [News.com]
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- Gates disputes Java suit - Microsoft (MSFT) chairman Bill Gates today denied Sun Microsystems (SUNW) accusation in a lawsuit that Microsoft had breached its contract over the use of Sun's Java technology. [News.com]
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- Gates faces hefty tax bill - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who moved into his luxurious lakeside mansion last month after seven years of construction, faces a hefty tax bill that is likely to go even higher. [News.com]
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- Gates is behind MS Net push - Less than two years ago, Microsoft's (MSFT) billionaire CEO Bill Gates announced to the world that a "sleeping giant" had awakened to the promise of the Internet. [News.com]
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- Gates sees tech power in Russia - Russia has the potential to become one of the world's great software developers, but it is hampered by rampant piracy, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said today during a visit to Moscow. [News.com]
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- Gates to meet Philippine leader - Philippine President Fidel Ramos said today he would meet Microsoft (MSFT) chairman Bill Gates and other leaders of the information technology industry to develop an IT agenda for the Philippines. [News.com]
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- Gates, Russian PM meet on piracy - Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin vowed to help fight software piracy during meeting with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates today, saying he believed that Russia was ready to work to protect intellectual property. [News.com]
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- Gates: Industry only starting - Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft (MSFT), may have become a multibillionaire from software, but he said on Tuesday that the business of computers is still in its infancy. [News.com]
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- Gates: NT ideal for publishing - Addressing the Seybold SF publishing conference, Microsoft (MSFT) chairman Bill Gates continued to sing the virtues of Windows NT, this time as a platform for Web publishing. [News.com]
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- Gateway 2000 updates PC-TV - Gateway 2000 announced a PC-TV with a bigger screen and a price tag to match. [News.com]
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- Gateway cuts business PC prices - Gateway 2000 (GTW) rolled out new PCs for the corporate market today, with some models starting at under $2,000 for a Pentium II chip and monitor. The bid to spur sales to corporations also presages processor price cuts from Intel in about two weeks. [News.com]
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- Gateway posts $107 million loss - Gateway (GTW) today posted a third-quarter loss as the company was hit with excess inventory and charges. [News.com]
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- Gateway stock jumps 17 percent - Gateway 2000 (GTW) got a boost in trading today after an analyst gave the computer maker a positive plug and upped his rating on its stock. [News.com]
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- Gemplus, Xicor debut new smart cards - Two smart card vendors, one an industry heavyweight and the other an upstart, are releasing new cards with an eye on the electronic commerce and Internet security markets. [News.com]
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- German official wary of digital porn - The premier of the German state of Bavaria warned today he may restrict broadcasts of pornography in Germany's budding television market. [News.com]
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- Glitch pulled from MS site - After revamping its home page for Internet Explorer 4.0 users with dynamic HTML and a personalization and customization feature to help promote its products, Microsoft (MSFT) has pulled the personalization because of a glitch. [News.com]
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- Global firms face Net marketing challenge - Multinational companies must move quickly to take advantage of the Internet, but transplanting brands to the World Wide Web presents a major marketing challenge because of public suspicion of multinationals, an industry expert said. [News.com]
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- GM to set up Web showroom - General Motors (GM) has taken car buying on the Internet a step closer to reality, unveiling a new system that allows Web surfers to peruse a dealer's showroom online. [News.com]
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- Government tackles Y2K - Trying to prevent massive computer problems when the year 2000 arrives, government information officers yesterday adopted a new standard for representing the year in computer systems. [News.com]
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- Government to pilot e-checks - Two banks and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, along with several technology providers, tomorrow will announce a pilot project that uses electronic checks to pay contractors to the Department of Defense. [News.com]
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- Greeting card deal boosts AOL - America Online (AOL) and American Greetings (AGREA) announced today that they have reached an agreement to provide online greeting cards through AOL, propelling the online service's stock to another 52-week high. [News.com]
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- Group calls for library Net filtering - In the latest call for libraries to filter Internet sites, a group of parents has persuaded elected officials in Silicon Valley to open up debate about its unrestricted online access policy. [News.com]
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- GT Interactive to buy rival - GT Interactive Software (GTIS), looking to gain a bigger share of the video game business, said Sunday it has agreed to buy rival MicroProse for about $250 million in stock. [News.com]
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- GTE sues over Net yellow pages - GTE (GTE) filed suit today against five Baby Bells, Netscape, and Yahoo, charging the companies with trying to monopolize the directory listings business on the Internet. [News.com]
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- GTE the latest to court MCI - GTE yesterday confirmed that it had sent an unsolicited proposal to MCI Communications, marking its third takeover proposal since November. [News.com]
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- Hackers spoof security newsletter - A bogus version of a security newsletter was sent to subscribers of the SANS Security Digest today after hackers broke into an Internet service provider that kept the mailing list, SANS representatives confirmed today. [News.com]
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- Halloween on the Net - In preparation for the witching hour, there are a wealth of sites that Netizens can access to get the scoop on events or simply to read up on the legends and lore of Halloween. [News.com]
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- Handheld hits market via the Net - A British company jumped into the growing handheld PC market in an unusual way, announcing it will debut two models via direct sales on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Harbinger No. 2 in e-commerce - Harbinger (HRBC) today announced two acquisitions, which have pushed the company into the No. 2 spot among e-commerce vendors. [News.com]
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- Hard drive upgrade kit unveiled - Portable Enhancement Products released a hard drive upgrade kit for notebook computers. At 4GB, one drive is the largest available. [News.com]
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- Hatch backs DOJ over Microsoft - Senate Judiciary chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), commenting on the Microsoft antitrust case, said today it is illegal for one company to require that others notify it before talking to government investigators. [News.com]
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- Hayes offering modem rebates - Hayes Microcomputer announced today that it will offer rebates on 56-kbps modems, a move that will lower the price of some models below $100 as modem vendors try to entice customers into upgrading for faster online connections. [News.com]
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- High stakes for Net in MCI merger - The courtship of MCI Communications (MCIC) has turned into a multibillion-dollar competition with enormous stakes for the Internet. [News.com]
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- High tech told to play politics - Rep. Rick White (R-Washington) dished out advice for Silicon Valley companies today on how to play politics on Capitol Hill. [News.com]
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- High-speed modem merger - Westell Technologies (WSTL) today announced plans to acquire Amati (AMTX) in a $394 million stock transaction, boosting the emergence of fast-speed modem technology used over standard phone lines. [News.com]
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- High-speed modem within reach - High-speed Internet access technology ADSL has been slow to reach consumers. But a new, low-priced modem timed to hit the market shortly before telecommunication companies begin providing support for the technology may accelerate ADSL's arrival. [News.com]
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- High-tech earnings roundup - Business-management software maker Baan (BAANF) today announced revenue of $173.2 million, a 65 percent increase over revenues of $105 million for the third quarter of 1996. [News.com]
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- High-tech Etch-a-Sketch reaches market - Wacom, the Vancouver, Washington-based maker of tablet input devices, is offering what could be the display of the future. [News.com]
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- High-tech stocks take a beating - The technology industry was among the market sectors hardest hit by the stock drubbing on Wall Street today, and many Web sites were sluggish or jammed as investors rushed online to trade or get information. [News.com]
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- Hiring CEOs is about chemistry - Ed McCracken is not Steve Jobs. [News.com]
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- Hitachi launches mini-notebook - Hitachi is set to follow in the footsteps of Toshiba and Mitsubishi and announce a mini-notebook that runs Windows 95. [News.com]
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- Hitachi starts DVD-ROM production in U.S. - Hitachi Maxell said today that it has started production of DVD-ROM discs in the United States. [News.com]
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- Holiday food sites abound - When it comes to food, the next two months are the best of times or the worst of times. For foodies, the stretch between Halloween and New Year's Day means the thrill of pulling out favorite special-occasion recipes, baking goodies to give as gifts, and entertaining. [News.com]
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- Home servers coming into focus - As U.S. computer makers continue to develop technologies for bringing centralized servers into the home, Japanese electronics firms too are marshaling resources for this market. [News.com]
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- Honeywell focuses on Y2K fix - Honeywell (HON) said today that though some of its products are still not immune to the millennium bug, it hopes they will all be fixed by the turn of the century. [News.com]
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- Hong Kong issues Net code - The Hong Kong government and an organization of Internet service providers issued a code of practice today to regulate what it called indecent and obscene material in cyberspace. [News.com]
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- Hotmail a hot commodity - Free email service Hotmail is a hot commodity. As the company's subscriber base expands at warp speed, investment banks and partners are lining up at its door. [News.com]
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- House approves PC export limits - The House today passed a bill that authorizes federal departments to prevent free export of desktop-class computers. [News.com]
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- HP files suit against Xerox - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) said today it has filed suit against Xerox (XRX) alleging trademark infringement. [News.com]
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- HP introduces new notebook - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) today announced it has added a model to its OmniBook line of notebooks. [News.com]
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- HP reduces notebook prices - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) cut prices on OmniBook notebook PCs by as much as 13 percent today, the latest in a series of notebook price cuts this month and another sign of HP's desire to become a major notebook vendor. [News.com]
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- HP to debut 8-processor server - When Hewlett-Packard releases its first eight-processor Intel-based server later this year, it will beat rival Compaq to market by almost a year, but tepid customer demand could make the point moot. [News.com]
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- HP to offer hard copy services - As part of its strategy to move "outside the box," Hewlett-Packard (HWP) plans to announce Monday that it is starting a new services division for its LaserJet solutions group. [News.com]
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- HP, Dell to unveil new notebook class - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) will unveil its first mobile 233-MHz Pentium "Tillamook"-based notebooks next week in a design that is both slimmer and lighter than HP's current OmniBook models. [News.com]
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- IBM bolsters e-commerce services - Citing unexplored opportunities in Internet commerce, IBM (IBM) today launched a new line of services to help companies conduct business on the Web. [News.com]
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- IBM boosts notebook drive size - IBM (IBM) today said it has developed a new high-capacity hard drive for notebook computers that it says shatters the existing storage record for such devices. [News.com]
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- IBM buys outsourcing firm - Information technology group IBM South Africa Group (IBM) said today its wholly owned subsidiary IBM South Africa had acquired the entire business of International Outsourcing Services (IOS) for $28 million. [News.com]
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- IBM debuts 64-bit chip - Another day, another 64-bit chip, as IBM's (IBM) Microelectronics Division today strutted its new family of 64-bit microprocessors in front of the Microprocessor Forum '97. [News.com]
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- IBM goes for NC market - Just as it established a hardware standard for the emerging PC market in the early 80s, IBM (IBM) is attempting to put its stamp on the emerging network computer industry by pitching its server software as an industry standard. [News.com]
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- IBM launches Pentium II Intellistations - IBM rolled out a new line of PC workstations today based on the Pentium II processor, the latest move in the company's effort to reinvigorate its presence in the workstation world. [News.com]
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- IBM offering employees buyouts - In a cost-cutting move that could eliminate several thousand jobs, IBM (IBM) has begun offering employees a voluntary job buyout plan, a spokesman for the company confirmed Friday. [News.com]
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- IBM refreshes desktop PC line - IBM (IBM) enhanced two desktop lines intended for general and high-end business users, adding faster processors and a larger hard drive. [News.com]
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- IBM reports improved results - IBM (IBM) showed improved results today for the September quarter. The company beat expectations due to continued strength in services, some servers, and commercial PCs, as well as Lotus Notes and Tivoli distributed software. [News.com]
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- IBM server grows in scale - The new RS/6000 server to be unveiled by IBM (IBM) Monday will allow users to take advantage of 12 processors at once, a new high for the server line, and one that fits in with IBM's upscale plans for the platform. [News.com]
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- IBM tells of plans for copper chip - IBM's (IBM) Microelectronics Division today detailed its plans for using "copper chip" technology, announcing new specialized chips for electronics manufacturers. [News.com]
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- IBM to report results - With stocks reeling from a series of weaker-than-expected financial results in the technology sector, investors are approaching International Business Machines' (IBM) report with heightened anxiety. [News.com]
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- IBM to resell Arbor products - International Business Machines (IBM) agreed to sell Arbor Software (ARSW) database products to IBM customers, a deal that will significantly boost Arbor's sales reach, the companies said Monday. [News.com]
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- IBM to restructure PC units - As IBM (IBM) continues to lose market share in the home PC business, the company is planning a broad restructuring of its home PC consumer division, a move expected to revive its ailing Aptiva lineup. [News.com]
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- IBM wins funds for X-ray chips - IBM will get some help pushing the envelope on chip production technology from the U.S. government. [News.com]
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- IBM workstations to pack 630 chip - IBM released two new Unix workstations today, one based on its Power2 Super Chip and the other based on a new 332-MHz version of the 604 PowerPC chip. Big Blue will follow with workstations based on a new 630 PowerPC chip in 1998. [News.com]
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- IBM's single package untangles middleware - IBM (IBM) is attempting to simplify its tangle of transactional middleware software by wrapping several products in a single, easy-to-use package intended to make it easier to build e-commerce applications. [News.com]
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- IE 4.0 goes retail - Microsoft (MSFT) today released a retail version of its Internet Explorer 4.0 browser, providing yet another distribution channel for the newly launched product. [News.com]
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- IE 4.0 leaves Web fonts vulnerable - Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.0 browser is causing some type designers to worry that the Web fonts they create may be misappropriated by others. [News.com]
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- IE hole exposes local files - Microsoft (MSFT) moved to fix a security hole today in its Internet Explorer 4.0 Web browser that allows malicious Web sites to obtain content of a text, HTML, or image file from a users hard disk. [News.com]
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- IE users note NT install caveat - A week after the release of Internet Explorer 4.0, users in general are favorable about the product but have concerns about the degree to which Microsoft (MSFT) is warning them about an installation problem. [News.com]
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- Immigration plan could cut workforce - The number of foreign workers high-tech and Internet companies are able to bring to the United States may be dramatically reduced if recommendations by a federal committee are made law. [News.com]
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- Industry events may boost stocks - Tech stocks got whipped around like a roller coaster gone wild this week, but investors may be in for a much smoother ride with some outside help beginning next week. [News.com]
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- Informix names new CFO - Database maker Informix (IFMX), which recently had to restate its earnings and revenues for the past two years, announced today that it has hired a new chief financial officer. [News.com]
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- Infoseek beats estimates - Infoseek (SEEK) allayed some investors' fears today as it beat analysts' estimates and narrowed its losses over the previous quarter. [News.com]
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- Inktomi gets investment from Intel - Inktomi, a developer of scalable network applications designed to reduce congestion on the Internet, today said it has received a $2 million cash investment from Intel (INTC), which is looking to boost the use of its Intel-based servers. [News.com]
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- Inktomi lines up alliances - Search engine company Inktomi appears to be on a roll with today's licensing deal with Microsoft to build search capabilities into the software giant's online service, Microsoft Network. [News.com]
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- Inside the W3C: How Web standards get made - Lost in the noise of the browser wars between Netscape and Microsoft is the less visible, more subtle struggle over the Web's "look and feel"--its standards and specifications. Ground zero is the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international industry group that develops common protocols for the Web. [News.com]
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- Insurers target new media liability - As businesses move to the Net, lawyers aren't far behind. [News.com]
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- Integration: the heart of DOJ case - One product or two? That is the question at the center of a federal judge's review of the Justice Department's charges that Microsoft (MSFT) has violated a federal court order by requiring that PC makers ship its Internet Explorer browser with Windows 95-based machines. [News.com]
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- Intel chip for mini-PCs arrives - Intel's (INTC) new chip for ultrasmall notebook PCs, a response to the growing list of makers announcing so-called mini-notebooks, is expected to create a market niche. [News.com]
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- Intel clone chip targets cheap PCs - Integrated Device Technology (IDTI) has unveiled a microprocessor that will compete with Intel's Pentium processors in the low-cost PC market, making IDT the latest company to enter the Intel chip clone market. [News.com]
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- Intel cuts chip prices up to 40% - Intel (INTC) announced price cuts on its processors ranging up to 40 percent, pushing high-end PC pricing down to the middle of the market and further intensifying competition at the low end. [News.com]
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- Intel earnings expected to slow - Intels (INTC) earnings growth is expected to slow in the third quarter as sales of popular low-cost personal computers are eroding the chip maker's profitability, industry analysts said. [News.com]
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- Intel extends offer for Chips - Intel (INTC) today extended the expiration date for its offer to acquire Chips and Technologies to November 21. [News.com]
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- Intel eyes network products - Intel (INTC) today said that it aims to quickly expand its network technology business in the coming years. [News.com]
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- Intel goes with Oracle on digital TV - Intel (INTC) is backing a proposal for digital cable-TV standards that competes with Microsoft and is spearheaded by Network Computer Inc. (NCI), a firm that is majority-owned by Oracle. [News.com]
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- Intel hush-hush on Q3 report - Intel (INTC) said it has no plans to make any statements regarding its earnings before the regularly scheduled release of its results on October 14. [News.com]
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- Intel late to 64-bit computing - Despite a rush of announcements on 64-bit technology today from Sun, Digital, and IBM, observers expect Intel to stay the course on its calendar for a 1999 debut for its 64-bit, next-generation Merced processor. [News.com]
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- Intel partners on cable modem development - Intel (INTC) announced today it will work with @Home Network (ATHM) to develop new cable modems in an effort to encourage the availability of high-speed Internet access. [News.com]
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- Intel plant delay may signal trouble - Intel (INTC) said it will postpone opening a semiconductor plant in Fort Worth, Texas, by one year, an announcement that may signal larger problems for the chipmaking giant. [News.com]
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- Intel price cuts to boost sales - Price cuts on Intel processors slated for the end of the month are expected to prompt street-level price cuts on workstations and PCs in an already competitive market. One vendor, in fact, has already taken pricing action, apparently in anticipation of the cuts. [News.com]
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- Intel reports flat revenues - Intel (INTC), which underwent aggressive price cutting and experienced a much weaker-than-expected Flash memory market, yesterday missed analysts' expectations for its third-quarter results. [News.com]
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- Intel sells stake in VLSI - Intel (INTC) has sold its last remaining shares in VLSI Technology (VLSI), an investment that was worth close to $97 million. [News.com]
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- Intel server chip gets big backing - Intel (INTC) is announcing today that major vendors will support its i960 RISC chip and the I20 architecture for networked servers. [News.com]
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- Intel sets sights on arcade games - Intel (INTC) is taking on one of the last high-end computing markets, arcade game machines, a niche that requires powerful processors to drive the sophisticated graphics and an array of other workstation-class computing demands. [News.com]
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- Intel to debut 64-bit technology - Intel and Hewlett-Packard will detail their next-generation computing technology tomorrow and spell out how Intel PCs will cross the bridge from the 32-bit world of today to the 64-bit realm of 1999. [News.com]
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- Intel's weak results affect markets - After announcing weaker-than-expected results for the September quarter and receiving a number of earnings cuts from analysts, Intel's (INTC) stock tipped back and weighed down the Nasdaq. [News.com]
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- Intel, Chips settle shareholder suit - Intel and Chips and Technologies announced today they have settled a class-action suit brought against them by shareholders over the companies' agreement to merge. [News.com]
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- Intel, Digital hearing on hold - Intel (INTC) said the first hearing in its suit against Digital Equipment (DEC) has been postponed until October 30 by the court. [News.com]
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- Intel, Digital settle suit - Intel (INTC) and Digital Equipment (DEC) today announced a settlement in a patent litigation lawsuit filed by Digital in May, an agreement likely to have wide impact on the microprocessor industry. [News.com]
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- Intel, Digital settlement could mean 64-bit convergence - If Digital Equipment and Intel settle their patent infringement cases this week, the settlement could mark Digital's convergence with Intel's 64-bit architecture, the foundation of Intel's next-generation Merced chip. [News.com]
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- Intel, HP unveil EPIC technology - Intel and Hewlett-Packard gave a glimpse today of their 64-bit technology, dubbed "EPIC," which will underlie the super-fast 64-bit processors and systems that will emerge from Intel in 1999, while Intel indicated that work is already underway on a second-generation Merced which will appear in 2001. [News.com]
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- Intergraph debuts sub-$2,000 workstation - Intergraph (INGR), well-known for its high-end personal workstations, today introduced a new 300-MHz Pentium II system for under $2,000. [News.com]
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- Intergraph hones in on workstations - Intergraph has spun off its computer operations in an attempt to sharpen its focus on the workstation market. [News.com]
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- Internal spat over e-commerce - Ad-hoc organization XML/EDI Group is winning praise for a new method for conducting business-to-business data exchange over the Internet, which it's promoting. But the group has stepped on a few toes in the process. [News.com]
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- Intranets taking off - According to a report published today by International Data Corporation, companies are adopting intranets at a faster rate than previously thought by research organizations. [News.com]
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- Investment to let Metricom grow - Metricom (MCOM) announced today that financier Paul Allen's investment firm plans to take a controlling stake in the company, paving the way for a new strategy for its wireless access service and the funds to execute it. [News.com]
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- Iomega's European sales growing - Data storage group Iomega said on Thursday it expected surging European sales to stand out in the third quarter results due later this month. [News.com]
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- Iowa joins tax-exempt Net trend - From the heartland of America to high-tech hotbeds, states increasingly are letting Internet service providers off the hook for various taxes. [News.com]
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- Is Microsoft a threat in email too? - Sender: Eudora Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 To: Microsoft From: Eudora Subject: Competition [News.com]
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- Is Windows 98 end of the line? - Is Windows 98 the last of a dying breed? [News.com]
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- ISDN products still an option - At Comdex next month, cable and high-speed digital subscriber line modems are expected to rank among the convention's hottest communications products, but Teles aims to remind people that ISDN is still alive and kicking by introducing a new low-cost ISDN "modem." [News.com]
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- ISP adds Net calling feature - CAIS Internet said today it teamed up with Networks Telephony Corporation to begin offering its users Internet telephone service starting Monday. [News.com]
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- ISP to fine spammers - A new policy from Internet service provider EarthLink Network (ELNK) designed to thwart junk emailers has set off a new debate in the antispam community. [News.com]
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- IT hiring to rise slightly - The number of chief information officers who expect to increase their information technology staff by the end of the year rose slightly, as Year 2000 problems and networking fueled the need to hire more IT workers, according to a study released today. [News.com]
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- IT workers scarce by 2005 - A shortage of information technology workers, expected by 2005, may pose a risk to the U.S. economy, according to a government report released today. [News.com]
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- Japan firms eye LCD market - Japan's major chipmaking companies have been eyeing the market for liquid crystal displays (LCDs), hoping to offset the increasingly thin profit margins in their mainstay semiconductor business. [News.com]
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- Japan firms hit by weak PC sales - Big Japanese electronics firms are likely to report poor earnings in the current fiscal year, suffering a triple blow from poor personal computer sales, sagging chip prices, and losses in the air conditioner business. [News.com]
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- Japanese economy hurts PC makers - A sluggish Japanese economy claimed another victim today in the high-tech industry, and the picture for PC makers doing business in Japan doesn't appear as though it will improve in the next quarter. [News.com]
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- Japanese high-techs to fare poorly - The major Japanese electronics firms are likely to report poor earnings in the current fiscal year, suffering a double blow from poor PC sales, and sagging chip prices. [News.com]
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- Japanese notebook exports soar - Japanese personal computer makers are boosting exports of notebook PCs to the U.S., aided by the weak yen and growing demand, analysts said on Monday. [News.com]
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- Japanese PC market declines - Sales of personal computers in Japan have been declining because of reduced consumer demand, the Nikkei Watcher on IT Business reported yesterday in JapanBizTech, an online news service. [News.com]
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- Java card spec brewed - Sun Microsystems' JavaSoft unit will announce tomorrow that it has posted a final version of its Java Card 2.0 specification. [News.com]
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- Java creation made easier - Now, even those who don't speak the programming language can give their creative visions life on the Web. [News.com]
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- Java fight threatens development - Even with Java's popularity increasingly on the rise, the legal fight between Sun Microsystems (SUNW) and Microsoft (MSFT) may impede the future viability of Java as a cross-platform development language, analysts said. [News.com]
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- Java gets another tool - Progress Software is set to ship a new version of its development tool package for building business applications in Java. [News.com]
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- Java standard gets early support - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) has gained a final vote of confidence in its bid to make Java an international standard and make itself the official gatekeeper for any changes made to the standard. [News.com]
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- Java suit hinges on seal of approval - Underlying the heated public rhetoric over Sun Microsystems' (SUNW) lawsuit against Microsoft (MSFT) is a simple question of whether Microsoft deserves the Java equivalent of a "Good Housekeeping" seal of approval, according to independent legal experts. [News.com]
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- Jobs may decide on CEO post - Apple Computer's (AAPL) interim chief executive Steve Jobs is expected to decide whether he wants to become the company's CEO on a permanent basis when he returns today from his vacation in Hawaii. [News.com]
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- Jobs outlines Apple survival plan - Addressing the Seybold SF publishing conference, Apple Computer (AAPL) acting CEO Steve Jobs offered up to 12 reasons why Apple will survive as a company--including the curtailing of Mac OS licensing and the partnership with Microsoft--in an effort to build confidence amongst some of the users most dependent on Apple technology: publishers. [News.com]
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- Jobs says he won't head Apple - In the latest twist in the saga of who will be Apple Computer's (AAPL) new chief executive, cofounder Steve Jobs told Wall Street analysts it ain't him. [News.com]
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- Jobs touts "very cool technology" - Speaking at an industry conference, Apple Computer (AAPL) interim CEO Steve Jobs pitched hope and "very cool technology" to multimedia content developers while also elaborating on upcoming distribution and product strategies and the Mac clone vendor imbroglio. [News.com]
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- Jousting over Java - special coverage Sun Microsystems and Microsoft have officially traded courtroom punches in their dispute over implementation of Java in the Internet Explorer 4.0 browser. NEWS.COM looks at the effect of this legal battle on application development, Internet-related technologies, and the Java programming language itself. [News.com]
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- Jupiter gets $8 million investment - Technology analysis firm Gartner Group (GART) today announced an $8 million investment for a 32 percent equity stake in privately held Jupiter Communications, a provider of analyst-based research and strategic planning services. [News.com]
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- Kao to cut floppy, CD-ROM output - Kao plans to cut output of floppy discs and CD-ROMs by nearly half at its facility in the U.S., Japanese business daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun said on Wednesday. [News.com]
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- Kinko's licenses Navigator - In its second customer win this week, Netscape Communications (NSCP) said its Navigator client software will be offered at Kinko's stores throughout the United States and Canada for Internet access. [News.com]
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- Kinko's to offer Hotmail - Hotmail will announce Monday that it will provide free Web-based email to customers at most of Kinko's more than 830 branches, another sign of the surging demand for free email. [News.com]
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- Kit allows upgrade to DVD - Consumers who want to watch movies on their PC will have another option for DVD delivery following the upcoming release of Jazz Multimedia's DVD kit. [News.com]
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- Kiva updates servers - Kiva Software has updated its Internet application servers to better link to existing systems and development tools. [News.com]
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- L.A. to enjoy cable Net - MediaOne launched high-speed Net access via cable today in the Los Angeles area, while a study predicted that cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential access market. [News.com]
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- Laptops to enter Cabinet? - The red boxes traditionally used by British cabinet ministers to carry government documents may soon be replaced by laptop computers, the Financial Times reported today. [News.com]
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- Lawyers subpoena newspaper site - A Southern California newspaper's Web site, which has been chronicling a sensational murder trial, has been subpoenaed by defense attorneys seeking unpublished emails by readers who expressed opinions about the case. [News.com]
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- Legislator posts sex crime list - In one of Michigan's largest counties, the names and addresses of convicted sex offenders were posted on the Internet yesterday by a state representative who wants "trick-or-treaters" to know whose door they are knocking on this Halloween. [News.com]
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- Lexmark launches upscale printers - Printer manufacturer Lexmark International today launched its next generation inkjet series, hoping that added bells and whistles will help it to compete with the likes of Hewlett-Packard and Epson. [News.com]
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- Loaded Pentium II beats $2,000 mark - Gateway 2000 (GTW) has released a fully loaded Pentium II PC for under $2,000, a price/performance mark that presages the deals which can be expected for the holidays. [News.com]
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- Local storage for faster Java - Go Ahead Software this month will ship the next version of Got It, its so-called Internet accelerator software that downloads Web pages, images, and executable code, stores it in a user's local cache, and then updates it when the content changes. [News.com]
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- Locking up home banking - In effort to boost online banking, VeriSign said today it will issue a new type of digital ID for banks and financial institutions that want to do business on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Lott lambasts FBI crypto policy - Senate majority leader Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) this week attacked the Federal Bureau of Investigation over domestic encryption policy, saying that the bureau's attempt to control domestic use of encryption is "simply wrong" and suggested it was unconstitutional. [News.com]
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- Lotus adds to Domino - At its second annual Domino Developers Conference, Lotus Development today said it is shipping the latest version of its server-based data distribution package and it has made several Java enhancements to Domino 4.6 Web application development tools. [News.com]
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- Lotus delays Kona debut - IBM subsidiary Lotus Development has delayed the debut of its first Java applet release, code-named Kona, by two months, according to the company. [News.com]
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- Lotus to introduce Java software - IBM (IBM) Lotus Development unit said Monday it will introduce a set of applications and software tools based on Sun Microsystem's (SUN) Java programming language. [News.com]
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- Low-end PCs interest Intel - Intel (INTC) is eyeing the sub-$1,000 PC market, an interest that may spawn a new architecture centered on chips which accompany the processor, according to an Intel executive. [News.com]
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- Lucent acquires Livingston - Lucent Technologies ( LU) continued its calculated foray into the data networking business today with the acquisition of remote access specialist Livingston Enterprises for $650 million worth of stock. [News.com]
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- Lucent hails all-in-one chips - At a speech to the Semiconductor Industry Association to be given tonight, the head of Lucent Microelectronics (LU), formerly the chip research arm of highly acclaimed Bell Labs, will outline next-generation computer chip trends, including the rise of the "system-on-a-chip" design. [News.com]
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- M.A.I.D. acquires Knight-Ridder unit - Britain's M.A.I.D Plc (MAIDY) moved to the forefront of the online business information market on today, having wooed and won Knight-Ridder Business Information Services (KRI) in a $420 million deal. [News.com]
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- Mac clone maker's sales soar - Taiwan manufacturer Umax Data Systems said its September sales revenue jumped 144 percent from September 1996. [News.com]
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- Mac clone market sheds another - Apple Computers (AAPL) decision to shut down most of the Macintosh clone market has claimed another dropout, this time Pioneer Electronic of Japan. [News.com]
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- Macromedia buys training firm - Macromedia (MACR) announced today the acquisition of Solis Inc, a maker of CMI (Computer Managed Instruction) software for enterprise-wide training and skills management. [News.com]
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- Magaziner backs world Net charter - The United States could support some kind of global charter to govern the Internet, provided it did not create a formal regulatory body, a senior adviser to President Clinton said. [News.com]
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- Manageable PC a step closer - The manageable PC may be closer to reality than many people think. [News.com]
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- Marimba adds controls to Castanet - Marimba will announce tomorrow version 2.0 of its Castanet software--"push" technology that delivers applications and other software updates over a network directly to users' desktops. [News.com]
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- Marketers: Net advertising works - Internet advertising should focus on existing, popular Web sites rather than creating special sites to promote individual brands, company and media executives argue. [News.com]
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- Marketing boosts SAP revenues - SAP's strong third quarter results show the impact of good marketing initiatives for a reliable product, said CFO and COO of SAP America Kevin McKay, [News.com]
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- MasterCard pushing smart cards in Asia - A smart card for cashless payments made via a handphone and the Internet and without logging into a bank will take electronic commerce another dramatic step forward, a senior manager from MasterCard International said today. [News.com]
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- McAfee beats Q3 expectations - Anti-virus software maker McAfee (MCAF) announced, after the markets closed yesterday, better-than-expected preliminary revenues for the third quarter ended September 30. [News.com]
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- McAfee isn't just antivirus anymore - Four years after chief executive William Larson decided McAfee Associates (MCAF) should break out of its antivirus software niche, the fast-growing company is finding some success as an Internet security and network management software vendor. [News.com]
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- McAfee readies help-desk software - McAfee today said it will roll out its integrated diagnostic and self-service software suite in December. [News.com]
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- McAfee reports record revenue - McAfee(MCAF), a vendor of network security and management software, yesterday reported record revenue of $88.33 million for the third quarter, an 87 percent increase from the $47.29 million reported in the same period last year. [News.com]
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- McAfee, Network General to merge - Investors knocked down the price of shares in McAfee Associates (MCAF) this morning, reacting to a lower recommendation from Goldman Sachs after McAfee and Network General (NETG), announced yesterday that they will merge. [News.com]
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- McAfee, Symantec win in court - In a preliminary court hearing between antivirus software titans Symantec (SYMC) and McAfee Associates (MCAF), both sides are claiming victory. [News.com]
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- McCracken: It became personal - When soft-spoken Edward McCracken joined Silicon Graphics (SGI) more than 13 years ago, he figured that a decade as chief executive would be a good run. [News.com]
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- MCI backbone draws buyers - Why is MCI Communications (MCIC) suddenly caught in a $30 billion bidding war between WorldCom (WCOM) and British Telecom (BTY)? It's the Internet, stupid. [News.com]
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- MCI building bigger pipeline - MCI (MCIC) today said it is building a custom Internet "pipeline," the first commercial OC-12 connection, to enable Microsoft's Web site data to travel to users' desktops at high speeds. [News.com]
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- MCI head touts competition - MCI Communications president Timothy Price said that the successful bid for the U.S. telecommunications giant would result in a "pro-competitive" entity opposed to monopoly power. [News.com]
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- MCI offers free security - In an effort to help the Internet community combat hackers, MCI said today it is making its new security software, the NetworkMCI DoS tracker, available for free. [News.com]
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- Media giant to launch city guides - Knight-Ridder will launch a network of its 32 newspaper sites, dubbed Real Cities, to compete with other city guides such as Microsoft's Sidewalk, Yahoo, Digital City and others, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Memory chip glut may be on way - A South Korean government study said that the growing supply of 64-megabit memory chips may lead to a glut in 1998, according to a report that appeared in Japans Denpa Shimbun newspaper. [News.com]
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- Merits of Microsoft case assessed - As the initial buzz died down today over the Justice Department's announcement that it had found Microsoft in violation of a 1995 court order, observers ranging from software developers to consumer advocates began to weigh in with cautious opinions. [News.com]
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- Micron backs MS browser - Micron Electronics (MUEI) today said it had no complaints against Microsoft (MSFT) despite tough negotiations with the software giant. [News.com]
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- Micron to unveil NetFrame servers - Micron (MUEI) is set to announce two new Pentium Pro-based servers next Monday, November 3, as the company continues to reap benefits from its acquisition of NetFrame. [News.com]
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- Micron unveils two lower-end servers - Micron Electronics (MUEI) today unveiled two Pentium II-based servers, continuing its aggressive push into the server market. [News.com]
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- Microsoft beats earnings estimates - Microsoft (MSFT), which is facing enforcement action by the Justice Department over antitrust issues, today released brighter news on its earnings front, beating analysts' estimates slightly and posting a 36 percent increase in its first quarter. [News.com]
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- Microsoft claims no wrongdoing - A Microsoft spokesman said the company is confident that it is operating completely within limits set by a 1995 court order that settled federal antitrust charges. [News.com]
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- Microsoft countersues Sun Micro - Microsoft (MSFT) today lashed back at Sun Microsystems (SUNW) over a breach-of-contract suit Sun filed earlier this month. [News.com]
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- Microsoft faces Nader group - A national consumer group met yesterday with Microsoft to discuss a meeting on alleged antitrust activities but said the software giant, which is facing a multipronged attack over its business practices, would not commit to attending it. [News.com]
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- Microsoft investigated in Europe - Joining a slew of federal and state investigations in the United States, the European Commission is probing a complaint about Microsoft's (MSFT) licensing practices. [News.com]
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- Microsoft plays prank on Netscape - A party for 1,000 people apparently was not enough for some Microsoft (MSFT) employees. They had to top off the night with a prank on Internet software rival Netscape Communications (NSCP). [News.com]
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- Microsoft switches to decaf - Microsoft (MSFT) does not use Java on its Support Online Web site, contrary to information in the site's FAQ sheet. [News.com]
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- Microsoft to cobrand PCs in U.K.? - A relatively small PC manufacturer in the United Kingdom kicked off an international mystery today when it announced that it would begin to co-brand computers with Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Microsoft to meet with CPT - Microsoft, facing a multipronged offensive over alleged antitrust practices, will meet on Thursday with the Washington-based Consumer Project on Technology (CPT), a watchdog group affiliated with consumer advocate Ralph Nader, Microsoft confirmed today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft to ship DVD software - Microsoft (MSFT) will ship software by the end of November that will make programming DVD-ready applications easier. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Intel invest in Wildfire - Microsoft (MSFT) and Intel (INTC) today joined a group of investors providing $12 million to desktop telephony technologies maker Wildfire Communications. [News.com]
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- Microsoft: DOJ out of bounds - In the first hearing of the Justice Department case against Microsoft (MSFT) over its licensing practices, the software giant contended today that the government's case raises issues that do not fall under the scope of the 1995 consent decree. [News.com]
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- Microsoft: No plans to sell MSN - Microsoft (MSFT) has no plans to sell its Microsoft Network online service, a spokesman for the software giant says, denying a report by a new Internet publication. [News.com]
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- Microsoft: Yukon ho? - In two weeks, Microsoft (MSFT) plans to announce the launch of its own search engine, intended to draw clicks from the company's popular home page, according to sources. [News.com]
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- Mideast computer market expanding - The Middle East computer market is expanding rapidly, but information technology (IT) experts today said the region is still an immature market where price issues often outweigh quality and service concerns. [News.com]
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- Mini-notebook uses new Intel chip - Toshiba will chime in on Monday with a new version of its diminutive mini-notebook which uses Intels newest processor for these ultrasmall computers. [News.com]
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- Mitsubishi debuts mini-notebook - Mitsubishi officially unveiled a computer that competes with Toshiba in the emerging market for "mini-notebook" computers. [News.com]
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- Mitsubishi unveils mini-notebook - Mitsubishi has unveiled a computer that competes with Toshiba in the emerging market for "mini-notebook" computers. [News.com]
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- Mixed bag for 3Dlabs - It turned out to be a case of good news and bad news for 3Dlabs (TDDDF). [News.com]
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- Money 98 problems reported - Users are reporting problems running Microsoft's (MSFT) Money 98 Financial Suite with the latest versions of Microsofts Windows NT 4.0 operating system and Internet Explorer 4.0 Web browser. [News.com]
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- More AOL spam busting - In yet another move to protect its users from spam, America Online (AOL) today is expanding its members' control over the email they get across the Internet. [News.com]
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- More departures from Apple - Two executives resigned from Apple Computer (AAPL) today, according to the company. [News.com]
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- More gear for mobile ranks - The flood of remote access gear continues. [News.com]
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- More than 1 million IEs downloaded - Microsoft (MSFT) said today that more than 1 million copies of its Internet Explorer 4.0 Web browser have been downloaded since it was released Tuesday night. [News.com]
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- More to shop for on Netscape - Netscape Communications (NSCP) is expanding its online commerce site to include books, office products, music, and consumer electronics, not just software, the company will announce today. [News.com]
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- Motorola eyes soft modem market - Motorola (MOT) today announced that its software modems may be embedded in handheld computers running on Microsoft's Windows CE operating system. [News.com]
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- Motorola looking good in Q3 - Motorola (MOT) today slightly beat analysts' expectations in third quarter and posted a 13 percent revenue jump, fueled in part by its semiconductor business. [News.com]
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- Motorola looking to sell business - Motorola's (MOT) Information Systems Group today announced it is "exploring opportunities" to sell portions of its Transmission Products Division modem business and the state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Huntsville, Alabama. [News.com]
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- Motorola sets smart card targets - Motorola's (MOT) new smart card unit, formed in March, today said its first products will be targeted at university campuses and public transit systems. [News.com]
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- Motorola, Matsushita in smart card pact - Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector (MOT) and Matsushita Electronics today announced plans to develop a new kind of chip for smart cards, designed for more complex applications. [News.com]
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- MS antitrust probe widens - Oregon today added itself to the growing list of states that are conducting a probe into Microsoft (MSFT) over antitrust issues, CNETs NEWS.COM has learned. [News.com]
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- MS case boils down to 55 words - The dispute between the Justice Department and Microsoft over possible violation of a 1995 consent decree is likely to boil down to 55 words. [News.com]
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- MS debuts data access APIs - Microsoft (MSFT) today released data access technology intended to make it easier for developers to build Web applications using the company's Internet Explorer 4.0 Web browser as a client interface to corporate data. [News.com]
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- MS exec fights back - Microsoft's (MSFT) No. 2 executive today called Sun Microsystems' high-profile lawsuit little more than a publicity stunt, but he also found himself on the defensive before a high-tech gathering rife with anti-Microsoft sentiment. [News.com]
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- MS eyeing TCI investment - Microsoft (MSFT) may invest up to $1 billion in Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) (TCOMA), one of the nation's largest cable operators, the Wall Street Journal reported today. [News.com]
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- MS launches search engine - Microsoft (MSFT) today officially announced that it is launching its own Web-based search engine. [News.com]
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- MS previews Web-savvy tools - Microsoft (MSFT) is keeping a promise to make its C++ development tools more Net-friendly. [News.com]
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- MS speaks out on Compaq threat - Microsoft today defended the way it licenses the Windows 95 operating system in the face of complaints that it refused to allow Compaq Computer to remove its Internet browser icon from its PC desktops. [News.com]
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- MS stands by its use of Java - Microsoft (MSFT) is seeking to assure its customers that the suit filed by Sun Microsystems (SUNW) over the software giant's use of Java is without merit and will have no effect on those using its products, including its latest Web browser. [News.com]
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- MS targets firewall makers - Though Microsoft (MSFT) says it doesn't plan to compete with firewall vendors, firewall security features added to the latest version of its Proxy Server software could shake up the firewall software market. [News.com]
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- MS to activate storefronts - Boosting its efforts in the retail sector, Microsoft (MSFT) next week will release alpha code for its ActiveStore software framework to link retailers' in-store functions with back-end operations. The aim: to create a plug-and-play environment for store-level applications. [News.com]
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- MS to charge for game play - Microsoft (MSFT) jumped into the pay-for-play game today with a new shoot-'em-up at its Internet Gaming Zone. [News.com]
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- MS woos wary industry - Despite increasing scrutiny of its business practices, Microsoft (MSFT) continued to play offense this week, wooing Silicon Valley venture capitalists who normally fund its rivals. [News.com]
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- MS's Netscape envy revealed - In making its antitrust case against Microsoft (MSFT) a matter of public record, the Justice Department has released internal Microsoft documents that confirm what everyone has known for some time: The software giant quickly and aggressively turned its focus to browser rival Netscape Communications (NSCP) and the budding Java movement in the months after CEO Bill Gates warned his executives that the company was in danger of losing in the Internet game. [News.com]
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- MS, German telco to talk Net - German telecommunications group Deutsche Telekom and software giant Microsoft (MSFT) announced today that they will hold cooperation talks over the next six months on issues ranging from Internet security to WebTV. [News.com]
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- MS, Yahoo in deal to compete - Yesterday, Microsoft (MSFT) announced that it would launch its own search engine. Today, it said it's making deals with Yahoo (YHOO), its biggest rival in the search sector. [News.com]
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- MS: Where do you want to go for free? - When Microsoft (MSFT) launched its Internet-based online service, Microsoft Network, the focus was on content, which members would pay to see. [News.com]
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- MSN has billing headaches - Microsoft may be able to take you where you want to go today, but it may take a while to bill you for the trip. [News.com]
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- MSN resolves service glitches - Microsoft Network is back in business for both old and new users. [News.com]
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- MSN upgrades service - The Microsoft Network officially launched the next version of its system software today, complete with revamped email, more free content, and its own search engine. [News.com]
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- NBC puts 40 affiliates online - NBC Interactive Neighborhood launched local content on the Web sites of 40 NBC affiliates today, the latest example of the convergence between television and personal computers. [News.com]
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- NC products soon to be released - Proponents of both network computer architecture and Windows-based terminal architecture are readying product releases that will breathe life into a fledgling category of computers that has yet to make its mark on corporate America. [News.com]
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- NCR restructures after revenue dip - Data warehouser NCR reported lower third-quarter revenues Wednesday and announced a restructuring plan that will cut about 1,000 jobs next year. [News.com]
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- NEC cuts PC, notebook prices - NEC Computer (NIPNY) today announced price cuts as deep as 21 percent on notebook and desktop models, reflecting a steep, industrywide drop in system prices over the last few months. [News.com]
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- NEC goes to Canada - NEC is planning to establish a supercomputer center in Canada for handling U.S. customers, according to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japans largest business daily. [News.com]
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- NEC unveils Microsoft-Intel PC - At long last, NEC Computer (NIPNY) has released PCs based on the worldwide Windows-Intel standard. [News.com]
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- NEC, Fujitsu sample build-to-order - NEC Computer (NIPNY) said today it will start making some of its personal computers to order for corporate customers starting in November. [News.com]
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- NEC, Samsung enter nascent Net PC market - NEC and Samsung Electronics have released Net PCs based on an Intel architecture in Asia, despite the reluctance of many PC makers in the United States to do so. [News.com]
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- Net access revenues quadruple - The Internet access industry has skyrocketed in the last 18 months, with revenues growing at a rate of almost 25 percent a month, up from 3.8 percent per month in early 1996. [News.com]
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- Net child porn ring locked up - Three members of an international child pornography ring that used the Internet to transmit pictures of children were sentenced to long jail terms today. [News.com]
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- Net companies turning Japanese - U.S. companies thriving on the Internet information business are moving into Japanese cyberspace, the largest outside of the United States. [News.com]
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- Net diverts TV viewing, execs say - The Internet is becoming an increasingly important advertising medium, as owners of personal computers spend more time online surfing the Web and less time watching television, new media executives told an advertising conference. [News.com]
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- Net drives debate on NASA launch - As NASA prepares to launch a nuclear-powered space probe on a ten-year mission to Saturn, opponents and supporters of the mission are calling the Internet a major force in driving debate over the controversial mission. [News.com]
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- Net gambling looks grim - A key Senate committee stacked the odds against online gambling today by prohibiting states from legalizing Net wagers. [News.com]
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- Net gear providers think speed - Entrenched networking companies and aspiring players alike have gathered at this year's Networld+Interop with one thing in mind: speed. [News.com]
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- Net jams hinder faster connections - Like a Ferrari stuck in a traffic jam, the performance of next-generation online communications devices such as 56-kbps, cable, or satellite modems is being sharply limited by the strained capacity of the Internet and its inability to respond to peak load conditions, according to a study released today. [News.com]
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- Net makes France review polling ban - Recognizing the realities of the cross-border Internet age, France is reviewing a ban on the publication of opinion polls in the last week before elections, officials said today. [News.com]
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- Net plays role in market rebound - For better or for worse, the Internet was credited with playing a significant role in Wall Street's record rebound this week. [News.com]
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- Net policy agenda in works - From cybercrimes and Net taxes to electronic commerce, lawmakers at the first Internet Summit of the States are tired of Congress working alone to shape policy for the Information Age. [News.com]
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- Net rights advocates target spam - Civil liberties groups are gaining momentum in their fight against Netizens' enemy No. 1: spam. [News.com]
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- Net service awaits Vietnam online - As Vietnam prepares to allow unfettered access to the Internet next month, online companies already are pitching services targeted at the country's new surfers. [News.com]
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- Net stands up in trial coverage - The Internet appeared to hold its own against television and radio last night in reporting the guilty verdict in the sensational British nanny trial in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [News.com]
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- Net start-ups bank on errors - Typo.net, a division of a company called Nerds Inc., has found a way to reap profits from other people's mistakes. [News.com]
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- Net tax moratorium to committees - A bill in the House of Representatives that puts a hold on Internet taxes is moving closer to a floor vote now that it has unanimously passed two subcommittees. [News.com]
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- Net too costly for Vietnamese - Vietnam today said though it is on track to launch public access to the Internet, installation and monthly subscription costs may be too high for most of its population. [News.com]
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- Netcom adds ISDN option - Catering to the needs of small businesses, Netcom On-line Communication Services (NETC) today offered a high-speed service tailored to mom-and-pop operations. [News.com]
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- Netcom reverses antispam policy - Netcom (NETC) is reversing a policy today that even the company's top executives didn't know about until yesterday: Engineers had been filtering customers' email messages to combat spam. [News.com]
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- Netcom's newest protects, patches - Netcom Online Communication Services (NETC) today rolled out an Internet service package featuring virus protection and software patches. [News.com]
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- Netcom, ICG to merge - ICG Communications (ICGX), a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) announced today a plan to merge with Netcom Online Communication Services (NETC), one of the few remaining big independent Internet service providers. [News.com]
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- Netscape beats estimates - Netscape Communications (NSCP) slightly beat analysts' estimates for an improved third quarter today, bolstered by sales of its core Netscape Communicator and SuiteSpot 3.0 products. [News.com]
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- Netscape names new CTO - Netscape Communications has a new chief technology officer and executive vice president. [News.com]
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- Netscape reworks proxy server - The beta version of a Proxy Server software update from Netscape Communications (NSCP) will be posted on the company's Web site this week. [News.com]
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- Netscape, AOL buddy up - Netscape Communications (NSCP) and America Online (AOL) announced today that they will launch a "buddy list" service linking AOL members with users of Netscape's browser. [News.com]
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- Netscape, go2net push e-shopping - Netscape (NSCP) and go2net (GNET) announced separate online shopping initiatives today, the latest sign of frenzied industry deal-making. [News.com]
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- New AOL by year's end - After nearly a year of hyping the glories of America Online's (AOL) next upgrade, the online giant is finally starting to roll out the long-awaited product. [News.com]
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- New chapter in bookseller rivalry - Melissa Bane does a lot of book browsing but, because of the Internet, she rarely has to set foot in a store to do it. And she's convinced that there are millions of others like her. [News.com]
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- New charges in German link case - A left-wing German politician acquitted in June of supporting guerrilla acts with information linked to her Internet home page appeared in court again today on new charges emerging from her first trial. [News.com]
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- New e-commerce market: guns - Gun traders are taking advantage of the immediacy and the anonymity of the Internet to sell and purchase firearms through message boards, Web sites, and chat rooms. [News.com]
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- New floppy drive announced - Sony and Fuji Photo Film announced today they are developing a new floppy disk drive that can store up to 200MB of data while retaining the ability to read current 3.5-inch floppy disks. [News.com]
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- New fund boosts Web designers - Independent Web designers looking for help in launching sites have a new place to turn: the Web Development Fund (WDF). [News.com]
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- New index tracks Net job seekers - In the latest twist of "Wall Street Meets Cyberspace,'' job seekers on the Internet will now be tracked and compiled into an economic indicator. [News.com]
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- New Infoseek may add investors - Infoseek, the Internet navigation company whose stock price has nearly tripled since a summer trough, today announced its first partnerships in its extensive effort to relaunch its brand. [News.com]
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- New MS threat in small business - It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand Microsoft's (MSFT) drive to sell its server-based software to small businesses. But it may take some smarts for rivals such as Novell to quell the monolith's ever-expanding sales to this market. [News.com]
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- New notebook market emerges - Intel (INTC) may have chanced upon a market opportunity just as there emerges a wide range of handheld computers using almost every chip under the sun except those from Intel. [News.com]
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- New partners for CompuServe - Signaling that it is serious about competing in an increasingly bloated field, CompuServe today announced that seven Internet firms have agreed to participate in the online provider's upcoming offering, called C for CompuServe. [News.com]
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- New PC administration tools from Intel - Intel (INTC) will complete its Microsoft Windows NT management puzzle tomorrow with the introduction of a new version of PC administration tools that offers integration of NT with Novell NetWare servers via a single console. [News.com]
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- New prices, leasing for Compaq laptops - Compaq (CPQ) cut prices across the board on its Armada line of notebooks by up to 24 percent, as it continues to strengthen its market position against IBM and Toshiba. [News.com]
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- New security for business email - Expanding its business offerings, security pioneer Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) today released a suite of security software that adds features companies need to manage encryption in a corporate setting. [News.com]
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- New site connects alumni - Find your college classmate on the Web? Why not, says a company that today launched a product to do just that. [News.com]
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- New support service fills the gap - In an effort to fill a gap in its customer support services, Microsoft (MSFT) announced today a new alliance with Digital Equipment (DEC) and Hewlett-Packard (HWP) to provide a new service, Microsoft Authorized Support, aimed at mid-sized companies. [News.com]
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- NewsBot crawls for headlines - Wired Digital today launched NewsBot, an Internet news search engine designed to be a one-stop site for navigating and finding news online. [News.com]
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- Newspaper seeks cookie files - In a case that could break new legal ground, a weekly newspaper in Tennessee is suing to obtain the cookie files on local municipality workers' personal computers. [News.com]
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- Next Cyrix chip adds 3D graphics - Cyrix today bared plans for a processor that packs 3D graphics into its main 6x86 processor. [News.com]
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- Next steps mulled in Microsoft case - A day after the initial hearing in the Justice Department's antitrust case against Microsoft (MSFT), legal experts are trying to pin down just what the next moves in the case may be. [News.com]
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- Nine form digital photo group - Nine companies--including Eastman Kodak, Microsoft, and Hewlett-Packard--said Tuesday they have formed an industry group to jointly develop software and technology for digital photography. [News.com]
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- Notebook hard drives expand capacity - Integral Peripherals announced hard disk drives that will offer expanded storage capacity for so-called thin-and-wide ultraportable notebooks. [News.com]
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- Notes developer resigns - Ray Ozzie, the developer of Lotus Development's Notes messaging software, has resigned as chairman of Iris Associates, a unit of Lotus, a spokesman confirmed late Tuesday. [News.com]
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- Novadigm rolls out EDM upgrade - The latest shot fired in the market to push software updates across enterprise networks came today from Novadigm (NVDM). [News.com]
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- Novell debuts NDS for NT - Struggling networking software maker Novell (NOVL) hopes to regain momentum this week at Networld+Interop with a set of new tools and promises intended to retain the company's position as a player in network-based computing. [News.com]
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- Novell wins counterfeit case - Computer networking software giant Novell said that a California federal court awarded it $12.7 million plus attorneys fees in a case involving a ring of software counterfeiters. [News.com]
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- Novell's new strategy - Novell (NOVL) has made no secret of its love affair with Java. [News.com]
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- Now, computers are wearable - Sony Computer (SNE) will partner with Xybernaut to produce a new line of "wearable" computers with speech features, the JapanBizTech news service reported. [News.com]
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- NSI hit with domain class action - Long under fire for the monopoly it holds on registering the Internet's most valuable domain names, Network Solutions (NSOL) is facing its second antitrust lawsuit. [News.com]
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- Online ad revenues soar - Online ad revenues soared to $214 million in the second quarter, a rise of about 313 percent over a year ago, the Internet Advertising Bureau reported today. [News.com]
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- Online advertising growing up - Still think online advertising is just banner ads with dancing graphics? Think again. [News.com]
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- Online help for missing children - Before Tom King launched the computer-related radio talk show CompuTalk, he prosecuted juveniles in Texas. [News.com]
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- Onsale debuts desktop ticker - Online auctioneer Onsale (ONSL) today released a desktop ticker, built with Marimba's Castanet technology, that lets users track the progress of ongoing Onsale auctions. [News.com]
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- Onsale, Preview Travel plan offerings - After a sluggish spring in the technology offering arena, the fall has brought an onslaught of prospective offerings looking to raise working capital, and today two companies declared plans to raise funds in the public domain. [News.com]
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- Oracle alone vetoes OLE DB - Microsoft (MSFT) this week said a new specification, intended to speed up access to corporate databases while simplifying programming, has been warmly embraced by every major database software makersave one. Database market leader Oracle (ORCL) said it wont officially endorse Microsofts OLE DB technology. [News.com]
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- Oracle NCs will link to Windows - Network Computer Incorporated, an Oracle subsidiary that makes server software for network computers, announced it will bundle Star Division's StarOffice suite with its server software--a move that shows NCs need access to Windows, the corporate standard. [News.com]
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- Oracle pitches sales software - Oracle (ORCL) today debuted a new applications bundle targeted at the growing sales force automation market. [News.com]
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- Oracle to give higher ed $58 million - Oracle will announce a program on Monday to provide universities with $58 million worth of database tools and training. [News.com]
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- PalmPilot prices fall - 3Com handed consumers a price break on its PalmPilot pocket organizers, shaving 8 percent off its Professional Edition handheld and 17 percent off the Personal Edition. [News.com]
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- Pathfinder to do free email - Time Warner's Pathfinder will be introducing a members-only entertainment-based service that seeks to entice Netizens to buy subscriptions for its magazines as well as draw print subscribers to the Web. [News.com]
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- PC Card integrates cell phone - Accessing the Internet via the analog cellular phone network is not a new idea. But a new product lets notebook users make that connection with the use of a single PC Card, obviating the need for a separate cellular phone. [News.com]
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- PC customer support ranked - Direct vendors of home personal computers are providing their customers with the best technical support, according to a new survey, while the two leading home PC manufacturers are serving up the worst. [News.com]
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- PC export limits near Senate vote - The Senate has ended a filibuster and will vote Thursday on a bill that would limit export of next year's desktop-class computers and business servers. [News.com]
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- PC makers show their worst fears - Government documents detailing Microsoft's hardball tactics bring into sharp focus a PC company's worst nightmare: alienating the Redmond empire. [News.com]
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- PC makers testify on MS pressure - As key pieces of evidence emerged in the Justice Department's antitrust case against Microsoft (MSFT), details were revealed of how the software company required computer makers to bundle its Internet Explorer browser with its Windows operating system. [News.com]
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- PC Quote gets $5 million infusion - In desperate need of financing and facing a possible delisting from the American Stock Exchange, PC Quote (PQT), today said it has signed an agreement with an investor for a $5 million cash infusion. [News.com]
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- Pentagon had 100s of Net break-ins - More than 250 Defense Department computer systems were broken into last year, and the number of attempted break-ins will likely double this year, a senior intelligence official has disclosed. [News.com]
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- Pentagon, Netscape do deal - If you're in the Army now, you'll likely be using Netscape Communications' (NSCP) Internet software soon, as the company announced a licensing deal today to distribute its desktop client software throughout the Defense Department. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft aims at smaller business - In a move to grow its customer base beyond the traditional high-end market, PeopleSoft (PSFT) next week will launch PeopleSoft Select, a new initiative aimed at medium-sized companies that the business software provider hopes will double its installed base. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft on an earnings roll - Enterprise applications maker PeopleSoft (PSFT) today rode above analysts' expectations for its third quarter, driven in part by exceptionally efficient operations. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft to acquire Salerno - Client-server business software maker PeopleSoft (PSFT) on Monday will announce the acquisition of privately held management software maker Salerno Manufacturing Systems for an undisclosed amount. [News.com]
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- PGP wins another email ally - Email software company e Corp will announce tomorrow that it is adding Pretty Good Privacy's encryption to its eMail '97 software, which is targeted at experienced and international users. [News.com]
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- PGP's privacy invaded - In a move to circumvent U.S. export controls on strong encryption, self-styled Cypherpunks have posted a copy of Pretty Good Privacy's latest version of its encryption software on an FTP site. [News.com]
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- Philips semiconductors to expand - Philips Electronics (PHG) said on Thursday its lucrative semiconductors division would continue to expand, either independently or in cooperation with others. [News.com]
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- PlanetOut buys Net radio company - Gay online service PlanetOut is purchasing GLOradio which produces RealAudio shows about the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. [News.com]
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- PointCast names new CEO - PointCast has found a new chief executive officer, and plans to unveil the name of the new head of the push technology company tomorrow. [News.com]
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- Power faces financial, legal woes - Power Computing appears to be on the verge of quietly slipping into oblivion after making a name for itself as the loud, brash Mac clone maker that was going to "fight back" for the Apple platform. [News.com]
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- Power grapples with life after Macs - With two pages of its monthly calendar ripped out, struggling computer manufacturer Power Computing has yet to pencil in a survival strategy for its business. [News.com]
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- Presario, IE 4 not compatible - Amid an otherwise largely successful launch of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.0, Compaq is warning some of its users not to install the new version of the Web browser. [News.com]
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- Price cuts spurred by Intel - In the past two days, Compaq (CPQ), Gateway 2000 (GTW), and Hewlett-Packard (HWP) have all announced major price reductions on desktop and notebook computers. [News.com]
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- Price free fall hits high end - The free fall in prices is clearly happening in all PC categories now: Even high-end machines are dropping down to the $2,000 level. [News.com]
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- Privacy "trustmark" proposed - As TRUSTe continues in its efforts to promote the privacy "trustmark," the organization today announced it was launching a new challenge dubbed "Trick or Trust." [News.com]
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- Privacy group promotes compliance logo - Privacy group TRUSTe, in an effort to boost consumer confidence in using the Internet for e-commerce, is launching an ad campaign to promote its privacy "trustmark." [News.com]
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- Private sector should lead Net - Governments in the United States, Europe, and Japan are pursuing Internet commerce policies based largely on the principle that the private sector, not governments, should take the lead on Internet issues, say two high-tech executives active on global Net issues. [News.com]
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- Procom ships removable hard drives - Procom Technology has announced that it is shipping new removable hard drives for network storage systems. [News.com]
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- Prodigy names new CEO - Continuing its efforts to restructure, Prodigy today named Samer Salameh president and chief executive officer. [News.com]
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- Prodigy: Turn on, tune in, log off - "Coke isn't it." "Nixon not now." "I don't want my MTV." [News.com]
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- Prostitution arrests posted online - A 30-year-old Minnesota man was arrested for allegedly soliciting a prostitute from his blue Ford pickup within the past 18 months. Now his name and picture are displayed on the Net, exposing his arrest not only to his neighbors, but also to people around the world. [News.com]
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- PSINet latest to hit Europe - U.S. Internet service providers are continuing their push into Europe. [News.com]
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- PSINet playing catch-up - Commercial Internet service provider PSINet (PSIX) met downward-revised estimates today, as its third quarter was hit with delays in devices used to connect dial-up customers to its network. [News.com]
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- PSINet sees Q3 loss - Commercial Internet service provider PSINet (PSIX), today said it expects a larger-than-anticipated third-quarter loss. [News.com]
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- Push patents raise issues for industry - Push technology company Intermind is about to receive a patent it hopes will force Microsoft (MSFT), Netscape (NSCP), and other push players to pay royalties, its president told CNET's NEWS.COM today. [News.com]
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- Quarterdeck to post Q4 loss - Quarterdeck (QDEK) today said it expects to post a fourth-quarter operating loss of several million due to higher reserves set aside for excess older inventory. [News.com]
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- Quicken upgrade stumbles - The early bird gets the worm, the saying goes, but in the case of Quicken 98, the early bird just got a bug. [News.com]
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- Readers shun browser-OS integration - Although readers appreciate the thought, they don't think they need browsers that are integrated directly into the desktop, such as Microsoft's latest Internet Explorer 4.0. [News.com]
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- Readers split over Alpha's fate - Readers are split down the middle about what Digital Equipment (DEC) and Intel's (INTC) settlement means for Digital's Alpha processor, according to the latest NEWS.COM Poll. [News.com]
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- Real streams package into beta - RealNetworks is releasing the beta of its latest streaming media technology today for the Internet and corporate networks. [News.com]
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- RealNetworks to launch IPO - Streaming audio and video pioneer RealNetworks is looking to raise upwards of $33 million through its initial public offering, according to a filing today with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [News.com]
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- Record Q3 for All American Semiconductor - All American Semiconductor (SEMI) said its unaudited sales rose 23 percent during the third quarter, setting the stage for what the company called a "record" quarterly net income. [News.com]
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- Recordable DVD to arrive in January - Drives and discs based on the beleaguered DVD-RAM standard will come to market in January 1998, the first in a series of product releases in the high-density storage arena for the year. [News.com]
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- Report: Digital to license, not sell, Alpha - Digital Equipment (DEC) is negotiating with Intel (INTC) to cross-license, and not sell outright, its key Alpha microprocessor technology, an industry source said on Tuesday. [News.com]
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- Reuters launches new products - Reuters Holdings said today it is launching three new products in Europe that use Internet technology to give a large community of financial experts and private investors access to information. [News.com]
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- Rhapsody ships to developers - Apple Computer (AAPL) today shipped a preliminary version of its next-generation operating system, code named Rhapsody, to more than 10,000 software developers. [News.com]
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- Roaming laptops protected - Confronting one disadvantage to laptops' portability--they are more easily stolen and lost--an established security firm and a start-up are taking new approaches to guarding not just the hardware, but also the data on portable and desktop computers. [News.com]
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- Rockwell sued over 56-kbps modem technology - Standards for high-speed 56-kbps modem technology may be further delayed as companies become enmeshed in a new legal battle over who invented the technology. [News.com]
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- Rockwell works toward high-speed modem - Rockwell Semiconductor (ROK) said it is readying modem technology that will enable consumers to connect at speeds which far exceed even today's fastest modems. [News.com]
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- RSA lobbies for S/MIME standard - Pushing its flavor of secure email, RSA Data Security launched a campaign today designed to make its S/MIME security protocol for electronic messaging the market's de facto standard and to win the official blessing as an Internet standard, too. [News.com]
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- RSA: 56-bit crypto too weak - Encryption software vendor RSA Data Security just spent another $10,000 proving its point to the federal government. [News.com]
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- Rumors swell Infoseek stock - Rumors of a takeover, along with pending announcements and recent better-than-expected results by a competitor, pushed Infoseek's (SEEK) stock up another 12 percent today--bringing this month's gains to over 50 percent. [News.com]
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- S/MIME may be security standard - RSA Data Security has applied to the Internet Engineering Task Force to establish S/MIME as a security standard for electronic messaging, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Samsung sues Fujitsu Micro - Samsung Electronics has sued Fujitsu U.S. affiliate Fujitsu Microelectronics, alleging patent infringement, according to papers filed Friday in the U.S. District Court in Delaware. [News.com]
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- Samsung tells of small DVD player - Samsung Electronics today said it has developed the world's smallest portable digital versatile disc (DVD) player, one that's about the size of a medium-sized book--7.9 by 6.3 by 2.2 inches and weighing two pounds. [News.com]
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- Samsung unveils 700-MHz chip - Samsung Electronics has developed what may be the fastest chip in the world, a 700-MHz Alpha processor, based on technology from Digital Equipment. [News.com]
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- San Francisco Sidewalk launches - Microsoft (MSFT) officially launched its San Francisco Sidewalk city guide today. [News.com]
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- Sanders wants to keep Intel honest - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is the last hope for microprocessor competition, according to the company's chief executive officer. [News.com]
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- Santa Clara libraries won't filter - County attorneys in the heart of Silicon Valley will be asking the courts to decide whether the Santa Clara County Libraries have the legal right to offer unfettered access to the Internet. [News.com]
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- Sanyo introduces large LCD - Sanyo Electric says it is introducing a new 20-inch rear-projection liquid crystal display (LCD) to be marketed next spring. [News.com]
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- SAP rebounds from rock bottom - Almost a year ago, software giant SAP AG saw one of the darkest days in its 25-year history. [News.com]
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- SAP upgrades tools for business software - In a move to lessen the complexity of its core business software package, Germany-based enterprise software maker SAP today announced an upgrade to tools for customizing its business software package, R/3 4.0. [News.com]
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- Search engines battle over features - The search engine wars are heating up again, and new features are the weapon of choice. [News.com]
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- Search sites to offer CarPoint - The battle for billions of dollars in advertising on the Net heated up today as Microsoft said its CarPoint online automotive search service will be featured on five major Internet search sites. [News.com]
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- Seec automates 2000 bug fix - Development tool maker Seec has released a tool that can take some of the pain out of making old software Year 2000 aware. [News.com]
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- Semiconductor numbers down - The North American semiconductor equipment industry posted a book-to-bill ratio of 1.07 for September 1997, down from a revised 1.09 ratio in August and final 1.12 ratio in July. [News.com]
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- Semiconductor sales up again - Worldwide semiconductor sales came to $11.6 billion in August, a 15.3 percent increase in sales over the same month a year ago and the fourth straight month of year-to-year gains for the industry. [News.com]
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- Senate bill includes PC export limits - Today and tomorrow, the Senate will consider a bill that would limit export of next year's desktop-class computers and business servers. [News.com]
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- Senate bill seeks to stem suits - Seeking to stem the tide of shareholder lawsuits filed against corporations with volatile stock prices, a group of U.S. senators today introduced a bill that would require all such actions to be filed in federal court. [News.com]
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- Senate to take up PC export limits - The Senate may consider a bill today that would limit export of next year's desktop-class computers and business servers. [News.com]
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- Server architecture fuels Intel growth - A new server architecture outlined by Intel and a raft of server manufacturers at Networld + Interop in Atlanta is latest step up the food chain for Intel in the server market. [News.com]
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- Server gives another way to share - Net-It Software will debut a server software suite that competes with packages from Lotus Development, Hummingbird, and Xerox in the emerging market of intranet publishing tools. [News.com]
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- Server uses Net for telephony - Lucent Technologies announced the availability of its Internet Telephony Server (ITS), based on Compaq hardware. The server enables users to send and receive voice and fax messages over the Internet. [News.com]
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- Service checks email over phone - You're at the airport when you remember that the person you're meeting with said there might be a change in the time and place. You didn't get a voice mail, and your laptop is being fixed--what if she sent you the change via email? [News.com]
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- SET to miss shopping season - Internet merchants are rubbing their hands in anticipation of the holiday season, but one key element of online shopping remains missing. It won't be a SET Christmas. [News.com]
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- Set-top box designs in competition - Some of the largest players in the cable and computer industry are quietly working on designs for next-generation digital set-top boxes, products that will change the way people use their televisions. [News.com]
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- Set-top box technology advancing - A Dallas, Texas-based company called Source Media (SRCM) today demonstrated technology at an industry conference that would allow cable companies to offer Internet access to customers through more advanced versions of the cable boxes which sit on top of many TVs. [News.com]
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- Settlement good for Digital, bad for Alpha - In the proposed settlement between Digital and Intel, the loser appears to be Alpha. [News.com]
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- Several factors led to SGI decline - Manufacturing problems, news leaks about upcoming products, a failure to anticipate customer demand, and competition from NT workstations all contributed to the problems Silicon Graphics (SGI) now faces, say analysts and company insiders. [News.com]
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- SGI posts flat revenues - The board of directors for Silicon Graphics (SGI) will meet tomorrow and Wednesday to discuss the workstation maker's options for curbing costs following the company's posting of a loss today for its first fiscal quarter. [News.com]
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- SGI workers may face layoffs - Silicon Graphics (SGI) said on Friday it had no immediate comment on a newspaper report that it plans to lay off several hundred employees next week and has been looking for a potential suitor. [News.com]
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- Sharp sees LCD demand rebounding - Electronics maker Sharp says it will continue to aggressively invest in the liquid crystal display (LCD) business as it expects global demand for LCDs to recover and grow at an annual rate of 20 to 25 percent in the midterm. [News.com]
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- Sidewalk to be printed - If you've got it, why not print it? [News.com]
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- Sidewalks out in Denver, Houston - Microsoft (MSFT) launched its sixth and seventh Sidewalk cities today in Houston and Denver, just a week after launching a site in San Francisco. [News.com]
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- Silicon Graphics stock dives - Silicon Graphics (SGI) caught Wall Street's attention after the company announced it will post a first-quarter loss--rather than a profit. [News.com]
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- Silicon Valley's love of lawsuits - "Programs! Programs! Get your programs here!" Step right up and get your definitive guide to what's really happening in the high-tech world of the 1990s. Get the inside scoop on what those captains of the cyberworld are really trying to accomplish in the name of competition and growing their business. [News.com]
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- Site for new parents debuts - People who are undergoing times of trauma, whether it is the loss of a job or a frightening medical diagnosis, are increasingly turning to the Internet to find information, experts say. [News.com]
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- Slate, Netscape in possible deal - Microsoft's Slate and Netscape have tentatively agreed to distribute content from the online magazine to Netscape users, according to Slate editor Michael Kinsley. [News.com]
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- Slower sales dim Sun - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) today missed analysts' first-quarter estimates due to slower-than-anticipated sales to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)and from its technology business. [News.com]
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- Smart cards go wireless at FSU - Florida State University students will soon begin testing smart cards that fit into a wireless phone and will let them load e-cash or purchase items over the phone. [News.com]
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- Softbank simplifies structure - Investors today cheered Softbank's decision to simplify its complicated management structure, a move seen as clarifying the software distributor's balance sheet and prompting a rally in the company's stock price. [News.com]
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- Software makers eye IRS overhaul - A provision in the "taxpayer bill of rights," part of the Internal Revenue Service overhaul bill making its way through Congress, would give new protection to computer software companies that develop tax-preparation programs. [News.com]
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- Software tackles DVD shortcoming - Mediamatics, IBM (IBM), Microsoft (MSFT), and others are set to detail plans next week for enabling DVD playback on a wide array of computers, including lower-end PCs that currently aren't offered with DVD drives. [News.com]
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- Software, browser for young children - Call it the World Wide Sandbox. [News.com]
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- Sony reports all-time profit high - Sony (SNE) said today that robust sales of electronics products, combined with box-office hits at its Hollywood film-making unit, boosted sales and profits to all-time highs in the six months ended in September. [News.com]
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- Sony to put Web browsing in planes - Next year, Sony will release a cure for two of the chief plagues of airline travel. Namely, old magazines and distant, ill-lit movie screens. [News.com]
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- Sony to sell WebTV in Japan - Sony (SNE) said today it will start selling set-top boxes in Japan for WebTV Networks, which will start TV-based Internet access service in Japan at the end of this year. [News.com]
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- Sony-Cisco cable modem deal - Sony has announced that it will manufacture cable modems and other equipment based on designs from Cisco. The deal that will likely build further momentum for standards in the cable modem industry. [News.com]
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- South Korea blocks GeoCities - The South Korean government has blocked access to the GeoCities online community because of a site that touts North Korean beliefs, a GeoCities spokesman said. [News.com]
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- SPA sues software pirates - The Software Publishers Association slammed two alleged online software pirates with a lawsuit, but not before the accused Net sites' hosts shut them down. [News.com]
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- Spammer back online, temporarily - After waging a legal battle against its Net access provider, AGIS, junk emailer Cyber Promotions was back online today but only for about two hours. [News.com]
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- Spammer loses backbone link - Cyber Promotions has lost the most recent battle in the war over junk email, but its president, Sanford Wallace, said he had a few tricks up his sleeve and vowed to press on. [News.com]
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- SportsLine debuts Michael Jordan site - Fans of the Chicago Bulls now have a double-header of sites focused on two of the team's stars. [News.com]
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- SportsLine to launch IPO - SportsLine USA said it wants to raise as much as $38.5 million in its initial public offering. [News.com]
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- Sprint guarantees Net service - Tapping cubicle dwellers' desire for the same fast Net access and tech support at home that they get at the office, Sprint (FON) announced new customer service guarantees today. [News.com]
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- Spyglass benefits from CDA defeat - Last month marked the first full quarter to end since the downfall of the Communications Decency Act, and today at least one company is reaping the benefits of the ruling. [News.com]
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- Start-up cuts Net phone costs - Banking on the future of the Internet-based telephony market, start-up Networks Telephony debuted a product today that it says will allow consumers and businesses to make PC-based international phone calls at significant savings. [News.com]
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- Sterling links remote sites - Next week Sterling Commerce (SE) expects to release its new Connect:Remote software which links remote locations to an enterprise network. [News.com]
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- StorageTek posts record revenue - StorageTek said it posted record profit and revenue in the third quarter, boosted by strong growth in new business initiatives and higher growth in its core tape-storage business. [News.com]
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- Strong tech earnings quell fears - Strong earnings from both IBM (IBM) and Microsoft (MSFT) have settled investors' tech jitters, at least temporarily. [News.com]
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- Study cites internal firewall risks - While many companies use Internet firewalls to protect their networks from outside threats such as macro viruses and hackers, they are ignoring the internal risks that intranet firewall appliances may prevent, the Gartner Group has found. [News.com]
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- Study talks up business chat - Businesses should consider adding chat functionality to their Web sites to allow consumers to communicate directly with them, a new study said. [News.com]
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- Sub-$1,000 home PC sales strong - Strong sales in August of sub-$1,000 PCs helped Compaq (CPQ) increase its share of the U.S. retail market to 37 percent, according to market research firm PC Data. [News.com]
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- Sub-$1,000 PC sales soar - It shouldnt surprise anyone that low-cost PCs are all the rage: Close to half of all PCs sold at retail are now in the sub-$1,000 category, according to a marketing research firm report released today. [News.com]
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- Suit part of long-running Java battle - Sun Microsystems' (SUNW) lawsuit against Microsoft (MSFT) today, claiming breach of contract over its use of the Java language, is just the latest battle in the war of words that has been raging between the two companies for years. [News.com]
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- Sun "encourages" SGI users to swap - It didn't take long for the vultures to start circling over Silicon Graphics (SGI), the embattled high-end workstation and server vendor. [News.com]
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- Sun brews Java email plan - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) will enter the groupware arena next week with a Java-enabled, open-client email server, determined to prove that there is enough room on the groupware court for another player along with market leaders Microsoft and Lotus Development. [News.com]
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- Sun debuts clustering software - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) continues to roll out a variety of technologies designed to make its systems a compelling alternative to Microsoft Windows NT and other Unix systems. [News.com]
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- Sun exports pure Java initiative - Nihon Sun Microsystems said it will launch the "100 percent pure Java" initiative in Japan in cooperation with ten major software vendors. The initiative is an effort to discourage developers from extending their Java applications with technologies like Microsoft's ActiveX, which works primarily on Windows. [News.com]
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- Sun poking IE for Java compatibility - Sun Microsystems' (SUNW) JavaSoft division is still busy testing Internet Explorer 4.0 for compliance with the Java license. [News.com]
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- Sun posts Java email spec - Java is well on its way to becoming a ubiquitous Web technology. Now, Sun Microsystems (SUNW) says that soon you may be using a Java program to check your email. [News.com]
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- Sun seeks $35 million in Java suit - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) is seeking $35 million plus compensatory damages and attorneys fees in its lawsuit against Microsoft (MSFT) over the software giant's Java license. [News.com]
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- Sun suit says IE failed Java test - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) said today it has sued Microsoft (MSFT) for breach of contract in its obligation to deliver a compatible implementation of Java technology in its products. [News.com]
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- Sun to outline licensing strategy - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) will detail a strategy for expanding into new markets through licensing hardware designs, processors, and related technology at a meeting of some 200 of its most important manufacturing partners tomorrow. [News.com]
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- Sun to unveil 600-MHz chip - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) today unveiled a new generation of processors that could reach upward of 600 MHz by next year, topping Intel in the chip performance game. [News.com]
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- Sun's McNealy blasts Microsoft - Today at a conference for Sun Microsystems (SUNW) customers, Scott McNealy, Sun's chairman and CEO, dished out his standard fare of anti-Microsoft rhetoric while portraying his company as the ideal place for OEM partners to get everything from processor technology to real-time operating systems. [News.com]
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- Sun, Seagate shares slide - Shares of Sun Microsystems (SUNW) and Seagate Technology (SEG) fell in early-morning trading, weighed by worse-than-expected quarterly results. [News.com]
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- Sun-MS spat may impact Java - The fight between Sun Microsystems (SUNW) and Microsoft (MSFT) over Java escalated to a legal mano-a-mano today, but nobody's betting which company will blink first or whether anyone can ultimately win. [News.com]
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- Supercomputer exports probed - The United States is investigating the procurement of American-made supercomputers by two Russian nuclear weapons labs in defiance of a U.S. export ban, the State Department said today. [News.com]
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- Surf, talk, walk, watch in one - Japan's Kyocera (KYO) will launch a handheld portable phone system that allows callers to see one another. [News.com]
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- Survey lists winners, losers from Net usage - Internet use is producing ripple effects across the U.S. economy by changing the work and leisure habits of wired Americans, a new survey suggests. [News.com]
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- Swiss schools to get MS software - Microsoft (MSFT) will donate software to help Swiss schools link up to the Internet on thousands of personal computers that state administrators no longer need, officials said today. [News.com]
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- Switch to Euro is tech challenge - With most of their attention focused on the Year 2000 bug, few companies are addressing another computer issue that looms even closer. [News.com]
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- Sybase on a rebound run - Last October, Sybase (SYBS) management was talking about how difficult it was to crawl out of a hole. Today the company is boasting that its comeback is for real, bolstered by better-than-expected earnings results for its third quarter. [News.com]
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- Sybase tests next-gen software - Sybase (SYBS) is on track to deliver key pieces of its next-generation database architecture. [News.com]
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- Symantec loses a round in court - A federal judge today issued a preliminary injunction forbidding McAfee (MCAF) from shipping any software that contains lines of code cribbed from archrival Symantec (SYMC). [News.com]
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- SyQuest plots a comeback course - SyQuest (SYQT), which made the rounds this week on Wall Street, today saw its stock soar 33 percent as it marked its second consecutive session of double-digit gains. [News.com]
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- SyQuest, Data General report - SyQuest (SYQT) today reported a drop in fourth-quarter revenues and a widening loss. [News.com]
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- Taiwan pumps up memory chips - A number of Taiwan-based memory manufacturers will ramp up production and sales of 64-megabit memory chips in 1998, a move that could turn the island nation into the No. 3 memory manufacturer worldwide as well as push a memory market recovery back to 1999. [News.com]
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- Taking aim at cyberterrorism - As the world grows more reliant on electronic communications, the United States is increasingly vulnerable to terrorist acts carried out over the Internet and private networks, a presidential commission announced today. [News.com]
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- Talk City chats deals - Despite growing competition, Talk City, the Internet chat service, is striking new deals to generate more business. [News.com]
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- Tandem: Wall St. servers worked OK - In the midst of one of the most stressful days in the history of finance, servers designed to process trading data handled the pressure just fine. [News.com]
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- Tandy earnings jump 63 percent - Tandy said its third-quarter earnings jumped 63 percent, to $36.4 million, from $22.3 million for the same quarter a year ago. [News.com]
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- Teaming for virtual networks - 3Com (COMS), Germany's Siemens AG, and Newbridge Networks of Canada said Wednesday they will combine efforts to develop networking technology that would speed up the flow of computer information through public networks. [News.com]
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- Tech companies tally earnings - A slew of technology companies reported results for their latest quarters after the markets closed yesterday. [News.com]
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- Tech earnings a mixed bag - Focusing on its core business, VLSI Technology (VLSI) reported a jump in revenue and a rise in profits. [News.com]
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- Tech giants look to combat spam - Two technology giants have been slashed by the double-edge sword of the Net recently as they attempt to fend off spammers looking to sully their reputations. [News.com]
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- Tech stock bloodbath continues - Technology stocks tumbled for the second day in a row after earnings disappointments from Compaq (CPQ), Apple Computer (AAPL), and LSI Logic (LSI). [News.com]
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- Tech stocks look for recovery - It was the worst of times, followed by the best of times. [News.com]
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- TechNews, Upside in deal - In another example of old media meeting new media and spawning hybrid offspring, TechNews, a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company, announced a cooperative alliance with Upside Media. [News.com]
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- Telcos gobbling up ISPs - ICG Communications (IGCX) isn't exactly a household name. Neither is WorldCom (WCOM). The two now have something else in common: Both have purchased Internet backbone companies. [News.com]
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- Telcos moving in on Net market - As Internet use for voice and fax phone calls increases, telephone companies could lose $8 billion over the next four years, according to a study released Wednesday by Action Information Services, a Virginia-based consulting firm. [News.com]
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- Telecom exec to head PointCast - PointCast today named former telecom executive David Dorman as its new president and chief executive officer. [News.com]
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- Telecommuting on the rise - Telecommuting is getting a push in the 1990s from a tight labor market. [News.com]
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- Texas firm fuels refurbished PC market - Where do old computers go? [News.com]
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- The online side of Sears - Sears, the icon of American shopping, today launched its first e-commerce site, joining the ranks of retailing giants such as Wal-Mart, Disney, Bloomingdale's, and Barnes & Noble, among others, in offering online shopping. [News.com]
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- The who's who of tech analysts - Wall Street analysts provide a behind-the-scenes voice and authority on companies they cover, and some even have the ability to move the market with a force approaching the influence of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. [News.com]
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- Thin clients not the answer - For all of Frank Moss's pessimism, you would think he was at the helm of a sinking ship, not the big cheese of fast-growing Tivoli Systems, the enterprise management software subsidiary of IBM (IBM). [News.com]
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- TI licenses Java - Texas Instruments (TXN) today said it has licensed Sun Microsystems' (SUNW) Java software for use in devices such as "smart" phones and pagers that will offer rudimentary, computer-like functions including email and Web browsing. [News.com]
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- TI posts improved profits - Texas Instruments (TXN) today posted dramatically improved third-quarter profits, driven by higher operating margins for semiconductor chips. [News.com]
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- Toy seller takes to the Web - Quick: what's the next big thing that's going to hit the Net? Is it Web TVs? Cable modems? Avatars? [News.com]
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- Traders compensated for delays - After facing record-breaking volume earlier this week that choked some market exchanges and tied up the lines of a number of online trading firms, some full-service brokerages and online firms are shelling out compensation money to clients whose trades were executed long after they were placed. [News.com]
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- Truth, lies, and the Internet - People shouldn't believe everything they read--especially, it seems, on the Internet. Cyberculture runs rampant with stories about spoofs, virus scares, urban legends, and outright fraud. The fact that a message can circulate from its point of origin or a circle of people to all corners of the worldwide network is the Net's greatest and most garish feature. [News.com]
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- TV is future of online shopping - Cybershoppers of the future will order groceries, vacations, and movies using their television sets rather than complicated and expensive personal computers, a study said. [News.com]
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- TV Net surfing hits U.K. - Net surfing on television is coming to Europe. [News.com]
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- Two NY banks test smart card - New York's two biggest banks and the Visa and MasterCard groups are beginning a test today to find out how readily consumers and merchants will switch from cash and coins for smaller purchases to a wallet-size plastic card. [News.com]
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- U.S. firm makes LCD splash - Three-Five Systems today introduced a new high-quality, color liquid crystal display (LCD) technology for use in personal communications products. The announcement is significant because the Tempe, Arizona, firm is one of the few U.S. companies to both develop and manufacture LCDs. [News.com]
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- U.S. rejects Java standard - The U.S. delegation to an international standards body today cast a "no" vote on Sun Microsystems' bid to make Java an international standard and to be the official steward of the technology. [News.com]
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- U.S. worried about Japan computer purchases - WASHINGTON, D.C.--U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky today said she was concerned about U.S. computer industry data showing a decline in foreign share of Japan's public-sector computer market. [News.com]
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- U.S., Canada to connect faster - UUNet Technologies (UUNT) will launch new superfast connections from Canada to the United States later next month, the latest example of Internet providers meeting the demand for high-speed Net access in industrial markets. [News.com]
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- Umax box does Windows - Umax Computer today introduced its latest Macintosh clones, which will ship with the Mac OS 8. One of them even does Windows. [News.com]
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- Umax deemphasizing Mac clones - Taiwan's Umax Computer today said it was easing its reliance on cloning of Apple Computer's Macintosh computer to hedge against a cloudy outlook for Apple's main product--and to preserve Umax-Apple relations. [News.com]
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- Unisys CEO squelches rumor - Unisys (UIS) chairman and chief executive Larry Weinbach said yesterday he was not aware of any plans by Compaq Computer (CPQ) to buy Unisys or any of its assets. [News.com]
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- Unisys earnings triple - Unisys reported today that third-quarter earnings tripled, coming in a shade above Wall Street expectations, as the computer maker was headed for its first profitable year since 1993. [News.com]
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- Unlocked door for spam? - When a 15-year-old hacker discovered a way to log onto thousands of computers and send email from their Internet accounts, he thought he had unearthed a huge hole that could give spammers a new, dangerous weapon. [News.com]
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- US West speeds up Net - After hitting some roadblocks, the Baby Bells finally are starting to roll out higher-speed Net access over copper wires, dubbed DSL, hoping to compete with cable modem providers. [News.com]
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- US West to spin off cable - US West said today that it will spin off its cable television business into a separately traded company, abandoning the once-touted strategy of combining telecommunications and cable services. [News.com]
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- USB coming of age? - Comdex is the place, according to organizers, "where the future of the IT industry unfolds." But when it comes to connecting new consumer peripherals to computers, this fall's event seems geared to hurrying up a future that has been slow in coming. [News.com]
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- Users, marketers drawn to free email - "Free email" is something of a misnomer. [News.com]
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- USWeb pegs franchise on IPO - USWeb has filed to go public as it looks to further fund its build-out of a nationwide franchise network of Web-development shops. [News.com]
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- ValiCert checks IDs - In a move designed to boost e-commerce, start-up ValiCert today announced new software and services that check the validity of digital certificates, which serve as ID cards on the Internet, no matter who issued them. [News.com]
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- Variety to launch Web site - Variety magazine, a bible for much of Hollywood and the entertainment industry, is quietly planning to launch a Web site by year's end that includes free and pay-per-view content, industry sources said today. [News.com]
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- VDOnet CEO resigns amid layoffs - Video networking company VDOnet, facing a firestorm of competitors with deeper pockets, today said its layoffs of more than 20 percent of its workforce has led to the abrupt resignation of its president and chief executive officer. [News.com]
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- VeriFone is SET for Web - VeriFone today said it is shipping software for banks, merchants, and consumers to handle credit card purchases securely over the Internet, supporting version 1.0 of the Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) protocol. [News.com]
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- Verity to restructure and downsize - Verity (VRTY), looking to shore up its operations, announced plans to cut 15 percent of its worldwide workforce and restructure its operations. [News.com]
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- Vietnam opening to the Net - Vietnam will allow full access to the Internet in mid-November, the head of the Directorate General of Post and Telecommunications was quoted as saying today. [News.com]
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- Virginia county restricts Net access - Spencer Ault had been leaning against voting for an Internet filtering system at the Loudoun County Library in Virginia. But in the end, he sided with the majority, tipping the library board's balance in favor of what some are calling one of the most restrictive library filtering policies in the country. [News.com]
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- Virus mars Compaq debut in Japan - Compaq (CPQ), the world's biggest personal computer maker, said on Thursday that its plans to attack the Japanese market with a low-budget model have been set back by a rare virus that came from a manufacturing plant. [News.com]
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- W3C steps toward animated Web - The World Wide Web Consortium released the first public working draft today of the Document Object Model, or DOM. [News.com]
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- W3C takes first step toward RDF spec - The World Wide Web Consortium standards group released today the first public working draft of an evolving technology that promises to help users and content developers categorize, organize, and search through the ever-growing morass of Web-based information. [News.com]
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- Wall St. thinks different on Apple - Guess what company managed to escape the pounding technology shares took on Wall Street today? [News.com]
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- Wall St. unfazed by MS charges - Even though the Justice Department charged Microsoft (MSFT) with violating a 1995 consent decree governing its software licensing practices, whatever impact the action may have is not fazing investors, who drove the stock up in afternoon trading yesterday and down a bit today. [News.com]
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- Wang looks to buy Olivetti unit - Wang (WANG), which has been fighting back since its bankruptcy days by trying to transform its business, announced improved first-quarter results today and noted that it is in talks to acquire the information technology systems services of troubled Olivetti. [News.com]
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- Wang: Appeal rejection won't hurt - Wang Laboratories said Tuesday that it will suffer no adverse financial consequences from a U.S. Supreme Court decision not to hear its appeal in a patent infringement claim against Mitsubishi Electric. [News.com]
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- Warp Drive to offer MSNBC news - Warp Drive Networks, the wireless Internet service provider (ISP), will announce on Monday that it has partnered with MSNBC's Internet news service. [News.com]
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- Weak chip market hurts Hitachi - Japan's electronics giant, Hitachi, today disclosed painful downward revisions in its profit estimates for this business year, undermined by continued doldrums in the global semiconductor market. [News.com]
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- Web ad revenue up 27% in quarter - As online advertising revenue continues to grow, search engines are getting the lion's share of that revenue, according to a new report released today by Cowles/Simba Information. [News.com]
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- Web publishing made safer - Novell will ship its new Web document management package, GroupWise WebPublisher, this week. [News.com]
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- Web software for Novell - Versions of Netscape Communications' (NSCP) Web software will enter beta testing on Novell's NetWare operating system next month, possibly giving Novell's (NOVL) Internet strategy a much-needed boost. [News.com]
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- Web tool supports IE, Navigator - Macromedia this week began distributing the first dynamic HTML Web authoring tool that supports both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. [News.com]
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- Web-based PC auctions springing up - The PC auction business is taking off. [News.com]
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- Web-based TV add-in card announced - ADS Technologies announced a PC add-in card that allows the delivery of TV and radio programming to the desktop. [News.com]
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- WebTV to run online ads - WebTV harnesses "the power of the Internet to make watching television more involving, even inspirational," according to the company. Now it also includes commercial advertisements, just like TV. [News.com]
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- Western Digital weathers storm - Western Digital (WDC) today beat revised estimates and said it is on track for an improved December quarter. [News.com]
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- Who will master domain names? - A newly formed coalition is pulling together heavy hitters in the debate over the future of the Net domain name system, to figure out once and for all who will govern the "white pages" of cyberspace. [News.com]
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- Wilson signs Net sex predator law - Using the Internet or email to intentionally seduce or arouse a known minor now is a crime in California. [News.com]
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- Windows 98 to use Web broadcasting - Microsoft has said it will incorporate WavePhore's Internet broadcasting technology into Windows 98, a deal that boosts the Phoenix, Arizona, company's profile by giving it a leg up on a competing technology from Intel. [News.com]
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- Windows CE handheld PCs due - On Monday, Microsoft (MSFT) and a coterie of handheld PC makers will announce new Windows CE devices that will serve as a prelude to a greater variety of portable computers due next year. [News.com]
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- Windows CE handhelds debut - Handheld PC makers announced new Windows CE devices that extend the capabilities and form of handheld computing, following Microsoft's release last month of version 2.0 of the slimmed-down Windows operating system. [News.com]
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- Windows to be more "natural" - Microsoft's (MSFT) flagship Windows operating system will be adding more "natural" interface features within five years, CEO Bill Gates said here. The features will include speech and handwriting recognition. [News.com]
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- Wireless email to run on WyndPower - A central California start-up, Wynd Communications, said today it will launch a mobile computing product that lets corporations exploit wireless network communications. [News.com]
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- WorldCom extends bid deadline - WorldCom (WCOM) said today that it has agreed to give MCI Communications and British Telecommunications (BTY) more time to consider its nearly $35 billion surprise offer for MCI. [News.com]
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- WorldCom launches bid for MCI - WorldCom (WCOM) said today it will offer to acquire MCI Communications for $41.50 of WorldCom stock for each MCI share, in a deal valued at about $30 billion. [News.com]
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- WorldCom reports strong earnings - WorldCom (WCOM) today reported third-quarter earnings that slightly exceeded Wall Street expectations as the company digested recent acquisitions while continuing its pursuit of MCI (MCIC). [News.com]
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- WorldCom scuttles merger rumors - WorldCom (WCOM) is trying to quash speculation that it may join forces with a Baby Bell in its battle to wrest MCI Communications (MCIC) from a merger with British Telecommunications (BTY). [News.com]
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- Wozniak joins Web start-up - Twelve years after his departure from Apple Computer, the Woz is back in the boardroom. [News.com]
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- Wristbands hold patient info - It's all in the wrist, or rather, on it: Experts say important medical information, embedded within digital wristbands, may soon accompany patients wherever they go. [News.com]
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- Y2K bug threatens oil industry - The millennium computer bug could paralyze the offshore industry in the North Sea--one of the world's biggest oil production areas, warned major oil companies. [News.com]
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- Y2K bug to cost U.K. $38 billion - The millennium bug will cost British firms $38.4 billion, and a failure to convert computers by 2000 could put 29 percent of Britain's GDP (Gross Domestic Product) at risk, a computer company warned today. [News.com]
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- Yahoo beats expectations - Yahoo (YHOO) topped off an eventful day today with better-than-expected results for the third quarter, as traffic increased and the company made a round of e-commerce deals. [News.com]
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- Yahoo buys Four11 for free email - Yahoo (YHOO) said today it would buy Four11 for $92 million in stock and begin offering free email to its users. [News.com]
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- Yahoo sees growth spurt in Japan - Japan's market for Internet services will take off within two years and start growing at a pace similar to that in the United States, said the chief of leading Internet search company Yahoo (YHOO) Japan Corporation. [News.com]
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- Yahoo to debut UK finance service - Internet media company Yahoo (YHOO) said today it is launching a free finance service in the UK. The service will show continuous but slightly delayed feed information on all quoted stocks, indices, and foreign exchanges, as well as timely business news. [News.com]
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- Yahoo's news wants to be heard - In its continuing attempt to be all things to all Net surfers, Yahoo (YHOO) unveiled today an audio news feature in its service. [News.com]
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