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- Netscape launches Web market - Hoping to cash in on holiday sales, Netscape Communications (NSCP) today launched an online shop as part of its Netcenter Web site. [News.com]
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- $100 million gamble on AOL - Tel-Save Holdings said it signed up about 27,000 phone lines for 23,000 long distance customers in a 24-hour promotion on America Online (AOL) yesterday, and it called the results "better than expected." [News.com]
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- 16 plead guilty in resales case - A five-and-a-half-year investigation that discovered theft of computer parts, fraud, and illegal resales ended as a California company pleaded guilty to money laundering, federal prosecutors said yesterday. [News.com]
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- 1997 IPOs sputter, then pick up - It took five months and one online bookseller to restart the flagging tech IPO market this year. [News.com]
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- 300-MHz Pentium II box for $1,999 - Computer prices took another dive this week as a major retailer started selling 300-MHz Pentium II systems for under $2,000. [News.com]
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- 3Com profits drop 87 percent - 3Com (COMS) reported an 87 percent drop today in second-quarter profits, attributed to excess inventory from its modem business and moving to a new product line. [News.com]
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- 3Com to cut inventory levels - Networking company 3Com (COMS) is cutting the cord on inventory levels, a move that it expects will cut into profits for its upcoming quarterly results. [News.com]
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- 3Com, U.S. Robotics face trouble - 3Com (COMS) and U.S. Robotics are newlyweds, but the lack of a modem standard, international financial turmoil, and a pending shareholder lawsuit announced today have put a damper on the honeymoon. [News.com]
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- @Home teams with Microsoft - Barely two years ago, @Home and Netscape forged a strategic partnership to make Netscape products a "foundation" of the @Home Network that would "define" cable-based Internet services to the home. [News.com]
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- @Home to offer access in hotels - @Home today will announce a pact with 4th Network to offer high-speed Internet access to hotels, another attempt to profit from the wired business traveler. [News.com]
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- A fiscal shortfall for Cabletron - Network equipment maker Cabletron Systems (CS) said today that it would not meet fiscal third-quarter earnings expectations. [News.com]
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- A V-chip in every PC? - Although the prospect remains distant, the computer industry and civil libertarians are scrambling to make sure the "V-chip" is not installed in personal computers where it could block racy material. [News.com]
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- Academy drops Oscar domain suit - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has dropped its lawsuit involving Internet addresses issued to sites playing off its trademarks "Academy Awards" and "Oscar," according to the company that registers Internet domain names. [News.com]
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- Acer debuts sub-$800 business PC - Acer America today cut prices by as much as 23 percent on its business notebooks and desktops, creating a sub-$800 business PC just days after the company said that low-cost systems have nearly doubled the company's retail sales in the second half of the year. [News.com]
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- Acer November sales hit record - Taiwan computer giant Acer said today that its November sales hit a monthly record high of $277 million, up 61.8 percent from $171 million in November 1996. Rising sales in personal computers were cited as the reason for the jump. [News.com]
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- Acer outlines low-cost PC scheme - Taiwanese computer manufacturer Acer plans to become the first company to roll out a broad line of computing appliances ranging from $200 to under $1,000. [News.com]
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- Acma loses Hayes as associate - Computer products supplier Acma said today that U.S.-based Hayes Microcomputer Products (HAYZ), in which it invested $22.75 million for a 28 percent stake in 1996, is no longer an associated company. [News.com]
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- Activerse to ship Ding and Ding Switchboard - Messaging software maker Activerse is set to roll out the complete public version of its Java-based collaboration package, Ding and Ding Switchboard. [News.com]
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- Adbot forced out of business - Customers are lining up to complain after Internet advertising middleman and auctioneer Adbot closed its doors Friday. [News.com]
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- Adobe prepares to publish XML - Adobe Systems said today that it will add support for the Extensible Markup Language, or XML, to its FrameMaker publishing software next year. [News.com]
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- Adobe, Great Plains, see upside - Pushing ahead of last year's performance, Adobe Software (ADBE) and Great Plains Software (GPSI) posted improved results today. [News.com]
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- All digital cameras are not alike - San Jose, California-based start-up FlashPoint has lined up support for a digital imaging "platform" that will make it easier for digital cameras, printers, and other peripherals to easily manipulate and share digital images--with or without the help of a PC. [News.com]
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- All-in-one PC for under $1,000 - Start-up PC manufacturer Monorail launched three new products for the consumer market, including a Monorail 7000Model PC desktop computer that integrates a liquid crystal display (LCD) for under $1,000. [News.com]
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- AlphaBlox debuts Web apps - Software start-up AlphaBlox is debuting a set of Web-based analysis applications that can help to open up the deep stores of information processed and housed in most enterprise applications. [News.com]
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- AlterNIC cofounder ready for trial - AlterNIC cofounder Eugene Kashpureff, recently released from jail on a bond, wants to face the feds in court, he said today. [News.com]
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- AlterNIC founder to be extradited - Jailed AlterNIC cofounder Eugene Kashpureff today waived his right to oppose extradition from Canada and, as a result, could be in a U.S. courtroom as early as Friday to face FBI charges of wire and computer fraud. [News.com]
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- AMD releases low-power flash memory - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) today released a new generation of flash memory chips that run on only 1.8 volts in power, the least power-hungry chips yet in this highly competitive market. [News.com]
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- Ameritech offers commercial DSL - On the heels of US West, Ameritech today became the second Baby Bell to offer commercial high-speed Net access over copper wires to its customers. [News.com]
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- Antispammers urge Amazon boycott - A group of dedicated spam fighters is mounting a boycott against Amazon.com (AMZN), saying they want the popular online bookseller to change its email practices. [News.com]
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- AOL books on Barnes & Noble - When Barnes & Noble signed the deal to pay America Online (AOL) $40 million to be the exclusive bookseller on the online service, it upped the ante in the ongoing online book wars. [News.com]
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- AOL cuts chat police - America Online (AOL) today eliminated the ability to summon live guides to report chat rule violators in all but the "Kids Only" chat areas on the system. [News.com]
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- AOL debuts new site, software - As expected, America Online (AOL) executives today briefed the press about the company's expanded Web presence and upgraded software at the Internet World trade show. [News.com]
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- AOL gets $200 million infusion - America Online (AOL) today announced that it has secured a two-year, $200 million line of credit. [News.com]
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- AOL hits 1 million abroad - America Online (AOL) today announced it has reached what it considers a major milestone: it now has 1 million members outside the United States. [News.com]
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- AOL hits 1 million mark outside U.S. - America Online expects to announce in the next few weeks that it has 1 million subscribers outside the United States, chairman and chief executive Stephen Case said today. [News.com]
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- AOL joins women's site trend - If anyone doubts that the gender gap on the Net is closing, and closing fast, they need only take a quick surf. Just a year ago, women who wanted to find information aimed directly at their own interests had slim pickings. [News.com]
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- AOL says holiday shopping surges - The number of retail transactions recorded by America Online (AOL) in the two weeks after Thanksgiving Day doubled compared to the same two-week period last year, the Internet service provider said. [News.com]
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- AOL to offer takeout service - America Online (AOL) members who work up an appetite while logged on to the online service soon will be able to order a pizza or perhaps some Chinese food without picking up the phone. [News.com]
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- AOL wins latest spam battle - America Online said today it won a battle against a bulk emailer that advertised pornographic Web sites to the online service's members. [News.com]
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- AOL's NetMail not universal - America Online boasted that its new initiatives, including its NetMail service, will provide members with "AOL Anywhere." But for the present, a significant number of AOL members find that they actually can use AOL's NetMail nowhere. [News.com]
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- AOL, Business Week expand deal - Starting in January, Business Week magazine will join an exclusive group of editorial sites charging a subscription fee to read its content online, the company announced today. [News.com]
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- AOL: Yes, there is a Santa Claus - The holiday tradition of children writing letters to Santa Claus has been updated in the digital age to include electronic mail. [News.com]
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- Apple after Jobs's first 100 days - Steve Jobs will hit his 100-day milestone as interim chief executive at Apple Computer (AAPL) next week. [News.com]
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- Apple compensation disclosed - Former Apple (AAPL) chief executive Gilbert Amelio walked away from the computer company with a hefty $6.7 million severance package, but his plane didn't get a cut in the deal, according to a securities filing today. [News.com]
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- Apple cybercafe plan shelved - Apple Computer's (AAPL) ballyhooed plans to team up with a group to launch Apple "cybercafes" globally, starting with Los Angeles late this year, quietly have been shelved, an Apple spokeswoman confirmed. [News.com]
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- Apple market share sinks again - "We're number eight" isn't as rousing a motto as "Think Different," but it accurately reflects the current market share position of Apple Computer. [News.com]
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- Apple previews QuickTime 3.0 - Apple Computer (AAPL) is giving software developers a first look at QuickTime 3.0, a much-anticipated revision of popular multimedia software that allows, for the first time, creation of content while using Microsoft's Windows operating system. [News.com]
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- Apple sets sights on Japan - Apple Japan, a unit of Apple Computer (AAPL), said today that it aims to sell 650,000 Macintosh PCs in Japan in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998. [News.com]
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- Apple undercut by another reseller - Computer Discount Warehouse (CDWC) has joined the growing ranks of Mac sales outlets which are undercutting official prices set by Apple Computer (AAPL). [News.com]
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- Apple's Kawasaki starts up - Guy Kawasaki, the self-described evangelist who made his name promoting the Macintosh computer, has no definite plans to return from his leave of absence from Apple Computer (AAPL). [News.com]
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- Apple's Newton in doubt again - The Apple Computer (AAPL) group that develops handheld computers based on the Newton operating system may be facing staff attrition and consequently losing development momentum. [News.com]
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- Apple's QuickTime gains sound - Apple Computer (AAPL) today said it has licensed technology that will offer improved sound over the Internet, drumming up interest in its own multimedia software. [News.com]
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- Arbor completes its set of tools - Arbor Software is extending the reach of its data analysis tools. [News.com]
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- Are cookie files public record? - As it moves toward its first court hearing tomorrow, a novel case testing just how far public records law extends into cyberspace appears destined to be a long, drawn-out battle, one of its attorneys said. [News.com]
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- Ascend comfortable with outlook - Ascend Communications (ASND) executives are "comfortable" with Wall Street analyst earnings forecasts for the fourth quarter, the company's finance chief said today. [News.com]
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- Ascend slapped with lawsuit - Shareholders hit Ascend Communications (ASND) with a class-action lawsuit over allegations of inflating the company's stock price, according to a notice released today by the plaintiffs. [News.com]
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- Ascend turns on more switches - Supplying Frame Relay-based networks that cater to telecommunications companies and service providers is a lucrative niche; no one knows that better than Ascend Communications (ASND). [News.com]
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- Asia may lack cash for Y2K bug - Asia's currency crisis may have pushed aside another worry that the region will have to rush to resolve as the decade draws to a close--the millennium bug that threatens computer systems worldwide. [News.com]
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- Asia's economic woes hit high tech - High-tech industries like the semiconductor and PC sectors are vulnerable to the financial turmoil that has swept through Asia, analysts say. [News.com]
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- Asian firms to use PC camera kit - U.S.-based chip maker Intel (INTC) said today that three Asian companies will manufacture portable PC cameras using its Intel 971 PC camera kit. [News.com]
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- AST fails to keep pace - As AST's fortunes flagged, its brand name has faded, leaving only a shadow of the high-flying PC vendor it was in the late '80s and early '90s. [News.com]
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- AST plans to lay off 37% - Struggling computer maker AST plans to announce tomorrow that it is adopting a new corporate strategy and cutting 37 percent of its workforce. [News.com]
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- AST: New strategy, fewer jobs - Struggling computer maker AST announced plans today to reorganize its worldwide operations in an effort to refocus its business on a tighter market segment and enhance its ability to be more flexible in an increasingly competitive PC market. [News.com]
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- AT&T gets China Net contract - China Telecom (Hong Kong) Group has awarded a contract to a unit of AT&T (T) to provide systems integration services and global Internet access for direct connections to the United States and the Asia-Pacific region, AT&T said today. [News.com]
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- AT&T not No. 1, ad board says - The most powerful network isn't--or at least can't claim to be--when it comes to its Internet services. [News.com]
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- AT&T rolls out business features - Although it is still reeling from a serious email glitch that plagued its service yesterday, AT&T WorldNet rolled out new features for its business services today. [News.com]
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- AT&T-@Home deal reported - It has been a busy week for AT&T (T). [News.com]
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- ATI Technologies buys Tseng Labs - ATI Technologies today announced that it has acquired virtually all of the graphic design assets of struggling video graphics company Tseng Labs (TSNG) in a $3 million deal. [News.com]
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- BackOffice learns to adapt - With a new revision to its server software bundle safely out the door, Microsoft (MSFT) is turning its attention to the next releases of BackOffice, slated to enter testing early next year. [News.com]
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- BackOffice to embrace Internet - Oh, what a tangled Web Microsoft (MSFT) weaves. [News.com]
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- BackWeb updates push software - Push software maker BackWeb Technologies released version 4.0 of its product today, aiming to give businesses more control over when and to whom they broadcast data. [News.com]
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- Ballmer: IE 4.0 a trade-off - Microsoft (MSFT) made trade-offs on quality to ship its Internet Explorer 4.0 browser on schedule this fall, the company's No. 2 executive said today. [News.com]
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- Ballmer: MS is the American way - If a remake of the movie Patton is ever made, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer would be a dead ringer for George C. Scott. [News.com]
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- Bank email glitch causes spam - Angry Fleet Bank customers who responded to an online survey have had their in-boxes flooded with hundreds of unwanted email messages as a result. [News.com]
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- Banyan climbs to Y2K compliance - Banyan Systems (BNYN) will address Year 2000 issues throughout its product line by the middle of next year. [News.com]
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- Baratz: Java for real - A day after releasing a spate of new products, JavaSoft president Alan Baratz addressed a second-day crowd at the Internet World trade show with New Year's predictions and Java boosterism. [News.com]
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- Barksdale: Browser war a horse race - Netscape Communications (NSCP) geared up today to take advantage of a federal court decision rewriting the rules of competition with Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Bellcore launches new Net firm - Bellcore today announced the launch of Soliant Internet Systems, which will focus on Internet telephony, Net infrastructure, and e-commerce software. [News.com]
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- Bill Gates as soothsayer? - Microsoft CEO Bill Gates's technology predictions for the new year are out: fast DSL connections and DVD will make a big splash in 1998, he says. [News.com]
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- Bluecurve tests network performance - A small Oakland, California-based software company called Bluecurve has aligned its specialty in tools for network capacity planning with the booming market for Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. [News.com]
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- Boosts to Net broadcasting - CompuServe, as well as Concentric Network and Bloomberg, announced separate deals today that show the growing popularity of delivering radio and television content to PCs via the Net. [News.com]
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- Borland updates Visual dBase tool - Borland International (BORL) has updated its Visual dBase development tool to be more ActiveX friendly and easier to manage. [News.com]
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- Breaking ground for cable - Internet access and digital content over cable systems got quite a boost lately with cable modem services merging and vendors releasing new hardware as the industry holds its annual Western Show. Time Warner's Road Runner and US West's MediaOne joined forces to eclipse competitor @Home, while Toshiba and Hayes unveiled set-top boxes and modems for the emerging market. In addition, a strategic shift is afoot toward content in cable modem services, and Intel launched an initiative for standardizing digital TV content. [News.com]
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- British firm claims Pentium "bug" - A British software company says it has found a flaw that negatively impacts the performance of Pentium processors, but the alleged glitch appears to have been identified and documented years ago by Intel engineers. [News.com]
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- Broderbund boosted by Riven - Broderbund Software (BROD) saw a jump in first-quarter revenues and profits today, bolstered by the release of Riven, the sequel to Myst. [News.com]
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- Bug threatens Net software - A new bug disseminated across the Net could wreak havoc on unprotected systems that use certain software to handle communications based on IP (Internet protocol), the dominant Web protocol. [News.com]
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- CA buys trouble-shooting tools - Computer Associates (CA) acquired new tools today that will allow the systems management and database giant to offer more predictive analysis of potential trouble spots. [News.com]
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- CA to ship object database - Computer Associates (CA) thinks the time is right--and the market is ready--for its Jasmine object database software. [News.com]
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- CA updates Y2K tool - Computer Associates International (CA) has developed a new version of a tool for pinpointing mainframe software that is not Year 2000-compliant. [News.com]
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- Cable access to reach six figures - More than 110,000 customers in North America will get high-speed Net access via cable systems by year's end, a tenfold increase for the year, according to a study to be released tomorrow. [News.com]
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- Cable as poor man's Net? - Cable companies can bring Internet services to the television screen if they make themselves the Buicks of the information industry and offer a no-frills product for people who can't afford Cadillacs. [News.com]
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- Cable goods on display - Taking advantage of an Anaheim, California, gathering of cable and software representatives, companies are announcing new technologies they promise will move the cable modem and set-top box industry forward. [News.com]
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- Cable modem makers in alliance - A number of big-name companies got together at the cable industry's Western Show to pledge that by late 1998, they will put cable modems that work together as reliably as today's dial-up devices. [News.com]
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- Cable modem market buzzing - roundup Rockwell Semiconductor became the last of four diverse heavyweights to impact the cable modem market today, saying it will deliver its first chipsets for the high-speed Internet connection technology by the first quarter of 1998. The announcement is important because Rockwell chips already drive the dial-up modem market (much like Intel processors drive PC technology). Earlier, Time Warner and Cox Communications announced expansions of their plans to provide high-speed Net access via their cable systems, while Samsung said it will display a prototype of a cable modem aimed at consumers at an upcoming trade show. Samsung's offerings will eventually be pitched to a range of audiences, from home consumers to corporations. [News.com]
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- Cable modem services look to content - The two largest cable modem service providers--Time Warner's Road Runner and @Home--will unveil major product redesigns next week to include beefed-up content, communications, and multimedia features, signaling a strategic shift in the nascent industry. [News.com]
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- Cable modems to speed access - A private start-up will this week introduce cable modem chips based on an increasingly popular industry specification, jumping into a field that's expected to dramatically boost the number of high-speed Internet connections in 1998. [News.com]
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- Cable set-top deal wide-ranging - NextLevel Systems today announced a major deal with cable service operators that will secure the company a significant portion of the lucrative next-generation cable set-top box market. [News.com]
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- Cabletron beats reduced estimates - Reeling from a month-long streak of bad news, networking firm Cabletron Systems (CS) today announced results for its fiscal 1998 third quarter that only slightly beat greatly reduced estimates. [News.com]
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- Cabletron to lay off 600 employees - Bruised networking player Cabletron Systems (CS) announced today that it will slash 600 employees from its workforce, close two plants, and take up to a $30 million charge as it realigns the company for future growth, executives said. [News.com]
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- Cabletron, Cisco eye Yago - Networking start-up Yago Systems is in play. [News.com]
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- Caching to beat World Wide Wait - Surf globally, cache locally. [News.com]
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- Cadence commits to Scottish chip design center - Cadence Design Systems said it will invest several hundred million dollars to establish a design complex in Livingston, Scotland, just west of Edinburgh, for purposes of developing a kind of semiconductor often called "system on a chip." [News.com]
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- Cadence projects growth up to 35% - U.S. software specialist Cadence Design Systems (CDN) expects corporate sales to grow at 30 percent to 35 percent, with Asia's contribution doubling to 20 percent during the next five years, a senior company executive said today. [News.com]
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- Calif. bill to limit Y2K cases - In an effort to protect companies from huge court awards for Year 2000 related problems, a California state legislator has proposed a bill that would limit damages in Year 2000 cases. [News.com]
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- Can Corel make a comeback? - Following Corel's (COSFF) announcement today that it expects a huge fourth-quarter loss, industry observers are beginning to wonder what the Canada-based software maker can do to turn things around. [News.com]
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- Can free email pay the bills? - While burgeoning subscriber rolls and reported buyout offers from Microsoft propel privately held Hotmail to the status of Internet darling, questions abound about the value, future, and actual size of free email providers. [News.com]
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- Can Java live up to the hype? - Hoping to put an end to Java performance complaints, Sun Microsystems (SUNW) will this month begin testing new, faster virtual machine technology. But--as with Java itself--some observers are questioning whether the technology can live up to its hype. [News.com]
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- Can Microsoft save SGI? - Silicon Graphics (SGI), hit with tough competition, pricing pressure, and production and image problems, is looking to take back some of its glory days. [News.com]
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- Case: Shift to user-friendly view - Waving the flag for Joe Consumer, America Online chairman and chief executive Steve Case urged the Internet World audience here to be responsible to the mainstream. [News.com]
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- Cheap computers presage wrenching changes - In its latest report, International Data Corporation (IDC) has looked into the near-future of computing hardware and foreseen a plethora of ultra-cheap computer appliances that will spur Internet usage while upsetting the balance of power in the computer industry. [News.com]
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- Check Point: No security threat - Firewall software vendor Check Point (CHKPF) today posted a statement on its Web site to reassure customers and partners about the safety of its flagship FireWall-1 software. [News.com]
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- China '97 PC sales to top 3 million - PC sales in mainland China should top 3 million units this year and grow 50 percent next year, the Shenzhen-based Securities Times said today. [News.com]
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- China sets smart card standards - The People's Bank of China, the central bank, has issued technological standards for the production of so-called smart cards and their application system, the Securities Times newspaper said today. [News.com]
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- China's Net regulations begin - China clamped sweeping new controls on the Internet today, warning that the network was being used to leak state secrets and to spread "harmful information." [News.com]
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- Chinese dissident turns to Net - Three weeks after his release from a Chinese jail, dissident Wei Jingsheng said the Internet offers many opportunities for him to continue his fight to bring democracy to China. [News.com]
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- Chip industry faces challenges - The U.S. semiconductor industry faces an increasingly difficult future as it moves to produce more complicated chips and the cost and effort of developing new technologies escalates, according to a new report. [News.com]
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- Chip sales up in October - Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached nearly $12 billion in October, topping October 1996 sales by 12 percent, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said. [News.com]
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- Cisco launches small-biz switches - The small-business market continues to receive increased attention from inter-networking kingpin Cisco Systems (CSCO). [News.com]
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- Cisco talks technology - Cisco Systems (CSCO) today said it will buy voice signaling translation technology maker LightSpeed International as part of its strategy to meld voice and multimedia capabilities into existing network infrastructures. [News.com]
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- Cisco ups ISP ante in IOS - Cisco Systems (CSCO) continues to bombard the cutthroat market for service provider networking dollars with a combination of hardware and software. [News.com]
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- Cities warn Net is "time bomb" - Big changes in the U.S. economy, including a shift to the Internet for delivery of goods and services, are "ticking time bombs" for state and local government economies, cities and states warned this week. [News.com]
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- Clinton signs Net antipiracy act - President Clinton signed a law that makes online piracy a felony offense, even if the guilty parties never profit from exchanging unauthorized digital copies of software, music, or literature. [News.com]
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- Clinton touts "supercomputer on a chip" - Speaking at a White House awards ceremony today, President Clinton touted federal funding for research into a "supercomputer on a chip," a billion-transistor microprocessor that would dwarf today's most powerful processor. [News.com]
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- Clone sales ding Apple - Apple Computer (AAPL) warned in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing that sales and revenue will remain below year-ago figures at least until March in part due to fire-sale prices being offered on Mac clones. [News.com]
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- CNN launches Spanish Net news service - Cable News Network today rolled out a Spanish-language news service called CNNenEspanol, based on its popular English-language CNN site on the World Wide Web, a spokeswoman said. [News.com]
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- Community sites form alliance - About two years ago, Nora Contini, associate publisher of Jewish Community Online, read a story in the local paper about NetNoir and knew instantly that the two organizations could team up. [News.com]
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- Companies offer decency shields - The Children's Internet Summit opened today in Washington with a slew of companies, including America Online, Walt Disney, Gateway 2000, and SurfWatch, announcing their own remedies to protect children from accessing adult-oriented material on the Net. [News.com]
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- Compaq adopts AMD for cheap PCs - Compaq Computer will release consumer computers for less than $1,000 using the K6 processor from Advanced Micro Devices in January, heating up an already torrid low-cost PC market. [News.com]
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- Compaq builds to order in Europe - Compaq Computer (CPQ) today said that all the desktops, servers, and portables manufactured at its Scotland plant are being built to order. [News.com]
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- Compaq hits new low: $699 - A Presario model from Compaq (CPQ) has pushed the price of a full-featured PC to as low as $699, as sales of low-cost PCs continue apace. [News.com]
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- Compaq is Forbes's firm for 1997 - Forbes magazine named Compaq Computer (CPQ) as the company of the year, saying the computer maker "has come from nowhere to occupy a powerful position in today's key industry." [News.com]
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- Compaq to recast dealer network - Compaq (CPQ) is working on plans that will radically alter its dealer base, as part of a far-reaching strategy to improve customer service. [News.com]
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- Compaq workstation leads, for now - Compaq Computer pulled ahead of Hewlett-Packard in the Windows NT-based workstation market for the third quarter of the year, according to a market research firm. But analysts say the development reflects the timing of an HP product shift rather than a material gain by Compaq over its rival. [News.com]
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- Compaq, Digital extend deal - Executives from Compaq and Digital Equipment stated today that Compaq will likely continue to use Digital's service division on a worldwide basis. [News.com]
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- CompUSA's sales top $5 billion - CompUSA (CPU) said today that its 1997 sales topped $5 billion for the first time as sales for the three months ended December 27 jumped 22 percent. [News.com]
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- CompuServe launches "C" trial - After months of anticipation, CompuServe (CSRV) today rolled out its new service, "C from CompuServe," just one day before the company's self-imposed deadline of the year's end. [News.com]
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- CompuServe special meeting set - CompuServe (CSRV) and H&R Block today announced that a special shareholders meeting will be held January 30 to consider CompuServe's agreement to be acquired by WorldCom. [News.com]
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- Computer crime prevention discussed - Eight major industrialized nations have agreed on steps to fight international computer crimes, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno announced today. [News.com]
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- Compuware to buy NuMega - Compuware (CPWR) said today that it has signed a definitive pact to acquire NuMega Technologies, a privately held company that provides error-detection and debugging solutions for professional software developers. [News.com]
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- Content control not child's play - roundup The Children's Internet Summit has produced the most heated debate over online material since the Supreme Court rejected the federal Communcations Decency Act six months ago. Internet companies and PC makers are offering initiatives that they say will help parents protect young Netizens from exposure to adult material and online predators. At the other extreme are conservative groups and legislators who insist that such measures are inadequate and that the summit is little more than a public relations event. [News.com]
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- Contest for holiday-dressed sites - Get out that virtual tinsel. [News.com]
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- Copper chips get boost - Applied Materials is expected to unveil a new system for manufacturing semiconductors that will help the chip industry move more quickly to the production of advanced chips using copper. [News.com]
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- Corel predicts $95 million loss - The bad financial news continues to flow from Corel (COSFF). [News.com]
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- CosmosBay targets U.S. banks - A French company that markets online banking software is coming across the Atlantic, hoping to capitalize on nine years of experience with banks using France's Minitel online service. [News.com]
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- Cost concerns behind modem pact - A tentative agreement reached yesterday on a standard for 56-kbps modems may have come about because of increasing financial pressures on vendors and modem chipset makers. [News.com]
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- Costa Rica sees Intel growth - Leading chipmaker Intel (INTC) will become Costa Rica's foremost exporter by 2000, two years after it opens a plant in the Central American country, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Court deals Microsoft setback - A federal judge has issued a temporary order forbidding Microsoft (MSFT) from requiring Windows 95 licensees to carry the Internet Explorer Web browser. [News.com]
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- Court upholds ruling on Net jurisdiction - Under the Constitution, a Web site advertising a Florida company's services is not enough grounds to land its owners in court thousands of miles away in Arizona, according to a federal appeals court ruling today. [News.com]
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- Covad debuts high-speed access - A start-up called Covad Communications today is announcing high-speed remote access in the San Francisco Bay Area, including Silicon Valley, for as low as $90 per month, with a national rollout planned for next year. [News.com]
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- Crypto appeal coming up - The First Amendment will come up against security issues in the high-tech arena once again on Monday, when the Justice Department appeals a federal judge's decision that U.S. restrictions on the export of encryption software are unconstitutional. [News.com]
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- Cyber Patrol to block hate speech - Software maker Cyber Patrol and the Anti-Defamation League today announced a new filter that will bar access to anti-Semitic, racist, and other forms of hate speech online, signaling a change in the way Net filtering companies operate. [News.com]
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- Cybex faces post-acquisition loss - Cybex Computer Products (CBXC), a provider of switching solutions and PC peripherals, said yesterday that it expected to post a fiscal third-quarter loss as the result of a one-time charge arising from the acquisition of two privately held German companies. [News.com]
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- Cylink wins approval for strong encryption - Security vendor Cylink (CYLK) has won approval from the U.S. Commerce Department to export encryption technology, possibly the strongest available, to European central banks. [News.com]
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- Database firms face bleak 1998 - The database software industry, long a lucrative field for investors, will face a tough year in 1998. [News.com]
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- Debating Java's rightful place - Looking back, 1997 may be remembered as the year when the debate over Java's rightful place in corporate IS began to evolve from a hype-filled discussion of Java as a Windows-killing "platform" to a more concrete debate over the benefits of Java as a development language. [News.com]
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- DEC aims at media content market - Digital (DEC) is set to roll out workstations aimed at a segment the company hasn't yet targeted in earnest, media content creation, with both 300-MHz Pentium II and 500-MHz Alpha systems priced below $5,000. [News.com]
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- Deep thoughts on e-commerce - International Business Machines (IBM) plans to announce on Monday that it will assign more than 50 researchers to a new research institute for electronic commerce. [News.com]
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- Deja News joins antispam war - Tired of its service being clogged by spam from Usenet newsgroup postings, Deja News is hitting back today with new filters to block postings of unsolicited commercial messages. [News.com]
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- Delays spur suit against E*Trade - Unsatisfied investors are hitting the electronic broker E*Trade Group (EGRP) with a class-action suit, alleging the company took on more accounts than its system could handle. [News.com]
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- Dell cuts desktop, notebook prices - Dell (DELL) today announced a new round of price cuts on its line of corporate desktop computers and some of its most sophisticated notebook PCs, reflecting a heightened sensitivity to low-cost computers and falling component prices. [News.com]
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- Dell introduces PCs with DVD - Dell Computer (DELL) joined the increasing number of vendors offering DVD drives in consumer PCs, an early sign that the company is beginning to focus more attention on a market in which the company hasn't fared as well as it has in the business segment. [News.com]
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- Dell targets small businesses - Computing packages aimed at small businesses are proving to be this year's hot market for hardware and software makers. [News.com]
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- Developers welcome Java hearing - In a move that may blow away the cloud of uncertainty hanging over the Java applications industry, a federal judge has denied Microsoft's request to stay a key hearing in the high-profile legal battle over the programming language that has raged between Sun Microsystems and Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Digital camera chips developed - Sarnoff Corporation, the renowned research firm once affiliated with RCA, has developed chip technology for building low-cost digital cameras, following on the heels of chip giant Intel. [News.com]
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- Digital TV grows in Japan - Satellite broadcaster DirecTV today launched the newest service in Japan's crowded digital TV market, but analysts said viewers may wait to subscribe as the broadcasting competition heats up. [News.com]
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- Digital, IBM to have 266-MHz notebooks - Digital (DEC) and IBM (IBM), among other manufacturers, will usher in 1998 with notebooks based around a new 266-MHz Pentium MMX processor from Intel. [News.com]
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- DirecTV shows AT&T growing pains - Success in a mature market does not guarantee success in a new one. AT&T (T) seems to be finding this out the hard way as it stretches into emerging communications ventures. [News.com]
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- DOJ learns from previous MS scrapes - Time is of the essence. [News.com]
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- DOJ taps outsider for MS case - The Justice Department has hired New York attorney David Boies to help the government win its antitrust case against Microsoft (MSFT). [News.com]
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- DOJ's big day: That was it? - What a letdown. [News.com]
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- DOJ: Microsoft in contempt - The Justice Department today asked a federal judge to find Microsoft (MSFT) in contempt of court, accusing the software giant of flouting the terms of an order issued just six days ago. [News.com]
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- DOJ: Microsoft is "unreasonable" - The Justice Department today accused Microsoft of applying a "twisted" and "patently unreasonable" interpretation to a judge's order forbidding the software giant from packaging Web browsing software with its dominant Windows 95 operating system. [News.com]
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- Dole building anti-MS coalition - Microsoft's (MSFT) legal wrangle against antitrust regulators and competitors is increasingly moving beyond the courtroom--this time to Capitol Hill in the form of 1996 Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole. [News.com]
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- Double-line phone modem ships - Boca Research (BOCI) announced shipment of its double-line phone modem, which offers faster Internet connection speeds by integrating two modems into one unit that plugs into separate phone lines. [News.com]
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- Doubts over Windows 98 release - A federal judge's ruling in the latest antitrust action against Microsoft raises doubts over the software giant's plans to release the Windows 98 operating system next year. [News.com]
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- DVD players to fall short - Major Japanese developers of DVD (digital video disc) boxes put on a brave face today over the sluggish start to the market. [News.com]
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- DVD still an unknown - DVD, or digital versatile disc, doesn't ring a bell yet with consumers, according to a new survey from Yankee Group. [News.com]
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- DVD-Audio standard near - An industry standard for DVD-Audio, the next-generation audio technology with seven times the storage capacity of a compact disc (CD), looms near and may already have been settled. [News.com]
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- DVD-RAM standard again on horizon - In an effort to trump other players in the DVD arena, the DVD Forum, an industry consortium, has started working on a standard for next-generation re-recordable DVD-RAM drives that can store 4.7GB of information on a single-sided disk. [News.com]
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- E*Trade to offer phone service - E*Trade (EGRP), an online investing services firm, today announced it will offer a speech-enabled telephone investing system that allows customers to place orders, check account balances, and enter portfolio information through a toll-free number. [News.com]
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- E-commerce to go over big in Asia - The art of bargaining to get a good deal may take on an entirely new form in Asia if business relationships begin forming on the World Wide Web. [News.com]
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- E-commerce: Brand names prevail - As increasing numbers of corporations and consumers alike save time and money buying goods over the Internet, a prevailing view is that some hefty brick-and-mortar retail outposts eventually will crumble. [News.com]
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- EFF chief to step down - Lori Fena, who has overseen the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for the past two years, confirmed that she is stepping down after the organization finds a replacement, probably in the next three to six months. [News.com]
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- Email meltdowns haunt holidays - Small and medium-sized businesses that use GTE for Internet services have been experiencing problems with email since Monday night, when spam took down the system for a day, according to GTE. [News.com]
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- Encanto previews Net appliances - Encanto Networks is offering fall Internet World '97 trade show attendees the first look at a new hardware and software bundle intended to make it easy to set up a presence on the Web. [News.com]
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- Entertainment no cash cow for Net - Content may be king in the entertainment industry, but so far it is not making anybody much money on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Epicurious to launch TV show - In yet another example of television converging with the Internet and PCs, CondéNet's Epicurious Food will launch a spin-off television program on the Discovery Channel next year. [News.com]
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- Ernie doll scalpers go online - In the hallowed tradition of harried parents fighting for the last Cabbage Patch Kid, Mighty Morphin Power Ranger, or, more recently, the Tickle-Me-Elmo doll, Net-savvy parents are outbidding each other online this holiday season for this year's must-have toy: the Sing & Snore Ernie doll. [News.com]
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- eSafe blocks hostile components - eSafe Technologies, the U.S. arm of Israeli security firm EliaShim Technologies, will announce Monday that it's shipping an enterprise version of its "antivandal" software to block hostile Java applets, ActiveX controls, plug-ins, and pushed content. [News.com]
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- EU delays clearing telco deal - The European Commission is seeking more information from WorldCom and MCI Communications before ruling on their proposed merger, a European Union source has said. [News.com]
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- EU frowns on aid to chip firms - The European Commission, increasingly wary about subsidies to the semiconductor industry, today warned it may ban Austrian aid to Siemens AG. [News.com]
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- EU seeks to connect schools to Net - European Union countries agreed today that every schoolchild in Europe should have access to the Internet as a way to prepare for the 21st century--but predictably differed over who should foot the bill. [News.com]
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- Eudora maker offers free email - Qualcomm (QCOM), developer of Eudora mail software, announced plans to launch free, Web-based email powered by WhoWhere technology. [News.com]
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- Eudora security vulnerable - Qualcomm is warning users of its popular Eudora email software not to save their passwords on their computers thanks to the ease with which programs can be designed to decrypt them. [News.com]
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- Europe proposes Net copyright rules - The European Commission issued proposals today designed to deter pirates from plundering the Internet or other electronic networks to make illegal copies of music, films, or texts. [News.com]
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- Europe still lags in Y2K awareness - Senior managers in Europe are lagging behind their counterparts elsewhere in the world in their preparations for tackling the so-called Millennium bug, a survey released today showed. [News.com]
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- Fast memory prices stabilizing - High-speed memory prices appear to be stabilizing, but that's partly because the chips are selling at close to cost. [News.com]
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- Fast modem sales look promising - Sales of high-speed 56-kbps modems should be better than ever for vendors this holiday season because rebates and price reductions have lowered the cost of new modems to as little as $79, according to a report from Associated Research Services (ARS). [News.com]
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- Faster modems for consumers - NetSpeed, a Texas-based remote access equipment company, says it wants to play in the emerging market for "consumerized" ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) modems, devices that are as easy to install as today's analog modems yet offer much faster access speeds. [News.com]
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- FCC Net fund cuts called on carpet - Two key lawmakers have asked the Federal Communications Commission for details regarding its December 16 decision to slow down its program to wire schools and libraries. [News.com]
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- Fees lowered for school Net fund - Big long distance telephone carriers initially will pay lower fees than expected to fund a federal program to wire schools and libraries for the Internet, the head of the Federal Communications Commission said today. [News.com]
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- Fighting fire with software - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) announced it will produce a virtual reality CD-ROM to train arson investigators. [News.com]
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- Financier launches gay financial site - Walter Schubert is a businessman. He's the chief executive of his own company and today is launching a new Web-based company with the ambitious goal of creating a clearinghouse where gays and lesbians can go to take care of all their financial needs, from banking to mortgages. [News.com]
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- Firewall to block out spam - Firewall maker Trusted Information Systems (TISX) is declaring war on spam. [News.com]
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- Firms to help sites target ads - NetGravity and Aptex today unveiled new features in their ad-serving technologies to help Web sites target ads to visitors based on their interests. [News.com]
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- Flash memory cards reach market - Kingston Technology today announced high-capacity flash memory storage cards for devices such as digital cameras and handheld computers. [News.com]
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- Flash memory format agreed upon - Toshiba and Samsung Electronics have agreed to use the same format for new generations of their SmartMedia flash memory cards, which are used in digital cameras. [News.com]
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- Flat panels to near $1,000 in '98 - A Taiwanese manufacturer suggested prices for active-matrix liquid crystal display monitors will be cut in half in 1998, but the drop would not be enough to spur widespread demand for so-called flat panel monitors. [News.com]
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- Foreign chips in Japan growing - Foreign manufacturers' share of the Japanese semiconductor market rose to a new high in the second quarter of 1997, according to figures released by the U.S. Trade Representative's Office. [News.com]
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- Fox Online site gets hacked - When visitors hit Fox Online'sWeb site early today, they didn't find cute pictures of Party of Five and Beverly Hills 90210's cast members. [News.com]
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- France rounds up Net pedophile suspects - More than 50 people have been detained across France in a crackdown on a pedophilia ring that uses the Internet to distribute sexually explicit photos of children, police said today. [News.com]
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- Free Navigator in your future? - Buoyed by the Justice Department's decision to temporarily bar Microsoft from bundling Internet Explorer with Windows 95, Netscape Communications (NSCP) today announced a new marketing plan to woo IE users and left open the door to making Navigator free. [News.com]
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- FTC calls for industry self-rule - The Federal Trade Commission today released a report to Congress that calls for industry self-regulation, rather than legislation, to protect consumers' privacy online. [News.com]
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- Gambling regulator in the works - Brick-and-mortar casinos tend to generate healthy profits, but they also are heavily regulated in an effort to keep the businesses on the straight and narrow. A newly formed working group would like to do the same for Net gambling--for the same reasons. [News.com]
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- Gambling's future uncertain on Net - Sure, you can gamble on the Internet, but its evolution into a billion-dollar betting medium is about as predictable as a roll of the dice. A lack of knowledge about market size, consumer concern over rigged games and low payouts, and uncertainty over government regulation all have led to a slow roll for Internet gambling. [News.com]
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- Gates addresses MS slump in Japan - Microsoft (MSFT) chairman Bill Gates said he saw negligible growth in Japan's PC market this year, but the slump will not change the firm's strategy in one of its fastest-growing markets, slightly contradicting earlier remarks by his chief operating officer. [News.com]
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- Gates mum on court ruling - Microsoft (MSFT) chairman Bill Gates today refused to discuss a key U.S. antitrust action against his company but said its browser war with Netscape Communications (NSCP) would continue. [News.com]
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- Gates: MS banks' friend, not foe - Microsoft (MSFT), seeking to enter an industry deeply suspicious of its motives, today unveiled a series of initiatives for banks, including a framework that allows software components to connect to mainframes, WebTV systems, and other computers. [News.com]
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- Gateway line for home education - Gateway 2000 (GTW) announced a line of PCs that bundles audio and visual software intended for educational use in the home. [News.com]
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- Gay group opposes Net filtering - Filtering software and ratings systems threaten to erase the lesbian and gay community online, states a report released today by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) in conjunction with the Children's Internet Summit in Washington. [News.com]
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- GeoCities, Amazon team up - As the holidays approach and the online retail race heats up, the name of the game seems to be "Let's Make a Partnership Deal." [News.com]
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- GeoCitizens bristle at pop-up ads - Members of 1.2 million-member free email and Web page provider GeoCities are complaining bitterly and in some cases abandoning the service because of new advertisements that pop up when their free Web pages are accessed. [News.com]
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- Get ready for the sub-$800 PC - Sub-$1,000 computers were only the beginning. [News.com]
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- Glitches found in Norton software - Utility software maker Symantec (SYMC) acknowledged today there are glitches within its Norton Utilities 3.0 software, but the company is cautious about committing to a fix. [News.com]
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- Global measures to fight Net crime - Eight major industrialized nations today announced they agreed on broad principles and a specific action plan to improve their ability to fight international computer crimes. [News.com]
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- Global Net phone service debuts - Start-up Internet telephony company ITXC Corporation, a venture backed by AT&T and Net telephony firm VocalTec Communications, today launched its worldwide Internet telephony service. [News.com]
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- Global PC sales to grow in Q4 - Worldwide sales of personal computers will grow by 15 percent during 1997's fourth quarter despite the turmoil in Asian economies, according to a report by market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). [News.com]
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- Glut swamps storage industry - The fiscal maladies of the storage business can best be described as the law of supply and demand meeting the domino effect. [News.com]
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- Gore adds Net safety measures - Vice President Al Gore today announced initiatives to educate parents and children on the dangers of pornography on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Greeting cards find home online - The Internet is fast enough, interactive enough, and still novel enough to make it an ideal medium for the greeting card business. [News.com]
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- Grove Time's "Man of the Year" - Honoring the digital revolution as the successor to the Industrial Revolution, Time magazine Saturday named Intel (INTC) chief executive officer Andy Grove its "Man of the Year." [News.com]
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- Growth in Net trading inevitable - For stock market investors looking for ways to trade more cheaply, the Internet could be the answer to their dreams. But not everyone is about to fire their stockbroker. [News.com]
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- Hackers attack game site - Hackers broke into the online gaming site Sierra On-Line and took down the front page for three hours over the weekend, the company said. [News.com]
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- Hanukkah celebrated on Net - At sundown today, the Jewish holiday Hanukkah begins, and the Net holds many resources for learning about and celebrating the eight-day "festival of lights." [News.com]
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- Hard drive optimized for multimedia - Western Digital announced a high-capacity hard drive that's optimized for audio and video editing and playback, a product intended for high-end PCs, workstations, and servers used by businesses and multimedia content creators. [News.com]
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- Hard drives to get denser, cheaper - Disk drives will become more dense and less expensive in 1998, which is good news for everybody but manufacturers. [News.com]
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- Hayes shows cable modems - Hayes Microcomputer will join the cadre of manufacturers displaying cable modem wares at the Western Show. [News.com]
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- Help for commerce site building - A new venture headed by former Novell executive Robert Frankenberg will use the stage of Fall Internet World 97 next week to unveil an easy-to-use software and hardware package for small businesses that want an online presence. [News.com]
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- High-end PC prices drop in Taiwan - Four PC makers plan to cut Pentium II computer prices in Taiwan to the point where the high-end machines come into line with their U.S. counterparts. [News.com]
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- Hitachi debuts Net PC - Hitachi will begin sales of Net PCs in Japan, a debut the company hopes will receive a warmer reception than the Net PC concept has been given in the U.S. [News.com]
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- Hitachi licenses Netscape software - Hitachi and Netscape Communications (NSCP) said today that they are collaborating on the development of intranet and extranet packages based on Netscape servers and Internet standards. [News.com]
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- Hitachi, SGS-Thompson in chip pact - Hitachi of Japan and France's SGS-Thomson Microelectronics today said they will cooperate in the development of next-generation SuperH microprocessors for consumer electronics and multimedia applications. [News.com]
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- Holiday sales up for high-end PCs - The sub-$1,000 PC is now firmly ensconced in many manufacturer's lineups, but during the early part of the holiday sales season, more expensive machines with the fastest processors have remained in vogue. [News.com]
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- Home NC in a set-top box - Oracle (ORCL) subsidiary NCI introduced software today for low-cost home computing devices, as it focuses increasingly on the consumer market. [News.com]
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- Home servers coming in 1998 - The core hardware element of corporate networks will come to the living room next year. [News.com]
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- Hong Kong free of China Net controls - Communist China's sweeping new controls on the World Wide Web won't affect Hong Kong's Internet surfers and providers, Anthony Wong, director general of the territory's telecommunications, said today. [News.com]
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- Hotmail hot for deals - Privately held Hotmail said the number of registered users of its free, Internet-based electronic mail is approaching 10 million and growing at more than 60,000 per day. [News.com]
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- Hotmail, Microsoft talk deals - Hotmail has held discussions with Microsoft about using its free email technology on the giant's Web sites, sources familiar with the talks confirmed today. [News.com]
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- HP CEO sees chance to grow - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) CEO Lewis Platt said yesterday that the world's second-largest computer company is well positioned, with many new growth opportunities ahead. [News.com]
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- HP debuts 8-processor Windows NT server - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) introduced a server computer based on the Pentium Pro processor and Windows NT architecture that harnesses eight microprocessors, becoming one of the first companies to market such a powerful machine. [News.com]
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- HP leads e-commerce initiative - Seeking to boost their positions with financial institutions, Hewlett-Packard (HWP), Electronic Data Systems (EDS), and HP's VeriFone unit are forming a global consortium to boost electronic commerce. [News.com]
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- HP outpacing competition in growth - Although desktop sales for both Compaq and Dell grew at more than three times the market rate during the third quarter, both companies were outpaced by Hewlett-Packard. [News.com]
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- HP pushes low-cost business PCs - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) introduced a line of low-end corporate desktops today that will hit or come near the $1,000 price point, reflecting the latest dynamic of the PC retail market. [News.com]
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- HP recruits help to boost OpenView - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) is turning to third-party integration to boost the functions available in its management software portfolio. [News.com]
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- HP software no longer a side dish - Hewlett-Packard is giving its software business a hard sell. [News.com]
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- HP sued over Net kiosks - An Alabama inventor is taking the role of David in suing technology Goliath Hewlett-Packard (HWP) for alleged patent infringement in Internet kiosks. [News.com]
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- HP to sell Unix software online - Now that Hewlett-Packard (HPW) has set up an online store to sell PC hardware to small companies, the company is turning its attention to software. [News.com]
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- HP wants business PC lead - A week after releasing new low-end Vectra desktops, Hewlett-Packard (HWP) has cut prices on the middle tier of its corporate computer line, as it makes a play to be the low-cost leader in the business market. [News.com]
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- HP, Cisco team on e-commerce - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) and Cisco Systems (CSCO) will take the wraps off a new electronic commerce package today at Fall Internet World 97. [News.com]
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- HP, others endorse color standard - What's red is not always black and white. [News.com]
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- IBM adds e-commerce, Web tools - IBM has released VisualAge e-business, a toolset for turning existing applications into e-commerce and Web-enabled systems, the company said. [News.com]
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- IBM calls Comdex "waste of money" - IBM (IBM) today called Comdex a "waste of money" and said it does not believe the event attracts people who make decisions on buying its products. [News.com]
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- IBM closes Cryptolopes unit - IBM (IBM) is closing the operation developing its highly touted Cryptolopes software, a secure container technology that is used for sending content over the Internet and tracking intellectual property rights. [News.com]
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- IBM continues e-business push - Continuing its focus on networks and "e-business," IBM (IBM) today unveiled a new service that lets corporate computing managers track and manage PC hardware and software on their networks. [News.com]
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- IBM goes to college - Combining IBM Corporation's brand power and the brains of the University of Minnesota, a venture was announced today to bolster online student services and the partners' revenue streams. [News.com]
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- IBM has ISP-in-a-box system - IBM (IBM) is expected to announce an infrastructure for ISPs Wednesday that will run their businesses, manage subscribers, and offer additional fee-based services. [News.com]
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- IBM plans database tools - IBM (IBM), a late bloomer in the client-server database market behind companies such as Oracle and Sybase, doesn't intend to get left behind again. [News.com]
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- IBM succeeding in NC market - IBM's (IBM) Network Computer (NC) appears to be making headway in the corporate market, while Sun Microsystems and Oracle's Network Computer Incorporated (NCI) have yet to make an impact. [News.com]
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- IBM to sell $2 billion in software - IBM (IBM) today announced its largest-ever software sale in a global pact covering more than $1.5 billion worth of software with consulting group Electronic Data Systems. [News.com]
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- IBM touts high-capacity disk drive - IBM (IBM) today said its scientists have broken their own record in hard-disk data-storage density at 11.6 billion bits, or gigabits (GB), per square inch of disk space. [News.com]
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- IBM, Monsanto in genetics tie-up - ST. LOUIS--Monsanto (MTC) and IBM (IBM) have entered into a wide-ranging technology alliance that features genomics research collaboration, the companies said today. [News.com]
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- IBM, StorageTek to compete again - The Justice Department has announced that IBM (IBM) and Storage Technology (STK) have agreed to compete again in the multibillion market for mainframe disk storage. [News.com]
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- iCat to offer sub-$1,000 storefronts - New merchant software being demonstrated at fall Internet World '97 this week is designed to allow businesses with little knowledge of computers to open Internet storefronts for less than $1,000 per year. [News.com]
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- IE 4.0 gets an upgrade - Just two months after the initial release of Internet Explorer 4.0, Microsoft today issued an upgrade to the browser that fixes several known problems and also adds "accessibility features," such as enlarged fonts, to help disabled users. [News.com]
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- IE 4.01 requirement angers NT users - Timing is everything. [News.com]
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- IE used in 10,000 firms - Microsoft (MSFT) said today that more than 10,000 corporations have licensed the Internet Explorer administration kit, the latest figure used to measure demand for IE 4.0 against rival Netscape's browser. [News.com]
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- India's Wipro reports sales jump - India's largest information technology company, Wipro Infotech Group (WIG), expects sales to top $283 million in its budget year ending in March, compared with about $206 million during the previous year. [News.com]
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- Info highway speeding up - Free email service Juno may be an oasis for the slowest modems, but even that company is gently urging its customers to speed up or ship out. [News.com]
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- InfoAccess debuts new package - Electronic publishing software maker InfoAccess today rolled out the latest version of its Web-publishing package. [News.com]
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- Injunction on Cadence competitor - Cadence Design Systems (CDN) said today that a federal judge has placed a preliminary injunction on an older product made by Avant (AVNT), but is not yet ready to issue a similar injunction on the company's flagship product, known as Aquarius. [News.com]
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- Insurers worry about Net risks - Insurers, who spend most of their time worrying about whether to take risks, feel there is not enough security on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Intel aims low for new computer - Intel (INTC) today offered design guidelines for network computers and other inexpensive devices, underscoring the chip giant's efforts toward low-cost computing. [News.com]
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- Intel broadens investment strategy - In a bid to boost demand for its latest microprocessors, Intel (INTC) has unveiled an e-business strategy of funding, codeveloping, and marketing Internet applications in concert with other companies. [News.com]
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- Intel delays C&T acquisition, again - Four times hit, but not down for the count. [News.com]
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- Intel dolls selling like hotchips - Barbie may have a little competition from computer chipmaker Intel this holiday season: The company is selling dolls of the bunny-suited clean-room workers featured in its ads. [News.com]
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- Intel invests in PC-TV future - Intel (INTC) has disclosed an investment in a Swiss-based company that authors software for improving how rich content will get to future TV set-top computer and PC screens. [News.com]
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- Intel invests in Platinum - Seeking to broaden the reach of its management software products, microchip powerhouse Intel (INTC) today announced a far-reaching partnership with enterprise software maker Platinum Technology (PLAT). [News.com]
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- Intel pictures digital TV - Intel (INTC) will attack digital television on a broad front, one of the next big markets for its products as the chip giant expands its technological horizons. [News.com]
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- Intel sees future in home devices - Intel (INTC) will become a big player in the digital television market. Some wonder if the computer industry is ready for it. [News.com]
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- Intel sees Web driving Pentium II - Intel (INTC) expects new electronic business applications and multimedia-intensive advertising on the Internet will help drive sales of its top-of-the-line Pentium II microprocessor. [News.com]
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- Intel sponsors high-tech ads - Anyone who has watched Intel "technicians" prancing around in gold lamé lab suits knows that the company is no stranger to the advertising business. But now Intel is spending its money not just to advertise its own high-performance chips, but also to support a new class of Web advertisements for products as low tech as airline tickets and sneakers. [News.com]
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- Intel to buy 4.9% stake in CMG - Leading chip maker Intel (INTC) said today that it has agreed to buy a 4.9 percent stake in CMG Information Services (CMGI). [News.com]
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- Intel unveils digital TV plan - Intel (INTC) launched an initiative for standardizing the format of content for digital TV and also a new version of its Intercast technology at Western Cable TV Show, which gets under way today. [News.com]
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- Intel updates 3D technology - Intel (INTC) has released specifications for the second generation of its 3D technology, doubling the speed of the company's current technology. [News.com]
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- Intel's graphics chip due soon - Intel's first high-end 3D graphics chip, the Intel 740, is coming this February and, by most accounts, the introduction could alter the market for good. [News.com]
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- Intel, Sun to team on Merced - Intel (INTC) and Sun Microsystems have announced an agreement to allow Sun's Solaris operating system to run on the next-generation Intel "Merced" processor and agreed on the cross licensing of technologies. [News.com]
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- Intel, Vietnam sign pact - Intel (INTC) today signed a memorandum of understanding with the government of Vietnam aimed at encouraging the spread of PC technology in a country many believe presents a boon opportunity and yet significant risk. [News.com]
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- Internet World debuts from Oracle, Vantive - At Internet World in New York City this week, a number of enterprise applications suite makers will debut new versions of their product lines. [News.com]
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- Internet World split on DOJ case - The floor of the fall Internet World '97 show here was abuzz over yesterday's federal court order forbidding Microsoft (MSFT) from requiring Windows 95 licensees to carry the Internet Explorer Web browser. [News.com]
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- InterWorld updates Net commerce software - E-commerce software vendor InterWorld today announced a new version of its Internet commerce software, Commerce Exchange 2.0, to link existing back-end systems of big corporations to the Net for Internet commerce. [News.com]
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- Intuit eyes Net electronic bills - Intuit says it is planning a new version of its popular financial software, Quicken 98 for Windows, that will allow users to view electronic bills on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Intuit, CUC to do insurance deal - Intuit (INTU) and giant consumer marketer CUC International (CU) are expected to announce on Tuesday a service to help banks sell term life insurance online. [News.com]
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- Iomega, Nomai stymied in court - Iomega (IOM) and Nomai headed back to court today, chalking up another round in the battle to determine whether Nomai can sell Iomega-compatible disks in the United States. [News.com]
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- Iomega: Injunction on Nomai lifted - Iomega said today a preliminary injunction concerning French technology company Nomai's production of a computer memory product was lifted December 12 by a panel of appellate court judges in Paris, France. [News.com]
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- It's official: BackOffice Server 4.0 - Microsoft (MSFT) is attempting to make its BackOffice server application bundle as attractive as possible to corporations pushing their server-based applications onto the Web. [News.com]
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- J.D. Edwards reports gains - Continued demand for its enterprise software for the AS/400 provided a boost for J.D. Edwards' (JDEC) fourth-quarter results. [News.com]
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- Japan digital TV rivals may merge - Japan's digital satellite broadcasting market, ripe for a shakeout ahead of competitive launches in 1998, saw an ongoing winnowing-out process gain speed today as Japan Sky Broadcasting (JSkyB) and PerfecTV announced that they were considering a merger. [News.com]
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- Japan PC shipments lackluster - Shipments of personal computers in Japan are expected to total 8.1 million units this year, up just 0.1 percent from 1996, industry research firm IDC Japan said in a report issued today. [News.com]
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- Japan to cut chip plant spending - Japanese semiconductor makers are expected to sharply reduce their capital investment, a move that may affect the entire Japanese economy, business daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun said today. [News.com]
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- Japan to try DSL - Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NTT) will begin testing high-speed Net access via copper phone lines, dubbed DSL (digital subscriber line), a signal that the new technology is catching on globally, not just in the United States. [News.com]
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- Japan's Epson does cheap Pentium II - The direct sales unit of Japan's Seiko Epson introduced a Pentium II computer that may be the least expensive system of its kind in the world. [News.com]
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- Japan, EU chipmakers draw pact - Japanese and European Union semiconductor industry leaders announced they have concluded an industry-to-industry agreement on anti-dumping measures. [News.com]
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- Japanese delay memory plants - Japanese memory companies are delaying plans to expand their fabrication plants, responding to the continuing decline of memory prices. [News.com]
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- Japanese PC makers stick with IE - Top-tier personal computer makers in Japan will continue preinstalling Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser with the Windows 95 operating system, according to a report in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japan's largest business daily. [News.com]
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- Japanese PC market to lag in '98 - Japan's PC market will lag through at least the first half of 1998, according to a market research firm, but demand for portables will continue expanding. [News.com]
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- Jasmine's time has come - Computer Associates (CA) thinks the time is right--and the market is ready--for its Jasmine object database software. [News.com]
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- Judge uninstalls IE in 90 seconds - The judge hearing the Justice Department's case against Microsoft (MSFT) today set a hearing for January 13 on whether the software giant should be held in contempt of court for allegedly violating an order issued last week. [News.com]
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- Key tobacco papers released online - A sensitive batch of tobacco documents that may contain more harmful disclosures about the industry and could strengthen the hands of congressional critics were made public on the Internet today. [News.com]
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- Kwanzaa sites abound - As the seven-day African-American festival of Kwanzaa begins today, the abundance of sites explaining and celebrating the holiday is illustrative of the growth of the black community online. [News.com]
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- Lagging PC sales hint of slow '98 - Despite go-go growth for the first ten months of the year, U.S. computer sales tapered off last month--a deceleration that, combined with other factors, may portend a slower 1998. [News.com]
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- Landmark crypto appeal begins - Judges appeared to give the plaintiff a sympathetic ear this morning in a closely watched case challenging government restrictions on the export of encryption. [News.com]
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- Lawmaker to review privacy code - Senate Commerce Committee chairman John McCain said he plans to review voluntary industry efforts to protect the privacy of people using the Internet. [News.com]
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- Lawsuit focuses on Y2K upgrades - In the first class-action suit regarding a Year 2000 bug, a New York-based computer hardware company has filed a lawsuit in California state court claiming a database accounting software company failed to provide free year 2000 compliance upgrades. [News.com]
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- Lawyers push E*Trade suit online - A number of investors who use online brokerage E*Trade (EGRP) say the site did them wrong. [News.com]
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- LCD screen surplus forces changes - An unexpected surplus of the liquid crystal display (LCD) screens used in notebooks and desktop monitors, combined with the Asian currency crisis, is causing component prices to rapidly decline and manufacturers to reevaluate plans for expanding capacity. [News.com]
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- Library sued over filtering - A local civil rights group today sued a county in Virginia over a recently instituted library policy that requires that certain Web sites be blocked for all patrons, regardless of age. [News.com]
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- Life after the CDA: Censorship - By rejecting the most controversial provision in the Communications Decency Act in June, the Supreme Court unequivocally granted the Internet the same First Amendment protections as those staunchly guarded for print media. [News.com]
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- Linking a copyright violation? - Sean Peck used to grind away as a software engineer for the popular search site Lycos before he got the Internet entrepreneurial bug and started News Index, a little-known online news search engine. [News.com]
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- Livingston to debut remote access software - Livingston Enterprises will release a new set of software for managing the billing process for remote access connections to service providers. [News.com]
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- Lotus debuts new Domino.Doc - Lotus Development today debuted the latest version of its document management application and outlined its market strategy for the product. [News.com]
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- Lotus: Asia business forging ahead - IBM's (IBM) software unit Lotus Development said today that its business had grown strongly in the Asia Pacific during 1997 despite the region's economic crisis. [News.com]
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- Lotus: Piracy fears overblown - Concerns that Asia is a hotbed for pirated software are "grossly exaggerated," the president of U.S. software maker Lotus Development said today. [News.com]
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- Low-cost Sun computers coming - To counter the growing popularity of Windows NT workstations, Sun Microsystems (SUNW) will release two workstations next month that combine new processor technology and low prices. [News.com]
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- Lucent acquires Gigabit start-up - The glut of start-ups vying for a share of the nascent next-generation Ethernet networking technology market is starting to shake out. [News.com]
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- Lure of Net riches overtakes Asia - With its reputation as a Western medium of unfettered political debate and sexual licentiousness, the Internet arrived in Asia to a wary welcome--especially among the region's control-minded governments. [News.com]
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- Mac, clone prices falling - Just because the Macintosh clone computer is a vanishing breed doesn't mean Mac users won't continue to see inexpensive systems. [News.com]
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- Making Gold, OFX interoperate - Some 15 months after being launched by a group of major U.S. banks and IBM (IBM), the Integrion Financial Network is aiming to converge its data interchange technical standard with a similar standard backed by Microsoft (MSFT) and its partners. [News.com]
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- McCaw returns as Teledesic's CEO - Telecommunications entrepreneur and Teledesic investor Craig McCaw will resume his former job as CEO of the company, Teledesic announced today. The move is seen as an attempt to build a financial foundation for the underfunded sky-based Internet access company. [News.com]
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- MCI attacks on several fronts - Expanding its reach into the brutally competitive Internet market, MCI (MCIC) has been aligning itself with several heavy hitters and strengthening its infrastructure in what appears to be a renewed push online. [News.com]
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- MCI rolls out 56-kbps access - MCI said it will offer 56-kbps Net access technology starting today, joining a laundry list of companies rolling out the product. [News.com]
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- MCI ups Net backbone - MCI Telecommunications (MCIC) said it doubled the core circuit capacity of its Internet backbone to dual 622 megabits per second and added more than 4,000 access ports to accommodate Internet traffic growth. [News.com]
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- MediaGate to acquire messaging - Industry observers say they see universal messaging as a new market for email package vendors. [News.com]
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- Memory price drops batter TI-Acer - TI-Acer, a joint venture of Acer of Taiwan and Texas Instruments), today said it was further lowering its 1997 financial forecasts due to slumping world prices for memory chips. [News.com]
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- Mercury Center gets new look - Mercury Center, the online edition of the San Jose Mercury News, today launched a redesign to include more updates of breaking news, sound clips and video clips, and improved navigation. [News.com]
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- Miami figures in international piracy - Miami's role as a center for Latin American trade now includes the counterfeit software business, believed to cost the industry billions of dollars each year, police and industry officials said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Michael Dell: E-commerce hero? - Dell Computer (DELL) chairman Michael Dell told the fall Internet World '97 crowd here today that skeptics who think online commerce is a fad or a niche market need look no further than his own company. [News.com]
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- Micron assails Asian rivals - Idaho-based Micron Technology is claiming that Taiwanese and Korean manufacturers are destroying the memory market by "dumping" goods and is seeking U.S. government assistance to stop the practice, but the real cause of the market's decline may lie elsewhere. [News.com]
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- Micron reports lower profits - Micron Technology (MU) is reporting weaker-than-expected earnings for the latest quarter as profits are cut by sharply lower memory chip prices. [News.com]
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- Micron sells manufacturing unit - Micron Electronics (MUEI) today announced that it is spinning off its Micron Custom Manufacturing Services subsidiary in a deal valued at $271 million as it refocuses on shoring up its PC business. [News.com]
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- Microsoft aims new content at IE users - As the new year approaches, Microsoft is jumping onto the Web with more free editorial content, but some of the best material still is available only through later versions of its own browser, Internet Explorer, rather than Netscape's Navigator. [News.com]
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- Microsoft closing Mungo Park - Microsoft (MSFT) will shut down its high-profile adventure Web site Mungo Park early next year to focus more resources on Expedia, the software giant's online travel agency, executives said today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft connects Net properties - Here's just one of the hard lessons Microsoft learned on the Web this year: money might buy a lot, but it can't buy love and apparently, it can't buy an audience, either. [News.com]
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- Microsoft contests DOJ evidence - Microsoft (MSFT) bolstered arguments it made in a hearing today by filing a series of last-minute documents arguing why it should not be found in contempt of a 1995 court order. [News.com]
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- Microsoft critics cheer ruling - Microsoft (MSFT) opponents cheered today's temporary order against the software giant, a clear indication that they believe the Justice Department's antitrust case is headed in the right direction. [News.com]
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- Microsoft debuts pay-for-play game - Microsoft (MSFT) today jumped into the pay-for-play online game business with Fighter Ace, taking on the likes of America Online and Rupert Murdoch's Kesmai Corporation, among others. [News.com]
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- Microsoft eyes digital TV in UK - British watchdog Oftel said today that Microsoft (MSFT) had met with it to find out more about regulatory issues surrounding the launch of digital television in Britain next year. [News.com]
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- Microsoft hurt by Japan slump - Microsoft (MSFT) is feeling the impact of a sharp slowdown in computer sales in Japan, once one of the company's fastest-growing markets, Chief Operating Officer Bob Herbold said today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft multimedia targets Apple - Microsoft is offering a new version of software for creating multimedia content, with the aim of making it the industry standard as PCs increasingly become multimedia-centric. [News.com]
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- Microsoft parodies abound - Let's face it: who couldn't use a little relief from all the news about Microsoft's legal wrangling, browser bugs, and other assorted issues? [News.com]
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- Microsoft scraps Java meeting - Microsoft (MSFT) has abruptly canceled a Java developer meeting scheduled for this weekend. [News.com]
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- Microsoft ships BackOffice enterprise tools - Just in time for the holidays, Microsoft (MSFT) today delivered a raft of software for building client and server intranet and Internet applications. [News.com]
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- Microsoft ups DSL interest - Although gaining much attention for its foray into high-speed cable Internet access, Microsoft also is rapidly expanding its reach into high-speed access over copper wires, dubbed DSL (digital subscriber line). [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Fujitsu in server tie-up - Microsoft (MSFT) and Fujitsu will cooperate in the marketing of servers based on the Intel-Windows NT platform, giving the software giant a big boost in the second largest computer market. [News.com]
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- Mitsubishi releases WebTV Plus - Mitsubishi Consumer Electronics released its version of the WebTV Plus receiver to dealers, ensuring that at least some consumers will be able to get the second-generation WebTV box during the holidays. [News.com]
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- More Net publications charge fees - It looks as though 1998 might be shaping up as the year where companies increasingly ask their customers to pay for content. [News.com]
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- More server software from MS - Microsoft's (MSFT) year-end onslaught of server software continued today, as the company announced the delivery of Net-based financial software and a Web options package for its Windows NT 4.0 operating system. [News.com]
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- Motorola sells cable modems to France - Inking its biggest cable deal yet in Europe, Motorola's multimedia group has agreed to sell its speedy CyberSurfr modems to France's largest cable operator as the latter launches Internet service in Paris, the companies announced today. [News.com]
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- Movie promos take to the Web - The buzz surrounding today's release of the blockbuster movie Titanic is spreading to the Web, another example of the Net's growing influence both to promote and educate. [News.com]
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- MS college deal protest escalates - A group of about 150 San Francisco State University students rallied yesterday in protest of a partnership that would make Microsoft and three other companies the exclusive providers of Internet and PC technology for the California State University system. [News.com]
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- MS debuts VPN software - Microsoft (MSFT) continues to push its Windows NT Server operating system as a useful tool for service providers. [News.com]
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- MS decries China piracy - China has made headway against the rampant software piracy that hampers sales of Microsoft (MSFT) products, but counterfeiting is still a serious problem, chairman Bill Gates said in Beijing. [News.com]
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- MS extends data storage - Microsoft (MSFT) is fine-tuning its development repository to better work with data analysis tools from a wide range of software makers. [News.com]
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- MS growth to slow in 1998 - Microsoft (MSFT) and its billionaire chairman, Bill Gates, will be scrutinized more closely than ever in 1998 as the software giant battles onslaughts from federal regulators and a well-organized alliance of rivals. [News.com]
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- MS invests in Net software firm - Internet start-up Elemental Software has raised $8 million from a group of investors, including Microsoft (MSFT), executives said yesterday. [News.com]
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- MS objects to special master - Microsoft (MSFT) has vowed to fight the appointment of a "special master" assigned to collect and weigh evidence in its high-stakes, high-profile antitrust battle with the Justice Department on the grounds that the computer law expert named may be biased. [News.com]
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- MS readies Office 98 for Macs - In advance of a January 6 rollout at MacWorld in San Francisco, Microsoft (MSFT) touted the newest features of its Office 98 Macintosh Edition at a demonstration today. [News.com]
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- MS to appeal, comply with injunction - In appealing Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's temporary injunction that gives PC makers the option of shipping Windows 95 without the Internet Explorer browser, Microsoft (MSFT) said it would comply with the ruling and outlined how it intends to do so. [News.com]
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- MS tools, apps require browser - The common software files at the center of the latest twist in the federal case against Microsoft (MSFT) can be viewed in two ways: as necessary components that developers need to take advantage of the Windows operating system or potentially manipulative tools that could be used to extend the company's dominance to other applications, such as Web browsing. [News.com]
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- MS wins expedited appeal request - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today granted Microsoft (MSFT) its request for an expedited hearing to appeal a temporary injunction that prevents it from requiring computer vendors to bundle its Internet Explorer browser with its Windows operating system. [News.com]
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- MS, Intel focus on consumer devices - As the market for PCs matures, the two companies that have propelled the industry's exponential growth, Microsoft (MSFT) and Intel (INTC), are now leading manufacturers into a new era of inexpensive consumer electronics devices. [News.com]
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- MS, PC Docs link law firms, courts - Microsoft said it has formed an alliance with PC Docs Group International to promote an electronic legal and justice system that will digitally link law firms to courts and to each other. [News.com]
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- MS, SGI in graphics chip tie-up - Microsoft (MSFT) and Silicon Graphics are expected tomorrow to unveil a new graphics chip architecture that SGI will use to propel itself into the burgeoning Windows-Intel workstation market. [News.com]
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- MS: DOJ waffled, judge erred - Microsoft (MSFT) came out swinging in its latest round with the Justice Department, charging in court documents filed today that both the agency and the judge have botched key elements of the case. [News.com]
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- MSFT at 7-month low - Microsoft (MSFT) stock fell to a seven-month low today as investors grew increasingly concerned about bad publicity generated by the company's bitter battle with federal antitrust regulators. [News.com]
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- MSN restores email to AOL - Microsoft Network members using the latest version of the service now are able to send email to MSN's chief rival, America Online (AOL). [News.com]
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- MTV, Intel team for live show - In the latest example of the convergence of PCs and television, MTV Networks and Intel today announced the launch of "The Live Link," which will allow viewers of MTV's Live Show to interact with each other and the show's guests. [News.com]
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- Music sales don't sing online - At the sound of it, the combination of CD sales and the Web would seem to go together in perfect harmony: limitless title searches, audio samples, and custom purchases, with nary a surly store clerk in sight. [News.com]
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- N.Y. targets Net bootleggers - New York state attorney general Dennis Vacco is on the warpath against what he says is the latest Net evil: sales of alcohol to minors online. [News.com]
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- National Semi beats estimates - National Semiconductor (NSM) said today that it earned 46 cents a share in its second quarter before acquisition charges, beating analysts' expectations of 43 cents a share. [News.com]
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- NBC, Dow Jones do business - General Electric's National Broadcasting Company and Dow Jones (DJ) announced a deal today that will align their major business news properties both on television and on the Internet. [News.com]
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- NEC lightens notebooks - NEC Computer Systems Division today unveiled its newest "thin and light" notebooks, two models in the Versa 5000 series that feature a 233-MHz Pentium MMX processor in a 1.5-inch-thick package weighing less than 5 pounds, as reported by CNET's NEWS.COM. [News.com]
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- NEC to unveil thin notebooks - Next week, NEC Computer Systems Division will show off for the first time its newest "thin and light" notebooks. [News.com]
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- NEC, HP sign server deal - Japan's NEC Computer (NIPNY) and Hewlett-Packard (HWP) announced they will cooperate in the development of software and an operating system for Unix-based servers intended for sale in the Japanese market. [News.com]
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- Net ad revenue high, but slowing - Internet ad revenues for 1997's first nine months topped $500 million, but the rate of increase slowed dramatically as online publishers experienced their first seasonal slowdown in advertising. [News.com]
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- Net business to dazzle in 1998 - The hottest Internet properties are expected to sizzle in 1998, but the year also will see some dramatic implosions as Web entrepreneurs face the challenge to "show me the money" to be made on the Web. [News.com]
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- Net calls through your own phone - For start-up Aplio, it's not what Net users are talking about that matters, it's what they're talking on. [News.com]
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- Net Content Coalition expands - The Internet Content Coalition (ICC) today announced plans to expand its membership base. [News.com]
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- Net earnings: E-commerce in 1997 - As 1997 ends, Internet commerce experts are busy counting up how much consumers spent shopping on the Net. But the real e-commerce action this year came from businesses selling to each other. [News.com]
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- Net lobbyists reshuffle - While Congress breaks for the holidays, tech-savvy political forces are forming new alliances and linking up to make Net issues just as well-known on Capitol Hill as their higher-profile counterparts. [News.com]
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- Net phones boom, unregulated - No one knows whether voice calls made over the Net will ever be regulated, but the industry still continues to boom with three new Internet telephony services being announced this week. [News.com]
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- Net pioneers awarded national medals - President Clinton awarded the national medal of technology to two inventors whose efforts to link military computers by radio, satellite, and telephone wires 25 years ago evolved into the globe-spanning Internet. [News.com]
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- Net sales up, no threat to stores - In the grand scheme of things, online sales will likely account for only a small amount of gift-buying receipts this season. [News.com]
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- Net summit a must for industry - During the recent negotiations over television ratings, Hollywood studios participated under threat of government intervention. The high-tech industry's involvement in the Children's Internet Summit is voluntary, much the same way--like a groom's participation in a shotgun wedding. [News.com]
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- Net summit raises safety issues - As the debate continues in Washington at the Children's Internet Summit, questions abound regarding how to best keep children safe on the Internet, especially in the areas of parental control, filtering software, and educating children about avoiding sexual predators and obscene content. [News.com]
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- Net TV guides thrive - Online television listings, once a bizarre concept, increasingly are at the center of television and personal computer convergence. [News.com]
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- Netcom, Metricom go wireless - Trying to breathe life into the wireless Net access market, Netcom and modem maker Metricom today announced a new $49.95 per month service targeted at roaming online users. [News.com]
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- Netizens to weigh parole decision - In the latest example of the growing use of the Internet as a forum for public opinion, New York Attorney General Dennis Vacco has asked the public to weigh in on the proposed parole of a convicted killer, via the Internet. [News.com]
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- Netscape deal threatens partner - With its acquisition of Kiva Software, Netscape Communications (NSCP) is gaining new technology and new blood but has put another business relationship in doubt. [News.com]
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- Netscape embraces digital signatures - Netscape Communications said today that the latest version of its Web browser adds the ability to use digital signatures, which could expand the use of online banking and other e-commerce services. [News.com]
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- Netscape expands network software - Netscape (NSCP) announced today that it has expanded its network administration software, Netscape Mission Control, to manage cross-platform shared network resources. [News.com]
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- Netscape late to leverage traffic - When it comes to Netscape Communications (NSCP) taking advantage of its heavily visited Web site to make money, the motto that comes to mind is "better late than never." [News.com]
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- Netscape may miss quarter - Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker said today there was a 60 percent chance Netscape Communications (NSCP) might report earnings that fall short of estimates in the upcoming quarter. [News.com]
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- Netscape set to hold or up market share - Netscape Communications cofounder Marc Andreessen said today he expected his company to "hold or grow" its market share of 67 percent against rival Microsoft's browser products on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Netscape sharpens Javagator plans - Netscape Communications (NSCP) says it will have an all-Java browser ready for network computers and other clients by July. [News.com]
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- Netscape touts "Customer Choice" - Netscape has launched its campaign dubbed "Customer Choice," which offers Netizens instructions for downloading Netscape Communicator client software and uninstalling Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. [News.com]
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- Netscape touts 425 design "wins" - Netscape Communications (NSCP) said it achieved a total of 425 design wins for its products during the first three quarters of 1997, more than double the number it reported in early July. [News.com]
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- Netscape upbeat on Asia prospects - Netscape Communications (NSCP) expects its revenue from Asia to double in 1998 despite the region's economic troubles, a company official said today. [News.com]
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- Netscape, @Home up partnership - "Take that, Microsoft." [News.com]
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- Network market moves to switches - This year may be remembered as the year the proverbial tide turned against traditional routing in the internetworking technology industry. [News.com]
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- Network sector weathering storm - While most major networking companies are grappling with Asian economic woes and inventory issues that have caused investors to view their stocks warily, analysts see signs that the sector can weather the turbulence. [News.com]
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- New Eudora more than just email - Hoping to make its Eudora email package more appealing to corporate users, Qualcomm (QCOM) today rolled out a new version of its Eudora email suite as well as a universal messaging package for Windows. [News.com]
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- New licenses for Web music - The proliferation of Web sites that feature music in written or aural form have raised new concerns about copyrights and royalties. [News.com]
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- New NEC PCs take off in Japan - Japan's NEC said PCs based on the industry-standard Intel-Windows platform are dramatically outselling PCs based on its proprietary architecture, just five weeks after their introduction. [News.com]
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- New spec to connect clusters - The results of an effort to improve the performance of software and computing components in a cluster of systems were released today. [News.com]
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- New tools bolster Net protection - The newly formed Network Associates (NETA) this week is shipping a suite of Internet security tools that includes protection against hostile Java and ActiveX components. [News.com]
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- New twist: Low-cost PC bundle - Gateway 2000 (GTW) is adding a new twist to the low-cost PC: A low-cost bundle including a monitor and printer to compete with no-frills sub-$1,000 offerings. [News.com]
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- New WebTVs are selling well - Mitsubishi Consumer Electronics WebTV Plus boxes sold out within a few days at some major retail outlets, boding well for sales of these enhanced TV set-top devices as they hit store shelves in the coming months. [News.com]
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- New year's resolutions for Apple - Apple Computer (AAPL) may still be seeking a new chief executive, but getting its finances in order in the new year is a more pressing concern for the struggling computer maker. [News.com]
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- Nintendo: Seizures won't hurt sales - Nintendo (NTDOY) said today that media reports that a television cartoon based on its game software "Pocket Monsters" triggered seizures in hundreds of children around Japan yesterday night is unlikely to have a significant impact on its business. [News.com]
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- No clues in Microsoft hearing - As U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson heard further argument today from the Justice Department and Microsoft (MSFT), it remained unclear what actions he would take in the case. [News.com]
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- Nokia buys Ipsilon for $120 million - Taking on Cisco Systems (CSCO) is no easy task, and once proud start-up Ipsilon Networks may be feeling the strain of such an undertaking. [News.com]
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- Notebook drive sizes climbing - CMS Peripherals introduced a high-capacity, 5.1GB hard drive upgrade for notebook computers, one of the largest yet to be offered for portable machines. [News.com]
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- Notebooks retooled for schools - Finally, a notebook you can take to the monkey bars. [News.com]
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- Novell's new tool maps workflow - Novell (NOVL) today rolled out the next version of its GroupWise Workflow automation tool for its groupware applications suite. [News.com]
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- Office 98 to incorporate HTML - Microsoft (MSFT) plans to boost the file format options in the next release of its Office software suite by supporting HTML alongside its own proprietary format. [News.com]
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- OneWave launches Web tool - OneWave (OWAV) today debuted the beta version of a new Internet application development tool. [News.com]
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- Online ad agencies consolidate - Call it the tip of the iceberg. [News.com]
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- Online ads generate $1 billion - Advertising on the Internet is booming as online media companies learn to speak the language of mass marketing and provide the verifiable audience measurements that corporate marketers demand. [News.com]
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- Online bill payment touted - Wells Fargo (WFC) rolled out Internet banking in May of 1995, and more than 400,000 of its customers are using that service today, said the bank's chairman and chief executive, Paul Hazen. [News.com]
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- Online PC sales look strong - While the final numbers haven't yet been tallied, there appears to be early cause for celebration about holiday sales among online PC resellers and vendors. [News.com]
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- Online shopping growing up - Last year, analysts were questioning the viability of online shopping. This year, they are talking about reaching the magic $1 billion mark and looking at ways to improve the experience. [News.com]
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- Onsale to protect customer privacy - After sending unsolicited email to a competitor's clientele, angering some Netizens, the online auction site Onsale has launched a new feature to safeguard its own customers' personal information. [News.com]
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- OpenMarket to automate Net shipping - E-commerce software vendor Open Market (OMKT) is teaming with UPS to create a shipping module for Open Market's Transact software that will fully automate Internet transactions from ordering through tracking a shipment. [News.com]
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- Opposite extremes clash at summit - The three-day Children's Internet Summit that opened today served as a high-profile forum for diametrically opposed groups to debate what can and should be accessible on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Oracle hit with securities lawsuit - A securities lawsuit has been filed against Oracle (ORCL), as well as its chief financial officer and chief operating officer, over accusations of artificially inflating the company's stock, a law firm said today. [News.com]
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- Oracle Japan may go public - Oracle's (ORCL) Japanese division aims to register its shares on Japan's over-the-counter market by as early as the end of next year. [News.com]
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- Oracle keeps rolling them out - Possibly hoping to take the focus off of its disappointing financial news, disclosed earlier this week, Oracle (ORCL) today launched a blizzard of Java-enabled server software and development tools at fall Internet World '97 in New York City. [News.com]
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- Oracle looks to counter Asia impact - Oracle Systems, a unit of software company Oracle (ORCL), hopes demand for risk management and millennium solutions will support operations in Asia as the company copes with the region's economic crisis, a senior company manager said today. [News.com]
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- Oracle rating cut on "controversy" - Citing several "controversies," a key analyst today downgraded his stock recommendation for database giant Oracle (ORCL), warning that the company faces few prospects for near-term improvement and may fall short of Wall Street's revenue expectations for the quarter. [News.com]
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- Oracle stock plummets 29 percent - Oracle (ORCL) shares hit a free-fall today, dropping 29 percent after the company's second-quarter earnings fell short of expectations. [News.com]
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- Oracle turns to service for future - Upon closer inspection, the signs of Oracle's condition were evident: Its database sales registered only a slight heartbeat, and its applications revenues did not provide the lifeblood that the company had been counting on. [News.com]
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- Oracle's NCI trims workforce - Network Computer Incorporated (NCI) trimmed about 15 percent of its workforce yesterday as the company struggles to make it in the small-computing world. [News.com]
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- Oracle, Novell talk up Java - Two key players in the developing anti-Microsoft camp will show off new wares next week at Fall Internet World 97 in New York City. [News.com]
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- Oracle: Six-month Asia backlash - The president of Oracle (ORCL) said today that the crisis in Asian markets would continue to hurt the company's operations for the next six months. [News.com]
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- Packard Bell may cut U.S. jobs - Packard Bell NEC, a domestic unit of Japan's NEC, is likely to cut more than 1,000 jobs to further boost its business efficiency, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Packard Bell NEC gets $300 million - Japanese computing giant NEC will announce today that it is investing an additional $300 million in Packard Bell NEC and taking a 49 percent stake in its American computing arm as it aims to improve the company's infrastructure and get its sales back on track. [News.com]
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- Packard Bell NEC gets $300 million - Japanese computing giant NEC announced yesterday that it is investing an additional $300 million in Packard Bell NEC and grabbing a sizable stake in its American computing arm as it aims to bolster the company's infrastructure and get its sales back on track. [News.com]
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- Packard Bell NEC primes for IPO - Packard Bell NEC has money in the bank to shore up its operations, given the $300 million infusion it received from investors yesterday, but the computer maker still faces challenges as it eyes an initial public offering next year. [News.com]
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- Packard Bell retail passes Compaq - Packard Bell NEC inched ahead of rival Compaq Computer in U.S. retail computer sales for October, according to a survey by Audits & Surveys Worldwide. [News.com]
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- Pamela Lee drops video case - The much-discussed, sexually intimate video of Pamela Anderson Lee and her husband is back on the Net after the two dropped their attempt to bar its distribution through arbitration, it was announced today. [News.com]
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- Pay-per-view coming to PCs? - A chicken in every pot, and a credit card in every PC. [News.com]
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- PC boxes, Pentium II prices shrink - New, compact, mimimalist designs for sub-$1,000 personal computers are emerging from major manufacturers. Meanwhile, Intel has cut the price on its Pentium II processor to spur low-cost Pentium II PC sales. [News.com]
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- PC Docs, Fulcrum to combine - In a consolidation among document management software makers, PC Docs (DOCSF) said today it plans to buy Fulcrum Technologies (FULCF) in a stock-swap. [News.com]
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- PC holiday demand doubles - Twice as many U.S. households intend to buy a PC this holiday season compared to last year, and what appears to be driving them to the stores is price. [News.com]
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- PC makers unfazed by order - Yesterday's court order temporarily stopping Microsoft from requiring PC makers to take its Internet Explorer browser with Windows 95 will probably have little effect on the way those companies do business. [News.com]
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- PCs now in 43% of U.S. homes - Some 43 percent of U.S. households now have a personal computer, up from 35 percent a year ago, a new survey by market researcher Dataquest shows. [News.com]
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- Pentium II goes Hollywood - Pursuing its stated goal of becoming the standard bearer for graphical computing on Windows NT, Intergraph today released a relatively inexpensive Pentium II-based design that can compete in the film production arena. [News.com]
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- Pentium II package may change - Intel (INTC) is contemplating changing its distinctive "Slot 1" design on certain upcoming versions of the Pentium II chip as a way to drive down costs. [News.com]
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- Pentium II PC descends to $1,200 - China's Legend Group has introduced a $1,200 Pentium II system with monitor, a move that appears to be aimed at solidifying its position as the top PC vendor in mainland China. [News.com]
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- PGP acquired by merged firm - Encryption company Pretty Good Privacy today said it will be acquired by Network Associates, the new entity created by the merger of McAfee Associates and Network General. [News.com]
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- PGP's new owners leave crypto alliance - Security software company Network Associates (NETA) is dropping out of an industry alliance that promotes encryption technology with key recovery, worrying that membership might send the wrong message to users. [News.com]
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- Platinum rolls out 3D tool - Platinum Technology (PLAT) today rolled out a software tool that lets users create interactive 3D interfaces for Web pages and corporate applications, in what it says is an effort to bring virtual reality technology from the video arcade to the corporate intranet. [News.com]
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- Playboy updates Web offerings - Playboy's march onto the Web will continue on Thursday with the relaunch of a site featuring its television and home video products as well as games and correspondence using the latest technology bells and whistles. [News.com]
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- Playing the stock options game - Doling out stock options to employees is nothing new in Silicon Valley, but a number of high-tech companies have modified that concept and are using stock options as a way to sidestep the hassles of hard currency. [News.com]
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- PointCast launches pay channel - PointCast has announced its first subscription channel with premium content for investors and business users, hoping to broaden the company's revenue sources as it preps for an initial public offering next year. But the move is tricky, as few subscription businesses have thrived on the Net. [News.com]
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- Pop quiz: Top Net news of 1997 - In Internet circles, 1997 will go down as the year WorldCom went after MCI, Janet Reno went after Microsoft, and everybody went after junk email. [News.com]
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- Pop-up ads OK for Tripod - Pop-up ads, the much-maligned Internet advertising phenomenon, have found a safe haven on Web hosting service Tripod. [News.com]
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- Postal Service tests Net stamp sales - The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is now testing a system to sell stamps over the Net, but the service won't be available until after consumers mail out an estimated 5 billion cards and presents this holiday season. [News.com]
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- PowerTools files suit against Umax - A Texas-based start-up that saw its nascent Mac-cloning business affected dramatically when Apple changed its licensing practices this summer has struck back with a $50 million lawsuit. [News.com]
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- Programmer battles Microsoft - Microsoft (MSFT) has aroused the anger of a North Dakota programmer, a David who has taken on the software Goliath because he believes he is being forced to promote its Internet Explorer Web browser. [News.com]
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- Public data online raises flags - In a feat that may change what it means for a document to be public, more and more municipalities are moving ahead with ambitious plans to put government records on the Net. [News.com]
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- Pundit sees Apple decline - Another industry pundit has weighed in with an opinion on the fate of Apple Computer (AAPL), stating it faces a bleak future and is destined to slowly fade from its former position of prominence in the PC industry. [News.com]
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- Push technology, via satellite - Push technology is coming to Net access via satellite, adding a new dimension to the service. [News.com]
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- Qualcomm debuts email server - Electronic messaging giant Qualcomm (QCOM) today rolled out the next version of its Internet and intranet email server. [News.com]
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- Rallying 'round the fountainhead for MS - The Justice Department has "special master" Lawrence Lessig on its side in its antitrust case against Microsoft, but who can Bill Gates call? How about Ayn Rand? [News.com]
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- RealPlayer 5.0 a hot download - RealNetworks (RNWK) said yesterday that users have been downloading its new RealPlayer 5.0 software at an average rate of more than 500,000 copies per week since it was first made available October 6. [News.com]
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- Recruiting firms turn to the Net - Just as the Internet has revolutionized almost every aspect of business operations--from online stock transactions to electronic commerce--it also is changing the ways companies find and hire executives. [News.com]
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- Registrar readies for competition - Network Solutions (NSOL), the company charged with registering the most popular domain names, is getting ready for competition. [News.com]
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- Regulators to meet about Y2K - Financial regulators from around the globe plan to meet in April to discuss efforts to prepare computers worldwide for the widely feared year 2000, Federal Reserve governor Edward Kelley announced today. [News.com]
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- Remedy shares fall as IBM looms - Remedy stock fell 34 percent amid concerns that IBM's (IBM) acquisition of a rival will mean slower business for the software company. [News.com]
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- Researchers warn of "technostress" - Internet users, do any of the following describe you: [News.com]
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- Resellers see services as panacea - And the big keep getting bigger. [News.com]
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- Reuters launches sports site - International news and information group Reuters Holdings today launched SportsWeb, a free Internet site providing real-time world sports news and pictures. [News.com]
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- Rewriteable CD drives drop in cost - Rewriteable CD storage technology got another boost today with a comparatively low-priced entry from Smart and Friendly. [News.com]
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- Ringing in 1998 on the Net - If you don't want to fight the traffic or crowds, New Year's Eve is coming to the Web. [News.com]
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- Road Runner, MediaOne join forces - Time Warner's Road Runner and US West's MediaOne Express confirmed today they are combining their businesses to provide high-speed Net access via cable systems. [News.com]
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- Roaster goes under - Java development toolmaker Roaster Technologies closed its doors for good today, as its weak finances could not keep the Massachusetts-based company afloat. [News.com]
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- Rockwell to make cable modem chipsets - Cable modem technology got a shot in the arm today as modem powerhouse Rockwell Semiconductor Systems announced that it plans to manufacture chips for cable modems. [News.com]
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- Ross launches Y2K update - Business applications vendor Ross Systems (ROSS) today rolled out the latest version of its COBOL-based financial management client-server suite, completing Year 2000 compliance across the whole product line. [News.com]
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- RSA to hold more crypto contests - Leading encryption software company RSA Data Security is kicking off a second series of contests to discredit the federal government's crypto policy by exposing the vulnerability of its own software. [News.com]
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- RSI cases fall in industry reversal - As RSI claims in the workplace continue to rise, product liability suits against manufacturers appear to be waning as court rulings place new limits on legal action--reversing an industry trend that began only a few years ago. [News.com]
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- Ruling is only a blip on Wall St. - Investors and analysts saw little downside in Microsoft (MSFT) shares today after the software giant's latest legal setback. [News.com]
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- S3 shuffles exec suite - S3 (SIII), a supplier of multimedia acceleration hardware and software, today named Terry Holdt chief executive, president, and chairman as part of a management restructuring. [News.com]
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- Sales lead to WebTV service snags - WebTV users have been experiencing delays in accessing the Net, apparently because the number of subscribers has increased following strong holiday sales of the first-generation set-top device. [News.com]
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- Samsung enters cable modems - Samsung Electronics has added its name to the growing list of cable modem supporters, and will demonstrate its consumer model at an upcoming trade show. [News.com]
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- Samsung invests millions in Brazil - South Korea's Samsung Electronics has injected $50 million into its Brazilian electronics unit despite financial chaos in the Far East and its recessionary impact on Brazil. [News.com]
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- SAP invests in Kiefer & Veittinger - Business software giant SAP plans to buy a 50 percent share in one of Europe's leading sales force automation firms, Kiefer & Veittinger. [News.com]
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- SAP not suffering Asia problems - SAP is unlikely to be plagued by the same Asia-inspired setbacks that have beset U.S. software firm Oracle (ORCL) of late, and the German software supplier's prospects remain bright, analysts said today. [News.com]
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- SAP to invest in Commerce One - E-commerce vendor Commerce One today announced a Web version of its online purchasing system as well as relationships with two software giants, enterprise software developer SAP and Microsoft (MSFT). [News.com]
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- SAP, PeopleSoft in higher ed - SAP and PeopleSoft (PSFT) will soon roll out new packages for educational institutions, both companies said today. [News.com]
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- Sapient to buy Exor - Business systems developer Sapient (SAPE) said today that it will acquire Exor Technologies, a Dallas-based consulting and systems integration company, in a stock swap worth $16 million. [News.com]
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- Satellite networks get boost - Two-way data communications via satellite got another boost today when Orbital Sciences said it had started the in-orbit testing of all eight of its recently launched satellites. [News.com]
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- Saudi prince to invest in Teledesic - Saudi Arabia's billionaire prince, Alwaleed bin Talal, plans to invest in Microsoft (MSFT) chairman Bill Gates's Teledesic company, according to a statement from the prince's office released today. [News.com]
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- SBC, AT&T silent on merger buzz - SBC Communications (SBC) and AT&T (T) remained tight-lipped as speculation reared anew that the telecommunications Goliaths may yet pursue a megamerger. [News.com]
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- School staff loses home Net access - City school officials here have rescinded Internet privileges for staff allowed to work on their computers at home after discovering that some of them visited pornographic Web sites. [News.com]
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- Schwab to expand online efforts - Charles Schwab & Company said it will extend its fast-growing online brokerage business to its entire customer base of 4.8 million active investors. [News.com]
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- Sculley ventures into big picture - Both figuratively and literally, Live Picture chairman John Sculley is heavily invested in the big picture. [News.com]
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- Seagate and Quantum take hits - Storage makers Seagate Technology (SEG) and Quantum (QNTM) announced a round of setbacks yesterday that have since thrown their stocks into a tailspin. [News.com]
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- Search engines rev up services - Search engine companies are expanding again. [News.com]
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- SEC looks into online trading glut - Fallout from the surge in trading volume on October 28 has spurred the Securities and Exchange Commission to look into complaints from customers of online brokerage houses that claim they were locked out of trading during the frenzy. [News.com]
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- SEC to issue guide on Y2K - The Securities and Exchange Commission will offer new guidelines next week to help companies plan to solve computer glitches expected to arise at the turn of the century. [News.com]
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- Secure to unveil NT firewall - Elevating its strategic focus on Windows NT, Secure Computing (SCUR) tomorrow will announce a new version of its firewall for Windows NT. [News.com]
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- Security companies join forces - Signaling further consolidation of the firewall and network security industry, Axent Technologies (AXNT) and Raptor Systems (RAPT) announced plans to merge today in a $250 million stock deal. [News.com]
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- Security flap brews over SNMP - Lax security in a widely used Internet protocol has raised questions about whether leading security firewall software, including the top-selling FireWall-1 software from Check Point (CHKPF), opens the networks of its users to attacks from hackers. [News.com]
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- Selling corporate info on the Net - Most companies have no problem filling up vast databases of corporate info, known as data warehouses, with detailed statistics on customer habits and spending patterns. [News.com]
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- Semiconductor stock ratings cut - There was a whole lot of shaking going on in the chip sector today, as major brokerage firms took semiconductor stocks down a notch with lowered ratings. [News.com]
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- Set-top maker starts anew - NextLevel Systems (NLV) announced it was continuing its corporate restructuring today, naming a new CEO and resuming its original corporate identity, General Instrument. [News.com]
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- SGI ready with new VRML browser - Silicon Graphics' Cosmo Software division will release tomorrow the latest version of its 3D VRML viewer. [News.com]
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- SGI unfazed by Asia slump - Asia remains an attractive region for high-tech investments and markets despite its recent economic troubles, a senior executive at U.S. computer systems Silicon Graphics (SGI) said today. [News.com]
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- SGI, MS read Fahrenheit by 2000 - Microsoft (MSFT) and Silicon Graphics (SGI) are collaborating on a new graphics architecture for Windows to bring 3D graphics down to the desktop and eventually other digital devices. [News.com]
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- Silicon Graphics faces suits - Yet another law firm jumped on the class-action bandwagon against Silicon Graphics (SGI) today. [News.com]
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- Site auctioning celeb memorabilia - First Auction, an online auction site, has launched a celebrity memorabilia auction to benefit charity. [News.com]
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- Site shows graphic music video - By yanking a music video laced with graphic images, MTV Networks appeared to be sweating heated protests earlier this month against the song "Smack My Bitch Up." [News.com]
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- Sites still gather children's data - Numerous online children's sites seem to be ignoring guidelines set by the Federal Trade Commission regarding the collection of personal data from young surfers, the agency reported today. [News.com]
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- Slate to charge subscription fee - After delaying the move for a year, Microsoft's online magazine Slate will bite the bullet and start charging a subscription fee in the new year, publisher Rogers Weed said today. [News.com]
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- SmartServ sued by one of its own - The president of SmartServ Online is suing the information services company in a New York court over its handling of a $4 million investment plan. [News.com]
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- SNET to use Net-based EDI service - Southern New England Telecommunications (SNG) will use the Internet-based EDI service of DynamicWeb to allow its suppliers to take orders and submit invoices over the Net. [News.com]
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- Softbank to list on Tokyo exchange - Aggressive Japanese computer software distributor and magazine publisher Softbank will list its shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) on January 16, the exchange said today. [News.com]
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- Sony sees "Netman" product - Sony (SNY) has come up with an idea for a next-generation audio-visual product called "Netman," a device similar to its popular Walkman portable stereo products, but with networking functions, a spokesman said today. [News.com]
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- Sony ships WebTV Plus too - Sony has released its version of the WebTV Plus receiver, the upgraded set-top box used to access the growing Internet service, in some markets in time for the Christmas buying rush. [News.com]
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- Spammers hit random addresses - John Brogan, chief executive of ReplyNet, thinks he has found a disturbing new trend among junk emailers: sending out mailings to lists full of random email addresses. [News.com]
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- Special master in his element - With a federal judge's designation last night of a special court officer to gather and sort through evidence in the Justice Department's antitrust case against Microsoft (MSFT), the matter is about to take an abrupt turn. [News.com]
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- Sprint offers Net "personal trainers" - Sprint today launched a program called "Personal Internet Trainers," offering a telephone support staff that will answer questions and train its customers to be more productive on the Net for a fee of $9.95 per call. [News.com]
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- Sri Lanka fights rebels online - Sri Lanka today took its war against Tamil Tiger rebels to cyberspace, launching a Web site aimed at countering Tiger propaganda. [News.com]
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- Start-up to speed Web site access - A start-up wants to speed access to popular Web sites. [News.com]
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- State bill seeks to ban spam - After a year of trying various technological solutions to block out spam, legislators around the country once again will be pushing in 1998 for laws to curtail junk email, which many consider the scourge of the Net. [News.com]
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- State slams workers for Net porn - Two state legislative employees were suspended and had their salaries cut because they used state computers to access pornographic images on the Internet, a state official said today. [News.com]
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- States look into MS bundling - A growing number of states are joining forces in their antitrust investigation of Microsoft (MSFT). [News.com]
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- Stepping up network security - Security Dynamics (SDTI) today broadened its security offerings with its first family of products for secure single sign-on for corporate networks. [News.com]
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- Sterling unveils EDI software - Sterling Commerce (SE) today unveiled software to let companies initiate financial electronic data interchange (EDI) transactions with their banks over the World Wide Web, the first phase of building a suite of banking software for the Internet. [News.com]
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- Storage merger in store - Storage system makers Storage Dimensions (STDM) and Artecon announced plans to merge today, creating a storage company serving PC and Unix markets. [News.com]
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- Study cites cost of selling old PCs - In 1998, U.S. corporations will squander $3 billion when they retire outdated personal computers, according to a study by a market research firm. [News.com]
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- Study: 100 million online in 1998 - Similar to a baby boom, a Web boom is on its way next year with the advent of less expensive means for getting online such as set-top boxes, according to a study released today by research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). [News.com]
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- Study: Net reaching mass market - Though it might be a while until the Net finds its way into 98 percent of American households, where television is, it is firmly out of new-adopter territory, according to a survey released today. [News.com]
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- Sub-$1,000 market questioned - Odyssey, a San Francisco-based market research firm, today issued a report warning computer vendors and retailers that sales of sub-$1,000 PCs could hurt their profitability, though vendors such as Compaq dispute this. [News.com]
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- Sub-$1,000 PCs to get more power - Packard Bell NEC will throw down the price gauntlet this winter with the release of sub-$1,000 computers equipped with 200-MHz and 233-MHz Pentium MMX processors from Intel, 56-kbps modems, and other performance features. [News.com]
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- Sun confident of strategy - A senior executive of Sun Microsystems said the company is confident its products can compete against Microsoft's Windows NT operating system software and Intel's upcoming 64-bit microprocessor, code-named Merced. [News.com]
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- Sun offers hands-off approach - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) wants to offer users a hands-off approach to management software while sharpening its focus on Java-based software features. [News.com]
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- Sun on 64-bit Intel: Not so fast - The tricky part of the Sun Microsystems-Intel deal is recruitment of Intel-based hardware and software vendors to the Solaris platform, with analysts questioning how and under what terms this support will come. [News.com]
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- Sun software bridges Java gaps - In response to varied incompatibilities with how different Web browsers interpret the Java language, Sun Microsystems (SUNW) today announced the launch of software that will update browsers with the latest version of Java's underlying framework. [News.com]
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- Sun, MS: 100 percent pure slugfest - To sum up the year's headlines about Java, one need only look back at the year-end summary for 1996: "MS, Sun battle for Java." The two titans fought tooth and nail again in 1997 to direct--or deflect--the momentum behind Java, but Sun ended the year a step closer in its campaign to turn its nascent programming language-cum-platform into an international standard. [News.com]
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- Surfing and shopping at the mall - Mall mega-developer Simon DeBartolo Group today confirmed that it will provide Internet access to 28 million of its shoppers nationwide. [News.com]
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- Sybase debuts Web tools - Sybase (SYBS) is continuing its comeback in the database and development tool market. [News.com]
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- Symantec shrugs off suit setback - A judge has denied Symantec's (SYMC) request for a preliminary injunction in its lawsuit against antivirus rival McAfee, according to Network Associates (NETA). [News.com]
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- Taiwan laptops build new phase - Taiwan's notebook industry continued to grow in the first half of 1997, consolidating a new phase of development, although sales still failed to meet earlier, optimistic projections. [News.com]
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- Talk City open for e-commerce - Talk City, founded as a community Web site, today announced the launch of its shopping area, where members can buy toys, books, and housewares. [News.com]
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- TCI CEO foresees new set-top box - Today at the cable industry's Western Show, TCI (TCOMA) chairman and CEO John Malone said the industry is working on next-generation digital "set-top boxes" that will become more computerlike and feature-rich, although Malone also maintained they won't serve as a replacement for PCs. [News.com]
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- TCI eyes TV set-top computer - Cable TV giant TCI (TCOMA) is talking to a number of companies, including Microsoft (MSFT) and Intel (INTC), about its plans to develop a next-generation digital set-top box with more computerlike features. [News.com]
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- TCI hears the music - Tele-Communications Incorporated seems to be getting into the music business in a big way, a curious move for a company that has publicly stated it was determined to concentrate on its core cable operations. [News.com]
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- Tech advantages won't last - American manufacturers employing sophisticated computer systems that provide low-cost production are likely to lose their competitive advantage as national and overseas competitors catch up with the technology, according to the chief economist of an economic research organization. [News.com]
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- Tech bounce prompts call selling - A bounce in long-battered multinational high-tech stocks since late Friday induced call-selling interest in a generally slow market right before the holidays, traders said. [News.com]
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- Tech council issues privacy guide - The Information Technology Industry Council, which boasts members from some of the computer industry's heaviest hitters, today issued a set of guidelines aimed at protecting the privacy of Netizens and staving off the long arm of the government. [News.com]
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- Tech stock put demand steady - The drive for put options on technology stocks remained steady today as the sector's selloff gained steam in issues like International Business Machines (IBM), options traders said. [News.com]
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- Tech stocks and Nasdaq in 1997 - As 1997 comes to a close, a number of tech companies have managed to stay above the fray and outperform the tech-heavy Nasdaq, which gained 20 percent by the end of the year. As the new year approaches, analysts expect Internet stocks to continue to soar, chip stocks to maintain their upward swing, and networking stocks to remain unpredictable. [News.com]
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- Tepid interest in cable modems? - Two-thirds of all households currently online want faster Internet access in the form of new technologies such as cable modems, a new study by the Yankee Group has found, but consumers are not as enthusiastic about the array of options for achieving the higher speeds. [News.com]
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- The courting of CompuServe - It took a year and a round of suitors that stepped on and off the dance floor, before CompuServe (CSRV) wrapped its arms around a merger deal, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. [News.com]
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- The latest "thing" in Web design - Amateur and professional Web designers alike are getting a new tool to help them easily create sites that are fully interactive. [News.com]
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- The set-top computer is the future - The term "set-top computer" is only about 48 hours old, but it could come to define a major market segment by the year 2000 as it appears that the much heralded convergence between PCs and TVs is finally taking place. [News.com]
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- The two faces of Java - Still need proof that there are now two implementations of Java competing for the hearts and minds of developers? Sun Microsystems doesn't. [News.com]
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- TI dispels chip industry worries - Texas Instruments (TXN) said it expects the global chip market to show improved growth in 1998 and downplayed concerns over memory chip prices and end-market demand. [News.com]
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- TI touts copper chip advance - Texas Instruments (TXN) is developing a process for manufacturing microprocessors with copper that will extend chip performance at least tenfold, the company claims. [News.com]
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- Ticketmaster deals with newspapers - Ticketmaster today announced online marketing pacts with five of the nation's top newspaper companies, signaling a major strategic shift for both. [News.com]
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- Time Warner, Cox expand cable access - Time Warner and Cox Communications today announced expansions of their plans to provide high-speed Internet access via their cable systems. [News.com]
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- Tip line to protect children online - In spite of criticism that the White House-sponsored summit on keeping children safe online was mere public relations, one tangible result is a sense of urgency about dealing with the issue. [News.com]
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- Tivoli steps up management line - Network managers need all the help they can get. [News.com]
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- Toolset eases building with XML - DataChannel will next week roll out a toolkit intended to make development of applications using XML (extensible markup language), an emerging Web programming interface, easier to build. [News.com]
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- Toshiba gets into cable business - Toshiba Multimedia Systems Division previewed digital set-top boxes and cable modems as part of a push for recognition from cable industry executives crowding the floors of the Western Cable Show in Anaheim, California. [News.com]
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- Toshiba notebooks slip again - In another indication that Toshiba has lost its lead in the notebook market, a new survey shows Compaq leading in retail shelf space. [News.com]
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- Toshiba, MS pair DVD, Windows 98 - Microsoft (MSFT) and Toshiba are delivering the hardware and software technology necessary for using DVD players and discs on Windows 98, setting the stage for an expected mass movement to these next-generation storage devices. [News.com]
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- Toshiba, others drop PC prices further - Low-price madness continues to grip the industry. [News.com]
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- U.S. plans more Net child safety - Attorney General Janet Reno today praised private sector plans to protect children using the Internet from predators and promised more measures by law enforcement agencies. [News.com]
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- Uninstalling IE in eye of user - Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson can uninstall IE 3.0 from Windows 95 in 90 seconds without breaking anything. Can you? [News.com]
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- Unisys surfaces as DEC denies Compaq deal - One of Digital's (DEC) top executives today denounced rumors that the company may be sold to Compaq (CPQ). [News.com]
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- Unisys to release "NT mainframe" - Unisys will next year release what it calls a "mainframe for NT," a powerful server that incorporates 32 Intel processors and may herald the use of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system on powerful server computers at large corporations. [News.com]
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- Upgrade to ease E*Trade's load - Early next year, E*Trade (EGRP) will roll out a new system architecture designed both to address capacity problems that have emerged on heavy trading days and to add new services quickly. [News.com]
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- Upgrades for 56-kbps modems due - Now that the industry has finally agreed--tentatively--on a standard for 56-kbps modems, manufacturers are falling over themselves to promise swift, seamless upgrades as soon as the technology is available. [News.com]
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- Users post guides to removing IE 3 - In the wake of Microsoft's (MSFT) claim that it is impossible to remove Internet Explorer 3.0 from Windows 95 without damaging the system, Internet users are trying to prove the company wrong. [News.com]
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- Users protest new Office licensing - User groups are beginning to make noise about Microsoft's decision to discontinue a licensing option for its Office application suite. [News.com]
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- Users react to end of Office deal - Finishing a strategy it started more than two years ago, Microsoft (MSFT) as of today will no longer issue concurrent application licenses, claiming that customers simply do not want such licenses any more. But since Microsoft said last month it would end concurrent licenses, Office users have given the decision a mixed reception. [News.com]
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- USWeb IPO a mixed bag - After pricing below its target, USWeb (USWB) gained 31 percent during its first day as a public company. [News.com]
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- Utah grants first certificate authority - Under a program that aims to make electronic communication and transactions more secure, the state of Utah has entrusted a banking subsidiary to store and authenticate digital signatures. [News.com]
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- ValiCert service checks IDs - ValiCert next month will begin field trials of its service for checking the validity of the digital certificates issued by certificate authorities (CAs). [News.com]
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- VeriFone furthers online payments - Advancing its online payments initiatives on two fronts, VeriFone is tapping international partners to further its strategy in Internet payments and smart cards. [News.com]
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- Visigenic plays query cop - Visigenic Software (VSGN) today began shipping its VisiBroker Integrated Transaction Service (ITS) to beta customers. [News.com]
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- W3C recommends HTML 4.0 - The next generation of HTML (hypertext markup language) is a reality, as the Web's main standards body today recommended it as a specification. [News.com]
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- Washington Post digs into tech - The acquisition of Newsbytes News Network by the Washington Post Company yesterday is part of a broader corporate campaign that reflects a growing concern among the newspaper and its rivals about online coverage of the booming technology industry. [News.com]
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- WaveTop tests broadcast service - Further reinforcing the much-touted convergence between television and PCs, WaveTop, a division of WavePhore, announced today that it has begun nationwide beta testing of its new broadcast service. [News.com]
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- Western Digital slapped with suit - Attorneys representing investors who bought shares in Western Digital (WDC) during a year-long period said yesterday that they had filed a federal class-action lawsuit against the maker of computer hard drives. [News.com]
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- Western Digital ups charge figure - Western Digital (WDC) announced today that it will take larger-than-expected charges ranging from $85 million to $95 million in an attempt to "lessen its exposure to sustained oversupply and higher-than-normal pricing pressures" in the hard drive industry's distribution channel. [News.com]
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- Will GeoCities go to Wall Street? - Online community GeoCities may step into Wall Street's neighborhood with an initial public offering next year. [News.com]
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- Will Merced be Rhapsodized? - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) saw the handwriting on the wall and decided to have its operating system run on Intel's (INTC) upcoming 64-bit processor. Is Apple Computer (AAPL) next? [News.com]
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- Will Y2K trigger recession? - A recent prediction by a Chicago-based investment firm that failure to bring computer systems into compliance for the year 2000 could start a global recession isn't too far fetched, say other economic observers. [News.com]
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- Windows 98 to ship on schedule - Microsoft (MSFT) plans to ship Windows 98 on schedule next year, giving PC manufacturers the option of removing its Internet Explorer browser from the new operating system. [News.com]
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- Wired's founder speaks out - Defending his company's financial stability and discussing his reasons for relinquishing his role as publisher of Wired magazine today, Louis Rossetto had a few choice words to offer those following the digital revolution. [News.com]
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- Wiring of African nation taking time - It has a new name, logo, and slick television advertising campaign promising a better telephone service. [News.com]
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- WorldNet problems ongoing - AT&T WorldNet says increased email usage by its more than 1 million subscribers caused its system to choke up for most of last week. But some customers say the "brownout" was not an isolated incident and are demanding more reliable service. [News.com]
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- WorldNet suffers email lapse - It is still unclear what caused an AT&T WorldNet email glitch that left many of the service's 1 million subscribers without incoming email for about four hours today. [News.com]
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- Xmas sales up for Net merchants - Offline retailers were disappointed by holiday sales, but the same might not be true in the burgeoning online retail market. [News.com]
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- XML close to standard - The World Wide Web Consortium today issued a recommendation that Extensible Markup Language (XML) become a standard, putting the nascent format one step closer to greater acceptance on the Web. [News.com]
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- Yahoo No. 1 in November - Yahoo's Web site was the information superhighway's most popular single pit stop in November, according to a report released today by Internet research firm RelevantKnowledge. [News.com]
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- Yahoo recovers from scam, hack - It used to be that America Online (AOL) had the market cornered on scam artists invading its system. But with the advent of free Web-based email, rip-off artists are finding new venues. [News.com]
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- Yahoo suffers short hack attack - Crackers last night broke into Yahoo, the world's most popular Web site by some accounts, and threatened massive destruction of the world's computer systems if their demands were not met. [News.com]
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- Yahoo, Hallmark to do e-greetings - Furthering its position in the growing online greeting card market, Hallmark Cards has joined forces with Internet guide powerhouse Yahoo (YHOO) to provide Yahoo users with direct access to electronic greetings from the Hallmark Connections Shop. [News.com]
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- Yahoos settle trademark suit - In a case of just desserts, a Texas baker of YA-HOO! cakes that sued search directory Yahoo in a bitter trademark dispute last year now is quietly advertising on the Internet directory's site--and getting results. [News.com]
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- Zip drives for notebooks out - Three weeks after Iomega unveiled its 100MB Zip drives for notebook computers, VST Technologies announced shipment of Zip drives for use with notebooks from IBM and NEC. [News.com]
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