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- $100 single-chip PC on the way - National Semiconductor today announced that its design center in Israel will develop a single-chip personal computer, a system it hopes to introduce commercially by June 1999. [News.com]
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- $500 server handles Net access - Data General yesterday unveiled a stripped-down but powerful server that can connect PCs in a home or small office to the Internet with minimal technical fuss. [News.com]
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- "C" development stalled - America Online's plans for restructuring CompuServe call for suspending development of its Web-based service "C." [News.com]
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- "Click of death" a matter of math - Problems with Iomega's storage products are emblematic of this category of inexpensive, portable products, according to analysts. [News.com]
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- "Click of death" numbers revealed - Iomega released figures today for the first time on the rate of failure of its Zip drive due to the so-called "click of death" problem. [News.com]
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- "Desktop warfare" system planned - Lockheed Martin plans to deliver a new "desktop warfare" air combat planning system to the U.S. government in September, according to a company engineer. [News.com]
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- "Dramatic" Java rise reported - Adoption of Java technology in businesses has made recent "dramatic" strides, but the mainstream has not yet embraced it, according to a market research firm, and users maintain it can be slow and cumbersome. [News.com]
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- 11 states subpoena Microsoft - New York state attorney general Dennis Vacco announced today that he and ten other state prosecutors have subpoenaed Microsoft for documents relating to its upcoming release of Windows 98. [News.com]
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- 3Com adds layers of security - 3Com (COMS) next week will announce enhancements for secure connections across the Net in its line of enterprise corporate routing devices. [News.com]
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- 3Com donates Net access to teachers - 3Com (COMS) today announced that it is spearheading an effort to provide Internet access to all Massachusetts educators. [News.com]
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- 3Com first to ship standardized fast modems - 3Com (COMS) today became the first vendor to ship a 56-kbps modem based on the new international standard. [News.com]
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- 3Com parcels out bandwidth - 3Com (COMS) will release a new management software tool next week that will mark the company's initial steps in creating a policy-based network scheme that provides bandwidth to crucial applications. [News.com]
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- 3D board makers join Intel bandwagon - Makers of 3D graphics circuit boards for PCs wasted no time in pledging support for the Intel740, the company's performance graphics chip that was released today. [News.com]
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- 3D chip establishment on the run - Responding to sometimes-devastating changes in the industry, graphics chip stalwarts are shying away from trying to earn a living by making the fastest, hippest chips and are instead building cost-effective integrated chips for the low-cost computing market. [News.com]
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- 3Dlabs sues TI, gets a new partner - 3Dlabs today announced it is suing longtime manufacturing partner Texas Instruments for trade secret violations, and revealed a new manufacturing alliance with SGS Thomson Microelectronics. [News.com]
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- 56 kbps down to $100 - 3Com (COMS) will introduce a $99 56-kbps modem next month as a means to expedite sales of modems with the new v.90 standard technology in the consumer market. [News.com]
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- 56-kbps modem standard on tap - The battle over competing 56-kbps modem technologies is expected to end this week as modem manufacturers gather in Geneva, Switzerland, to vote on a standard that allows all 56-kbps modems to communicate with each other. [News.com]
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- 56-kbps standard here - In Geneva, a city long known for hosting diplomatic negotiations, modem manufacturers have finally settled the battle over competing 56-kbps modem technologies. [News.com]
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- 64 Pentium IIs to go into server - In a bid to offer mainframe performance using commodity PC building blocks, Data General (DGN) will offer a powerful server computer with 64 advanced Intel "Deschutes" Pentium II processors by the end of the year. [News.com]
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- @Home to offer TV email - @Home (ATHM) will offer television-based email through its cable partners as part of a new, larger role as one of the key software developers in Tele-Communications Incorporated's (TCOMA) advanced TV set-top box initiative. [News.com]
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- @Home, Road Runner in talks - @Home (ATHM) and Time Warner's Road Runner are holding talks about merging their high-speed Internet access services, a move that would unite the cable industry in an effort to take on the Baby Bells in this burgeoning market, company sources said. [News.com]
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- A new Windows password cracker - A group that made waves last spring with hacker code that can gain access passwords for Microsoft's Windows-based operating system software is back with a revised tool. [News.com]
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- A sneak peek at SQL Server 7.0 - Not satisfied with terrorizing its database competitors, Microsoft (MSFT) is now also targeting data analysis software makers. [News.com]
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- Academy nominees posted online - Netizens this morning were among the first to get this year's list of nominees for the Academy Awards--assuming they could reach some of the jammed Web sites. [News.com]
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- Acer notebook drops to $1,200 - Acer America announced notebook price cuts ranging to 20 percent, citing lower manufacturing costs brought on by the currency crisis in Asia. [News.com]
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- ACLU takes filtering to court - The American Civil Liberties Union today is asking a federal court to declare that screening Net sites at public libraries infringes on patrons' rights to download constitutionally protected speech, including controversial news stories. [News.com]
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- Ad filtering catching on? - Advertising may be the goose that is laying the Internet's golden eggs, but at least one critic is predicting that the rise of ad filtering software could present a glitch to the system. [News.com]
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- Adaptec buys semiconductor firm - Working to expand its customer base, Adaptec (ADPT) today agreed to acquire Hyundai Electronics America's semiconductor unit, Symbios, in a deal worth $775 million, including assumed liabilities. [News.com]
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- Akia PC takes up 80% less space - Akia today introduced a space-saving personal computer that it says takes up to 80 percent less desktop room than a conventional PC monitor and tower casing. [News.com]
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- AltaVista unveils free email - Playing a determined game of catch-up, Digital Equipment's (DEC) AltaVista today became the latest search service to offer free email. [News.com]
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- AMD looks to DSL market - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), struggling to become a major player in the market for desktop microprocessors, today said it is expanding into the burgeoning market for digital subscriber line (DSL) chipsets. [News.com]
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- Another Heaven's Gate suicide - One of the few remaining members of the Heaven's Gate cult has died in a suicide similar to the deaths of 39 of the group's members in San Diego last year, police say. [News.com]
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- Another try at telephony over IP - Qwest Communications (QWST) today became the latest company to offer long distance telephone service over an IP (Internet protocol) network, part of a trend that signals the coming of age of a once-disparaged technology. [News.com]
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- Antipiracy laws under fire - Although the Net often is called a great equalizer, legal and technology experts warned today that proposed antipiracy laws coupled with the trend toward pay-per-view online content is hedging society to "information feudalism." [News.com]
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- AOL access case settled - A judge in Chicago today approved a class-action settlement in a lawsuit filed by America Online (AOL) subscribers who had trouble getting into the online network last year. [News.com]
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- AOL class action goes forward - Attorneys in New York and Washington have set back into motion a class-action lawsuit against America Online (AOL) based on access problems the ISP's subscribers experienced last year. [News.com]
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- AOL fights search rivals - America Online (AOL) made further moves today to keep its 11 million members happy amid a price hike and complaints about privacy. [News.com]
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- AOL gambles on big ad deals - America Online (AOL) has persuaded advertisers and content providers time and again to pay millions of dollars for space on AOL. [News.com]
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- AOL lays off 80 at Digital City - America Online laid off 80 employees at its Digital City guides, marking the third round of staff cuts at the online service in recent weeks, CNET's NEWS.COM learned today. [News.com]
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- AOL makes online waves - In moves that are sure to make industry waves and raise the ire of its 11 million members, America Online announced that it is bumping its monthly access charge by $2 and cutting back staff at its CompuServe subsidiary. The news comes as the online giant restructures its operations and puts Robert Pittman in an elevated executive position. [News.com]
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- AOL may announce reorganization - America Online (AOL) is expected to announce a reorganization next week that will dismantle the company's AOL Studios online programming division and shift the company's focus and executive power, according to reports. [News.com]
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- AOL outage brief but dangerous - The last time America Online (AOL) suffered a total blackout, members were knocked offline for 19 hours. Last night's outage, by comparison, lasted a relatively painless 2-1/2 hours. [News.com]
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- AOL outlines plans going forward - America Online (AOL), in a conference call with analysts, highlighted its efforts to move into the broadband arena and meld CompuServe into its operations. [News.com]
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- AOL profits beat estimates - Bolstered by a growth in subscribers, advertising, and e-commerce revenues, America Online (AOL) posted improved second-quarter results today, slightly beating analysts' expectations. [News.com]
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- AOL raising prices - America Online said today that it would raise its monthly charge for unlimited access to the Internet by $2 to $21.95, or 10 percent, effective in April. [News.com]
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- AOL restructures, forms new units - In a move to reposition itself, America Online (AOL) today announced that it is reorganizing its business units and that it has promoted executive Robert Pittman to president and chief operating officer. [News.com]
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- AOL sets sights on takeovers - America Online (AOL) expects to grow primarily through increased consumer demand for online computer services, but also could make acquisitions as the industry consolidates, the company's chairman, Stephen Case, said today. [News.com]
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- AOL stock hits historic high - Despite a recent lowering of the earnings estimate consensus for America Online (AOL), the online giant's shares today hit a new high. [News.com]
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- AOL suffers brief shutdown - America Online's (AOL) Internet service was temporarily shut down by an electrical problem the company says had a wider impact than a wave of electronic mail problems last year. [News.com]
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- AOL to add digital imaging service - Say cheese. [News.com]
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- AOL to launch in Hong Kong - America Online (AOL) said today it forged an alliance with Hong Kong-based China Internet Corporation (CIC) to offer its online service to Hong Kong consumers within the next year, extending its global reach. [News.com]
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- AOL to withstand rate backlash - Why did America Online (AOL) choose to raise its prices now? The answer just may be: Why not now? [News.com]
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- AOL's coming of age - In October 1996, America Online (AOL), the leading online service, restructured and launched flat-rate pricing, another chapter in its tumultuous history. In spite of it all, AOL has grown exponentially and continues to dominate the market. [News.com]
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- Apple annual meeting up in air - Silicon Valley is abuzz with speculation about why Apple Computer (AAPL) still does not have a firm date set for its annual shareholders meeting. [News.com]
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- Apple cuts prices on older models - Apple Computer (AAPL) lopped up to $1,000 off notebook and consumer desktop systems in an effort to shore up sales during its historically slow second quarter. [News.com]
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- Apple losing education share - Though Apple Computer (AAPL) managed to post a profit for its most recent quarter, it is still plagued by shrinking market share, according to a new report from a major market research firm. [News.com]
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- Apple pulls out of some retailers - Apple Computer (AAPL) today said it is pulling its Macintosh computers from four major stores, indicating a hasty retreat from broad-based retail sales. [News.com]
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- Apple scraps Newton - Apple Computer (AAPL) announced today it will discontinue further development of the Newton operating system (OS) and Newton OS-based products, including the MessagePad 2100 and eMate 300. [News.com]
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- Apple seeks cheap Mac boost - Apple Computer (AAPL) sees the need for a cheaper entry-level computer and hopes to benefit from the expansion of the Internet in Europe, its general manager for Europe said today. [News.com]
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- Apple to cut prices, unveil servers - Apple Computer (AAPL) is set to lower prices on its popular Power Macintosh "G3" machines, and will also release new server computers, a new product twist for Apple. [News.com]
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- Apple up despite uncertainty - Apple's (AAPL) market share is on the slide, but the computer maker's stock is on the climb. [News.com]
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- Apple woos Japanese market - Apple Computer (AAPL) kicked off the Tokyo leg of its Macworld Expo today, pledging continued commitment to the Asian market and faster releases of Japanese versions of its software. [News.com]
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- Apple's G3 the fastest notebook - Apple Computer's (AAPL) notebook line is set to bloom in spring with the arrival of new PowerPC G3 systems that will strive to maintain their lead over Intel-based notebooks. [News.com]
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- Are telco giants finally awakening? - A year ago, analysts and others throughout the high-tech industry sounded an ominous warning: Here come the telephone companies. [News.com]
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- Argentine piracy ruling uproar - Argentina's Supreme Court ruled that copying software is not a criminal offense, causing an immediate uproar. [News.com]
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- Argentines rushing copyright rules - Argentina's Congress is hurriedly considering new legislation to bring the South American country's copyright law into line with the international community. [News.com]
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- Ascend goes for voice-over-IP - The convergence continues. [News.com]
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- Asian IT spending to rebound - Despite the financial turmoil currently plaguing the Asia-Pacific region, information technology (IT) spending there will soon rebound, according to a new study. [News.com]
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- Asian Net use to rise 63% - The number of Asian Internet users is expected to rise by 63 percent for the 1995-2001 period, slightly down on forecasts made before the region's economic crisis began in July, a research report showed. [News.com]
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- AT&T, MCI ride outsourcing trend - The outsourcing of network administration is an emerging trend, analysts say, as companies are increasingly faced with the escalating costs of managing their own networks and the tight labor market for IT professionals. [News.com]
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- Auto makers add PC technology - Car email is closer than you think. [News.com]
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- Average PC price below $1,300 - Spurred by growing sales, the average purchase price of a personal computer fell below $1,300 for the first time last quarter, despite a slight dip in the market share of the sub-$1,000 PC, according to new report by Computer Intelligence. [News.com]
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- Baan pieces app bundle together - Following through with its plans, Netherlands-based business application software maker Baan (BAANF) will unveil a new, component-based version of the company's enterprise application package next week intended to simplify installation and management, according to company executives. [News.com]
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- Baan to acquire Coda Group - Business applications maker Baan (BAAN) today announced plans to purchase enterprise accounting systems developer The Coda Group. [News.com]
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- Bank revives itself through Net - A once-troubled savings and loan in sunny Southern California will make an intermediate stop in snowy Minnesota on its journey to Internet banking. [News.com]
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- Bay looks to NEC for gear - Networking equipment provider Bay Networks (BAY) has its sights set squarely on competitors Cisco Systems and Fore Systems in the high-speed infrastructure market. [News.com]
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- Bay readies new 56-kbps gear - Bay Networks says it has completed testing of the new standard for 56-kbps modems and will begin offering remote access supporting the standard next quarter. [News.com]
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- Big shakeup at Sybase - Struggling database software maker Sybase (SYBS) announced a major reorganization that will install the company's current No. 2 executive as co-CEO. [News.com]
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- Bill for banker Y2K school - With the latest legislation on the Year 2000 computer problem, Congress moves federal financial regulators to the front of the classroom, into a teaching role. [News.com]
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- Billboard turns to matchmaking - Billboard Music Group, publisher of music industry bible Billboard magazine, is expanding its Net reach with a matchmaking site designed to help unsigned bands get their big break. [News.com]
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- Bloomberg and CNET to partner - Bloomberg and CNET: The Computer Network (CNWK) today announced a strategic partnership to offer co-branded financial and technology news. [News.com]
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- Bloomberg to do news for AOL - America Online (AOL) announced today that Bloomberg news service will take the place of Dow Jones Business Center, which left AOL at the end of the year. [News.com]
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- Book to be serialized on Net - Novelist Barry Beckham is marketing his latest book the old-fashioned way, but with a twist: by serializing it on the Net. [News.com]
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- Both sides claim win in CA fight - Each side claimed victory yesterday after the first legal skirmish in Computer Associates' hostile attempt to acquire Computer Sciences for about $9.1 billion. [News.com]
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- British Telecom investing in Net - British Telecommunications said today it plans a major spending and modernization program to support growth in Internet and data communications services. [News.com]
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- Broker email rules stalled - Faced with online privacy concerns, the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) is stalling the start date of new rules that could subject investment brokers to email monitoring if they correspond with clients online. [News.com]
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- Browser aimed at children - Bandai Digital Entertainment and Medialive are planning to launch a browser in April that is designed for 8- to 12-year-olds to surf the Web, another attempt to tap the burgeoning children's online market--this time using Microsoft technology. [News.com]
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- Bug sends Navigators to IE - CyberMedia executives today apologized for a bug in the company's software that inadvertently changed some users' default browser from Netscape Communications' Navigator to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and they said a patch is being offered on CyberMedia's Web site. [News.com]
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- Buyers taking dollars online - Online shoppers are buying less from print catalogs and stores in the physical world, according to a new research survey slated for release tomorrow. [News.com]
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- C&W up on Oracle merger rumor - Shares in telco Cable & Wireless Plc rose today following a weekend press report stating that the British company was in merger talks with U.S. software giant Oracle (ORCL). [News.com]
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- CA begins hostile takeover - Frustrated by a chilly reception to its initial offers, Computer Associates (CA) today commenced its hostile takeover of Computer Sciences by offering approximately $9.8 billion for all outstanding shares in the company. [News.com]
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- CA bids on Computer Sciences - There is tension in the air. [News.com]
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- CA making smarter network tools - Management software may soon get a cerebral boost. [News.com]
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- CA steps up pursuit of CSC - Computer Associates (CA), stepping up its pursuit of Computer Sciences (CSC), today offered to meet with CSC shareholders to discuss its $9.18 billion takeover offer. [News.com]
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- CA teams on Y2K software tools - Computer Associates and Information Analysis today rolled out the commercial version of a suite of software tools developed by both companies to analyze and fix legacy applications suffering from Year 2000 noncompliance. [News.com]
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- CA turns up heat in merger talks - Computer Associates today intensified pressure on Computer Sciences to negotiate the software maker's unsolicited $9 billion takeover bid. [News.com]
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- Cadence legal battle escalates - Avant said today that it has countersued Cadence Design Systems, alleging that its rival was using insider trading and racketeering to sink the electrical engineering software company. [News.com]
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- Caldera takes on Windows 95 - After receiving permission from a federal magistrate judge, Caldera has amended its private antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft to include evidence concerning Windows 95. [News.com]
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- California cancer victims sue IBM - Nine cancer victims and their families have sued IBM, accusing Big Blue of using them as "guinea pigs" in their disk drive manufacturing facilities in San Jose, California. [News.com]
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- CD-ROM industry shifting gears - Taiwan's CD-ROM manufacturing industry is apparently one of the beneficiaries of the Asian currency crisis. [News.com]
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- CDnow goes public with a bang - After upping its offering price, CDnow (CDNW) today launched its initial public offering and saw its shares rise nearly 40 percent. [News.com]
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- Cell phone down to credit card size - Compaq Computer (CPQ) unveiled a credit card-sized mobile telephone that allows laptop computers to send email and faxes without a cellular or regular phone line. [News.com]
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- Cheap DRAMs stolen at airport - Gunmen forced their way into a warehouse just outside of San Francisco International Airport and stole a large shipment of memory chips from South Korea earlier this week, but the thieves could have targeted better booty. [News.com]
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- Check Point to meld software - In a major strategic pronouncement, Check Point Software Technologies (CHKPF) today said it will merge its leading firewall software, FireWall-1, and its bandwidth management software, FloodGate-1, into a single product by year's end. [News.com]
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- China to police viruses - In efforts to tighten its grip on the growing threat of computer viruses, the Chinese government has announced it will implement new rules that will put the nation's police force in charge of all virus research. [News.com]
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- Chip breakthrough claimed - Researchers at the University of Texas have developed a new chipmaking technology that will help the semiconductor industry continue to produce exponentially more powerful processors while keeping manufacturing costs in check. [News.com]
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- Chip market estimate lowered - Market research firm Dataquest today lowered its preliminary forecast for the worldwide semiconductor market to $160 billion by the end of 1998, citing Asia's financial crisis. [News.com]
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- Chrysler gives Internet a plug - Chrysler chairman Robert Eaton urged the nation's auto dealers on yesterday to make it easier for people to buy cars using the Internet and other new technologies. [News.com]
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- Cincinnati Bell tries fast Net - Another telecommunications carrier today announced testing of high-speed Net access over copper wires--this time, Cincinnati Bell in parts of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. [News.com]
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- Cirrus bets on all-in-one chip - Cirrus Logic today moved one step closer toward releasing an integrated processor, or "system on a chip," a product that's intended to give the chipmaker a slice of the growing small-device market. [News.com]
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- Cisco acquires WheelGroup - Cisco Systems (CSCO) yesterday continued its push into the Internet security market, announcing that it will acquire WheelGroup for $124 million in stock. [News.com]
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- Cisco revenues up 27 percent - Boosted by strong sales in the Americas and Europe as well as among Internet service providers, networking giant Cisco Systems (CSCO) today announced a 27 percent revenue jump in the second quarter. [News.com]
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- Cisco to deliver gigabit gear - Rumors, road maps, and reality: That has been the progression of Cisco Systems' (CSCO) closely watched strategy for Gigabit Ethernet, the next generation of the dominant networking technology for connecting PCs and server computers. [News.com]
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- Citrix says Microsoft alliance solid - The alliance between network computer software company Citrix Systems and industry titan Microsoft remains on solid ground, Citrix executives said today. [News.com]
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- Clinton budgets more for high tech - The Clinton administration's proposed 1999 fiscal budget earmarks billions of dollars in tax breaks and funding for technology research and education initiatives. [News.com]
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- Clinton outlines Net policy - President Clinton today announced three policy initiatives aimed at promoting tax-free commerce on the Internet, keeping the United States on the cutting edge of technology and "preserving America's cultural treasures" online. [News.com]
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- Clinton: No new Net taxes - President Clinton will call today for a moratorium on new taxation of goods and services sold over the Internet, White House officials said. [News.com]
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- Compaq catching Sun in Web servers - Compaq (CPQ) is making a run at Sun Microsystems (SUNW) in the market for Web servers, one of Sun's strongholds. [News.com]
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- Compaq cuts PCs below $1,000 - Compaq Computer (CPQ) continues to cut price tags on its PCs. [News.com]
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- Compaq cuts server prices - Compaq Computer (CPQ) reduced prices on low-end and midrange servers by as much as 22 percent while also boosting standard memory, in an effort to stay in front of the competitive PC server market. [News.com]
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- Compaq offers free Pentium IIs - Compaq today announced that qualifying ProLiant server customers can upgrade to Intel's next-generation Pentium II server technology for free. [News.com]
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- Compaq sees 1998 growth in Asia - Compaq Computer (CPQ) expects its Asian business to keep growing in 1998 despite financial uncertainty and industry consolidation, a senior company official said today. [News.com]
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- Compaq ships new workstations - Compaq Computer (CPQ) unveiled new workstations based on the latest Intel 333-MHz Pentium II chip and cut prices on older workstations by up to 25 percent. [News.com]
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- Compaq upgrades low-cost servers - Compaq Computer (CPQ) incorporated Intel's 300-MHz Pentium II processor into two low-cost server computers, buffing out its family of inexpensive servers based on the Windows NT operating system. [News.com]
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- Compaq won't rule out acquisitions - Compaq Computer (CPQ) president Eckhard Pfeiffer said today that the acquisition of Digital Equipment (DEC) would keep the company's management busy for now, but would not rule out another deal in the future, especially in communications. [News.com]
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- Compaq, Intel play network cards - The first fruits of the network-focused partnership between Compaq Computer (CPQ) and Intel (INTC) have reached the PC market. [News.com]
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- Compaq, others embrace 64-bit SCO Unix - A group of server computer vendors, including Compaq and Unisys, has agreed to invest millions into an effort to port UnixWare, the Unix variant from Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), to Intel's upcoming 64-bit Merced chip. [News.com]
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- CompuServe does phone deal - Tel-Save Holdings (TALK) today announced that it inked a multiyear deal to market its service to CompuServe (CSRV) customers. [News.com]
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- CompuServe lays off 500 - America Online (AOL) and its wholly owned subsidiary CompuServe announced a reorganization of their operations that will have CompuServe laying off 500 employees. [News.com]
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- Computer Associates may face suit - Computer Sciences (CSC) is damned if they do and damned if they don't. Either way, a shareholder lawsuit is waiting in the wings. [News.com]
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- Computer tax filings on rise - More Americans are filing their income taxes by computer, getting their returns quickly, and heading off to stores with money to spend. [News.com]
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- Congress deals with high tech - Congress will only be in session until April, but that's just enough time to jump-start some major high-tech legislation. [News.com]
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- Congress has issues with email - Before shooting off an opinionated email to Congress, Net users should consider who will be reading their democratic prose--or whether it will be read at all. [News.com]
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- Congress weighs Net porn bills - As with plastic wrappers on pornographic magazines in stores, Congress again is searching for ways to keep children out of "Adults Only" Net sites. [News.com]
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- Consolidating for security - Cisco Systems' (CSCO) acquisition this week of security firm WheelGroup signals the rapid convergence of the networking and network security industries, analysts and industry executives say. [News.com]
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- Conviction in online threat case - In the first conviction of an online hate crime, a 21-year-old Los Angeles man has been found guilty in federal court of sending racist death threats by email to 59 Asian students. [News.com]
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- Copyright bill edges forward - Stronger copyright protection for digital works and software edged forward today in Congress despite fierce opposition from some high-tech factions. [News.com]
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- Corel CEO downplays losses - Brushing aside deep losses in 1997, the head of Canadian software maker Corel (COSFF) said yesterday that the company was poised to benefit from a stream of new products this year. [News.com]
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- Corporate Web sites fail to wow - Multinational companies have been quick to set up Web sites, but many are providing inadequate or even counterproductive services, according to a report published today. [News.com]
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- Court blocks use of Net fees - A U.S. federal court has temporarily barred the government from spending $23 million collected from Internet users on the "Next Generation Internet" project. [News.com]
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- Court rejects Net law in Virginia - A federal judge has struck down a Virginia law governing Internet usage, saying the state disregarded the First Amendment when it banned public employees from downloading "sexually explicit" material using state computers. [News.com]
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- Court rules against Iomega - Move over, Iomega (IOM), here comes Nomai. [News.com]
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- Cox, @Home offer fast Net access - Cox and @Home said today that they launched high-speed Internet access for businesses in Orange County and San Diego, California, and Phoenix, Arizona. [News.com]
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- Critics slam new NSI domain policy - Critics of Network Solutions' (NSI) domain name dispute policy say its new plan, quietly posted last month, is even worse than the old one. [News.com]
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- CSC files suit to block takeover - Computer Sciences (CSC) filed a lawsuit against Computer Associates (CA), charging that CA has engaged in a fraudulent scheme to take over CSC and seeking to block the merger bid, according to court papers. [News.com]
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- CSC offers bonus to fight bid - Computer Sciences (CSC) is offering investment bankers a $14 million bonus if they can thwart Computer Associates' (CA) $9.18 billion hostile takeover bid, according to reports. [News.com]
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- CSC reacts to hostile bid - Computer Associates (CA) is ready to go to war with Computer Sciences (CSC) over a hostile takeover bid filed today. [News.com]
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- CSC rejects $9 billion takeover bid - Computer Sciences (CSC) officially has rejected a $9 billion acquisition offer from Computer Associates (CA). [News.com]
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- CSC says CA answer prudent - Computer Sciences' (CSC) chairman and chief executive officer said yesterday that the company's rejection of Computer Associates' (CA) $9.8 billion takeover bid is "proper and prudent." [News.com]
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- Cyber Patrol blocks Deja News - Censorware Project, a group opposed to Internet filtering, released a report today criticizing a filtering company for blocking access to Deja News, a popular newsgroup archiving site. [News.com]
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- CyberCop wards off hackers - Network Associates (NETA) will ship its new intrusion detection software, CyberCop, later this month, the latest entry into the hot market for ways to ward off hacker attacks. [News.com]
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- Dell faces low-cost question - Although Dell Computer (DELL) has profited by offering high-end PCs on a "build-to-order" basis, many analysts are beginning to question how long the direct seller can cling to its strategy while the rest of the industry migrates to the sub-$1,000 PC. [News.com]
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- Dell reduces workstation prices - Dell Computer (DELL) today announced workstation price cuts up to 13 percent. [News.com]
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- Dell sees Web sales, Europe as key - Online sales and more growth in the European market are key parts of Dell Computer's (DELL) strategy for becoming the No. 1 PC vendor in 2000. [News.com]
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- Dell stock up on Q4 results - Breaking new records, Dell Computer (DELL) stock gained nearly 10 points today after the company surprised Wall Street with stronger-than-expected profits and announced a stock split yesterday. [News.com]
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- Dell to open Chinese plant - China's government has given Dell Computer (DELL) the go-ahead to expand its Asian operations. [News.com]
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- Dell upbeat despite rivals' merger - Dell Computer (DELL) chief Michael Dell conceded today that a merger of Compaq Computer and Digital Equipment would make life more challenging. [News.com]
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- Demo98 wares aimed at techno-hip - The Demo98 conference kicked off here today with the unveiling of eight new technologies for the technically hip. [News.com]
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- Digital camera quality at low cost - A major blow was struck today against the low picture quality that has dogged sales of digital cameras, as three major companies released digital cameras that boast million-pixel resolution for under $1,000. [News.com]
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- Digital camera sets new standard - The digital photography season officially kicked off today with the release a professional-level digital camera jointly developed by Kodak and Canon. [News.com]
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- Digital cameras shoot the moon - This week's Photography Marketing Association show in New Orleans may be remembered as the turning point in widespread acceptance of digital photography, analysts say, because of the introduction of both low-cost cameras, imaginative products, and input from companies new to the market. [News.com]
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- Digital cuts notebook prices - Digital Equipment cut prices up to 19 percent on its HiNote Ultra 2000 and HiNote VP lines of notebook computers, amid industry consensus that Digital will drop its notebook and desktop lines in the relatively near future as a result of its pending merger with Compaq. [News.com]
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- Digital expands desktop line - Digital Equipment (DEC) broadened its desktop line, announcing a new series and also incorporating Intel's fastest Pentium II processor into an existing series. [News.com]
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- Digital offers Y2K support - Digital Equipment (DEC) today rolled out new programs and services to help its customers deal with the Year 2000 problem. [News.com]
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- Digital orders spending freeze - Digital Equipment (DEC) has ordered a massive, company-wide spending freeze, putting restrictions on everything from hiring and travel to the use of cellular phones, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Digital trims workstation prices - Digital (DEC) today nipped prices on its entire line of personal workstations by up to 10 percent. [News.com]
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- Digital's Alpha to remain fastest chip? - Digital Equipment (DEC), making its first major announcement since last week's declaration of a planned merger with Compaq (CPQ), said that the newest version of its 64-bit Alpha processor will break the 1,000-MHz barrier by the year 2000, a goal which may put Digital's chip and Intel's upcoming Merced processor on a collision course. [News.com]
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- Disaster recovery for small businesses - IBM (IBM) today extended its disaster recovery service to small and mid-sized businesses to help them bounce back from disasters and system outages. [News.com]
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- Disney suffers billing glitch - A billing glitch has caused some customers of Disney's Daily Blast, the popular subscription-based online service for children, to get billed twice, but executives said they are working to correct the problem. [News.com]
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- DVD combines with Intel 3D chip - C-Cube Microsystems (CUBE) and Zoran (ZRAN) separately announced today that they will introduce low-cost circuit boards with 3D graphics and DVD playback capabilities based on Intel's new graphics chip. [News.com]
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- DVD-RAM drives ready for Macs - Matsushita Electric recently demonstrated a Macintosh-compatible DVD-RAM drive, and will soon begin shipping the high-capacity, re-recordable drive by mid-year. [News.com]
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- DVD/3D kit to hit market - Diamond Multimedia (DIMD) today announced a low-cost, combination DVD playback and 3D graphics kit, to be released sometime in the second quarter of this year. [News.com]
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- E*Trade to add new features - E*Trade is planning to spruce up its product offerings to stay abreast of the competition. [News.com]
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- E-commerce changes at Demo 98 - After tinkering with their software, four Internet commerce technology vendors have unveiled changes designed to make their offerings easier to use, hoping that will lure more online buyers. [News.com]
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- E-commerce reshapes retail - The Internet is rapidly reshaping the U.S. retail landscape, as online commerce blossoms, firms streamline their businesses, and consumers grow more comfortable with shopping in cyberspace, analysts said. [News.com]
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- Easier links for older systems - Infrastructure applications provider Tibco Software will launch its bid for a portion of the emerging market for integration tools tomorrow with a bevy of new offerings. [News.com]
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- Ebay wages antispam war - What started as a battle on Halloween has turned into a full-fledged fight with alleged spammers. [News.com]
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- EC slams domain proposal - The European Commission has criticized a U.S. proposal for reforming the Internet's naming and address system, saying it would give Americans too much control over the global computer network. [News.com]
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- EC to fine Samsung - The European Commission will impose a symbolic fine on Korean firm Samsung Electronics tomorrow for late filing of its proposal to acquire U.S.-based computer maker AST Research, Commission sources said today. [News.com]
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- Egghead cracks the mold - Egghead (EGGS) may not have gotten its name for putting all its eggs in one basket, but that's essentially what it's doing by moving its entire business online. And if the Internet soothsayers prove right, it may have been a smart move. [News.com]
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- Encryption infighting emerges - Network Associates (NETA), which pulled out of the Key Recovery Alliance in December after acquiring Pretty Good Privacy, says it probably will rejoin the group after buying Trusted Information Systems (TISX). [News.com]
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- Euro cell phones patched to Net - Alcatel, the Cannes, France-based maker of communications equipment, and Unwired Planet are joining forces to connect European cellular phones to the Internet, a boon for Europeans and a further sign that the fragmented U.S. cellular market is stalling the introduction of new technologies. [News.com]
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- Europe set to propose Net rules - The European Commission is set to adopt a long-awaited proposal tomorrow intended to strengthen global cooperation on the sticky legal and technical issues that have arisen in the Internet era. [News.com]
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- European milestone for AOL - America Online's (AOL) European service has attracted 1 million customers just two years after being launched, the partners in the U.S.-German venture said today. [News.com]
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- Excite site to be Net foyer - WebCrawler, one of the first search engines on the Internet, is getting revamped next month as a site targeted at consumers who log onto the Net from home. [News.com]
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- Excite wants to be "me" engine - In attempting to maintain its No. 2 standing in the navigation space, Excite (XCIT) is focusing on building itself around "me," the companys chief executive said today. [News.com]
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- Fast modem confusion persists - Those who thought the world of 56-kbps modems grew simpler with this month's announcement that the industry had arrived at a standard should think again. [News.com]
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- FBI wiretap plan scrutinized - Civil liberties groups are urging Congress to cut off future funding for a Federal Bureau of Investigation program that allegedly would expand its wiretapping authority to include communications sent over Net backbones or wireless devices. [News.com]
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- FCC urged to lift high-speed rules - US West today asked the Federal Communications Commission to lift restrictions that the company says hampers its ability to provide high-speed Net access. [News.com]
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- Fears in Multimedia Gulch - It was a day of rare relief from weeks of El Niño-driven rains and floods, the sun shining on this city's beautifully landscaped Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. [News.com]
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- Federal unit to fight hacking - The Justice Department wants to set up a government center to clamp down on hackers, crackers, and others who use bits and bytes rather than picks and drills to perpetrate their crimes. [News.com]
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- Few sites use trusted security - Fewer than 5 percent of secure Web sites are using "trusted" methods of protection, a new security survey says. [News.com]
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- Fight not over for 3Com - The fight over a standard for its high-speed modems may have been resolved, but 3Com (COMS) has yet to remedy many other problems that plague the company. [News.com]
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- Filter seeks to block banner ads - Solid Oak, the company known for its sometimes controversial practice of filtering for smut on the Internet, is giving its customers a tool to screen out another enemy: banner ads. [News.com]
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- First plastic screens promised - Cambridge Display Technology says it will unveil the world's first plastic TV display Monday, which could eventually replace the standard TV screen and desktop computer monitor. [News.com]
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- Flextech in talks with Microsoft - U.K. pay-television company Flextech is in talks with Microsoft (MSFT) about forming an interactive television alliance, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Fonts copyrightable, judge rules - Pushing a contentious issue in the software industry one step closer to resolution, a federal judge has ruled that software fonts are eligible for copyright protection, a decision believed to be the first of its kind. [News.com]
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- Foreign chipmakers solid in Japan - Non-Japanese chipmakers, including U.S. firms, captured 32.1 percent of the Japanese chip market during the third quarter of 1997, an industry group reported. [News.com]
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- Former Apple exec heads Logitech - Logitech has named former Apple executive Guerrino De Luca its new president and CEO. [News.com]
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- France aims for Net tech leadership - Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and French industrialists vowed today to see France take a lead in Internet technologies. [News.com]
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- FTC issues warning to spammers - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has put 1,000 spammers on notice that they aren't just luring victims with their get-rich-quick schemes and chain letters--they also are attracting law enforcement. [News.com]
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- Fujitsu to invest in WebTV - Fujitsu said today that it would invest in a Japanese unit of U.S. Internet service provider WebTV Networks. [News.com]
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- Gates gets creamed - update Bill Gates, a man used to having his cake and eating it too, today had his cake and wore it too. [News.com]
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- Gates tells of Nokia partnership - Microsoft (MSFT) chairman Bill Gates today said his company is holding talks with Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia on development of future technology products. [News.com]
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- Gates to testify at Senate hearing - Microsoft (MSFT) chairman Bill Gates will face off with at least one of his fiercest Internet rivals at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on competition in the computer industry, a congressional spokeswoman said today. [News.com]
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- Gates: Asian crisis won't hurt plans - Microsoft (MSFT) chairman Bill Gates said today that the financial crisis in Asia would not affect the company's investment strategy. [News.com]
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- Gates: Microsoft won't buy telco - Microsoft (MSFT) chairman Bill Gates said today that the software giant had no plans to buy a stake in a telecommunications firm but did want to work as partners with such companies. [News.com]
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- Gates: U.S. great business place - Microsoft (MSFT) chairman Bill Gates said today that the United States is still a great place to do business despite a case brought against the software giant by the Justice Department. [News.com]
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- Gateway joins Pentium II trend - Gateway 2000 introduced two low-cost, high-end desktops, joining a growing list of PC manufacturers introducing high-performance Pentium II systems at ever lower prices. [News.com]
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- Gateway PCs low cost at high end - Tomorrow, Gateway 2000 will strut its Pentium II stuff while adding its name to the growing list of PC manufacturers introducing high-performance Pentium II systems at low prices. [News.com]
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- GeoCities suffers email glitch - Some GeoCities members found themselves unable to send or receive email after mail servers went on the blink yesterday afternoon. The service since has been restored. [News.com]
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- Giants propose antipiracy scheme - Intel (INTC) and four leading consumer electronics firms have agreed on a technology for preventing piracy of digital content, a major step toward allaying Hollywood's continuing fears about the ease of copyright violation. [News.com]
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- Girl Scouts sell cookies on the Net - The Internet is reshaping America's greatest traditions, including the sale of Girl Scout cookies. [News.com]
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- Governors back tax on Net sales - A majority of the nation's governors adopted a resolution today calling for a "flat" state tax on all sales made over the Net and through mail order purchases. [News.com]
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- Grand networking plan drawn - With the ink barely dry on a buyout deal, Network Associates today showcased software from soon-to-be-acquired Trusted Information Systems as a key part of the networking company's security strategy. [News.com]
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- Group to attack Clinton on crypto - A bipartisan group of politicos, high-tech companies, and privacy advocates will next week announce a broad coalition to overturn the White House's current encryption policy through a multimillion-dollar media blitz and lobbying campaign. [News.com]
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- Grove turns Intel toward low-cost PCs - Highlighting a dramatic shift at Intel, chief executive officer Andy Grove said today that Intel is taking a sharp turn toward the development of low-cost PC technology and will market its chips for low-end computers under a new, separate brand name, while it also develops another brand of chips targeted at more powerful computers. [News.com]
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- GTE expands security service - GTE Internetworking, a top-tier national ISP, has expanded its Internet security service to cover companies even though they may rely on another provider for Net access. [News.com]
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- Guide to Olympics online - The Winter Olympics have proven to be a perfect example of the much-heralded convergence of television and Internet content. Viewers have turned to the Net to find out when their favorite events are on, to gripe about the television coverage on message boards, and to find out more information about individual athletes and winter sports. [News.com]
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- Hacker group battles child porn - A secret society that hunts the Net to reveal the identities of alleged pedophiles and child pornographers has a message for those who think there's too much media hype about the problem: Believe what you hear. [News.com]
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- Handheld works with game box - Sony Computer Entertainment, a unit of Sony Corporation, today said it has developed a miniature personal digital assistant (PDA) that can download data from its popular PlayStation games console. [News.com]
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- Hard drive breakthrough claimed - Seagate Technology plans to announce tomorrow that it has figured out a way to use lasers, microscopic lenses, and tiny mirrors to potentially pack 10 to 20 times more data onto hard disk drives. [News.com]
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- Hard drive offers 11.5GB for $479 - Maxtor released a new, high-capacity, low-cost hard drive today, as the company turns to IBM for key hard drive components. [News.com]
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- Hatch wants meeting of the minds - Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said today he has invited Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and two of his fiercest rivals to participate in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing concerning competition and public policy in the digital age. [News.com]
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- Hatch: Microsoft may control Net - The government's ongoing antitrust case against software giant Microsoft (MSFT) has sparked a public scrap between Republican leaders. [News.com]
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- Healtheon to buy Actamed - With an eye toward going public, Healtheon said today that it is buying another online health care supplier, Actamed. [News.com]
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- High monitor prices buck PC trend - Average personal computer prices have plummeted in the last several years in spite of the fact that PCs continue to get better and faster, but the market for desktop displays remains a curious anomaly in an era of frenetic price-cutting. [News.com]
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- High tech gets Clinton payback - Pulling rank on Al Gore, President Clinton did some major economic stumping in California today when he provided a high-profile return on the technology industry's eager political investments. [News.com]
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- Hillary Clinton: Net needs "rethink" - Hillary Rodham Clinton said in a meeting with reporters today that "we are all going to have to rethink how we deal with" the Internet because of the handling of White House sex scandal stories on Web sites. [News.com]
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- Hitachi notebooks aim for business - Hitachi has begun shipping three upgraded models of its VisionBook Pro laptop computer, the start of a push for an increased presence in the corporate market. [News.com]
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- Hitachi, Digital team up on servers - Hitachi and Digital Equipment will jointly develop high-end server computers to replace mainframe machines, based on the Windows NT operating system. [News.com]
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- Home education market heats up - Consumer electronics retailer Radio Shack plans to aim at the home educational market through its recent deal with Compaq Computer (CPQ). [News.com]
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- House panel OKs Y2K bill - The U.S. House of Representatives Banking Committee yesterday passed unanimously a bill that would give federal regulators new powers to help the nation's financial institutions prepare for computer problems that may arise at the turn of the century. [News.com]
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- How CEOs can cash in quietly - Robert Stevenson fit the profile of a lot of high-tech chief executives. [News.com]
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- HP aims Java at Intel 64-bit chip - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) says it will make Java available for use on Intel's (INTC) upcoming 64-bit "Merced" processor, in a move to generate interest in HP servers and workstations slated to use the processor. [News.com]
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- HP aims to grab Unix share - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) today said its sees an opportunity to grab a bigger share of the Unix operating system market while Compaq Computer (CPQ) and Digital Equipment (DEC) are integrating. [News.com]
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- HP cuts prices 5% in e-commerce - As part of its effort to streamline manufacturing and distribution, Hewlett-Packard is effectively cutting prices by 5 percent on desktops ordered through an electronic commerce system promoted by HP. [News.com]
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- HP cuts to the chase - Hewlett-Packard has been moving aggressively to boost its share in a host of markets. The company today cut prices on its OmniBook notebooks and some Vectra desktop PCs while rolling out new workstation models. [News.com]
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- HP encryption export approved - The U.S. government has given Hewlett-Packard (HWP) a preliminary go-ahead to start exporting VerSecure, a technology for managing and providing encryption services. [News.com]
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- HP plans for 64-bit Intel chip - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) is trying to take customers into the new millennium and to Intel's new 64-bit chip architecture by offering a kit that could speed adoption of the next-generation Merced chip. [News.com]
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- HP plans up to 1,000 layoffs - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) announced today that it is significantly reducing its workforce at a plant in Washington state as it turns to independent contractors to manufacture its ink jet printers. [News.com]
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- HP servers take on mainframes - Hewlett-Packard (HWP), invading the territory of mainframe computer makers, said on Monday it plans to introduce high-performance computers that will function for months without stopping. [News.com]
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- HP to refresh notebook line - Hewlett-Packard will refresh its fleet of notebook PCs in the spring and come out with a slimline series that will be similar in size to IBM's popular 560 ThinkPads. [News.com]
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- HP trims desktop prices - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) trimmed prices on its Vectra line of business PCs by up to 10 percent, in an effort to gain ground in the race for market share in low-cost desktop PCs. [News.com]
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- IANA tests Net redirect - Jon Postel, who runs the organization that has ultimate control over how traffic is directed throughout the Internet, last weekend decided to conduct what he called a "test." [News.com]
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- IBM cuts portable, server prices - IBM (IBM) announced price cuts of up to 32 percent on selected models of its Thinkpad notebook PCs and Netfinity servers. [News.com]
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- IBM deal no panacea for AMD - While a new manufacturing alliance with IBM will certainly help Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) meet demand for its K6 processors, a number of hurdles remain in the path to greater acceptance. [News.com]
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- IBM debuts NT server bundles - IBM (IBM) and Microsoft (MSFT) today renewed their partisan bickering, this time over IBM's new entry into the Windows NT market for back-office server software. [News.com]
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- IBM hype in Olympic hot seat - IBM is hoping a flawless performance at the Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan, will make up for some of the embarrassing glitches it suffered during both this year's Super Bowl and the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, and analysts say Big Blue's strategy might be working. [News.com]
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- IBM joins the 1,000-MHz club - IBM (IBM) unveiled a 1,000-MHz PowerPC microprocessor, and tomorrow will describe the first concrete plansAn IBM engineer shows off a 1,000-MHz processor wafer. for a copper-based microprocessor, a shift in chipmaking technology that many believe will keep the industry on track to achieve further giant leaps in performance. [News.com]
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- IBM launches DB2 for Domino - IBM (IBM) is brewing a new plan to entice millions of Notes and Domino groupware users to take a look at its DB2 database server. [News.com]
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- IBM may make AMD chips - Advanced Micro Devices is negotiating to have IBM manufacture its Intel-compatible microprocessors in a deal that, although far from certain, would help AMD make more processors as it struggles to solve lingering manufacturing problems. [News.com]
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- IBM plunges into data analysis - Hoping to capture a larger share of the emerging market for decision support software and services, IBM (IBM) today announced what it terms a company-wide initiative to supply business intelligence software and services. [News.com]
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- IBM sees growth in China reforms - IBM (IBM) expects radical reforms of China's state-owned and financial sectors will boost sales despite regional economic woes, an executive said today. [News.com]
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- IBM South Africa sees upside - South African information technology firm IBM South Africa said today that it expects to continue improving its profitability in the coming year. [News.com]
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- IBM takes aim at BackOffice - IBM (IBM) later this month will launch new Windows NT-based server software bundles intended to compete with Microsoft's BackOffice. [News.com]
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- IBM to acquire chip designer - IBM (IBM) said today that it would buy privately held CommQuest Technologies for $180 million cash and take a one-time charge for the deal. [News.com]
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- IBM to build top supercomputer - Adding to a recent surge in supercomputer development, IBM (IBM) has won an $85 million contract to build a supercomputer for Energy Department that will likely be the world's fastest when it's completed in 2000. [News.com]
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- IBM to debut thin Pentium II notebooks - A new series of cutting-edge notebook PCs from IBM will combine the slimness of its 560 line with all of the bells and whistles of its high-end machines, endowing IBM's popular ThinkPad design with a full set of features. [News.com]
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- IBM to put NCs in public housing - IBM (IBM) Wednesday will announce its participation in a project to bring network computers and computer training to residents of a public housing development. [News.com]
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- IBM to unveil new server lines - IBM (IBM) unveiled a broad lineup of new network server computers aimed at small businesses. [News.com]
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- IBM unveils new mainframe OS - IBM said yesterday that it unveiled a new release of its mainframe computer operating system that adds increased security and other features aimed at companies that conduct business over the Internet. [News.com]
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- IBM upgrades workstations - IBM (IBM) announced today that its Intellistation line of personal workstations will now ship with up to two 333-MHz Pentium II processors. [News.com]
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- IBM, Adobe in license pact - IBM (IBM) said it has entered into a licensing deal with Adobe Systems that expands the scope of technology shared between the companies. [News.com]
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- IBM, AMD shake on chip deal - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) said today that it has entered an agreement to have IBM (IBM) manufacture its Intel-compatible microprocessors in a deal that may help AMD make more processors as it struggles to solve lingering manufacturing problems. [News.com]
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- IBM, Intel developing PC tools - Incremental additions to the management capabilities of PCs continue to ease the headaches facing network administrators. [News.com]
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- IE 4.0 now in Unix flavors - Hoping to convince large companies to standardize on its Web browser, Microsoft (MSFT) today shipped a Unix version of Internet Explorer 4.0. [News.com]
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- IE edges Navigator in Japan - Microsoft had a larger Web browser market share in Internet access through major Japanese Web sites in December than Netscape Communications, according to Dataquest. [News.com]
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- Imagining a digital photo market - Low-cost, high-resolution digital cameras have been announced by several major camera companies, and analysts are predicting that the much-talked about convergence between photography--one of the world's most popular hobbies--and PC technology will take off as mainstream consumers embrace these new devices. [News.com]
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- Informix on the road to recovery - Informix (IFMX) stock today opened 25 higher than yesterday's closing price, after the database maker surprised Wall Street by posting fourth-quarter profits. [News.com]
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- InfoSpace to offer free stock quotes - In an attempt to one-up its competition, Net directory InfoSpace today announced that it will start offering real-time stock quotes for free. [News.com]
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- Inside Dell's success story - Dell Computer (DELL), the No. 2 computer maker in the United States, has reaped huge profits from its Web-based direct sales model, recently reporting 55 percent revenue growth. Its stock is setting records and the company is making inroads into the European market, all while ignoring the sub-$1,000 PC frenzy that has so many other PC firms slicing into their profit margins. [News.com]
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- Intel confident about FTC inquiry - Intel (INTC) president and chief operating officer Craig Barrett said he is "very confident" the ongoing U.S. government investigation into Intel's business practices will end up with no action taken against the chip giant. [News.com]
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- Intel enters 3D market tomorrow - Intel's (INTC) first high-end 3D graphics chip, the Intel740, will be announced tomorrow, and by most accounts, the introduction could alter the market for good. [News.com]
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- Intel execs look to unload shares - A group of eight Intel (INTC) insiders have proposed to sell more than half a million shares at a time when the chip giant's stock is rallying, raising the question of whether they view the boon as short-term. [News.com]
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- Intel gets low-cost RISC chip - Intel (INTC) announced today that it has reached an agreement with Advanced RISC Machines (ARM) to produce StrongARM microprocessors used in handheld devices and other low-cost appliances, allowing the world's largest chip maker to compete in a potentially huge market outside of the PC sphere. [News.com]
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- Intel plans a "Basic PC" - Upcoming sub-$1,000 computers will incorporate modems, DVD playback, and improved audio and 3D graphics into systems with fewer internal parts and a far smaller "footprint" than their predecessors. [News.com]
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- Intel plans gigabit Ethernet gear - The next stage in chip giant Intel's (INTC) strategy for the networking equipment market will roll out next week at a high-profile event in San Francisco. [News.com]
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- Intel plots Gigabit Ethernet push - Intel (INTC) executives said today that they will begin focusing on providing adequate bandwidth to PCs and servers powered by the company's microprocessors. [News.com]
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- Intel sees strong growth in Europe - Intel (INTC) expects strong market growth in Europe in personal computers to compensate for softness in Asia and believes the "old continent" could be the fastest-growing market in 1998. [News.com]
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- Intel starts advanced Oregon plant - Chipmaking giant Intel (INTC) said it has begun building an Oregon plant that will develop a future-generation manufacturing process and then likely produce the much-improved follow-up version of Intel's 64-bit Merced microprocessor. [News.com]
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- Intel still possible FTC target - Intel (INTC) could be a target for action by the Federal Trade Commission, despite statements by executives that the chip giant will emerge from a preliminary investigation unscathed. [News.com]
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- Intel tilts to system-on-a-chip - As part of a presentation today on future chips, Intel (INTC) said it will continue to put more features, including 3D graphics and audio, into the processor and supporting chips as part of its effort to become more competitive in the low-cost market. [News.com]
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- Intel to let Cyrix copy Pentium II - Cyrix (CYRX) is free to make its own chips based on the Pentium II design under an agreement between parent company National Semiconductor (NSM-AL) and Intel (INTC). [News.com]
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- Intel to make 16 kinds of Pentium II - Intel's (INTC) strategy for this year borrows from an old American tradition: make a processor for every pot. [News.com]
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- Intel to unveil "Slot 2" chip design - Later this week, Intel will publicly reveal details of its upcoming "Slot 2" Pentium II chip design for the first time and also give an overview of the 450-MHz Pentium II "Deschutes" processor, two product innovations that will likely be seen in servers and workstations in the second half of the year. [News.com]
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- Intel's entry means big changes - The graphics chip industry is notoriously difficult, and it will only get worse now that Intel has moved in. [News.com]
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- Intel's low-cost plans - Intel (INTC) is taking a sharp turn toward the development of low-cost PC technology. At a developer's conference this week, the chip giant touted a stripped-down version of the Pentium II, code-named Covington, that targets the sub-$1,000 market. Analysts say it will be a stop-gap product until the arrival of low-cost chips that integrate features like 3D graphics and audio. The company (an investor in CNET: The Computer Network) also revealed it will market chips for low-end computers under a new, separate brand name, even as it develops another brand of chips targeted at more powerful computers. [News.com]
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- Intel's march on the inside - The Intel740 graphics chip could in many ways be the beginning of the end game in the graphics world. [News.com]
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- Intel's new business: cameras - The first digital camera based on Intel's camera technology was announced today, ensuring that computers are not the only products that will feature Intel building blocks. [News.com]
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- Intel's Slot 2 is big - Intel's second slot is a whopper. [News.com]
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- Intel, 3DLabs collaborate on graphics chip - On the eve of announcing its first graphics chip, Intel is already moving further into graphics territory, as the microprocessor behemoth collaborates with 3DLabs in developing a graphics processor to complement its upcoming 64-bit "Merced" chip. [News.com]
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- Intel: 3D chips the next wave - 3D graphics will be one of the main themes of the Intel Developer Forum which kicks off tomorrow in San Jose, California. [News.com]
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- InterWorld primed to go public - High-end e-commerce software vendor InterWorld is cutting costs and honing its marketing efforts in a push for profitability aimed at filing for an initial public offering, perhaps as soon as April. [News.com]
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- Intuit challenges Microsoft study - Call it retaliation through research. [News.com]
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- Intuit looks to the Net - Intuit (INTU), which recently posted flat second-quarter profits and revenues, will focus on small businesses for its European market and look to the Internet for more revenues, the companys chairman said. [News.com]
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- Intuit offers car insurance on Web - Intuit (INTU) yesterday launched its Quicken InsureMarket online car insurance service in Alabama as the first step in a planned national rollout. [News.com]
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- Iomega addresses click of death - In response to customer complaints about the company's removable storage drives, Iomega (IOM) is trolling newsgroups and Web site bulletin boards to inform users of the company's customer service and technical support options. [News.com]
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- Iomega settles warranty suit - Iomega (IOM) confirmed today that it has agreed on the settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought by consumers frustrated with the company's technical support and service. [News.com]
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- IPO-bound NCI gets new chief - Network Computer (NCI), a subsidiary of Oracle (ORCL), got a bit closer to an initial public offering today as its tech-savvy leader stepped down so that a replacement with financial know-how could be put in his place. [News.com]
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- ISO to adopt Apple format - Apple Computer's (AAPL) QuickTime technology for multimedia playback and authoring will be used as the foundation for a new generation of interactive content, a move that will likely help cement Apple's favored place among multimedia producers. [News.com]
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- ISP looks to lure AOL members - Another Internet service provider today weighed in with a plan to target customers of America Online, who now face a 10 percent increase in their rates to receive unlimited Net access. [News.com]
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- ISPs face high churn rates - Internet service providers are suffering from monthly subscription cancellation rates that are five times greater than those of telecommunications services such as cellular phones, pagers, and long distance carriers, according to a report released today by telecommunications market research firm Strategis Group. [News.com]
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- ISPs not matching AOL increase--yet - America Online today drew a line in the sand by announcing a 10 percent increase in the standard, "all-you-can-eat" rate for Net access. [News.com]
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- ISPs subpoenaed in Microsoft case - With today's confirmation of four requests for documents, antitrust enforcers appear to be blanketing the Internet provider industry with subpoenas, searching for evidence that Microsoft is using its dominance in the operating system arena to corner new markets created by the Net. [News.com]
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- Israeli site pokes fun at Iraqi crisis - Taking a tongue-in-cheek look at the jittery mood in Israel, a local Internet company has set up a "Saddam-O-Meter" on its Web site to gauge whether media reports and politicians' statements stoke or dampen fears of an Iraqi missile attack. [News.com]
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- Japan drags down '97 chip market - A weak economy continued to dampen chip sales in Japan, with semiconductor sales in 1997 slipping over six percent there even as worldwide chip sales grew four percent to $137.2 billion dollars. [News.com]
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- Japan PC downturn all but assured - Japan's largest PC manufacturers are facing the first year-to-year decline in PC shipments in five years, an alarming situation for these companies since the average selling price of computers is decreasing, making vendors that much more dependent on volume. [News.com]
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- Japanese firms shift chip focus - Japanese electronics firms Mitsubishi Electric and Oki Electric Industry are pinning their hopes for the computer chip business on more "value-added" chips. [News.com]
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- Java software for NC-like interface - Dallas, Texas-based Plenium announced Java software that offers PC users some of the capabilities of network computers--without having to actually use a network computer. [News.com]
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- Javagator on back burner - Netscape Communications (NSCP) acknowledged today that it is seeking outside help to develop its pure-Java Web browser for network computers. [News.com]
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- Jerry Yang reduces Yahoo holdings - Yahoo (YHOO) cofounder Jerry Yang has reduced his stake in the search engine company, which has seen its shares rise over the past year. [News.com]
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- Judge faces options after Lessig ruling - Following a ruling yesterday by a federal appeals court, the most likely response by the judge handling the antitrust dispute between the Justice Department and Microsoft will be to lay low, though that's not his only option, legal observers say. [News.com]
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- Judges may lean toward Microsoft - When Microsoft asked U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to reconsider his appointment of a computer law expert assigned to sift through technical evidence in the antitrust case brought by the Justice Department, the jurist flatly refused. [News.com]
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- Konica enters digital camera market - Another consumer electronics firm crossed into computer technology territory today, as Konica announced it will launch its version of a "megapixel" digital camera tomorrow. [News.com]
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- Korean group says chipmakers not dumping - A South Korean semiconductor trade group today dismissed as "unfounded" the allegation that the country's chipmakers have begun dumping in world markets in the wake of the won currency's steep depreciation. [News.com]
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- Lam Research to cut 700 jobs - Lam Research, a supplier of wafer processing equipment to the semiconductor industry, said it is restructuring operations and cutting as many as 700 jobs, or 14 percent of its workforce, due to falling orders and revenues driven by the deepening Asian financial crisis. [News.com]
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- Layoffs at AOL content units - America Online (AOL) has laid off half the staff of its four-month-old Entertainment Asylum site, as well as most of those who report to its WorldPlay interactive games unit, CNET's NEWS.COM learned today. [News.com]
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- LCD screens drive down laptop prices - Liquid crystal displays, the thin color screens seen on portable computers, are quickly falling in price--and they're dragging notebook costs down with them. [News.com]
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- Lessig appointment suspended - A federal appeals court has immediately suspended the contested appointment of a computer expert charged with collecting and weighing evidence in the antitrust case the Justice Department has brought against Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Limited tobacco papers on Web - Major tobacco companies have posted reams of once-secret industry documents on the Internet, but a cache of confidential material sought by prosecutors and lawmakers was not made available. [News.com]
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- Loaded 333-MHz PC for $2,199 - Attention shoppers: NEC Computer Systems is advertising a desktop PC featuring a 333-MHz Pentium II microprocessor for $2,199 with monitor, one of the lowest prices available for a machine with Intel's top-line chip. [News.com]
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- Local guides look to long term - Almost daily, another company launches another local city guide on the Net, jumping into an intensely competitive market. Today, Cox Interactive Media, a company using the Internet to leverage its other media brands, rolled out Access Arizona, a site geared toward users in the Grand Canyon state. [News.com]
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- Lotus may move mail to Notes - Lotus Development is considering plans to nudge its huge installed base of cc:Mail users to the company's Notes software and away from competitors' products. [News.com]
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- Lotus, Avantgo target handhelds - Lotus Development and Avantgo are each rolling out their own mobile computing software products this week for extending enterprise applications to handheld computers. [News.com]
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- Low-cost battle down to business - IBM (IBM) and Hewlett-Packard (HWP) are crossing swords again, as both companies announce new systems and price cuts that portend a new, potentially ominous, battleground for the business market: sub-$1,000 PCs. [News.com]
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- Low-cost Pentium II called "kludgey" - While "Covington" will be the first processor from Intel specifically designed for low-cost PCs, don't expect it to be around long. [News.com]
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- Lucent forms venture capital fund - Lucent Technologies (LU), the manufacturing company spun off in 1996 by AT&T (T), has formed a venture capital fund to invest in new technologies, and the company's chairman will step down to head the unit, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Lucent to buy HP wireless unit - Lucent Technologies (LU) said today that it will acquire Hewlett-Packard's (HWP) fixed wireless equipment unit and announced plans to launch its own business based on the microwave communications technology. [News.com]
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- Lycos buys Tripod service - Lycos (LCOS) said today that it agreed to buy Tripod for $58 million in stock, adding an online community to its Internet directory. [News.com]
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- Lycos may do deal with Tripod - Lycos is planning to make a "major announcement" tomorrow, and sources are speculating that it may include an investment in or buyout of Tripod, the privately held online community. [News.com]
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- Lycos: Tripod traffic equals ads - Lycos (LCOS) plans to leverage the traffic from Tripod, which it recently acquired, to bolster targeted ad sales, a company executive said today. [News.com]
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- Macromedia launching content site - Macromedia (MACR) tomorrow will launch ShockRave, a free online entertainment site that features the company's technology and content from the likes of United Media, Sony's Columbia TriStar Interactive, TheDJ.com, and SegaSoft, among others. [News.com]
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- Macromedia plans showbiz site - Macromedia quietly is planning to wade into the consumer entertainment market with a new Web site dubbed Shockrave, which will include material from Sony Pictures, Disney, and United Media, among others. [News.com]
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- Many could bank online, but don't - The number of potential users of online banking and investing has risen to nearly one quarter of U.S. households, but the actual use remains much lower, according to a study released today by SRI Consulting. [News.com]
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- Market gets bullish on Oracle - Oracle (ORCL) shares continued their upward momentum today, after the database software company's shares jumped 13 percent last Friday when executives reiterated their view that sales likely will improve in the coming quarter. [News.com]
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- Mattel, Intel to make toys - Toy giant Mattel and Intel, the world's largest semiconductor maker, announced an agreement to jointly develop PC-enhanced toys, to be designed with current and future PC-based technologies. [News.com]
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- McNealy: Netscape rumors a joke - With rumors circulating that Sun Microsystems (SUNW) may be interested in acquiring Netscape Communications (NSCP), Sun's top dog touched on the issue here at a speaking engagement last night at a Churchill Club dinner in Silicon Valley. [News.com]
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- Memory market still likely to drop - Late last month at an investor's conference, a cheer went up when it was announced that spot prices for 16-megabit memory chips had inched up from rock-bottom lows to $3.80. But now it appears that even this tenuous euphoria may have been short-lived. [News.com]
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- Mexican rebels turn to hacking - Supporters of Mexico's Zapatista rebels have hacked into a government home page on the Internet and defaced it with antigovernment propaganda. [News.com]
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- Micron notebooks under $2,000 - Micron Electronics (MUEI) has reduced prices on its line of portable computers by up to 24 percent. [News.com]
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- Micron cuts reach business PCs - Direct vendor Micron Electronics announced price cuts on its consumer and corporate lines of desktop PCs, the Boise, Idaho, manufacturer's second round of discounts this week. [News.com]
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- Micron reorganizes, claims loss - Direct-order computer vendor Micron Electronics (MUEI) has announced that, as part of a sweeping reorganization, it will shift approximately 10 percent of its employees from its computer manufacturing operations to parent company Micron Technologies while consolidating its server operations, as reported earlier by CNET's NEWS.COM. [News.com]
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- Micronics gets new CEO, mission - Filling in holes in its executive team, Micronics Computers (MCRN) today named a new chief executive and president who has plans to build a family of products in the graphics area while nurturing the company's relationships with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). [News.com]
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- Microsoft adds Amdahl to NT roster - Microsoft (MSFT) just can't seem to find enough partners to help push its Windows NT operating system into large corporations. [News.com]
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- Microsoft bows to Japanese users - Japanese users of the Microsoft Office application suite will get a special break on licenses, Microsoft confirmed today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft case keeps growing - The case against the software giant continues its course as Microsoft fights the appointment of a special master in the Justice Department's antitrust petition. Meanwhile, 11 states submit subpoenas demanding documents related to Windows 98 in their own parallel inquiry. [News.com]
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- Microsoft counters Java dispute - Microsoft (MSFT) today filed court briefs arguing that a licensing contract it signed in the past bars Sun Microsystems (SUNW) from pulling the Java logo off its products. [News.com]
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- Microsoft fights Yahoo, AOL - Microsoft (MSFT), in a bid to make itself as ubiquitous on the Net as it is in software, quietly is building a new weapon: a home page that will bring together all its properties, including a search engine designed by Inktomi and its newly acquired free email service Hotmail, sources said. [News.com]
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- Microsoft makes VBA apps free - Microsoft (MSFT) has found a new way to popularize its Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language: make VBA applications available to developers and end users, free of charge. [News.com]
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- Microsoft merger gets message - Microsoft (MSFT) has acquired Boston-based start-up Flash Communications, which is developing software for instant messaging networks and buddy lists. [News.com]
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- Microsoft plans software store - Microsoft (MSFT) is developing an online software store that will let consumers buy its software on the Net, promoted by "buy now" buttons scattered through its Web site. [News.com]
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- Microsoft regroups for synergy - Microsoft (MSFT) today announced that it is realigning company divisions and executive positions to better integrate related business units and refocus its Internet properties and Windows groups. [News.com]
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- Microsoft seeking IE 5 evangelist - Want to find out about the upcoming Internet Explorer 5.0 browser from Microsoft? Perhaps your best bet is to get a job in Redmond. [News.com]
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- Microsoft server tools go beta - Microsoft (MSFT) has released an initial beta of the next version of its systems management software, offering the latest twist in the company's strategy to make machines based on its software more manageable. [News.com]
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- Microsoft to fix printing glitch - Microsoft (MSFT) is working to fix a longtime problem in its Office desktop software suite that prevents users from printing certain documents, the company confirmed today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft to ship Outlook 98 - Microsoft (MSFT) today said it plans to ship in late March the final version of its Outlook messaging and collaboration client for its messaging server Exchange and desktop suite Office. [News.com]
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- Microsoft walks $200 billion line - Watch out General Electric (GE). Bill Gates and his troops at Microsoft (MSFT) are knocking on the door of the $200-billion "market cap" club. [News.com]
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- Microsoft's integration efforts - Microsoft (MSFT) is blurring the lines between its product and media groups. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Digital team up in India - The Indian subsidiaries of Digital Equipment (DEC) and Microsoft (MSFT) today said they are expanding their partnership to include more PC products and services. [News.com]
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- Microsoft-CSU deal delayed again - The signing of a controversial ten-year deal that would partner Microsoft and three other companies with the world's largest university system has been stalled for the second time this year. [News.com]
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- Microsoft-TCI set-top deal getting cold? - Nearly two months after Tele-Communications Incorporated (TCOMA) and Microsoft (MSFT) reached an agreement to use Microsoft technology in next-generation digital TV set-top boxes, analysts are saying that a chill has set in on negotiations, highlighting the wariness which TCI harbors for the software giant's clout. [News.com]
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- Middleware made easier - Makers of middleware software are reaching out to partners to make their products easier to install and manage. [News.com]
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- Mitsubishi ends Alpha pact - Digital Equipment (DEC) senior vice president Harry Copperman today said that Mitsubishi Electric has suspended its joint development agreement on Digital's Alpha microprocessor. [News.com]
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- Mitsubishi may quit Japan, Europe - Mitsubishi Electric (MSBHY) is pulling out of the Japanese and European personal computer markets, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Modem standard victory isn't - In the mortal combat of the high-tech industry, fighting for a standard can be the equivalent of the quest for the Holy Grail. [News.com]
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- Monitor prices falling - Compaq Computer (CPQ) introduced a 14.5-inch flat panel monitor for $1,599 and also two 17-inch cathode ray tube (CRT) monitors for under $650, a move that reflects declining prices in both segments of the monitor industry. [News.com]
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- MSN cancels shows, gets practical - The Microsoft Network is lowering the final curtain on its shows, ending its rocky foray into the world of entertainment production. [News.com]
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- Museum site showing solar eclipse - If you can't make it to the southern Caribbean Sea next week to view the solar eclipse, try the Web instead. [News.com]
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- Nasdaq peaks on Microsoft's back - The Nasdaq Composite Index, buoyed by strength in Microsoft (MSFT) and a rally in top-tier technology companies, surged 1.37 percent to hit a record high close today. [News.com]
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- National Semi stock falls - National Semiconductor's (NSM) stock took a hit today after the chip maker said it expects its third-quarter results to fall below analysts' expectations. [News.com]
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- NEC cuts LCD, 17-inch monitor prices - NEC Technologies today chopped prices on its active-matrix LCD desktop screens as well as prices for its 17-inch CRT monitors. [News.com]
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- NEC develops new memory chip - NEC Corporation today said it has developed a new memory architecture that improves the graphics and multimedia processing capabilities of personal computers and workstations without depending on increases in memory speed or the number of signal pins. [News.com]
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- NEC seeks larger server share - Japan's NEC Corporation is targeting a bigger share of the server market both in Asia and globally, notwithstanding the threat posed by the potential merger of Compaq Computer and Digital Equipment, senior officials said today. [News.com]
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- Net access to BofA accounts - Joining pioneering card companies, Bank of America (BAC) now lets its credit card customers look at their account information on the Net. [News.com]
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- Net access, email delivery improving - Internet access and email delivery have improved dramatically in the past year, according to annual results released today by Internet measurement company Inverse Network Technology. [News.com]
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- Net bottleneck spurs lawmakers - California lawmakers are catching on that Internet access could be much faster. [News.com]
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- Net broadcasting trials to begin - Microsoft (MSFT) will begin nationwide trials of an Internet broadcasting technology in partnership with 12 television broadcasters and cable programmers, the company announced today. [News.com]
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- Net broadcasts get a boost - A new addition to technology that aspires to alleviate current difficulties with multimedia broadcasts across the Net will be floated next week at the IP Multicast Summit, in hopes of adding much-needed reliability to the equation. [News.com]
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- Net car service changes pricing - Autoweb.com, an Internet car buying service, said it will offer a new pricing scheme for the services it provides to dealers, charging them for each sales referral rather than a flat monthly fee. [News.com]
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- Net filter firm under fire - Brian Milburn makes a good living selling parents a filtering program for Net porn. But with his success comes heated criticism that his product, Cybersitter, is a censorship tool. [News.com]
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- Net said to need multicasting - Proponents of new bandwidth-conserving technology, called IP multicast, believe that widespread adoption of the technology for broadcasting data across internal corporate networks and the public Internet is just around the corner. [News.com]
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- Net Tax Freedom Act nears vote - House Republicans today promised to vote this spring on legislation that would safeguard the Net from any new taxes. [News.com]
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- Netcom faces Usenet death penalty - Foes of spam in Usenet newsgroups are threatening Internet service provider Netcom with an ominous-sounding Usenet Death Penalty (UDP). [News.com]
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- Netcom wins spam reprieve - Newsgroup spam foes are calling off a Usenet death penalty against Netcom set to start at 5 p.m. PT today, saying the national Internet provider has cut back on junk postings that were flooding the Internet's bulletin boards. [News.com]
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- NetDynamics adds COM to server - CORBA proponent NetDynamics is partnering with Microsoft to make its application software more COM-friendly. [News.com]
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- Netizens slam Nagano coverage - Television viewers unhappy with CBS's coverage of the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Japan are taking to the Net to do something about it: kvetch. [News.com]
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- NetObjects buys Web tools - Web publishing software maker NetObjects has spent some cash to acquire two products, the company announced today. [News.com]
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- NetObjects eyes eventual IPO - NetObjects is still on track for an initial public offering, but the company has not set a timeline, its chief executive said today. [News.com]
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- Netscape browser Rhapsodized - A developer group is looking to put Netscape Communications' (NSCP) free source code policy to the test, with the aim of producing a version of Communicator for Apple Computer's next-generation Rhapsody operating system. [News.com]
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- Netscape CEO urges worker calm - Netscape Communications (NSCP) chief executive James Barksdale is urging employees to stay focused on their jobs amid takeover speculation. [News.com]
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- Netscape changes fiscal year - Netscape's business strategy has changed, so its fiscal year will change, too. [News.com]
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- Netscape debuts new Net server - Netscape Communications (NSCP) today rolled out the latest version of its Internet applications server for intranets and extranets. [News.com]
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- Netscape on the auction block? - Hit with a sagging stock price and a substantial fourth-quarter loss, Netscape Communications (NSCP) is wrapped up in speculation that it may sell all or parts of its business. [News.com]
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- Netscape ponders Web hosting - In a significant addition to its e-commerce strategy, Netscape Communications (NSCP) is considering a move into the Web hosting business for Internet storefronts. [News.com]
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- Netscape posts source code info - Netscape Communications (NSCP) has posted an information page about its plan to release the Communicator source code, but there are still key details left undecided. [News.com]
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- Netscape reprices stock options - Watching its stock price sink, with the date when its workers become fully vested fast approaching, Netscape Communications (NSCP) today repriced its employees' stock options. [News.com]
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- Netscape shifts sales strategy - Netscape Communications (NSCP) has reorganized its sales force to put more responsibility on the shoulders of third-party partners and keep only the richest customers for itself. [News.com]
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- Netscape signing up distributors - Netscape Communications (NSCP) will announce tomorrow that it is making inroads in the great software distribution battle--with a little help from the Justice Department. [News.com]
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- Netscape site revenue down - When Netscape Communications (NSCP) decided last month to offer its browsers for free, the company was left with two revenue engines: its Web site and server software. [News.com]
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- Netscape to put code on new site - Netscape Communications (NSCP) announced today it is launching a special team and companion Web site to be the resource center for those seeking information about its free browser source code. [News.com]
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- Netscape up on buyout rumors - Netscape Communications' (NSCP) stock jumped by as much as 13.4 percent in today's trading, as rumors circulated of a buyout by Sun Microsystems (SUNW). [News.com]
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- Netscape upgrades suite - Netscape Communications (NSCP) is releasing Monday an upgrade of its flagship server software. [News.com]
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- Netscape: Stop and buy the roses - Netscape Communications continues to expand its online offerings, this time with a cobranded site with the FTD florist network. [News.com]
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- Network Associates buys TIS - Hoping to build its share of the security software market, Network Associates (NETA) said today that it will acquire Trusted Information Systems (TISX), which makes firewall and other security software, in a stock-swap deal worth roughly $300 million. [News.com]
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- Network Associates climbs to top - With today's acquisition of firewall vendor Trusted Information Systems (TISX), Network Associates (NETA) claims it's the leading security software provider. [News.com]
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- New 3D graphics for the Mac - Graphics hardware manufacturer IXMicro has rolled out a new line of 3D graphics boards for Apple Macintosh computers. [News.com]
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- New Cisco gear shoots high - Cisco Systems (CSCO) has shipped its latest play for carrier dollars, offering a high-end device that could apply pressure to competitors like Northern Telecom and Ascend Communications. [News.com]
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- New domain bypasses red tape - Tonga's done it. Niue's done it. And now, Turkmenistan is getting into the act. [News.com]
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- New hole in Web security reported - Many of the Internet's most popular Web sites are vulnerable to new security threats, according to a report released today. [News.com]
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- New Office comes in pieces - Looking to give IT managers more control over which applications get deployed to users, Microsoft (MSFT) is developing a more flexible version of its Office desktop application suite. [News.com]
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- New Pentium II workstations for HP - Hewlett-Packard released five new Kayak workstations based around Intel's fastest Pentium II microprocessor, currently the company's top-of-the-line chip. [News.com]
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- New policy may cut investor suits - Software companies may see a temporary dip in earnings reports, but fewer shareholder lawsuits, under new accounting regulations that go into effect this year. [News.com]
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- New search engine goes commercial - Idealab, entrepreneur Bill Gross's well-known incubator for Internet start-ups, on Saturday is expected to jump into the search-engine business with Goto.com, which will take on the likes of Yahoo and Excite with a decidedly commercial approach. [News.com]
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- New source for browsers - Netscape Communications (NSCP) isn't the only organization making its browser code free, as a Web-based project called Mnemonic has just released the first tangible results of a lightweight browser that can be downloaded and modified by anyone. [News.com]
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- New supercomputer initiative - Four leading computer companies have signed on to the U.S. government's effort to develop the world's fastest supercomputer by 2004, an initiative intended to simulate testing of the country's nuclear stockpile while also transferring leading-edge technology into the marketplace. [News.com]
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- New Toshiba, Sony notebooks small but fast - Sony and Toshiba are using Intel's fastest Pentium processors in new ultra-portable models. [News.com]
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- News megasite cuts content, staff - New Century Network said today that it will focus on advertising, not content, and eliminate positions at its NewsWorks site for the second time in two months. [News.com]
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- NEWS.COM wins top award - For the second year in a row, NEWS.COM has received a top honor in the online journalism awards sponsored by newspaper industry publication Editor & Publisher. [News.com]
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- Newsstand rents space on Lycos - Lycos (LCOS) struck a three-year e-commerce deal today with the Electronic Newsstand that provides the search engine company with guaranteed payments of $10.5 million. [News.com]
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- Next Deep Blue for military - IBM (IBM) has gone from chess games to war games. [News.com]
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- Nielsen ratings for TV on PCs - Microsoft (MSFT) and Nielsen Media Research are teaming up to survey how much TV people will watch on their PCs. [News.com]
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- Nomai to turn to U.S. marketplace - Competition is coming for disk drive makers, and Nomai's entrance into the U.S. market is just the beginning. [News.com]
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- Notebook prices heading south - Notebook prices are following desktop prices south for the winter as Hewlett-Packard (HWP) today cut prices on its Omnibook line of notebooks up to 14.6 percent and Fujitsu launched a low-cost notebook blitz with a $1,499 system that includes a 166-MHz Pentium MMX processor. [News.com]
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- Notebooks sink to $1,300 level - Toshiba cut notebook prices for the second time this year, giving the longtime market leader an entry-level model for under $1,350 in an effort to stay abreast of 1998's burgeoning trend of falling portable prices. [News.com]
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- Novell beats expectations - Novell (NOVL) today posted declining first-quarter revenues and profits as the economic turmoil in Asia took a toll, but the networking software maker beat analysts' expectations for the second consecutive quarter. [News.com]
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- Novell draws product road map - Novell's (NOVL) annual BrainShare user conference in March has always been a showcase for the latest technological developments at the company, and this year will be no different. [News.com]
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- Novell wins trade secret ruling - Networking software supplier Novell (NOVL) won an initial legal victory over a start-up company made up largely of former company employees. [News.com]
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- Novell Z.E.N. enlightens desktops - Network software maker Novell (NOVL) will officially launch a new suite of PC management software tools next week that let users access or receive personalized applications on their Windows-based desktops. [News.com]
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- NT workstations gain power - Intergraph (INGR) released two high-end digital media workstations based on the Windows NT operating system (OS), powerful machines targeting a market segment still dominated by the Unix OS. [News.com]
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- NY Times to offer online gaming - The venerable New York Times is getting into the online gaming business, offering a premium service for interactive play for $4.95 per month. [News.com]
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- Oberon focuses on integration - Helping organizations blend packaged ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications with existing systems, Oberon Software today debuted its latest integration software and tools. [News.com]
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- Olympic traffic tripled over '96 - The official Web site for this year's Nagano Winter Olympic Games generated nearly 650 million hits during the 16-day event, a sign that Internet technology continues to catch on, IBM said today. [News.com]
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- One in four U.S. adults has email - More than one-quarter of U.S. adults have electronic mail addresses, according to the results of a new Harris Poll. [News.com]
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- One-fee ISP gives it another go - A Silicon Valley firm that gained notice last year when it offered lifetime Net access for a flat $59.95 fee is trying to expand despite seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in December. [News.com]
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- Online catalog protocol in air - Backers of a new Internet standard for online catalogs are gathering this week to put finishing touches on an update to the Open Buying on the Internet (OBI) specification, but analysts suggest OBI may be so complex that online sellers may not bother to use it. [News.com]
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- Online credit card wars heat up - As online credit card wars heat up, consumers are finding themselves wooed with new services and safeguards for Internet shopping. [News.com]
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- Online PC sales expand - The business of buying computer products on the Net continues to expand. [News.com]
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- Online travel agents to form group - The Justice Department approved a proposal by ten online travel service providers to create a trade association, as long as they do not exchange information on prices or customers. [News.com]
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- Onsale targets repeat buyers - Online auctioneer Onsale (ONSL) is looking to expand its offerings to leverage the repeat-buyer habits of its users, the companys chief executive said today. [News.com]
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- Open Market links Web to back end - Aiming to move control of e-commerce applications further into the enterprise, Open Market (OMKT) will release version 4.0 of its flagship Transact software, a back-end product for running Internet commerce sites. [News.com]
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- Optimized switch evens Web load - A market for enhancing the performance and easing the migration to larger Web server farms is forming, with companies using network switch technology to satisfy dueling demands for speed and flexibility. [News.com]
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- Oracle to test Video Server 3.0 - Oracle (ORCL) is moving into direct competition with Microsoft in the market for video streaming software. [News.com]
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- Oscar site revving up - For the first time in Oscar history, there may finally be a way to cut off the rambling "thank-you" speeches of the winners: Check the results online. [News.com]
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- Pac Bell ISDN rates in court - California regulators could order Pacific Bell to lower rates for its ISDN customers based on complaints heard today that the service is not up to par. [News.com]
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- Pacific Northwest gets DSL - The Pacific Northwest, a Mecca of high-tech giants, is getting a taste of DSL (digital subscriber line) technology. [News.com]
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- Paging Network to lay off 1,800 - Paging Network (PAGE) said today that it will eliminate 30 percent of its U.S. workforce of 6,000 over the next 9 to 15 months as part of a sweeping restructuring. [News.com]
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- PalmPilot in, Newton out - 3Com is slated to release a high-end version of its popular PalmPilot personal information device (PID) next month, in an effort to cement its dominance as Apple leaves and Microsoft enters the market for the diminutive computing devices. [News.com]
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- Pandesic touts e-hosting - Pandesic, a start-up formed by Intel and SAP, yesterday rolled out the newest version of its e-commerce software package along with a new hosting strategy. [News.com]
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- Partners boost Visual Studio 6.0 - Microsoft (MSFT), attempting to move its Visual Studio development tool package further upscale into large IS departments, today said it is partnering to add a handful of new features to the toolset. [News.com]
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- Pay-for-placement gets another shot - Idealab founder Bill Gross, an Internet guru to many Netizens, thinks his pay-for-placement search engine dubbed Goto.com, to be launched Saturday, will change the advertising paradigm for Web searches. [News.com]
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- Pentagon, FBI probe latest hacks - The Pentagon and the FBI are investigating successful efforts by computer hackers over the last two weeks to obtain information from U.S. military computers, a top defense official said today. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft goes multinational - A new release from PeopleSoft (PSFT) will fuel the company's international revenue growth, an executive at the client/server business software vendor said today. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft sees continuing growth - Fueled by continuing strong demand for its client-server business applications, PeopleSoft (PSFT) posted a fourth-quarter revenue jump today of 76.4 percent and beat expectations. [News.com]
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- Photo software comes full circle - Interactive Pictures and Kodak will work together to offer a digital camera and accessory kit that will allow users to create 360-degree panoramas from digital photographs, in an attempt to transform digital photography into a commercially useful medium. [News.com]
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- PictureTel names top exec - Videoconferencing company PictureTel (PCTL) today announced the appointment of Bruce R. Bond as president and chief executive officer, effective March 1. [News.com]
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- Plastic screen venture gets partner - "Glowing plastic" displays developed by a technology firm based in Cambridge, England, and backed by a high-profile group of investors are to be used in TV and computer screens produced in collaboration with Japan's Seiko-Epson, the British company said today. [News.com]
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- PowerTV licenses browser - Cupertino, California-based PowerTV has licensed Web browser technology from Spyglass (SPYG), filling in another piece of the puzzle for companies racing to provide interactive services through next-generation digital TV set-top boxes. [News.com]
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- Previews of multimedia for NT 5 - Microsoft (MSFT) this week previewed the multimedia underpinnings of Windows NT 5.0, but its release is still a long way off. [News.com]
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- Price cuts, new Jaz for Iomega - Iomega (IOM) cut prices on its 1GB desktop and mobile disk drives while rolling out a 2GB version and a multimedia package that allows users to digitize and edit video content on their PCs, but the moves likely won't be enough to stanch growing competition in the removeable storage market. [News.com]
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- Price pressure buckles chip venture - A major joint memory chip venture between Hitachi and Texas Instruments (TXN) has been crushed under the weight of tumbling memory chip prices. [News.com]
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- Priceline.com's flight price is right - A consumer-oriented service that will let travelers name the price they are willing to pay for airline tickets is due to launch in April, aiming to save leisure travelers on air fares and help airlines fill empty seats. [News.com]
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- Pricey chips to sustain Intel profits - Upcoming high-end Pentium II chips represent more than a technical redesign. They are a way for Intel (INTC) to raise prices and continue to drive its high margins. [News.com]
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- Pricey memory chips stolen in Taiwan - Thieves made off with millions of computer memory chips worth some $7 million, Taiwan's second microchip heist in less than a month. [News.com]
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- Privacy debate aired in Texas - Many privacy watchdogs want stricter laws--not industry self-regulation--to shield personal data on the Net. But they got mixed signals from a former Clinton administration official and a current policy guru, who tackled the issue here at the eighth Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference (CFP). [News.com]
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- Prodigy not following AOL's lead - Amid widespread speculation that ISPs might follow America Online in raising their rates for unlimited Internet access, a major AOL rival has come out swinging today against the Internet service giant and in defense of the pricing status quo. [News.com]
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- PSINet pursuit called off - USinternetworking said it will no longer seek to pursue its proposal to acquire at least 51 percent of PSINet's (PSIX) shares. [News.com]
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- PSINet reports earnings growth - PSINet (PSIX) today posted improved fourth-quarter results as membership among its corporate customers grew 26 percent. [News.com]
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- Qualcomm stock falls after warning - Qualcomm (QCOM) stock dropped by as much as 18 percent in morning trading today, following a preliminary second-quarter warning issued by the company, in which it announced that earnings will be hurt as a result of several Korean manufacturers revoking or postponing orders, and that it would lay off 700 workers. [News.com]
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- Quark plans to buy Coris - Publishing software maker Quark said today that it plans to buy Coris, a subsidiary of R.R. Donnelley and Sons (DNY). [News.com]
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- Rational readies component tool - Rational Software will next week announce a new software modeling tool aimed at developers building ActiveX and Java component applications. [News.com]
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- Readers reply to the $2 question - AOL ain't worth it. Not for $21.95, anyway, according to the results of a NEWS.COM Poll. [News.com]
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- RealNetworks to acquire Vivo - Streaming media software maker RealNetworks (RNWK) today said it plans to acquire streaming media creation tools maker Vivo Software, in a move intended to broaden its streaming media product line. [News.com]
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- RealNetworks updates stream tool - RealNetworks (RNWK) today released an upgrade of its streaming media publishing tool that lets other software products take advantage of Real's Internet popularity. [News.com]
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- Redmond Web strategy turns again - To its detractors, the code name of Microsoft's new home page is a telling one: Microsoft Start. [News.com]
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- Release gives Java a new look - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) today released a key piece of the next version of Java that will give Java applications a variety of faces, or "looks and feels." [News.com]
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- Return of free Net access - At a time when established Internet service providers America Online and IBM are socking their customers with rate hikes and time limits, Tritium Network will be providing free access to five U.S. cities starting Monday. [News.com]
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- Revenue up but HP falls short - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) today reported a 15 percent increase in first-quarter revenues, driven in part by its desktop and mobile client business, but its earnings fell short of expectations as Asia's economic woes took a toll. [News.com]
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- Right weighs in on Microsoft - Microsoft's ongoing antitrust battle with government regulators went beyond the courtroom today as policy makers, academics, and economists held a conference to convey the message that government scrutiny of the high-tech industry is warranted but shouldn't be heavy-handed. [News.com]
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- Rockwell seeds modem market - The ink has barely dried on the new 56-kbps modem standard and already Rockwell Semiconductor (ROK) has begun to ship new modem chips, hoping to quickly position itself as the market's leading supplier. [News.com]
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- RSA hired to protect cable - Cable Television Laboratories and RSA Data Security today announced a pact to make the U.S. cable network more secure for uses such as high-speed Net access. [News.com]
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- RSA upgrades JSafe toolkit - Encryption software maker RSA Data Security is upgrading its security toolkit for Java developers. [News.com]
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- Russian army marches online - The doors of Russia's long-secretive Defense Ministry creaked open this week: After a battle between old-school officers and those with an eye on the future, the ministry launched its own Web site today. [News.com]
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- Ruthless competition rules market - Never before have so many worked so hard for so little. [News.com]
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- S3 gets major chip patents - Graphics chipmaker S3 has purchased the patents of defunct chipmaker Exponential Technology, CNET's NEWS.COM has learned, a move that may presage S3's shift into making complete microprocessors. [News.com]
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- S3 strategy unclear - Graphics chipmaker S3's surprise purchase of the microprocessor patent portfolio of Exponential Technologies is leaving many in the industry scratching their heads, but one theory is that the company may try to get into the integrated microprocessor market. [News.com]
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- Sabotage incident sparks concern - A federal indictment alleging the most expensive instance of computer sabotage to date reinforces what white-collar prosecutors have known for some time: Companies that rely on computer networks need to take active steps to insulate themselves against risk. [News.com]
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- Sabotage suspect charged - A former programmer at a high-tech firm that makes instruments used by NASA and the Navy was arraigned yesterday on charges of detonating a programming "bomb" that wiped out all of the company's software. [News.com]
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- Samsung licenses Alpha - Digital Equipment (DEC) today said it has expanded its relationship with Samsung Electronics by granting it an architectural license to its Alpha chip, which grants access to all Alpha intellectual property, patents, and future implementations. [News.com]
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- Samsung seeking capital from Intel - In the latest of a series of moves seeking foreign capital, South Korea's Samsung Group today said it is talking with Intel (INTC) about a capital infusion for its semiconductor unit, Samsung Electronics. [News.com]
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- San Francisco hosts tech summit - Never at a loss for words when it comes to self-promotion, San Francisco is hosting a "summit" today and tomorrow--featuring a video appearance by Vice President Al Gore--touting its role in the digital revolution. [News.com]
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- SAP top execs to resign after all - Shares in German software group SAP slumped late yesterday after a surprise announcement that co-CEO Dietmar Hopp and another founder plan to resign in May. [News.com]
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- Satellite carriers contest TV set-top market - Advanced TV set-top boxes have another way to connect to the Net, as a satellite standard begins to compete with the cable specification in Europe, possibly heralding a similar push in the U.S. [News.com]
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- Seagate shutters Irish plant - The final chapter in Ireland for troubled disk drive maker Seagate Technology (SEG) closed this week with the payback of 11.3 million Irish pounds ($15.8 million) in grant allocations to Irish authorities, Ireland's Industrial Development Authority (IDA) confirmed today. [News.com]
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- Seagate updates network tool - Seagate Software has shipped an updated tool for keeping corporate networks up and running. [News.com]
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- Search deals enhance services - In their ongoing metamorphosis, search engines increasingly are becoming free online services--and today's buyout of Tripod by Lycos (LCOS) is the latest example. [News.com]
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- Searching for "clean" content - One of the hottest online search technology companies--Inktomi--next week will announce a partnership with blocking software maker N2H2 to build a massive Net index for children that excludes links to pornography and other adult-oriented content. [News.com]
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- SEC may seek more Y2K info - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission soon may require more information from broker dealers and other firms to ensure that they prepare their computers for the next century, a top official said. [News.com]
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- SEC rules to include online means - Investment brokers who communicate online with clients may be subject to email monitoring under rules approved by the Securities Exchange Commission that go into effect Sunday. [News.com]
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- Senators slam FCC over Net fund - A national program to give schools and libraries Net access discounts is being called into question by three Republican senators and a federal agency, who say Congress should have more oversight of the fund. [News.com]
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- Servers stolen from Net domain group - Thieves apparently broke into a San Francisco server facility over the holiday weekend and stole two computers belonging to a sometimes controversial group that is putting forth a plan for adding generic domain names to the domain name system, the group reported today. [News.com]
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- SGI has faster, cheaper workstations - Silicon Graphics today announced new, faster versions of its high-end Unix workstations, and price cuts on its low-end Unix workstations. [News.com]
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- Shareholder sues Netscape execs - A shareholder of Netscape Communications (NSCP) has sued five directors and officers of the company, alleging that they lowered the exercise price of the employee stock option plan "to enrich themselves at the expense of...public stockholders." [News.com]
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- ShortTake: Bertelsmann enters book wars - International media company Bertelsmann will enter the online retail book business under the name BooksOnline. The company will offer books published by Bertelsmann's publishing houses, as well as titles from other publishers worldwide. The company did not disclose a time frame for the launch of its new business. [News.com]
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- ShortTake: China regulates virus research - The Chinese government said it will implement new rules that will put the nation's police force in charge of all computer virus research. Businesses that want to study viruses or develop antivirus software, must register with the Ministry of Public Security, according to Xinhua News Agency. The announcement comes two months after rules were implemented to prohibit the use of the Internet to spread politically subversive or pornographic material. [News.com]
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- ShortTake: US West launches local Net service - US West Communications has launched Internet service for residential and small business customers in Minneapolis and St. Paul, according to a Reuters report. US West is charging $19.95 per month for unlimited access and 2MB of personal Web page storage space. [News.com]
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- Show glimpses consumer future - The next wave of technology innovation will be driven by the consumer markets, not business users, says the man who runs a high-tech think tank funded by investor Paul Allen. [News.com]
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- Siemens sees rising chip sales - The semiconductor unit of Siemens AG aims to lift 1997-98 sales to 8 billion marks ($4.4 billion) from 5.9 billion marks last year, the company said in an internal magazine released today. [News.com]
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- Siemens to use Windows CE - German electronics group Siemens (SMAWY) and Microsoft (MSFT) today signed a letter of intent to develop a range of non-computer products based on the software giant's Windows CE software. [News.com]
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- Slate to begin charging fees - After more than a year of anticipation, Microsoft's Slate today finally will start taking subscription sign-ups, charging $19.95 per year for charter members. [News.com]
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- Slow PC growth in Latin America - The Latin American PC market grew only 9.1 percent in 1997, hampered by high interest rates and the resulting slowdown of PC shipments in Brazil, according to a report by market research firm Dataquest. [News.com]
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- Small "megapixel" camera ready - Fuji will introduce its newest and smallest digital camera at this year's Photo Marketing Association show. [News.com]
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- Small firms spend on IT - Small business firms' information technology spending will boom over the next four years, making the market a huge growth opportunity for server manufacturers and distributors, according to a new study. [News.com]
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- Small-business PC sales to boom - Small-business PC sales growth will surge by 32 percent in 1998, outstripping growth in the consumer and corporate markets, according to a new market research report. [News.com]
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- Soda gets bids on auction site - A Cola War has broken out on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Software AG extends COM deal - Hoping to dismiss rumors of a split, Software AG said today that it is tightening its relationship with Microsoft for porting component technology to Unix and other operating systems. [News.com]
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- Software group split on principles - As the federal antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft barrels forward, a prominent high-tech trade association today released a list of competition principles that strike at the heart of the case and have angered the software giant. [News.com]
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- Software locks up extranets - Recently returned to profitability, Internet security vendor Secure Computing (SCUR) will ship this month new software for securing extranets. [News.com]
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- Software modem upgrades due - This spring, high-tech giant Motorola will release software to upgrade its 56-kbps modem technology to the new v.90 international 56-kbps modem standard. [News.com]
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- SonicNet soups up music site - SonicNet will start a soft launch of its revamped Web site Monday, trying to get ahead in a crowded, competitive market. [News.com]
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- Space the place for Net access - The Internet space race is on as Teledesic put its first satellite into orbit yesterday in preparation for establishing a high-speed data connections and Internet access network. [News.com]
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- Spam snags @Home mail system - @Home (ATHM) subscribers had trouble receiving email for three days after a spammer sent out a mass mailing this weekend to America Online members using "work@home.com" as the return address. [News.com]
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- Spammers back with backbone - The kings of spam are back with a backbone for "email marketers," but this time they claim to be adopting a kinder, gentler approach to advertising via bulk messages. [News.com]
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- Speech recognition takes off - A handful of companies at the Demo 98 technology conference here today attempted to prove that speech recognition systems, a category of products that have captured the public's attention but not its wallets, are about to break into the mainstream. [News.com]
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- Sports Illustrated puts swimsuits online - Time Warner tonight launches its popular Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition on the Web for Netizens who are willing to pay $7.95, the latest example of a media giant tapping moneymaking opportunities on the Net. [News.com]
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- SportsLine targets global audience - SportsLine USA (SPLN) has substantially expanded its coverage of soccer, cricket, and golf, in a two-pronged strategy for growing brand recognition overseas. [News.com]
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- Sprint stakes EarthLink - Looking to boost its Internet presence, Sprint (FON) is taking a 30 percent stake in EarthLink Network (ELNK) as the two companies form a joint Internet service. [News.com]
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- Standard snag for Gigabit Ethernet - Delays in the final stages of the standards process for gigabit-speed Ethernet could hold up formal approval of the technology at least until early summer. [News.com]
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- Start-up to support site owners - A former top executive at Ziff-Davis is scheduled to unveil his own Internet start-up tomorrow to serve the vast number of midsized Web sites. [News.com]
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- State weighs in with Net porn bill - The case of a man using the Net to romance and persuade a 13-year-old New Hampshire girl to run away with him has sparked a campaign to strengthen the state's child pornography laws to include online crimes. [News.com]
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- States tackle Y2K bug - Though some say the federal government is dawdling in its approach to the Year 2000 problem, a recent slew of antibug rallies held by states may indicate that state governments won't be caught with bugs at their 2000 New Year's parties. [News.com]
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- States, DOJ meet about Microsoft - Several state officials appeared interested in joining forces to pursue possible legal action against Microsoft at the close of a two-day meeting attended by the Justice Department here yesterday, according to a participant. [News.com]
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- States, DOJ to meet on Microsoft - Antitrust prosecutors from several states are preparing to meet next week with Justice Department officials to discuss strategies for legal action against Microsoft, sources familiar with the matter have told CNET's NEWS.COM. [News.com]
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- Student finds AOL bug - A 14-year-old high school student in Florida has discovered a bug that could be used to surreptitiously send malicious computer code to users of America Online's Instant Messenger system on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Studies: Net use, classifieds up - Two new studies are lending weight to the widespread suspicion that the Internet is growing. [News.com]
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- Study ranks ISPs' performance - IBM, recently criticized by some customers for its plans to put an hourly cap on Net access, ranked first in a study of reliability among 90 Internet service providers, while giant America Online fell slightly below average. [News.com]
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- Sun brief restates Java case - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) reiterated its reasons today why the logo for its Java programming language should be removed from Microsoft's (MSFT) products. [News.com]
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- Sun bumps Sparc chip to 336 MHz - Sun Microsystems has boosted the speed of its UltraSparc II microprocessor to 336 MHz, in the process retaking its speed lead over Intel in server chips. [News.com]
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- Sun joins VRML Consortium - Sun Microsystems joined the VRML Consortium today, a move that could result in better integration between its 3D application programming interface (API) and the consortium's standard. [News.com]
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- Sun pushing for a profitable Java - After two-plus years of playing evangelist, Sun Microsystems (SUNW) is trying to turn Java into a moneymaking proposition. But can the company's JavaSoft division turn a profit, avoid running afoul of powerful allies, and remain the keeper of the Java flame? [News.com]
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- Sun, Microsoft trade Java barbs - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) took its rancorous dispute with Microsoft (MSFT) over its programming language to court today, arguing that the Java logo should be removed from the software giant's products until they pass a suite of compatibility tests. [News.com]
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- Survey rates enterprise players - Apache continues to lead the pack in enterprise server software, according to a new study, but there is good news for Netscape Communications as well. [News.com]
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- Survey: Browser bundling works - Most newbies use one particular Web browser for the same reason certain people climb mountains: Because it's there. And once they choose their browser, they're not likely to switch. [News.com]
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- Survey: Net popular for car sales - The number of people likely to buy from a used-car superstore dropped last year, while those who would consider buying a vehicle through the Internet more than doubled, according to a survey released today. [News.com]
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- Sybase debuts jConnect 3.0 - Sybase (SYBS) has shipped a new release of its software for linking Java applications to back-end databases. [News.com]
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- Sybase expands data warehousing - Sybase (SYBS) plans to announce next week that it will acquire Intellidex, a maker of tools for managing data stored in a data warehouse. [News.com]
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- Sybase on the verge of a shakeup - As Sybase (SYBS) gears up for a management shakeup, its top executive today laid out plans for the companys road to recovery. [News.com]
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- Sybase realigns, lays off 600 - Hoping to streamline its operations and return to profitability, Sybase (SYBS) said today that it will lay off just under 600 of its more than 5,600 employees. [News.com]
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- Sybase tops poor performer list - For the second year in a row, the nation's largest public pension fund has named Sybase one of the poorest corporate performers. [News.com]
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- Symantec sued over Y2K upgrade - Symantec (SYMC), a provider of application and system software products, is being sued over alleged defects in computer software that it developed, a law firm representing people who bought the product said today. [News.com]
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- Symantec updates Visual Cafe - Symantec (SYMC) is giving developers an easier way to connect Java applications to other corporate software. [News.com]
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- System-on-a-chip market growing - Joining an increasingly crowded field, Texas Instruments (TI) will release a "system on a chip," which combines audio, video, and graphics capabilities onto a single piece of silicon. [News.com]
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- Taiwan chip firms unfazed by tariff - Taiwan semiconductor firms, accused of dumping memory chips in the U.S. market, should emerge largely unscathed if the U.S. carries out plans to impose duties, analysts said today. [News.com]
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- Taiwan chip giant wary of demand - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company expects global demand for microchips to rise 10 percent in 1998, even though Asia's financial turmoil and Japan's slack economy are hurting growth. [News.com]
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- Tax software ready to rent - After a week's delay, Intuit (INTU) will make a slimmed-down version of its TurboTax software available for rent from its Web site. [News.com]
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- Team latest to crack 56-bit crypto - Encryption software maker RSA Data Security has confirmed that a group using computers linked by the Internet has cracked the company's 56-bit DES encryption code as part of an ongoing contest. [News.com]
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- Tech IPOs outdo other issues - Online advertising agency DoubleClick (DCLK) leaped into the public market today and gained 57 percent upon its debut, joining the list of technology offerings that have outperformed other IPOs. [News.com]
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- Tech sector soars on Clinton nod - Internet stocks hit record highs this morning on the heels of President Clinton's proposal to ban U.S. and international taxes on business transactions conducted online. [News.com]
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- TechNet backs charter schools - As promised, the bipartisan lobbying group Technology Network endorsed its first education initiative today in California. [News.com]
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- Telecom bundling back in vogue? - Is bundling Net access with phone service making a comeback? MCI Internet is quietly offering access to the Internet for $14.95 per month--$5 per month less than the going rate--as long as users sign up for its long distance telephone service. [News.com]
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- Texas Microsoft suit thrown out - A Texas judge dismissed a suit today in which the state's attorney general accused Microsoft of illegally interfering with an ongoing investigation into the software giant's business practices, according to the company. [News.com]
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- The battle for digital images - Two wealthy men are headed for a showdown in the emerging market for digital images, an industry being transformed by technology from one dealing in small, privately held photos or videos to one in which digital images are available on demand online. [News.com]
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- The fastest chips in the world - Digital Equipment jumped the gun on a San Francisco technology conference scheduled to begin tomorrow by announcing it plans to produce a 1,000-MHz Alpha chip. IBM went one step further, today introducing a PowerPC prototype of the so-called gigahertz chip. At the conference, Big Blue will describe its own 1,000-MHz architecture as well as the first concrete plans for a copper-based chip--a shift in technology that many believe will keep the industry on track to achieve ever-greater leaps in performance. Also, Intel will outline the details of its highly secret "Slot 2" architecture used in its fastest Pentium II chips, expected to reach 450 MHz by year's end. [News.com]
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- Thin is in at Demo conference - Thin is in, but not just at the health spas and tanning salons in this tony desert resort community. [News.com]
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- Times Mirror auction site growing - Newspapers are getting into the online auction business, the latest example of the industry's shift onto the Web to make money and protect their advertising turf. [News.com]
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- Tivoli readies enterprise software - IBM (IBM) management software subsidiary Tivoli Systems next week will add new capabilities to make it easier for large networks to manage the distribution of information, such as widely disseminated reports. [News.com]
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- Tobacco firms to post papers - Four tobacco companies said today they will post "tens of millions" of pages of documents on the Net related to the industry's proposed global legal settlement negotiated last spring, but they will not include material such as "highly sensitive" trade secret information. [News.com]
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- Tools to ease software installation - Business applications maker J.D. Edwards (JDEC) today rolled out a suite of business process modeling and implementation tools intended to make installing the company's software an easier task. [News.com]
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- Top e-commerce exec resigns - The executive who has led MasterCard's charge into e-commerce has left the company at a crucial stage in the development of its key technology for secure transactions. [News.com]
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- Top Netscape execs reduce stakes - Watching their shares fall over the past year, Netscape Communications (NSCP) chief executive James Barksdale and chairman James Clark are cutting their losses and cutting their respective stakes in the troubled Internet company that once dominated Web software. [News.com]
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- Toshiba discounts digital camera - Toshiba America slashed the price of its entry-level digital camera to $249, as the new-fangled devices continue to become more affordable. [News.com]
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- Toshiba fights to stay on top - A humbled Toshiba, lately losing momentum in the notebook market, is now trying to change its business practices in order to reassert itself. [News.com]
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- Toshiba memory plant set to go - Toshiba will spend about 10 billion yen to build a memory chip factory in Mie Prefecture in western Japan. [News.com]
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- Tough times for Cyrix? - Despite the news of a patent settlement with rival Intel, Cyrix's day in the sun may be over: Its competitors are catching up in the low-cost computer chip market, a business Cyrix and Compaq Computer virtually invented a year ago. [News.com]
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- Triple play for Net phones - Internet telephony won a triple play this week as companies targeting consumers, businesses, and phone carriers announced potentially groundbreaking Net telephony products and services. [News.com]
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- U.S. acts on Paraguay piracy - The U.S. accused Paraguay of failing to provide adequate protection against copyright piracy and said it had launched an investigation that could lead to trade sanctions. [News.com]
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- U.S. chip firms to help Korea - Some U.S. semiconductor and semiconductor equipment companies are looking at ways to bail out Korean chip makers, which may risk missing an entire technology cycle because of Korea's economic crisis. [News.com]
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- U.S. one of few restricting crypto - The United States is one of only a handful of countries that have restricted or want to restrict the use of encrypted software and communications within its borders, according to a survey released today. [News.com]
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- U.S. seeks accord on Net trade - The United States has formally proposed that all countries in the World Trade Organization (WTO) agree to keep commerce in goods and services on the Internet duty free, diplomats said today. [News.com]
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- U.S. tech firms seek foreigners - U.S. computer companies are using recruiting scouts, big salaries, and signing bonuses to lure scarce information technology (IT) workers, high tech executives told Congress today. [News.com]
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- U.S. tightens computer exports - The Commerce Department today issued new rules to tighten export controls on high-performance computers. [News.com]
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- U.S. wins networking tariff case - The World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled in the United States' favor in its case against the European Union (EU), Ireland, and Britain over tariff hikes on computer equipment reclassified as communications technology, officials said today. [News.com]
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- U.S. wins support for Net free trade - The United States won support from rich powers and emerging economies for a proposal to start discussion in the World Trade Organization (WTO) on rules for the rapidly growing trade across cyberspace. [News.com]
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- Unix holdout signs on to Windows - One of the last bastions of rarefied Unix-only computing has fallen, as Synopsys, a high-end vendor of semiconductor design software for Unix workstations, announced that it will put its products on the Windows-Intel platform. [News.com]
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- US West to distribute software - US West announced a partnership today with six computer companies to distribute software over the Baby Bell's high-speed, fiber-optic network. [News.com]
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- VC investments set record - Technology companies and Silicon Valley bellied up to the venture capital trough in 1997, hogging the bulk of U.S. investments. [News.com]
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- VLSI stock nose-dives - Shares of VLSI Technology (VLSI) today plummeted 22 percent after the company said it would fall far short of Wall Street's expectations for its first quarter. [News.com]
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- Voice firms seek data traffic niche - Two multibillion-dollar telecommunications powerhouses are zeroing in on territory currently occupied by the likes of Cisco Systems and Bay Networks. [News.com]
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- W3C issues accessibility draft - The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today issued a working draft of guidelines for making sites accessible to people with aural or visual disabilities. [News.com]
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- W3C makes XML a standard - The standards-setting body World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), as expected, today made XML a standard. [News.com]
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- Washington meets Valley - Long the stepchildren on Capitol Hill, Netrepreneurs have finally secured a place on the A-lists inside the Beltway. Taking on issues ranging from Internet taxes to online access in America's classrooms, the White House is paying close attention to the needs of the high-tech industry. [News.com]
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- Wayfarer pushes on - Wayfarer Communications is set to release a new version of its push system software next week. [News.com]
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- Web advertising grows up - Ad network DoubleClick's (DCLK) wildly successful IPO today gives investors an opportunity to take a stake in a company that is 100 percent involved in Internet advertising. But the company is not the only Internet ad firm pursuing profits from the considerable unsold advertising inventory of Web publishers. [News.com]
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- Web hosting firms to merge - Web hosting firms Best Internet and Hiway Technologies will merge into one company with some 80,000 customers, Hiway executives said today. [News.com]
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- Web takes on TV in Olympics - Like the athletes assembled in Nagano, Olympics Web sites believe that they have an edge on the television competition. [News.com]
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- Webcast wedding draws a crowd - With relatives spread out from Oklahoma to Spain, Brad Nickel and Olga San Martin knew that not everyone would be able to attend their Valentine's Day wedding in Florida. [News.com]
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- White House in porn domain dispute - The X-rated "whitehouse.com" Web site has drawn the ire of the real White House, which has sent a letter challenging the owner's right to use the president and the first lady as a "marketing device." [News.com]
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- Who will be the winners and losers? - There is one thing certain about the graphics chip industry in 1998. There will be a lot of losers. [News.com]
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- Windows 98 release due in Europe - Microsoft (MSFT) doesn't expect anti-trust questions to arise when it releases its Windows 98 operating system in Europe this spring. [News.com]
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- Windows 98 release on track - Like a train conductor trying to keep to a tight schedule, Microsoft (MSFT) insists that it is on track for shipping its Windows 98, but a top executive acknowledged today that questions remain about scheduling of Windows NT's latest version. [News.com]
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- Windows 98 to preview in theaters - Windows 98 is coming to a theater near you on April 4. [News.com]
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- Windows NT on mainframes - Hitachi and Digital Equipment (DEC ) today announced that they are cooperating on software technology that will move the Windows NT operating system onto mainframe-class computers, another sign that Microsoft's most powerful operating system is set to move deep into high-end computing territory. [News.com]
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- World unprepared for Y2K bug - Phone lines will crash, credit cards will read as expired, insurance policies will get lost, checks will bounce, and wages will be delayed--these are just some of the millennium bug disaster scenarios. [News.com]
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- WorldCom builds a powerhouse - The Internet. Long distance and local telephone service. International expansion. WorldCom (WCOM) is putting together all these pieces in an effort to build a worldwide communications powerhouse. [News.com]
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- WorldCom has competitors on the run - Although WorldCom's (WCOM) acquisition of CompuServe closed over the weekend, competitors started to bolster their defense shortly after the deal was announced last September. [News.com]
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- WorldCom reports, warns of charge - WorldCom (WCOM) said today that it will take a $429 million charge related to its CompuServe merger in the first quarter of 1998. [News.com]
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- WorldCom, CompuServe merge - WorldCom (WCOM) said today that it has completed its merger with CompuServe (CSRV). [News.com]
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- XML decision due next week - The standards-setting body World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will make an announcement as early as Tuesday on what many consider the great leap forward for Web-based content. [News.com]
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- Y2K suits likely to keep coming - For months, legal analysts have predicted that a computer glitch created by the approaching year 2000 will be to litigation what El Niño has been to the weather. Now, some of them are saying that two class-action suits filed over the problem in as many months amount to the first signs of precipitation. [News.com]
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- Yahoo adds comics to content - Yahoo (YHOO), known for providing its users with information such as stocks, weather, and classified advertising, is living up to the jocularity of its name with its latest partnership: a comics syndicate. [News.com]
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- Yahoo, Time team on chat site - Yahoo (YHOO) and Time New Media today announced an alliance that includes a new online chat service. [News.com]
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- Ziff-Davis plans NYSE listing - Acquisitive Japanese computer software firm Softbank said today that its U.S. computer publishing and exhibition unit, Ziff-Davis, plans to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange in April. [News.com]
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- Zip drives replace floppies - Iomega Japan said Zip storage drives will become a standard feature in new IBM Aptiva PCs for the Japanese market, adding to a growing trend away from archaic floppy drives. [News.com]
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