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- $1.5 billion to upgrade Bell Atlantic - Bell Atlantic (BEL) has chosen five equipment suppliers to take part in plans to spend $1.5 billion over the next five years to upgrade its network capacity to handle both voice and data at high speeds. [News.com]
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- "Coopetition" gaining acceptance - The idea of "coopetition," which refers to a business cooperating with its competitor, is not new. But high-tech companies--including the likes of Microsoft, Netscape, and Apple--increasingly are embracing the strategy as they attempt to grow in cutthroat markets. [News.com]
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- "Smurf" attack hits Minnesota - University of Minnesota computer networks suffered a "denial of service" attack today that caused data loss and slow connections throughout the entire state. [News.com]
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- 1-terabyte storage system due - On Monday, Storage Technology will unveil a line of high-end storage devices for Windows NT-based networks, including a model that can store more than 1 terabyte of data. Known as Storagetek, the company will introduce its Openstorage products to match the storage capacity that's been available for years for mainframe computers and networks based on the Unix operating system. Openstorage devices will be targeted at companies that want to set up big computer networks based on Microsoft's fast-growing Windows NT standard. [News.com]
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- 18GB hard drive ready - Quantum (QNTM) will soon begin volume shipments of an 18.2GB storage drive, double the size of the next-largest PC market storage product in the 3.5-inch form factor. [News.com]
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- 27 states go against Microsoft - Twenty-seven states filed a brief in federal appeals court in Washington today supporting the Justice Department's antitrust case against Microsoft. [News.com]
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- 333-MHz Pentium II price slashed - Intel (INTC) cut the price on the fastest version of its Pentium II processor by 19 percent, to stimulate demand at the high end of the PC market. [News.com]
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- 3Com earnings disappoint - Stock in networking giant 3Com (COMS) was down by more than 4 percent this morning, after the company yesterday fell below Wall Street's estimates as pricing pressure deteriorated gross margins. [News.com]
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- 3Com fights for corporate elite - Most novice computer users think modems and network connection cards when they hear the name 3Com (COMS). [News.com]
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- 3Com moves on 56-kbps market - 3Com (COMS) announced a new standard-compliant 56-kbps "corporate" modem and also a software upgrade for owners of 3Com 56-kbps modems using proprietary technology. [News.com]
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- 3Com to lay off 380 in Chicago - 3Com (COMS) said today that it will lay off 380 people--230 full-time and 150 contract workers--at two former US Robotics facilities in Chicago. [News.com]
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- 3Com unveils Palm III handheld - 3Com's (COMS) Palm Computing subsidiary introduced a brand-new PalmPilot, crowning a recent flurry of action in the handheld market. [News.com]
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- 3Com, Siemens pair for multimedia - Adding their names to the list of networking firms embracing multimedia hype, 3Com (COMS) and Siemens (SMAWY) rolled out plans for new voice, video, and data capabilities within their equipment. [News.com]
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- 400-MHz Pentium IIs shipping - Chip resellers are already shipping the newest and fastest versions of the Pentium II chip even before the scheduled April 15 announcement of speed upgrades to Intel's (INTC) top-line microprocessor. [News.com]
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- 56-kbps modem makers hurting - Confusion over 56-kbps modems caused consumers to delay purchases last quarter, hurting the bottom line for manufacturers once again as this quarter winds down. [News.com]
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- @Home struggles, stock spikes - @Home (ATHM), which potentially could provide Net access to half of the homes in North America that have access to cable, is losing money and has fewer customers (55,517) than the population of Palo Alto, California, at least at last count. [News.com]
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- @Home teams for online store - Software company Release Software is teaming up with high-speed cable Net access company @Home to create an online software store, the companies announced today. [News.com]
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- A chip for smaller cell phones - SGS-Thomson Microelectronics today said it has developed a semiconductor technology that will further reduce the number of chips needed in mobile phones and cut production costs by 30 percent. [News.com]
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- A domain name for the moon? - Walking, broadcasting, and selling real estate on the moon--it's been done. But serving up Web pages from that big hunk of green cheese in the sky--now that's a new one. [News.com]
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- A simpler Net address system - Silicon Valley start-up Centraal wants to give Web sites "real names" and give Web surfers another way of finding popular sites. [News.com]
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- Acer to focus on stability in Asia - Acer Computer International (ACI), a subsidiary of Taiwan's Acer Computer, will focus on stable markets within the economically troubled Asian region. [News.com]
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- Adobe's numbers come up short - Adobe Systems (ADBE) today posted profits for its first fiscal quarter that fell below Wall Street's expectations, largely caused by a sales slowdown in the Macintosh market and in Asia. [News.com]
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- Affordable Mac aimed at schools - Apple Computer (AAPL) introduced a new Macintosh destined for schools, as part of a larger comeback plan to reverse declining share in one of its key markets. [News.com]
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- AFL-CIO tracking executive pay - The AFL-CIO next month plans to begin updating a Web site dedicated to what it calls the "runaway pay" of America's chief executives, which includes the latest compensation of various CEOs. [News.com]
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- Airport hack raises flags - The Justice Department's case this week against a teenage hacker who temporarily disabled a local airport vividly demonstrated that a lot more than files and funds are at stake in the war against hacking. [News.com]
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- Alltel to buy 360 Communications - Alltel (AT) has agreed to acquire 360 Communications (XO) in a stock deal valued at about $4.2 billion, the companies said today. [News.com]
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- AlphaBlox plans Web tools - Software start-up AlphaBlox has begun shipping a new set of Web-based analysis applications that can help to open up the deep stores of information processed and housed in most enterprise applications. [News.com]
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- Alteon, Inktomi cozy on caching - Two players, each with a different strategy for delving into the emerging market for speedy access to Web data, will join forces next week to tackle the needs of Internet service providers and large corporate networks. [News.com]
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- AlterNIC founder pleads guilty - A man trying to set up an alternative to the government-sanctioned Internet naming service pleaded guilty to preventing tens of thousands of users from reaching his competitor. [News.com]
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- AMD rises on new confidence - Shares of Advanced Micro Devices rose today after getting a boost from two analysts who said the chipmaker's manufacturing is improving. [News.com]
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- AMD sees upside despite warning - Despite warning earlier this month that its first-quarter results would "decline significantly," Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) stock has been on a roll as analysts and investors look beyond the current quarter and toward the revenue potential of improved yields announced by the company today. [News.com]
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- AMD warns of significant decline - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) warned today that its first-quarter results will "decline significantly." [News.com]
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- AMD's Sanders takes pay cut - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) last year cut back the compensation package of its chairman and chief executive Jerry Sanders, a chip executive who in the past has been taken to task for being one of the industry's highest paid executives during times when his company didn't shine. [News.com]
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- AMD's window of opportunity - Advanced Micro Devices is hoping to gain ground on Intel even as it continues to grapple with manufacturing problems and widening financial losses. [News.com]
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- Amex lists new Oracle derivative - The American Stock Exchange (AMEX) said today that it began trading in a hybrid securities derivative on Oracle (ORCL) shares. [News.com]
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- Amex, Nasdaq close to merger - Nasdaq and the American Stock Exchange are close to a merger agreement, people familiar with the plan said today, a move that would challenge the New York Stock Exchange and make trading cheaper for millions of investors. [News.com]
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- Analyst sees threats to Intel - One the chip industry's leading pundits today said that Intel (INTC) faces a rash of threats including emerging chip powerhouse IBM and the Federal Trade Commission. [News.com]
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- Another $100 56-kbps modem here - Diamond Multimedia (DIMD) has begun shipping a standards-compliant 56-kbps modem for $99.95, as vendors continue to price products aggressively to gain share in the cutthroat modem market. [News.com]
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- AOL adds Standard & Poor's - In the most recent example of its financial services overhaul, America Online today announced a five-year linking deal with Standard & Poor's to provide an investment management service. [News.com]
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- AOL claims victory against spam - America Online (AOL) today claimed its first victory resulting from its latest antispam campaign. [News.com]
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- AOL lists top ten spammers - America Online (AOL) today is taking another stab at nabbing spammers who plague its system. [News.com]
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- AOL offers health care deal - America Online (AOL) today announced a deal that could increase members' dependency on the online service. [News.com]
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- AOL offers real estate center - America Online (AOL) today launched a new real estate center for its online service that lets subscribers shop for homes, mortgages, and moving services. [News.com]
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- AOL relaunches business service - America Online (AOL) is planning to relaunch a version of its online service for corporate use, according to analysts briefed on the matter. [News.com]
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- AOL steps up business efforts - America Online (AOL) has relaunched AOL Enterprise, a version of its online service for corporate use, and has announced deals with Lotus and Oracle. [News.com]
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- AOL's Case reduces stake by 15% - America Online's (AOL) chief executive, Steve Case, lightened his load of stock options last month, bringing in upwards of $61 million, according to new regulatory filings. [News.com]
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- AOL's Case to sit on NYSE board - In a sign that cyberspace has truly arrived on Wall Street, America Online's (AOL) Steve Case has been nominated to the board of the New York Stock Exchange. [News.com]
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- AOL's Hub closes - The Hub is getting the ax. [News.com]
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- AOL, Software.net in deal - America Online (AOL) and online software superstore Software.net announced a deal today under which Software.net will become an exclusive reseller of downloadable software on AOL's Web site and proprietary service. [News.com]
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- Apple cuts prices, unveils servers - Apple Computer (AAPL) has lowered prices on its popular Power Macintosh G3 machines and released new server computers for the first time in a while. [News.com]
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- Apple G3 sales solid in Europe - Struggling manufacturer Apple Computer may be losing out in the cutthroat market for personal computers, but reckons its dominance in the educational and design sectors will pay dividends. [News.com]
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- Apple learns to live with Microsoft - Since Apple Computer (AAPL) first took the forbidden fruit from Microsoft's (MSFT) helping hand, the two companies have developed an intimate--albeit controversial--relationship. [News.com]
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- Apple plugs QuickTime for Java - Apple Computer (AAPL) today announced a version of its popular QuickTime multimedia software for the Java platform, bringing important new capabilities to Java at a time when its ability to effectively deliver multimedia content is being questioned. [News.com]
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- Apple stakes future on new device - Apple Computer (AAPL) is working on portable and TV set-top entertainment devices that offer Internet access and play everything from music CDs to DVD movies, as the company refashions itself for the convergence of consumer electronics and PC technologies. [News.com]
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- Apple stakes future on new device - Further details are emerging on Apple Computer's (AAPL) plans to develop portable and TV set-top entertainment devices that offer Internet access and play everything from music CDs to DVD movies. [News.com]
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- Apple stock continues to rise - In a stark turnabout, Apple (AAPL) stock continued climbing today, outpacing year-to-date gains for industry giants such as Compaq (CPQ), Dell (DELL), IBM (IBM) and Hewlett-Packard (HWP). [News.com]
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- Apple to debut $2,000 G3 notebook - Apple Computer (AAPL) is readying an assault on the burgeoning market for low-cost notebook computers with a sub-$2,000 portable that uses the high-performance PowerPC 750 processor found in the company's $5,600 PowerBook G3 notebook. [News.com]
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- Apple to seek Jobs's decision - An Apple Computer board member today took issue with published reports that the company's directors were pressuring interim CEO Steve Jobs into deciding whether to pick up the post for good. [News.com]
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- Apple to sell new subnotebook - Apple Computer (AAPL) will begin marketing a new subnotebook computer in Japan as soon as next month, but U.S. customers aren't likely to see the diminutive portable due to America's smaller market for such devices. [News.com]
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- Apple's Columbus a bold bet - As details of the so-called Columbus project continue to emerge, Apple Computer (AAPL) appears to be betting much of its future on uncharted but potentially vast consumer markets. [News.com]
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- Apple's response to protest low-key - As Newton developers gathered outside Apple Computer (AAPL) headquarters today to protest the computer maker's decision to discontinue the handheld device, company executives responded in low-key fashion. [News.com]
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- Are execs bailing on Netscape? - Netscape Communications' (NSCP) stock may be trading near its 52-week low, but that's not keeping five of the company's top executives from filing to sell nearly 1 million shares. [News.com]
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- ARM Holdings seeks flotation - Microprocessor designer ARM Holdings today announced plans for a stock market flotation in which 38 percent of shareholders Acorn Group and Apple Computer would sell part of their holdings. [News.com]
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- Ascend debuts voice, fax support - Ascend Communications (ASND) is the latest networking equipment provider to offer ambitious plans for adding voice and fax capabilities to data-driven networks. [News.com]
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- AT&T limits flat-rate Net hours - AT&T's WorldNet is revising its formerly unlimited service, charging its flat-rate customers additional fees if they stay online more than 150 hours per month, the company said today. [News.com]
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- AT&T outlines CEO's compensation - C. Michael Armstrong received $300,000 for his first few months of employment and a $15 million award for agreeing to depart Hughes Electronics to become chairman and chief executive of AT&T (T), according to proxy materials filed by AT&T yesterday. [News.com]
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- AT&T tests access time limits - In the latest instance of Internet service providers placing limits on so-called unlimited access, AT&T WorldNet acknowledged that it has been cutting off users after three hours during peak times. [News.com]
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- AT&T WorldNet cans time-outs - AT&T WorldNet has decided not to implement a policy of cutting off users after three hours during peak periods. [News.com]
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- Australia aims to be Net player - Australian Prime Minister John Howard said today that his government was keen to reap the benefits of the information economy, and would not seek to tax electronic commerce or put a "bits" tax on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Australia fights suicide with Net - Australia launched an Internet site today to combat the country's youth suicide rate, which is one of the world's worst. [News.com]
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- Autodesk eyes growth in Asia - Software maker Autodesk (ADSK) expects its revenue from the South Asia and Pacific region to grow by 25 percent this year, a senior company official said today. [News.com]
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- Axent offers network scanning tool - Axent Technologies (AXNT) has announced NetRecon, its software for probing networks to identify vulnerabilities to hacker attacks from both the Internet and from internal users. [News.com]
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- Ayala to sign pact with Microsoft - Philippine conglomerate Ayala said it will sign a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft (MSFT) on Friday to explore areas of partnership in the field of information technology. [News.com]
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- Backlogged Compaq cuts prices - Compaq Computer (CPQ) has cut prices on business PCs and is offering free monitors in the face of mounting price competition and high levels of chip and computer inventories. [News.com]
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- Banner causes political flap - President Clinton isn't the only one finding himself in a heap of trouble over Monica Lewinsky. [News.com]
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- Barrett, Intel face stormy seas - Intel's leadership transition is taking place just as the company seems to have been caught unawares by sea changes in the computer industry. [News.com]
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- Barrett: A telecommuting CEO - From time to time, Craig Barrett will be a telecommuter when he becomes Intel's chief executive in May--not from home, but from an office he keeps in Chandler, Arizona. [News.com]
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- Bay falls victim to market confusion - The easy part is over for Bay Networks (BAY). [News.com]
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- Bay to miss numbers for quarter - Shares in Bay Networks (BAY) climbed in early morning trading today, buoyed by a round of "buy" recommendations from Wall Street analysts. [News.com]
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- Bell Atlantic pairs with Nortel - Bell Atlantic (BEL) said that it has signed a $240 million deal with Northern Telecom (NT) to modernize its advanced telecommunications network. [News.com]
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- BeOS joins Intel camp - Be announced it is shipping a revised version of the Be operating system (BeOS) that's the first to be available for Intel-based systems, marking a transition away from the company's roots in the Macintosh platform. [News.com]
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- Big Blue chief gets big bucks - Lou Gerstner's efforts in turning around IBM (IBM) are making him extremely wealthy--though he's not yet in Bill Gates's league. [News.com]
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- Big-screen handhelds arrive - Hitachi (HIT) and NEC Electronics (NIPNY) each debuted handheld computers with 8-inch screens, joining LG Electronics in offering a large-screen, large-keyboard portables that are beginning to approach the smallest notebook computers in functionality. [News.com]
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- BigBook site on the block - BigBook is planning to sell off its popular Internet yellow pages directory and focus on online marketing, acting chief executive Woodson Hobbs disclosed today. [News.com]
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- Bigfoot sues defunct spammer - Sanford Wallace and his junk emailing company Cyber Promotions may be out of business, but that doesn't mean he can hide from his enemies. [News.com]
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- Bill challenges Net tax act - A new federal proposal to ward off taxes targeted at Net access and services was introduced in the Senate today, posing a challenge to the closely watched Internet Tax Freedom Act. [News.com]
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- Bill lets ISPs throw book at spam - Don't get mad at spammers--take them to court. [News.com]
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- Bill seeks to free Net wine sales - Virtual wineries will be able to boost their shipments to Florida residents from 24 to 576 bottles per year, if a new bill is passed. But critics want to know who will "card" buyers when the goods are delivered. [News.com]
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- Boca set-top box runs Windows software - Boca Research (BOCI) became the latest company to make a play in the market for low-cost set-top boxes offering Internet access, but with a critical added twist that its new device can run Windows applications too. [News.com]
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- BofA offers online house hunting - One of the nation's largest banks, Bank of America (BAC), will announce today that it has launched a service that lets consumers look up home sales and price data in 21 states, including California, New York, and Illinois. [News.com]
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- Boom time for ISPs - Internet service providers are expecting strong revenue growth this year, according to a survey conducted by KPMG and Planet Direct. [News.com]
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- Boosting remote access equipment - It's not just about dense racks of modems anymore. [News.com]
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- Borland buy may boost tool sales - Looking to raise its profile in big corporate IS departments, Borland International (BORL) said today that it has completed its acquisition of Visigenic Software and said it will lay out plans for new products next month. [News.com]
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- Borland retools for Java - Borland International (BORL) today updated its Java development tool package and launched an easier to use version of its VisiBroker Java middleware. [News.com]
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- Britain to hire Y2K bug busters - Britain will hire 20,000 "bug busters" to tackle the crisis posed by computers not programmed for the millennium date change, Prime Minister Tony Blair said in an article published today. [News.com]
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- British banks overtaxed - Britain's banks will not be able to prepare for a switch to a single European currency at the same time as they work to prevent a rash of damaging computer crashes on January 1, 2000, the British Bankers' Association said. [News.com]
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- Broderbund lays off 70 employees - Broderbund Software (BROD), in a cost-cutting move, laid off 70 employees today. [News.com]
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- BT to test WebTV in Britain - Microsoft's WebTV Networks said today that it has chosen British Telecom to test WebTV in the United Kingdom. [News.com]
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- Bug can crash IE 4.01 - A new bug that crashes Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.01 browser is an annoyance but does not seem to pose a security threat. [News.com]
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- Businesses drive digital cameras - Global shipments of digital cameras are skyrocketing amid a growing number of imaging software applications for businesses, a new survey has found. [News.com]
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- CA exec may drop hostile bid - The chief executive of Computer Associates (CA) suggested he could withdraw a $9.8 billion hostile bid for Computer Sciences (CSC) if a Nevada judge does not remove certain "poison pill" provisions from CSC's bylaws. [News.com]
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- CA to let CSC hostile bid expire - After a month of verbal battles, lawsuits, and efforts to woo shareholders, Computer Associates (CA) today said it will let its $9.8 billion hostile bid for Computer Sciences (CSC) expire after March 16--unless CSC's board takes the unlikely action of removing the antitakeover hurdles it took great pains to erect. [News.com]
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- Cabletron drops 15% on warning - Cabletron Systems (CS) said yesterday that its quarterly revenue will drop below year-ago levels after a shortfall in sales for some parts of the business. [News.com]
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- Cabletron lays off 180 employees - Cabletron Systems (CS) said today that it is laying off about 180 full-time manufacturing employees, or about 3 percent of its workforce, as part of a corporate realignment. [News.com]
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- Cabletron posts $6.3 million loss - Cabletron Systems (CS) today posted a net loss of $6.3 million, or 4 cents per share on a diluted basis, before charges for its fourth fiscal quarter, compared with a profit of $72.6 million, or 45 cents a share, reported for the like quarter a year ago. [News.com]
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- Cabletron's puzzling plight - After years of speeding along at a steady pace, the wheels have come off at Cabletron Systems (CS). [News.com]
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- California takes on labor shortage - Warning: If the high-tech industry cannot fill job vacancies, California eventually will lose its competitive edge. [News.com]
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- Can Amiga rise again? - Down, but not yet out. [News.com]
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- Can networking stocks survive? - The networking industry has been a raging bull on Wall Street, but several of the bellwether companies have reported disappointing earnings of late. Bay Networks said last week that it would miss its earnings for the quarter; Cabletron yesterday posted a $6.3 million quarterly loss; and 3Com today posted quarterly results that were below the Street's expectations. In addition, two firms recently have been laying off some employees. Can the stocks weather the storm? [News.com]
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- Can Tripod buy boost Lycos? - Lycos (LCOS) expects to boost its traffic with the recent acquisition of Tripod, but whether this online community for twenty-somethings can generate stellar advertising revenue growth remains to be seen. [News.com]
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- Candy, porn confused on Net - The Hong Kong government appears to have goofed in its war on Internet pornography by branding a chocolate company's Web site as unfit for children. [News.com]
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- Canon boosts digital imaging line - Canon (CANNY) bolstered its digital imaging product suite today, introducing two new digital cameras and a new photo printer. [News.com]
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- Case joins MCI WorldCom board - MCI Communications (MCIC) and WorldCom (WCOM) released a list today of 17 executives to become directors of the merged company, including America Online chief executive Steve Case. [News.com]
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- CBS MarketWatch mulls IPO - CBS MarketWatch is considering an initial public offering of stock among options for its financial news Web site, company executives said yesterday. [News.com]
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- CD-R system prices dropping - Storage maker Pinnacle Micro announced it has begun shipping recordable CD systems for $499. [News.com]
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- CD-ROM prices plummeting - As DVD-ROM drives start showing up on midrange and high-end PC systems, CD-ROM drive makers are slashing retail prices and targeting the popular sub-$1,000 PC in an effort to stave off obsolescence. [News.com]
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- Cell phone for email, personal data - French telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel introduced a mobile telephone which can transmit email and an Internet phone for the home, saying both products would go on sale later this year. [News.com]
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- CEO resigns from Cabletron - In a surprise announcement, Cabletron (CS) said today that Donald Reed has resigned as chief executive officer and president, effective immediately. [News.com]
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- CFO at Novell quits - Novell (NOVL) said today that its senior vice president and chief financial officer, James Tolonen, has resigned. [News.com]
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- Cheap PCs don't draw new buyers - Despite steep prices cuts and a bevy of new products specifically introduced for the sub-$1,000 market, PC makers haven't been able to attract new buyers, according to a new study. [News.com]
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- Check Point shops for networkers - With a merger and acquisition frenzy under way among Internet security firms, the top-selling firewall firm, Check Point (CHKPF), is shopping--but not for security companies. [News.com]
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- China Net use exploding - China's ranks of Internet surfers have swollen to 620,000 from less than 20,000 five years ago, the official Xinhua news agency said today. [News.com]
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- China's largest PC firm expands - Bolstered by the country's surging PC industry, Chinese market leader Legend expects sales to top $2.2 billion in 1998, a 44 percent increase from its $1.5 billion last year. [News.com]
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- Chip equipment orders plunge - Microprocessor equipment makers are facing reduced orders and reduced earnings as a result of Asia's currency crisis and a slumping chip market. [News.com]
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- Chip industry orders down last month - The North American semiconductor equipment industry posted a book-to-bill ratio of 0.92 for February, down from a revised 0.93 in January and a final 0.99 in December, industry group Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) said today. [News.com]
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- Chips driving economy, study says - What trains and crude oil were to past markets, the semiconductor is to today's economy, according to a study from the Semiconductor Industry Association. [News.com]
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- Cisco buys into audio and video - Cisco Systems (CSCO) once again has found itself in the enviable position of having money to burn. [News.com]
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- Cisco expects revenue shift - Cisco Systems (CSCO) said today that it expected to continue to grow by acquisition, while boosting the proportion of group revenue from video, voice, and data network equipment services. [News.com]
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- Cisco launches remote office gear - Computer networking kingpin Cisco Systems (CSCO) launched a new series of remote office routing devices and detailed the next stage in an effort to integrate voice, video, and data support within its equipment. [News.com]
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- Cisco to buy NetSpeed - Networking provider Cisco Systems today said it will acquire Austin, Texas-based NetSpeed, an Internet access and data transmission provider, in a stock swap worth about $236 million. [News.com]
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- Cisco upgrades Ethernet switches - Networking giant Cisco Systems (CSCO) continues to put its high-speed house in order. [News.com]
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- Citrix does Windows on Unix, Mac - Citrix Systems today announced that Unix workstation and Apple Macintosh users will now have access to Microsoft Windows programs through Citrix's server software. [News.com]
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- CitySearch takes on more cities - Aiming to expand to 27 metropolitan areas by the end of the year, CitySearch today announced that it is launching more guides in the major hubs of Maryland, Texas, and California. [News.com]
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- Class action against NSI in court - Network Solutions' (NSOL) role in domain name registration is called "the public scandal of the decade" by plaintiffs suing the domain name registrar in federal court here today. [News.com]
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- Clinton to join forum via Net - President Franklin D. Roosevelt drew the nation in for his Fireside Chats by broadcasting them on the radio. These days, when President Clinton wants to reach the people, he takes to the Net. [News.com]
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- Cloudy future for Intel's new chip - Intel (INTC) will introduce its first microprocessor specifically designed for low-end computers next month under a curious new brand name: "Celeron." [News.com]
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- CMG buys ad server Accipiter - Internet holding company CMG Information Services (CMGI) has purchased Accipiter, a provider of ad banner server software, for $35 million in stock. [News.com]
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- CNET special feature: Ten Net laws - When the Supreme Court struck down the controversial Communications Decency Act in June 1997, free speech advocates and various Net groups rejoiced. However, the end of the CDA marked the beginning of the U.S. government's struggle to control the unruly activity on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Commerce mulls domain comments - Portions of the Commerce Department's domain name proposal could put into action as early as next month, a Commerce Department official said today. [News.com]
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- Compaq CEO rakes it in - Last year was a good year for Compaq (CPQ) chief executive Eckhard Pfeiffer, who earned $70.1 million in salary and options, according to the computer maker's Securities and Exchange Commission filing today. [News.com]
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- Compaq CEO: Dealing, moving on - Compaq Computer (CPQ) chief executive officer Eckhard Pfeiffer said today that the company was dealing rapidly and proactively with the problems it faced and hoped to return to growth. [News.com]
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- Compaq debuts RadioShack PCs - Compaq Computer (CPQ) today rolled out its first new systems destined for RadioShack (TAN) stores, evidence of recent measures to extend its reach in the retail market. [News.com]
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- Compaq decline multifaceted - The first-quarter ice age is emerging. [News.com]
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- Compaq expects break-even Q1 - In another high-tech earnings surprise, Compaq Computer (CPQ) said today that its first-quarter revenues would be roughly flat from a year ago--far below Wall Street's expectations. [News.com]
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- Compaq full-speed into networking - Gigabit-speed equipment provider Extreme Networks has two things a start-up needs to be successful: a giant partner and a potentially hot product. [News.com]
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- Compaq notebooks aim at small business - Compaq (CPQ) extended its line of small business offerings with new notebook PCs, in the hopes that smaller businesses will be able to take up the slack in corporate sales. [News.com]
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- Compaq offers $999 notebook - Compaq Computer (CPQ) cut prices across its entire Armada notebook PC line, in one instance pushing what was once a high-end model into the sub-$1,000 category. [News.com]
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- Compaq offers free monitors - Compaq Computer (CPQ) plans to offer free monitors and other accessories with its desktop personal computers for businesses in an effort to reduce inventory at its distributors. [News.com]
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- Compaq readies small company plan - Compaq Computer (CPQ) plans to outline a new strategy for selling computers to small and medium-sized businesses next week at Germany's CeBIT computer trade fair. [News.com]
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- Compaq revises handhelds - Compaq (CPQ) rolled out a revised model for the growing handheld computer market, introducing a midrange model based on Microsoft's Windows CE operating system. [News.com]
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- Compaq sees growth in small firms - Compaq Computer (CPQ) launched a worldwide campaign to capture a large share of the fast-growing market for PCs aimed at small and medium-sized business. [News.com]
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- Compaq ships low-cost PC abroad - Compaq Computer (CPQ) released its Deskpro 1000 business PC for $749 in eastern Europe and the Middle East and 39,990 rupees ($1,015) in India, in hopes of gaining share in both regions. [News.com]
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- Compaq takes on cheap Asian PCs - Compaq Computer (CPQ) will strike out at vendors who sell cheap computers and clones in Asia and other emerging markets with the launch of its sub-$1,000 business desktop system. [News.com]
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- Compaq tapping school market - Compaq Computer will bundle educational software with selected servers to attract schools participating in a new government-funded program for telecommunications services, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Compaq targets telephone gear - Following Microsoft's lead, Compaq Computer said today that it will aim products at the emerging and potentially lucrative market for Windows NT-based telephony equipment. [News.com]
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- Compaq to launch e-commerce line - Compaq will enter the electronic commerce arena in a big way next week when the company announces a fleet of hardware and software that range all the way from desktops optimized for electronic retailing to enterprise payment and security systems targeted at banks and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). [News.com]
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- Compaq to unveil fast network tool - Looking to provide its customers with the latest in high-speed networking technology, Compaq Computer (CPQ) will roll out a gigabit-speed switching device next week based on technology licensed from start-up Extreme Networks, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. [News.com]
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- Compaq tops IBM at large firms - Compaq's (CPQ) planned acquisition of Digital Equipment (DEC) will push the world's largest PC maker past traditional leader IBM in terms of personal computer market penetration among large businesses, according to a market researcher. [News.com]
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- Compaq: Pricing very competitive - The war for market share in the personal computer industry is showing signs of spreading, with North America proving extremely competitive, Compaq Computer's (CPQ) top financial officer said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Computer Associates sued--again - Computer Sciences (CSC) has filed its second lawsuit in a week against hostile suitor Computer Associates (CA). [News.com]
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- Computer privacy group kicks off - A high-powered coalition that is spearheading a multimillion-dollar campaign to make computer privacy a top concern for Americans already has gained the ear of the White House, the group said today. [News.com]
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- Computer security problems growing - As the computer world reels in response to two high-profile security incidents, industry analysts, government officials, and software vendors are sparring over how to address the vexing problem of computer security in a networked age. [News.com]
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- Corel cutting upgrade prices - Following the sub-$1,000 PC trend, Canadian software maker Corel (COSFF) today said it plans to slash prices on a number of its desktop application package upgrades starting next week. [News.com]
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- Corel gives Java another try - Canadian software developer Corel (COSFF) is ready to give Java one more shot. [News.com]
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- Corel reports $21 million loss - Corel's (COSFF) losses keep spiraling, but executives at the software maker say the company is headed toward stable ground. [News.com]
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- Corel to fight shareholder suit - Corel (COSFF) was slapped with a second U.S. shareholder lawsuit last week, which the software maker said today it would vigorously contest. [News.com]
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- Counterfeit Intel chips may be rising - An imbalance between the price and supply of Intel microprocessors is leading to a rise in "remarked" chips with bogus speed ratings in Europe and North America. [News.com]
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- Court rejects Net defamation suit - A San Francisco court has cleared a woman who was sued after calling a man a liar on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Court rules against Baby Bells - A federal court today upheld the government's rejection of a plan by SBC Communications to offer long distance service in Oklahoma, dealing a setback to regional Bell companies trying to expand into long distance. [News.com]
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- Covad to expand with new capital - Covad Communications, the start-up that is taking on the big telcos to provide high-speed Net access, on Monday will announce completion of $152 million in financing, as well as plans to expand into five more markets. [News.com]
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- Cowles to charge for Media Daily - Cowles New Media is attaching a substantial price tag to its Media Daily news site starting April 1, the company confirmed today. [News.com]
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- Crossroads for Wintel? - Microsoft and Intel have leveraged their symbiotic relationship to dominate the PC industry, but that mutually beneficial relationship may be at a crossroads, according to an International Data Corporation analyst. [News.com]
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- Crypto bill lightens up - Two senators who drafted legislation that would give law enforcement quick access to secured electronic messages are now trying to water down their own proposal. [News.com]
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- Crypto firm circumvents rules - Skirting U.S. encryption export regulations, Network Associates (NETA) said its Dutch subsidiary is selling a 128-bit version of its Pretty Good Privacy encryption software outside the United States. [News.com]
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- CSC board shuns takeover - Computer Sciences (CSC) said today that its board of directors has unanimously rejected the $9.8 billion takeover offer from Computer Associates (CA). [News.com]
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- CSC gets second DOJ query - Computer Sciences (CSC) said today that it has received a second request from the Justice Department for information regarding the hostile takeover offer it received from Computer Associates International (CA). [News.com]
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- CyberCash to buy ICVerify - Stock market investors this morning gave Internet payment service CyberCash (CYCH) a tepid reaction to yesterday's announcement of a deal to acquire ICVerify, a seller of PC-based cash registers for the physical world and payment software for Internet merchants, for $57 million in cash and stock. [News.com]
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- CyberMedia slapped with lawsuit - CyberMedia (CYBR) has been named in a lawsuit filed on behalf of its shareholders, which alleges that the company misled investors about its financial condition, law firms said. [News.com]
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- CyberMedia stock down 25% - CyberMedia (CYBR) saw its stock plummet 25 percent today, after warning yesterday of a revenue shortfall for the current quarter and announcing that its president and CEO had resigned. [News.com]
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- CyberSafe names CEO - Network security solutions provider CyberSafe today named Jim Cannavino, a former IBM (IBM) veteran and top executive of Perot Systems, its chairman and chief executive. [News.com]
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- Cypress Semi to lay off 100 - Despite earlier cries of a labor shortage and the need to lift caps on hiring foreign workers, Cypress Semiconductor (CY) will lay off about 100 employees and take a charge in the first quarter as it seeks to get costs under control. [News.com]
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- Cyrix production snags hit National - Although Cyrix helped create the sub-$1,000 PC, manufacturing and marketing problems as well as increased competition have thwarted its efforts to increase microprocessor sales--a situation that may have a lasting impact on parent company National Semiconductor. [News.com]
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- Cyrix solving production woes - National Semiconductor said today that its Cyrix subsidiary is set to improve profitability after taking steps to solve a number of manufacturing hurdles. [News.com]
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- Cyrix's MediaGX for Windows CE - Cyrix released a 233-MHz version of its MediaGX processor and said it would try to foster the chip's adoption in Windows CE devices, making it the first Intel-compatible chipmaker to seek out this market. [News.com]
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- Dancing Baby available for a song - For someone who doesn't physically exist, Baby Cha Cha has been very busy lately. [News.com]
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- Deal reached on Net tax bill - Federal legislation to temporarily safeguard the Net from new taxes is primed to move forward after federal lawmakers struck a compromise with state and local officials. [News.com]
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- Dell brings Wang on board - As part of an effort to beef up its service and support, Dell Computer today announced it will employ Wang's consulting and service operations to boost its server computer sales to the federal government. [News.com]
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- Dell hopes for China takeoff - Dell (DELL) is hoping to grab a larger slice of China's PC business as it prepares to move into direct sales there when the market is ready, senior officials said today. [News.com]
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- Dell PCs delayed - Dell Computer (DELL) appears to have overcome video card problems with a line of PCs targeted at the SOHO (small-office/home user) market, but the direct vendor's time of delivery remains slower than normal. [News.com]
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- Dell says PC demand is solid - Dell Computer (DELL) has been largely immune to the sales slowdown cited by rival Compaq Computer (CPQ), the company said today. [News.com]
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- Dell trims workstation prices - Dell Computer (DELL) cut prices on its line of personal workstation products by up to 11.7 percent, increasing the pressure on major vendors such as Compaq who are suffering from a glut of systems. [News.com]
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- Dell, Wang target Europe - Dell (DELL) expects its European alliance with Wang Laboratories will give a healthy boost to its market share. [News.com]
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- Deutsche Telekom plans ADSL launch - German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom (DT) today unveiled plans for a broad launch of Internet-based telephony services and high-speed ADSL digital lines for residential and business customers. [News.com]
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- Digital defends tech commitment - Digital Equipment (DEC) today said it is committed to its technologies, an issue raised by competitors in light of its pending acquisition by Compaq Computer (CPQ). [News.com]
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- Digital forms China joint venture - Digital Equipment (DEC) said today that it has formed a joint venture with China's Start Computer Group. [News.com]
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- Digital looks to Sequent, Intel - Digital Equipment (DEC) will get next-generation servers based on Intel's upcoming 64-bit Merced chip from Sequent Computer, another indication that Digital is inching toward Intel's 64-bit future. [News.com]
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- Digital ports NT for telcos - Telecommunications firms using Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows NT? [News.com]
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- Digital servers about $1,000 - As long as you don't need a hard drive, Digital Equipment (DEC) can sell you a workgroup server for close to $1,000--with another $400 buying you a small hard disk. [News.com]
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- Digital-Compaq fears stir trading - Rumors that the merger agreement between Compaq Computer (CPQ) and Digital Equipment (DEC) was at risk of unraveling met with skepticism today on Wall Street, although options market activity suggested worries were mounting about the deal's prospects. [News.com]
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- DOJ charges youth in hack attacks - In what the Justice Department is describing as a first, the federal government this week charged a juvenile with computer crimes, including bringing down an airport control tower and emergency services for several hours. [News.com]
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- DOJ consultant targets Microsoft - The Justice Department is in the process of expanding the powers of a special antitrust consultant called in to investigate a possible case against Microsoft, the agency said tonight. [News.com]
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- DOJ may not block Windows 98 - The Justice Department probably won't block Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows 98 software from coming out with a version that includes Internet browsing software, according to reports. [News.com]
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- DOJ probing WorldCom, MCI - As part of its ongoing investigation, the Justice Department is gathering information relating to WorldCom's $37 billion bid for MCI Communications, competitors and industry sources said. [News.com]
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- DOJ: Microsoft broke promises - The Justice Department told a U.S. appeals court today that Microsoft (MSFT) broke a promise and used monopoly power to force its Web browsing software on personal computer makers. [News.com]
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- Domain fees lowered - Beginning April 1, Netizens will be paying 30 percent less to register domain names ending in ".com," ".org," and ".net" because those running the domain name system will stop collecting money for a controversial government fund. [News.com]
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- Domain plan deadline looms - The public comment period on the Commerce Department's controversial plan to end government rule over the domain name system is over, and now it falls into the hands of others to weigh the issues. [News.com]
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- Domino.Doc 2.0 to enter beta - The next version of Lotus Development's document management package goes into broad beta next week, the company said today. [News.com]
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- DoubleClick hot, set to expand - DoubleClick (DCLK) has captured Wall Street's attention, and now faces the challenge of proving the value of Internet advertising to mainstream America. [News.com]
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- Dow roars to 5th straight record - The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped more than 100 points today to close above 8,900 for the first time, capping the week's breathtaking record run. [News.com]
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- DRAM-based hard drive debuts - Storage device maker Quantum (QNTM) announced a "solid state" hard disk that relies on high-capacity memory chips, a product designed to act as a secondary storage device for corporate server computers. [News.com]
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- Dueling domains - The public comment period for the Commerce Department's proposal to transfer the domain name system to the private sector has closed, and federal agencies, Netizens, and companies have all weighed in. In the balance hangs a system worth millions of dollars that affects the entire global network. [News.com]
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- Dutch PC firm looks for volume - Tulip Computers, the Netherlands' only personal computer maker, said today that higher sales volume in 1998 will see it bounce back into the black after two years of losses. [News.com]
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- DVD drives start at $150 - Creative Labs announced six different DVD (digital versatile disc) upgrade solutions for PCs priced as low as $149 for a DVD drive with no extras, as previously reported by NEWS.COM. [News.com]
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- DVD drives to sell for $150 - Creative Labs will begin to market six different DVD (digital versatile disc) upgrade solutions for PCs that will be priced as low as $149 for a DVD drive with no extras. [News.com]
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- DVD-RAM drives due April 15 in Japan - Hitachi will begin selling DVD-RAM drives on April 15 in Japan, several months before the company's high-capacity storage drives reach the United States. [News.com]
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- E*Trade falters among competition - As competition has given online brokerage E*Trade (EGRP) a run for its money, Wall Street has changed its expectations of an upside surprise when the online brokerage reports its second-quarter results next month. [News.com]
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- E-commerce firms seen booming - E-commerce software companies can expect booming business over the next five years, according to a report released today by Zona Research. [News.com]
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- E-commerce key to Lotus's future - This week, Lotus Development will roll out a host of products targeted at boosting the company's e-commerce presence on the Web, something the IBM (IBM) subsidiary's president Jeff Papows believes is key to his company's future. [News.com]
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- EarthLink offering Web space - Internet service provider EarthLink Network today is launching a service that will give its members access to rooms of their own on the Net. [News.com]
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- EarthLink spam settlement final - As ISP EarthLink Network today officially announced its $2 million settlement with Cyber Promotions and Sanford Wallace, reported by NEWS.COM earlier this month, Wallace was busy making progress on a new way to spam. [News.com]
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- EC clears Compaq-DEC deal - Compaq Computer (CPQ) said today that the deadline for the European Commission to take further action on the company's proposed merger with Digital Equipment has expired. [News.com]
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- EC eyes WorldCom-MCI deal - The European Commission has received "several" complaints about the proposed merger between WorldCom (WCOM) and MCI Communications (MCIC), competition commissioner Karel Van Miert told Bloomberg today. [News.com]
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- EC scrutinizes MCI-WorldCom deal - Critics of the proposed MCI-WorldCom merger yesterday applauded the European Commission's expanded probe of the deal, but the increased scrutiny is not expected to derail history's largest merger, industry watchers said. [News.com]
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- Education program helps Dell sell - Following on Compaq Computer's announcement yesterday, Dell Computer also will release a series of server packages for the education market, going an extra step by bundling them with Microsoft software. [News.com]
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- Eloquent debuts hosting program - Looking to offer a low-cost version of its multimedia enterprise learning software suite and services, Eloquent is about to launch a hosting model of the package. [News.com]
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- Email developer goes commercial - Following a trend of the network he helped build, Internet architect Eric Allman is going commercial. [News.com]
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- Ericsson, Bay Networks team up - Bay Networks (BAY) and Swedish telecommunications firm Ericsson announced a deal to speed adoption of emerging technology that could open the door for interoperability between different network data. [News.com]
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- EU criticizes Net domain plan - The European Union has formally criticized a U.S. plan for reforming the Internet's address system in comments that will be submitted to Washington in the next few days, EU officials said. [News.com]
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- EU officials eye domain plans - The European Commission said today that a plan by a global coalition to reform the system for allocating Internet addresses must pass muster with its competition authorities. [News.com]
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- EU resolves dumping disputes - European Union competition authorities revealed they have approved two agreements between European and South Korean semiconductor firms aimed at quickly resolving anti-dumping disputes. [News.com]
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- EU, U.S. fight over domains - A U.S. proposal to reform the system for allocating Internet addresses has caused a transatlantic debate over who should guide the global computer network into the 21st century. [News.com]
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- Europe PC sales stay firm - European personal computer sales continue to rise, despite reports of slackening U.S. demand by bellwethers Intel and Compaq, analysts and PC suppliers said today. [News.com]
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- Ex-Iomega CEO weighs options - Iomega (IOM) chief executive and president, Kim Edwards, who resigned today, may have a hefty exit bonus coming his way: millions of extra shares of company stock. [News.com]
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- Exec charged in Net gambling case - Telecommunications firm Touch Tone America said its chief executive, Kerry Rogers, was one of 14 people recently charged by federal prosecutors for operating six illegal online sports betting operations. [News.com]
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- Exec to bishops: Two sides to Net - The president of a major American cable television company yesterday urged Roman Catholic bishops to find out why the Internet can be both "an electronic pew" and a vehicle that is "stunningly immoral." [News.com]
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- Executives line pockets - As the annual proxy season has gotten under way this month, investors are learning how much salary and stock executives receive. Other "corporate insiders" and venture capitalists are cashing in as well. As always, regardless of merit, the numbers are sure to raise some controversy. [News.com]
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- Exiting judge cites Microsoft stock - U.S. Circuit Judge Laurence Silberman removed himself from Microsoft's appeal of a Justice Department case because he said his participation had violated ethical standards. [News.com]
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- Fast DVD drive for $175 - Pioneer has begun shipping one of the fastest DVD (digital versatile disc) drives on the market for $175, the company announced today. [News.com]
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- Fast hotel lines ready for testing - Several companies are teaming up to try out technology that will allow business travelers to get a direct link to the Internet from hotels. [News.com]
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- Fast memory for digital TV - Matsushita Electric said today that it is licensing high-speed memory technology from Rambus, a move that will likely boost the performance of that company's high-definition digital TVs and other optical consumer technology in the near future. [News.com]
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- Fast modem technology tested - Alcatel, Analog Devices, and Texas Instruments will begin testing their high-speed digital subscriber line products for compatibility so that customers won't have to worry about what technology to buy. [News.com]
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- Fastest Mac chip, systems debut - Apple Computer (AAPL) launched its fastest systems yet and Apple's CEO Steve Jobs demonstrated an even faster box to appear by early 1999, as the company attempts to build upon momentum gained after last quarter's profit. [News.com]
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- Fastest PCs, Intel chip get cuts - Intel's fastest Pentium II chips are now being found in systems costing as little as $1,360, while a price cut on the fastest of Intel's processors is expected later this month. [News.com]
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- FCC approves PC-TV V-chips - Net sites dodged the "V-chip," but computers with television tuners will be equipped with the censoring technology by next year, according to rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission. [News.com]
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- FCC auctions airwave licenses - The Federal Communications Commission closed bidding today in its biggest airwave auction to date, raising a net $578.7 million for the U.S. Treasury. [News.com]
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- Fed agencies not making Y2K grade - Several federal agencies are in danger of missing a deadline to fix Year 2000 computer system problems, which will cost millions of dollars more to fix than originally thought, according to a report issued this week by the federal Office of Management and Budget. [News.com]
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- Feds crack down on Net gambling - Federal authorities charged 14 people today with running gambling sites on the Internet in violation of federal laws. [News.com]
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- Feds not seeking crypto law - In spite of a longstanding FBI campaign, a Justice Department official today said that for now, the agencies are not seeking a law requiring U.S. residents to give the government "keys" to unlock their private computer communications. [News.com]
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- Fiber-optic firm sues WorldCom - Fiber-optic network provider Williams Communications said today that it has sued WorldCom (WCOM) for allegedly failing to honor a promise that guaranteed Williams capacity on WorldCom's network. [News.com]
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- Firewall firm saw many takers - Andrew "Flip" Filipowski bought eight companies in 1997 as chief executive of Platinum Technology (PLAT), but he may remember February 1998 for the one that got away. [News.com]
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- Firm links email, phone - Internet company e-Now is attempting to further integrate the Net's "killer app"--email--with its low-tech counterpart: the telephone. [News.com]
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- Firm promises real-time banners - Banner ads are catching up with the rest of the Web. [News.com]
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- Firm tries to find who goes where - Online research start-up NetRatings introduced a service that links Web site visits and banner advertising click rates with detailed user demographic data. [News.com]
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- Firms take on VPN technology - Networking players are increasingly rising from their seats to applaud a technology that allows users to set up secure connections across the public Net. [News.com]
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- Firms team for cable, Web banking - BankAmerica Corporation and cable giant Tele-Communications Incorporated said today they agreed to develop an elaborate system to deliver financial services to consumers through their television sets. [News.com]
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- First DVD-RAM drives due - Toshiba in early summer will offer DVD-RAM drives as standard technology in desktop PCs, in the process taking a significant step in advancing the high-capacity storage market. [News.com]
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- First Palm PCs due next month - The first palmtop handheld computers based on Microsoft's Windows CE 2.0 operating system will hit stores on April 20, highlighting the fact that the market-leading PalmPilot must now defend its position against a bevy of vendors as well as the software giant. [News.com]
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- Foes take Microsoft to task - Chief executives Jim Barksdale of Netscape Communications and Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems told a Senate committee today that Microsoft must be held to a different standard because it is a monopolist. [News.com]
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- Foreign markets in Compaq wake - Markets around the globe are, again, surfing the wake of yet another profit warning from a U.S. high-tech company. [News.com]
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- Former Apple exec goes to start-up - Ellen Hancock, the executive vice president who left Apple Computer (AAPL) last July in a management shakeup, today was named president of Exodus Communications, an Internet start-up that plans to go public. [News.com]
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- French police bust pedophile network - Police said today they detained some 30 people suspected of belonging to a network spreading pedophile messages and thousands of pornographic pictures of children on the Internet. [News.com]
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- French say "oui" to Web - After eyeing the World Wide Web warily for years, France officially plunged into cyberspace today with a nationwide Internet Festival to demonstrate how enthusiastically it has embraced the global network. [News.com]
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- FTC expands Compaq-Digital query - Federal Trade Commission regulators have made a second request for information in Compaq's (CPQ) pending acquisition of Digital Equipment (DEC), as questions loom whether regulators will extend their antitrust investigation to examine DEC's divestiture of its fabrication plant to Intel (INTC). [News.com]
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- FTC takes spammer to court - In keeping with its promise to crack down on spammers, the Federal Trade Commission has announced it is taking its first junk emailer to court. [News.com]
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- Fujitsu delivers new notebooks - Fujitsu expanded its LifeBook line of corporate notebook computers, just days before the new Pentium II processors for notebooks hit the market. [News.com]
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- Fujitsu drive fortunes rising - Fujitsu, long a has-been in the disk drive business, has lately been causing some real headaches for its rivals. [News.com]
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- Fujitsu, Hitachi to halt Europe DRAM production - Fujitsu and Hitachi will halt DRAM production in Europe within two years because they can't sustain ongoing memory market losses as well as the capital costs of shifting to next-generation products. [News.com]
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- Game Boy's $50 digital camera - Nintendo will release in June an add-on cartridge that turns its popular Game Boy portable game system into the most inexpensive digital camera on the market. [News.com]
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- Gates blasts investigators - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has harsh words for the U.S. Justice Department and the Senate committee investigating his company's business practices. [News.com]
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- Gates dodges tough questions - While important issues on industry competition were raised at today's Senate Judiciary Committee, perhaps most illuminating was how Bill Gates and other high-tech executives share the fabled politician's penchant for sidestepping difficult questions. [News.com]
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- Gates not retiring--yet - When will Bill Gates retire? [News.com]
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- Gates ready for Senate hearing - Speaking to reporters a day before he will address a key committee in Congress, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said he welcomed the chance to speak about competition in the computer industry, a topic that has dogged his company in recent months. [News.com]
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- Gates says Windows 98 on track - Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates said Monday that he expected Windows 98 to be launched around midyear. [News.com]
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- Gates sees growth in handhelds - Microsoft (MSFT) chairman Bill Gates expects handheld computing devices to become as popular as full-size personal computers. [News.com]
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- Gates targets end of Windows 98 - Windows 98, which comes out this June, will be the last of the DOS-based operating systems because Microsoft is shifting its focus to Windows NT and the first consumer version will come out in two to three years, chairman Bill Gates said at the WinHEC conference in Orlando, Florida this morning. [News.com]
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- Gates to pen book sequel - Microsoft (MSFT) chairman Bill Gates is back at his keyboard, working on a sequel to "The Road Ahead," his best-selling 1995 book about technology. [News.com]
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- Gates visits Harlem school - Bill Gates faced a second day of grilling--by a classroom of sixth-graders--a day after his showdown with U.S. senators in Washington probing Microsoft's dominance of the software industry. [News.com]
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- Gates, Allen eye stock sale - Microsoft (MSFT) founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen are looking to raise a little pocket change, filing to sell more than $900 million worth of their shares in the software giant as part of their periodic divestitures. [News.com]
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- Gates: Focus is on job, not stock - Software giant Microsoft (MSFT) does not focus on share price but on research, developing better products, and good customer relations, the company's chairman and chief executive officer Bill Gates said today. [News.com]
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- Gates: Homes want fast Net - Many Americans are awaiting speedier, cheaper Internet access before going online from their homes, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates told attendees at an engineer conference. [News.com]
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- Gates: Microsoft no monopoly - Bill Gates pointed to his company's ability to leapfrog IBM, once considered a monopoly itself, as a reason why Microsoft should not be held to antitrust laws applicable specifically to companies that overwhelmingly dominate their industries. [News.com]
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- Gateway targets government - In an attempt to boost its government business, Gateway will partner with Pulsar Data Systems to sell its portable, desktop, and server computers to federal agencies, another sign that PC makers are facing shortcomings in direct sales. [News.com]
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- Gay-themed TV show for Net only - Chad's World, the first episodic TV program produced exclusively for the Internet, will launch in May. [News.com]
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- General Magic gets $5 million more - Two days after receiving a $6 million investment from Microsoft (MSFT), General Magic (GMGC) said today that it has completed a private financing transaction that will raise another $5 million. [News.com]
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- Generation gap in Net use - Middle-aged adults use the Internet for utilitarian reasons while young adults turn to the medium for both work and play, according to a new survey. [News.com]
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- GeoCities adds online shops - Online community GeoCities is adding shopping to its site, turning the site into a "community plus commerce" destination--a combination that has worked well for America Online. [News.com]
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- GeoCities to users: email via ISPs - In an attempt to curb the proliferation of spam sent carrying its domain name, GeoCities is asking its users to send mail using their own Internet service providers' mail servers rather than GeoCities'. But enforcement of the policy is on hold. [News.com]
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- German fight looms on Net phones - Deutsche Telekom is planning to commit billions of dollars to Internet telephony in an effort to fend off AT&T, according to a report today. [News.com]
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- German ISP hacked by teens - Two teenagers hacked T-Online, the online service run by Germany's national telephone company, and stole information about hundreds of bank accounts. [News.com]
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- Giants back child privacy rules - America Online (AOL) and Microsoft (MSFT) today backed Net privacy guidelines that say it's a no-no to collect private information from preteens without parental permission. [News.com]
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- Giants team on home networking - A consortium of high-profile industry players are banding together to promote a new standard for wireless communications within the home. [News.com]
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- Gigabit Ethernet shakedown - With each passing month, the remaining start-up players in the emerging market for a new high-speed version of Ethernet networking technology are getting closer to market success or financial ruin. [News.com]
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- Global markets respond to Intel - Stock markets around the world plummeted yesterday night and this morning in response to giant chipmaker Intel's surprise warning of lower-than-expected earnings, announced yesterday. [News.com]
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- Gore on fence about Net filtering - In exchange for substantial price breaks on Net access, Vice President Al Gore wants Congress to make public schools and libraries adopt plans to protect minors from "inappropriate" online content. [News.com]
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- Gore, Chernomyrdin tour Valley - Vice President Al Gore and Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin met with high-tech industry leaders in Silicon Valley yesterday and discussed a newfound U.S.-Russian technological accord. [News.com]
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- Government OKs Net cookies - After years of warning its citizens about the dangers of cigarettes, cholesterol, and sexually transmitted diseases, the U.S. government is issuing a more upbeat advisory. Cookies, it seems, are OK. [News.com]
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- Graphics chipmaker grows up - Graphics chip manufacturer Nvidia is hatching a plan to grow up and branch out. [News.com]
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- Grove ends reign at Intel - Andy Grove ended his 11-year reign as chief executive of Intel today, handing over the CEO title to company president and chief operating officer Craig Barrett. [News.com]
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- Grove reflects on Intel's success - As he prepares to relinquish the CEO's mantle to his successor, Andy Grove offered his thoughts on Intel's successes and missed opportunities in an interview today with NEWS.COM: [News.com]
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- GST to buy Whole Earth Networks - GST Telecommunications (GST) today said it signed a definitive pact to acquire the assets of Whole Earth Networks, a San Francisco-based Internet service provider, for $9 million in cash and assumed liabilities. [News.com]
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- GTE may buy BigBook site - GTE has been negotiating with BigBook and is a leading candidate to buy the company's popular Internet yellow pages directory, sources familiar with the deal said today. [News.com]
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- Hacker group promises to stop - Some vengeful hackers appear to be seeing the error of their ways. [News.com]
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- Hacker site closes for renovation - Independent hacker Web site Hacked.net went dark Thursday night, leaving the text "FIN: Hacked Net Ver 1.0" as its closing statement. [News.com]
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- Hackers "claim" Pentagon attack - The hackers go by the names "Makaveli" and "Analyzer." They are a little bored, a little angry, and a little full of themselves. [News.com]
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- Hackers attack NASA, Navy - NASA, the Navy, and university campuses throughout the nation were the targets Monday evening of "denial of service" attacks on computers running Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 95 operating systems. [News.com]
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- Hackers keep sites on guard - Security concerns are keeping systems managers up late--literally. [News.com]
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- Handheld offers 8-inch screen - LG Electronics is introducing a handheld computer with a display and keyboard large enough to allow it to be used for typical computing functions, and a processor that's the fastest yet for this category of device. [News.com]
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- Hatch likely not done with Gates - Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Bill Gates has finished his congressional testimony, but Sen. Orrin Hatch--who chaired the hearing Tuesday--is still looking closely at the Redmond giant. [News.com]
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- Hatch wants letter from Gates - The following is text of a letter Orrin Hatch and other senators on the Judiciary Committee sent to Microsoft CEO Bill Gates. (See related story) [News.com]
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- Hatch writes Gates on Windows 98 - Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch today sent a letter to Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates indicating that it would extend its ongoing investigation of alleged antitrust practices to include Windows 98. [News.com]
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- High-speed access heats up - The race to provide high-speed access to the Net heated up today, with cable and DSL (digital subscriber line) players announcing further availability for their services. [News.com]
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- High-tech gender gap probed - With all the buzz about the high-tech industry's worker shortage, some members of Congress wonder if the real deficiency is in the number of women entering and advancing in the field. [News.com]
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- Hitachi discounts notebooks too - Hitachi is falling in line with the rest of the major notebook PC vendors in offering a portable with a high-quality liquid crystal display (LCD) and a fast processor for as little as $1,599. [News.com]
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- Hitachi shifts away from memory, cuts 200 - Hitachi Semiconductor America today said it will restructure its Texas memory chip operations by shifting to more profitable products and laying off 200 employees, or 20 percent of its U.S. workforce. [News.com]
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- Hotmail suffers email scam - Hotmail, the free email service owned by Microsoft, will remain free despite not-so-widespread rumors to the contrary. [News.com]
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- House PC brands to explode - Retailers are turning to one of the oldest tricks in the consumer business to get around the PC price wars: store-brand products. [News.com]
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- How hard will Y2K bug hit feds? - This week, the federal Office of Management and Budget warned that several federal agencies are in danger of missing a deadline to fix Year 2000 computer system problems, which will cost millions of dollars more to fix than originally thought. Will the Year 2000, or millennium, bug bring the government to its knees? CNET's NEWS.COM asked this question to John Koskinen, the recently appointed chairman of the President's Year 2000 Conversion Council. [News.com]
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- HP CEO gives tech mixed outlook - In Lewis Platt's electronic world, there are a few serious flaws with the typical rosy, world-in-harmony outlook that pervades the technology industry. [News.com]
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- HP chief hails Asia's prospects - The chairman of U.S. computer technology powerhouse Hewlett-Packard (HWP) said today that Asia's role as the company's major production base was secure. [News.com]
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- HP claims workstation lead - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) claimed it led the Windows NT workstation market for 1997, outpacing Compaq for three of four quarters last year. [News.com]
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- HP cuts server prices amid glut - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) today cut prices on its entire Windows NT-based NetServer server line up to 20 percent amid a general glut in product that is prompting more price cuts and eroding margins. [News.com]
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- HP fixed on management software - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) is hell-bent on assuring users of its enterprise management software that it will continue to be a player even in the face of stiff competition. [News.com]
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- HP floats PC device protocol - A series of new developments in a device communications protocol floated to the industry by Hewlett-Packard (HWP) will soon make it easier for a variety of off-the-shelf tools to communicate with printers, fax machines, and computer systems, according to the company. [News.com]
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- HP leans on easy-to-use gear - Systems giant Hewlett-Packard (HWP) continues to try to hone its networking message. [News.com]
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- HP opts for Java home brew - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) announced plans today to market its own Java Virtual Machine and said that Microsoft has licensed the technology for its Windows CE operating system, which could throw control of the Java programming language into question. [News.com]
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- HP plans S. Korean expansion - Hewlett-Packard said today that it will invest $250 million to $300 million in venture companies and boost operating expenses in South Korea this year. [News.com]
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- HP predicts growth in software - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) co chief executive Lewis Platt said today that he expects revenues from software products and services to account for as much as 10 percent of the company's revenues by the year 2000. [News.com]
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- HP releases 3-pound notebook - At the CeBit conference in Hannover, Germany today, Hewlett-Packard (HWP) took the wraps off of its Sojourn OmniBook, a three-pound notebook with a metallic case that measures less than an inch thick. [News.com]
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- HP releases all-in-one machine - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) launched a new family of multifunction fax-printer-copier products targeting both the home and business markets, the company said today. [News.com]
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- HP rides low-cost PC wave - A second wave of low-cost PCs, this time targeted at business and built around the powerful Pentium II processor, are starting to hit the market in force. [News.com]
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- HP to make Unisys PCs - Unisys will contract Hewlett-Packard to manufacture notebooks, desktops, and entry-level Intel-based server computers, an announcement which follows last January's surprising news that it would no longer make these products itself. [News.com]
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- HP toes Java line in large systems - Playing another angle on Java, Hewlett-Packard (HPW) today announced a strategy for its big computers that adheres closely to the party line from rival Sun Microsystems' (SUNW) JavaSoft unit. [News.com]
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- HP trots out new servers - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) introduced new servers targeted at small and medium-sized businesses in its Windows NT-based NetServer line, in an effort to bolster sales amidst declining server profit margins. [News.com]
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- HP's move thwarts Java standard - With Hewlett-Packard's (HWP) decision to market its own Java Virtual Machine, hope for a single Java standard is fading fast. [News.com]
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- HP, Sun do legal dance over Java - Hewlett-Packard (HP) is doing Java its own way, but it might not be legal. [News.com]
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- IBM becomes low-cost chip power - Which company poses the greatest competitive challenge for Intel in the processor market? Advanced Micro Devices? Cyrix? [News.com]
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- IBM builds up business apps - IBM (IBM) today unveiled two new Java-based building blocks for creating server-based business applications. [News.com]
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- IBM cuts flat panel prices - IBM (IBM) today released three new flat panel displays priced as low as $1,499 and cut prices up to 35 percent on existing models, offering yet more evidence that the cost of space-age monitors is coming down to earth--or at least closer. [News.com]
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- IBM drops Cyrix processor - Despite the fact that its microelectronics division makes the 6X86 processor, IBM has quietly dropped the chip from its Aptiva line of home PCs. [News.com]
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- IBM eyes Java chips - Sun Microsystems (SU NW) today added IBM to the roster of companies using Java technology in customized chips. [News.com]
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- IBM hackers trying to help - The once-lumbering computer giant IBM (IBM) has again ventured into territory previously deemed unthinkable for the formerly staid, buttoned-down company--hacking. [News.com]
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- IBM hacks client's network - IBM's team of "ethical hackers" successfully broke into an unnamed company's computer network in a demonstration of a live attack at a computer industry conference. [News.com]
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- IBM makes its move on Java - The largest computing company in the world is making its move on Java. [News.com]
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- IBM Pentium II PC dips to $1,099 - IBM (IBM) cut prices on business PCs by as much as 20 percent today, dropping the cost of a 233-MHz Pentium II system to $1,099, a new low for a top-tier vendor. [News.com]
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- IBM plays financier for reseller - IBM's credit division has reached an unusual deal to offer as much as $40 million in acquisition financing to a computer reseller. [News.com]
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- IBM readies fastest PowerPC chip - IBM (IBM) is preparing its fastest PowerPC processor yet, a 300-MHz chip, while even faster processors are being demonstrated at industry shows. [News.com]
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- IBM shareholders vote online - The Internet now has another use--as a way for stockholders to vote their proxy. [News.com]
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- IBM Software sees flat Asia growth - The software division of IBM (IBM) expects flat growth in its business in Asia Pacific this year, an executive said today. [News.com]
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- IBM taps chemical market - IBM (IBM) said today that it has agreed to acquire Chem Systems Group, a privately held management consulting firm focused on the chemical and petroleum industries. [News.com]
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- IBM taps German PC maker - IBM Deutschland Informationssysteme will turn over local production of IBM-branded PCs for the consumer market to German assembler Vobis Microcomputer. [News.com]
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- IBM upgrades e-commerce lineup - Broadening its e-commerce offerings, IBM (IBM) announced new versions of its software today for Internet commerce and payments. [News.com]
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- IBM, HP facing big inventories - While Compaq Computer (CPQ) appears to be the facing the largest inventory woes of the big PC manufacturers, IBM (IBM) and Hewlett-Packard (HWP) are also sitting on excess inventory--invariably resulting in more price cuts and lower earnings. [News.com]
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- IDT, IBM strike manufacturing deal - Integrated Device Technology (IDTI) today will announce a deal with IBM (IBM) in which the computer giant will manufacture IDT's Intel-compatible processors. [News.com]
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- IE 5 to ditch Active Channels bar - Microsoft (MSFT) plans to eliminate the bar that serves as one gateway into its Active Channels when it rolls out the next version of its Internet Explorer browser. [News.com]
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- Imagine tries Net radio - Publishing company Imagine Media made its first foray into broadcasting today with Internet-based Imagine Radio. [News.com]
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- Imatec sues Apple over patents - Image technology developer Imatec (IMEC) said today that it had filed suit against Apple Computer (AAPL) alleging infringement of three patents and seeking $1.1 billion in damages. [News.com]
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- Infoseek inks e-commerce deals - Infoseek (SEEK) today announced two e-commerce deals, one with Realtor.com and the other with Microsoft's Expedia travel site. [News.com]
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- Infoseek's Netscape dependency - Infoseek (SEEK) said today that page views sourced from Netscape's (NSCP) Web site traffic fell to 27 percent in December, from 44 percent a year earlier. Nevertheless, the company said it continues to negotiate with Netscape about renewing this key contract, which expires on April 30. [News.com]
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- Ingram to make PCs for Big 3 - In its continuing quest to usurp Dell Computer, PC distributor Ingram Micro (IM) will tomorrow open the first of four facilities for making PCs and servers for the likes of Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM, among others. [News.com]
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- Inktomi expands to Europe - In yet another sign that search engine company Inktomi is becoming a behind-the-scenes powerhouse, the company today announced it is launching a European division and it has completed a $12 million round of financing. [News.com]
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- Intel bullish on PC demand - Shaking off a recent profit warning, Intel (INTC) remains bullish on midterm PC demand and confident about a profitable entry into a new market segment that has so far generated only red ink for its rivals. [News.com]
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- Intel challenged in low-cost arena - Despite production snags in 1997, Advanced Micro Devices and Cyrix are engaging in ambitious product strategies that will likely challenge Intel in the cheap computing arena. [News.com]
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- Intel confirms Korean investment - Intel (INTC) plans to invest between $500 million and $1 billion in computer-related South Korean companies, an Intel spokeswoman in Seoul said today. [News.com]
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- Intel creates certification program - Intel (INTC) today rolled out a certification and education program for computer dealers and integrators that's designed to boost the company's presence in the networking world. [News.com]
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- Intel cuts prices, side deals - With the world awash in an excess of desktop computers, Intel (INTC) will sharply cut prices over the next two quarters and likely give special deals on high-end chips to its major partners in a effort to clear the path for new products. [News.com]
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- Intel delays Texas plant again - Intel (INTC) again pushed back the opening of a microprocessor production plant outside Fort Worth, Texas, calling for a complete halt to construction of a $1.3 billion facility that was originally slated to open in 1999. [News.com]
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- Intel demos 700-MHz Pentium II - At the CeBIT trade fair, Intel (INTC) demonstrated a PC with Pentium II processor running at 700 MHz--more than twice the rate of its current speed king, which runs at 333 MHz. [News.com]
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- Intel eyes Hollywood-style graphics - Intel (INTC) is going Hollywood. [News.com]
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- Intel invests in NCD, WebLogic - Network Computing Devices (NCDI) said today that it signed a three-year deal with Intel (INTC) to make systems using its processors and that the chip giant also bought 4.4 percent of its stock. [News.com]
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- Intel looking overseas - Intel (INTC) president and chief operating officer Craig Barrett today said the semiconductor giant will begin to include more international deals in its investment strategy. [News.com]
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- Intel opens Costa Rican chip plant - Intel (INTC), the world's leading microprocessor maker, formally opened a huge computer chip plant in Costa Rica yesterday. [News.com]
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- Intel postpones California building - Intel (INTC) will delay construction of an office building at its Folsom, California, site, as the company adjusts to a more severe business climate than previously anticipated. [News.com]
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- Intel president to visit Samsung - Intel (INTC) president Craig Barrett is to meet the head of Samsung Electronics for talks on boosting cooperation when he visits Seoul next week, Samsung and Intel Korea officials said today. [News.com]
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- Intel quiet on Samsung investment - Intel (INTC) president Craig Barrett resisted questions about whether his company plans to invest in Samsung Electronics, South Korea's leading chipmaker. [News.com]
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- Intel shows new chips at CeBIT - Intel (INTC) presented a simulation of its 64-bit Merced processor today at the CeBIT trade show and demonstrated an array of computer chips due for release later this year. [News.com]
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- Intel struggling to revive growth - Semiconductor giant Intel (INTC) is struggling to revive growth after facing more than a year of stagnant revenues, company president Craig Barrett said today. [News.com]
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- Intel takes on PC support service - Taking on a job usually reserved for computer manufacturers, Intel (INTC) is moving into the help desk business with a service that provides small businesses and consumers with technical support and information to make PCs easier to use. [News.com]
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- Intel to fall 10% below mark - Intel's (INTC) revenues and profits will fall well below expectations of a quarter already predicted to be relatively slow, the company announced today. [News.com]
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- Intel's cheap Pentium II: Celeron - Intel (INTC) announced today it will have a new brand name--Celeron--for a processor designed for low-cost PCs. [News.com]
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- Intel's line of succession - If the predictions of current and former employees hold true, not much will change in the driven corporate culture of Intel after Craig Barrett takes over as chief executive. [News.com]
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- Intel's Merced alters landscape - When the 64-bit Merced processor from Intel (INTC) arrives in the second half of 1999, expect to see a number of major changes, including a wider choice of operating systems, chips that bridge 32- and 64-bit computing, processors eventually racing at speeds beyond 1,000 MHz, and a new a "slot" architecture. [News.com]
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- Intel's meteoric rise - Andy Grove, who was Intel's third employee when he helped found the chip giant in July 1968, has seen the company's stock appreciate more than 1600 percent, and its revenues grow 700 percent, during the 1990s alone. The company went public 26 years ago, and has had 11 stock splits since, four of them on Grove's watch. Intel's market capitalization now stands at $127.2 billion, according to yesterday's closing stock price of 76-1/16. But more than a successful enterprise, Intel has become a model for corporate America, melding big business with the entrepreneurial spirit that drives even the smallest start-ups of Silicon Valley. [News.com]
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- Intel, Microsoft pull Nasdaq down - There's a whole lot of shaking going on on Wall Street, as Intel (INTC) sent tech stocks falling and analysts revising their forecasts for the chip giant. [News.com]
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- Intel, NCD team on thin clients - Intel (INTC) and "thin client" computer vendor Network Computing Devices today inked a deal involving a substantial investment that will lead to Intel's entry into the terminal and Network Computer (NC) market and the establishment of Windows CE as an operating system for these devices. [News.com]
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- Intel: Europe e-commerce to boom - Intel (INTC) said today that Europe was about to see a boom in computer sales and electronic commerce led by legions of small businesses selling everything from shoes to cuckoo clocks. [News.com]
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- Internet stocks retreat after surge - They have been to mountain top, and today they started to trek back down. [News.com]
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- Intranet, extranet use on the rise - The use of the Internet by businesses continues to expand as "Net"-based applications hit the market, making it possible to develop corporate intranets and extranets, according to an independent report released today. [News.com]
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- Intuit boosts appeal to banks - Looking to improve its relations with banks, Intuit (INTU) today said it will let one-time rival Meca Software customize software code for its Quicken personal finance software for banks to brand under their own names. [News.com]
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- Iomega CEO resigns - Iomega (IOM) said today that chief executive Kim Edwards has resigned and that he will be replaced temporarily by James Sierk, an Iomega director. [News.com]
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- Iomega drops 20% on warning - Iomega (IOM) today said it expects to report a first-quarter loss in the range of between $10 million and $25 million, due to sluggish international sales. [News.com]
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- Iomega licenses smallest product - Iomega (IOM) formally signed Citizen Watch of Japan as the first licensee of its newest storage technology, called Clik, but potential rivals loom on the horizon. [News.com]
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- Iona bridges COM, CORBA - Middleware software maker Iona Technologies (IONAY) today launched additional products intended to make cross-platform applications easier to build. [News.com]
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- IP telephony lures the Street - Wall Street is pinning its hopes on a new cottage industry: Net telephony. [News.com]
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- IPO-bound Software.net gets CEO - Software.net, an e-commerce pioneer, tomorrow will announce that it has hired a new CEO from bookseller Amazon.com, bolstering management as it prepares for an initial public offering. [News.com]
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- Is AOL looking to get into TV? - America Online (AOL) considers TV among the key investment areas it will be eyeing for the long term. But it is unlikely that its ambitions to get into the television space will lead to a rumored merger with NetChannel, an Internet service provider via TV, one source said. [News.com]
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- Israeli nabbed in Pentagon hack - In its second move against computer hacking this week, the Justice Department announced the arrest of a trio of Israeli hackers suspected of breaking into computer networks belonging to U.S. and Israeli governments, as well as those of businesses and educational institutions in the United States and abroad. [News.com]
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- Japan cool to low-cost Intel chip - Though it hasn't yet reached the market, Intel's first chip to specifically target low-cost PCs, the Celeron, will probably meet with a cool welcome in Japan, mirroring its advance reception in the United States. [News.com]
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- Java in chaos - While Sun Microsystems fights Microsoft in court over use of the Java programming language, Hewlett-Packard's plan to market its own Java Virtual Machine and license it to Microsoft prompts debate over how much control Sun has over its own technology. [News.com]
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- Java NC rationale not clear - The Java programming language is still getting favorable attention from software developers, but Sun network computers based on the Java operating system are being met with a big yawn on the market, partly because of the inability of manufacturers to ship products. [News.com]
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- Java notebook NC is here - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) and Japan's Toshiba revealed they will collaborate in advancing Java-based Mobile Network Computing, an announcement made on the same day as the long-awaited debut of the JavaStation network computer. [News.com]
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- Java OS headed to consumer gear - Sun Microsystems will ship a Java-based operating system to run on TVs, telephones, karaoke machines, and other consumer devices, the company announced today. [News.com]
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- Java tool browses intranets - Net start-up InterNetivity has introduced a Java data analysis tool for business users that delivers data over a corporate intranet to Web browsers. [News.com]
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- JavaSoft insists it will make money - Under pressure to show real profits, JavaSoft insists that Hewlett-Packard's (HPW) move to create its own Java Virtual Machine for embedded devices won't derail its plans to make money. [News.com]
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- JavaSoft jabs at industry titans - Executives from Sun Microsystems' (SUNW) JavaSoft division came out swinging at the JavaOne conference here today. [News.com]
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- JavaStation dream fading - Product delays, a lack of viable applications, and competition from Windows-based Terminals and low-priced PCs are seemingly sapping the lifeblood out of the potential market for JavaStations. [News.com]
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- JavaStations finally ready - After approximately a year and a half of delays, Sun Microsystems is finally going to release its JavaStation for general commercial use at the end of this month. [News.com]
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- Jobs gets options, not salary - Apple Computer's (AAPL) interim chief executive Steve Jobs and his fellow board member Larry Ellison each were granted 30,000 shares of Apple stock at an exercise price of $23 a share, the company's proxy said today. [News.com]
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- Jobs's moves looking good - Rotten no more: Apple Computer's (AAPL) aggressive efforts appear to be paying off. [News.com]
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- Jobs: Stay the course - Using familiar themes from past keynotes, Apple Computer (AAPL) interim CEO Steve Jobs outlined new software initiatives for the publishing market and new systems--including one with a 400-MHz processor--as Apple continues to demonstrate a "steady as she goes" attitude about its business plans. [News.com]
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- Juno works the phones in service - Free email provider Juno is working the phones. [News.com]
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- Katmai chip to get 200-MHz bus - Although the 100-MHz system bus is yet to be released, it will likely have a short life, industry pundit Michael Slater said at Microsoft's WinHec Conference. [News.com]
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- Kodak to invest $1 billion in China - In a bid to boost slumping profits, Eastman Kodak (EK) said today that it will invest $1 billion in China--one of the biggest investments by a U.S. company in that country. [News.com]
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- KPCB partners sell @Home stock - Three partners with Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, & Byers plan to sell 135,000 shares in @Home (ATHM), a KPCB-funded company whose stock has jumped threefold since going public eight months ago. [News.com]
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- Labels tune into Liquid Audio - More than 50 independent record labels and artists have committed to using Liquid Audio products for promotion and sales of music over the Internet, the company announced today. [News.com]
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- Learning Co. to buy Mindscape - The Learning Company (TLC) today agreed to buy Mindscape for $150 million in cash and stock, another sign of consolidation in the educational software market. [News.com]
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- Legal path unclear for Windows 98 - With the release of Windows 98 only months away, it remains to be seen if Microsoft and the Justice Department are headed for another showdown. But if the government does decide to go after the new operating system, it would appear to face daunting obstacles. [News.com]
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- Legal victory for Java - Coinciding with Sun Microsystems' JavaOne conference, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction ordering Microsoft to pull the Java-compatible logo from all its products. Sun is suing Microsoft over its implementation of the programming language. [News.com]
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- Lessig would have sided with DOJ - Documents made public today showed that a special adviser was leaning toward recommending a ruling against Microsoft in the government's antitrust case before he was temporarily removed from his post. [News.com]
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- Long-term upside for tech stocks - Profit warnings from leading U.S. high-technology companies have spooked stock markets around the world, but analysts said today that, although the short-term outlook may be cloudy, the long-term outlook is as inviting as ever. [News.com]
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- Loss stalls SGI comeback - Silicon Graphics' (SGI) hopes for a quick turnaround were dashed by today's announcement of a third-quarter loss that exceeded expectations. [News.com]
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- Lotus reveals cc:Mail plans - Lotus Development today revealed its long-awaited upgrade plans to help its huge installed base of cc:Mail users migrate to its Notes software and to keep them away from competitors' products. [News.com]
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- Lotus tests SmartSuite upgrade - IBM subsidiary Lotus Development has begun beta testing the new version of its office application suite. [News.com]
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- LSI Logic plans chip technology - LSI Logic (LSI) plans to introduce a new chip technology that will combine all of the system functions onto one chip to create future communications, computer, and consumer products. [News.com]
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- Lucent eyes plastic transistors - Lucent Technologies is developing a plastic transistor to be used in display screens and smart cards that is much less expensive to produce and more durable than today's silicon transistors. [News.com]
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- Lucent: A spin-off success story - When AT&T (T) spun off its systems and technology business in April 1996 under the moniker Lucent Technologies (LU), many analysts and investors were skeptical. [News.com]
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- Lycos up as CMG looks to unload - Shares of Lycos (LCOS) have risen more than 19 percent during the past two weeks, as the company's largest shareholder looks to sell up to a third of its stake to an investor with a strategic fit. [News.com]
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- Lycos, Preview Travel ink deal - Online travel reservation service Preview Travel (PTVL) said it will pay Lycos (LCOS) $4.25 million to become the search engine's exclusive travel reservation provider. [News.com]
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- Mac upgrade puts G3 in notebook - The fastest PowerPC processors for Macintosh notebook computers are now available at a fraction of the cost of the elite G3 notebook, which can run as high as $5,600. [News.com]
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- Makers shifting to high-capacity memory - Leading foreign manufacturers are boosting production of 64-megabit memory chips as the industry anticipates a transition to the more powerful chips by desktop vendors. [News.com]
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- Marimba CEO: Net as global utility - The Internet is poised to become the worldwide utility, a medium that can deliver home banking to consumers or update software on corporate networks, Kim Polese, CEO of Marimba, told the Software Publishers Association today. [News.com]
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- Market wary after Compaq warning - Compaq Computer's (CPQ) profit warning knocked some of the air out of technology stocks today but did not cause the kind of market havoc that followed a negative report by Intel last week. [News.com]
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- Markets shift to Internet stocks - Internet company stocks surged today as investors rushed to pull funds out of PC hardware and chipmaking firms, analysts said. [News.com]
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- MCI, Yahoo launch gateway - Yahoo and MCI Internet today announced the availability of Yahoo-branded Internet access. [News.com]
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- McNealy's Microsoft investment - Even when it comes to his own investments, Sun Microsystems' (SUNW) Scott McNealy must deal with archrival Microsoft (MSFT). [News.com]
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- McNealy: This lawsuit's for you - "This lawsuit's for you," Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy told Java developers here. [News.com]
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- Memory makers seek more speed - Eight semiconductor manufacturers have agreed to a new high-speed standard for DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips, the most widely used memory chips for personal computers. [News.com]
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- Mercury tools will test Java code - There are plenty of tools for building Java applications, but Mercury Interactive (MERQ) said today it plans to deliver tools that test Java applications before they hit the Net. [News.com]
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- Merger raises Net privacy flags - The proposed merger of two data marketing giants has online privacy advocates up in arms. [News.com]
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- Microsoft teams on groupware - Microsoft (MSFT) and Massachusetts-based Eastman Software, a unit of Eastman Kodak (EK), have teamed to launch a new group of collaborative workflow management products. [News.com]
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- Microsoft amends ISP contracts - Microsoft has agreed to drop some of the requirements it imposes on U.S. Internet service providers in its cross-promotional licensing deals, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft and Apple find synergy - Microsoft (MSFT) is more aggressively supporting the Apple (AAPL) platform, and, ironically, some Apple developers are more aggressively supporting Windows. [News.com]
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- Microsoft appeal judge removed - One of the three judges assigned to hear a crucial appeal in the ongoing antitrust battle between Microsoft and the Justice Department has been removed from the case, a person familiar with the matter said. [News.com]
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- Microsoft beats Street estimates - Microsoft (MSFT) shares rose sharply in early morning trading yesterday, a day after the company said its third-quarter earnings would beat Wall Street estimates by about 9 percent. [News.com]
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- Microsoft boosts lobbying efforts - Microsoft (MSFT) dramatically ramped up efforts to influence the federal government in the past year as it became enmeshed in a fierce legal battle with antitrust regulators, newly disclosed reports to the government show. [News.com]
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- Microsoft buffs its Chrome - Microsoft (MSFT) is giving hardware developers a sneak peek at Chrome, a piece of Windows system software that will let high-powered PCs play 3D graphics and video either through a Web browser or in separate player software. [News.com]
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- Microsoft buys into General Magic - Microsoft (MSFT) said today it is investing in General Magic (GMGC) and licensing some of its technologies, a move that could breathe new life into the software company. [News.com]
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- Microsoft buys stake in WavePhore - Microsoft (MSFT) has accumulated a 2.88 percent stake in WavePhore (WAVO). [News.com]
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- Microsoft continues ISP push - Microsoft (MSFT) changed the terms under which it licenses its latest browser to Internet service providers, but that hasn't stopped the company's continued push to sign up ISPs as Internet Explorer 4.0 distributors. [News.com]
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- Microsoft database virus found - A company that makes software to protect computers from viruses said yesterday that it had discovered a new virus capable of spreading through Microsoft (MSFT) Access databases, the first ever to invade that product since its introduction in 1992. [News.com]
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- Microsoft does $6 million college deal - Microsoft (MSFT) is increasingly offering universities technology contracts that are too good to refuse. And starting tomorrow, Indiana University will begin giving out the software giant's suite of products for free to its 100,000 students and staff. [News.com]
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- Microsoft eyes Latin America - Microsoft (MSFT) expects 1998 sales growth in Latin America of more than 60 percent, a company official said today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft foresees R&D doubling - Microsoft (MSFT) chairman and founder Bill Gates today predicted the software giant's research and development budget would more than double in the foreseeable future. [News.com]
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- Microsoft looks to high end for NT 5 - Microsoft (MSFT) is leaving no stone unturned in its effort to add a Windows NT operating system presence to high-end markets. [News.com]
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- Microsoft offers peek at DHTML - Microsoft (MSFT) has launched a preview release of its Microsoft Dynamic HTML (DHTML) editing component, a tool for adding HTML editing capabilities to Windows applications. [News.com]
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- Microsoft passes $200 billion mark - It's official: Bill Gates and the gang at Microsoft (MSFT) have marched into the $200 billion "market cap" club, joining General Electric (GE), the only other company in this category. [News.com]
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- Microsoft ponders course of action - Should Microsoft hold or fold? [News.com]
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- Microsoft preps desktop software - Microsoft (MSFT) rolled out the latest version of its Office desktop applications suite for small businesses today and shipped the final beta of its Visual InterDev development tool. [News.com]
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- Microsoft revamps sales groups - Microsoft (MSFT) is consolidating its sales and support organization into three rather than four groups worldwide. [News.com]
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- Microsoft rivals walk fine line - Sun Microsystems and Netscape Communications are walking a fine line in calling for more regulation of Microsoft while simultaneously telling the government to keep its hands off their software businesses. [News.com]
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- Microsoft sees Latin America boom - Microsoft's (MSFT) sales in Latin America are growing by 50 percent to 60 percent a year, the software giant's regional director said. [News.com]
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- Microsoft sued over Palm PC - Microsoft's (MSFT) renowned marketing prowess may have gone awry when the company decided to name new handheld organizers "Palm PCs." [News.com]
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- Microsoft sues German magazine - Microsoft Deutschland has brought charges against German computer magazine PC Welt for allegedly giving detailed instructions on how to use Microsoft products illegally, Microsoft Deutschland said today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft to open India unit - Microsoft (MSFT) said today that it would open a software development center in India, only its second outside the company's U.S. headquarters. [News.com]
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- Microsoft to update retail IE - Despite the availability of both major browsers for free, Microsoft (MSFT) and Netscape Communications (NSCP) will let you pay for them if you want. [News.com]
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- Microsoft's NT weapon: schmooze - The message: Assimilation is easy. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, China Telecom team up - Microsoft (MSFT) said today that it would help China's main telecommunications carrier develop its Internet capabilities as part of a long-term cooperative project. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Citrix beta terminal server - Windows continues its march toward new desktop markets. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Intel take on Unix - Seeking to expand the market for technical workstations based on PC technologies, Microsoft (MSFT) and Intel (INTC) today announced a myriad of incentives aimed at swaying Unix developers to work with the Windows NT operating system, along with new a hardware specification. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, NCR in database pact - Microsoft (MSFT) tapped systems company NCR (NCR) for help in tackling the market for high-end data warehousing and availability technologies. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Thais in set-top project - Microsoft (MSFT) and major Thai conglomerate Charoen Pokphand (CP) have agreed to set up two joint pilot projects to broaden the availability of interactive products and services in Thailand. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Wang expand alliance - Microsoft (MSFT) and Wang Global, a unit of Wang Laboratories (WANG), today announced an expanded alliance to develop products that combine Microsoft's enterprise software platform and Wang Global's consulting, support, integration, and solutions products. [News.com]
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- Microsoft-CSU deal shaky - A ten-year deal that would make the world's largest university system a business partner with four technology companies, including Microsoft (MSFT), is on shaky ground this week. [News.com]
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- Microsoft-WebTV not up to speed - Microsoft (MSFT) chief executive Bill Gates recently laid out some big plans for WebTV, the start-up that his company bought only last year. But for now, those plans remain a twinkle in Gates's eye. [News.com]
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- Microsoft: Judge makes no sense - Microsoft argued today that a judge's order requiring it to offer its Windows 95 operating system without its Internet browser components is based on a legal interpretation that "does not make sense." [News.com]
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- Microsoft: Windows NT for homes - Microsoft (MSFT) promised to push Windows NT for home computers and touched on home networking, but otherwise fell short on its promise to say how it will incorporate the Windows operating system everywhere in the home during the keynote speech at its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference here. [News.com]
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- Middleware gets Java jolt - Borland International (BORL) has added Java language support to a new version of its Entera middleware. [News.com]
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- Millions spent on "NineMSN" - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said Monday that his company and Publishing and Broadcasting Limited were spending millions of dollars to set up their Australian online joint venture known as "NineMSN." [News.com]
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- Mitsubishi bucks memory trend - Mitsubishi Electric will cut back on memory chip production in 1998, distancing itself from the vanguard of the transition to higher-capacity DRAMs. [News.com]
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- Mobile database niche takes off - Database software makers Sybase (SYBS) and Oracle may have found one answer to slumping database server sales. The bad news? [News.com]
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- Mobile NC spec floated out - Tentative technical specifications for making mobile network computers (NCs) were released today for public comment amid growing skepticism about the viability and market potential of the Java NC. [News.com]
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- Mobile Pentium II set for release - Intel (INTC) confirmed it will introduce its first Pentium II microprocessors for notebook computers on April 2 at the company's Santa Clara, California, headquarters. [News.com]
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- Monorail business PC for $849 - Monorail, a start-up PC company known for its space-saving, low-cost consumer computers, today announced that it is pushing into the corporate market with the release of an $849 minitower model. [News.com]
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- More firms lowering option prices - When Premenos Technology's stock plummeted to 8 from 16 in a single day back in October 1996, company executives knew they had to take action. [News.com]
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- Motorola plans major restructuring - Motorola (MOT) is planning a major corporate restructuring that will merge about a half-dozen businesses into two huge divisions, one geared to consumers and the other to industrial customers, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Motorola to start Polish chip plant - Motorola signed an agreement with authorities of the southern Polish city of Krakow on investing up to $110 million in a semiconductor plant and a software center, the U.S. firm said. [News.com]
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- Motorola ups NetSpeak stake - Motorola (MOT) said today that it is expanding its relationship with voice, video, and data communications software provider NetSpeak (NSPK). [News.com]
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- Motorola warns quarter hit by Asia - In another earnings bombshell, Motorola (MOT) yesterday warned that its first-quarter results are expected to be "well below" Wall Street's expectations, blaming weakened Asian currencies. [News.com]
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- Motorola wraps copper chip tests - Motorola (MOT) said it has successfully completed testing of its first silicon wafers utilizing copper technology, an advance that will lead to production later this year. [News.com]
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- Motorola, 3Com end 56-kbps spat - Motorola (MOT) and 3Com (COMS) today said they have settled a patent infringement dispute and agreed to cross-license each other's modem patents. [News.com]
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- MS not just a software company - "MS: It's not a software company." [News.com]
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- MSNBC runs Net sex survey - Cybersex. [News.com]
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- Multi-function PC cards debut - Xircom introduced a new line of PC networking and communication cards for notebook computers, which pack modem, networking, and wireless capabilities into one small PC Card. [News.com]
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- Music firm focuses on artists - As the music business evolves to keep pace with the Internet, some Net veterans are reinventing themselves to try to grab a piece of what could be a very lucrative market. [News.com]
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- Myanmar rebels armed with Net - Freedom fighters in Myanmar--formerly Burma--used to get their message across with guns and jungle warfare. [News.com]
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- N.Y. firms seek Valley funds - Despite competition from other parts of the country, Silicon Valley is where the money is--at least in the eyes of technology start-ups looking for funding. [News.com]
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- Nader targets WorldCom-MCI deal - More opposition to the proposed merger of WorldCom (WCOM) and MCI (MCIC) surfaced today, this time from consumer activist Ralph Nader and the Communications Workers of America. [News.com]
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- NASD launches broker site - The National Association of Securities Dealers has launched a $50 million Internet site that allows investors to find out if a broker has tangled with the NASD's regulatory arm. [News.com]
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- Nasdaq, Amex OK merger - The directors of the Nasdaq and American Stock Exchanges have approved an agreement to merge the nation's second- and third-largest stock markets. [News.com]
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- National Semi earnings hit hard - In another decline by a major chipmaker, National Semiconductor (NSM) today posted lower third-quarter earnings from a year ago and warned of falling revenue with the likelihood of a loss in the next reporting period. [News.com]
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- NBC invests in Talk City - NBC is investing in online chat community Talk City, the companies are announcing today. [News.com]
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- NBC to try Net music - NBC said today that Launch Media will become its exclusive online music partner and that it will take a minority stake in the Net music firm. [News.com]
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- NEC gets into cheap chips - NEC Electronics (NIPNY) unveiled a new family of 64-bit processors running at speeds to 250 MHz that are intended for use in everything from consumer electronics devices to networking equipment, as competition in the unglamorous market for so-called "embedded" processors heats up. [News.com]
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- NEC now into workstations - NEC is making its belated jump into the NT workstation market today with its first line of 333-MHz Pentium II personal workstations. [News.com]
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- NEC server looks ahead to Slot 2 - Next week, NEC plans to unveil a PC server that can accommodate up to six processors and be upgraded to Intel's Slot 2 Pentium II when the forthcoming technology is released. [News.com]
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- NEC server looks ahead to Slot 2 - Today, NEC unveiled a PC server that can accommodate up to six processors and be upgraded to Intel's Slot 2 Pentium II when the forthcoming technology is released. [News.com]
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- NEC, Thomson team on plasma monitors - NEC and Thomson Multimedia have committed to joint development of plasma flat-panel display technology, the companies announced today. [News.com]
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- Net a boon to job hunts - It used to be that looking for a job meant poring over the Sunday paper, calling on a personal network for potential leads, and visiting the library for research on companies of interest. [News.com]
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- Net bills advance in Senate - Proposed federal mandates aimed at restricting access to adult-oriented Net sites cleared a major hurdle in the Senate today. [News.com]
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- Net business on CeBIT agenda - From the titans of technology to hundreds of mid-size firms hoping to ride the Internet wave, business leaders today will use the CeBIT trade fair as a venue to promote cyberspace commerce. [News.com]
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- Net called boon to hate groups - The number of hate groups in the United States rose by 20 percent last year in part because the Net makes it easier to preach intolerance and to recruit new members, the Southern Poverty Law Center said today. [News.com]
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- Net community tries mainstream ads - As the battle for membership rages on among the online communities, one player, TheGlobe.com, has decided to break out the big advertising guns. [News.com]
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- Net discounts may be reviewed - Congress may soon take a closer look at the Federal Communications Commission's management of a program designed to give schools and libraries discounts on Net access. [News.com]
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- Net libel appeal heard in court - In what is becoming an increasingly common front for legal defamation cases, an Internet flame war between two rivals spilled into a state courtroom here today. [News.com]
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- Net libel suit raises free speech issues - During a typically passionate discussion on the Net, Stacy McCahan called someone a liar--and to her surprise, she was slapped with a $5,000 libel lawsuit. [News.com]
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- Net not ready for showbiz - A panel of Hollywood's new media moguls agreed today that the Web isn't ready as an entertainment medium and that their own industry is as much to blame as is evolving technology and the bandwidth bottleneck. [News.com]
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- Net phone market heats up - As another company announced its entry in the growing Internet telephony market, a study is predicting that online phone technology will drive down long distance rates. [News.com]
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- Net privacy policy in the works - White House senior adviser Ira Magaziner said today that he is confident that the United States and the European Union will resolve their conflicting Net privacy practices by this summer. [News.com]
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- Net revolution seen for insurance - Information technology will revolutionize the way insurance is both processed and transacted, industry executives say. [News.com]
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- Net speaks out on "green paper" - Hundreds of individuals, businesses, and federal agencies submitted comments on the Commerce Department's domain "green paper." [News.com]
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- Net stocks are anybody's guess - A rhetorical question: Does anybody really know which way start-up Internet stocks are going? [News.com]
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- Net stocks not as hot - Last year's darlings of Wall Street--Internet stocks--now are viewed with less enthusiasm. [News.com]
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- Net tax bill under fire - Though a compromise was reached last week on a federal bill that would temporarily prohibit new Net taxes, one little-noticed provision threatens the heart of the agreement. [News.com]
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- NetChannel in fiscal crisis - Negotiations for the sale of NetChannel to America Online have stalled, throwing the Net access company into fiscal crisis and putting dozens of jobs in jeopardy. [News.com]
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- Netcom service restored - After a daylong outage of its Web hosting service, Internet service provider Netcom (NETC) reported today that operations are back to normal. [News.com]
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- Netizens to vote in skating event - The barrier between TV and the Net is skating on thin ice. [News.com]
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- NetLive: Few jobs to be cut - NetLive Communications, a developer of Internet-based communication systems, said today that fewer than ten jobs would be eliminated ahead of its pending merger with Australia-based Linda Industries. [News.com]
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- NetObjects updates Fusion - Web publishing software company NetObjects shipped the latest version of its flagship product today and will make a low-cost bundle of related Web tools available along with it. [News.com]
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- Netscape adds JavaBeans support - Netscape Communications (NSCP) is adding to the server-side Java trend by supporting Enterprise JavaBeans in its high-end application server. [News.com]
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- Netscape dives into e-commerce - Internet software pioneer Netscape Communications (NSCP) entered a partnership with Singapore's SilkRoute Ventures today, aiming to be Asia's top business software provider, company executives said. [News.com]
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- Netscape offers Web forums - Netscape Communications (NSCP) is stepping up its competition with Yahoo, Excite, and other "portal" Internet sites with today's launch of its Netcenter community services. [News.com]
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- Netscape outlines Web strategy - Netscape (NSCP) has entered the crowded ring of companies that want to be all things to all Web users, all of the time. [News.com]
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- Netscape plans Web site unit - Netscape tomorrow is expected to announce it is forming a new unit to focus only on its Web site business, according to company executives. [News.com]
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- Netscape playing catch-up to Yahoo - Pinocchio, Snow White, and Aladdin had their wishes. In the high-tech world, this might be Netscape's (NSCP): "Hey Wall Street, why not value me as an Internet directory, not an enterprise software provider?" [News.com]
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- Netscape posts Communicator license draft - Netscape Communications (NSCP) has posted a draft license for its upcoming Communicator source code. [News.com]
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- Netscape sets source code free - After three months of anticipation, Netscape Communications (NSCP) today finally released the source code for its Communicator suite. [News.com]
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- Netscape ships latest ECXpert - In its first product news since absorbing its former Actra joint venture, Netscape Communications (NSCP) is shipping a new version of its business-to-business e-commerce software. [News.com]
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- Netscape site sells Java software - Netscape Communications (NSCP) has dropped most of its in-house Java development, but its online store is stocked with software based on the programming language. [News.com]
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- Netscape to offer Web forums - Netscape Communications (NSCP) is stepping up its competition with Yahoo, Excite, and other "portal" Internet sites with tomorrow's launch of its Netcenter community services. [News.com]
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- Netscape tools customize browser - Netscape Communications today released a software toolkit that lets developers create their own customized versions of the Communicator software suite and the Navigator browser. [News.com]
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- NetWare for Small Business ships - The battle for small business software dollars continues to heat up. [News.com]
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- Networking poised to rebound - Networking stocks may be returning to the high life. [News.com]
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- New chip designed in India - Texas Instruments says it has developed a new computer chip designed entirely in India. [News.com]
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- New hope for business in China - China's appointment of a new premier today could open the door to new opportunities for U.S. companies seeking to do business on the technology-hungry mainland. [News.com]
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- New hope for General Magic - It had become almost a laughingstock in some high-tech circles, a long fall from its heady days as a promising young company that might be sitting on the next big thing. [News.com]
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- New IBM PCs, notebooks arrive - IBM (IBM) today introduced new consumer PCs and ThinkPad notebooks. [News.com]
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- New PalmPilot, price cuts due - 3Com will cut prices tomorrow on its PalmPilot line of personal information devices up to 20 percent as a prelude to the introduction of a brand-new PalmPilot next week. [News.com]
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- New rival takes aim at AOL - Another Internet service provider today announced plans to attract disaffected members of America Online (AOL) following AOL's decision to raise rates 10 percent for unlimited access. [News.com]
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- New York slams Net pyramids - New York Attorney General Dennis Vacco has become a zealous Net crime buster. [News.com]
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- NEWS.COM wins Webby Award - CNET's NEWS.COM won the 1998 Webby Award for best news site in an event Webcast around the world from a packed auditorium here last night. [News.com]
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- Newspaper group shutters doors - New Century Network is being dissolved, less than two weeks after the partnership trimmed its workforce and laid out a new strategy. [News.com]
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- Newton protest planned - Some programmers and users are not taking news of the Newton's demise all that well and are taking to the streets to make their feelings known. [News.com]
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- Newton: Bad news may be good - Apple Computer's (AAPL) decision to drop its much-hyped Newton may end up boosting the company's earnings--at least slightly. [News.com]
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- Next PCs eyed at Windows show - Cheap PCs, home computing, Windows 98, and new chips headline the topics slated for discussion at next week's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, a major industry event for engineers who design the latest and greatest hardware for the Windows operating system. [News.com]
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- Nielsen to track TV-Net surfers - WorldGate Communications and Nielsen Media Research have announced a partnership for tracking viewers surfing the Internet on their TVs. [News.com]
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- Nikon camera breaks $1,000 - Three new digital cameras released today from Nikon and Panasonic emphasize the spectrum of features and form that have begun to dominate the market. [News.com]
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- No downside in sight for Microsoft - Neither Netscape (NSCP), the Feds, nor the Asian economic slump can stop Microsoft's (MSFT) stock from climbing ever higher. [News.com]
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- No growth at cable modem firm - In a sign of the risks inherent in the much-hyped cable modem business, Hybrid Networks said today that it expects first-quarter revenue to stay flat at about $5 million, the same as the previous reporting period, because of sluggish demand for some products. [News.com]
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- No quick fixes for chipmakers - The causes are many and the cures don't look easy. [News.com]
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- No Unix unity for now - So much for Unix unification. [News.com]
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- Nokia updates Net cell phone - In Hannover, Germany, at the CeBIT trade show, Nokia introduced an updated version of a "smart" cellular phone that offers the ability to browse the Internet, handle email, and send faxes. [News.com]
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- Non-PC chips get desktop power - Sun Microsystems and Advanced RISC Machines (ARM) announced new processors for use in "embedded" devices that will rival their desktop counterparts in power. [News.com]
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- Nortel to buy Aptis for switches - Telephone network equipment company Nortel (Northern Telecom) (NT) will acquire Aptis Communications, a data networking start-up, for approximately $290 million in Nortel common stock and cash. [News.com]
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- Novell kicks off BrainShare - After a year under new leadership, executives from network software maker Novell (NOVL) stressed the company's progress in refocusing the business, its strategy, and its products on the opening day of its annual user conference. [News.com]
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- Novell plans OS for 64-bit chips - Novell (NOVL) will ride the wave Intel has created for Merced, its most powerful chip yet. [News.com]
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- Novell plugs price cuts, plans - Novell (NOVL) continues to make a variety of moves to prove to the market that its role as a network software maker is still viable. [News.com]
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- Novell talks server-side Java - Novell (NOVL) is placing a bet on Java at the only table it can, but executives from inside the firm and elsewhere admit that the market's advancement is too slow and too controlled. [News.com]
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- Novell to unveil GroupWise - Novell (NOVL) next week will debut the next version of its GroupWise collaboration suite, code-named Surge, at its BrainShare developers conference in Salt Lake City, company sources said today. [News.com]
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- Novell tool for all databases - Networking software provider Novell (NOVL) announced an agreement with B2 Systems to offer a software tool that allows users to query a variety of databases. [News.com]
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- Obscure bug hits Mac Office 98 - A bug in a utility for Office 98 for the Apple Macintosh can trash the System Folder in the computer's operating system, but ironically it only strikes if you're trying to remove the newly released software suite. [News.com]
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- Official saw flaws in crypto law - Despite the Clinton administration's policy that U.S. exporters of encryption build products that can be cracked with a court order, a high official conceded more than a year ago that such systems were considered "costly and less efficient" by overseas users. [News.com]
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- Oki a victim of memory price drop - Oki Electric, one of Japan's top manufacturers of microchips and communications products, said that it will move away from memory chip production, more evidence that the plunge in memory prices is taking its toll on major chip producers. [News.com]
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- Olympus megapixel camera due - Olympus will slash prices on existing digital camera models in concert with the April release of a new, higher-resolution product. [News.com]
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- Online stores displace workers - Step aside, people, and make way for technology. [News.com]
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- Online stores wrapping software - Four major online software stores say they will use Preview Software's new vBox "wrapper" technology, which lets potential buyers use software packages on a trial basis before deciding to buy them. [News.com]
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- Open Market seeks partners - A key Open Market (OMKT) executive is signaling that the Internet commerce software vendor wants to use its three new software patents to forge new ties with partners, not just to exact licensing fees. [News.com]
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- Open Market wins patents - In a bombshell move, e-commerce software vendor Open Market (OMKT) said today that it has won three wide-ranging patents for its technology for conducting commerce over the Internet. [News.com]
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- Oracle automates admin tools - Citing the growing need within big companies to maintain increasingly complex systems, Oracle (ORCL) tomorrow will unveil a set of three new tools for automating database and systems management. [News.com]
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- Oracle places NC hopes in Japan - Oracle (ORCL) will soon launch a campaign to extend its Network Computer (NC) in Japan, after failing to build momentum in the U.S. market. [News.com]
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- Oracle pumps in Java abilities - Oracle (ORCL) is finally readying long-promised technology to make its client, middleware, and server software fully Java aware. [News.com]
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- Oracle results won't surprise Street - Oracle (ORCL) chief operating officer Ray Lane said today that he does not expect the U.S. database software group to surprise Wall Street analysts with its third-quarter results due next Thursday. [News.com]
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- Oracle revamps apps unit - Oracle (ORCL) said today that it is reorganizing its applications division in an attempt to boost sales at the slumping unit. [News.com]
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- Oracle targets Web-based building - Oracle (ORCL) today unveiled key pieces of technology for building Web-based e-commerce and other business applications. [News.com]
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- Oracle to sell set-tops in Japan - Oracle (ORCL) will begin promoting Internet set-top boxes in Japan, a move that's seemingly related to promotion of its Network Computer (NC) device but also one that gets the company into a tepid market. [News.com]
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- Oracle to ship suite upgrade early - Oracle (ORCL) will be shipping the next version of its enterprise applications suite with enhanced Web tools, multilingual features, and added supply-chain and front office capabilities ahead of schedule, a company source said today. [News.com]
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- Oracle up, leads Nasdaq trading - Oracle (ORCL) shares topped the Nasdaq market's list of most actively traded issues today as it climbed as high as 12 percent a day after reporting earnings that took Wall Street by surprise. [News.com]
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- Oracle upgraded, set to rebound - While Microsoft (MSFT), the world's largest software company, was testifying under the Senate committee's heat lamp today, Oracle (ORCL), its big competitor, was under the spotlight. [News.com]
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- Oracle upgrades business suite - Oracle (ORCL) today debuted a number of enhancements to its business application software suite. [News.com]
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- Oscars buzz on the Net - As the world tunes in to Hollywood's annual parade of stars, drama, and fashion, a collection of Internet sites devoted to the Oscars is providing an interactive alternative to the televised event. [News.com]
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- Ottoman archives coming to Net - Six hundred years of Ottoman history--currently difficult to access--soon may be available on the Internet, Turkish officials said today. [News.com]
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- Outage ends at Egghead site - The Egghead.com (EGGS) Web site has finally come to life after a two-day outage that hit the company just as it closed the last of its stores this weekend to move all its sales online. [News.com]
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- Outlook download free for 90 days - In an effort to tap into the user pools of Eudora Pro, Netscape Messenger, and Lotus cc:Mail, Microsoft will offer its Outlook messaging and collaboration for free download off its Web page for three months, the company said. [News.com]
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- Pacific exchanges lead Y2K fight - Stock exchanges are leading the campaign to inoculate Asia against the millennium bug. [News.com]
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- Panel: Networks getting crowded - The invasion of "silicon cockroaches" is threatening to overwhelm our computer networks, an executive said at a lively Internet World panel discussion here today. [News.com]
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- Panel: XML is no panacea - Conventional wisdom holds that the Web is a chaotic mess and that eXtensible markup language--XML--has come to save the day, but a group discussion at Internet World today added a dose of reality about the technology's limits. [News.com]
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- Papers expand Net classifieds - Silicon Valley's main daily newspaper, online pioneer the San Jose Mercury News, along with Bay Area newspaper chain the Contra Costa Newspapers, today launched sites for home and car buyers, trying to leverage their hold on the classified advertising market. [News.com]
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- Patent information goes online - A company that for years has been providing information about patents worldwide is moving to the Web with the help of Microsoft, the firm will announce today. [News.com]
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- PC Connection IPO soars - Shares of PC Connection, one of the first direct sellers of PCs and software, jumped more than 20 percent after its initial public offering today. [News.com]
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- PC sales growth to fall off in '98 - Despite the financial turmoil facing Compaq and other vendors who are having trouble managing inventory levels as sales slow, International Data Corporation (IDC) is forecasting 13 percent growth for the PC industry as a whole in 1998. [News.com]
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- PC use jumps at small firms - Lured by low-price systems and the growing importance of the Internet, small businesses are increasingly jumping on the PC technology bandwagon. [News.com]
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- PCs in almost half of homes - Personal computers found their way into more households than ever before in 1997, reaching 45 percent of U.S. homes, according to the preliminary findings of a market research survey. [News.com]
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- Pen maker Cross goes digital - The Cross Pen Computing Group said it has begun shipping a portable notepad that uses IBM software to capture handwriting, for transfer from a notepad onto a PC. [News.com]
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- Pentium II notebook glut feared - When Intel announces the first Pentium II processors for mobile PCs next week it will trigger a flood of notebooks from the likes of Gateway 2000 and Dell Computer. [News.com]
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- Pentium II notebooks due April 2 - Notebooks will finally incorporate Intel technology introduced more than two years ago when the chip giant unveils its first Pentium II processors for portables on April 2, according to major PC vendors and other sources. [News.com]
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- Pentium II set-top under $400? - From Intel's perspective, it's better late than never. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft courts foreign markets - PeopleSoft (PSFT) is courting the global business market. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft upgrades to 7.5 - PeopleSoft's newest version of its business applications suite will add expanded financial and global manufacturing and distribution capabilities, including additional support for European and Economic Monetary Union currency. [News.com]
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- Phone companies' new calling - Cutting-edge technologies such as Internet and computer telephony--perhaps more than deregulation--are proving to be key catalysts in creating "new" telephone companies that are doing battle with the likes of AT&T (T), MCI Communications (MCIC), and Sprint (FON). [News.com]
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- Pioneer unveils recordable DVD - Pioneer has announced a recordable DVD (digital versatile disc) drive, the first company to do so. [News.com]
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- Pixar pegs profitability on film - Pixar Animation Studios (PIXR), which struck gold with its first movie, Toy Story, will be back in the black when its feature A Bug's Life hits theaters in the fall, according to CFO Lawrence Levy. [News.com]
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- Playboy site gets new leader - Playboy Enterprises will announce the appointment of Buford Smith tomorrow as president of its new media group, created in January. [News.com]
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- Playboy sues model over site - Like many celebrities, Playboy magazine's 1981 Playmate of the Year, Terri Welles, is still cashing in on her 15 minutes of fame. [News.com]
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- PointCast updates push - PointCast today announced the key components of upgrades to its software, which "pushes" information to users' desktops. The upgrades range from supporting multicasting to reducing bandwidth clogs and further personalization of the service. [News.com]
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- Police nab Net pedophiles - More than 60 suspected pedophiles, most living in Scandinavia, have been arrested by U.S. police who lured them by posing as children on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Polls, lists rank Microsoft No. 1 - Microsoft today zipped past Intel to become the "best performing company" financially, according to a ranking by Business Week, while American icons Nike and Coca-Cola slipped down the list. [News.com]
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- Porn site protest backfires - A California man was so appalled by the bogus sexual images of the First Family on the pornographic Whitehouse.com site that until Wednesday, he pointed about 400 Net addresses to the site, leading some unassuming surfers to nudity instead of content one would expect to find at "Billofrights.com" or "GarthBrooks.org." [News.com]
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- Postal Service OKs e-stamps - The Postal Service cemented its place in the Internet age today with the unveiling of the first electronic stamps. [News.com]
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- PowerAgent suit claims sabotage - Internet marketing start-up PowerAgent is suing systems integration giant Electronic Data Systems for $3.5 billion in damages, alleging fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and other claims. [News.com]
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- Pressure's on for Net privacy - Time is running out for privacy self-regulation on the Internet if private-sector efforts don't show results soon, a key privacy advocate warned at Internet World. [News.com]
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- Price cuts precede new PalmPilot - 3Com (COMS) cut prices on its popular PalmPilot line of personal information devices by up to 20 percent today, a move that precedes next week's introduction of a brand-new PalmPilot and comes at the same time as lawsuits against would-be competitors in the handheld market. [News.com]
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- Prodigy turns new Net leaf - Prodigy Internet today took aim once again at America Online with a price cut that works out to $15.75 per month for a year-long subscription. [News.com]
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- Psion blames woes on Microsoft - Psion, a small British palmtop computer company, today blamed rival Microsoft for sowing consumer confusion and triggering a slowdown in growth even as it watched its volatile shares dive by one-fifth. [News.com]
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- Pushing e-commerce standards - Concerned that business-to-business Internet commerce is evolving in ways that may prove incompatible, major players in computer hardware, software, distribution, and electronic payments are forming an ambitious new organization to push for global e-commerce standards. [News.com]
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- Quantum hit by storage glut - In another disappointing financial forecast, Quantum (QNTM) said yesterday that its earnings for the fourth fiscal quarter will be lower than expected. [News.com]
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- Quarterdeck drops after warning - Shares of Quarterdeck (QDEK), a struggling maker of self-help and diagnostic tools for personal computers, fell more than 17 percent today after the company warned that it would post significantly lower revenues than it did in the previous quarter. [News.com]
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- QuickTime creation for Windows - Apple Computer (AAPL) finally released the oft-delayed update for its QuickTime multimedia software, which allows QuickTime multimedia content creation on Windows computers for the first time. [News.com]
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- Qwest to buy LCI International - Qwest Communications (QWST) has agreed to buy LCI International (LCI) in a $4.4 billion stock deal, creating the No. 4 long-distance phone company in the United States. [News.com]
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- Recordable DVD market muddied - In a move that could slow development of the market for recordable DVD drives, Sony, Philips, Hewlett-Packard, and several other companies are demonstrating a storage technology at the CeBIT '98 trade show that will rival other products about to reach consumers. [News.com]
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- Regulators eye Microsoft-JVM deal - Antitrust regulators, who have been scrutinizing Microsoft's (MSFT) every move for months, are likely to take a keen interest in the software giant's decision to license a Java Virtual Machine from Hewlett-Packard (HWP), according to some legal experts. [News.com]
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- Regulators wary of online banking - A group of international regulators warned financial institutions today to improve the security of electronic retail banking or face potentially expensive consequences. [News.com]
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- Remanufactured PCs drop to $299 - Recompute has dropped prices on remanufactured personal computers, another twist on the low-cost PC phenomenon that allows businesses to purchase Pentium boxes for as low as $299. [News.com]
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- Report: Celeron chip behind rivals - A new, much-anticipated chip developed by Intel (INTC) aimed at the sub-$1,000 PC market is not as fast running applications as its clone competitors, according to tests performed by computer magazine PC World. [News.com]
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- Report: Email alone not enough - Even though it has become a necessary and critical part of business communications, email is no longer sufficient for many users, according to a new report. [News.com]
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- Republicans split on Microsoft - Microsoft has caused rifts in the cutthroat technology industry for years, but now its competitive practices are dividing a more tightly knit institution: congressional Republicans. [News.com]
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- Reseller lists sub-$700 MMX PC - Ohio-based MidWest Micro (GML), a major computer reseller, is now offering 200-MHz Pentium MMX systems for under $700. [News.com]
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- Revamped Deja News seeks deals - In the past few years, the Web's explosive growth has eclipsed almost everything else on the Internet. So when the technical minds behind Deja News looked for ways to improve their service for searching Usenet, the Internet-based network of online discussion groups called "newsgroups," they looked to the Web. [News.com]
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- Reviving Bay pays off for House - Bay Networks (BAY) chief executive David House--lured from Intel in late 1996 to turn around the computer networking giant--took home $1.3 million in salary and bonus for the past fiscal year, and he was granted stock options valued at $2 million, according to the company's annual proxy statement. [News.com]
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- RISC setting standards for set-top boxes - Although RISC (reduced instruction set computing) processors have been losing ground to Intel-based chips in desktop computers, the platform is emerging as the clear trendsetter in the TV set-top box market. [News.com]
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- Riverdance, step aside for the Net - Go ahead and get your Irish up--up on the Web, that is. [News.com]
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- Rockwell down on Q2 warning - Rockwell International's (ROK) stock dropped 10 percent in trading today after it warned that second-quarter earnings would be about 25 percent below what was recorded for the same period last year. [News.com]
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- Rockwell modems cited as slow - A performance gap separates the leading 56-kbps modem technologies, and despite the recent adoption of a 56-kbps standard, elements of these proprietary technologies are likely to creep into future modems, according to a new report. [News.com]
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- Rockwell to develop for DSL - In an effort to shore up its own efforts to develop chips for high-speed digital subscriber line (DSL) modems, Rockwell (ROK) has licensed technology from PairGain (PAIR) and will work with the company to develop new DSL chips. [News.com]
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- Russian reformer posts Web site - Reformer Boris Nemtsov has become the first Russian government official to launch a personal Internet site, allowing Web surfers to read about the deputy prime minister and ask him questions. [News.com]
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- Safety, security, Y2K fix in one - Network Associates (NETA) has launched Nuts & Bolts Deluxe, desktop software that can, among other things, correct Year 2000 problems in PC hardware. [News.com]
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- SAP enters network computing - German software giant SAP (SAPHY) plans to use this week's CeBit Trade Fair to highlight software designed to run on new types of computers that are less expensive than standard PCs. [News.com]
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- SAP plugs strategy, products - Attendees at SAP's Next Generation ERP conference held in San Francisco this week got a broad look at a number of products and the German software giant's latest plans for the upcoming release of its enterprise applications package. [News.com]
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- SAP rolls out sales software - Taking its first major step into the front office, SAP today rolled out its sales force automation suite to integrate with its flagship enterprise applications product R/3. [News.com]
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- SAP: Intel venture OK, not great - SAP (SAPHY) said at the CeBIT trade fair that it was not completely satisfied so far with the electronic commerce venture it launched last year with Intel. [News.com]
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- SCO enters enterprise market - Santa Cruz Operation (SCOC) unveiled a new version of its UnixWare operating system that is designed to appeal to buyers of powerful server computers for midsized businesses. [News.com]
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- Scotland pushes "Silicon Glen" - It may not be Silicon Valley, but Scotland is trying to lure companies at the cutting edge of new technology to what it calls "Silicon Glen." [News.com]
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- Search and Internet stocks soar - It has been quite a run for search engine and Internet stocks. [News.com]
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- SEC backs stock repricings - A recent decision by the Securities and Exchange Commission that rejects shareholders' ability to challenge companies repricing employee stock options is raising the ire of investors groups. [News.com]
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- SEC charges firms with fraud - The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint in federal court alleging securities fraud by software start-up Nichi Capital and Wise Choice Discount Brokerage, the SEC's Northeast Regional office said. [News.com]
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- SEC's Y2K report not complete - The Securities and Exchange Commission's progress reports, which detail how securities markets are preparing their computers for the next century, were incomplete, the General Accounting Office said in a study. [News.com]
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- Secure moves on with firewalls - With new firewall software and a clear product road map, Secure Computing (SCUR) wants to put a difficult 1997 behind it and get on with the future. [News.com]
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- Security hole found in Net gear - New software holes could expose networking equipment from Ascend Communications (ASND) to malicious attacks, including possible crashes and password interceptions, according to a network security firm. [News.com]
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- Security top fear in Net survey - Netizens are more concerned about online privacy and credit card security than they are about pornographic or violent images online, according to a study released today by Net search company Lycos. [News.com]
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- Sega may reorganize video units - Japanese game giant Sega Enterprises (SEGNY) said today that it may reorganize three home game machine affiliates in the United States in a bid to rebuild its overseas operations. [News.com]
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- Seoul protests dumping decision - Seoul has asked Washington to follow a fair and transparent legal procedure when making the final decision on dumping charges against South Korean memory chipmakers, local papers reported today. [News.com]
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- Serving up Java support - A growing crowd of software vendors will detail plans for server-side Java support at next week's JavaOne conference. [News.com]
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- Set-top box deal for U.K. - Network Computer (NCI) said today that Cable & Wireless, one of the United Kingdom's largest telecommunications and television service providers, inked a deal to use NCI's technology in advanced television set-top boxes that will offer Internet access, email, and other enhanced services to customers. [News.com]
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- Set-top box relies on Windows CE - Toronto, Canada-based ATI Technologies today joined the raft of vendors offering Internet set-top box designs, but it hopes to stand out with one of the first devices to feature the Windows CE operating system, as well as DVD and 3D playback capabilities. [News.com]
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- Set-tops closer to PCs, without Intel - General Instrument, the largest manufacturer of TV set-top boxes, has chosen a MIPS processor for its next-generation set-top box, a device that will include many features similar to a personal computer. [News.com]
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- SGI expects significant loss - In another disappointment, Silicon Graphics (SGI) said today that its earnings and revenue for the quarter ending March 30 will be "significantly below" expectations. [News.com]
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- SGI, Oracle in bundling deal - Oracle enterprise software will soon be bundled with selected Silicon Graphics (SGI) servers, the companies announced today. [News.com]
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- Shampoo ruling to affect high tech - In a ruling that is likely to have broad repercussions for the electronics industry, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that companies may not rely on copyright law to prevent their overseas goods from being imported into the United States and distributed by other firms. [News.com]
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- Sharp touts panel technology - By the end of the year, Japanese electronics maker Sharp plans to launch a high-definition, 60-inch projection TV using its new continuous grain silicon (CGS) technology, a technology that could pave the way for integrating system electronics on to a flat panel screen. [News.com]
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- Shiva offers VPN suite - Shiva (SHVA) is betting on the growing need to reduce costs via the use of low-priced secure remote connection technology. [News.com]
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- Shopping.com shares nose-dive - Shares in Shopping.com (IBUY) plunged more than 30 percent today, marking another roller coaster day for an Internet stock. [News.com]
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- Shopping.com trading halted - Citing potentially "manipulative conduct," the Securities and Exchange Commission today temporarily suspended over-the-counter trading of shares in electronic commerce company Shopping.com (IBUY). [News.com]
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- Site debuts email for children - Email has been called the "killer app" of the Internet, and children are known all over the media as the "Net generation." Put it together, and the logical outcome is email for children. [News.com]
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- Sites network to share revenue - Affiliate networks, which let Web sites get a piece of the revenue when their customers buy at another Internet storefront, are getting new attention this week with upgraded software and service offerings from two providers. [News.com]
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- Slate releases reader tally - Microsoft's online magazine Slate today announced that it will have 10,000 paid subscribers by week's end, taking it halfway to its initial goal of 20,000 subscribers in the first few months. [News.com]
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- Slim hard drive biggest yet - IBM (IBM) will soon release a slim hard drive for notebook computers that holds three times as much information as standard notebook hard drives, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Small firm ahead in DVD-RAM race - Hi-Val, a Southern California multimedia company, will beat industry giants like Hitachi and Toshiba to the punch today with plans to ship the first DVD-RAM upgrade kit in the United States. [News.com]
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- Software firm targets marketing departments - A start-up company called MarketFirst tomorrow expects to announce what it calls the first enterprise software for conducting and coordinating corporate marketing campaigns. [News.com]
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- Software for Web photo sales - PhotoDisc will begin using Hewlett-Packard's OpenPix imaging server software on its PowerPics Web site, the two companies announced today. [News.com]
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- Software protects off-limits data - Start-up Centrax is jumping into the security market for intrusion detection software to monitor, and eventually to repel, efforts by both internal and external users trying to view data they are not authorized to see. [News.com]
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- Software saves hard drive space - Computer helpware manufacturer Quarterdeck released Remove-it 98, hard-drive clean-up software for inexperienced PC users. [News.com]
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- Software tools maker sues Lotus - Software tools maker Verity today filed suit against Lotus Development on a number of allegations, including copyright infringement and unfair competition practices. [News.com]
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- Software.net aims for dual IPOs - It's two IPOs in one. [News.com]
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- Solution in hand? - The market for personal information devices, small tools that use handwriting recognition for storing phone numbers, appointments, and similar data, is expected to reach 6 million units this year. 3Com will try to try to extend its lead with a new PalmPilot next week, but the coming of Microsoft's Palm PC operating system (accompanied by palmtops from Philips, Casio, and others) is already causing commotion. In the meantime, Apple recently exited the market, drawing howls of protest. [News.com]
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- Sony focuses on Net game shows - Drawing on its electronics and entertainment expertise, Sony (SNE) will announce today the formation of a new U.S. unit focused solely on Internet entertainment projects, company executives said. [News.com]
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- Sony introduces fastest DVD drive - Sony Electronics announced a new DVD (digital versatile disc) kit featuring the fastest DVD drive on the market. [News.com]
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- Sony says yes to Java - To top off its third Java developers conference here, Sun Microsystems (SUNW) announced today that it has struck a Java licensing deal with Sony. [News.com]
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- SPA members take orders online - Drawn by the appeal of selling over the Internet, a sizable chunk of software publishers are embracing electronic software distribution (ESD), but so far they're not convinced it's cheaper than going through physical distribution channels. [News.com]
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- Spam king retreats - One-time spam king Sanford Wallace is being charged $2 million to settle the last outstanding lawsuit against his company, Cyber Promotions, once a junk emailing powerhouse. [News.com]
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- Spec to animate Web pages - A new Internet specification, winding its way though a standards body, could pave the way for Web pages that rival good old client-server systems for user-friendliness and interactivity, panelists at an Internet World panel said this week. [News.com]
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- Speech software is encyclopedic - IBM (IBM) introduced an interactive encyclopedia that allows users to look up information using voice commands. [News.com]
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- SportsLine seeks more funding - Four months after its initial public offering, SportsLine USA (SPLN) bellied up to the offering plate for a second helping of funds. [News.com]
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- Sprint customers suffer outage - Some of Sprint's corporate customers went offline for hours yesterday after a software upgrade went awry. [News.com]
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- Spyglass trims staff - Spyglass (SPYG) has cut less than 10 percent of its staff--about 10 to 15 workers--as part of a corporate reorganization announced on February 25, an executive confirmed today. [News.com]
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- Sri Lanka gets Microsoft's attention - Microsoft is hoping to improve computer literacy in this country, where it has set up an advanced technology lab, a company executive said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Start-up takes on streaming video - In the age of streaming video, a Southern California company is betting that corporations want their desktops to act more like multimedia systems and less like television sets, spitting out video data that cannot be altered. [News.com]
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- Start-up updates application server - SilverStream, a start-up focusing on Java-based tools and middleware, has released version 1.5 of its namesake application server. [News.com]
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- State appeals Net sex ruling - Virginia is appealing last week's federal court decision striking down its two-year-old law that prohibited state employees from using the Net to view sexually explicit material. [News.com]
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- State bill punishes ISP outages - Consumers who are hit with Net outages in Illinois could demand refunds from nationwide Internet service providers if a proposed state law is passed. [News.com]
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- State considers antispam bills - Just about every regular Net user has received some form of spam, whether it was a link to a porn site or a guarantee to get millions of visitors to a Web site. Most dislike it--but for now, one of the only solutions is the "Delete" key. [News.com]
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- State passes Net decency law - New Mexico made it illegal to send adult-oriented material to minors over the Net today, despite a Supreme Court ruling that overturned a similar federal law last summer. [News.com]
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- State, travel agents feud over Net site - California travel agents fear the Web may take away business, especially if the state backs a site that books hotel reservations online. [News.com]
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- States to aid MCI-WorldCom probe - State attorneys general today argued that the proposed merger between WorldCom (WCOM) and MCI (MCIC) could have the potential to exert "market dominance over the Internet," and offered to help in the U.S. Department of Justice's ongoing investigation of the proposed deal. [News.com]
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- Stratus to hook routers to phones - Reliable-systems specialist Stratus Computer (SRA) has joined with the giants of networking to eventually bring advanced services to Net-based multimedia networks. [News.com]
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- Students rank tech employers - Where do you want to go if you're a graduating computer science or engineering student? To Microsoft, as well as Sun Microsystems, Intel, Lucent, Raytheon Systems, or IBM, at least according to one new survey. [News.com]
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- Study: Loans moving to the Net - In the next century, more than one-third of people trying to get car and home loans will turn to the Net first, predicts a study released today by market research firm Killen & Associates. [News.com]
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- Study: Net shopping doubled in '97 - Online purchases in the United States doubled in 1997, according to a new study. [News.com]
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- Study: Net use eclipsing TV - Web users are now spending as much time on the Internet as they are watching television--if not more, a new study says. [News.com]
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- Study: Y2K already a problem - There may be more than 640 days left until the new millennium, but many companies already are starting to experience glitches related to the Year 2000 issue in their computer systems, a new survey says. [News.com]
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- Sub-$1,000 PCs adding options - MidWest Micro unveiled two sub-$1,000 systems aimed at consumers searching for low-cost yet upgradable computers. [News.com]
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- Sub-$800 corporate PCs in pipe - Despite hopes and predictions that low-price fever would not hit the corporate market, inexpensive machines appear to be finding their way into the business world, and Compaq and IBM are leading the way. [News.com]
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- Sun explores Microsoft suit - Sun Microsystems said today it was exploring the possibility of a civil antitrust claim against software giant Microsoft (MSFT), but Netscape Communications said it could not afford to take such action. [News.com]
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- Sun faces Java strategy challenges - As Sun Microsystems (SUNW) enjoys the buzz from its third JavaOne conference here, developers and analysts are asking hard questions about the evolution of the little programming language that could--specifically, whether Sun can continue its momentum while wearing so many hats. [News.com]
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- Sun JavaStation ships, quietly - At the JavaOne conference today, Sun Microsystems announced the commercial availability of its JavaStation network computer (NC) in subdued, almost muted tones. [News.com]
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- Sun kicks off JavaOne - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) started this week's JavaOne conference off with a bang today. [News.com]
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- Sun maps new Java security - Sun Microsystems plans to introduce a new Java security model this year intended to make the programming language more flexible--but still secure--for business applications. [News.com]
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- Sun questioned in MS probe - As part of its ongoing investigation of Microsoft, the Justice Department and a number of states are turning their attention to the software giant's relationship with Sun Microsystems, creator of the Java programming language. [News.com]
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- Sun sees upside in stock drop - The sun actually may be rising instead of setting for Sun Microsystems (SUNW), despite the downside the company has seen of late. [News.com]
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- Sun slams Microsoft over Java - Calling new Java tools from Microsoft a way "to proprietize yet another phenomenal opportunity for the Windows platform," Sun Microsystems' new chief operating officer today accused the software giant of being high-handed with developers and corporate users. [News.com]
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- Sun sticking to Java software - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) may be pushing its Java software as the best way to run gadgets and gizmos, but its executives insist they won't be making the devices themselves. [News.com]
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- Sun taking on 3D in Java - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) is adding a third dimension to its Java platform. [News.com]
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- Sun waits on Russian crypto - Sun Microsystems' (SUNW) plans to market encryption software created in Russia remain on hold because the company still doesn't have approval from the Commerce Department , which has been looking into the matter for nine months, a Sun spokesman confirmed today. [News.com]
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- Sun wins Java round in court - In a major win for Sun Microsystems (SUNW), a federal judge today ordered Microsoft (MSFT) to remove the Java-compatible logo from its products pending a final outcome in the case, representatives from both companies said. [News.com]
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- Sun, IBM to combine on Java software - IBM and Sun Microsystems tomorrow will detail a Java-based operating system for corporate network computers, software that the two companies hope will spark interest in their NC plans. [News.com]
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- Sun, Netscape fire back at Gates - Netscape Communications (NSCP) and Sun Microsystems (SUNW) took aim at Microsoft (MSFT) today as the high-tech industry prepared for tomorrow's congressional hearing on competition in the computer industry. [News.com]
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- Surfing speeds improve - The speed of Internet downloads improved 60 percent from the year before, in spite of a number of network outages that occurred this February, according to Keynote Systems, an Internet performance data service. [News.com]
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- Survey says tech crime rising - Computer crime is booming and few people are protecting themselves sufficiently against assaults ranging from stolen laptops to high-tech Internet heists worth millions, a watchdog group said today. [News.com]
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- Survey: Banks moving to Net - Banks offering online services are switching from direct dial-up access to the Internet, according to a new survey by research firm Mentis Corporation. [News.com]
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- Swiss comply with IBM bribe probe - Switzerland today handed over bank documents to Argentinean authorities investigating allegations that IBM (IBM) paid bribes to win a large contract there, officials said. [News.com]
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- Sybase brews Java plans - Sybase (SYBS) isn't planning to miss the Java train. [News.com]
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- Sybase sees growth after changes - U.S. database software company Sybase (SYBS) expects slow software market conditions over the next two years, mainly due to the millennium bug and Asia's financial crisis, chief executive Mitchell Kertzman said today. [News.com]
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- Taiwan Semicon sees sales spike - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company said its February sales rocketed an annual rate of 132.4 percent to T$5.284 billion ($163 million), reflecting its growing capacity. [News.com]
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- TCI envisions subscriber growth - Tele-Communications Inc. (TCICP) president Leo Hindery said today that the cable television provider expects to show at least 2 percent to 2.5 percent subscriber growth by the end of 1998. [News.com]
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- Teaming for data networks - Lucent Technologies (LU) will be the supplier and integrator for a planned wireless data network by Advanced Radio Telecom (ART) (ARTT) in a deal valued at up to $200 million, the companies announced today. [News.com]
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- Tech stocks defy market logic - A slew of high-tech companies have suffered earnings warnings and steep shortfalls of late, but some Wall Street analysts are seeing beyond the downturn and remain bullish on their stocks. [News.com]
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- Tech stocks rebound - Technology stocks bounced higher early today, rallying from yesterday's sharp sell-off as the sector was lifted by job market data showing continued strength in the U.S. economy. [News.com]
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- Tel-Save looks to Net for profits - Add Tel-Save Holdings (TALK) to the list of bold, next-generation telecommunications companies hoping to make a killing off of the Net. [News.com]
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- Telcos cash in on AOL hike - Taking a jab at America Online, MCI Internet today launched a promotional blitz for its $14.95 per month unlimited Net access plan. [News.com]
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- Terminal makers open Windows - Hardware vendors are lining up small desktops and back-end servers to coincide with the release of Microsoft's Windows for terminal computers, even as customer interest in Network Computers based around Java appears to be fading. [News.com]
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- The legacy of Andy Grove - During his 11-year tenure as chief executive, Andy Grove built Intel (INTC) into the world's largest chipmaker, generated huge returns for stockholders, and became an international industry statesman. [News.com]
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- The pursuit of industry online - A year after former Lotus chief Jim Manzi's Nets Incorporated sputtered and crashed, new efforts to tap the huge market for industrial products are emerging. [News.com]
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- The race to add intrusion detection - Security Dynamics Technologies (SDTI) has acquired Intrusion Detection, in the latest in a series of similar acquisitions by security software companies. [News.com]
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- Thin-client servers to beta - Much-anticipated server software from Microsoft (MSFT) and Citrix Systems (CTXS) soon will move another step toward release. [News.com]
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- TI bails on memory chip plant - Texas Instruments (TXN) is selling off its stake in a Taiwanese memory chip facility to Acer as part of an effort to reduce the company's exposure to the wildly gyrating memory chip market. [News.com]
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- Times Mirror buys InterZine - Times Mirror's (TMC) magazine division said today that it has purchased Internet media and marketing company InterZine Productions for an undisclosed price. [News.com]
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- Tonga domain to be spam-free - His Royal Highness Crown Prince Tupouto'a of Tonga does not like spam. [News.com]
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- Tool filters Net's bells, whistles - For those who hate the Web's bells and whistles, a new product lets users cut ads and multimedia out of their Net diets. [News.com]
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- Tool maps software schedule - CenterLine Software is attempting to shed light on the process of building and delivering software. [News.com]
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- Top Yahoos cash in $23.9 million - Yahoo (YHOO) top executives cashed in more than $23.9 million in company stock during 1997. [News.com]
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- Toshiba fights Compaq onslaught - Notebook PC leader Toshiba finally appears to be staving off the onslaught from Compaq and IBM, according to the most recent round of market share reports. [News.com]
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- Toshiba notebook under $1,000 - Toshiba is now shipping a raft of inexpensive notebooks, with one falling below $1,000, after it cut prices across the board. [News.com]
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- Toshiba struggling in U.S. market - Toshiba may face a bleak future in the American market as the laptop PC leader moves into other segments already crowded by large U.S. vendors. [News.com]
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- Toshiba unveils new business line - Toshiba today introduced the Equium 7000 line, space-saving corporate PCs that will be one of the first to use recordable DVD drives. [News.com]
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- Toshiba upgrades mini-notebook - In Asia, Toshiba released a new Libretto model which features a wider screen than previous versions of the mini-notebook. [News.com]
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- Toshiba upgrades mini-notebook - Following the release of the product in Asia and Europe, Toshiba released a new Libretto model which features a wider screen than previous versions of the mini-notebook. [News.com]
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- TotalNews tries real-time banners - Online news operations now have an obvious way to advertise--let their headlines do the talking. [News.com]
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- Tough road ahead for GeoCities - GeoCities is locked in a virtual version of urban warfare. [News.com]
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- Tough Y2K warning for U.K. banks - The United Kingdom's Financial Services Authority, the country's chief financial regulatory body, has warned banks and investment houses that it will shut them down or block them from taking any new business if it feels they are not prepared to survive the Year 2000 problem. [News.com]
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- Treasury may not be Y2K ready - Just weeks before the Office of Management and Budget releases its latest report on the federal government's progress on Year 2000 preparedness, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin yesterday warned a House subcommittee his department may not be able to fix its computers before the end of the millennium. [News.com]
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- Trellix tool bundles HTML files - Trellix today announced that a beta version of its Trelligram utility, a Web content distribution tool, is available for download from its Web site. [News.com]
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- Two more fax services debut - AT&T (T) and Internet service provider GTE Internetworking introduced new Internet-based facsimile services today. [News.com]
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- U.K. users don't trust e-commerce - Potential consumers in the United Kingdom apparently prefer the comfort of face-to-face transactions to an interface. [News.com]
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- U.S to bar Lockheed-Northrop deal - The United States filed a suit in Federal District Court today to block the proposed $9 billion acquisition of Northrop Grumman (NOC) by Lockheed Martin (LMT), saying it would affect "critical" defense functions. [News.com]
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- U.S. Census 2000 won't use Net - It would have been fitting for the United States to collect census data via the Net in the year 2000. But it's not going to happen. [News.com]
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- U.S. government slow on Y2K - The U.S. government's progress in preparing critical computers to cope with the year 2000 was given a "D-minus" grade today by the chairman of a congressional panel monitoring the problem. [News.com]
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- U.S. may block Murdoch-MCI deal - U.S. antitrust regulators are preparing to block the $1.1 billion sale of a key television satellite slot from Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and MCI Communications (MCIC) to a group of cable operators, the Washington Post reported today. [News.com]
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- Ultrasmall Iomega drive due - Addonics Technology has developed a pocket-sized Zip drive for notebook computers that holds up to 100MB of data. [News.com]
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- Ultrasmall storage device debuts - Ioptics introduced a new storage technology today designed for use in handheld and portable computers. [News.com]
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- Umax clone works around Jobs - Umax Computer has adopted Apple Computer's "think different" credo. [News.com]
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- Umax says sales jump 50% - Taiwanese computer and image scanner maker Umax Data Systems said its February sales jumped 50.8 percent to T$1.314 billion ($40.7 million) from T$871 million ($26.9 million) in February 1997. [News.com]
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- Unifying Windows, Mac Java apps - Microsoft (MSFT) unveiled an updated Java development tool and disclosed plans today for unifying Java applications on Windows and Macintosh systems. [News.com]
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- Uphill battle seen for Java NCs - Though shipments of "thin-client" computers will double in 1998 due in part to increased visibility from a new breed of Windows-based terminals, a new report from Zona Research says Java-only devices will continue to face ambivalence from corporate buyers. [News.com]
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- UPI, Microsoft team on Web media - United Press International and Microsoft today struck a business alliance to test media products for delivery on the Internet. [News.com]
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- UPS plans Net deliveries - UPS, the world's largest package distribution company, is pushing into online document delivery, hoping to make inroads into the overnight letter market dominated by Federal Express. [News.com]
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- Used PC market surging - The supply of used PCs is expected to grow from 5.5 million in 1997 to 9.86 million in 2002, according to a new report. [News.com]
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- Virginia library battle rages - Free speech advocates in Virginia today are trying to halt passage of a law that would force public libraries to install filtering programs on all computers with Net access. [News.com]
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- Virginia rejects Net filter mandate - Virginia lawmakers have rejected a proposal to mandate Net filtering at public libraries statewide. [News.com]
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- Visa pushes banks to get smart - Card giant Visa has launched an initiative to get banks to upgrade their plastic, magnetic stripe cards to smart cards, predicting that by the year 2002 one-third of all Visa cards will have a chip on them. [News.com]
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- Vobis sees "difficult" year ahead - German PC maker Vobis Microcomputer AG said today that it expects 1998 to be "a difficult year" despite its forecast for a surge in sales and its announcement of new partnership with IBM (IBM). [News.com]
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- Voice-over-IP to skyrocket - Voice communications over the Net is for real, according to market researcher International Data Corporation. [News.com]
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- VRML spec to drive 3D on Net - The VRML Consortium today laid out a road map for VRML specification designed to drive continued growth of 3D on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Wang, Olivetti in services deal - Wang (WANG) announced plans to purchase Olsy, a subsidiary of Italian computer maker Olivetti , in a deal worth $390 million. [News.com]
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- Washington state joins spam war - Washington Governor Gary Locke this evening signed an antispam bill that foes of junk email say will give them an important weapon in their battle against spam. [News.com]
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- Web graphics to see Fireworks - Macromedia introduced low-cost software designed to unify the production environment for creating and optimizing graphics for the Web. [News.com]
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- WebTV Plus raises rates $5 - WebTV Networks today became the latest access provider to raise its monthly rates. [News.com]
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- Welsh memory plant may be delayed - South Korea's LG Semicon today said the opening of its 1.3 billion pound ($2.2 billion) memory plant in South Wales could be delayed, but that a final decision has not yet been made. [News.com]
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- What's behind AOL outages? - When an electrical malfunction this week put America Online (AOL) on the fritz for the second time in a month, some users and analysts began wondering if the online service had fallen victim to an extraordinary coincidence--or if the company is inadequately prepared for unforeseen problems. [News.com]
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- White House plans privacy confab - The Clinton administration plans to hold a conference exploring Internet privacy issues in May, officials said today. [News.com]
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- Whither Compaq networking? - When Compaq Computer (CPQ) spent hundreds of millions of dollars on two networking firms in 1995, most observers saw the moves as clear indicators that the PC giant sought to gain a significant chunk of the fast-growing market to interconnect computers. [News.com]
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- Will developers skip Windows 98? - As the June launch date of Windows 98 approaches, many independent software companies do not appear anxious to offer upgrades, a sharp contrast to the marketing hype and developer push that accompanied the release of Windows 95. [News.com]
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- Will honeymoon last for NSI? - Network Solutions, the Internet domain name registrar, is a company that many Netizens love to hate. They have complained about its market dominance, its inconsistent billing practices, and its inadvertent role in causing a temporary disruption to the Net last July. [News.com]
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- Windows 98 may not be windfall - The release of Windows 98 may not be delayed by the Justice Department, but its arrival may elicit no more than a tepid response from companies and consumers. [News.com]
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- Windows 98 pricing holds the line - Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system will probably follow the same pricing structure as Windows 95, as Microsoft prepares to launch the next version of its ubiquitous software. [News.com]
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- Wintel focuses on dumb terminals - "Thin-client" computing, so named because the desktop unit often relies on a server computer for storage and even processing functions, first gained attention with the much-hyped network computer. But the Windows-based Terminal stepped into prominence this week--and, lacking the notoriety of the NC, these terminals are gaining momentum. [News.com]
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- Wired strategy strays from search rivals - While many Net search giants battle it out to offer the most add-ons to lure eyeballs, Wired Ventures has taken a different course with its search effort, HotBot. [News.com]
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- With or without Jobs, Pixar is fine - Should he stay or should he go now? [News.com]
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- Word, Charged e-zines fold - The popular culture e-zine Word and the extreme sports site Charged have been discontinued, ending one of the longest runs so far in Net publishing. [News.com]
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- World Bank offers grant for Y2K fix - If you're an organization with a solid plan to fix the Year 2000 computer problem, you could be eligible for a $250,000 grant from the World Bank. [News.com]
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- World Cup a boon to Net ads - The 1998 World Cup in France is expected to spur increased usage of the Internet, with soccer fans using the Web to follow the tournament and thus boosting Internet advertising, industry executives said. [News.com]
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- WorldCom-MCI scrutiny heats up - Like Microsoft's domination of the market for PC operating systems, the proposed merger between WorldCom (WCOM) and MCI Communications (MCIC) is drawing scrutiny from an increasing number of authorities. [News.com]
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- Write once, run on Windows - Microsoft (MSFT) next week will debut its next-generation Java programming tool that lets developers create applications that are "write once, run on Windows." [News.com]
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- Xerox buys into IT services - Xerox (XRX) said today that it is buying XLConnect Solutions (XLCT) and its parent company, Intelligent Electronics, (INEL) in an all-cash deal for $415 million in an effort to capture a slice of the fast-growing information-technology services field. [News.com]
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- Y2K bug won't ground planes - Fears that the world's airlines will grind to a halt on January 1, 2000, because of the millennium bug are exaggerated, aviation insurers said today. [News.com]
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- Yahoo adds instant messaging - Yahoo (YHOO) today announced the launch of its instant messaging system, called Yahoo Pager. [News.com]
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- Yahoo debuts Net phone service - Yahoo (YHOO) today launched a service that effectively turns its online telephone book into a Net telephone. [News.com]
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- Yahoo gets into the game - Net giant Yahoo (YHOO) today added multiplayer gaming to its roster of features. [News.com]
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- Yahoo launches senior site - Net giant Yahoo (YHOO) today expanded its reach to another potentially lucrative market: seniors. [News.com]
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- Yahoo most popular site again - Yahoo (YHOO) was the most popular single Web location again in February, with special events such as the Olympics spurring more people to surf the Web, an industry report said. [News.com]
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- Yahoo running with the bulls - Yahoo (YHOO) is running with the bulls as it charges today into record territory--again. [News.com]
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- Yahoo tests paging service - Net giant Yahoo (YHOO) is quietly testing a new instant messaging system called Yahoo Pager, looking to capitalize on competitor America Online's success with its signature feature. [News.com]
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- Yang: Web needs marketing - With his company's stock hovering near its all-time high, Yahoo (YHOO) cofounder Jerry Yang told an audience here today that the Web is ready for sophisticated marketing campaigns. [News.com]
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