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- "Cyberpirate" loses domain suit - A "cyberpirate" who registered more than 100 Internet addresses using corporate trademarks today was ordered to stop on the grounds he was violating trademark law. [News.com]
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- "White-out" bug in IE 4 - Think of it as a digital white-out attack. [News.com]
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- '97 Web ad total near $1 billion - Ad spending on the Internet fell just short of $1 billion last year, and the leading trade group for ad-supported Web sites is declaring 1997 a "breakthrough year." [News.com]
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- 11 ISPs to host Domino for rent - Lotus Development said it has signed up 11 online service providers to deliver services based on Domino Instant Host rentable Web-based applications. [News.com]
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- 128-megabit memory chips out - Japan's NEC Corporation has started shipping samples of 128-megabit SDRAM (synchronous dynamic random access memory) chips, designed to double the memory capacity of high-end systems. [News.com]
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- 3 firms dive into digital broadcasts - Toshiba, Toyota, and Fujitsu will take the lead in setting up a digital satellite broadcasting joint venture in Japan. [News.com]
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- 3 new Intel chips due - Intel (INTC) will roll out Celeron, a controversial processor aimed at sub-$1,000 PCs and set-top boxes, this coming Wednesday at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. [News.com]
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- 3-in-1 encryption chip ships - Aiming to accelerate virtual private networks, chipmaker Hi/fn is shipping an encryption processor that combines compression, encryption, and authentication on a single chip. [News.com]
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- 333-MHz Pentium II PC in fridge - If a Japanese start-up has its way, people will be able to get Internet access and keep perishables fresh with the same appliance. [News.com]
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- 3Com chief touts convergence - There's a familiar ring to futurist discussions in the networking industry these days, and they all involve one word: convergence. [News.com]
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- 3Com touts networking benefits - 3Com (COMS) will add more tools to its roster next week to make it easy for users to realize the benefits of a networked office. [News.com]
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- 3Com, Alcatel work on DSL - 3Com and Alcatel announced they have agreed to make their competing DSL (digital subscriber line) products work together. [News.com]
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- 3Com, Microsoft battle not over - 3Com and Microsoft are close to resolving their trademark dispute, but have not yet reached an agreement. [News.com]
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- 3Com, Microsoft shake hands - 3Com and Microsoft have settled their disagreement over Microsoft's use of the word "palm," the companies announced today. [News.com]
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- 3D graphics firms to merge - Evans & Sutherland agreed to buy 3D graphics accelerator card maker AccelGraphics for about $52 million in cash and stock, a merger that primarily will affect the market for Windows NT workstations. [News.com]
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- 450-MHz Pentium II for digital TV - As part of an effort to find new markets for its processors, Intel (INTC) is demonstrating a future Pentium II processor running digital TV at the National Association of Broadcasters convention here. [News.com]
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- 7th Level cancels Pulse merger - Games developer 7th Level said today that it has canceled its plan to merge with privately held Pulse Entertainmentof Los Angeles, saying that it would be more profitable for each party if they remained independent. [News.com]
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- 7th Level, WavePhore liven up Web - 7th Level said it has reached a pact with WavePhore in which WavePhore will distribute 7th Level's character animation technology as part of the WaveTop Internet broadcast system for personal computer users. [News.com]
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- @Home hits the road - @Home plans to offer its high-speed Net access in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands as part of an international expansion, the company disclosed in an annual regulatory filing. [News.com]
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- @Home to expand internationally - @Home today announced its first deal outside of North America to provide high-speed Net access via cable. [News.com]
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- @Home users nearly double - @Home, which provides Net access via cable, said today that its subscriber base had nearly doubled to 90,000 so far this year but nevertheless continues to lose money in its first quarter. [News.com]
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- A Mac OS like Windows CE? - Apple Computer (AAPL) interim chief executive Steve Jobs will outline the company's software strategy at its Worldwide Developer Conference next month, the company said today. [News.com]
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- A spec to redefine multimedia - A new Web development language, approved today by the World Wide Web Consortium, could redefine how multimedia is delivered over the Web and help developers build television and CD-ROM-quality Net content, supporters said. [News.com]
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- A Y2K fix for networked PCs - A privately owned U.S. company said today that it was launching software for dealing with the millennium bug in networked personal computers. [News.com]
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- ABC, ESPN get into e-commerce - ABC and ESPN are getting into the e-commerce game. [News.com]
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- Acer to buy Siemens PC unit - Taiwan computer giant Acer announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Siemens Nixdorf Informations Systems, the information systems wing of Siemens, under which Acer will purchase the Siemens Nixdorf PC unit in Augsburg, Germany. [News.com]
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- ACLU challenges Net content bill - New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson may have felt free speech watchdogs nipping at his heels when signing a bill that made it a crime to send minors sexually explicit material over the Net. [News.com]
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- Adobe pitches graphics standard - Adobe Systems (ADBE) said today that it has submitted a proposal to the World Wide Web Consortium that could result in better quality Web-based graphics that do not require specialized plug-ins or viewers. [News.com]
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- All-in-one videoconferencing - Intel will unveil a revamped workstation tomorrow that combines videoconferencing with other features to help employees get more accomplished in meetings with distant colleagues. [News.com]
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- AltaVista embarks on TheTrip.com - With travel sites booming and competition for portal sites heating up, the AltaVista search site killed two birds with one stone today by striking a partnership deal with business travel site TheTrip.com. [News.com]
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- Altris top execs step down - Altris Software (ALTS), a maker of document management products, said today that its chairman and chief executive has resigned. [News.com]
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- Amazon CEO almost a billionaire - Despite the sharp run-up in Amazon.com's stock, chief executive Jeff Bezos earned just $79,197 last year and received no bonus or stock options--but he's still almost a billionaire. [News.com]
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- Amazon's acquisition hat trick - Amazon.com said today that it is acquiring three Internet companies to help it expand into new markets. [News.com]
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- AMD can do Pentium II, P6 chip - It may not be straight, but the legal path is clear for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to build microprocessors that use the "P6" system bus, a closely guarded Intel technology. [News.com]
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- AMD may get IBM investment - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) apparently has received an investment from IBM and has started a process under which CEO Jerry Sanders may step down in the next 12 months, according to an analyst's report. [News.com]
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- AMD settles K5 lawsuit - Advanced Micro Devices settled a securities lawsuit regarding its older K5 processors, a development that is expected result in a widening of the company's first-quarter loss. [News.com]
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- AMD stock falls 10% after report - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) saw its stock fall more than 10 percent today after posting a wider-than-expected first-quarter loss that it blamed on production problems and an industry slowdown. [News.com]
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- Ameritech seeks cost efficiency - CHICAGO (Reuters)--Ameritech (AIT) said today it will cut some 5,000 jobs as part of a plan to reduce operating expenses by $3 billion over the next five years. [News.com]
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- An online auction for businesses - This week's public launch of an online auction site for manufacturers, distributors, and resellers of computer products highlights the growing phenomena of Internet auctions for businesses targeting specific markets. [News.com]
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- Analyst hits bull's-eye on Apple - When Wall Street analysts raised their bows and arrows to target Apple's (AAPL) second-quarter earnings, NationsBanc Montgomery Securities' Kurt King came the closest to hitting a bull's-eye with his estimate while others missed by a long shot. [News.com]
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- Andreessen plugs Linux - On the latest stop of what is looking more and more like the "open source" tour, Netscape Communications' Marc Andreessen told a meeting of the Massachusetts Software Council today that he expects Linux to gain status as a serious operating system for corporate use, and said it may even challenge Windows NT at some point. [News.com]
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- Andreessen touts open source - Netscape Communications' (NSCP) release of the source code for its Communicator suite will put new momentum behind the "open source" movement and change the way software developers work, cofounder Marc Andreessen said to a group of Web developers today. [News.com]
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- Anglophones ahead in high tech - English-speaking countries lead the world in making the best use of high technology because they have focused on using it rather than just developing it, according to a new study. [News.com]
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- Another notebook near $1,000 - Compaq cut the price of an older notebook PC to bring it close to the $1,000 mark, while also introducing a new model in its line of portables. [News.com]
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- Antipiracy suits vs. landlords? - Microsoft (MSFT) said today that it may take legal action against Singapore landlords who turn a blind eye to tenants selling illegal software. [News.com]
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- Antispam strike under way - One by one about 30 antispammers went on "strike" today, halting the unpaid labor they have been performing for months: stopping spam from reaching Usenet newsgroups. [News.com]
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- Antispammers going on "strike" - Antispammers are mad as hell, and they're going on strike. [News.com]
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- AOL advertising takes off - In a move that may tempt critics to call the company "full of hot air," America Online (AOL) announced today the inflation of its very own hot air balloon. [News.com]
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- AOL buys stake in FamilyEducation - America Online said it took a stake today in FamilyEducation, a developer of education services and resources, and entered into a long-term strategic partnership with the company to boost the development of an interactive network to link parents and teachers. [News.com]
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- AOL cleared in Drudge libel case - A federal judge has dismissed a $30 million defamation suit filed against America Online by a White House adviser, ruling that Internet service providers are immune from civil suits stemming from the editorial content they carry. [News.com]
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- AOL inks deal with TheStreet.com - In its latest move to overhaul its financial services, America Online today announced a linking deal with investment news Web site TheStreet.com to provide financial analysis and live events to AOL subscribers. [News.com]
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- AOL plans DSL access trials - America Online (AOL) today announced that it will be starting field trials that will give selected customers high-speed access to the online network. [News.com]
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- AOL reaches 12 million mark - America Online today announced another milestone--it has it the 12 million member mark, continuing to outpace its competition. [News.com]
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- AOL signs on Music Boulevard - N2K has struck a deal with AOL Europe for its Music Boulevard to be the exclusive music partner for America Online's European services, the company said today. [News.com]
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- AOL slow to grow in Japan - Can signing on 100,000 members in Japan be considered a milestone for the world's largest online service? [News.com]
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- AOL's unstoppable stock - Neither Microsoft Network, nor disgruntled customers, nor a 10 percent price hike can stop the America Online (AOL) freight train. [News.com]
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- Apple approaches 52-week high - Apple Computer today edged closer to a 52-week-high, a day after it posted better-than-expected earnings for its second fiscal quarter. [News.com]
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- Apple chases elusive 52-week high - Apple Computer's (AAPL) stock has been surging, but when it comes to breaking through to a new 52-week high, it's been "close but no cigar." [News.com]
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- Apple denies patent infringement - Apple Computer (AAPL) today denied allegations contained in a $1.1 billion patent infringement suit filed by Imatec (IMEC). [News.com]
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- Apple doubles earnings estimate - Apple Computer (AAPL) said today that it posted a better-than-expected $55 million profit for the second fiscal quarter, reversing a loss of $708 million for the same period a year ago. [News.com]
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- Apple launches new portable - Apple Computer (AAPL) officially unveiled a new subnotebook computer with a 240-MHz processor, but it's not destined for U.S. shores. [News.com]
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- Apple offers OS, Office rebate - Apple announced it is offering a $30 mail-in rebate on a joint purchase of version 8.1 of the Macintosh operating system and the Mac version of Microsoft Office 98. [News.com]
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- Apple poised for a comeback - Apple Computer is confident of securing greater world market share and believes it is poised to make a comeback in the home user market, according to a company executive. [News.com]
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- Apple shows market share gains - Apple Computer's fortunes are looking up in 1998. [News.com]
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- Apple sues Exponential - Apple Computer (AAPL) today filed a lawsuit against Exponential Technology, a defunct developer of speedy computer chips that was once viewed as central to Apple's development plans, according to court papers. [News.com]
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- Apple will open investor meeting - Apple Computer will let the press and analysts attend its shareholder meeting tomorrow, a company spokeswoman said today. [News.com]
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- Apple's core strategy - Apple Computer is on a roll with consecutive quarters of positive earnings on the strength of G3 system sales, but not all those relying on the Macintosh platform are seeing an upside. In addition, executives are still vague about the company's CEO search and its low-cost computer strategy, hinting that a sub-$1,000 consumer desktop could be offered by the end of the year. [News.com]
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- Apple, HP tie up on printers - Apple Computer and Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced that HP has committed to making its future ink-jet printers compatible with the Macintosh operating system. [News.com]
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- Argentine judge finds IBM in wrong - An Argentine judge has found that there "really was a criminal act" in a case of alleged bribery to secure a $250 million state contract for U.S. computer giant IBM. [News.com]
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- Ascend beats estimates--barely - Amid a climate of uncertainty in the networking industry, Ascend Communications (ASND) announced first-quarter results today that beat analysts' estimates by one cent on the strength of strong sales in North America. [News.com]
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- Ascend bucks earnings trend - The most recent quarter hasn't been pretty for Cabletron Systems (CS), 3Com (COMS), or Bay Networks (BAY). What makes Ascend Communications (ASND) so special? [News.com]
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- AT&T blames outage on software - AT&T said today its recent frame relay network failure was due to a software-based problem. [News.com]
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- AT&T posts modest earnings - AT&T today reported modest first-quarter revenue and profit growth as strength in business, wireless, and international operations offset a decrease in consumer services revenues. [News.com]
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- AT&T updates Net music delivery - AT&T's music delivery technology arm, a2b Music, has updated its platform in an effort to give the music industry more control over distribution and licensing. [News.com]
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- ATI posts strong earnings - Graphics chipmaker ATI Technologies has reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings and a 4-1 stock split, evidence that it is fending off a challenge by Intel. [News.com]
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- ATI takes graphics card lead - ATI Technologies became the market leader for PC "add-in" graphics boards in 1997, according to a new survey, but the rapid pace of graphics technology makes its pole position tenuous. [News.com]
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- Avant shares up on rumor of ruling - Avant's shares rose sharply today on rumors yesterday of a judge's ruling that the company can go ahead and market its Aquarius software product, an analyst following the company said. [News.com]
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- Baan, Microsoft expand partnership - In its continuing effort to deliver an enterprise application suite for the front and back office, Baan yesterday announced an expansion of its relationship with Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Balancing the books - Among the high-tech firms closing their books for the quarter included industry stalwarts like Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment, and Bay Networks, as well as cutting-edge Internet companies like @Home and Excite that are seeing their stocks surge even though they are still struggling for profitability. [News.com]
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- Bank merger joins tech rivals - The megamerger of Bank of America and NationsBank puts two investment banking firms that specialize in high-technology stocks under one roof: Robertson Stephens and Montgomery Securities. [News.com]
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- Banks join to fight Y2K bug - A group of leading banks said today they have formed a Global 2000 Coordinating Group to stop the millennium bug from creating havoc in financial markets. [News.com]
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- Banks to join Microsoft's MSFDC - Microsoft expects to soon announce participation by banks in its joint venture with First Data, the software company's executive vice president Steve Ballmer said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Bay misses revised estimates - Even after lowering expectations last month, Bay Networks announced third-quarter results that came in well below revised estimates. [News.com]
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- Bay still on high-speed track - Despite a tepid embrace of Bay Networks' initial efforts into new high-speed markets, the company will roll out plans to continue targeting networking equipment for this sector at the upcoming Networld+Interop trade show in Las Vegas and beyond. [News.com]
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- Bay to support NT for access - Bay Networks (BAY) will add support for Microsoft Windows NT-based networks to its Net access device for small businesses by the end of this month. [News.com]
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- Bertelsmann sells AOL stock - America Online's European partner, Bertelsmann, is selling about 25 percent of its holdings in AOL. [News.com]
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- Big Blue's remote equalizer - As more work moves outside of company headquarters to hotel rooms and home offices, off-site employees bear the brunt of laggard connection speeds, expensive dial-up costs, and limited access to corporate information. [News.com]
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- Big competition for Check Point - It's a company's worst fear come true: The threat of Microsoft honing in on the bread-and-butter of its business. [News.com]
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- Bill aims to protect wired children - Using the Net to lure a child into sexual activity or to send minors obscene material could become federal crimes under legislation introduced by Republican House members. [News.com]
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- Bill would curb Year 2000 suits - A California bill that would limit lawsuits over the Year 2000 computer bug in that state begins the first leg of its legislative journey next week. [News.com]
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- BofA gives customers smart cards - Bank of America will announce today that its biggest customers, corporations that move millions of dollars using the bank's cash management services, will be able to use smart cards for secure access to those accounts. [News.com]
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- Book to dish Microsoft dirt - A purported insider's book about Microsoft, written by the daughter of a PR guru for the software giant, will hit bookstores next month, according to publisher Henry Holt and Company. [News.com]
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- Borland details enterprise strategy - Borland International says it has an enterprising plan for the future. [News.com]
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- Brazil Net use diversifying - A growing variety of Brazilians are using the Internet, once the domain of an elite few English-speakers with good telephone lines, according to surveys published today in the financial daily Gazeta Mercantil. [News.com]
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- Bringing e-commerce to China - Showing once more that the Internet knows no borders or boundaries, IBM (IBM) and China Telecom reached a deal to bring online commerce to China. [News.com]
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- British Navy finds recruits online - The British navy has launched a recruitment drive to Net surfers on the World Wide Web. [News.com]
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- Broadcom jumps in IPO - Shares of computer chipmaker Broadcom Corporation (BRCM) surged more than 123 percent in trading today after the company went public on the Nasdaq. [News.com]
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- Buyers need e-commerce smarts - In the emerging world of electronic commerce, the focus of consumer protection will change from concentrating on sellers to buyers of goods and services, a senior U.S. official said today. [News.com]
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- CA earnings set to beat estimates - Software giant Computer Associates (CA) announced today that earnings for its fourth quarter will be higher than expected. [News.com]
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- CA eyes smaller businesses - Computer Associates has built a business that will rake in $4.7 billion in revenue for the just-completed fiscal year by catering to the software needs of the top corporations in the world. That strategy is about to change. [News.com]
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- CA offers peek at next Unicenter - Computer Associates kicked off its annual user conference with a sneak preview of forthcoming capabilities being built into its software cash cow. [News.com]
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- CA plans services arm - Computer Associates formally launched a renewed bid to take a piece of the lucrative high-tech consulting services pie, unbowed by its failed attempts to acquire the sought-after capability. [News.com]
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- CA's NT claims under fire - Competitors of management software powerhouse Computer Associates (CA) believe the company has purposefully distorted the nature of its third-party relationship with Microsoft to sway customers in a hotly contested market. [News.com]
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- Cable group decries digital TV policy - The cable industry wants the government to stay out of digital television. [News.com]
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- Cable leader calls for cooperation - In a luncheon address today, the president of a major cable industry consortium urged National Association of Broadcasters convention attendees to cooperate with other industries in building a "national digital broadcast system" in order to speed the rollout of next-generation digital television services. [News.com]
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- Cabletron launches Spectrum 5.0 - Hoping to quell the litany of unfavorable news that has hit the firm, Cabletron Systems (CS) is using one of its strengths--network management software--to show evidence of progress. [News.com]
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- Cabletron shuffles exec deck - With good news flowing like molasses out of the firm these days, Cabletron Systems formally introduced a reconfigured management team under cofounder and new chief executive Craig Benson and addressed several issues facing it. [News.com]
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- Cabletron switching gears - Beleaguered network equipment provider Cabletron Systems (CS) hopes to reinvigorate itself with a bevy of activity this spring, including the possible acquisition of a low-end switch company. [News.com]
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- CalPERS: Shake up AMD board - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) sent out a letter to fellow Advanced Micro Devices shareholders asking them to vote for a resolution calling for the replacement of chairman and CEO Jerry Sanders with an independent chairman of the board. [News.com]
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- Can SGI turn the corner? - Today, Silicon Graphics unveiled a strategy aimed at getting the workstation maker back on its feet, including a tighter relationship with Intel and major changes in its MIPS chip division. But the company risks becoming a small fish in a large pond as it revamps its computer business. [News.com]
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- CD piracy pledge in Singapore - CD makers in this country have signed a code of conduct that commits them to avoiding piracy. [News.com]
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- CD-ROMs get speed, but little else - The CD-ROM may finally be able to deliver the speed it has long promised, but it may be too little too late to save the dying technology. [News.com]
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- CDnow, Lycos do Europe - Web music retailer CDnow (CDNW) said today it has signed a $5.5 million deal to make it the exclusive music retailer for Lycos Bertelsmann, the European affiliate of Internet search company Lycos (LCOS). [News.com]
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- Cease-fire in spam war? - If the Berlin Wall can come down, anything is possible--even a peace accord on spam. [News.com]
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- Cendant finds fraud, stock dives - Cendant stock tumbled today after it uncovered possible accounting fraud, wiping nearly $15 billion off its market value and denting the growth plans of one of the world's biggest marketing companies. [News.com]
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- CEO resigns from SoftNet - SoftNet Systems (SOF) said today that its chief executive and president has resigned. [News.com]
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- Challenging Intel - Trying to seize a rare moment of vulnerability, IBM, AMD, and Cyrix are all racing to stay ahead of Intel in the low-cost chip market through partnerships and new technologies. And Wall Street seems to be cheering them on. [News.com]
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- Changes may sharpen Sun focus - Sun Microsystems' radical reorganization may go a long way toward getting the company's disparate software stories together and creating a sense that the systems giant is not just out to sell high-priced Unix computers, according to analysts. [News.com]
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- Charles Schwab suffers outage - Charles Schwab got the week off to a rocky start this morning as its system went down between 6:45 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. PT. [News.com]
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- Check Point expands niche - Hoping to get an edge on its competitors and expand its influence beyond the security market, Check Point (CHKPF) today said it will buy IP addressing technology specialist MetaInfo in a $28 million all-stock deal. [News.com]
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- Check Point unfazed by Microsoft - A senior Check Point Software Technologies executive today denied a report that Microsoft would compete with the Israeli company in the network security software arena. [News.com]
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- Child porn law in dispute - A felony statute outlawing "simulated" child pornography created with a computer has been thrown out by a federal judge who called it unconstitutional. [News.com]
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- Chinese Net searches evolve - Taiwan-based firm SinaNet has launched a Chinese-language search directory it says operates without the need for add-in software. [News.com]
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- Chinese writing system updated - Motorola has released updated versions of its Chinese language handwriting recognition system, in hopes of making personal computing easier for new users in China. [News.com]
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- Chip gets leg up on marathon - Competitors in Sunday's London marathon will be outfitted with electronic chips on their shoes to enable organizers to record their times accurately. [News.com]
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- Chip market estimates scaled back - Despite strong first-quarter earnings, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has adopted a cautious outlook for the second quarter and the rest of 1998. [News.com]
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- Chip sales to slump, then recover - The Asian crisis will slow world sales of semiconductors in 1998, but will also reduce production capacity, paving the way for a rebound in 1999, the chief economist of a leading European semiconductor maker said today. [News.com]
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- Chipmaking equipment orders down - New orders for machines that make computer chips declined in March, according to a preliminary report from the semiconductor equipment manufacturing industry. [News.com]
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- CIA debuts children's site - The CIA has unveiled a Web site aimed at introducing the spy game to the kindergarten set. [News.com]
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- Circus in domain trademark flap - The "Greatest Show on Earth" is not amused by an animal rights group's use of its name on the Web to protest its use of animals. [News.com]
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- Cisco partners with Ciena - A long-rumored partnership between data networking giant Cisco Systems and telecommunications equipment specialist Ciena has come to fruition. [News.com]
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- CitySearch, Zip2 to merge - CitySearch and Zip2 will merge in a deal valued at more than $300 million, CitySearch chief executive Charles Conn said today. [News.com]
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- Clear screens for cell phones - Three-Five Systems is teaming up with Palo Alto-based Siliscape to bring to market LCD display technology for use in next-generation information appliances. [News.com]
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- Cold front for "weather" sites - Sites that report "Internet weather" worry that storm clouds are gathering on the horizon. [News.com]
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- Compaq aiming at digital TVs - At this year's meeting of the National Association of Broadcasters, Compaq Computer (CPQ) is trying to stake out a place in upcoming digital television broadcasting--meaning that it will eventually find itself competing against consumer electronics giants such as Sony Electronics. [News.com]
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- Compaq CEO heralds mergers - Compaq CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer attempted to allay any fears corporate customers may have concerning his company's $9.6 billion merger with Digital Equipment and how it would relate to that company's older product line. [News.com]
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- Compaq cuts server prices - Compaq Computer (CPQ) reduced prices on servers and workstations, as well as on a variety of peripheral components. [News.com]
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- Compaq eyes ultraportable - Compaq Computer will jump into the growing ultraportable notebook segment later this year, joining Hewlett-Packard (HP) and others in the attempt to match IBM's popular ThinkPad 560 model. [News.com]
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- Compaq gets into e-commerce - Compaq Computer took its efforts to offer e-commerce solutions a step further today by taking a minority equity stake in Inex, a provider of Internet commerce applications that help customers set up shop online quickly. [News.com]
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- Compaq hurt by bloat - Ambition, not sales, seems to be at the root of Compaq Computer's current woes. [News.com]
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- Compaq net income plunges - Compaq Computer said today that profits plummeted more than 95 percent and it will "take another QUOTE SNAPSHOTDecember 31, 1999, 1:27 p.m. PT Compaq Computer Corp. CPQ42.0000 -0.5625 -1.32% > more from CNET InvestorQuotes delayed 20+ minutesquarter of adjustment to put the company's core business on a track of improved profitability." [News.com]
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- Compaq partners with StorageTek - StorageTek announced an agreement with Compaq for developing storage technologies for Windows NT. [News.com]
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- Compaq planning PC-TV convergence box - Compaq Computer is expected to become one of the first top-tier PC makers to release new-fangled PC-TV convergence boxes, adding momentum to what may become the next major personal computer market. [News.com]
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- Compaq revamps corporate line - Compaq Computer (CPQ) is renaming its Deskpro line of corporate computers as part of an effort to better target different kinds of business buyers. [News.com]
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- Compaq says inventories falling - Compaq president Eckhard Pfeiffer said the company is making good progress in its program to cut inventory levels by the end of the second quarter. [News.com]
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- Compaq to buy back shares - Compaq Computer said today that its directors had authorized the buyback of up to 100 million shares of its stock. [News.com]
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- CompUSA denies fraud charges - Computer retailer CompUSA said yesterday that it strongly denies the allegations put forward in a federal securities fraud lawsuit filed by shareholders. [News.com]
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- Congress committee targets Y2K - In an effort to focus more congressional clout on the Year 2000 problem, a special Senate committee has been created to address the issue. [News.com]
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- Congress probes digital copyrights - Publisher Angela Adair doesn't think twice about asking Net service providers to remove Web sites she alleges are illegally posting her copyrighted works. [News.com]
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- Congress pushes copyright bills - Congress has been advancing copyright legislation of late to add protections for the digital age. [News.com]
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- Congress tackles high-tech issues - Congress is back from spring break, and several high-tech issues are topping its agenda--from speeding up Net access to computer industry employment. [News.com]
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- Copyright bill moves forward - Congress advanced legislation today that would expand copyright protection of online software, literature, and music, but would limit Net access providers' liability for infringements made by their customers. [News.com]
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- Corel CEO predicts profits in '98 - Corel chief executive Michael Cowpland, staring down angry shareholders who saw their stock tumble nearly 80 percent in 1997, said yesterday that they will be cheering him next year when he returns the software company to profitability. [News.com]
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- Corel wins copyright round - A federal court has denied a request by Micrografx for an injunction against Corel. [News.com]
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- Corel's unexplained stock surge - Analysts were baffled by the sudden rise in Corel's stock price (COSFF), which jumped more than 15 percent today. [News.com]
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- Country music artists sue over domains - A coalition of 24 country music artists has filed a lawsuit against a California businessman who gained notoriety last month for redirecting the domain names of famous people to a pornographic Web site. [News.com]
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- Crypto contest seeks new standard - A competition for a new encryption standard to protect sensitive U.S. government data already pits two old crypto rivals against one another, and could turn quickly into a free-for-all. [News.com]
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- Crypto free speech case in court - Disputing a federal law that requires "exporters" of encryption to be licensed, attorneys for Cleveland law professor Peter Junger argued in court today that he has a constitutional right to teach foreign and local students about the data security technology by posting material on his Web site. [News.com]
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- Crypto policy called a failure - The government's policy restricting the export of strong encryption products has failed and is boosting the foreign market by hog-tying the U.S. industry, Commerce Department secretary William Daley conceded today. [News.com]
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- Custom CD site enters race - With so many players in the online music space, firms that now want to start selling CDs on the Net have to fight to differentiate themselves. [News.com]
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- Customer service goes online - A start-up firm today unveiled Web-based customer service software that lets a company representative converse with a customer online and guide the visitor's Web browser through pages on the firm's Web site. [News.com]
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- CyberCash execs deny rumors - CyberCash denied rumors that it is involved in talks to be acquired by Microsoft or any other company. [News.com]
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- Cyberguard offers firewall for NT - Network security and e-commerce systems provider CyberGuard today rolled out a version of its firewall software for Microsoft's Windows NT. [News.com]
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- Cyberhomes on the horizon? - The cyberhome of the future is coming to a neighborhood near you. [News.com]
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- Cylink hits U.S. smart card market - Moving into the North American smart card market, security firm Cylink today announced that its patented smart card reader and smart cards will be available in June. [News.com]
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- Cylink wins crypto export nod - Cylink has won approval from the Commerce Department to export its encryption hardware products that use strong triple-DES algorithms without key recovery to certain customers. [News.com]
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- Cyrix chip aimed at sub-$500 PCs - National Semiconductor's Cyrix subsidiary is developing a complete system on a chip for sub-$500 computers as part of its effort to become the king of low-budget computing, National is announcing tomorrow. [News.com]
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- Cyrix shoots for 300 MHz - Following closely on the heels of rival AMD, Cyrix will release a version of its premier desktop processor tomorrow running at what the company claims is equivalent to a 300 MHz chip, while debuting a new brand name for the chip. [News.com]
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- Czechs chasing new Intel plant - The Czech government yesterday approved investment incentives for companies that invest a minimum of $25 million into new manufacturing projects, with the specific intention of wooing chipmaking giant Intel. [News.com]
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- Deja News to offer free email - In an attempt to protect Netizens who post messages to newsgroups, Deja News, the popular service that catalogues and categorizes the bulletin boards, will offer free email. [News.com]
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- Dell cuts PC, server prices - Dell Computer (DELL) cut server prices by up to 15 percent and reduced the cost of business desktop PCs by as much as 12 percent, moves likely to make life harder for Compaq Computer (CPQ), which is trying to clear out large inventories through price cuts of its own. [News.com]
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- Dell may make debt offering - Dell Computer is expected to tap the U.S. corporate bond market some time next week with a $500 million two-part debt offering, dealers said today. [News.com]
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- Dell moves toward small business - Dell Computer is expanding its Internet-based sales and marketing program to include small business customers, the company announced today. [News.com]
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- Dell pays to settle FTC charges - Dell Computer has agreed to pay $800,000 to settle charges that it violated mail order advertising rules, the Federal Trade Commission said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Dell pushes large firms to Net sales - To reach its stated goal of building online sales to 50 percent of its total, Dell Computer must persuade its large customers to make their purchases on the Net, rather than rather by phone or mail order, CEO Michael Dell told an Internet commerce conference today. [News.com]
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- Dell sees growth, service shift - Despite the gloomy outlook for PC demand, Michael Dell expects another banner year, but the company's customer service program is changing. [News.com]
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- Dell servers boast new Intel chips - Dell plans to shake up the server market on the back of a new generation of powerful chips from Intel, aggressive pricing at the low end, and a partnership with Data General. [News.com]
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- Dell to stop selling Pentium PCs - Dell Computer is shifting its entire Dimension line to Pentium II processors and lowering prices, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Dell waits on Intel Mendocino chip - Dell Computer chief financial officer Tom Meredith said that PC demand is "robust" and that the competitive PC landscape is "rational." [News.com]
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- Dell, Intel reach for enterprise - Dell Computer said today it is working with Intel on a number of programs that will help the companies push into the high end of corporate computing and Internet commerce. [News.com]
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- Dell: Net to make up half of sales - Personal computer maker Dell Computer, which sells directly to customers, expects to make more than half its sales online in the next few years, chairman Michael Dell said today. [News.com]
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- Democrats urge crypto freedom - A dozen key House Democrats, including minority leader Richard Gephardt, have asked President Clinton to abandon strict U.S. export limits on encryption. [News.com]
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- Developers flock to Netscape code - Executives at Netscape Communications (NSCP) figured that 5,000 people would download the free Communicator 5.0 source code. In the very first day, 4,500 people downloaded the code from the Netscape site--and that doesn't count the downloads from roughly 100 mirror sites. [News.com]
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- Digital revenue down - Digital Equipment today reported a drop in revenue due to a strong U.S. dollar. [News.com]
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- Digital beefs up Asia operations - Computer maker Digital Equipment said today that it would invest $10 million to strengthen its staffing and put in new infrastructure in its Southeast Asian operations in 1998. [News.com]
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- Digital joins mobile Pentium II pack - When Intel releases its highly anticipated mobile Pentium II chip tomorrow, Digital will join the pack of PC vendors unveiling notebooks equipped with the new microprocessor. [News.com]
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- Digital slashes desktop prices - Digital Equipment discounted selected desktop models, amid industry speculation that the company is phasing out the line. [News.com]
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- Digital's Claflin resigns, the first to go - Bruce Claflin, senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing at Digital Equipment, today said he would step down after the company merges with Compaq, but he's not likely to be the last executive to depart. [News.com]
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- Digital's desktop doldrums - Digital Equipment was conspicuously absent from yesterday's unveiling of Intel's newest, fastest Pentium II processors, the clearest sign yet that its desktop line is unlikely to survive the company's pending merger with Compaq Computer. Today's news that Bruce Claflin, Digital's vice president of worldwide marketing and sales, will leave soon after the merger seems to support analysts' thinking. Meanwhile, this morning's third-quarter earnings report revealed that overall product revenue dropped to $1.68 billion, falling from $1.84 billion a year ago. Overall revenues were also down, which Digital blamed on a strong dollar. [News.com]
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- Disk drive slump may be ending - There may be light at the end of the tunnel for the beleaguered disk drive industry. [News.com]
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- Disney to buy Starwave - The Walt Disney Company has exercised its option to buy technology investor Paul Allen's remaining interest in Starwave, Disney chief executive Michael Eisner said today. [News.com]
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- Disney vows big push online - Walt Disney plans to take an aggressive approach to opportunities on the Internet, chairman Michael Eisner said. [News.com]
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- Divx dust-up looms - With a new manufacturing agreement, upcoming field tests, and a massive marketing campaign about to get under way, Divx--a high-density, pay-per-view recording medium--looks more likely than ever to threaten the nascent DVD market. [News.com]
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- Does Microsoft spread the wealth? - So what if Bill Gates's net worth is close to $50 billion. His company provided the greatest financial returns for his "pay," at least according to a new Business Week survey. [News.com]
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- DOJ explores curbs on Microsoft - The Justice Department's investigation of Microsoft is turning away from gathering evidence that establishes anticompetitive practices and is now focusing on possible legal remedies, sources said today. [News.com]
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- DOJ facing Windows 98 deadline - Antitrust regulators investigating Microsoft are facing a rapidly approaching deadline as the company prepares to release its Windows 98 operating system. [News.com]
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- Dole, Bork battle Microsoft - Turning up the heat on Microsoft, former Sen. Bob Dole and former appeals judge Robert Bork today joined in announcing a group that intends to lobby against the software giant for allegedly anticompetitive practices. [News.com]
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- Dole, Bork to fight Microsoft - Turning up the heat on Microsoft, former Senator Bob Dole and former appeals judge Robert Bork tomorrow are expected to join in announcing a group that intends to lobby against the software giant for allegedly anticompetitive practices. [News.com]
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- Domain questions still open - With 650 public comments in hand, the Clinton administration is grappling over the next step in its plan to transfer control of the Internet domain name system to the private sector. [News.com]
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- Domain squatters losing out - Cybersquatters are falling on tough times. [News.com]
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- Double 56-kbps technology tested - In conjunction with Internet service providers, Diamond Multimedia began field testing its Shotgun modem technology, a scheme that essentially enables users to pair two 56-kbps modems. [News.com]
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- Dow hits 9,000 but tech stocks dip - The Dow Jones Industrial Average raced past 9,000 today, but technology stocks tumbled. [News.com]
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- Dow retreats from 9,000 level - The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended slightly lower today after it cleared the 9,000-point level for the first time ever on news that the jobs market was weakening after months of inflation threatened growth. [News.com]
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- Dow slips back below 9,000 - The Dow Jones industrial average was toppled from its 9,000-point pedestal today after investors, unnerved by earnings reports, took some profits after yesterday's blockbuster merger. [News.com]
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- Dow within a heartbeat of 9,000 - Stocks soared today as investors, afraid to be left out of the Dow Jones Industrial Average march to the 9,000 level, jumped on board, [News.com]
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- Drop in Intel profits expected - Intel (INTC) is expected to report revenues of $6 billion and earnings around 72 cents a share today, an unalarming dip in year-by-year profitability, but the issue on analysts' minds is how the company will fare in the future. [News.com]
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- Dutch ISPs could face wiretap law - A law requiring that Internet service providers in the Netherlands make it easy for police to "tap" consumers' online discourse is making its way through the country's parliament--a move privacy advocates say could trigger a global domino effect. [News.com]
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- Dutch PC maker goes belly-up - Tulip, one of Europe's last independent makers of personal computers, sought bankruptcy protection from its creditors today, a month after declaring 1998 a make-or-break year. [News.com]
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- E*Trade expanding to Europe - E*Trade Group said it has signed a licensing agreement that would expand its online investing services to five countries in central Europe if the pact is fully implemented. [News.com]
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- E*Trade slips despite hitting mark - In these days of high-flying Net stocks, it's not always enough to meet Wall Street's expectations--you have to beat them. [News.com]
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- E-commerce boosting economy - Booming growth in information technology industries driven by the Internet is boosting U.S. economic growth and holding down inflation, according to a Commerce Department report. [News.com]
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- E-commerce spec gains support - Some of the biggest players in electronic commerce have agreed on a new framework for the exchange of financial data by converging two leading systems with one open specification, a technology group representing big U.S. banks said today. [News.com]
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- E-stamps by printer tested - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) said it demonstrated computer-based postage today as part of testing for the Postal Service's nascent electronic stamp program. [News.com]
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- EarthLink up on subscriber growth - EarthLink (ELNK) stock hit a new high today, after the ISPs subscriber growth beat expectations. [News.com]
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- Easter, Passover in Webcasts - As the Net evolves, people increasingly turn to it to conduct all manner of personal affairs--and celebrating holidays is no exception. [News.com]
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- EDS slips but sees silver lining - Computer systems integrator Electronic Data Systems today posted first-quarter results just below expectations, but said it expects new contract sales to remain strong for the rest of the year. [News.com]
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- Egghead execs cash in on gains - Egghead's (EGGS) move to the Net has given its stock some sizzle, and insiders recently have filed to sell some shares in an effort to get a taste of the company's gains. [News.com]
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- Elexir invests in Sybase Africa - South African IT firm Elexir Technology Holdings said today that it had acquired a 45.9 percent interest in Sybase South African and 48 percent in Sybase Cape for about $7.73 million. [News.com]
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- Ellison sings Jobs's praises - Oracle chief executive and Apple Computer board member Larry Ellison today criticized recent press reports concerning interim CEO Steve Jobs and said he had not been a part of any interviews recently for the top position at the computer maker. [News.com]
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- Ellison: NC about network, not device - If at first you don't succeed, try and try again. That seems to be the strategy at Oracle. [News.com]
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- Estrin hits big time as Cisco CTO - When Vint Cerf, one of the founders of the Net, is your college adviser, you know you're off to a good start. [News.com]
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- EU: U.S. doesn't own Net - The European Union's objections to a U.S. proposal for reforming the Internet address system have helped remind Washington that it does not own the global network, an Internet expert said. [News.com]
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- Europe gets Net telephony - Delta Three Incorporated, a subsidiary of RSL Communications Limited, launched a European Internet telephone service that will slash the cost of calls, RSL said today. [News.com]
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- Excite catches "urge to merge" - The "urge to merge" in the Internet directory business is gaining momentum. [News.com]
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- Excite rallying on Net spree - Is Excite (XCIT) destined to become the next Internet stock priced at $100 per share? [News.com]
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- Excite traffic pumps revenue - Excite said today that it narrowed its first-quarter net losses and increased revenue by 206 percent from the like quarter a year ago, citing traffic gains to the Internet directory site. [News.com]
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- Excite, Lycos get more personal - Web search sites Lycos (LCOS) and Excite (XCIT) are elbowing each other today in the escalating battle to become the launchpad for Net surfers. [News.com]
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- FAA may take action in Y2K issue - The Federal Aviation Administration says it is weighing enforcement action to make sure aircraft flying in U.S. skies can cope with the Year 2000 computer bug. [News.com]
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- FCC may lighten phone rules - The top U.S. telephone regulator said today he might favor lifting some restrictions on local telephone companies to encourage widespread availability of high-speed Internet connections. [News.com]
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- FCC mulls Net telephony - The Federal Communications Commission is considering whether companies delivering voice-to-voice calls over the Net should be regulated as long distance companies--a determination that could affect the cost of such services. [News.com]
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- FCC rethinking Net discounts - Amid criticism from some lawmakers, the Federal Communications Commission plans to reorganize its multibillion-dollar program subsidizing Internet connections for schools, libraries, and rural health care providers, FCC Chairman William Kennard said. [News.com]
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- FCC sounds firm note on digital TV - In one of the most eagerly anticipated keynotes of this week's National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention, Federal Communications Commission chairman William Kennard urged attendees to embrace a new era of digital television--because it's coming whether they like it or not. [News.com]
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- FCC to report on Net telephony - Beating a familiar drum, the Clinton administration today warned the Federal Communications Commission not to go down the path toward Net regulation in an anticipated report to Congress tomorrow. [News.com]
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- FCC tries to quell Net phone rift - The Federal Communications Commission will deliver a report to Congress that tries to quell an erupting controversy over the agency's reform of the complex web of subsidies in the U.S. phone system. [News.com]
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- Federal Y2K fixes grow costly - By all accounts, the cost of fixing the federal government's computer systems so they recognize the year 2000 is rising considerably. [News.com]
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- Fee-based Net content in infancy - Many revenue-hungry Net sites long to stick a price tag on content they have been giving away. But it's tough getting people to buy the cow when they've been getting the milk for free. [News.com]
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- FileNet claims turnaround - FileNet has placed a former IBM executive at its helm and reported record earnings, in what top executives called a rebound for the software company after more than a year of growing pains. [News.com]
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- Filtering lawsuit going forward - Agreeing that Net filtering at public libraries is like blacking out passages in books, a federal court decision issued yesterday stated that government mandates to screen online content will face the strictest constitutional scrutiny. [News.com]
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- Financiers fight Y2K bug - Financial regulators and executives said yesterday that urgent preparations were underway to avert possible network failures when computers tick over to the year 2000, a problem that could threaten global finance and lead to a worldwide recession. [News.com]
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- Firm lets users name their price - A Connecticut entrepreneur today launched an Internet commerce system he hopes will revolutionize the way people shop for airline tickets, and eventually other products. [News.com]
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- Firm sued in privacy flap - A California nonprofit organization has sued gaming company Blizzard Entertainment for electronically reaching into players' computers and collecting their email addresses. [News.com]
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- Firms not fully facing Y2K issues - Though there appears to be a growing global awareness of the Year 2000 problem, two separate studies recently found that a host of companies and financial institutions have failed to fully address the issue. [News.com]
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- Firms team for fast set-top access - Start-up WorldGate Communications has teamed with cable firm Charter Communications to provide high-speed Internet service over regular cable TV lines. [News.com]
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- Five Yahoo insiders sell shares - As Yahoo's shares continue to skyrocket, fueled in part by a stronger-than-expected first-quarter performance, five company insiders have filed to sell some of their holdings. [News.com]
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- Flat monitor hits $860 - Artwork will market a high-quality 14.1-inch LCD monitor at a bargain basement price as early as next month in Japan. [News.com]
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- Floppy business loses another - Kao will halt production of floppy disks, another indication that the storage technology is fading from the PC industry. [News.com]
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- Food domain found "obscene" - Confusion over domain names and profanity is mushrooming. [News.com]
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- Forbes: No Net taxes for 5 years - A Washington compromise on Internet taxation has serious flaws, publisher and former GOP presidential candidate Steve Forbes told a New York e-commerce conference today. [News.com]
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- Former Chase exec sued by SEC - The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday sued a former Chase Manhattan Bank executive for insider trading based on IBM's 1995 takeover of Lotus Development. [News.com]
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- Former movie star sues Corel - Canada's Corel said today that it is fighting a lawsuit filed by former movie star Hedy Lamarr that alleges the software company profited by using her image on one of its products. [News.com]
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- French groups lose language suit - The first test case attempting to apply France's disputed language law to the Internet ended in failure today. An appeals court tossed out a suit against a U.S. university on a legal technicality. [News.com]
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- FTC approves Digital-Intel deal - The Federal Trade Commission today gave conditional approval to the $700 million patent infringement settlement between Intel and Digital Equipment. [News.com]
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- FTC concentrates on cyberfraud - Con artists once relegated to soap boxes--then telephones, radio, and television--are increasingly turning to a bigger and more effective tool to ply their wares: the Internet. [News.com]
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- FTC Intel case weakens, in part - With the basic rights to Intel's Pentium II technology beginning to snake their way to competitors, it may become more difficult for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to bring charges against the chip maker, though questions about its business practices still loom large. [News.com]
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- FTC looking into Autodesk - The Federal Trade Commission has begun an investigation of the business practices of Autodesk, marking a second time in a year that the software maker has faced regulatory scrutiny. [News.com]
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- FTC scrutinizes Adaptec deal - Adaptec's proposed $775 million buyout of Symbios is drawing closer scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission. [News.com]
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- G3 systems lead Apple profits - The spark that's lifting Apple Computer (AAPL) to profitability is the high-margin line of Power Macintosh G3 systems it released in November. [News.com]
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- Gates trumpets CA deals - Embattled Microsoft CEO Bill Gates may have found solace amid the information technology professionals at this week's CA World '98 user conference, who were probably more concerned with network outages than antitrust minutiae. [News.com]
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- Gates worth $50 billion - Bill Gates's net worth now stands at about $50 billion, thanks to the recent run-up in Microsoft's stock to an all-time high. [News.com]
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- Gateway beats the Street - Gateway 2000 today reported a jump in PC shipments, which helped the computer maker beat analysts' expectations. [News.com]
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- Gateway changes its stripes - Gateway is putting on a new face to reach out to businesses as it tries to maintain its down-to-earth image with consumers. [News.com]
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- Gateway joins notebook price cuts - Gateway will be the first major notebook vendor to respond to yesterday's mobile processor price cuts by Intel, as it prepares to trim the cost of Pentium II-based systems on Friday. [News.com]
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- Gateway notebook gets Pentium II - Gateway (GTW) added a mobile Pentium II processor, a DVD drive, and a larger screen to a high-end portable while reducing its price. [News.com]
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- Gateway's low-cost Pentium II PC - Gateway, which last week dropped the "2000" from its name as part of a campaign to polish the company's image, marked the occasion by offering a low price on Pentium II-based PC systems. [News.com]
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- Gay Financial Network to launch - After months of planning, the Gay Financial Network (GFN), geared toward serving the gay community, will launch April 24. [News.com]
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- Gay financial site launching - When Walter Schubert first thought of the idea of an online financial service aimed at gays and lesbians, he thought he was on to something big. Today he said the service, which is launching tomorrow, has taken on a life of its own. [News.com]
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- GeoCities names CEO - GeoCities tapped a media mogul as chief executive as one of the final steps in building a strong online community and media company. [News.com]
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- Global AT&T deal in question - Telecom Italia says that a planned partnership with Britain's Cable & Wireless does not imply the demise of its tentative accord with AT&T. [News.com]
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- Global Village pins loss on Apple - Global Village Communication (GVIL) said today that it expects to report a loss for the fourth quarter ended March 31 due to a continued decline in Apple Computer's Macintosh market. [News.com]
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- Global Y2K attack goes online - In an unprecedented move to focus global attention on the Year 2000 problem, the G7, in cooperation with several other international bodies, plans to launch an online conference in June, organizers said today. [News.com]
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- Gore to wire inner-city schools - Vice President Al Gore announced a new initiative to bring the Internet and online knowledge to inner city and rural schools, seeking to close a "digital divide" between rich and poor students. [News.com]
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- Gore unveils Internet2 backbone - A superfast computer network backbone connecting U.S. universities that could lead to a much speedier Internet was unveiled today by Vice President Al Gore. [News.com]
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- Gorilla not impressed with Net chat - Koko the 300-pound gorilla logged on to the Internet yesterday--and clearly was not impressed. [News.com]
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- Gorilla to "chat" on AOL - She can't type, but Koko the gorilla is not going to let that stop her from using the Internet. [News.com]
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- GTE laying off 1,500 employees - GTE (GTE) said today that it is laying off 1,500 employees as part of a broad restructuring effort to save the company more than $500 million over the next two years. [News.com]
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- GTE to buy BigBook domain name - GTE (GTE) said today that it has completed a deal to buy the BigBook domain name, trade name, and trademarks in an effort to build its presence in the cutthroat Net directory business. [News.com]
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- GTE to offer ADSL access - In a move aimed at speeding up the nation's telecommute, GTE (GTE) today announced it will roll out high-speed ADSL service in 16 states, starting in June. [News.com]
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- Hacker as high-tech Robin Hood? - The mother of an Israeli teenager who hacked into the Pentagon's computer system was quoted today as saying her son was a high-tech Robin Hood. [News.com]
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- Hacker gets ad deal - "Analyzer," an Israeli teenager who hacked his way to Internet fame by breaking into the Pentagon's computer, has begun cashing in on his cyberassault. [News.com]
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- Hackers hit U.S. defense system - A shadowy group of computer hackers has apparently succeeded in breaking into a U.S. computer system that controls military satellites, officials and security experts said. [News.com]
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- Hancock: Life after Apple - Ellen Hancock stands as undisputed proof that there is life after Apple Computer, and a thriving one at that. [News.com]
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- Health experts repeat Web warning - Medical experts said today that the Internet can be a valuable source of health information but again warned that it can also lead consumers dangerously astray. [News.com]
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- High-tech lobby gains ground - As a political coalition, the Technology Network is teetering between being a newborn and a toddler. [News.com]
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- Home network tests called success - In-home networking may be closer to reality than you think. [News.com]
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- Hosting firm closes under pressure - A Canadian company that hosted Web pages for groups with connections to white extremists has pulled the plug on its service, but government officials said they would continue their probe into hate on the Internet. [News.com]
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- How does Lotus fend off Microsoft? - When Microsoft (MSFT) seriously moved into the groupware market with the introduction of the Exchange Server in 1996, many observers thought Lotus Development would quickly lose its position as the market leader. [News.com]
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- How to spot Pentium II fakes - Suspicious PC owners who believe they may have been sold a fake 300-MHz Pentium II processor can now run a simple test to find out whether they've been duped. [News.com]
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- HP climbing to the top - On paper, Hewlett-Packard appears to have the technology, corporate presence, financial resources, and sales momentum required to become one of the top PC and notebook companies. Whether the company can pull it off remains to be seen. [News.com]
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- HP cuts notebook prices - Hewlett-Packard cut prices by as much as 20 percent on notebook PCs using Intel's mobile Pentium MMX processor, preparing the way for newer models using the recently introduced mobile Pentium II chip. [News.com]
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- HP cuts workstation prices - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) cut prices on its Unix-based workstations by up to 37 percent, in an effort to gear up for the inevitable market share battle with Sun Microsystems. [News.com]
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- HP sees notebook growth in Asia - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) is racing to grow its portable computer business in Asia in the midst of a price war that could bring about market consolidation. [News.com]
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- HP tools unify Unix, NT efforts - Hewlett-Packard is attempting to simplify the process of building corporate applications in the growing number of companies that support both Unix and Windows NT-based systems. [News.com]
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- HP touts $799 color ink jet printers - Hewlett-Packard today announced a new line of low-cost, high-speed ink jet printers intended for business use. [News.com]
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- HP's digital photo strategy risky - Armed with a panoply of products, Hewlett-Packard intends to become an early leader in the home digital photography market, but the company is taking a big gamble by eschewing the business segment. [News.com]
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- HUD takes complaints online - Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo, marking the 30th anniversary of a federal law that makes housing discrimination illegal, has announced that his agency is taking its efforts to enforce the law online. [News.com]
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- IBM CEO to outline turnaround - With IBM's finances on firm footing and its stock price near an all-time high, the company's chairman and chief executive, Louis Gerstner, has a freer hand than at any time since taking the helm at the giant computer company in 1993. [News.com]
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- IBM debuts business PC line - IBM (IBM) will unveil today a broad lineup of business personal computer products, aiming to be among the first companies to sell systems based on new technologies from Intel. [News.com]
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- IBM decline may shake market - The already-unsettled technology sector will likely get a dose of bad news tomorrow when IBM is expected to report its first earnings decline in nearly two years. [News.com]
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- IBM execs to testify in Argentina - IBM said yesterday that four executives were ready to give evidence in an investigation into allegations the company's Argentine subsidiary paid bribes to win a $250 million state contract. [News.com]
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- IBM in chip talks with Acer - IBM (IBM) is negotiating to license its advanced memory chip manufacturing technology to Acer, a source close to Big Blue said today. [News.com]
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- IBM increases quarterly dividend - IBM said today that its directors had approved a $3.5 billion stock repurchase program and raised the quarterly dividend on common stock by 10 percent. [News.com]
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- IBM names MCI's Maine as CFO - IBM (IBM) said today that it had named MCI Communications' (MCIC) Douglas Maine as its new chief financial officer, ending a ten-month search to fill the vacant post. [News.com]
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- IBM NC dips under $500 - IBM (IBM) slashed prices on two of its Network Station models, apparently giving Big Blue the market's first low-cost, sub-$500 network computer. [News.com]
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- IBM PCs tout AMD chips - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) released the fastest K6 processor yet and IBM (IBM) immediately announced a new consumer model featuring the top-of-the-line chip. [News.com]
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- IBM pitches TV consultancy - IBM is launching a new consulting practice aimed at capitalizing on the shift under way in the media and entertainment businesses. [News.com]
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- IBM profits hit, stock up - Citing deeper-than-expected PC price cuts and weakness in the Asian economy, IBM posted a drop in first-quarter profits yesterday, its first year-over-year decline in nearly two years. [News.com]
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- IBM sees EMU market opportunity - IBM (IBM) said today that Europe's plans for an economic and monetary union created a multibillion-dollar market opportunity for the company despite the preparation costs. [News.com]
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- IBM sub-$1,000 PC courts schools - IBM (IBM) unveiled a limited-time sales promotion offering schools a sub-$1,000 computer with monitor, evidence that major PC manufacturers will be targeting the education market. [News.com]
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- IBM unveils new ThinkPads - IBM released a slew of new Pentium II-based notebooks, including several models from the all-new "thin and light" 600 series. [News.com]
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- IBM updates eNetwork firewall - IBM (IBM) will ship a new version of its eNetwork firewall this month, bundling three modes of security protection in one piece of software. [News.com]
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- IBM upgrades Deep Blue - The supercomputer that made chess history is about to get smarter. [News.com]
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- IBM upgrading to 56-kbps standard - IBM announced today that it its Internet Connection Services is upgrading its network to support the new v.90 56-kbps modem technology standard, which will allow Netizens more flexibility when choosing both a modem and an access provider. [News.com]
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- IBM wins global currency deal - IBM won a contract to implement a global currency settlement system for foreign exchange clearing body CLS Services (CLSS), the computer company said in a news release yesterday. [News.com]
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- IBM, Intel team up on NCs - IBM will "tune" its Java business software for network computers using Intel processors and conduct joint development with the chip giant. [News.com]
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- IBM, Sun expand database pact - There may be a slowdown in database server software sales, but IBM hasn't noticed. [News.com]
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- IBM: PCs down, chips up - IBM's first-quarter earnings, not unlike those of competitors such as Compaq Computer, took a hit today as bloated inventories caused a "terrible" price war that resulted in a significant decline in PC business revenue. [News.com]
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- ICat offers storefront enhancements - Online catalog software vendor iCat next week is expected to unveil a public Web site where merchants can download software and e-commerce services for free, letting electronic retailers assemble a full Web storefront from free parts, sources close to iCat said. [News.com]
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- ICat to host Net storefronts - Hoping to lure small businesses online, e-commerce software vendor iCat on Wednesday will launch a new service hosting Web storefronts for merchants. [News.com]
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- IDC: IT mind share confused - Vendor noise is increasing the uncertainty among senior IS executives about whom to rely on for Internet technologies, according to a survey released today by International Data Corporation, an analyst firm. [News.com]
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- IDT ships low-cost Intel clone - IDT is starting volume production of its new low-cost 200-MHz processor, with faster speed chips to come later this year, the company announced. [News.com]
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- Informix back in the game - After surviving last year's constant financial and management turmoil, Informix Software (IFMX) is out to prove that it's back in the technology hunt with a new version of its database and an aggressive plan to lure customers from rival software companies. [News.com]
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- Informix surprises Street, again - Taking Wall Street by surprise for a second consecutive quarter, struggling database maker Informix posted a profit for its most recent quarter, despite analyst expectations of a loss. [News.com]
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- Infoseek buys chat company - In its bid to become the home page for as many Web surfers as possible, Infoseek (SEEK) announced yesterday that it is acquiring the WebChat Broadcasting System. [News.com]
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- Infoseek recovers after hours - Select Internet stocks, led by Infoseek, mounted a partial recovery in after-hours trading today, following a profit-taking sell-off in the sector during the regular trading day, traders said. [News.com]
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- Initiative targets phone congestion - Bellcore today launched an initiative to get Internet traffic off the public telephone system and back onto the so-called Information Superhighway. [News.com]
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- Inktomi deals with AOL, Digital - Inktomi today announced that it cut deals with America Online and Digital Equipment to provide the companies with caching software. [News.com]
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- Inktomi files to go public - Inktomi, the software company that has struck deals with Microsoft, America Online, and Intel for caching and search technologies, today filed to go public. [News.com]
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- Inktomi strikes deals for caching - Inktomi said today that it has struck deals with three companies--Digex, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, and Knology Holdings--to deploy its network caching product. [News.com]
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- Intel chip draws lukewarm support - On the eve of the announcement of Intel's (INTC) first low-cost chip, support from PC manufacturers for the Celeron seems tepid, with only a handful expected to announce new systems upon the chip's debut. [News.com]
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- Intel desktop share to slip - Almost all of this year's revenue growth in Intel and Intel-compatible microprocessors for the desktop arena will go to Intel's rivals, according to a new market research report. [News.com]
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- Intel eyes 500-MHz chips - In a break with past practice, Intel plans to move quickly to manufacturing technology that will allow it to pack more processing power into less chip real estate, eyeing 500-MHz chips next year, Intel CEO Craig Barrett said today. [News.com]
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- Intel invests in Digital Persona - Digital Persona, a maker of personal identification systems based on biometrics, announced today that it closed a round of financing with investments from Intel and IDG Ventures. [News.com]
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- Intel invests in sports content - Intel (INTC) said today that it has made an equity investment in Quokka Sports, a digital sports media company. [News.com]
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- Intel layoffs portend future - Things are not turning out exactly the way Intel (INTC) had planned. [News.com]
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- Intel price cuts due - As it introduces the low-cost Celeron and two high-end versions of the Pentium II, Intel (INTC) will cut prices tomorrow on existing Pentium II processors. [News.com]
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- Intel prospects lift Nasdaq - The Nasdaq Composite Index surged more than 20 points to a new record today amid strength in technology stocks after bellwether Intel (INTC) said its business prospects were positive for the second half of the year, traders said. [News.com]
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- Intel rivals gain on chip giant - Shares of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and National Semiconductor (NSM) both jumped today as investors viewed the two Intel (INTC) rivals as being increasingly better positioned against the semiconductor giant in the low-cost PC market. [News.com]
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- Intel sees demand in Europe - Intel (INTC) expects solid demand in Europe for PCs based on its new high-speed computer chips, despite the market's trend toward low-priced machines. [News.com]
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- Intel sees strong Asia PC growth - The personal computer market in Asia continues to be strong despite the regional economic downturn, Intel (INTC) general manager for Asia Pacific John Davies said today. [News.com]
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- Intel stock gets cautious rating - In another reminder that Intel's (INTC) Craig Barrett faces a tough challenge when he succeeds Andy Grove as the chip giant's chief executive next month, a Wall Street analyst today initiated coverage of the company's stock with a more cautious rating. [News.com]
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- Intel to appeal patent suit - Intel said today it would appeal a federal judge's order that it resume doing business with the Intergraph Corporation the same way it works with other makers of high-end computer workstations. [News.com]
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- Intel to manage PC inventories - What company is devising methods to beat direct vendor Dell at its build-to-order game? Ironically, it's chipmaker Intel. [News.com]
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- Intel upbeat about China, Asia markets - A day after Intel held a meeting in New York to unveil two initiatives that will help computer vendors, distributors, and resellers better manage inventories and reduce profit-sapping surpluses, the chipmaking giant said that it sees business "strengthening" in Asia and that robust growth in China's personal computer market and Taiwan's advanced technology sector will spur growth. [News.com]
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- Intel updates network software - Intel (INTC) is continuing to add management software options for systems based on its hardware. [News.com]
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- Intel Xeon chip to boost profits - Xeon will be the name for the family of sophisticated corporate processors coming this summer from Intel, the company announced today, introducing the second phase of a branding strategy the chip giant is executing this year. [News.com]
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- Intel's Celeron due in terminals - Although the new Celeron chip is getting a tepid response from computer vendors, the processor will begin to appear in low-cost terminal computers in Japan later this year. [News.com]
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- Intel's Grove by the numbers - Intel (INTC) chief executive Andy Grove exercised nearly $50 million in Intel stock during 1997, according to a regulatory statement filed today. [News.com]
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- Intel's Korean investment could be $1 billion - Intel (INTC) plans to buy up to $1 billion worth of computer chips and components from South Korean companies this year. [News.com]
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- Intel's Malaysia plans on track - Newly named Intel(INTC) CEO Craig Barrett said today that the chip giant's plans to invest up to $500 million at three facilities in Malaysia remain unchanged despite the regional economic crisis. [News.com]
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- Intel's second-half strategy - Intel is embarking on new initiatives designed to help PC makers better estimate production and inventory needs. The chip giant plans to rapidly shift to an advanced manufacturing process that promises to deliver 500-MHz chips in a year. Intel also believes that the second half will bring a cyclical upturn in the market. Meanwhile, Dell is phasing out PCs using the older Pentium chip in favor of exclusive use of Pentium IIs. [News.com]
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- Intel, HP plan Merced's successor - Merced, the 64-bit processor codeveloped by Intel and Hewlett-Packard, isn't due until the second half of 1999, but the two companies are already at work on its more robust, and likely more influential, successor. [News.com]
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- Intel, Microsoft move closer on CE - Although it missed out on the first round of handheld computers, Intel has begun to work more closely with Microsoft on pairing its chips with the Windows CE operating system that the software maker is aggressively pushing in the market for small consumer and business devices. [News.com]
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- Intel, Microsoft team on TV-in-PC - Intel (INTC) and Microsoft (MSFT) have joined together in an attempt to promote what the two companies say will be the next killer application, software that combines TV broadcast reception on PCs with Web-based e-commerce. [News.com]
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- Intel: demand will return - The PC inventory glut and slower-than-expected demand will keep a lid on second-quarter revenue growth for the PC industry, but it will return to form during the second half of the year, Intel executives said in a meeting with analysts in New York today. [News.com]
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- Interest rate scare hits tech stocks - Tech stocks were among those hit hardest today by the fear that the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates to slow the economy's growth. [News.com]
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- Intergraph wins Intel injunction - Intergraph (INGR) said today that it won a preliminary injunction against Intel (INTC) as part of its federal lawsuit accusing the giant chipmaker of patent infringement and antitrust violations. [News.com]
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- Intershop updates Net store tools - E-commerce software maker Intershop Communications is attempting to carve out a niche in an increasingly crowded market. [News.com]
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- Investigators call on Microsoft - Microsoft (MSFT) lawyers and executives met today with top Justice Department officials as the U.S. government pondered whether to bring new, broader charges against the software giant. [News.com]
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- Investors bail out NetChannel - NetChannel employees returned to work today after the company received a financial bailout from its investor group. [News.com]
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- Iomega banks on new Zip drive - Iomega announced a new low-price storage drive for the retail market, hoping to capitalize on the low-cost PC craze and move past recent setbacks involving some of its older products. [News.com]
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- Iona readies middleware security tool - Iona Technologies (IONAY) is readying a security tool for its Orbix line of object request broker middleware. [News.com]
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- Is Digital falling off the desktop? - Digital Equipment's line of PCs may be dying a slow death. [News.com]
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- Is WebTV's rate hike premature? - WebTV Networks' surprise announcement that it is raising the monthly rate for its WebTV Plus subscribers has some analysts questioning the company's strategy. [News.com]
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- ISP attacked after finding child porn - The manager of a small Internet access provider says vandals shut down her site in retaliation after she reported a child pornography site to law enforcement authorities. [News.com]
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- Israeli firm plans stock sale - Mashov Computers said today that its board of directors has approved the sale of 2.7 million shares to Shamrock Holdings of California and 800,000 shares to Israel's Formula Systems. [News.com]
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- J.D. Edwards rolls out Scorex - Business applications maker J.D. Edwards will roll out its new supply chain package next week, in its continuing effort to do battle with longtime leaders in that market, SAP and Baan. [News.com]
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- Japan server sales rose in 97 - Japan's domestic shipments of servers rose in 1997, with Windows NT-based systems continuing to gain on Unix systems, but unsurprisingly the overall pace of growth declined slightly and is expected to continue slowing in 1998, according to a market research report. [News.com]
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- Japanese Win 98 to launch in July - The Japanese unit of Microsoft (MSFT) said today that it aims to release the Japanese version of Windows 98 about one month after the launch of the original version slated for June 25. [News.com]
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- Java alive and well at Oracle - The network computer may not be living up to Oracle (ORCL) chairman Larry Ellison's lofty expectations, but the company's Java-based network computing architecture (NCA) is alive and well, company executives say. [News.com]
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- JavaSoft reined in Sun shuffle - In a major reorganization, Sun Microsystems said today that it will eliminate its individual operating companies and move to a set of divisions focused on products, technologies, and services under chief operating officer Ed Zander, who was promoted to that post in January. [News.com]
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- JavaSoft soothes licensees - Stung by criticism from licensees, executives from the JavaSoft division of Sun Microsystems (SUNW) said today they will improve communication with Java licensees and make a clearer distinction between Java platform efforts and specific JavaSoft software products that might compete with licensees. [News.com]
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- Jobs faces shareholders - Apple Computer's acting chief executive Steve Jobs addressed shareholders in a "town hall" setting here today and promised to step up efforts in the consumer market this year. [News.com]
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- Jobs pitches QuickTime to TV - Apple Computer (AAPL) interim CEO Steve Jobs delivered the opening keynote speech of the annual National Association of Broadcasters convention here, pitching his company's QuickTime software as pivotal technology for the new--and confusing--era of digital content creation. [News.com]
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- Jobs's stocks riding high - Steve Jobs, CEO of both Apple Computer and Pixar Animation Studios, is riding high these days. [News.com]
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- Jobs: Apple "stumbled" on Intuit - When Intuit, maker of the popular Quicken financial software, said earlier this week it would not produce a new version for the Macintosh, it raised some questions about Apple Computer's ability to keep developers in its fold. [News.com]
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- Judge rules domain fees illegal - A federal judge has ruled that a government fund with more than $50 million collected from domain name registrants is an illegal tax because it was never approved by Congress. [News.com]
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- K-Tel declares 2-to-1 stock split - The phenomenal run-up in K-Tel's stock since the music retailer announced plans to sell records via the Internet only two weeks ago already has prompted management to declare a 2-to-1 stock split. [News.com]
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- K-Tel soars ahead of online launch - The stock of K-Tel International (KTEL) soared yesterday after the music company announced that it would sell its music titles over the Internet. [News.com]
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- Key feature in notebooks: low cost - One of the most notable features of the Pentium II notebooks announced today has less to do with the chip's improved performance and more to do with cost. [News.com]
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- Kodak, Intel join on digital cameras - Kodak and Intel announced a joint marketing and development alliance today to promote digital imaging. [News.com]
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- Kulicke & Soffa foresees loss - Kulicke & Soffa Industries (KLIC) said late yesterday that a major customer, possibly Intel, had canceled an order, and the company expected to report a net loss for its quarter ending in June instead of the profit Wall Street had expected. [News.com]
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- Layoffs in Intel earnings wake - Intel (INTC) reported revenues of $6 billion and earnings of $1.3 billion or 72 cents a share, a significant decline in profitability from last quarter and the year-ago period. [News.com]
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- Legal foes do Net deal - When it comes to dealmaking on the Internet, even lawsuits can bring companies together. [News.com]
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- Lessig fight still on - In court documents filed today in federal court, Microsoft and the Justice Department traded jabs over a computer expert who was appointed to sift through evidence in the high-profile court battle between the two parties. [News.com]
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- Level 8 updates middleware tool - Level 8 Systems today said it is shipping software that adds a powerful new capability to message queuing middleware from Microsoft and IBM. [News.com]
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- Lightbridge to come up short - Lightbridge, a provider of software-based services for telecommunications carriers, said today that it expects first-quarter diluted earnings of 1 cent per share, compared with 11 cents per share a year ago. [News.com]
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- Lotus bug threatens imported data - A bug in Lotus 1-2-3 97 can cause users to lose data when importing files, the company confirmed today. [News.com]
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- Low-cost PCs plague CompUSA - Computer retailer CompUSA's (CPU) stock fell again today after plunging yesterday, the latest casualty of the big drop in personal computer prices. [News.com]
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- Lucent market cap surpasses AT&T - Lucent Technologies' market value surged past $100 billion today, topping that of its onetime parent, AT&T. [News.com]
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- Lucent to buy Yurie Systems - Lucent Technologies has agreed to acquire Yurie Systems, a maker of data, voice, and video networking equipment, for $35 cash per share, or a total of about $1 billion. [News.com]
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- Lucent, Matsushita team on digital TV - PC-TV convergence took another step forward today when Lucent and Matsushita announced that they have created a circuit board design that will make it easier for computer vendors to incorporate digital TV functionality into their PCs. [News.com]
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- Lycos pushes into portal niche - In the latest of a steady string of deals intended to fertilize Lycos's growth into a full-fledged portal, the search site today added an automated search directory. [News.com]
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- Lycos strikes gold in deals - Net search firm Lycos (LCOS) has inked six deals totaling $30 million, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Lycos to start online service - Search site Lycos is teaming up with an Internet service provider to offer Lycos Online, a Web-based online service, the firm's chief executive said today. [News.com]
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- Lycos ups portal ante - Search firm Lycos (LCOS) today added to its recent onslaught of announcements an expansion into Japan, coverage of an upcoming Mount Everest climb, and a new partnership in its career channel. [News.com]
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- Macromedia to open Flash - Not to be outdone by a competitor, Macromedia is opening its popular Flash file format for the delivery of vector graphics and animation on the Web. [News.com]
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- Magaziner: Net privacy efforts fall short - Online industry efforts to protect Internet users' privacy have fallen short of expectations as a July 1 deadline looms, White House adviser Ira Magaziner said today. [News.com]
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- Major keeps tech talk simple - What better place for a former British prime minister to espouse his thoughts on global change than a technology conference filled with network administrators? [News.com]
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- Making the PC and TV one - Computer companies continue trying to elbow their way into the television industry, offering everything from new processors and set-top boxes to multimedia development software for next-generation digital TV at the National Broadcasters Association convention. [News.com]
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- Man charged with Net stock fraud - A California man was arrested today for allegedly defrauding roughly 150 investors out of $190,000 in a scheme to sell stock in his company over the Internet, authorities said. [News.com]
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- Management shakeup at SCO - The Santa Cruz Operation, the maker of Unix systems, has named cofounder and executive vice president Doug Michels as chief executive officer, succeeding Alok Mohan, who will stay on as chairman. [News.com]
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- Markets soar on economic news - Stocks soared in early trading today as Wall Street reacted euphorically to the latest good news on inflation and the economy's growth. [News.com]
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- MCI revises its books - MCI Communications said today that it will take most of a charge removed from its fourth-quarter results in the first half of this year. [News.com]
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- MCI, NBC prepare for HDTV - MCI Communications will offer digital TV service trials that include the HDTV (high-definition TV) format later this year, while NBC has decided its initial digital TV broadcasts will feature a lower-resolution signal. [News.com]
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- Merrill to ax firms with Y2K issues - Merrill Lynch will cut off firms that are not prepared to deal with the Year 2000 computer problem, the securities firm's chief technology officer said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Micromuse moves tools to NT - Micromuse (MUSE) will ship a version of its service-level management software tools in the third quarter of this year that runs on Microsoft's Windows NT. [News.com]
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- Micropayments' future uncertain - In the early, heady days of electronic commerce two years ago, Internet payment companies were sure that electronic cash was the next big thing. [News.com]
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- Microsoft acquires Mesa Group - Still on a buying spree, Microsoft said today it acquired closely held Mesa Group, which offers services to customers who want to migrate Lotus Notes applications to the Microsoft Exchange server. [News.com]
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- Microsoft buys IE users with NT - Microsoft (MSFT) wants more Internet Explorer users, and it's using Windows NT to get them. [News.com]
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- Microsoft changes content deals - Amid ongoing antitrust investigations of its business conduct, Microsoft (MSFT) said today it has modified hundreds of contracts with content companies worldwide to remove provisions that limit their ability to promote browsers made by competitors such as Netscape Communications. [News.com]
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- Microsoft debuts Y2K strategy - After catching heat from its user base, Microsoft today launched its anticipated revamped Web site and strategy dedicated to the Year 2000 problem, highlighting date bugs in some of its big name products like Windows 95, Office 95, and Office 97. [News.com]
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- Microsoft drops out of college deal - Saying it won't get enough bang for its buck, Microsoft has pulled out of a controversial ten-year deal that would have made it a money-making business partner with the world's largest university system. [News.com]
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- Microsoft expands middleware efforts - Microsoft said yesterday that it has an effort underway to make it easier for various business programs to share information, an initiative that could compete with middleware software vendors. [News.com]
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- Microsoft foes cite Intuit case - The Justice Department prevented Microsoft from gaining a chokehold on electronic commerce three years ago by opposing a proposed merger with Intuit, according to a new consumer group report that Microsoft called "fiction." [News.com]
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- Microsoft in German Net ad deal - Germany's Deutsche Telekom AG today said it signed a deal with tech giant Microsoft to put advertising on the home page of its T-Online Internet service. [News.com]
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- Microsoft on front lines - As Justice Department regulators meet with Microsoft attorneys, the company is devising new legal and market strategies to stay competitive while avoiding further antitrust complications. [News.com]
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- Microsoft on schedule for Win 98 - While federal and state antitrust regulators weigh new antitrust actions against Microsoft, the software giant and the rest of the PC industry are ramping up for the summer release of Windows 98. [News.com]
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- Microsoft on the money - Neither the Justice Department, nor Netscape, nor the Mac can stop Microsoft. The company's stock is trading at record levels, and it is reporting healthy quarterly earnings again. [News.com]
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- Microsoft plans data confab - Microsoft (MSFT) will host more than 200 software developers and technology users at its Redmond, Washington, headquarters next week to hammer out a way to share information stored in data warehouses through the company's data repository. [News.com]
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- Microsoft pushes Exchange - In a move it hopes will draw more customers to its Exchange messaging server, Microsoft (MSFT) today launched a new Web site and several initiatives with partner companies. [News.com]
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- Microsoft spins in ad campaign - Microsoft (MSFT) is launching a national print advertising campaign to win the hearts and minds of the American public in the midst of its antitrust investigation by the Justice Department and numerous states. [News.com]
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- Microsoft teams for Net systems - Microsoft is teaming with European systems integrator Cap Gemini to build commercial Internet systems for the telecommunications market, the companies said today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft tests retail software - Microsoft (MSFT) today began shipping the beta version of its ActiveStore software framework to link retailers' in-store systems with back-end operations, the company said. [News.com]
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- Microsoft to buy Firefly - Microsoft (MSFT) today announced a deal to purchase Firefly Network, a developer of personalization software, a move that was immediately criticized by privacy organizations. [News.com]
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- Microsoft to offer investor software - In a major push to win over bankers, Microsoft today announced efforts both to sell back-office software to financial institutions and to help them attract customers to online banking and brokerage services. [News.com]
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- Microsoft to seed Israeli fund - Microsoft will invest $7.5 million in an Israeli venture capital fund, Microsoft's executive vice president Steve Ballmer said today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft upgrades Site Server - Microsoft today unveiled a new version of its e-commerce software, Site Server, and said it is positioning the server for both consumer-oriented and business-to-business commerce over the Internet. [News.com]
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- Microsoft wants say in SPA - If you can't beat 'em, join 'em--or at least try. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, DOJ back in court - Microsoft and the Justice Department squared off in a federal appeals court today over the high-profile antitrust action surrounding the software giant's Internet Explorer Web browser. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Sony to hook up homes - Microsoft and Sony announced an alliance to promote home networking based on the Windows CE operating system, specifically targeting high-definition television in an agreement that opens yet another front for Windows CE. [News.com]
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- Microsoft: Judge overstepped bounds - Microsoft continues to hold its ground in the antitrust case brought by the Justice Department, arguing that in issuing a preliminary injunction separating the company's Web browser from Windows 95, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson overstepped his legal authority. Meanwhile, conservatives Bob Dole and Robert Bork join an anti-Microsoft lobbying group that includes players outside the technology industry, as well as Redmond rivals Netscape and Sun Microsystems. [News.com]
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- Microstrategy to go public - Microstrategy has filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public stock offering aimed at raising up to $36 million. [News.com]
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- Milken works market again - Forget junk bonds. These days, financier Michael Milken is making his money from the boom in Internet stocks. [News.com]
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- Mobile Pentium II questions raised - Intel (INTC) and most of the industry's major notebook PC manufacturers will gather in Santa Clara, California, tomorrow morning to showcase the first mobile computers using the Pentium II processor. [News.com]
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- Monorail expands minitower PCs - Monorail is expanding its line of minitower PCs as the first incarnation of its innovative all-in-one integrated system is phased out. [News.com]
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- More antitrust suits for Microsoft? - In what could be a coordinated affront on Microsoft, the Justice Department and up to a dozen states are considering filing antitrust lawsuits on the same day early next week, a person close to one investigation said today. [News.com]
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- More Net deals for Saudi prince - Telecommunications company Silki La Silki, 50 percent owned by Saudi-based Kingdom Holding (KHC), signed a memorandum of understanding to buy half of Internet-based information services firm Arabia.On.Line, KHC said yesterday. [News.com]
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- More streaming from Microsoft - Microsoft (MSFT) today rolled out a new multimedia file format strategy for its Windows operating system, intended to replace the Audio Video Interleaved (AVI) file format. [News.com]
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- Motorola falls on earnings surprise - Motorola's stock fell sharply today after the company warned that its second-quarter earnings could be more than 45 percent lower than what Wall Street had expected. [News.com]
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- Motorola meets revised estimates - Motorola (MOT) reported first-quarter earnings that met analysts' revised estimates, as it warned that Asia's economic problems would continue to hurt sales for "several more quarters." [News.com]
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- Motorola regains memory - A $1.5 billion semiconductor plant built by Motorola and Germany's Siemens opened in Virginia and began production of memory chips, Siemens said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Motorola top exec quits - Jack Scanlon, a senior Motorola (MOT) executive, is quitting to run Global Crossing, a telecommunications start-up, a surprise move that could disrupt Motorola's plans for restructuring, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Mozilla gets a Linux browser - It's one small step, but a symbolic one for Mozillakind. A Norwegian software team has just released a demonstration-only browser based on Netscape Communications' (NSCP) Communicator source code. [News.com]
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- MS drops channel requirement - Microsoft said today that it is giving computer manufacturers the option of shipping a version of Windows 98 that hides a controversial feature called the "Active Channel Bar." [News.com]
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- MS-Netscape meeting questioned - Federal prosecutors are investigating Microsoft for allegedly trying to persuade Netscape Communications to market only Web browsers for non-Windows operating systems, according to a report. [News.com]
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- MSNBC expands business, travel - Aiming to capitalize on the boom in business and travel sites, MSNBC is expanding sections in those two areas on its Web site. [News.com]
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- Music agencies want Net money - The music industry has reaped many benefits from the Net as a medium for distribution, sales, and marketing--but the explosive growth of the Net music business also has opened up a copyright and licensing can of worms. [News.com]
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- N2K, Ticketmaster in Net deal - Continuing its aggressive moves in the Net music space, N2K is set to announce a two-year, $12 million online deal with Ticketmaster, an executive confirmed today. [News.com]
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- Nando.net updates Web strategy - Daily news aggregator Nando.net is getting creative in its struggle to turn a profit. [News.com]
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- National buys circuit maker - National Semiconductor announced today it has signed a "definitive agreement" to acquire ComCore Semiconductor, a privately held company that designs and manufactures communications chips. [News.com]
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- National Semi to lay off 10% - Declining orders have prompted National Semiconductor to announce that it will lay off about 1,400 employees in the next 30 days and warn of an impending loss for its current fiscal quarter. [News.com]
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- Nations to meet on crypto - Business, legal, and government experts will meet in Copenhagen later this week to discuss ways to promote security on the Internet and other electronic networks. [News.com]
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- Nationwide breaks in AT&T service - AT&T's (T) top executive apologized to customers affected by outages on the company's frame relay network and pledged that the service will remain free until the cause has been rooted out. [News.com]
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- NBC to add video clips - NBC today announced that it is rolling out a service that capitalizes on one of its strongest selling points: video clips of its popular TV content. [News.com]
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- NC blamed for Sun, Oracle slides - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) and Oracle (ORCL) saw their stock prices fall today because of growing concern about the commercial prospect for network computers. [News.com]
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- NC: Idea before its time? - The network computer was introduced as a concept more than two years ago, and it's still mostly just that. Although touted as a new paradigm by Sun and Oracle, the NC--a simplified device that relies on central servers, rather than its own computing power--are finding only a limited market. Today, Wall Street is blaming the NC for a sudden decline in the stock of both companies. [News.com]
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- NCI demos Pentium-based set-top - Network Computing Incorporated demonstrated a set-top box built around a 166-MHz Pentium processor today at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, the latest sign that TV-based computers will be a major focal point for the high tech industry, even if customers are still showing only tepid interest. [News.com]
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- NCI, Time Warner in talks - Oracle partner Network Computer Incorporated is talking with Time Warner Cable about providing software for use in interactive TV set-top boxes, according to cable industry sources. [News.com]
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- NEC to make advanced chips - In Tokyo, NEC said on Thursday that it would start mass production of next-generation chips using advanced manufacturing technology. [News.com]
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- NEC, Hitachi license HP's 64-bit Unix - Hewlett-Packard is set to license its version of the Unix operating system to Hitachi and NEC, a move that would be a major endorsement for HP's technology on upcoming 64-bit computers that use Intel's next-generation Merced chip. [News.com]
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- NEC, Hitachi license HP's 64-bit Unix - Hewlett-Packard announced a series of licensing and technology alliances with Hitachi, NEC, and Stratus that will make HP's Unix operating system the group's OS of choice for servers based around the upcoming 64-bit Merced processor. [News.com]
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- Net boosts Netscape stock - The Internet is breathing new life into Netscape's stock. [News.com]
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- Net companies rival media giants - Are Net companies such as Yahoo and America Online destined to become 21st-century media giants, alongside television networks such as ABC and print media companies like Gannett? [News.com]
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- Net companies soaring - The Internet market is on a tear this week, as the rising stocks of companies like Yahoo and America Online boost the rest of the sector. As the Dow hovers close to 9,000, investor confidence is driving Net firms ever higher, even those with continuing losses. [News.com]
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- Net exchange proposal on hold - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has put on hold its review of a proposal to create America's first Internet-based commodity exchange, until agency staff gets more information about the market, CFTC chairwoman Brooksley Born said. [News.com]
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- Net gambling bill overhauled - Despite the Justice Department's crackdown on cybercasinos, federal legislation that would ban Net gambling is being overhauled to include major allowances for online horse betting and state lotteries and possibly to permit wager sites based on Indian reservations. [News.com]
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- Net game firm in privacy flap - Blizzard Entertainment claims it had good intentions when it collected the names and email addresses of some of its users without their knowledge or consent. But the act has brought the gaming firm a storm of criticism from users and privacy advocates. [News.com]
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- Net music veteran tries sales - Net music search directory the Ultimate Band List (UBL) is adding an e-commerce area to its offerings when the site relaunches later this month. [News.com]
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- Net phone companies race clock - Internet phone companies are racing to cash in on what may become a billion-dollar industry before the government's wheels of bureaucracy can pick up speed. [News.com]
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- Net phone firms elude regulation - Companies that carry phone calls over the Net avoided new fees and regulations today when the Federal Communications Commission decided against designating them as long distance carriers. [News.com]
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- Net prevents U.K. suicide - An American computer buff saved the life of a British woman after noticing her suicide note on an Internet bulletin board. [News.com]
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- Net software piracy growing - Internet software piracy is growing rapidly as Net use spreads and could surpass traditional forms of piracy, a Business Software Alliance (BSA) representative said today. [News.com]
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- Net stocks calm down - Internet stocks headed to the "time-out room" today after a week of wild behavior. [News.com]
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- Net stocks hardly a sure bet - "Buy low and sell high" used to be a good rule of thumb for investing. But anyone who has watched Internet stocks go from high to sky-high to off-the-charts high knows the real rules can be a little different. [News.com]
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- Net stocks inspire feeding frenzy - Investors continued to pile onto the Internet bandwagon today, powering stocks to new highs as Yahoo (YHOO) showed the sector can be profitable, analysts said. [News.com]
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- Net stocks know no limits - It's hard to keep any Net stock down these days. Internet stocks climbed into record territory yet again today, led by Yahoo, which crossed the psychological $100-per-share barrier. The surge in Net stocks of late continues to propel the technology sector, but some analysts are worrying aloud that the stocks are too pricey, and are downgrading some of the issues. [News.com]
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- Net stocks recover after scare - Like yo-yos, Internet stocks rebounded today after big losses yesterday over fears that interest rates may be on the way up. [News.com]
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- Net stocks take a breather - Internet stocks took a brief breather today after a sharp run-up into record territory last week that drew widespread attention from the investor community, before beginning an upward climb once again. [News.com]
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- Net usage firms join efforts - Net research firms Internet Profiles Corporation (I/Pro) and Media Metrix joined forces to clear up some of the mystery surrounding Web usage patterns. [News.com]
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- Net, software firms post revenues - Onsale reported nearly a four-fold increase in quarterly revenues, just one of several Internet and software application companies to post strong revenue growth. [News.com]
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- Netcenter adding email, search - Netscape Communications today announced it will add key features to its Netcenter site, including free email from USA.net and its own Netscape-branded search engine. [News.com]
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- NetChannel shutters Net-via-TV - Struggling NetChannel will shut down its money-losing Internet-via-TV service this Sunday, as it looks to restructure its operations. [News.com]
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- NetFlix rents, sells DVDs online - The fledgling digital video disc (DVD) market received a solid boost yesterday when Internet retailer NetFlix launched a Web site to rent and sell DVDs. [News.com]
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- Netscape CEO opts out of options - Netscape Communications' chief executive Jim Barksdale, who earned only $1 last year in compensation, elected this month Jim Barksdale to return to the company a stock option grant of 300,000 shares, Netscape's proxy statement revealed today. [News.com]
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- Netscape extends legacy access - Netscape Communications today launched a new release of Netscape Extension for CICS/IMS, a software package for linking the company's Application Server software to mainframe transaction processing systems. [News.com]
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- Netscape extends search contracts - As the clock runs out today on agreements between Netscape Communications and its four main search partners and Netscape works on plans for its own search engine, the companies have agreed to extend their current contracts for between 30 and 60 days, according to Netscape. [News.com]
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- Netscape in personalization - Netscape Communications (NSCP) will unveil a new version of its e-commerce software for publishers tomorrow, adding one-to-one marketing and ad-serving features and heating up the competition among technology vendors in the "personalization" space. [News.com]
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- Netscape mulls small browser - The release of the Communicator source code may not only let a thousand browsers bloom, but it also could make Netscape Communications' own browser significantly smaller. [News.com]
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- Netscape recruits Mozilla in suit - Sue Netscape, and you sue the Net. [News.com]
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- Netscape selling @Home shares - Netscape Communications and its chief executive, James Barksdale, have filed to sell as much as half of their stakes in high-speed cable Net access provider @Home. [News.com]
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- Netscape stock wakes up - It's been nearly two months since Netscape Communications' (NSCP) stock showed the signs of life it did yesterday. [News.com]
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- Netscape targets ISPs - Netscape Communications today previewed new email server software tailored for telcos and Internet service providers. [News.com]
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- Netscape updates Communicator - Netscape Communications (NSCP) on Monday will release the next incremental upgrade to its Communicator suite, version 4.05. [News.com]
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- Netscape wants to be media firm - The next 60 days are going to be make or break for Netscape Communications in its battle to keep its grip on the booming Internet market and stave off Microsoft's bid for dominance. [News.com]
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- Netscape: Linux a top priority - As developers comb through the beta release of Netscape Communications' (NSCP) Communicator source code released last week, the company wants to make another free software program one of its top priorities. [News.com]
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- NetSpeak bets on Net phones - Place your bets. [News.com]
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- Network Associates trims staff - On the heels of a major acquisitions binge, Network Associates (NETA) has laid off about 10 percent of its 1,800 employees as part of an across-the-board restructuring, the company said. [News.com]
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- Network Associates' stock spikes - Network Associates saw its stock jump more than 10 percent in early active trading after the supplier of enterprise network security and management software reported better-than-expected earnings for its first quarter of 1998. [News.com]
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- Network computers sales low - One of the most-hyped technologies of 1997, the network computer, was also one of the lowest sellers, a new study has found. [News.com]
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- Network Solutions grabs registrar - Expanding beyond its base as the dominant supplier of commercial Internet addresses in the United States, Network Solutions said today it acquired Internet Domain Names Incorporated, a U.S. firm that specializes in registering international addresses. [News.com]
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- Network Solutions hits new mark - Network Solutions (NSOL) is on the ride of its short life. [News.com]
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- New AMD chip to wait for fast bus - The K6 3D processor, Advanced Micro Devices' next great hope for market share, will debut at the E3 conference May 28, but the chip's full potential may be delayed because of part problems. [News.com]
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- New Apple notebooks draw near - As Apple Computer gets ready to unveil its newest and fastest PowerBook notebooks, some manufacturers are already offering the systems for sale. [News.com]
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- New engine for Mozilla code - Netscape Communications announced an upgrade today to an integral piece of its browser, and in the process shed some light on when users will be able to get a new Navigator. [News.com]
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- New HP systems want market share - Largely sidestepping the inventory bloat that undermined other major PC vendors last quarter, Hewlett-Packard today released an array of desktops and notebooks priced to take market share away from its competitors. [News.com]
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- New Pentium II systems debut - New computers based on Intel's fastest chips as well as the controversial Celeron processor debuted today. [News.com]
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- New rates may affect AOL earnings - While America Online has seen record customer retention rates of late, the online giant is expecting to face a few difficult months as it makes the transition to its new pricing plan, which started earlier this month. [News.com]
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- New round of DOJ subpoenas - Justice Department regulators have sent out another round of civil subpoenas as they return their attention to computer manufacturers in the federal investigation of Microsoft, sources said today. [News.com]
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- New Sun servers target business use - Sun Microsystems will today unveil a major upgrade to its midrange server family that's designed to run sophisticated business software from firms such as PeopleSoft and SAP. [News.com]
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- New territory for Net travel - While content such as sports stories and stock quotes have garnered subscription dollars on the Web, the hot e-commerce property of late has been travel. [News.com]
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- New twists in Microsoft case - It's been a busy week for the government's antitrust case against Microsoft, from a new court appeal to a lobbying challenge backed by Bob Dole. Now, a 1995 meeting between Microsoft and Netscape is raising new questions of improper business dealings. [News.com]
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- Next-generation satellite returns - A satellite bringing back the sharpest pictures yet for commercial, non-spy purposes has returned to Earth with images that will may soon be downloaded from the Internet, the company selling them said today. [News.com]
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- No bonus for Sybase CEO - Sybase chairman and co-chief executive Mitchell Kertzman received about the same amount in salary in 1997 as he did in the combination of salary and bonus in 1996, the company's proxy revealed today. [News.com]
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- Nontech firms join Microsoft fight - Airlines and media companies, not just software providers, are backing anti-Microsoft group ProComp--a reminder that many industries feel threatened by the software giant in the digital age and are willing to support an effort that is rallying against it. [News.com]
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- Nortel adds data networking - Canadian telecommunications giant Northern Telecom is undergoing an evolution that should already be setting off alarm bells in the executive offices of traditional data networking firms. [News.com]
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- Notebook at 2 pounds, $2,000 - Panasonic announced a new ultraportable notebook weighing in at just over 2 pounds. [News.com]
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- Notebook prices fall with chip cuts - Two notebook makers slashed prices on the same day that Intel cut costs on its mobile Pentium MMX and Pentium II chips. [News.com]
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- Novell chases cc:Mail users - Novell jumped into the battle to snare thousands of cc:Mail users today as it announced substantial price cuts for its messaging package targeted at the huge customer base of the old email software suite. [News.com]
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- Novell sets sights on telcos - Every day there are no confirmed Active Directory shipments from Microsoft, network software maker Novell can breathe a little easier. [News.com]
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- Novell settles piracy suit - Novell said today that it has recovered unauthorized copies of its NetWare product, a market value of nearly $14 million, in a settlement with a Southern California-based company. [News.com]
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- NSF to appeal domain fee ruling - The National Science Foundation (NSF) said it would appeal a federal court ruling that the agency's registration fee for Internet names constituted an illegal tax. [News.com]
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- Object Design brews Java support - Object Design is taking a product once considered a giveaway sales tool and turning it into a new revenue source. [News.com]
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- One company yawns at Y2K bug - Running counter to many business concerns, insurance company TIG Holdings said it expects the costs involved with preparing its computer systems for the Year 2000 bug to be insignificant. [News.com]
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- Open source gurus convene - It's hard to get 18 iconoclastic software gurus to agree on anything, except perhaps to avoid wearing a suit and tie. But a group of legendary programmers here agreed yesterday that open source software, which already lies at the heart of the Internet, is ready for business. [News.com]
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- Oracle reaps revenues from Solaris - Oracle (ORCL) said today that third-quarter revenue on the Sun Solaris platform grew more than 50 percent, compared to a year ago. [News.com]
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- Oracle targets vertical markets - Oracle (ORCL) today rolled out two new versions of its enterprise applications suite, targeting vertical markets in both the United States and Europe. [News.com]
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- Oracle to hold Java fest - The network computer may not be living up to Oracle (ORCL) chairman Larry Ellison's lofty expectations, but the company's Java-based Network Computing Architecture (NCA) is alive and well, company executives say. [News.com]
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- Oracle, Sun fall on NC worries - Shares of Sun Microsystems (SUNW) and Oracle (ORCL) fell today amid concern over the near-term outlook for the companies' network computer products. [News.com]
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- Packard Bell furloughs workers - A total of 600 workers will be "furloughed" without pay for a week at Packard Bell NEC, according to sources close to the company, a cost-cutting effort to minimize the impact of declining sales and perhaps an indicator of more serious problems at the consumer PC maker. [News.com]
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- Packard NEC plans IPO in '98 - The Packard Bell NEC personal computer joint venture plans to make an initial public offering in the United States this year, the chairman of Cie des Machines Bull said today. [News.com]
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- Pandesic CEO to step down - In a split over strategy, the CEO of Pandesic, the e-commerce joint venture of Intel (INTC) and German software giant SAP, will leave the company next month. [News.com]
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- Pandesic updates turnkey service - Pandesic, the e-commerce joint venture service of Intel and SAP today released a new version of its turnkey service, upgrading its merchandising, Web ad placement, customer ordering, and customer service components. [News.com]
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- Partners not as happy as Apple - Apple Computer announced a quarterly profit today, but Mac-dependent companies such as Global Village and Adobe Systems are posting disappointing QUOTE SNAPSHOTDecember 31, 1999, 1:01 p.m. PT Apple Computer Inc. AAPL40.9375 +0.8750 +2.18% NA GVILNA NA NA% Adobe Systems Inc. ADBE46.7500 +0.7500 +1.63% > more from CNET InvestorQuotes delayed 20+ minutes earnings and placing the blame on slow Mac sales. [News.com]
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- Partners ride high on AOL coattails - Love it or not, the economic "trickle-down" effect of Microsoft's success to its business partners is well-documented. The same is holding true for companies affiliated with America Online, the once-struggling online service that now bills itself as the first $2 billion new media company. [News.com]
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- Paul Allen to buy Marcus Cable - Billionaire Paul Allen today announced a deal to buy all the limited partnership interests of Marcus Cable, the nation's tenth-largest cable operator, for $2.775 billion--joining fellow Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates in making a cable television investment. [News.com]
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- PC format gains in digital TV - Amid a protracted and often acrimonious debate, part of the broadcast industry appears to be leaning toward standards favored by Compaq Computer, Microsoft, and Intel for the deployment of digital television technology in computers and TV sets. [News.com]
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- PC pricing levels collapse - The days of all new PCs debuting around $4,000 or $5,000 are over. [News.com]
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- PC sales jump 21% in Europe - Personal computer sales in Western Europe jumped 21.1 percent in the first quarter of 1998 as prices plunged, according to a market research firm. [News.com]
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- PC sales strong in first quarter - Despite well-publicized problems with bloated inventories, declining Asian revenues, and seasonal sales slumps, PC sales exhibited strong growth for the first quarter of 1998, according to two marketing research firms. [News.com]
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- PC-TV card rides Windows 98 wave - Hauppauge announced a new line of TV-tuner circuit boards designed for use with Windows 98, as the New York-based vendor tries to take advantage of one of the operating system's flashiest features. [News.com]
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- PC-TV feature support wanes - Windows 98 and its support for TV tuner hardware will enable PC companies to offer PC-TV "convergence" features in their systems, yet PC vendor support for these capabilities has so far been lukewarm. [News.com]
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- Pentium II lacks killer software - Complex, data-heavy Web sites and business applications that only the fastest desktop computers can process are scarce, but these are exactly what Intel needs to drive sales of its Pentium II chip. [News.com]
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- Pentium II licenses weaken FTC case - With the basic rights to Intel's Pentium II technology beginning to snake their way to competitors, it may become more difficult for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to bring charges against the chip maker even though questions about its business practices still loom large. [News.com]
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- Pentium II notebooks arrive - Most of the industry's top notebook PC manufacturers showcased the first mobile computers using Intel's (INTC) Pentium II processor today, at historically low price levels for systems with the latest and greatest technology. [News.com]
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- Playboy plays up stock quotes - Users who say they don't go to the Playboy Web site for the pictures have another excuse: stock quotes. [News.com]
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- Playboy suit hits roadblock - Lodging a roadblock in Playboy Enterprises' $5 million trademark lawsuit against a former centerfold, a federal judge secured Terri Welles's right to use the word "Playmate" on her digital resume and to drive traffic to her Web site. [News.com]
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- Playboy wins Net copyright suit - To deter the misuse of its digital images, Playboy Enterprises is using an age-old tactic: big-dollar lawsuits. [News.com]
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- Playboy wins piracy suit - Playboy Enterprises is on a roll. The company today won its latest Net trademark lawsuit, reaping an award of $3 million. [News.com]
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- Players team for high-speed games - As previously reported, @Home Network and SegaSoft Networks will announce plans today to provide multiplayer gaming via high-speed cable networks--providing the fastest online game playing yet, they say. [News.com]
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- Plus 98 due with Windows upgrade - Microsoft today announced that Microsoft Plus 98, a utilities package for Windows 98, will be available on June 25, the same day the operating system upgrade is expected to hit the stores. [News.com]
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- Police seek author of threat site - An Internet site, seen by many as a prank, that listed the names of high school students and how they should die has been taken down and law enforcement authorities are tracking its author, officials said. [News.com]
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- Political mailings criticized as spam - Last year San Francisco political consultant Robert Barnes sent out mass email as a test. Now he's ready to go full bore with his "experiment," which he calls "revolutionary." [News.com]
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- Press barred at Apple meeting - Apple Computer's shareholder meeting next week is for investors only, the company says, and reporters and analysts who are not stockholders will not be allowed to attend. [News.com]
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- Press tangled in child porn sting - When veteran journalist Larry Matthews set out to expose the booming child pornography market on the Net, his attorneys admit he used a risky tactic to get the story: Matthews infiltrated and engaged the digital underworld where sexually explicit images of minors are traded or sold. [News.com]
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- Preview Travel floats more shares - At a time when Internet stocks are surging, Preview Travel (PTVL) today said the number of shares being floated out in its upcoming secondary offering has increased. [News.com]
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- Preview Travel to sell shares - Less than five months after Preview Travel (PTVL) launched its IPO, the company has filed to sell another 3 million shares of its stock. [News.com]
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- Prices augur more memory in PCs - Prices for the latest generation of memory chips have dropped down close to $10 in certain markets, and their continuing plunge will probably lead to the introduction of high-capacity memory into standard PCs toward the latter part of the year. [News.com]
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- Prince goes after Net pirates - Prince and his company Paisley Park Enterprises are cracking down on illegal uses of his music and other copyrighted materials on the Internet, and have sent out more than 30 cease-and-desist letters to people they believe are violating the musician's trademark properties. [News.com]
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- PSINet revenue climbs - PSINet today announced that revenue climbed more than 70 percent as it closed acquisitions and grew its customer base. [News.com]
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- Pure Java now for Beans - Sun Microsystems has extended its "100 percent pure Java" program to cover JavaBean components--pieces of reusable code that programmers can plug into their Java applications under development. [News.com]
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- Qwest scores federal contract - Qwest Communications said today that it scored a ten-year contract with the U.S. government worth up to $430 million. [News.com]
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- R/3 drives SAP success - German software giant SAP continues to dominate the enterprise applications market. [News.com]
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- Racial discrepancy on Net - A "digital divide" between blacks and whites in cyberspace threatens the future U.S. economy, researchers said today. [News.com]
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- Radio to get music via Net - A new single by former Beach Boy Brian Wilson will be delivered to four radio stations via the Net, Giant Records and Net music delivery technology firm Liquid Audio said today. [News.com]
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- RealNetworks streams anew - RealNetworks, already synonymous with streaming media over the Net, is making a bid to become the provider of streaming technology for integrating disparate multimedia file formats. [News.com]
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- Realtor.com buys AOL real estate - Realtor.com today agreed to spend $14 million to become the exclusive real estate listing service for America Online, hoping the online service's 12 million member subscriber base and popular Web site will result in a hefty revenue return. [News.com]
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- RedCreek inks licensing deal - Start-up RedCreek Communications is expected to get another boost this week from an established security vendor as Secure Computing (SCUR) is slated to announce it will use RedCreek's Ravlin virtual private network (VPN) technology. [News.com]
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- Report: Chip sales growth is off - Worldwide semiconductor sales are expected to grow a moderate 8 percent this year, less than half of what was predicted just seven months ago, according to Dataquest. [News.com]
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- Reports of EDI's death exaggerated - Reports of the death of EDI have been greatly exaggerated and the system has not disappeared as quickly as was once expected, participants at an electronic commerce conference here said on Tuesday. [News.com]
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- Riding the Net stock wave - The run in Internet stocks has been a boon for many investors, among them former junk-bond king Michael Milken. Some Net executives, such as those at Yahoo, are paring back their holdings but still hanging on to most of their stock--bullish that the boom will continue. [News.com]
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- Robertson suitors come calling - Robertson Stephens said over 20 potential suitors had expressed interest in buying the firm and talks about a possible divestiture started last week after BankAmerica and NationsBank, announced a merger agreement. [News.com]
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- Robust quarter for Microsoft - Microsoft said today it posted a robust 25 percent increase in net income for the quarter ending March 31, fueled by strong demand for its products. [News.com]
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- Royal Mail, Microsoft strike deal - Britain's post office and software giant Microsoft (MSFT) said today that they were launching a mixed Internet and postal service that will enable Internet users worldwide to send e-mail to Britain for postal distribution in Britain and in Europe. [News.com]
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- Rules to curb stock chaos - The Securities and Exchange Commission said today that it has approved new trigger levels to suspend volatile trading during one-day declines of 10, 20 and 30 percent in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. [News.com]
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- Samsung eyes 1,000-MHz chips - Samsung introduced a new line of Alpha processors and also new low-cost Windows NT server hardware based on the chip. [News.com]
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- Samsung has 256-megabit memory - South Korea's Samsung Electronics said it has produced and shipped to major PC makers samples of a 256-megabit DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chip, which offers 16 times the capacity of the memory chips commonly found in today's personal computers. [News.com]
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- SAP to buy stake in Ilog - Software component maker Ilog said today that SAP has agreed to buy a 5 percent stake in Ilog for about $10 million. [News.com]
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- Saudi prince backs Teledesic - Saudi investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said today that he had invested $200 million in the privately held Teledesic telecommunications company. [News.com]
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- SBA opens site for Year 2000 bug - The U.S. government urged the nation's 23 million small businesses yesterday to prepare for the Year 2000 millennium bug by consulting an Internet Web site designed to help them cope with the computer glitch. [News.com]
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- Scanners spur Umax growth - Umax has reported that its March sales rose 33.4 percent to a new monthly high. [News.com]
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- Scientific-Atlanta licenses Java - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) said today that Scientific-Atlanta has licensed a Java environment for its digital set-top boxes. [News.com]
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- SDT shares drop 30 percent - Security Dynamics Technologies (SDTI) plummeted more than 30 percent in early trading today after it said that its results for the first quarter of 1998 will fall short of the company's operating plan. [News.com]
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- Seagate posts $128 million loss - Seagate Technology today reported a large third-quarter loss, including a restructuring charge, citing falling prices and weak demand for its computer disk drives. [News.com]
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- Search engines hit all-time highs - Shares of Internet stocks continued their spectacular run today, with stocks of several search-engine companies reaching all-time highs. [News.com]
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- Searching for success - Search engine firms are leveraging their soaring stock prices to enhance their sites with new features and services in an increasingly competitive race to become the home page of choice. [News.com]
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- Security firms add consulting - Security vendor Check Point will unveil next week a new security consulting arm and announce new versions of its flagship FireWall-1 software and remote access software. [News.com]
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- Segue debuts e-commerce tool - Segue Software will on Monday debut a tool for testing large scale e-commerce applications before they go live. [News.com]
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- Seiko to sell wristwatch PC - Seiko Instruments said it will begin selling wristwatch personal computers in Japan on June 10, a new product that appears to be a truly wearable PC. [News.com]
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- Senate builds Y2K committee - A bipartisan Senate subcommittee devoted to the Year 2000 bug was announced today in Washington DC by Congressional leaders, who formalized the leadership, members, and agenda of the new body. [News.com]
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- Senate moves on shareholder suits - With President Clinton's endorsement in its back pocket, the Senate Banking Committee today cleared legislation to ward off a swell in shareholder lawsuits against companies with volatile stock prices. [News.com]
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- Senators slam FCC Net report - Rural senators who asked the Federal Communications Commission for a report on telephone subsidies and the Internet said the agency's conclusions were deficient. [News.com]
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- Servers use fastest Pentium II - Major server manufacturers like IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Gateway 2000, and NEC will announce new Pentium II servers in conjunction with Intel's introduction of new high-speed processors Wednesday, offering more powerful systems at a lower price. [News.com]
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- Service targets network security - A new service hopes to alleviate the concerns of organizations who attach their internal network resources to the public Net. [News.com]
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- SGI cozies up to Intel, plans cuts - Silicon Graphics (SGI) will begin moving closer to chip giant Intel (INTC), SGI executives said today in detailing a plan to revitalize the Mountain View, California, company. [News.com]
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- SGI revenues down 22 percent - Silicon Graphics today posted a third consecutive quarter of losses, as revenues from its supercomputers as well as from its core business of Unix workstations continued to slide. [News.com]
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- SGI sues graphics chipmaker - Silicon Graphics (SGI) said today that it had filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nvidia to block the company from making its Riva family of graphics processors. [News.com]
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- Shareholders sue Compaq - Compaq Computer was named in a shareholders' lawsuit charging the PC maker with making misleading statements about inventory levels that caused it to report higher earnings and inflate its stock price. [News.com]
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- Shiva to lay off 125 - Shiva (SHVA) said today that it will take a charge during the second fiscal quarter and eliminate about 125 jobs, or about 20 percent of its worldwide workforce. [News.com]
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- Shopping.com to resume trading - Shopping.com (IBUY) today announced plans to resume trading of its shares after a surprise suspension by the Securities and Exchange Commission, while a brokerage firm sued five former employees in a lawsuit related to trading of the high-flying Net stock. [News.com]
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- Short-sellers come up short - The bull stock market is putting the squeeze on short-sellers. [News.com]
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- Siemens CEO aiming high - Siemens chief executive Heinrich von Pierer said today that its broad reorganization announced last week should secure the company a leading role in the consolidation of information and communication businesses. [News.com]
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- Siemens part of Acer strategy - Acer's partnership with Germany's Siemens Nixdorf group gives Taiwan's leading PC maker a strategic front line in Europe, and analysts hope it will help the bottom line at home. [News.com]
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- Siemens warms to Sun's Unix - The groundswell of third-party support continues to grow for Sun Microsystems' operating system software. [News.com]
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- Silicon Graphics scraps MIPS plans - Silicon Graphics (SGI) has quietly scrapped ambitious plans for its MIPS processors and is now following a much more limited road map calling for fewer design improvements, according to sources close to SGI. [News.com]
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- Silicon Valley library to filter Net - Just six months after a Silicon Valley library board voted unanimously to offer unfettered Internet access, the same board will consider shifting that position by adding filters to some of its online computers. [News.com]
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- Singapore focuses on e-commerce - Singapore announced plans today for creating a legal framework it hopes will speed up its efforts to become an international hub for electronic commerce. [News.com]
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- Slate does print syndication deal - Microsoft's Slate today announced that it is going to make its content available to both print and Net publications through a syndication service. [News.com]
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- Soaring Net stocks stun Street - Leaps and bounds would be an understatement in describing the activity of Internet stocks of late, as they climbed even higher today--into record territory. [News.com]
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- Software distributors to merge - Two software providers in the electronic software distribution (ESD) niche, Portland Software and Preview Software, today announced plans to merge in a stock-for-stock deal. Other details of the transaction were not released. [News.com]
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- Software key to digital photography - If digital photography is to continue growing after the novelty of emailing photos to friends wears off, practical software applications will have to become the catalyst that transforms the technology into a mass market phenomenon. [News.com]
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- Software vows to speed surfing - Web 3000, a small software company founded by a former Microsoft executive, this weekend introduced software that it says will speed the delivery of information from the Internet. [News.com]
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- Solid Oak plans profile service - In an attempt to tap into the Net's community appeal, Solid Oak Software is planning to release a free personal profile service that will mimic America Online's "MyProfile." [News.com]
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- Sony's Microsoft deals win praise - Plans to tie-up with Microsoft (MSFT) could allow Sony (SNE) to become a leader in the digital consumer electronics industry, analysts said. [News.com]
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- Sony-Microsoft venture no threat - Matsushita Electric Industrial (MC) says it sees no immediate threat from Sony's partnership with Microsoft on the home digital appliance front. [News.com]
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- Sorting out the digital TV mess - A litany of disjointed announcements is generating a cacophonic buzz around the impending appearance of digital TV and the hardware needed to view it at the National Association of Broadcasters convention here this week. As a result, sorting out what this means to the future of the PC and TV is a challenge in its own right. [News.com]
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- SPA board seat eludes Microsoft - Microsoft has failed to land a board seat on one of the software industry's most influential trade groups, but it says it isn't giving up yet. [News.com]
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- Spam king retires - Former spam king Sanford Wallace has officially renounced his throne. [News.com]
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- Spam truce in the works - If the Berlin Wall can come down, anything is possible--even a peace accord on spam. [News.com]
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- Sprint net earnings fall - Sprint said today that its first quarter core long distance revenues rose 9 percent from last year to $2.37 billion, and minutes of use jumped 11 percent. [News.com]
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- Spyglass revenues drop - As Spyglass transitions from the desktop to the Internet device market, its revenues dropped significantly from a year ago, but are up from the previous quarter. [News.com]
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- Start-up eyes server clusters - Start-up Foundry Networks has targeted clusters of server systems for its line of high-speed networking equipment. [News.com]
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- Starwave, Disney deal imminent - Starwave has called a special meeting with its workers tomorrow, fueling speculation that Walt Disney is preparing to buy the rest of the Internet company. [News.com]
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- State to post license data - Massachusetts consumers soon will be able to search the Net to see if a dentist has been sued for malpractice or a stylist is cutting hair without a license. [News.com]
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- States prepare for Microsoft action - Several attorneys general are getting closer to filing an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, with a draft complaint circulating among lawyers from 11 states, sources said today. [News.com]
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- States, Justice Dept. weigh lawsuits - In what could be a coordinated assault on Microsoft, the Justice Department and up to a dozen states are considering filing antitrust lawsuits on the same day, as early as next week, sources close to the matter said. [News.com]
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- Sterling Commerce to nab firm - E-commerce systems provider Sterling Commerce said today that it will acquire XcelleNet for $200 million. [News.com]
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- Stock rises on Intel upgrade - Intel (INTC) received a shot of positive reinforcement today as an analyst raised his rating on the semiconductor giant to "buy" from "hold," citing an accelerated transition to the Pentium II. [News.com]
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- Stream of RealNetworks deals - RealNetworks' (RNWK) momentum gained speed again today, as the streaming technology company made a slew of partnership announcements. [News.com]
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- Street upgrade fuels AOL's climb - Shares of America Online leaped higher yesterday after a prominent Wall Street analyst upgraded the online services giant and fueled momentum for the stock, which has been on a sizzling run all year. [News.com]
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- Struggles seen in SGI spin-off - Silicon Graphics (SGI) today announced plans to spin off its embedded products chip-design business, but the new company already faces several large financial challenges, including an apparent struggle to retain a major contract for supplying chip technology to Nintendo's next-generation game system, sources said. [News.com]
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- Study: Crypto loss to hit $35 billion - The U.S. economy could miss out on $35 billion over the next five years if the Clinton administration continues to enforce export restrictions on strong encryption, according to a study by the Economic Strategy Institute. [News.com]
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- Study: Search engines fall short - If you use a search engine like Lycos or HotBot, you may not get as much coverage as you think, computer science researchers said today. [News.com]
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- Sub-$1,000 PC gets new design - Hoping to attract PC shoppers looking for something radically different, Panda Project unveiled Rock City, a cube-shaped sub-$1,000 PC based on Intel's Pentium MMX chip. [News.com]
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- Sub-$1,000 PCs curb revenues - The proliferation of sub-$1,000 personal computers is boosting unit shipments, but also curbing overall revenue growth for PC makers, according to market research firm Dataquest. [News.com]
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- Summit held on Asia crisis - Representatives of Asia-Pacific securities dealers have vowed to seek closer ties with regional authorities and to work together to cope with the region's prolonged economic and currency crisis. [News.com]
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- Sun adds Fujitsu in Unix push - With Santa Cruz Operation squarely in its sights, Sun Microsystems (SUNW) will later today add another partner to push its own Unix derivative for systems based on Intel chips. [News.com]
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- Sun feels pressure in NCs and Java - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) is taking heat on many fronts, and its stock is starting to sweat. [News.com]
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- Sun fights to keep Unix position - Sun Microsystems continues to wage a battle to keep its version of Unix operating system software at the forefront of the market amid a consolidation spree. [News.com]
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- Sun Microsystems names CTO - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) has named Greg Papadopoulos, its former vice president of technology at Sun Microsystems Computer (SMCC), chief technology officer of the parent company. [News.com]
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- Sun profits, revenues up - Sun Microsystems today posted a jump in third-quarter profits and a 12 percent increase in revenues, fueled by sales of its new low-end workstations. [News.com]
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- Sun to light Viacom sites - Media giant Viacom will use Sun Microsystems' hardware and the Solaris operating system to run its interactive services division, the companies said. [News.com]
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- Sun to ship Java Plug-in - Sun Microsystems' JavaSoft unit will ship Java Plug-in, which automatically updates Web browsers so they run the latest version of a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), on April 30. [News.com]
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- Sun, IBM team on Java software - IBM and Sun have embarked on a plan to develop a single Java-based operating system for business machines in an effort to standardize the software side of network computing. [News.com]
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- Survey warns of spam in U.K. - Junk email is fast becoming the scourge of business in the United Kingdom and could severely curtail the Internet's progress as the business medium of the next century, according to a survey commissioned by Novell. [News.com]
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- Survey: Hands off Microsoft - The government should keep its hands off Microsoft, a survey of Business Week readers has concluded. [News.com]
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- Suspected NASA hacker nabbed - A 22-year-old Canadian man suspected of breaking into a NASA Web site and causing tens of thousands of dollars in damage has been arrested by Canadian Mounties. [News.com]
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- Sybase misses by a mile - Troubles at Sybase were not taken lightly by Wall Street today, as the stock fell nearly 20 percent after the database software maker missed expectations by a wide margin yesterday. [News.com]
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- Sybase offers database to go - Sybase (SYBS) is shrinking its already diminutive Adaptive Server Anywhere database down to palmtop size. [News.com]
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- Sybase sees services as savior - Facing weaker than expected demand for its database software and development tools, Sybase is now under the gun to find a profitable niche. [News.com]
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- Symantec's income triples - Symantec said yesterday that its fiscal fourth quarter net income surged, exceeding Wall Street's expectations, on strong sales of antivirus and computer-management software for Windows NT personal computers. [News.com]
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- System software firms to merge - Two system software companies, Phoenix Technologies and Award Software, today announced they are merging. [News.com]
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- Taiwan battles Year 2000 crisis - Taiwan's government is pressing its various branches and the private sector to work toward Year 2000 compliance to prevent the millennium bug from paralyzing the nation's data systems. [News.com]
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- Taiwan fights piracy in chip raid - Taiwan, under new threat of U.S. sanctions for intellectual property theft, said today that it had seized nearly 1,000 counterfeit Intel Pentium chips worth "tens of millions" of Taiwan dollars. [News.com]
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- Taiwan invests big in chips - Taiwan's microchip makers will invest $79.2 billion in wafer facilities in the next 13 years, a move likely to secure Taiwan's status as a leading international chip supplier. [News.com]
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- Taiwan unfazed by dumping taxes - Taiwan's government today expressed regret over a U.S. decision to impose antidumping duties on SRAM (static random access memory) chips produced on the Asian island but said the move would not hurt semiconductor exports. [News.com]
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- Talk of buys boosts Amazon - Wall Street rallied shares of Amazon.com in early trading after the company posted a much smaller loss than expected and said it would acquire three Internet companies to help it expand into new markets. [News.com]
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- TCI keeping Microsoft at arm's length - True to earlier promises to limit Microsoft's clout in the emerging market for next-generation TV set-top cable boxes, Tele-Communications Incorporated is expected to use operating system software from Sun Microsystems and possibly Sony. [News.com]
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- Teaming for Net payment - Bundling to chill Big Blue, VeriFone and VeriSign will market their Internet payment technologies jointly to financial institutions and Web merchants. Their combined offering matches the technologies offered by IBM, which, like VeriFone, is making a big push into Internet payments. [News.com]
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- Tech stock ride continues - The "fantastic voyage" of Internet stocks resumed today, with Infoseek and Yahoo leading another rally. [News.com]
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- Tech stocks keep carrying the day - Wall Street stocks were mixed late today with much of the strength centering in the technology sector as blue chips struggled to stay above water. [News.com]
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- Tech stocks surge on IBM news - U.S. stocks rose higher today, with technology stocks surging on upbeat results from IBM. [News.com]
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- The Globe, EarthLink join forces - Online community TheGlobe.com today announced that it is teaming up with Net service provider EarthLink to provide service to the Globe's customers. [News.com]
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- The JavaSoft split - In the midst of shuffling Java among its business units, Sun seems to be watering down some brews and deep-roasting others. What's the company serving up? [News.com]
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- Thin Micron notebook unveiled - Micron Electronics released its first line of ultrathin notebooks. [News.com]
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- TI revenues drop - Texas Instruments today announced that revenues were down from the first quarter a year ago, due to the decline in prices of dynamic random access memory chips. [News.com]
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- Time Warner seeks telecom IPO - Time Warner filed for an initial public offering with federal regulators today in the telecommunications business--another sign that the boundary between the cable and telephone business is blurring. [News.com]
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- Tivoli adds small business tools - IBM subsidiary Tivoli Systems has targeted small and medium-sized businesses for its next set of software, pitting it against veterans of the market such as Intel, Hewlett-Packard, and Network Associates. [News.com]
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- Tobacco papers released online - Some 39,000 highly sensitive tobacco documents were made public on the Internet today, the House Commerce Committee announced. [News.com]
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- Top Net performers ranked - Are Yahoo, Amazon.com, and America Online the "has-beens" of the Internet? [News.com]
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- Toshiba to increase LCD output - Toshiba will boost its output of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) due to increased demand in the market, although it has not decided when it will do so. [News.com]
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- Tougher counterfeiting laws urged - U.S. laws need to be toughened to fight counterfeiters who reproduce currency with personal computers and printers, law enforcement officials say. [News.com]
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- Trend Micro makes antivirus push - Trend Micro is expected to announce next week that it's shipping a new Web-based console to let network managers configure and control antivirus programs from a single location. [News.com]
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- TV surfing: Risky business - Still considered a nascent market, the business of Internet access through boxes that sit atop TV sets is already undergoing a shakeout. From hardware and software to the monthly service rates, competition is getting brutal. [News.com]
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- Two more execs leave Cabletron - The fallout from the abrupt resignation of networking equipment provider Cabletron Systems' (CS) recently hired CEO earlier this week is taking hold as two other prominent executives leave the company, reportedly to pursue other interests. [News.com]
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- U.K. firm sues over "AltaVista" - Alta Vista Corporation, a British company with an increasing involvement in the United States, said today it has sued Digital Equipment (DEC) for trademark infringement over its AltaVista search engine. [News.com]
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- U.K. seeks voluntary key recovery - New encryption legislation coming down the pike in the United Kingdom calls for the voluntary licensing of entities that supply data security products and carves out room for law enforcement to get the keys that unscramble private communication. [News.com]
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- U.S. seeks Net tax accord - The United States told other members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) today that it wanted an accord within the next month to ensure commerce conducted entirely over the Internet stayed forever free of tariffs. [News.com]
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- U.S., U.K. lack interest in digital TV - The future of television is digital, but major hurdles remain in convincing consumers in the United States and Britain of that fact, market researchers said today. [News.com]
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- U.S.: No e-commerce taxes - The United States is pushing for a declaration at a World Trade Organization summit next month which would commit member countries not to tax Internet commerce, according to diplomats. [News.com]
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- UC Berkeley a high-tech player - When it comes to teaching the "real world" a thing or two about technology, the University of California at Berkeley is on a roll. [News.com]
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- Unisys server end of the line? - Unisys announced a 12-processor server computer based on Intel's Pentium Pro chip and the Windows NT operating system, becoming the first company to do so. [News.com]
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- Upgrade may fry 3Com modems - 3Com (COMS) confirmed that upgrading its 56-kbps Megahertz notebook modems from the proprietary x2 to the industry-standard v.90 format may destroy the modems in rare cases. [News.com]
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- US West to bundle fast services - Fueling the race to bundle telephone service, high-speed Net access, and cable TV programming, US West Communications said today that its estimated 25 million consumers will be able to get all three services via copper phone lines by 2000. [News.com]
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- Used car sites take off - In a sign that Internet commerce is moving into unlikely niches, Consumers Car Club today is unveiling a new Web site and buyer protection program for used cars. [News.com]
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- Usenet spam strike ends - A strike by volunteer spam fighters shut down some newsgroup servers and forced others to start filtering their systems for junk messages, according to one of the boycott's organizers. [News.com]
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- Using math to predict surfing - A mathematical algorithm can predict how people will surf the Net and how many different pages they will look at before giving up, researchers say. [News.com]
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- ValiCert offers free cert tools - In an effort to promote the use of its validation server software, ValiCert plans to give away software tools for creating Internet applications that can verify digital certificates from multiple issuers. [News.com]
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- Valley library to filter for children - Children's computers in libraries in the heart of Silicon Valley will filter Net access within three months, the region's library board has decided, and patrons will be greeted with a warning of what they might encounter online. [News.com]
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- VC firm fares well on Net IPOs - The run-up in Internet stocks is generating some hefty returns for high-tech venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. [News.com]
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- VC interest in Net companies soars - "Who will buy?" Just about anybody, if you're an Internet company. [News.com]
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- VeriFone to undergo reorganization - VeriFone, an e-commerce pioneer owned by Hewlett-Packard, said today that it will enter into a reorganization that will divide the company's hardware and software activities and see the departure of its No. 2 executive. [News.com]
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- Vinod Dham joins start-up as CEO - Vinod Dham, the 47-year-old semiconductor executive from AMD and Intel, has joined semiconductor start-up Silicon Spice as president and chief executive officer, and the company has received new financing from a group that includes venture capitalist Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. [News.com]
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- Virtual reality used to plan surgery - Virtual reality can help doctors perform surgery and also offers a more painless way to screen for diseases such as colon cancer, a Harvard radiologist said today. [News.com]
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- Voice recognition growing flexible - General Magic announced what it hopes will be a robust voice recognition technology for its voice-based email and news service. [News.com]
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- Voice software works with Word - A Belgian company today introduced two voice-activated word processing applications, hoping to latch onto the growing popularity of voice recognition software. [News.com]
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- W3C focus on privacy, not security - Concerns about the security of messages transmitted on the Internet are no longer valid, the founder of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee said today. [News.com]
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- Wang in $380 million reorganization - Wang Global (WANG), moving to reposition itself following the acquisition of the computer services unit of Olivetti, said yesterday it expected to spend as much as $380 million over the next two to three years in connection with the integration of the unit. [News.com]
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- Warning impacts Microsoft stock - Microsoft stock dipped in today's trading, after the company warned that it is "likely to experience slower growth" for the remainder of the year. [News.com]
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- Web design not what you pay for - When it comes to Web design, you may not get what you pay for. [News.com]
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- WebTV gets wider audience - Microsoft (MSFT) unit WebTV Networks claimed its television-based Internet access service reaches out to a poorly served area of the market--women and the computer-illiterate. [News.com]
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- What's RealNetworks doing right? - Real, indeed: RealNetworks' (RNWK) stock has jumped 120 percent during the past month. [News.com]
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- Where art meets technology - Performance artist Barbara Lee is anxiously awaiting the final ingredient to bring her virtual art exhibit to life: people. [News.com]
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- White House plans privacy summit - The days of Net industry self-regulation could be numbered, as the deadline for a European directive ensuring individuals' privacy online approaches. [News.com]
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- Why Net stocks went crazy - It was a week to remember. [News.com]
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- Wild ride on Wall Street - Internet stocks finally seem to be cooling down after an unprecedented run this week, which analysts attributed to investor interest in companies meeting estimates or even proving they can be profitable, as with Yahoo. [News.com]
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- Will Netscape renew search deals? - Netscape Communications president and chief executive Jim Barksdale said today that the company was renegotiating all its four main search engine contracts which are due to expire next week. [News.com]
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- Windows 95 goes in handheld - Intermec Technologies (UNA) announced a new handheld computer that runs Windows 95 and uses a 99-MHz Advanced Micro Devices 486 processor. [News.com]
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- Windows 98 crashes on Gates - Computer mogul Bill Gates had a couple of his own run-ins with technology today as he kicked off a convention where Microsoft sought to impress with its most user-friendly new offerings. [News.com]
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- Windows 98 for free - Gateway has begun offering new PC customers free upgrades to Windows 98 when the system software becomes available early this summer, a move that marks the first major promotion of Microsoft's newest operating system. [News.com]
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- Windows 98 promotions growing - Consumers who purchase new personal computing products may get a free or discounted upgrade for Microsoft's Windows 98, amid some complaints about the price of the upgrade for users not eligible for rebates. [News.com]
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- Windows 98 to debut at $109 - Ending months of speculation, Microsoft today confirmed many key details regarding Windows 98, the planned upgrade to its ubiquitous Windows 95 operating system. [News.com]
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- Windows CE for real time - Microsoft (MSFT) announced it will incorporate "real-time" capabilities into its Windows CE operating system, another step toward expanding CE's scope beyond personal computers. [News.com]
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- Windows NT services put to test - Microsoft released a beta version of a fourth service pack for its Windows NT 4.0 Workstation and server-based operating systems to a limited number of users. [News.com]
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- Women's sites striking deals - A year ago, Net observers were worried about gender equity online. These days, not only is it clear that women are online and here to stay, but companies are daily cutting deals trying to reach what is quickly becoming one of the most important vertical markets on the Net. [News.com]
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- Word, Charged reborn - Some Net users were a little misty-eyed when news spread last month that Icon CMT Corporation was shutting down the seasoned culture e-zine Word and extreme sports site Charged. [News.com]
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- Workflow software standard backed - A group of software makers today announced support for a new Internet-based standard for workflow products that would let various software packages be more easily interconnected in the building of intranet and extranet business applications. [News.com]
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- WorldCom beats Street - WorldCom's first-quarter net income, excluding charges, beat Wall Street expectations and was driven by strong traffic volumes as well as growth in data and international services, the company said today. [News.com]
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- WorldCom CEO reaps rewards - Bernie Ebbers, the maverick WorldCom executive who wrestled MCI Communications away from two other suitors, received a $17 million bonus for his efforts last year, the company said. [News.com]
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- Worldtalk upgrades email software - Secure email firm Worldtalk today announced version 3.0 of its email policy management software, WorldSecure Server, as well as a scaled-down version of its product for small businesses. [News.com]
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- WSJ reaches member milestone - While other sites timidly wade into the waters of charging Net subscriptions, the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition continues to plow forward, proving that Netizens are willing to pay for some content. [News.com]
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- Xerox to cut 9,000 jobs - Xerox (XRX) plans to cut 9,000 jobs, close or consolidate facilities, and streamline operations as part of a major restructuring designed to save the office equipment giant $1 billion a year, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Y2K bug in court again - The millennium bug is at the heart of yet another lawsuit filed against a software developer charged with selling products that fail to recognize and process dates starting in the year 2000. [News.com]
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- Y2K challenges finance industry - Weaker asset quality, interrupted cash flow, and possibly a number of bankruptcies potentially await the finance and leasing industry because of the Year 2000 bug, according to Fitch IBCA. [News.com]
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- Y2K won't dent U.S. economy - Billions of dollars spent making repairs to prepare computers for the year 2000 will likely have only a minimal effect on the U.S. economy, Federal Reserve governor Edward Kelley said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Yahoo launches Insurance Center - The days of traveling insurance salesmen knocking at your door may be numbered, thanks to the Web. [News.com]
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- Yahoo traffic boosts profits - Yahoo (YHOO) doubled Wall Street's pleasure today by posting earnings that were twice as strong as expected. [News.com]
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- Yahoo tries a new look - Yahoo (YHOO) is getting ready for a face-lift. [News.com]
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- Yahoo up, Net stocks follow - Yahoo (YHOO) has walked the walk: News of its better-than-expected profits rippled through Wall Street as the Internet search company gave hope to other Internet stocks that are still deep in the red. [News.com]
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- Zenith plans major reorg - Zenith Electronics said it plans to release details in the second quarter of a major restructuring, after it reported a loss for 1997 of nearly $300 million. [News.com]
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- Ziff-Davis IPO set for this week - Ziff-Davis is the biggest name on the packed schedule of companies going public this week, but analysts said its stock is a better long-term investment than a chance to make a quick profit. [News.com]
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- Ziff-Davis sets IPO price - Softbank's U.S. computer publishing unit, Ziff-Davis, hopes to raise as much as $438.6 million in its initial public offering. [News.com]
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- Ziff-Davis shares rise after IPO - Ziff-Davis, the publisher of PC Magazine and producer of the Comdex trade show rose more than 14 percent after the company's launch on the New York Stock Exchange. [News.com]
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