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- "General use" supercomputer on tap - IBM has won a contract to supply the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure, a leading U.S. academic computer consortium, with the first "general use" supercomputer capable of handling more than 1 trillion calculations per second. [News.com]
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- 1999: The year for home networking? - Industry studies point to a huge market for it. Technology companies are falling over themselves to be a part of it. Participants on the show floor at the Comdex industry trade show this week were buzzing about it. [News.com]
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- 3Com invests in the home - With 3Com's equity investment in Epigram, the market for technology to connect multiple computers using the existing phone infrastructure within the home may have received another boost. [News.com]
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- 8-chip servers powered up - Eight-processor servers will be all the rage at Comdex. [News.com]
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- 8-chip servers powered up - Eight-processor servers will be all the rage at Comdex. [News.com]
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- @Home CEO takes AOL to task - The mud keeps flying between @Home and America Online. [News.com]
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- @Home chief bullish for New Year's - @Home chief executive Tom Jermoluk can't wait for New Year's. [News.com]
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- @Home shares jump to 52-week high - Stock in the @Home Network closed at a 52-week high today amid anticipation of a deal between the company and small and mid-sized cable operators. [News.com]
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- @Home to limit video downloads - @Home Network will limit the length of broadcast-quality video downloads over its high-speed cable network, the company revealed in its latest regulatory filing. [News.com]
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- @Home, Compaq sign distribution deal - Compaq Computer and @Home announced today they have signed a distribution deal to market the cable Net access provider's broadband service. [News.com]
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- A future of small "smart" devices - Computers will become simple to use and cheap to buy, with a mass market for small devices giving easy access to world-wide networks, high-tech companies told a conference here today. [News.com]
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- A tale of two companies - The surprise appointment of Sybase chairman Mitchell Kertzman to head Network Computer underscores the many formidable challenges faced by two struggling companies. [News.com]
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- Acer reports monthly record sales - Acer, Taiwan's largest computer maker, today reported that its October sales hit $317.6 million, a monthly record it said eclipsed all other Taiwan manufacturers in October. [News.com]
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- Active updates integration suite - Middleware developer Active Software has rolled out the next version of its systems integration package. [News.com]
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- Ad networks welcome MSN to fray - The online ad industry is enjoying such huge market expansion that even when Microsoft comes stomping into the domain nobody complains. [News.com]
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- Adaptec's card helps external storage - Adaptec announced an adapter card that will let people plug SCSI hard disks or removable drives into their Windows CE devices. [News.com]
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- Airlines cut fares amid Net competition - Airlines are cutting fares in limited markets to meet rising competition from rivals selling tickets for competing flights over the Internet. [News.com]
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- AltaVista taps email marketing - AltaVista has taken a step in what antispammers consider the right direction by launching an opt-in direct marketing service. [News.com]
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- Amazon alleges Wal-Mart intimidation - Amazon.com is accusing Wal-Mart Stores of waging an intimidation campaign against companies seeking to hire workers away from the world's largest retailer, court papers show. [News.com]
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- Amazon branches out and up - Amazon.com's stock jumped 22 points today after the opening of its video and holiday gift store. [News.com]
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- Amazon insiders sell $35 million - Amazon.com insiders, including chairman and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, filed to sell 277,500 shares worth a total of $35.2 million as shares rose on news of smaller-than-expected losses at the No. 1 Internet bookseller. [News.com]
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- Amazon to sell software - Amazon.com, the No. 1 online bookstore, is expected to pitch software over the Internet, in line with its strategy of selling more products online, analysts and Web commerce analysts said. [News.com]
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- Amazon.com selling want-ad software - Amazon.com agreed to sell technology that automatically collects Internet help-wanted ads to employee recruitment software company Restrac, shedding an asset unrelated to its online retail business. [News.com]
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- Amazon.com surges on stock split - Shares of online retailer Amazon.com surged in early trading today after the company announced yesterday that it will split its stock 3-for-1. [News.com]
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- AMD does hat trick with new chips - Advanced Micro Devices released a trio of K6-2 microprocessors today and said its first focused products for notebooks, the K6-3, will come out in the first quarter of next year. [News.com]
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- AMD does hat trick with new chips - Advanced Micro Devices released a trio of K6-2 microprocessors today and said its first focused products for notebooks, the K6-3, will come out in the first quarter of next year. [News.com]
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- Ameritech takes a swipe at the FCC - Ameritech's chairman Richard Notebaert delivered an unusually blunt criticism of federal telephone regulators for their comments about his company's proposed $61 billion merger with SBC Communications. [News.com]
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- Ameritech wants TCI network access - Regional Bell phone company Ameritech wants access to Tele-Communications Incorporated's network as a requirement of the No. 1 cable operator's merger with AT&T. [News.com]
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- AmEx launches Net payment service - American Express said its foreign exchange services division has launched an Internet-based service enabling small and medium U.S. firms to notify AmEx to send payments in 41 different currencies. [News.com]
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- Analysts: EDS faces uphill climb - Electronic Data Systems was downgraded by influential investment bank Salomon Smith Barney as the world's second-largest consulting and computer systems integration company continues to see its revenues from its largest client fall. [News.com]
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- Andersen revenues up 23% - Andersen Worldwide, the private professional services and consulting firm, said today its fiscal 1998 revenues rose 23 percent from the previous year, boosted by the strong performance of its Anderson Consulting unit, the world's largest consulting firm. [News.com]
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- Andreessen decides to take some R&R - After four years and seven months with the company he cofounded, Marc Andreessen is taking a sabbatical from Netscape Communications. [News.com]
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- Andreessen to invest in Replay - Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Netscape Communications, is investing an undisclosed amount of his personal funds in Replay Networks, saying that the small Silicon Valley start-up's technology may do for television what Netscape did for the Net. [News.com]
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- Annuncio preps for its debut - Los Altos, California-based Annuncio Software next week will launch as a company and begin early testing of its flagship marketing automation suite. [News.com]
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- Anti-Defamation League hosts hate filter - The Anti-Defamation League, which has been monitoring hate groups for 85 years, has teamed up with educational software maker The Learning Company to create a filter that screens out hate sites on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Antitrust problems for AOL? - U.S. antitrust authorities would almost certainly give the green light to Internet superpower America Online's deal to acquire Netscape Communications, experts said. [News.com]
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- AOL buys Netscape for $4.2 billion - America Online, the largest Internet access service, said today it will acquire Netscape Communications in a deal valued at $4.2 billion. [News.com]
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- AOL buys PersonaLogic - America Online is adding to its e-commerce tool chest. [News.com]
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- AOL deal overshadows witness testimony - Microsoft's top lawyers called on the government to drop the antitrust case against it in light of America Online's $4.2 billion agreement today to purchase Netscape, and vowed to seek dismissal of the case. [News.com]
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- AOL may buy Netscape in $4 billion deal - America Online is in talks to acquire Netscape Communications in a stock swap and a buyout could be announced this week, according to sources and at least four published reports. [News.com]
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- AOL membership passes 14 million - America Online said today that its worldwide membership has passed 14 million, as the No. 1 online service got a boost from a marketing campaign for its upgraded software. [News.com]
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- AOL to keep Netscape browser wrapped - America Online unwrapped a $4.2 billion buyout of Netscape today, but it plans to leave the company's pioneering Web browser software in the box unopened. [News.com]
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- AOL to star in feature film - Call it You've Got AOL. [News.com]
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- AOL's image survives intact - Problems in America Online's past have not done significant harm to the company's image among new members, according to a study released today. [News.com]
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- AOL, E-Stamp create Net postage service - America Online and online postage firm E-Stamp, hoping to save people trips to the post office, today announced that E-Stamp's Internet postage service will be available for consumers and small businesses who use AOL, CompuServe, AOL.com, and AOL's Digital City. [News.com]
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- AOL, Excite eye holiday shoppers - With the holiday season around the corner, Web portals are beginning to take on the shopping masses, touting convenience above all. [News.com]
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- AOL, Netscape deal hits snag - Acquisition discussions between America Online and Netscape Communications hit a snag yesterday because of a side deal involving Sun Microsystems, according to reports. [News.com]
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- AOL, Netscape discuss browser deal - America Online and Netscape Communications are discussing a deal to embed Netscape's browser into the online giant's service, possibly eliminating the exclusive positioning of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, according to a source familiar with the talks. [News.com]
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- AOL-Netscape and the browser wars - The possible buyout of Netscape Communications by America Online is threatening to throw a monkey wrench in the machinery of the browser war. [News.com]
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- AOL/Netscape could threaten Microsoft - A possible merger of America Online and Netscape Communications would pose a formidable threat to Microsoft and its allies in Europe, where the next wave of Internet growth is expected, according to experts. [News.com]
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- Appeals court mulls bid for tapes - Microsoft tried again yesterday to get secret tapes about competitor Netscape from two professors, arguing the information may be vital to defend it from charges it violated U.S. antitrust laws. [News.com]
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- Apple confirms bug - Apple Computer has confirmed a bug in its Sherlock search software. [News.com]
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- Apple launches iMac loan program - Seeing that demand for the popular iMac is tapering off somewhat, Apple Computer is trying to boost sales with a special loan program that has already been quietly launched for the holiday season. [News.com]
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- Apple revs application server software - Apple Computer wants a piece of the application server pie. [News.com]
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- Apple's debt gets better grade - Standard & Poor's today issued an improved debt rating for Apple, based on its improved financial and profitability profile. [News.com]
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- Apple: Microsoft was on warpath - The judge hearing the landmark antitrust suit here against Microsoft today appeared to run out of patience with the software giant, rebuking its attorneys and appearing to connect with a witness testifying for the government. [News.com]
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- Applied Materials beats the Street - Applied Materials's fiscal fourth-quarter earnings fell less than expected as cost cutting by the No. 1 maker of semiconductor manufacturing equipment helped offset a drop in sales. [News.com]
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- Applix offers OLAP for Linux - Linux continues to receive support in the form of more and more product lines that work with the open source operating system. [News.com]
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- Ardent Software to buy Prism Solutions - Ardent Software said today that it agreed to acquire Prism Solutions, a producer of software for data warehouses. [News.com]
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- Artemis adds alert function - Ring-a-ling-ling! Your project management software is calling. [News.com]
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- Ascend speeds access for ISPs - Ascend Communications said it plans to kick its converged voice and data-based network strategy into high gear next week with the launch of technology it acquired from Stratus Computer earlier this year. [News.com]
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- Ascend to balance load - Networking equipment provider Ascend Communications will announce an equity investment next week in privately held load-balancing specialist HydraWeb as part of a strategy to provide uninterrupted network services through its equipment. [News.com]
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- Asci Red king of supercomputers - Asci Red, a supercomputer created by Sandia National Laboratories and Intel, has retained its position at the top of the list of the world's fastest computers, although the overall leader in supercomputing still seems to be Silicon Graphics. [News.com]
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- AT&T balks at access for ISPs - AT&T said it could not allow competitors access to TCI's cable Internet access without jeopardizing the two companies' merger, in comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission. [News.com]
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- AT&T chief defends bundling - AT&T chairman Michael Armstrong reiterated his company's controversial strategy to sell a combined package of high-speed Internet access and online services for one price after completing its acquisition of cable giant Tele-Communications Incorporated. [News.com]
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- AT&T unveils Concert plan - AT&T, in the first marketing push associated with its $11 billion joint venture with British Telecommunications, said today that it will begin selling a suite of telecommunications services for U.S.-based multinational corporate clients under the label "AT&T Concert Services." [News.com]
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- AT&T WorldNet adds community - AT&T WorldNet today tried to even the score among portal sites vying to create community. [News.com]
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- AT&T, BT venture under EU microscope - Competition Commissioner Karel Van Miert confirmed comments by a senior official yesterday that EU regulators will launch a "second stage" investigation of AT&T and British Telecommunications' joint venture, which will have an estimated $3 billion in assets and sales of $10 billion in its first year. [News.com]
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- AT&T, MCI ask for new local access - AT&T and MCI WorldCom asked California regulators today to pry open another piece of that state's local phone market, in a move that could eventually shave a few dollars off local monthly phone bills. [News.com]
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- ATI ships laptop graphics chip - Graphics chip leader ATI Technologies is moving more aggressively into the stratifying notebook market with a new line of graphics accelerators. [News.com]
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- AvTel hit with shareholder suit - AvTel Communications, which two weeks ago posted a meteoric one-day stock gain of 1,278 percent, was named in a shareholder lawsuit alleging securities fraud. [News.com]
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- AvTel shares shoot for the moon - AvTel Communications shares more than quintupled after the company said it plans to roll out high-speed Internet access nationally on existing phone lines at speeds up to 50 times faster than conventional modems. [News.com]
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- Baan founders leave board - Baan NV, Europe's No. 2 maker of business management software, said its founders Jan Baan and Paul Baan will not be returning to the company's executive board. [News.com]
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- Baan's top management shuffle - Baan is doing the management shuffle once again, this time at its highest level. [News.com]
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- Bad connection slows desktop LCDs - New liquid crystal display screens for desktop computers are springing up all over Comdex this week, but significant obstacles to widespread acceptance remain. [News.com]
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- Bankers Trust pins down Year 2000 costs - Bankers Trust expects to spend about $220 million to $260 million through this year and over the next two years to prepare its computer systems for the year 2000, according to a government filing. [News.com]
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- Banking on Windows DNA - Microsoft's DNA is replicating within the Ohio Savings Bank. [News.com]
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- Banyan might spin off phone directory - Banyan Systems said it may spin off its No. 1 online phone directory www.switchboard.com from its core networking business next year to capitalize on a hot market for Internet stocks. [News.com]
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- Barksdale throws in the towel - Netscape Communications chief executive Jim Barksdale knew it was time to throw in the towel. [News.com]
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- Barnes & Noble buys Ingram Book - Barnes & Noble, the largest U.S. bookseller, announced today that it plans to buy Ingram Book Group in a deal worth $600 million in its latest challenge to Amazon.com. [News.com]
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- Barnes & Noble deals questioned - Barnes & Noble's buyout of distributor Ingram Book Group marks the bookseller's second industry alliance in a month, raising anticompetitive concerns among rivals and analysts. [News.com]
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- Barnes & Noble takes online hit - Barnes & Noble, the world's largest retail bookseller, today reported a wider-than-expected fiscal third-quarter loss thanks to operating losses at its Web unit that offset surging sales from the company's retail superstores. [News.com]
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- Be gets funding help from friends - Be Incorporated, a maker of operating system software, announced it has raised in excess of $25 million in 1998 to fund market expansion, with some of that money coming from Intel. [News.com]
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- Be opens OS to Windows - Be Incorporated yesterday announced BeOS Release 4, a new version of the operating system that will make it easier for Be fans to retrieve information written on Windows programs. [News.com]
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- BEA plunges on future profit warning - Shares of BEA Systems plunged as much as 54 percent today after nearly a half-dozen analysts downgraded their outlook for the company following its warning that global economic turmoil and lower capital expenditure is likely to adversely impact sales growth. [News.com]
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- Bell Atlantic plans long distance play - Bell Atlantic said today it will file with New Jersey state regulators for permission to enter that state's long distance telephone market, and has laid out a series of promises company officials hope will help reach that goal. [News.com]
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- Bell Atlantic to sell most of Infoseek stake - Bell Atlantic Electronic Commerce Services plans to sell 85 percent of its stake in Infoseek, relinquishing its role as the Internet search company's third-largest shareholder. [News.com]
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- Bells still trying to go the distance - As Bell Atlantic moves to break into the New Jersey long distance market, the near-term outlook for Bell companies to expand into long distance at home still remains dim. [News.com]
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- BellSouth drops suit on phone subsidies - In a move that may take some pressure off beleaguered Washington regulators, BellSouth said today it would withdraw from a lawsuit challenging the way federal telephone subsidies are governed. [News.com]
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- BellSouth sees strong earnings growth - BellSouth expects a 12 to 14 percent rise in earnings per share next year, helped by strong growth in Latin American wireless customers. [News.com]
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- BellSouth service gets banks online - BellSouth has begun offering banks a new package of services, including Internet access and software, that lets the financial companies provide online services to their customers. [News.com]
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- Bennett: SEC should report on Y2K filings - In the wake of a number of Y2K filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission by some major corporations, one U.S. senator is taking a break from his Congressional recess to urge the commission to report on whether publicly-traded companies are disclosing their Year 2000 readiness adequately. [News.com]
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- Big firms eschew Comdex booths - If you're looking to see technology demonstrations from the largest companies in the computer industry, Comdex, ironically, may not be the place to do it. [News.com]
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- Big flat panels drop in price - Two flat-panel display makers introduced new 18-inch displays today as the market for these fancy thin monitors heats up. [News.com]
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- Big names submit XMI standard - A group of software vendors led by IBM, Oracle, and Unisys wants to make it easier for development teams to work together on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Biggest U.S. smart card trial ends - The largest U.S. pilot for smart cards is drawing to a close after 14 months. The market trial in Manhattan's Upper West Side was designed to see how U.S. consumers and small merchants would use smart cards loaded with e-cash. [News.com]
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- Biometrics moves to the fore - High-tech companies that once dismissed concerns about online privacy increasingly are concurring with the critics. If the Internet is ever to become a truly secure way to shop and exchange sensitive data, they say, it will take more than just secret passwords to protect private information. [News.com]
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- Biometrics moves to the fore - High-tech companies that once dismissed concerns about online privacy increasingly are concurring with the critics. If the Internet is ever to become a truly secure way to shop and exchange sensitive data, they say, it will take more than just secret passwords to protect private information. [News.com]
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- BMC builds its market share - BMC Software continues to expand its stake in the management software market. [News.com]
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- BMC to buy Boole & Babbage - BMC Software said today that it will acquire mainframe software maker Boole & Babbage in a deal valued at $900 million. [News.com]
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- Booksellers enjoy verbal jousting - The battle of the booksellers, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, has become a war of words as well. [News.com]
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- Borders taps new CEO from Random House - Borders Group has named the former president of publisher Random House as its new chief executive officer to lead the music and book retailer overseas and onto the Internet. [News.com]
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- Brigadoon may buy @bigger.net - National Internet service provider Brigadoon.com has offered to buy one-time fee ISP @bigger.net, which filed for Chapter 7 liquidation last month, but a bankruptcy court has yet to approve the sale. [News.com]
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- Bright future for enterprise app market - Pass the Ray-Bans and hold on to your SAP stock--the future of business applications looks bright if vendors stay on their current course. [News.com]
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- Broadcast.com to buy SimpleNet - Webcaster Broadcast.com today announced that it will acquire Simple Network Communications, a provider of Net hosting services, in a move to accelerate the expansion of Broadcast.com's Internet broadcasting services into the consumer and small business markets. [News.com]
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- Broadcom chip melds Web, TV - Broadcom announced a new chip for TV set-top boxes today sending shares in the broadband chipmaker above its 52-week high, although 3D experts are wondering what the fuss is about. [News.com]
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- BT invests $10 million in Excite U.K. - British Telecommunications, Britain's largest phone company, today announced it will buy a 50 percent stake in Web portal Excite's U.K. subsidiary with a $10 million investment. [News.com]
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- BT strengthens multimedia services - British Telecommunications, the U.K.'s biggest telephone company, said second-quarter profit from operations rose 18 percent as growth in Internet, multimedia and mobile phone services surged. [News.com]
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- Build your own Barbie online - On the Net, B.Y.O.B. now stands for Build Your Own Barbie. [News.com]
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- Buy.com runs with e-commerce portal plan - Look out, Amazon.com. Here comes Buy.com [News.com]
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- C&W, IBM team on data networks - Cable & Wireless, the second-largest U.K. telephone company, said it is joining with IBM to provide multinational companies a cheaper way of hooking up their data networks to technology made by the world's largest computer maker. [News.com]
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- C-Cube sets set-top strategy - C-Cube is developing a multimedia platform for TV set-top boxes that is designed to improve picture quality and Web graphics viewed on television sets. [News.com]
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- CA buys LDA Systems - Computer Associates today continued its push to acquire smaller software companies, buying LDA Systems, a consulting and services firm. [News.com]
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- CA chief says services doubling - Computer Associates' service revenue is set to double by late March as the No. 4 software maker pushes into the fast-growing market, Chief Executive Charles Wang said. [News.com]
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- Cable & Wireless expands Europe network - Cable & Wireless, the U.K.'s second-largest phone company, will spend $1 billion over five years to build a telecommunications network throughout Europe as the company builds on its Internet network in the U.S. [News.com]
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- Cable & Wireless launches ISP - The domestic arm of British telecommunications company Cable & Wireless today announced it will move into the consumer Internet access market by offering $14.95 per month dial-up service in 300 U.S. cities. [News.com]
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- Cable & Wireless names new U.S. chief - Cable & Wireless, the U.K.'s No. 2 phone company, today named Dennis Matteucci as chief executive officer of its U.S. unit, replacing an executive who resigned last week after eight months in the job. [News.com]
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- Cable cut severs MCI Worldcom service - A cut in MCI Worldcom's fiber optic network temporarily threw the company's long distance service into disarray this afternoon. [News.com]
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- Cable group opposes DTV rules - The cable industry is objecting to a Clinton administration draft report on public-interest obligations for broadcasters in the digital era. [News.com]
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- Cadence to cut 560 jobs - Cadence Design Systems said today it will cut 560 jobs, or 12 percent of its global workforce, and take a fourth-quarter $36 million charge for restructuring to improve its operations as a major software maker for designing computer chips. [News.com]
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- Can AOL and Netscape make it work? - Just last December, AOL chief executive Steve Case told industry colleagues that "the mass market doesn't care about the technology itself." [News.com]
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- Can Dell do it again? - Success brings its own burdens, Dell is discovering. [News.com]
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- Caribbean wants long distance choices - U.K.-based telecommunications carrier Cable & Wireless will push for reparations if Caribbean nations allow competitors like AT&T, Sprint, and MCI WorldCom to make gains in the region. [News.com]
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- Castle targets migration from voice - Networking start-up Castle Networks is hoping it can ride the hype surrounding the so-called convergence of networks all the way to the bank. [News.com]
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- CDA II critics claim temporary victory - In a major victory for civil libertarians, a federal judge today issued a temporary restraining order barring the government from enforcing the Child Online Protection Act for ten days. [News.com]
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- Cendant reports rise in revenues - Fraud-mired direct-marketing giant Cendant today reported that third-quarter revenues from continuing operations were $1.46 billion, a 23 percent increase compared to $1.19 billion the year-ago quarter. [News.com]
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- Cendant sells software unit to Havas - Cendant today announced that it will sell its consumer software division, Cendant Software and its subsidiaries, to Paris-based Havas for approximately $1 billion, as part of the company's ongoing strategy to increase shareholder value by focusing on Cendant's core businesses. [News.com]
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- Cendant to offer AT&T WorldNet - Cendant said today its software division will feature AT&T's WorldNet Internet service on Cendant's 40 million CD-ROMs published under the Blizzard Entertainment, Sierra, and Knowledge Adventure brands. [News.com]
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- Centrax offers free security tools - A small Internet security start-up is giving away tools that detect when insiders or outsiders break into computers they're not authorized to use. [News.com]
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- Certicom acquires Uptronics - Crypto company Certicom today announced its second acquisition in four months, buying Uptronics in a $2.5 million deal that gives Certicom an instant security consulting practice. [News.com]
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- ChannelPoint targets insurers - Targeting low-tech insurance companies, ChannelPoint next week will release its Internet-based software suite that handles all phases of insurance distribution and policy maintenance. [News.com]
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- Chase discloses Y2K progress - It helps to have Y2K taken seriously by the big guys. [News.com]
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- Chase discloses Y2K progress - It helps to have Y2K taken seriously by the big guys. [News.com]
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- Check Point offers ISP security - Security software vendor Check Point next week will announce new software for ISPs to manage network security policies for multiple corporate customers. [News.com]
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- Check Point taps Chrysalis for VPN speed - In an effort to boost performance of its virtual private network software over high-speed corporate networks, Check Point will sell encryption accelerator hardware from Chrysalis-ITS. [News.com]
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- China plans six-satellite network - China plans to launch its first network of state-of-the-art optical and radar satellites, according to state media. [News.com]
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- Chip delay could slow Dreamcast - Armed with its powerful 128-bit Dreamcast game machine, Sega today expressed confidence it is ready for battle in the next round of game machine wars. [News.com]
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- Chip industry poised for comeback - After slugging through one of the worst years in a decade, the semiconductor industry is poised to start making a comeback in 1999 that could culminate in annual industrywide sales of $182 billion by 2001, according to the Semiconductor Industry Organization. [News.com]
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- Chipset speeds FireWire's work - Lucent Microelectronics introduced new chips that will allow consumers to more easily connect PCs to image and data-rich devices such as digital camcorders, VCRs, and other peripherals. [News.com]
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- Ciena shares fall on Enron deal - Enron Communications, a unit of U.S. energy company Enron, said today communications and networking equipment makers Ciena and Cisco Systems will supply equipment for its fiber-optic communications network. [News.com]
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- Cindy's site won't be free - In an attempt to reclaim her image from the amateur Web hosts, Cindy Crawford is now strutting her way onto the Web. [News.com]
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- Cirrus to spin off modem business - Cirrus Logic said it had signed a letter of intent to spin off its PC modem business for an undisclosed sum to 40 employees who will form a private company called Ambient Technologies. [News.com]
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- Cisco gains on earnings news - Shares of networking equipment company Cisco Systems jumped today after the company yesterday posted first-quarter profits that exceeded analysts' expectations by a penny. [News.com]
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- Cisco rings in phone sales - Cisco Systems revealed today it will soon begin marketing telephones to spur adoption of its back-end voice/data convergence equipment intended to lower long distance voice costs for corporations. [News.com]
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- Civil liberties groups move to block CDAII - Free speech advocates will ask a federal court Thursday to block enforcement of the Child Online Protection Act, which could force an array of Web sites to verify the age of visitors or face stiff penalties and prison time. [News.com]
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- Clean News proposed as Usenet censor - A Chicago programmer is launching a service he says will strip child porn and pirated software out of Usenet for ISPs that want to protect themselves from prosecutors' raids. [News.com]
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- Clinton seeks expanded e-commerce - President Bill Clinton today reaffirmed his belief that the private sector, not government, should lead efforts to boost Internet commerce, sticking to a hands-off approach that pleases industry but leaves consumer activists and some European governments frowning. [News.com]
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- Clinton, Gore to promote e-commerce - President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore on Monday will ask executives from companies like Cisco Systems, as well as legislators and government officials, to help boost the Internet as a global marketplace. [News.com]
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- Cloudscape to test Java database - Java database maker Cloudscape this month begins testing on the next version of its embeddable database designed for distributed and mobile applications. [News.com]
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- Cold water chills EarthLink euphoria - EarthLink Network executives today threw cold water on rumors that Sprint might soon buy their company outright, taking the steam out of a Wall Street buying frenzy that drove the company's shares up 37 percent Friday. [News.com]
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- Comcast meets Street forecasts - Giant cable operator Comcast today reported that its consolidated operating cash flow for the third quarter increased 15.3 percent to $420.7 million from the $365 million reported in the year-ago quarter, meeting cable analysts' expectations. [News.com]
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- Comdex mobile device showings patchy - On the eve of Comdex Fall 1998, the mobile computer market has expanded to the point where almost every conceivable design is available. [News.com]
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- Comdex mobile device showings patchy - On the eve of Comdex Fall 1998, the mobile computer market has expanded to the point where almost every conceivable design is available. [News.com]
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- Comdex sets sights on standards - Vendors will show off new gadgets and home devices at Comdex this year, although the real action may likely come from standards groups and industry consortiums which plan to hammer out reference designs for future products. [News.com]
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- Comdex sets sights on standards - Vendors will show off new gadgets and home devices at Comdex this year, although the real action may likely come from standards groups and industry consortiums which plan to hammer out reference designs for future products. [News.com]
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- Comdex to push TV on a PC - At the sprawling Comdex trade show next week in Las Vegas, companies will try to convince you to make your next TV a PC, while small PC makers will hawk sub-$700 computers. [News.com]
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- Comdex to push TV on a PC - At the sprawling Comdex trade show next week in Las Vegas, companies will try to convince you to make your next TV a PC, while small PC makers will hawk sub-$700 computers. [News.com]
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- Comdex: A booth with a view - More than a million people will walk down Convention Center Drive in Las Vegas this week, and very few of them will be there to pay homage to the Debbie Reynolds Casino. [News.com]
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- Comdex: Chip puppets and other buffoonery - This week, the fate of National Semiconductor will be in the hands of a puppet. [News.com]
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- Comdex: loaded but cheap notebooks - Umax and MAG Portable Technologies both chose the Comdex trade show as the venue to unveil notebooks with big screens and fast processors priced well under the $2,000 mark. [News.com]
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- Comdex: loaded but cheap notebooks - Umax and MAG Portable Technologies both chose the Comdex trade show as the venue to unveil notebooks with big screens and fast processors priced well under the $2,000 mark. [News.com]
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- Comdex: Mitsubishi boosts flat displays - Mitsubishi Electronics moved ahead in big, flat computer displays, offering a flat 22-inch conventional desktop monitor and an 18-inch LCD display. [News.com]
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- Comdex: Products under pressure - Intel, feeling the encroach of competitors, will integrate features on the main chip. Meanwhile, DVD drive and notebook makers tout new products, and Charles Wang gives sales caveat. [News.com]
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- Commerce eclipsing content - Forget content, the portal world is becoming an e-commerce world. [News.com]
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- Companies wage war over long distance - Ten cents a minute. A check for a hundred dollars. Five cents a minute. A penny a minute on Sundays for calling dear old mum. [News.com]
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- Compaq cuts notebook prices - Compaq Computer has cut prices on many of its Armada notebook PCs, with reductions of up to 16 percent. [News.com]
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- Compaq cuts out the middleman - Reinforcing its push to sell its computer products directly to buyers, Compaq Computer executives today showed off an online service that makes it easier for corporate customers to install new equipment without relying on the expertise of a middleman. [News.com]
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- Compaq demos Windows 2000 - Compaq Computer is demonstrating Windows 2000-ready PCs at Comdex this week, the first indication that Microsoft's partners are in lockstep with the company as it prepares for the launch of its next-generation operating system. [News.com]
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- Compaq doubles asset base - The financing arm of computer giant Compaq Computer doubled its asset base today with the acquisition of the digital financial service asset portfolio from GE Capital. [News.com]
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- Compaq eyes Croatia subsidiary - Compaq Computer today said its wants to open a subsidiary in Croatia targeting banks, big companies, and government institutions as customers. [News.com]
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- Compaq fuels PC price war - Compaq is feeling the heat. [News.com]
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- Compaq in conquest mode - Feeling the heat from Dell and others, the No. 1 PC maker unveils a new direct sales effort, slashes the price of consumer PCs, and enters the supercomputer race. [News.com]
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- Compaq joins supercomputer race - By tying together 72 Proliant servers running Windows NT into a machine called the "Kudzu Cluster," Compaq has broken a record for the time it takes to sort a terabyte, or a trillion bytes of data, according to the company. [News.com]
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- Compaq launches Net-connection assault - Compaq launched a massive Internet technology strike today, hoping to recapture the cutting-edge consumer PC high ground, seized by Apple Computer's iMac earlier this year. [News.com]
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- Compaq launches Net-connection assault - Compaq launched a massive Internet technology strike today, hoping to recapture the cutting-edge consumer PC high ground, seized by Apple Computer's iMac earlier this year. [News.com]
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- Compaq to bring TV to PCs - Tapping into interactive digital TV on your PC will be one of the big messages emanating from the Comdex computer show. [News.com]
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- Compaq's direct hit is here - Compaq's holy war against Dell took a new turn today as the No. 1 PC vendor rolled out a new program to target small- and medium-sized businesses through direct sales and new product bundles. [News.com]
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- Compaq's kitchen-sink strategy - Compaq CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer broadly reiterated his vision for the company today but specifics about its computer strategy divulged later in the day were more tantalizing. [News.com]
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- Compaq's kitchen-sink strategy - Compaq CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer broadly reiterated his vision for the company today but specifics about its computer strategy divulged later in the day were more tantalizing. [News.com]
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- Compaq's new plan hurts dealers - The handwriting is on the wall for computer dealers. [News.com]
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- Compaq, Dell beef up servers - Compaq and Dell pumped up their server lineups yesterday with systems that use up to four 400-MHz Intel Pentium II Xeon processors, which until recently were in short supply. [News.com]
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- Complaint won't derail BT-AT&T approval - A rival's complaint that British Telecommunications and AT&T are prematurely starting up their $10 billion joint venture isn't likely to derail European Union approval of the linkup, a European Commission official said. [News.com]
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- CompUSA sees sales troubles - Shares of software and hardware retailer CompUSA traded lower today after the company reported a 65-percent drop in net income for the first quarter, and warned that sales in the next quarter may come under pressure. [News.com]
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- Computer Literacy Shares Double - The stock price of technical bookseller Computer Literacy continued to climb today, up closing at 21.063, up 1.125, after nearly doubling on Friday, its first day of trading. [News.com]
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- Conference to cover Main Street's Y2K issues - With just over 400 days left until January 1, 2000, a large group of government officials and industry experts will assemble next week to discuss how the computer problems brought on by the new century will impact Main Street. [News.com]
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- Congress to appoint Net tax panel - Top brass from Microsoft, America Online, and Charles Schwab are among the names circulating on Capitol Hill as possible appointees to a new congressionally mandated panel on Internet taxation, an industry source said today. [News.com]
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- Consumer Reports an online win - While online publications struggle to grow their subscriber bases in a medium defined by free content, one site has been quietly building one of the Net's largest subscription-based services. [News.com]
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- Court OKs nude Dr. Laura photos - How Could You Do That? and Ten Stupid Things Women Do To Mess Up Their Lives are just a few of the books by famed radio advice queen Dr. Laura Schlessinger. But those words may be coming back to haunt her. [News.com]
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- Court throws out AT&T case vs. SBC - A Texas district court has dismissed an AT&T lawsuit against SBC Communications, in which the long distance giant had accused the former Bell of playing unfairly in protecting its local telephone markets. [News.com]
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- Creating a universal computer language - More than 120 computer and linguistics experts are working on a computer language to enable people to communicate over the Internet in their mother tongues with people who speak other languages. [News.com]
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- Critics blast GTE-Bell Atlantic merger - Opposition to the proposed merger between telecommunications giants Bell Atlantic and GTE mounted today, as competitors and consumer groups weighed in on the deal for the first time at the Federal Communications Commission. [News.com]
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- Customer service a Net oxymoron - Customer service on the Web leaves much to be desired, Jupiter Communications reported today, based on a survey of 125 major Web sites in five categories: content, consumer brands, travel, retail, and financial services. [News.com]
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- CyberCash taps Perez - CyberCash, a leading vendor of e-commerce payment technologies and services, announced it has tapped Ken Perez as senior vice president of marketing. Perez will oversee corporate marketing efforts for CyberCash's electronic payment products and services in both the physical and Internet markets. Perez was previously with e-commerce company Reston, and a director of a Hewlett-Packard business unit. Maureen Loftus, CyberCash senior vice president of corporate marketing and strategy, will concentrate on the company's one-click InstaBuy product. [News.com]
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- Cybersmut a taboo research topic - In that vast closet of information that makes up the Internet, there is a pile of racy lingerie some people would rather not examine too closely: pornography. [News.com]
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- Cylink sees "substantial" losses - After swapping chief executives and announcing it would drastically restate earnings for the last two quarters, network security firm Cylink today said it will move more rapidly from its proprietary technologies to Internet standards. [News.com]
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- Cyrix designs wireless Net device - Cyrix has developed a reference design for a handheld wireless Internet device it will demo at Comdex next week, hoping to snap its Comdex losing streak. [News.com]
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- Dawn of new chip era for Sun - Sun Microsystems released new versions of its UltraSparc II and integrated UltraSparc IIi chips today, which will lead to new workstations in the near future. [News.com]
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- Deal could reverse Netscape's slide - An acquisition of Netscape Communications by America Online could strengthen the Internet software maker and give AOL additional ammunition against Web-based rivals. [News.com]
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- Deal paves way for 'AOL devices' - Among the many aftershocks of America Online's acquisition of Netscape and its deal with Sun will be the emergence of "AOL devices." [News.com]
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- Dell barely beats estimates - When is beating earnings estimates a pedestrian accomplishment? When you're Dell Computer. [News.com]
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- Dell beats Compaq in business sales - Dell Computer passed Compaq Computer in sales to large businesses for the first time last quarter, and the Round Rock, Texas company shows no sign of relenting. [News.com]
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- Dell bundling DSL modems - Dell and Compaq see eye to eye on one thing: the enormous sales potential for coupling personal computers with high-speed modems. [News.com]
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- Dell bundling DSL modems - Dell and Compaq see eye to eye on one thing: the enormous sales potential for coupling personal computers with high-speed modems. [News.com]
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- Dell cuts notebook, PC prices - Dell Computer has cut prices on business notebooks and desktops by as much as 18 percent, reflecting its lean-and-mean manufacturing model which continues to bring price pressure to bear on the PC industry. [News.com]
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- Dell drops Intergraph technology - Dell has chosen to bolster its push into the increasingly competitive workstation market without technology from Intergraph in certain new models, as analysts warn that Intergraph may be alienating customers such as Dell. [News.com]
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- Dell gets down to business - In business sales, the computer maker passes Compaq in the third quarter, taking over the top spot. Mobil Oil also taps the company for a three-year deal. [News.com]
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- Dell hawks ultraslim notebook - Dell Computer will join the crowd of vendors hawking ultraslim notebooks in the first part of next year when it releases is first Latitude mini-notebook. . [News.com]
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- Dell hawks ultraslim notebook - Dell Computer will join the crowd of vendors hawking ultraslim notebooks in the first part of next year when it releases is first Latitude mini-notebook. . [News.com]
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- Dell lands $75 million Mobil deal - Dell Computer has landed a 3-year, $75 million contract to become the primary supplier of PC technology to Mobil Oil in a deal that presages more price wars for 1999, with Dell on the front lines. [News.com]
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- Dell taps E&S for graphics cards - Dell will announce Monday that it will drop Intergraph graphics cards in favor of Evans and Sutherland cards to handle high-end graphics for its Precision line of workstations, sources familiar with the deal said. [News.com]
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- Dell: Japan lags on IT spending - Japanese enterprises have not used information sufficiently to improve the productivity of their businesses, Dell Computer chairman Michael Dell said today in Tokyo. [News.com]
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- Descartes targets vertical markets - Descartes Systems Group is planting its flag in a handful of vertical industries as it and its competitors stake out space in the ever-shrinking supply chain management software market. [News.com]
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- Developers mixed on Java ruling - Software developers ran long on opinion but short on agreement in the wake of a preliminary injunction against Microsoft in its licensing dispute with Sun Microsystems, curtailing the software giant's ability add its own extensions to the Java computer language. [News.com]
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- Diamond faces the music - After much controversy, Diamond Multimedia today began shipping its Rio PMP300 portable music player, just in time for the holiday shopping season. [News.com]
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- Did domain servers wreak havoc? - Glitches in the domain-naming network yesterday may have hampered access to some sites across the Net. [News.com]
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- Digicash files Chapter 11 - Electronic-cash pioneer DigiCash said today it's filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after shrinking its payroll to about six people from nearly 50 in February. [News.com]
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- Digital River files for share offering - Digital River says it filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to offer 3 million common shares. [News.com]
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- Digital TV broadcasts begin - Despite expensive consumer hardware and limited programming, broadcasters are set to throw the switch on digital TV transmissions as soon as today. [News.com]
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- DirectDraw bug causes crashes - Microsoft today acknowledged a problem with its DirectDraw Java foundation classes that causes computers to crash. [News.com]
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- Domain group answers critics - A budding nonprofit corporation that is expected to oversee the Net address system when the government passes the baton today responded to concerns about its evolving plan. [News.com]
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- Domain name battle in transition - As the Internet domain-naming community hammers out the details of the Net address system's transition from a government-run entity into a private international corporation, it loses two of its leaders: Clinton adviser Ira Magaziner plans to resign, while luminary Jon Postel is memorialized by colleagues and friends. [News.com]
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- Dow leaps 214, sets record - The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended at a record high today with a frenzy of corporate mergers adding fuel to the market's spectacular, three-month recovery. [News.com]
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- Dr. Solomon boosts antivirus line - Network Associates today announced a new version of its antivirus software, which for the first time integrates Dr. Solomon's technology which was acquired when Network Associates bought the company in June for $650 million in stock. [News.com]
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- Dreamweaver beta launched - Macromedia tomorrow will launch a private beta of its Dreamweaver Web-authoring tool, version 2.0, for registered users of the prior version only. [News.com]
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- DSL sees a "killer app" in IP - Voice-over IP could be the "killer app" for digital subscriber lines. [News.com]
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- DTV in the spotlight - Philips touts hardware for turning your PC into a digital TV, while Broadcom unveils a chip for melding the Web with TV. But analysts question the impact of both. [News.com]
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- DTV in the spotlight - Philips touts hardware for turning your PC into a digital TV, while Broadcom unveils a chip for melding the Web with TV. But analysts question the impact of both. [News.com]
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- E*Trade plans options exchange - In a move to compete with the leading options trading floors, online trading site E*Trade Group, along with several other broker-dealers, today announced plans for a new electronic options exchange. [News.com]
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- E*Trade stock beats rivals - E*Trade stock has risen since early October at twice the pace of rival brokers Charles Schwab and Ameritrade, a tribute to a national advertising campaign and investor appetite for companies doing business on the Internet. [News.com]
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- E*Trade to offer own mutual funds - E*Trade today announced it has teamed up with Barclays Global Fund Advisors, as part of the online discount broker's plans to launch its own line of mutual funds. [News.com]
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- E-shopping's coming-out party - Internet commerce analysts project various billions in online sales this holiday season, but the most staggering statistic emerges from a study performed for Dell Computer. [News.com]
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- EarthLink gets boost from CompUSA deal - EarthLink Network shares rose as much as 9 percent after it said CompUSA, the largest U.S. personal-computer retailer, selected the company as its exclusive Internet service provider. [News.com]
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- EarthLink teams with NSI - Online access provider EarthLink today sealed a cross-linking deal with top-level domain name registry Network Solutions. [News.com]
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- EarthWeb IPO defies gravity - EarthWeb shares more than tripled in their first day of trading, as the company, which provides technical information online, benefited from investor enthusiasm for Internet stocks. [News.com]
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- eBay outage a one-two punch - Person-to-person auction site eBay went on the blink yesterday afternoon, wreaking havoc for bidders and sellers and giving the company a massive customer-support headache. [News.com]
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- EC ready for domain name reform - Saying its earlier concerns about global representation had been met, the European Commission welcomed a U.S. plan to reform the Internet name and address system. [News.com]
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- EchoStar launches new satellite service - EchoStar Communications launched a new direct broadcast satellite television service in Alaska, Hawaii and U.S. territories today, while federal regulators ruled renters have a right to install small satellite dishes on their homes. [News.com]
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- EchoStar to buy satellite assets - Digital broadcast satellite company EchoStar Communications today agreed to buy satellite assets owned by media company News Corporation and telecommunications company MCI WorldCom. [News.com]
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- EDS asks Crandall to be chief - Electronic Data Systems has approached retired AMR chairman Robert Crandall about becoming its new chief executive, according to reports. [News.com]
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- EDS joins Visa on smart cards - EDS will work with financial institutions to implement smart card applications including debit and credit cards, electronic cash, and loyalty programs. The big systems integrator has signed up to support the Visa Smart initiative from Visa International. [News.com]
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- EDS offers management outsourcing - EDS today launched a new service that gives companies the ability to centrally manage applications and information delivery to end-users. [News.com]
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- EDS to use CheckFree bill service - CheckFree, a provider of electronic commerce products, said today that it entered a six-year agreement with Electronic Data Systems in which EDS will provide its bill paying service to banks using CheckFree's remittance processing services. [News.com]
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- Egghead gets stock boost from redesign - Shares of Egghead.com surged to an new 52-week high after the company, which sells software and computer products over the Internet, said it introduced a redesigned Web site that will allow it to broaden its product offerings. [News.com]
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- Egghead.com promotes revamped site - Coinciding with the revamp of its Web site this week, computer software and hardware retailer Egghead.com has launched an advertising campaign to debut its Web-based operation. [News.com]
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- Election site jumps the gun - Thanks to an embarrassing snafu, voters across the country could have learned who won the election--before the votes were ever cast. [News.com]
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- Election sites avoid gridlock - Two years ago, when the Net was just gaining in popularity, sites posting election results were deluged with so much traffic that citizens hungry for information had to turn elsewhere. This election year was a different story. [News.com]
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- Ellison plans hardware, bashes Bill - In a keynote address filled with Bill-bashing, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison tonight outlined an initiative to bundle Oracle 8i on hardware devices dedicated to running the Internet-friendly database. [News.com]
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- Ellison plans hardware, bashes Bill - In a keynote address filled with Bill-bashing, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison tonight outlined an initiative to bundle Oracle 8i on hardware devices dedicated to running the Internet-friendly database. [News.com]
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- Email you just can't miss - Israel-based MailPush is banking on the fact that telephones, pagers, email, and instant messaging don't provide consumers with enough ways to reach out and touch someone. [News.com]
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- EMC beefs up storage strategy - EMC yesterday detailed its multiyear strategy for creating networks of low-cost data storage devices capable of managing the explosion of corporate computer information and of meeting the need for employees to have immediate access to such data. [News.com]
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- Entrust to secure far-flung networks - Security software supplier Entrust Technologies is unveiling plans to enable companies to securely handle communications and electronic commerce, not only on private corporate networks, but also with outside suppliers and customers via the Internet. [News.com]
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- Ericsson-HP, Cap Gemini ink deal - Ericsson Hewlett-Packard Telecommunications, a joint venture between Sweden's Ericsson and U.S. computer giant Hewlett-Packard, said today that it had signed a cooperation deal with Dutch software firm Cap Gemini. [News.com]
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- EU eyes restrictions on e-commerce - The European Commission plans to propose legislation today that will allow member states to impose national restrictions on merchants selling through the World Wide Web, according to reports. [News.com]
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- EU proposes rules for online commerce - The European Commission moved yesterday to make it easier for consumers and companies to do business over the Internet or other electronic networks, proposing rules that would apply across the European Union. [News.com]
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- Europe deadlocked over digital signatures - European Union telecommunications ministers have failed to resolve a row over how strictly to regulate the technology used to create "electronic signatures," prompting a rebuke from the EU's top technology official. [News.com]
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- Europe lags on Y2K issue - European governments are failing to protect their citizens against fallout from the millennium computer bomb, and the consequences of their inaction are likely to start at the end of this year in hospitals and welfare systems, a conference was told yesterday. [News.com]
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- Europe lags on Y2K issue - European governments are failing to protect their citizens against fallout from the millennium computer bomb, and the consequences of their inaction are likely to start at the end of this year in hospitals and welfare systems, a conference was told yesterday. [News.com]
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- Europe warned to catch up on Net - Europe will fall further behind in Internet commerce unless governments make more effort to clear away barriers, a conference here sponsored by the Gartner Group research firm was told. [News.com]
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- Europe, U.S. wrestle over Net privacy - Clinton administration officials today are disputing reports that the European Union plans to reject a U.S. compromise to keep digital information flowing between the territories in the face of a strict new EU data privacy directive. [News.com]
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- Everex climbs mini-notebook mountain - Everex is set to debut its first Windows CE-based mini-notebook next week at the Comdex trade show along with an upgraded palm-size information manager that offers more memory capacity. [News.com]
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- Excerpts from the Java ruling - Following are highlights of Judge Ronald Whyte's 31-page ruling that Microsoft must alter its version of Java, which is shipped in products such as Windows 98 and Internet Explorer: [News.com]
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- Excite cofounder files to sell shares - A senior vice president and cofounder of Excite, Joseph Kraus, may sell 52,790 common shares worth about $2.6 million, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. [News.com]
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- Excite in $125 million banking deal - Excite will announce a deal worth as much as $125 million with Bank One, the fifth-largest bank in the nation, to create an online banking center, according to a source. [News.com]
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- Excite in $125 million banking deal - Excite today announced a deal with Bank One to make banking on its portal site more personalized. [News.com]
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- Extended Systems boosts synchronization - Extended Systems will release Enterprise Harmony '98 for Desktops, a synchronization application for Windows CE and PalmPilot users, the company said. Enterprise Harmony currently synchronizes corporate information with Windows CE devices, but the newest version, expected by the end of the year, will be expanded to also work with Palm Computing's PalmPilot devices. [News.com]
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- Fast-growing firms say IT's their edge - The fastest-growing companies in the United States attribute their competitive advantage to an edge in IT, according to a study released today. [News.com]
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- FCC delays ISP regulation ruling - The Federal Communications Commission will put off for at least another week a controversial decision over how local calls to Internet service providers should be regulated, officials said today. [News.com]
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- FCC questions telco megamergers - The Federal Communication Commission's Gloria Tristani says she has strong reservations about several telephone company megamergers now up for FCC approval. [News.com]
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- FCC strikes at Sprint, Telmex venture - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission today dealt a sharp blow to a joint venture between Sprint and Telefonos de Mexico, after competitors complained the companies were not abiding by conditions set by the FCC in August. [News.com]
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- FCC to delay Net call fee ruling - The Federal Communications Commission will delay until this week a knotty decision to phase out a regulatory loophole that allows local phone carriers to collect hundreds of millions of dollars by serving Internet service providers, people familiar with the plan said. [News.com]
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- FCC to review wireless spectrum caps - The Federal Communications Commission has voted to revisit the issue of capping the amount of wireless spectrum owned by cellular telephone companies in each market. [News.com]
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- FCC to set fees on DTV broadcasts - Broadcasters will find out today how big a fee the U.S. government plans to levy on companies that use new digital technology to send pay-per-view or other subscription services over the airwaves. [News.com]
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- FCC: Net tax an "urban myth" - About once a year for the past three years, word has spread that the Federal Communications Commission was about to regulate or tax the Internet, triggering a deluge of protests by people all over the country. [News.com]
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- Fed mulls wiretap access to Net - Federal regulators are struggling over a decision that could give the FBI and other law enforcement officials wiretap access to Internet voice calls, and possibly access even to the content of data messages such as email. [News.com]
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- Fed sees expanding telephone subsidies - A federal advisory panel recommended today that the nation's Universal Service telephone subsidy program be expanded in order to protect rural and other low-income phone customers. [News.com]
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- Fed won't overturn state ISP rules - Federal Communications chairman William Kennard told state utility regulators that the federal government would not overturn controversial state rules regulating calls to Internet service providers. [News.com]
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- Fight for supercomputer title - Silicon Graphics and IBM are both claiming bragging rights as the world's top supercomputing company. [News.com]
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- Firms tout future DVD drives - Sony, Philips, Hewlett-Packard, and others haven't yet shipped their version of re-recordable DVD drives, but that hasn't stopped them from talking about new versions that would store even more data than the non-existent drives. [News.com]
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- Firms tout future DVD drives - Sony, Philips, Hewlett-Packard, and others haven't yet shipped their version of re-recordable DVD drives, but that hasn't stopped them from talking about new versions that would store even more data than the non-existent drives. [News.com]
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- First Indiana, EDS in check processing deal - First Indiana's First Indiana Bank said yesterday that it signed a seven-year deal with Electronic Data Systems to process its checks. [News.com]
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- First look at Comdex show - A wide variety of cutting-edge products will be showcased in Las Vegas next week, from the smallest handhelds to powerful 8-chip servers. TV on a PC and standards battles will also be in the spotlight. [News.com]
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- First look at Comdex show - A wide variety of cutting-edge products will be showcased in Las Vegas next week, from the smallest handhelds to powerful 8-chip servers. TV on a PC and standards battles will also be in the spotlight. [News.com]
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- Fox IPO turns it on - Fox Entertainment Group's shares rose as much as 14 percent in the first day trading after the producer of The Simpsons and X-Files raised $2.81 billion in the third-biggest U.S. initial stock sale ever. [News.com]
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- Fox raises $2.8 billion in IPO - Fox Entertainment Group, News Corporation's U.S. film and entertainment unit, raised $2.8 billion today in the third-largest U.S. initial stock sale ever. [News.com]
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- Fraud threatens auction sites - Online auctioneers smell a rat. [News.com]
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- FTC explains high-tech agenda - Federal Trade Commission chairman Robert Pitofsky has no illusions about what many people think of the agency's efforts to regulate the high-tech industry. [News.com]
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- Fujitsu designs Sparc chip - Fujitsu, one of Sun Microsystems' top five buyers of Sparc processors, is striking out on its own with sophisticated servers based on an in-house Sparc chip design. [News.com]
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- Future's bright after Euro, Y2K - Information technology companies can reap a golden future once they negotiate mine fields presented by European monetary union and the millennium computer bomb, the Gartner Group told a conference today. [News.com]
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- Future's bright after Euro, Y2K - Information technology companies can reap a golden future once they negotiate mine fields presented by European monetary union and the millennium computer bomb, the Gartner Group told a conference today. [News.com]
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- Gates comes up short on substance - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates officially opened Comdex tonight with a keynote speech long on blue-sky optimism for the computing industry and short on details about his company's business strategies or legal battles. [News.com]
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- Gates comes up short on substance - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates officially opened Comdex tonight with a keynote speech long on blue-sky optimism for the computing industry and short on details about his company's business strategies or legal battles. [News.com]
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- Gates preaches to his people - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates lashed out today at the government's antitrust case against the software giant, saying it was driven chiefly by the company's competitors. [News.com]
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- Gates to sell 1 million shares - Bill Gates has filed for the sale of 1 million additional Microsoft shares worth about $106 million, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission document. [News.com]
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- Gates, DOJ lead prosecutor duke it out - Setting the stage for testimony from a government expert, antitrust prosecutors today showed new portions of videotaped testimony from Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates in which he spars with questioners over his company's Internet strategy. [News.com]
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- Gateway falls on analysts' warnings - Gateway shares fell sharply today amid concern that shipments of the company's personal computers won't be as strong as expected in the fourth quarter. [News.com]
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- Gateway joins unusual PC push - Heeding the advice of Intel, Gateway will offer PCs with newfangled designs next year in a move away from the typical white or beige box that typify desktop computer design. [News.com]
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- Gateway joins unusual PC push - Heeding the advice of Intel, Gateway will offer PCs with newfangled designs next year in a move away from the typical white or beige box that typify desktop computer design. [News.com]
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- Gateway workstation priced at $2,000 - Gateway will join the growing legion of PC makers offering low-cost workstations. [News.com]
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- GE pins Y2K costs at $550 million - Efforts to cleanse its computer systems of the Year 2000 glitch will cost General Electric a hefty $550 million, according to a quarterly report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [News.com]
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- GE pins Y2K costs at $550 million - Efforts to cleanse its computer systems of the Year 2000 glitch will cost General Electric a hefty $550 million, according to a quarterly report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [News.com]
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- GeoCities acquires WebRing - GeoCities said today that it will acquire WebRing in an effort to link together the sites it hosts into communities of common interest. [News.com]
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- Gerstner cheered in upcoming IBM book - The continuing saga of Big Blue is due for an update. [News.com]
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- Getting books online quickly and cheaply - Versaware Technologies thinks it can bridge the gap between the leisurely pace of traditional book publishing and the speed of the Internet. [News.com]
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- GM offers EDS rare Y2K bonus - In an unusual case of dangling a carrot before the horse, General Motors has given Electronic Data Systems, the world's second-largest consulting and computer systems integration company, a tempting incentive to try to have all of GM's vast computerized systems avoid Y2K failures. [News.com]
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- Go2Net trumps Street's forecasts - Go2Net, a network of technology and community-driven Web sites, announced operating results for the fourth quarter that blew past Wall Street expectations, and added that it plans to increase marketing expenditures going forward which may affect short-term profitability. [News.com]
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- Government scores "D" on Y2K readiness - Several federal government agencies continue to struggle with making their computers ready for the Year 2000, causing the lead U.S. House representative on Y2K to assign the government a grade of "D" this quarter. [News.com]
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- Greenspan leads stocks higher - Stocks rebounded from earlier losses and surged into positive territory following comments by Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan at a Securities Industry Association conference this afternoon. [News.com]
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- Group says U.K. not ready for Y2K - The British government this week is experiencing a Y2K reality check from forces within and outside the institution. [News.com]
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- Group says U.K. not ready for Y2K - The British government this week is experiencing a Y2K reality check from forces within and outside the institution. [News.com]
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- GT Interactive buys Net firm - GT Interactive Software today announced it plans to acquire OneZero Media, an Internet entertainment content firm, in a $15 million stock deal aimed to step up its entertainment growth strategy. [News.com]
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- GTE rolls slowly into the Net - GTE unveiled a new offering in its consumer Internet strategy today, announcing it would offer free Web-based email in conjunction with the New York-based iName. [News.com]
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- GTE to sell, trade phone lines - GTE said it is going ahead with plans to sell or trade 1.6 million telephone access lines, about 7 percent of its total domestic phone lines, as it aims to raise up to $3 billion by selling noncore assets. [News.com]
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- Hauppauge joins DTV push - Hauppauge Computers Works, a small but successful supplier of circuit boards, is throwing its hat in the digital TV ring today, announcing that it too would demonstrate a board for adding digital TV capabilities to PCs. [News.com]
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- Hauppauge joins DTV push - Hauppauge Computers Works, a small but successful supplier of circuit boards, is throwing its hat in the digital TV ring today, announcing that it too would demonstrate a board for adding digital TV capabilities to PCs. [News.com]
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- Headline: Redmond patches NT hole - Microsoft released an advisory along with a series of fixes related to a vulnerability found within a Windows NT operating system service. An attacker could create a denial-of-service attack when invalid remote procedure calls sessions are shut down, though the software giant cautioned that the exploit will not compromise existing data. A fix for the company's Terminal Server Edition of the software is not yet available. [News.com]
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- Headline: Spectrum adds Web interface - Cabletron Systems announced a new Web-based console for its Spectrum suite of enterprise management software created by third-party developer Metrix SARL. The new Metrix Web Console is fully integrated with Spectrum, according to the company, allowing an administrator to perform a wide range of tasks-such as policy-based software distribution and system configuration-using a browser. The new console is available now through Cabletron's direct sales force and resellers for an initial price of $7,200, available through January of next year. [News.com]
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- Hewlett-Packard finds a new groove - Systems giant Hewlett-Packard appears to be in the right niche at the right time. [News.com]
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- Hewlett-Packard reviewing business - Hewlett-Packard has hired outside consultants to take a "fundamental look" at the company, according to reports. [News.com]
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- High-speed cable modems take hold - A new study suggests that, though far from a mainstream means to connect homes to the Net, use of high-speed cable modems is beginning to take hold in North America. [News.com]
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- Hilton, Unisys push Net services - In another sign that business travelers are clamoring for Internet access, Hilton Hotels and Unisys will tomorrow announce a pilot program to offer interactive services and entertainment to hotel guests. [News.com]
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- Hitachi aims high - Hitachi today debuted its first desktops for the U.S. market and revamped its line of corporate notebooks as part of a strategy to become known as a provider of high-end computers. [News.com]
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- Hitachi Data to lay off 400 - Hitachi Data Systems, a maker of powerful computer systems and data storage products for big companies, said it would lay off 400 employees, or 14.5 percent of its workforce, because of changing market conditions. [News.com]
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- Holiday charity goes online - Philanthropy is moving online this holiday season as Visa USA and Internet retailer eToys offer consumers a new way to donate toys to needy children. [News.com]
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- Holiday fervor grips Net stocks - Yahoo, Excite, and other Internet-related shares soared today on optimism that companies will benefit from a surge in online shopping and advertising revenue during the holiday season [News.com]
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- Holiday shoppers expected to flock online - Estimates vary widely on exactly how much shoppers will spend online this holiday season, but almost all the projections are leaps and bounds above those of 1997. Shopkeepers and analysts have been busy preparing for what they expect will be the year e-commerce truly goes mainstream, as Net users shed their fears and wield their credit cards. [News.com]
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- Holocaust survivors use technology to educate - Somewhere in Los Angeles, the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation is distributing the videotaped testimonies of Holocaust survivors by computer. [News.com]
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- Home users want faster Net - When it comes to Internet access, a growing number of home PC users are feeling the need for speed, but are having a difficult time getting their fix. [News.com]
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- How will consulting firms fare after the bug? - Consulting companies are making a bundle on Year 2000-related services now. But what happens after the turn of the millennium? [News.com]
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- HP beats the Street - Hewlett-Packard beat Wall Street's expectations by a nickel for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 1998. [News.com]
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- HP cuts notebook prices - Hewlett-Packard is cutting prices on its value-priced line of notebook computers and accessories. [News.com]
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- HP cuts workstation prices - Hewlett-Packard cut prices as much as 12 percent off the lower end of its Intel-based Kayak line of workstations today. [News.com]
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- HP faces earnings challenge ahead - Hewlett-Packard earnings momentum could rebound after the current quarter, but HP faces the threat of a slowdown in computer spending later in 1999 as companies gird their existing computer systems for the Year 2000 date change, Merrill Lynch said. [News.com]
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- HP looks ahead - Hewlett-Packard slashes prices on its Kayak line of workstations. Meanwhile, the company reportedly hires a consultant to take a "fundamental look" at the firm. [News.com]
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- HP shares dip 9 percent - Hewlett-Packard shares fell as much as 9.9 percent after the world's third-largest computer maker warned of lower fiscal first-quarter earnings and slowing sales growth in the year ahead. [News.com]
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- HP staff gets forced vacation - Hewlett-Packard Singapore has told its 9,000 workers here to take four days leave in December in an attempt to cut costs, according to reports. [News.com]
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- HP starts printer R&D in Singapore - Hewlett-Packard has earmarked $100 million in printer research and development in Singapore over the next five years, according to reports. [News.com]
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- HP, Sun continue Java feud - Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems once again are bickering for control of a piece of Java. [News.com]
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- IBM aims for worry-free business projects - No worries. [News.com]
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- IBM expands file sharing tool - IBM will begin selling a version of a program that lets Unix computers share files for the Linux and Windows NT platforms beginning December 1. [News.com]
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- IBM eyes digital music delivery - IBM has reached an agreement with Sony, Warner Music, EMI Group, Universal, and other U.S. record companies to participate in a digital music distribution system, the Financial Times said on Thursday. [News.com]
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- IBM keeps trains on schedule - IBM is making sure the trains run on time at Consolidated Freightways. [News.com]
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- IBM offers insurers analytical tool - IBM plans to announce today a new tool that will help insurance companies analyze customer data. [News.com]
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- IBM ready to jump on "Jupiter" - IBM will come to market in the first quarter with one of the largest Windows CE devices known to man. [News.com]
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- IBM ready to jump on "Jupiter" - IBM will come to market in the first quarter with one of the largest Windows CE devices known to man. [News.com]
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- IBM rolls out new NT support - IBM has unveiled a software suite on Windows NT, with hopes of hooking small companies and the resellers who serve them, on IBM's middleware. [News.com]
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- IBM rolls out new XML technologies - IBM today released a flurry of new XML technologies and other XML-related announcements at the XML '98 conference in Chicago. [News.com]
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- IBM service slashes R/3 startup - Big Blue wants a cut of SAP's finances and yours. [News.com]
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- IBM to cut server prices - IBM will cut prices up to 21 percent on its Intel-based Netfinity servers on Monday. [News.com]
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- IBM to unveil 25GB drive for PCs - IBM will unveil today the largest hard drive available for personal computers, with roughly three times the capacity of typical storage disks now shipping in consumer PCs. [News.com]
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- IBM touts new business notebooks - IBM introduced today a new, slimmer line of notebooks targeted at small and medium-sized businesses, a crucial yet unwieldy market for PC makers looking to expand sales. [News.com]
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- IBM vows end to voice mail agony - Calls to "customer service" for answers to billing or product repair questions all too often lead to the damnation of voice mail hell, a labyrinth of touch-tone tomfoolery and dead-end referrals. [News.com]
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- IBM, EDS vie for U.K. contract - IBM and Electronic Data Systems are in a group of finalists for a contract to streamline the computer network at the U.K.'s Social Security Department. [News.com]
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- IBM, HP top retail PC sales - About half of all retail desktop PC sales were in the sub-$1,000 category last month as IBM and Hewlett-Packard knocked Compaq out of the No. 1 ranking in that market segment, according to a new study from ZD Market Intelligence. [News.com]
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- IBM, Intel partner on security - IBM and Intel are teaming up again, this time to set security standards. [News.com]
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- IBM, Microsoft fight for business apps - IBM and Microsoft are taking their back office battles to the belly of business software systems. [News.com]
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- ICANN aims to quell Netizens' fears - The group preparing to take over the administration of the domain naming system announced that it is making several changes in an effort to "be open and responsive to the world's Internet communities." [News.com]
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- ICG, VIP Calling integrate nets - ICG Communications and VIP Calling announced plans to tie their IP-based layouts together to provide domestic and international voice service. [News.com]
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- IDC: Net services hit growth spurt - The worldwide Internet services market will be one of the fastest growing IT segments over the next five years, growing from $4.5 billion in 1997 to $43.6 billion by the year 2002, according to a forecast by International Data Corporation. [News.com]
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- iDot rolls out $599 PC - iDot.com has announced its Family System series, a low-cost line of computers designed to appeal to budget-conscious families. [News.com]
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- IEG wants sole rights to Dr. Laura photos - The company that won the legal right to post nude photos of popular radio talk show host Laura Schlessinger despite her objections is now doing some objecting of its own. [News.com]
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- Imatec, Apple fail to settle suit - Imatec said today that it had failed to strike a deal with Apple Computer to settle Imatec's $1.1 billion patent infringement lawsuit against the company, adding it remained confident it would prevail based on pre-trial testimony. [News.com]
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- Incentives keep iMac moving - The largest U.S. retailer of PCs reported yesterday that special sales incentives such as free peripherals and low-cost loan programs have helped boost its sales of Apple Computer's iMac computers at a time when demand for the system has been tapering off. [News.com]
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- Information is key, Xerox execs say - Two Xerox executives and the company's TV spokesman triple-teamed the Comdex keynote today in an entertaining presentation that underscored the importance of knowledge in the economy. [News.com]
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- Infoseek shareholders approve Disney deal - After suffering a series of financial analyst downgrades, a major shareholder divestment, and industry skepticism, Infoseek shareholders today voted in favor of Walt Disney Company's equity investment in the Web portal. [News.com]
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- Ingram dominates Amazon supply - Ingram, the book distributor that Barnes & Noble acquired last week, supplies Amazon.com, a competing online bookseller, with nearly 60 percent of its books, a regulatory filing disclosed today. [News.com]
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- Ingram Micro creates enterprise unit - Catering to the boom in demand for "enterprise" computing technology, distributor Ingram Micro today announced the formation of a new unit to supply high-end products to resellers and systems integrators. [News.com]
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- Inktomi surges to 52-week high - Stock in Inktomi posted double-digit gains today, closing at a new 52-week high. [News.com]
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- Inprise buys Apogee, boosts services - Software and services provider Inprise today said it has acquired Apogee Information Systems, a privately held enterprise systems integration and consulting firm based in Marlboro, Massachusetts. [News.com]
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- Integration app vendors retain market niche - Rumors about the death of enterprise integration applications have been greatly exaggerated. [News.com]
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- Intel details Microsoft pressure - Microsoft today tried to cast doubt on the testimony of a senior Intel executive, but by day's end had failed to get the government witness to budge from claims that the software giant pressured his company to stay out of the software business. [News.com]
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- Intel eyes fatter pipes - Intel, the leading semiconductor maker, wants fatter pipes. [News.com]
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- Intel eyes more networking firms - Intel, the world's No. 1 semiconductor maker, plans to buy more computer-networking companies to boost its share of the fast-growing market for equipment that links computers to each other and the Internet. [News.com]
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- Intel fixing circuit board glitch - Intel has begun fixing a problem with a number of its motherboards that can be crippled when someone unplugs the computer. [News.com]
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- Intel gives in to chip integration - The low-cost PC phenomenon will drive Intel to put more of the PC inside its chips. [News.com]
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- Intel gives in to chip integration - The low-cost PC phenomenon will drive Intel to put more of the PC inside its chips. [News.com]
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- Intel online sales skyrocket - Intel expects $2.5 billion in revenues from online sales for the fourth quarter, compared with nil a year ago, Paul Otellini, head of the architecture business group for the world's largest computer chipmaker, said today. [News.com]
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- Intel plans massive cost cutting - Pushing the technological envelope is job one at Intel, but cutting costs isn't far behind. [News.com]
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- Intel pushes toward 600-MHz mobile chips - Intel executives showed off yet another peculiar PC design to prove that small is cool as it laid out chip plans for compact and mobile PCs. [News.com]
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- Intel sees sales above views - Intel said fourth-quarter sales will be up as much as 10 percent from the third quarter and above earlier forecasts on stronger- than-expected demand for its microprocessors that run personal computers. [News.com]
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- Intel stock surges - Shares of Intel surged to yet another record today, fueled by optimism that sales for the first half of next year will be stronger than expected. [News.com]
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- Intel to invest in Be - Monday will be a big day for Be. [News.com]
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- Intel to invest in South Korea - Intel plans to invest $200 million in South Korea to set up a research center in the western city of Inchon, the Hankook Ilbo newspaper reported today. [News.com]
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- Intel touts new data path plan - Intel released further details of its new way to connect devices to server computers at an industry forum today in San Diego, but it may find it's at odds with other computer makers. [News.com]
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- Intel touts pyramid PC - Intel is out to convince people that it can make computing attractive and easy, too--an elusive goal in the PC industry. [News.com]
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- Intel, Neon team for speedy set-top - Intel and Neon Technology said today that they developed a set-top box for high-speed data transmission through advanced communications systems, such as ADSL and Ethernet. [News.com]
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- Intel, Neon team for speedy set-top - Intel and Neon Technology said today that they developed a set-top box for high-speed data transmission through advanced communications systems, such as ADSL and Ethernet. [News.com]
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- Intel: Microsoft made threats - Microsoft made "credible and fairly terrifying" threats against Intel, trying to bully it into killing certain research projects, a senior executive from the chip giant testified today. [News.com]
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- Intelligroup buys Azimuth Consulting - Privately-owned New Zealand information management consultant Azimuth Consulting said on Thursday that it had agreed to merge with U.S.-based Intelligroup. [News.com]
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- Intellipost buys branch of Experian - Intellipost will announce tomorrow that it has acquired the Internet assets of database marketing giant Experian. [News.com]
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- Internet will drive music sales - Music sales will be fueled by a twentyfold increase in Internet-related sales over the next two years, as consumers find it easier to order CDs and tapes online and downloading music from the Internet is made possible, research firm Market Tracking International (MTI) said. [News.com]
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- Intuit considers buying Quote.com - Intuit, a financial-software maker, is reportedly in talks to buy privately held Quote.com, a provider of live stock-quote information and stock charts. [News.com]
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- Intuit falls as losses deepen - Shares of Intuit fell today after moving higher in early trading on yesterday's news that the company's first-quarter loss widened. Higher costs at the top maker of personal finance software offset strong sales of its new QuickBooks software and a new consumer version of Quicken. [News.com]
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- Iomega moves off the desktop - Iomega unveiled a wide-ranging strategy aimed at marketing its Zip drive for all manner of non-PC devices, including scanners, printers, and set-top boxes. [News.com]
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- Iomega revs Zip drive - Iomega introduced today its next-generation removable storage drive and a new initiative to boost use of its products by offering security technology for downloading music and other content to Iomega disks for single user playback--while not raising the hackles of the recording industry. [News.com]
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- Iomega revs Zip drive - Iomega introduced today its next-generation removable storage drive and a new initiative to boost use of its products by offering security technology for downloading music and other content to Iomega disks for single user playback--while not raising the hackles of the recording industry. [News.com]
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- Iomega sued over "click of death" - Iomega, a computer disk-drive maker that has sold more than 15 million Zip drives worldwide, was sued by a group of customers who say the drives have a fatal flaw known as the "click of death." [News.com]
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- IPOs return from the dead - Following stunning performances by EarthWeb and News Corporation's Fox Entertainment Group, companies who have shied away from initial public offerings amid a rocky market may finally be ready to take the plunge. [News.com]
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- Ireland to focus on e-commerce - Mary O'Rourke, the Irish minister for public enterprise, said she will unveil a report next week on the best way to ensure Ireland's future as a European hub for electronic commerce. [News.com]
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- ISP call failures becoming less common - People trying to get online are having a progressively easier time doing so, a new study has found. [News.com]
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- ISP moves to block child porn prosecution - A New York Internet service provider has filed suit to block a criminal prosecution by the state's attorney general on child pornography charges. [News.com]
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- ISP tries to ride IPO rocket - Internet America, an Internet service provider that postponed its initial public offering last month citing market conditions, revived its stock plans today after the stunning debut of another Internet company. [News.com]
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- IXC stock sinks on expense forecast - IXC Communications stock fell 28 percent today after the company told analysts that expenses could increase by 18 percent, quarter to quarter, well above an original forecast of 10 percent. [News.com]
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- Japan probe favorable to Microsoft - Microsoft got a warning from Japan's trade watchdog, which ordered the world's largest software maker to halt "unfair business practices" related to combined sales of its Internet browser and operating system software. [News.com]
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- Japan worries at slow progress on bug fixes - The Japanese government warned today about the lack of progress by some of the country's key industries in preparing for the millennium bug. [News.com]
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- Java browser to run on machines - Sun Microsystems has decided to jump back into the browser wars. [News.com]
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- Java decision could sway DOJ case - Although an outcome in the Microsoft antitrust trial is months away, a decision in another lawsuit that is expected any day could have a profound effect on how proceedings here take shape, legal experts said. [News.com]
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- Java ruling can't be ignored in DOJ case - A federal judge's ruling that Microsoft must alter its version of Java shipped in its most popular programs is an "important development" in the ongoing antitrust case here, a Justice Department prosecutor said this morning. [News.com]
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- Java suit fallout - Microsoft says it can and will comply with a court decision granting Sun Microsystems an injunction against Microsoft's use of its license to Java. Microsoft has 90 days to stop selling software--including Windows 98 and Internet Explorer 4.0--that includes its version of the programming language. Developers disagree whether the outcome will be good or bad for them. [News.com]
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- Java-based TV guide on tap - This week at a trade show, Spyglass will demonstrate Java-based applications for viewing and organizing TV programming, applications that could find a home in next-generation televisions and set-top boxes. [News.com]
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- Jetstream offers voice-by-DSL option - A new Silicon Valley company wants to help boost competition in the local phone markets by using technology most associate with high-speed Internet access. [News.com]
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- JRWA sees revenues up 50% to 60% - Computer reseller and consulting company JRWA said Friday that revenues from its subsidiaries reached $400,000 in the company's first quarter of business and should increase 50 to 60 percent in the next quarter. [News.com]
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- Judge presses on in Java case - Judge Ronald Whyte has decided to press forward in a federal case contesting Microsoft's use of its license to Sun Microsystems' Java programming language. [News.com]
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- Judge: FCC can sell wireless licenses - A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge will allow the Federal Communications Commission to sell valuable wireless telephone licenses held by bankrupt Pocket Communications. [News.com]
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- Judge: Gates "not particularly responsive" - Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates has not been "particularly responsive" in videotaped testimony shown and has even drawn skepticism from the software giant's own legal team, the judge hearing the high-profile antitrust case here said today. [News.com]
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- Junior trader makes $17 million computer blunder - A junior trader cost his firm about $17 million yesterday after he pressed the wrong buttons on his computer during a training exercise, according to reports. [News.com]
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- K-Tel International faces the music - K-Tel International said it's been notified by the Nasdaq stock market that it fails to meet the minimum requirements for trading on the national market and faces delisting. [News.com]
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- K-Tel soars on Microsoft news - Shares in K-Tel surged more than 80 percent today after the entertainment marketer said Microsoft would put K-Tel's online service on the online Microsoft Network. [News.com]
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- K-Tel's first-quarter sales drop - K-Tel, which has seen its stock double and triple over the past few weeks, today announced that it saw sales fall 28 percent for its first quarter. [News.com]
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- K-Tel, Playboy to launch Net store - K-Tel, the music company known in the '70s for its television commercials and in the present for its Internet ventures, took another wild ride on the stock market this morning after it announced an alliance with Playboy and word got out to investors that its president had resigned--two months ago. [News.com]
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- KanguruDisk's capacity leaps to 16.8GB - Interactive Media is betting that PC users have a lot to hide. [News.com]
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- Kertzman to head NCI - Network Computer Incorporated today announced it has named Mitchell Kertzman to be its president and CEO, as well as a member on its board of directors. [News.com]
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- Key e-commerce meeting opens - When online shoppers click "accept" to a music licensing agreement or rip open a box of new software, what exactly have they agreed to and will that "contract" hold up in a court of law? [News.com]
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- Klein gives "clues" for telco fates - The top U.S. antitrust enforcer today said his agency's recent moves to block a major satellite deal and require a huge divestiture from MCI WorldCom provided "clues" to the department's upcoming decisions on major telecommunications mergers. [News.com]
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- KPMG drops suit against Stern Stewart - Accounting and consulting firm KPMG Peat Marwick dropped a lawsuit against rival Stern Stewart that alleged Stern was trying to unfairly stifle competition, according to reports. [News.com]
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- KPN, Qwest team on European network - KPN, a $9 billion private Dutch telecommunications company, and Qwest Communications, a $3 billion U.S. company, today announced a venture to build and operate a high-capacity European fiber-optic Internet Protocol-based network in Europe, linked to Qwest's North American network for data, video, and voice services. [News.com]
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- Labor Department report scooped - The Labor Department said today that it is investigating why part of its October payrolls report was released early on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Lack of bandwidth drives ISPs wireless - November has been a banner month in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Internet history. [News.com]
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- Lam, Diamond announce layoffs - A day after the Semiconductor Industry Association predicted that the chip industry was turning around, two companies announced layoffs. [News.com]
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- Law enlists ISPs in piracy fight - A new set of federal regulations requires Internet service providers to register immediately with the U.S. government, lest they be held legally liable for pirated material that flows through their servers. [News.com]
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- Legal publisher takes a hit - A New York federal judge has ruled that legal research giant West Publishing cannot bar other companies from copying and reprinting the text of its published court decisions. [News.com]
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- Legend, CA in joint venture - Legend Holdings said today that it had agreed to form an equally-owned joint venture with Computer Associates to jointly develop the computer software market in China. [News.com]
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- Level 3, Bellcore team for standards - A consortium of companies licking their chops at the market opportunity for delivering voice calls using Net technology have pooled their efforts to create standards. [News.com]
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- Leveraging holiday e-shopping - Online spending this holiday season is expected to reach $2.3 billion, up from last year's $1.1 billion, as Netizens increasingly turn to the Internet for their shopping needs, according to a study released today. [News.com]
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- Lewinsky book goes online - A British publishing company said yesterday that it would put a new book on Monica Lewinsky's sexual affair with President Clinton directly onto the Internet today. [News.com]
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- Library Net filters violate free speech - In a precedent-setting decision, a federal court in Virginia today ruled that it is unconstitutional for a public library to filter Net access for all patrons. [News.com]
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- Lining up for Linux - Linux is out of the closet and in the boardroom. [News.com]
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- Linux goes to China - While some distributors of the Linux operating system are primarily targeting businesses in the United States, Pacific HiTech sees another market to tap: China. [News.com]
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- Linux Online back online - Linux Online, the popular Linux resource, is no longer offline. [News.com]
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- Linux trading tuxedo for business suit? - The familiar Linux penguin may switch its outfit from a tuxedo to a three-piece suit should two major distributors succeed with plans to improve support for the upstart operating system in the corporate world. [News.com]
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- Linux trading tuxedo for business suit? - The familiar Linux penguin may switch its outfit from a tuxedo to a three-piece suit should two major distributors succeed with plans to improve support for the upstart operating system in the corporate world. [News.com]
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- Locking up e-commerce security - Digital certificate technology, used to vouch for the identity of online stores, continues to evolve as banks and online merchants gird for what they hope will be a boom in e-commerce. [News.com]
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- Long wait for DTV connection - Consumers wanting to connect new high-definition television sets and video recorders to cable services will have to wait another year, but an agreement on what technology to use has finally been reached, consumer electronics manufacturers said. [News.com]
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- Lotus debuts connector for J.D. Edwards - The Domino effect is landing on J.D. Edwards One World. [News.com]
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- Lotus touts real-time products - Lotus Development is getting closer to adding instantaneous communication to its groupware product line. [News.com]
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- Lotus touts real-time products - Lotus Development is getting closer to adding instantaneous communication to its groupware product line. [News.com]
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- Lucent plans network in Ireland - Telecommunications equipment maker Lucent Technologies today signed a $108 million deal with Ocean, the communications unit of the Electricity Supply Board of Ireland, and British Telecom to provide a nationwide network for businesses and residential consumers in Ireland. [News.com]
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- Lucent teams with Time Warner - Telecom equipment maker Lucent Technologies said today it has been awarded a $250 million, three-year products and services contract by Time Warner Telecom to expand its network in U.S. metropolitan markets. [News.com]
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- Lycos barely beats Street - Lycos narrowly beat Wall Street expectations after it reported earnings that were 1 cent per share higher than analyst estimates. [News.com]
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- Lycos gets a book deal - Lycos said today that it has entered into a $10 million European online retail book deal with German media giant Bertelsmann AG. [News.com]
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- Lycos makes retail deal - On the same day that it narrowly beat Wall Street's expectations, Lycos delivered on its strategy to leverage its ballooning network into potentially lucrative partnership agreements. [News.com]
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- Lycos, Labrador in dogfight - A Massachusetts lawsuit is turning into a dog-eat-dog situation. [News.com]
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- MacAddict issues CD-ROM caveat - MacAddict, a popular Mac-only magazine, said this week that the CD-ROM shipped with its December issue contains a variant of the notorious "AutoStart" worm on it. [News.com]
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- Macy's to boast giant Net shopping site - Macy's is ready to unveil one of the largest Internet shopping sites offered by an established retailer, joining a wave of merchandisers to set up shop online in order to cash in for the holiday season. [News.com]
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- Magaziner to resign - The White House's chief Internet adviser, Ira Magaziner, is planning to resign by the end of the year, his staff said today. [News.com]
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- Malaysia OKs firms for tech zone - Malaysia has approved 179 companies for its Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC), of which 62 are foreign, the national Bernama news agency said. [News.com]
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- Man admits scamming millions from ISPs, telcos - A California man has pleaded guilty to bilking Net access providers and long distance heavyweights out of about $9 million through a toll-free number scheme. [News.com]
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- Manugistics taps Oberon for integration - Manugistics is turning to Oberon software for the ties that will bind its supply chain management software to other corporate computing systems. [News.com]
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- Market dives on profit-taking - Wall Street stocks headed south in morning trading today as investors moved to take some profits after the market's strong rise in recent weeks. [News.com]
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- Markets await election results - Technology stocks pulled the Nasdaq Composite Index lower today while blue chips ended flat as investors waited to see what impact today's elections would have on the market. [News.com]
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- Markets up after earlier zigzag - Stocks surged to close higher today after teetering between gaining and losing ground in earlier trading following the Federal Reserve's cut of key interest rates by a quarter percent. [News.com]
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- Markets up on Fed rate cut - Stocks rallied this afternoon after the Federal Reserve cut key interest rates for the third time in six weeks. [News.com]
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- MarketWatch.com prepares for IPO - MarketWatch.com, operator of the CBS.MarketWatch.com financial news Internet site, expects to sell 2.75 million common shares for between $10 and $12 each in its planned initial public offering. [News.com]
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- McDonald's to spend $30 million on Y2K - McDonald's expects to spend less than $30 million to upgrade its computer systems for the Year 2000 computer problem. [News.com]
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- MCI to fund local phone, tech start-ups - MCI WorldCom will kick off a $500 million investment fund aimed at boosting its access to local networks and high-tech data services, the company said today. [News.com]
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- MCI WorldCom exec heads to Prodigy - David Trachtenberg left his job today as the head of MCI WorldCom's Internet division and is heading to Prodigy. [News.com]
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- MCI Worldcom exec touts DSL service - MCI Worldcom vice chairman John Sidgmore spiced up his routinely perky keynote speech with a bit of news sure to cheer Net users frustrated by slow connections--the company is beginning a nationwide rollout of its fast DSL Internet access service. [News.com]
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- MCI Worldcom exec touts DSL service - MCI Worldcom vice chairman John Sidgmore spiced up his routinely perky keynote speech with a bit of news sure to cheer Net users frustrated by slow connections--the company is beginning a nationwide rollout of its fast DSL Internet access service. [News.com]
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- MCI WorldCom to offer DSL service - MCI WorldCom announced today that it will roll out high-speed digital subscriber line (DSL) Internet access nationwide by the end of 1998. [News.com]
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- MCI WorldCom to offer Tokyo service - MCI WorldCom's Japanese division said today that it will become the first foreign owned company to offer voice and data service to the Tokyo market on its own network. [News.com]
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- MCI WorldCom wraps new Net package - MCI WorldCom rolled out new evidence today that the company's acquisition binge is adding up to something more than just the sum of its expensive parts. [News.com]
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- MediaOne beats Street - Broadband service company MediaOne Group today reported that its revenues increased 16 percent to $1.8 billion for the third quarter, helping the company beat Wall Street's earnings expectations. [News.com]
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- Memo angers open source advocates - An internal Microsoft memo that found its way to the Web is raising the hackles of developers and users alike because it contemplates an Internet strategy some call "sinister" and all too typical of the software giant. [News.com]
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- Mergers, buyouts drive up markets - New York--U.S. stocks rose, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average within striking distance of its July record, as takeovers of Bankers Trust, Netscape Communications, and other financial and technology companies increase expectations that mergers will lead to higher profits. [News.com]
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- Merrill Lynch adds online research - Merrill Lynch is putting free stock research on its Web site for a four-month trial period, in a sign that the giant securities firm is starting to navigate cyberspace. [News.com]
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- MicroAge eyes sale of distribution unit - MicroAge's top shareholder said the computer systems integrator is poised for a turnaround because the company likely will sell its distribution unit for more than twice its current stock market value. [News.com]
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- Microsoft acquires LinkExchange - Microsoft said today it will acquire Web ad banner network LinkExchange in an effort to expand its Internet offerings. [News.com]
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- Microsoft add-on to join NT, Unix - Microsoft announced plans to soon release another add-on for its Windows NT Workstation and Server 4.0 operating system that allows the software to communicate more effectively with Unix-based desktops and servers. [News.com]
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- Microsoft aiming at Oracle - Microsoft President Steve Ballmer yesterday projected the company will sell more than 3 million licenses of its latest enterprise database software product in the current fiscal year ending June 30, 1999. [News.com]
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- Microsoft aims for embedded niche - To competitors in an embedded software market hitherto lacking Microsoft's presence, the surest sign of Redmond's interest stood out like a sore thumb--in the form of an Embedded Systems Conference pavilion. [News.com]
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- Microsoft bundling strategy attacked - Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates denied his company ever asked IBM to lower its public support of Java, despite having written an email message earlier in which he labeled Big Blue as "rabid Java backers" and sought to persuade it to "tone down" the rhetoric. [News.com]
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- Microsoft buys back stock - Microsoft repurchased 5.1 million shares of its stock in the open market during its first fiscal quarter ended September 30, according to a regulatory filing today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft CEO still admired, says poll - Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates' image apparently isn't suffering much from the antitrust case brought against his company--laughter from the trial judge notwithstanding. [News.com]
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- Microsoft drives game add-ons - Driving roughshod over road hazards will be more realistic this holiday season because of three new gaming add-ons from Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Microsoft drops Java from IE for Mac, Unix - Macintosh and Unix users will have to look to companies other than Microsoft for technology to run Java. [News.com]
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- Microsoft eyes Audible stake - Microsoft is moving to invest in Audible, maker of a system for delivery and mobile playback of audio downloaded from the Internet, according to a report. [News.com]
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- Microsoft hiring Republicans - One day after a surprising electoral reverse and in the midst of battling an antitrust case filed by the Justice Department, Microsoft said it will add a top Republican Congressional aide to its Washington lobbying office. [News.com]
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- Microsoft hit with benefits lawsuit - A legal battle over whether Microsoft legally can fill its offices with contract workers who are not eligible for company medical benefits or contributions to employee savings plans heated up this week as another complaint was filed in U.S. District Court. [News.com]
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- Microsoft hits embedded market - Microsoft has long hinted it might jump into embedded systems software, but that flirtation has now become more of a reality, potentially shaking up a market largely comprising small and unknown players. [News.com]
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- Microsoft in transition online - After nearly three years of ever-shifting Web strategies and $1 billion in losses, change may be the best thing for Microsoft's Interactive Media Group. [News.com]
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- Microsoft jumps into wireless world - What's behind Microsoft's entry into the wireless services market? [News.com]
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- Microsoft keeps pressure on DOJ witness - Microsoft today continued grilling a government witness, trying to poke holes in testimony that the software giant has used its dominance to bar partners from dealing with Netscape Communications and other competitors. [News.com]
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- Microsoft levels "collusion" charges - Microsoft today challenged the credibility of an IBM executive, confronting him with evidence that his company "colluded" with other industry giants to attack the software giant's Internet strategy. [News.com]
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- Microsoft licensing fees under fire in court - Microsoft has hurt consumers by keeping prices for its operating systems above market levels, an economist hired by the government testified today as the ongoing antitrust trial under way here wrapped up its fifth week. [News.com]
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- Microsoft lines up SQL Server backers - Microsoft's SQL Server is taking center stage at Comdex this week as vendors line up to showcase their support for the Redmond, Washington-based giant's long-awaited database server. [News.com]
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- Microsoft memo points to Linux threat - When it comes to software development, Microsoft can learn a thing or two from Linux, including practices that promote rapid technology development, according to an internal company memo posted on the Web. [News.com]
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- Microsoft memo touts Linux - Microsoft engineers see Linux as a "best-of-breed" Unix that outperforms the company's own Windows NT operating system and is a "credible alternative" to commercially developed servers, according to an internal memo posted to the Web this week. [News.com]
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- Microsoft mulls annual Windows fee - An internal Microsoft memo released today at the ongoing Justice Department antitrust trial shows the software giant considering charging PC users an annual fee to use its Windows operating system, starting in 2001. [News.com]
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- Microsoft names SQL Server price - Microsoft has been touting new features of its new SQL Server 7.0 database for months. Today, the company finally got down to the nitty-gritty of pricing and packaging for the software, expected to debut next week. [News.com]
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- Microsoft Net VP to step down - Pete Higgins is stepping down from his post as vice president of the Interactive Media Group for Microsoft, according to informed sources. [News.com]
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- Microsoft Net VP to step down - Pete Higgins is stepping down from his post as vice president of the Interactive Media Group for Microsoft, the software giant confirmed today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft not far from high court - An obscure law could move the Microsoft antitrust case to the Supreme Court quickly, possibly as soon as the fall of 1999. [News.com]
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- Microsoft offers patch for IE security hole - Microsoft today moved to patch an IE security hole that was a little larger than the software giant originally had thought. [News.com]
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- Microsoft opens Palo Alto center - Microsoft opens its Silicon Valley Developer Center today, a new facility dedicated to training and assistance for software developers, the company said. [News.com]
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- Microsoft pins hopes on SQL 7.0 - Microsoft in two weeks will unveil new database software intended to pose a stronger challenge to Oracle and other leaders in the industry, said Chief Operating Officer Robert J. Herbold. [News.com]
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- Microsoft plans China research lab - U.S. software titan Microsoft plans to invest $80 million in China over six years to develop a research laboratory as part of a global development complex, a company executive said today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft posts QuickTime fix - Microsoft, after coming under fire in federal court last week for disabling a rival's multimedia software, yesterday released a bug fix to resolve the error. [News.com]
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- Microsoft rebuts Apple testimony - Microsoft today poked holes in accusations that it tried to "sabotage" Apple Computer's software, but a senior executive from the computer maker refused to back down. [News.com]
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- Microsoft recruits for Windows 2000 - Microsoft today unveiled a plan to get PC makers to sell computers that will work with Windows 2000. [News.com]
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- Microsoft shelves Chromeffects - Microsoft's multimedia efforts faltered this week as the company back-burnered its Chromeffects 3D graphics technology and shuffled its multimedia management team, CNET News.com has learned. [News.com]
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- Microsoft signs Amazon.com on MSN - Software giant Microsoft today continues to build its MSN shopping channel and MSN.com portal page with the addition of Amazon.com as "the premier music merchant." [News.com]
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- Microsoft spins "Halloween" memos - Microsoft today posted an official response to the now-notorious Halloween memos about Linux, spinning the leaked documents as proof of "the vigorous competition that exists in the operating system industry." [News.com]
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- Microsoft split sinks Real stock - Microsoft has admitted it made a Real mistake. [News.com]
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- Microsoft sues 5 Missouri resellers - Microsoft has sued five computer resellers near St. Louis for allegedly selling pirated versions of Windows 95 and Office 97 Professional software. [News.com]
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- Microsoft sues 7 Texas resellers - Microsoft said it has filed lawsuits against seven Texas companies alleging infringement of Microsoft copyrights and trademarks. [News.com]
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- Microsoft sues 9 more resellers - Microsoft has sued nine New Jersey and New York computer resellers and filed a motion of contempt against another for allegedly selling pirated versions of its Windows 95, Windows 98, and Office 97 Professional software. [News.com]
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- Microsoft tests more Windows 98 patches - Microsoft released the latest Windows 98 Service Pack to testers last weekend, a beta testers Web site has reported. [News.com]
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- Microsoft to call Apple on the mat - When the landmark antitrust trial under way here resumes tomorrow, Microsoft is expected to grill Apple Computer about the PC maker's efforts to settle a patent dispute with the software giant. [News.com]
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- Microsoft's Allen to sell shares - Paul Allen, the cofounder of software giant Microsoft, could raise over $200 million in a proposed sale of 2 million Microsoft common shares, a Securities and Exchange Commission filing said. [News.com]
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- Microsoft's LinkExchange plan - Not so long ago, Microsoft's Web strategy was fairly typical: create some content sites, sell ads, and hope folks would treat the Net the way they do television or magazines. [News.com]
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- Microsoft's new take on Y2K solutions - Microsoft is changing the way it helps its customers deal with the Year 2000 technology problem, a company representative said. [News.com]
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- Microsoft's Thai antipiracy drive - U.S. based software giant Microsoft urged consumers in Thailand today to steer clear of pirated software and offered large cash rewards for those who turn in offenders. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Intel wage war of words - Microsoft today portrayed a senior Intel executive as a disgruntled "prima donna" who fabricated allegations as part of a vendetta. But despite the sometimes dramatic cross-examination, Microsoft was unable to rebuff the executive's most damaging claim--that the software giant sought to use its dominance to suffocate competitors. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Qualcomm form new firm - Microsoft jumped into the market for wireless data communications today, announcing that it will form a new company called Wireless Knowledge with Qualcomm, a move signaling the software giant's entry into yet another "convergence" market. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Qualcomm to form company - Qualcomm and Microsoft will announce the formation of a new company focusing on wireless data communications next week, a move heralding the software giant's entry into yet another "convergence" market. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Sun struggle in suit - New motions by Microsoft and Sun Microsystems could delay a decision in the San Jose, California, case stemming from Microsoft's license for the Java programming language. [News.com]
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- Microsoft: Linux a threat to NT - The growing popularity of Linux and other so-called open source software poses a direct threat to Microsoft's revenue stream, according to an internal company memo posted on the Web. [News.com]
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- MIPS chips take new course - Chip designer MIPS yesterday unveiled plans to make it easier for customers to adapt its basic processor technology for use in smart phones, handheld devices, and networking equipment. [News.com]
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- Mitsubishi boosts flat displays - Mitsubishi Electronics moved ahead in big, flat computer displays, offering a flat 22-inch conventional desktop monitor and an 18-inch LCD display today. [News.com]
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- Model prevails in Playboy case - A former Playboy model has won another round in her legal fight to describe herself online as a "Playmate of the Year." [News.com]
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- Monorail goes with AMD - Monorail introduced a line of low-cost computers built with chips from Advanced Micro Devices, yet another sign that the Intel rival is ruling the roost in chips for the sub-$1,000 PC market. [News.com]
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- More backing for Fibre Channel - More and more companies are deciding that fiber is good for you. [News.com]
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- Motorola alters Starfish charges - Telecommunications company Motorola said yesterday that the special charges taken in the 1998 third quarter related to its acquisition of Starfish Software have been reduced and earnings have been increased by $99 million. [News.com]
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- Motorola earns its wings - Motorola says its products give you wings, but after a year marred by product delays, layoffs, and declining market share, it's the company's stock that is finally taking flight. [News.com]
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- Motorola names price for Y2K fixes - Motorola said it expects spending to deal with the Year 2000 computer bug to total $290 million to $340 million for 1997 through 2000, but the technology giant said it does not expect the costs will have a material effect on results. [News.com]
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- Motorola names price for Y2K fixes - Motorola said it expects spending to deal with the Year 2000 computer bug to total $290 million to $340 million for 1997 through 2000, but the technology giant said it does not expect the costs will have a material effect on results. [News.com]
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- Motorola to build thin displays - Motorola has been working quietly on a factory to produce thin displays in the United States, one of at least two U.S. companies now pushing into a field historically dominated by Asian vendors. [News.com]
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- Nasdaq closes day up - The Dow headed South today after last week's strong market rally, but technology issues managed to lead the Nasdaq higher. [News.com]
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- National teams up with Avanti - National Semiconductor has struck a deal with Avanti Corporation to purchase tools to manufacture system-on-a-chip processors, the companies announced today. [News.com]
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- NBC to invest in iVillage - Television broadcasting company NBC today said it is moving to buy a minority stake in iVillage, a Web site aimed at women. [News.com]
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- NCI checks for pulse - The doctor is in, but can he revive the patient? [News.com]
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- NeoMagic's sales jump 81 percent - Notebook PC makers have turned more and more to graphics chips from NeoMagic, and it is now reaping the financial rewards. [News.com]
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- Net computer store tries new tack - Out with the PCs and modems--in with the jewelry and lingerie. [News.com]
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- Net firms up in morning trading - Amazon.com, Yahoo, and other Internet-related companies rose on anticipation that fourth-quarter sales will surge as more consumers buy their holiday gifts online. [News.com]
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- Net helps voters cram - Voters who haven't studied the issues for today's general election can find some hefty cheat sheets on the Net. [News.com]
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- Net hosts Lewinsky-Tripp conversations - We've seen the beret, the blue dress, and the most explicit sections of that government-funded report. But for everything the public knows about Monica Lewinsky, the world has never heard her utter a word---until now. [News.com]
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- Net issues fuel skyrocketing market - Talks between Netscape, AOL and Sun Microsystems drove Internet stocks to breathtaking highs today as Nasdaq stocks soared. [News.com]
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- Net retailers come back to Earth - Onsale, Egghead.com, and other Internet-based retailers dropped after a weeklong surge in share prices that was fueled by optimism for Web holiday sales. [News.com]
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- Net shopkeepers optimistic - Expectations are running high, not least among online retailers, for this holiday season to shove e-commerce into the mainstream. [News.com]
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- Net shopping's mixed bag - Though predictions are optimistic for online stores this upcoming holiday season, a new study shows many sites are profoundly lacking where customer service is concerned. [News.com]
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- Net stocks continue holiday surge - Internet stocks pushed higher again today as the overall market rose slightly with investors continuing to speculate that revenues for Net firms would shoot through the roof this holiday season. [News.com]
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- Net stocks jump on holiday hopes - Internet stocks, which analysts say are likely to benefit from the holiday shopping season, pushed the Nasdaq higher today, while the broader market fell. [News.com]
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- Net stores to lure holiday buyers - Shopping centers may have slimmer crowds this holiday season as increasing numbers of shoppers leave the car in the garage and click through virtual malls and Web storefronts to find gifts. [News.com]
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- Net to experience growing pains - Not even the biggest believers in the digital revolution expect the transition to an Internet society and economy to be seamless. [News.com]
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- Net2000, Nortel team on network - Telecommunications start-up Net2000 Communications announced a $170 million vendor financing deal from Nortel Networks to build a voice and data network serving the Eastern United States. [News.com]
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- Netcenter partners react to buyout - As the shockwaves from America Online's buyout of Netscape Communications reverberate throughout the high-tech world, portals and Internet service providers with ties to Netscape may find themselves on shaky ground. [News.com]
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- Netizens miss Gates video - Netizens suffered through yet another attempt at video streaming--this time with a videotaped deposition by Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates. [News.com]
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- Netizens unfazed by commerce on news sites - Eighty percent of Netizens in the United States trust online news as much as they trust newspapers, broadcast television, and cable news outlets, and an additional 7 percent view online news as more reliable than other media, according to a report released today by Jupiter Communications. [News.com]
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- Netscape acquires AtWeb - Netscape Communications today announced that it has acquired AtWeb, a Web site service and promotion company, in a move to beef up its Netcenter portal site's small-business channel. [News.com]
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- Netscape buys freeware directory - Netscape Communications today announced it has acquired a small Internet directory that relies on "freeware" technology, in an innovative effort to boost its Netcenter portal. [News.com]
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- Netscape employees mixed on deal - As executives and attorneys hammer out the details of a possible buyout of Netscape Communications, employees are left to wonder what life might be like under America Online and possibly Sun Microsystems. [News.com]
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- Netscape enters online billing - As the online billing market begins to accelerate, Netscape Communications today announced software, hosting, and Netcenter content that the company predicts will jumpstart online billing and payment. In related news, online payments firm CyberCash is slated to announce tomorrow an online billing pact with Pitney Bowes. [News.com]
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- Netscape may buy "freeware" directory - Netscape Communications is expected to buy a small Internet directory that relies on "freeware" technology and could announce the acquisition as early as tomorrow, sources said. [News.com]
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- Netscape meets the Street - As America Online today announced it had acquired Netscape Communications in a stock deal valued at $4.2 billion, Netscape reported record revenues of $162 million for the fourth quarter, in line with Wall Street expectations. [News.com]
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- Netscape part of AOL's road to dominance? - Although it came as a surprise to many, the news that America Online is in negotiations to acquire Netscape Communications fits in with AOL's grand strategy. [News.com]
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- Netscape renegotiating with Infoseek - Netscape Communications has quietly initiated negotiations that could terminate or at least decrease the prominence of Infoseek's search engine on the Netcenter portal's Web search bar, the two companies confirmed. [News.com]
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- Netscape shareholder files suit - Netscape Communications was sued by a shareholder who claims investors will be shortchanged by the possible $4 billion acquisition of Netscape by America Online, the world's largest online service. [News.com]
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- Netscape takes charge - As its mortal enemy Microsoft fights off antitrust charges on two fronts, Netscape moves to strengthen its market positioning while bolstering its portal efforts. [News.com]
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- Netscape tool integrates IE - On the heels of yesterday's beta launch of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5.0, Netscape Communications today will release a tool for integrating IE with Netscape's Netcenter portal site. [News.com]
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- Netscape's business software to get a lift - Netscape Communications' business software will get a potent boost from Sun as a result of today's blockbuster America Online deal. [News.com]
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- Netscape's path: From pioneer to AOL property - Netscape, a pioneer of the Internet, will cease to exist as an independent company with its buyout by America Online. The following are some highlights of Netscape's history. [News.com]
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- Netscape, AOL confirm merger talks - Netscape Communications and America Online today confirmed that they are in negotiations about a proposed merger, but no agreement has been reached. [News.com]
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- Netscape, Infoseek reshape deal - Infoseek, the No. 3 search service, said it renegotiated its search agreement with Netscape Communications, reducing the number of times Netscape Web site visitors are offered Infoseek's search service. [News.com]
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- Network Solutions CEO resigns - Gabriel Battista today resigned from his post as CEO of the world's primary domain name registry, Network Solutions. [News.com]
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- Network-1 takes on hot market - The suddenly reheated IPO market is luring even second-tier players in relatively obscure markets such as Internet security. [News.com]
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- New ad avenues on digital TV - The advent of digital television in Europe has opened new avenues for advertising, allowing it to be better aimed at target groups, digital television executives and analysts said. [News.com]
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- New domain group faces critics - The nonprofit corporation expected to govern the Net's anatomy when the United States gets out of the game had barely kicked off its first public meeting yesterday when people began attacking its very existence. [News.com]
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- New evidence of Microsoft pushing IE - Antitrust prosecutors have released new evidence documenting deals Microsoft signed with Internet service providers and Web sites to get them to distribute the Internet Explorer browser exclusively, or at least to the vast majority of their customers. [News.com]
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- New Internet adviser coming to Commerce - The Commerce Department has appointed a new official to map out its strategies for a wide-range of issues relating the digital economy and the Net's infrastructure. [News.com]
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- New Internet Explorer tested - Appearing to borrow a couple of pages from Netscape's playbook, Microsoft today released a beta version of its Internet Explorer browser that focuses on simplicity and integration with Web sites. [News.com]
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- New media largely accurate - The inadvertent release on the Internet of sensitive U.S. economic data on Thursday, a day earlier than scheduled, was hardly the first such snafu in cyberspace. [News.com]
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- New PalmPilot device delayed - PalmPilot aficionados will have to wait a bit longer for the arrival of the newest, sleekest member of the highly popular family of handheld devices. [News.com]
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- New products to boost AMD sales - Advanced Micro Devices chief executive Jerry Sanders yesterday forecast rising sales during the next three years as the chipmaker brings out more products to compete against rival Intel. [News.com]
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- New twist in Microsoft Java feud - Following a federal judge's ruling against Microsoft this week in Sun's lawsuit against it, the giant will strip its Java virtual machine out of the Internet Explorer Web browser for Macintosh and Unix, according to a letter sent to IE licensees. Earlier, Microsoft said that Windows 98 users were unaffected by the decision, and that the company is "committed to supporting Java for all our customers." [News.com]
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- Newbridge gear to support VPN - Newbridge Networks hopes to strike gold as service providers upgrade their network equipment to tackle secure connections over the public Net. [News.com]
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- Newbridge stock soars on earnings - Stock in high-end network equipment provider Newbridge Networks got a boost today following news that the company secured a large customer contract in China. [News.com]
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- News Corporation operating profits jump - Rupert Murdoch's media giant, News Corporation, said today that its fiscal first-quarter operating profits jumped 10 percent to $407 million, boosted by several summer film releases and rental sales from the blockbuster Titanic. [News.com]
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- Newsweek, Post link to commerce - Two old-media veterans today are launching a decidedly new-media venture with online shopping links directly from the editorial site to comparison shopping, the hottest trend in e-commerce. [News.com]
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- NFL Players Association drops SportsLine - Think New Ideas, an Internet marketing company, signed an agreement to host the National Football League Players Association's Web site as the union tries to improve marketing opportunities for its members. [News.com]
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- Nintendo hopes to bounce back - Nintendo said its sales and operating profits dipped during the latest fiscal half-year but predicted a rebound in the second six months, led by the new Legend of Zelda game software for its Nintendo64 console. [News.com]
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- Nintendo, LucasArts use the force - Nintendo of America, LucasArts Entertainment and Lucas Licensing have signed a five-year worldwide agreement for three new Star Wars games, granting limited exclusivity to Nintendo. [News.com]
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- No discounts from Cisco - Executives from data networking leader Cisco Systems remain hopeful that they can maintain a sales model that relies on huge margins as the company moves into new markets and faces increased competition from unexpected corners. [News.com]
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- No problem, Microsoft says to ruling - Company executives insist Microsoft will not have to jump through technology hoops to comply with a judge's order to stop selling software that includes an incompatible version of Sun Microsystems' Java computer language. [News.com]
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- No updated Real software on WebTV - The newest version of the most popular audio software on the Net is another feature users can't get on their WebTV. [News.com]
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- Nortel Networks pushes voice, data tech - Nortel Networks is starting to lay a foundation for increased use of data-based technology within carrier networks, rolling out an update to key gateway hardware that links the voice and data networking worlds. [News.com]
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- Notebook price wars rage - PC makers introduce new laptops as prices continue to sink in the hot market. Toshiba, Dell, IBM, and NEC are aiming at home and small-business customers. [News.com]
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- Notebook race to get more packed - Packard Bell NEC laid out plans at Comdex for new Windows CE devices and a sub-$1,000 notebook, while CompUSA said it will take a shot at the notebook market with its own systems starting in early 1999. [News.com]
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- Notebook race to get more packed - Packard Bell NEC laid out plans at Comdex for new Windows CE devices and a sub-$1,000 notebook, while CompUSA said it will take a shot at the notebook market with its own systems starting in early 1999. [News.com]
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- Notebooks light up Comdex - Some top computer makers get ready to rev the notebook and Windows CE handheld market, while CompUSA, which heretofore only made desktop PCs, also takes the plunge. [News.com]
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- Notes, Exchange in tight race - Third-quarter sales of IBM Lotus Notes email software beat those of Microsoft Exchange in the hotly contested market for corporate electronic mail systems, a recent industry report shows. [News.com]
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- Novell continues comeback - What a difference a year makes. [News.com]
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- Novell gains more steam - The bandwagon is getting crowded. [News.com]
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- Novell posts free Y2K patch - Networking giant Novell has posted a free patch for NetWare 4.10 for making that product Year 2000 compliant. [News.com]
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- Novell posts free Y2K patch - As expected, networking giant Novell has posted a free patch for NetWare 4.10 for making that product Year 2000 compliant. [News.com]
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- Novell recruits Cisco for software - Novell bagged another important partner for a key networking software strategy based on its directory technology as its stock hit a new 52-week high, another sign that the once-struggling firm is in the midst of a renaissance. [News.com]
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- Novell recruits Cisco for software - Novell bagged another important partner for a key networking software strategy based on its directory technology as its stock hit a new 52-week high, another sign that the once-struggling firm is in the midst of a renaissance. [News.com]
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- Novell serves up new NetWare - Network software maker Novell has shipped an updated version of its NetWare operating system tailored for small businesses, with new functions largely derived from partnerships with third parties. [News.com]
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- OECD doesn't share bug fears - The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said yesterday that it did not share the most dramatic fears about the consequences and costs of the millennium bug that could plague computers on January 1, 2000. [News.com]
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- Off-the-shelf supercomputing - Astrophysicist Mike Warren needed a supercomputer, but he couldn't get the computation time he needed on the machines at Los Alamos National Laboratory. [News.com]
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- Office 2000 delayed - Microsoft continues to heavily test the next version of its business productivity suite and said the general availability date will be later than originally expected. [News.com]
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- Ohio PC maker offers $399 PC - Ohio-based Micro Center may be hoping that 1998 will be the year of the sub-$500 PC. [News.com]
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- On a Qwest for profits - Qwest Communications International is not a construction company. It just seems that way. [News.com]
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- On books and blockbuster deals - Barnes & Noble signs yet another deal to expand its bookselling empire, this time a $600 million buyout of distributor Ingram Book Group. But competitors--especially Amazon.com, which has contracts with Ingram--question if the deal is a fair one. [News.com]
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- Online brokers' liability questioned - A Securities Industry Association committee wants regulators to clarify whether online and discount broker firms can be held liable in complaints of inappropriate investment advice, The Wall Street Journal reported. [News.com]
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- Online traders in peril - American investors, flush with stock market profits and the power of knowing a little about a lot, are in danger of getting hooked on Internet trading and "trading themselves broke." [News.com]
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- Open Market slashes prices - High-price leader Open Market slashed the price of its Transact commerce system from $125,000 to $65,000 today, less than a month after a poor earnings report resulted in layoffs. [News.com]
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- Open Market updates Folio - Shoring up its publishing software, e-commerce vendor Open Market next week will release new, Web-friendlier versions of the publishing software it acquired last year with Folio. [News.com]
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- Oracle aims to please users - Oracle is turning over a new leaf, or at least trying to persuade its customers and potential customers that it has. [News.com]
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- Oracle automates office shopping - Oracle is getting into the catalog business. [News.com]
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- Oracle buys Concentra - Oracle chairman Larry Ellison today roused the faithful with an hour-long keynote at Oracle Open World, sprinkling in a bit of news about pricing for Oracle's new rent-an-application service before announcing a $43 million cash purchase of software maker Concentra. [News.com]
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- Oracle details warehousing plan - Playing a new tune as it trumpets upcoming version 8i of its flagship database software, Oracle today unveiled its data warehousing strategy, tying together the interests of company that logged $7.1 billion in revenues last year. [News.com]
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- OzEmail makes no comment on bid talk - Internet service provider OzEmail said today that it had no comment to make on market speculation that either America Online or Cable & Wireless would launch a takeover bid for the Australian group. [News.com]
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- Paging firms agree to data standards - A group of leading paging and wireless messaging companies agreed today to use a single standard for sending Internet content to their subscribers. [News.com]
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- Palm set to debut new device - Palm Computing will announce its much-anticipated next-generation PalmPilot handheld device at an industry event on Wednesday, as the company struggles to regain momentum following the departure of a number of key executives. [News.com]
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- PalmPilot creators form new firm - Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky, founders of handheld computer giant PalmPilot, have landed on their feet at their new venture, Handspring. [News.com]
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- PalmPilot sales surging - 3Com Chairman Eric Benhamou said sales of the company's PalmPilot handheld computer soon will account for 10 percent of overall revenue at the No. 2 maker of computer-networking equipment. [News.com]
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- PanAmSat suffers satellite setback - PanAmSat said it has found problems with the batteries on a satellite that could lead to service outages for its broadcast news and paging customers. [News.com]
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- Path clear for ruling in Java case - More documents were released today in the federal case contesting Microsoft's use of its license to Sun Microsystems' Java programming language, clearing the way for a judge to rule in the matter. [News.com]
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- Path clear for ruling in Java case - More documents were released yesterday in the federal case contesting Microsoft's use of its license to Sun Microsystems' Java programming language, clearing the way for a judge to rule in the matter. [News.com]
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- Paul Allen stakes ZDTV - Computer news publisher Ziff-Davis today announced that billionaire investor Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures will make a $54 million strategic investment in ZDTV, a 24-hour cable channel devoted to Internet and related technologies. [News.com]
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- Paving the way for DSL technology - Dell can see the future, and the future is digital. As the company rolls out PCs with high-speed digital modems--in the wake of a similar plan by Compaq--industry executives take a look at the connectivity challenges ahead in the market for digital subscriber lines. [News.com]
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- PC of future mimics network computer - The writing is on the wall, according to analysts and PC company executives. [News.com]
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- PC program takes on e-books - Tired of stumbling blurry-eyed from hours in front of a computer screen? Would you rather pick up an old-fashioned paperback than struggle with blurry text and small fonts reading Pride and Prejudice online? [News.com]
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- PC sellers face challenges for 1999 - Next year is full of uncertainties for the high-tech industry, as firms worry about Y2K and other issues. Meanwhile, direct sellers are transforming into storefronts. [News.com]
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- PC-Tel sues Motorola again - Software modem maker PC-Tel has fired back--for a second time--in a dispute over modem patents with Motorola, this time alleging violations of federal antitrust laws and state unfair competition laws. [News.com]
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- Peering into the DSL future - BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.--Consumers need to buy digital subscriber line modems and have them work with any company's equipment before the idea of high-speed Net access over regular phone lines can become a reality. [News.com]
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- People's Choice Awards go online - The 25th annual People's Choice Awards is making the leap to the Internet, allowing Netizens for the first time to choose the final winners in the film, TV, and music categories. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft adds more outsourcing - PeopleSoft is calling on yet another Big 5 consultant to rev up its outsourcing services. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft adopts portal strategy - PeopleSoft wants to Yahoo, or at least borrow the Internet content provider and portal's business strategy. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft aims for three markets - PeopleSoft will soon have three faces as it tries to meet the needs of its ever-growing customer base. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft eases install hassles - PeopleSoft wants to be an even kinder and gentler business software supplier. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft heads for Asia - PeopleSoft has taken its flu shot and is heading to Asia. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft to form new R&D company - PeopleSoft is spinning off its research and development efforts in order to jump-start its technology advancements. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft wires the money - PeopleSoft is in the money. [News.com]
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- Philips helps PCs become TVs - Philips Semiconductors unveiled a design for digital TV circuit boards that allows PC manufacturers to ship what are, in essence, "low cost" digital televisions. [News.com]
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- Philips to close one-third of plants - Philips' cost-cutting chief executive Cor Boonstra announced today that the electronics giant would close up to one-third of its plants by 2002 to create a leaner structure and adapt to an ailing world economy. [News.com]
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- Pitney Bowes tests Net postage - Postage giant Pitney Bowes, off to a late start in the Internet postage market, has won approval to begin testing its ClickStamp PC product, which allows users to buy postage over the Net and print envelopes with a digital signature. [News.com]
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- Pivotal adds Net technology to apps - Pivotal Software is hoping its new Internet-based applications will put it in a pivotal position to gain ground in the lucrative front office management software market. [News.com]
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- Pixar shares up on movie release - Pixar shares rose as much as 10 percent as the company's new computer-animated feature film, A Bugs Life, opened across the United States and Canada to enthusiastic reviews. [News.com]
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- Playboy Online revenues double - Playboy Online, a unit of Playboy Enterprises, today reported that its third-quarter revenues doubled to $1.8 million from $900,000 a year ago, citing "significant increases" in e-commerce and its subscriber base. [News.com]
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- Playboy tries to pick up women - Playboy Enterprises wants to focus on women--and not just through a camera lens. [News.com]
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- PointCast cuts service for the Mac - PointCast, the push technology pioneer, is discontinuing service for the Apple Macintosh, effective December 31. [News.com]
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- Politically Incorrect takes on PC culture - A panel of the technology industry's leaders poked fun at themselves and each other here today in a forum hosted by Politically Incorrect's Bill Maher. [News.com]
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- Politically Incorrect takes on PC culture - A panel of the technology industry's leaders poked fun at themselves and each other here today in a forum hosted by Politically Incorrect's Bill Maher. [News.com]
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- Portals go international - International portals are vying for some of the action. [News.com]
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- Postel eulogized as humble genius - For a technical genius, it was a simple send-off. [News.com]
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- PRI Automation to acquire Promis Systems - Semiconductor equipment maker PRI Automation today announced it will acquire Canada-based Promis Systems, a developer of chip manufacturing systems, in a stock deal valued at about $48 million. [News.com]
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- Priceline moves into mortgages - Priceline, which brought its name-your-own-price Internet service to airline tickets this spring, next month plans to expand into another sizzling Internet market--home mortgages. [News.com]
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- Privacy advocates hammer Microsoft - Privacy advocates seem to never forget. [News.com]
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- Profits from the Net still elusive - Most U.S. and European companies will only begin turning a profit online after 2000, according to a study released today. [News.com]
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- PSI sees cash-flow from acquisitions - PSINet, an international wholesaler of Internet access services, expects to continue to grow through acquisitions and become cash-flow positive by mid-1999, CEO William Schrader said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Qualcomm dips, despite earnings - Shares of digital wireless communications company Qualcomm dipped in early trading today despite the firm's announcement yesterday that it had posted better-than-expected fourth quarter earnings on record revenue. [News.com]
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- Questions linger for Iomega - With SyQuest suspending operations, Iomega becomes the undisputed king of the computer storage market. Unfortunately, the kingdom's fraught with problems. [News.com]
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- QuickTime upgrade aims at Microsoft - Apple Computer's QuickTime multimedia software is due for a technology boost that will again place it squarely in the path of Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Qwest takes long distance strides - Qwest Communications announces a multimillion-dollar venture deal with Dutch telco KPN in a move to push its fiber-optic capabilities overseas. With this latest deal, many analysts wonder what the next move will be for the upstart communications company in its quest to expand its high-speed, high-capacity network. [News.com]
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- Raft of portables released - Toshiba, Dell Computer, and NEC each unveiled new notebook PCs today, underlining tight competition in the portable market. [News.com]
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- Rambus to reassure at Comdex - People drawn to Rambus computer memory, the heir-apparent memory technology standard, will be able to get an eyeful at Comdex next week. [News.com]
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- Rambus to reassure at Comdex - People drawn to Rambus computer memory, the heir-apparent memory technology standard, will be able to get an eyeful at Comdex next week. [News.com]
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- Reach of direct PC sellers expands - The three biggest online computer stores in the future just might be Dell, Gateway, and Micron. [News.com]
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- Real Cities launches shopping guide - Just in time for the holiday shopping rush, publishing giant Knight Ridder's online unit Real Cities has launched an online shopping service, the Real Cities Shopping Guide. [News.com]
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- RealNetworks ships streaming software - RealNetworks today released media streaming software and developer tools and announced a new partnership with an Internet portal company. [News.com]
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- Rebus profit jumps on IT services, software - Rebus Group, a U.K. computer software supply and services company, said first-half profit rose 39 percent on increased demand for its computer services and insurance-related software. [News.com]
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- Record label to use MP3 format - The largest independent record label will offer songs by such hit acts as The Band for free in a controversial online format that many in the music industry say encourages copyright piracy. [News.com]
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- Regulators force US West to open up - The Colorado Public Utilities Commission ordered US West to open its networks to a competitor today, breaking a logjam that had prevented rival ICG Communications from signing up new local phone customers in some areas. [News.com]
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- Regulators urge TCI to open cables - A local cable television regulatory body in Oregon has ruled that Tele-Communications Incorporated should allow other ISPs access to the company's @Home Network high-speed Net access service. [News.com]
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- Relentless pace of PCs to slow - The design cycle of the desktop computer is going to slow down, but Intel and PC makers don't plan to come out any worse for the wear. [News.com]
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- Rising to the chip challenge - Rise Technology officially entered the Intel clone market today with chips that are deliberately priced at the very bottom of the market. . [News.com]
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- Rolling Stone rocks the Net - The popular music magazine that defined the hippie generation has stepped into the Internet Age. [News.com]
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- Rule requires Y2K spending reports - The Year 2000 problem knows no difference between a computer in the Pentagon or in a county sheriff's office, so financial rule-makers are now pressing municipal governments to do more on reporting Y2K compliance. [News.com]
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- Rule requires Y2K spending reports - The Year 2000 problem knows no difference between a computer in the Pentagon or in a county sheriff's office, so financial rule-makers are now pressing municipal governments to do more on reporting Y2K compliance. [News.com]
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- S3 names new chief executive - Struggling to retain its market foothold amid falling revenue and a series of quarterly losses, graphics chipmaker S3 today named a new chairman and chief executive. [News.com]
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- Samsung starts up 600-MHz Alpha - Samsung Electronics in Korea is ready to mass produce the third generation of Alpha processors, which compete with Intel chips, and will begin supplying Compaq beginning in December. [News.com]
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- Samsung: A screen star emerges - Samsung vaulted into prominence as the largest maker of PC memory chips. Now it's aiming at liquid crystal displays. [News.com]
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- SAP revs sales strategy - German software giant SAP is focused on the front office. [News.com]
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- Satellites hope to shake meteor shower - This week, while stargazers look skyward for a spectacular show, the satellite industry will hold its collective breath. [News.com]
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- Satellites solid after meteor shower - Hundreds of communications and defense satellites have apparently weathered a cosmic storm of meteors with little, if any damage, industry experts said. [News.com]
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- Saudi Arabia to get wired - Saudi Arabia has approved a list of Internet service providers ahead of plans to open up the Web to the general public in the kingdom for the first time, the official Saudi Press Agency reported today. [News.com]
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- SBC makes new long distance bid - SBC Communications asked Missouri state regulators today to give their endorsement to its bid to enter long distance in that state, the latest in a string of still-unsuccessful expansion efforts by the baby Bell companies. [News.com]
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- SBC to expand Net in California - SBC chairman Ed Whitacre said the company plans to expand its existing high-speed Internet service in California next year. [News.com]
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- Schools finally getting e-rate funds - In the wake of a fierce political battle this year, the Clinton administration today announced that it is finally giving out $1.275 billion in Net access subsidies for schools and libraries around the country. [News.com]
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- Scientology loses copyright round - A Colorado nonprofit group has won a critical round in a legal fight against the Church of Scientology, raising questions about whether Scientology has a legal right to keep hundreds of documents offline and out of the public eye. [News.com]
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- SEC meets Argentina's IBM judge - U.S. securities and law enforcement authorities met with the Argentine judge investigating a bribery case involving a local unit of IBM and Argentina's biggest bank, a court source said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Securities litigation reform passed - President Clinton today signed legislation aimed at protecting public high-tech companies from facing a wave of shareholder lawsuits every time their stocks take a dive. [News.com]
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- Sega dreams of better earnings - Video game maker Sega reported dismal earnings for the April-September half year today but said its fast new Dreamcast game machine made it optimistic about the future. [News.com]
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- Sega sells 150,000 Dreamcasts on first day - Sega said today it had sold all 150,000 units of its new 128-bit home-use Dreamcast game player prepared for the first day of sales in Japan on Friday. [News.com]
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- Semiconductor sales inch up - Semiconductor sales inched up from August to September, a surge that observers say may be a sign that the worst is over for silicon providers. [News.com]
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- Server architecture challenges Intel - IBM, Compaq, and HP, fresh off their success with the PCI-X server architecture proposal, are working on another architectural proposal for the generation of servers coming out in 2001 and beyond that directly challenges Intel's plans. [News.com]
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- Service guarantees online checks - First Data's TeleCheck Services unit said it will offer retailers a service that guarantees check payments made over the Internet in an effort to boost electronic commerce. [News.com]
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- SGI shows off Xeon-based computers - Silicon Graphics is showing computers based on Pentium II Xeon chips at the Comdex computer show this week, publicly demonstrating its move to Intel chips. [News.com]
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- SGI's supercomputer breakthrough - Silicon Graphics is set to unveil today a supercomputer that it will boast the fastest performance in the world, both in raw calculating and graphic processing power, a spokeswoman said. [News.com]
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- Shareholders still support Gates - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is expected to receive a show of support at the annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday as his company battles the government in a landmark antitrust trial. [News.com]
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- Shopping network adds members - Just in time for the holiday buying blitz, ShopperConnection, an online shopping network of specialty retailers, has expanded to nine members. [News.com]
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- Shopping.com revenue hits record - Shopping.com said today that its third quarter revenue increased 207 percent from the previous quarter to a record $2.15 million. [News.com]
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- Siebel Systems ships new suite - Siebel Systems is starting the new year a bit early. [News.com]
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- Singapore aims for top billing - Singapore, Asia's well-wired city-state of just 3.4 million people, may emerge as an early battleground for Internet billing. [News.com]
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- Singapore network picks Lucent - Lucent Technologies today announced that it has been selected by StarHub, Singapore's newest public basic telecommunications services, to provide telecommunications infrastructure equipment for StarHub's nationwide network. [News.com]
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- Singapore plans Net billing service - Singapore will launch its first Internet-based billing and payment service due to be ready by early next year. [News.com]
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- Snap name subject of lawsuit - CNET: The Computer Network, publisher of News.com and other technology sites, was sued by closely held Internet company Snap Technologies over the name of CNET's Snap Internet directory. [News.com]
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- Software firm avoids Y2K liability charges - Another software company has won in court and will not have to pay damages related to the Year 2000 technology problem. [News.com]
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- Sony unveils tiny "Memory Stick" - Sony is betting that the next big electronic handheld device will be a very small memory drive. [News.com]
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- Sony unveils tiny "Memory Stick" - Sony is betting that the next big electronic handheld device will be a very small memory drive. [News.com]
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- Soros-backed InterWorld pulls IPO - InterWorld, an Internet software company whose backers include billionaire investor George Soros, withdrew its initial stock offering amid a tough market for new issues. [News.com]
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- Sparks to fly at domain meeting - The nonprofit corporation poised to run the Net's infrastructure will hold its first public meeting in two days, and--not surprisingly--the various factions involved already are drawing lines in the sand. [News.com]
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- Sprint Paranet jumps into services - Sprint Paranet, the telecommunications company's computing services arm, is jumping on the services bandwagon through an agreement with systems integrator Avnet Computer. [News.com]
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- SSA reports fourth quarter loss - System Software Associates is slowly trying to recover from the brink of financial ruin but is unlikely to ever be the powerhouse it once was in the business application business. [News.com]
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- Stanford email passwords stolen - Some 4,500 students and staff at Stanford University had their email passwords stolen over the past three weeks, after hackers broke into the California school's security system and then managed to avoid detection for three weeks. [News.com]
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- Starbucks opens online shop - After offering an Internet catalogue on America Online for three years and maintaining a simple recruiting site, coffee retailer Starbucks recently launched its corporate Web site. [News.com]
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- States slap down Bell efforts - A pair of decisions on opposite sides of the country this week marks states' continued skepticism toward the Bell telephone companies' simultaneous efforts to expand and protect their markets. [News.com]
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- Stocks close up on Greenspan talk - Stocks closed higher for the week after investors spent the day mulling over yesterday's speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. [News.com]
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- Stocks cut rally short - The stock market closed lower today, although some technology issues managed to gain as investors showed enthusiasm for market newcomer EarthWeb and cheered earnings news from Intel. [News.com]
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- Stocks surge on Net shopping forecasts - Internet stocks climbed to new highs again yesterday as more investors betted--some would say gambled--that online businesses would be the big winners in the holiday shopping season and beyond. [News.com]
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- Stocks up on rate-cut hopes, Iraq resolution - Stocks rose today, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average edging briefly over the 9,000 level for the first time since July, on hopes that the Federal Reserve will again lower interest rates and on relief that a U.S.-Iraq military clash has been avoided. [News.com]
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- Street eyes rate-setting meeting - Stocks were mixed in early trading today, as investors nervously focused on the Federal Reserve's rate-setting meeting next week. [News.com]
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- Street favors J.D. Edwards - J.D. Edwards is quickly replacing SAP and PeopleSoft as the enterprise software darling of Wall Street. [News.com]
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- Study: AOL to own the home page - A third of all adults could begin their online tasks on a property owned by America Online if AOL's plans to acquire Netscape Communications go as planned, according a study released today. [News.com]
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- Study: Net doesn't affect TV habits - In what could warrant a sigh of relief from television stations across the country, a new Nielsen Media Research study finds that the Net has had little effect on television viewing. [News.com]
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- Study: Online ad rates falling - Although advertising on the Internet is becoming a popular promotional tool for more and more businesses, online advertising rates actually are going down, a new AdKnowledge survey shows. [News.com]
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- Study: Small businesses not embracing Net - Although the Internet is becoming more and more of a business necessity for large corporations, small and medium-sized companies have yet to take advantage of the new medium, a new study has found. [News.com]
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- Study: Tech execs want more input - For the fourth year in a row, chief information technology executives say they want more input in their corporate board rooms. [News.com]
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- Sun could shine in AOL-Netscape pact - If America Online acquires Netscape, the biggest beneficiary could become Sun Microsystems. [News.com]
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- Sun deal expands role of ATI chips - Chips from graphics giant ATI Technology have leapt the gap from mainstream personal computers to Unix workstations. [News.com]
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- Sun lowers workstation prices - Sun Microsystems will introduce a new low-end Ultra 5 workstation tomorrow and lower the prices on existing members of the Ultra 10 lineup in an effort to make the machines more competitive with workstations running Windows NT. [News.com]
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- Sun mirrors real-time Java debut - Sun Microsystems today unveiled a scheme to bring its Java programming language to home appliances. [News.com]
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- Sun shines on Linux - Linux, that increasingly popular operating system, got another boost today as Sun Microsystems announced that it is porting the latest version of its Java Development Kit to the open source code operating system. [News.com]
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- Sun wins injunction against Microsoft - A U.S. District Court judge has ruled that Sun Microsystems is likely to prevail on the merits of its licensing case against Microsoft, and granted Sun's request for a preliminary injunction. [News.com]
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- Sun's new horizon - Sun Microsystems released new versions of its UltraSparc II and integrated UltraSparc IIi chips, and vendors are expected to follow with new Unix-based workstations. The new chips are the first steps in an ambitious roadmap designed to keep the company in the vanguard of 64-bit chip development. Separately, the company said it will port the latest version of its Java Developer's Kit to Linux, even while Sun and Hewlett-Packard battle over control of how time-critical commands are handled by devices running Java programs. [News.com]
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- Sun's shares golden - Shares of Sun Microsystems got a boost in early trading on the heels of the favorable Java ruling but eventually settled down. [News.com]
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- Supermarket gets generators for 2000 bug - British supermarket giant Tesco is taking no chances in its preparations for the millennium bug and said yesterday that it is considering hiring stand-alone generators in case power supplies fail over the year 2000 date change. [News.com]
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- Survey: IT spending to slow - A recent survey of 75 Fortune 500 CIOs predicts that corporate information technology spending in 1999 is expected to slow, due to increased funding needed to tame the Year 2000 bug and other issues. [News.com]
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- Sybase pushes back for market share - Sybase is on the road again. [News.com]
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- Sybase struggles for direction - In his departure from Sybase, Mitchell Kertzman leaves behind a struggling company that is trying to define its role beyond the database market with a new leader at its helm. [News.com]
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- Symantec pulls utility from stores - Symantec is busy uninstalling its Norton Uninstall Deluxe utility from the shelves of computer shops, and software rival Network Associates is rubbing Symantec's nose in the latter's inglorious legal position. [News.com]
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- SyQuest eyes Chapter 11 - SyQuest said today it "suspended operations" and may file for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy laws. [News.com]
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- SyQuest files for Chapter 11 - SyQuest, which had previously warned it was considering filing for bankruptcy, today let the other shoe drop. [News.com]
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- SyQuest users in the lurch - SyQuest customers have been left in a cloud of confusion after the company's announcement that it will suspend its operations. [News.com]
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- Tackling Y2K on the desktop - Looking to address the impact of Year 2000 problems on personal computers, utility software maker Symantec will next week begin shipping its first Y2K auditing package for the desktop. [News.com]
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- Tackling Y2K on the desktop - Looking to address the impact of Year 2000 problems on personal computers, utility software maker Symantec will next week begin shipping its first Y2K auditing package for the desktop. [News.com]
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- Take two for Notes/Domino beta - With next week's beta of the latest version of its groupware/Web server duo Notes and Domino R5 Lotus Development is managing to quiet earlier fears that the product would be delayed. [News.com]
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- Taking digital services to the masses - When the cable industry meets up at the Western Cable Show in Southern California this week, industry insiders will be looking to answer one question: how to take interactive digital services to the masses. [News.com]
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- Taking tips from smart card trial - Sponsors of the largest U.S. smart card trial say they learned valuable lessons about technology and usage patterns from the Manhattan trial, even though it wasn't a huge hit with either consumers or merchants. [News.com]
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- TCI earnings weaker than expected - The nation's largest cable operator, Telecommunications Incorporated, today reported that its combined operating cash flow for the third quarter fell 14.7 percent, weaker than most cable analysts' expectations. [News.com]
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- Tech loses policy leaders - For high-tech lobbyists, grooming political allies is sort of like raising children: you nurture and support them, and eventually they leave the nest. [News.com]
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- Tech stocks fuel market - A report released by the Federal Reserve this afternoon dampened a strong rally led by technology stocks, but both the Dow and Nasdaq managed to close in positive territory. [News.com]
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- Tech's friends in the new Congress - Voters reanointed Congress's high-tech clique yesterday, but one popular Republican was rejected in Microsoft country--Rep. Rick White. [News.com]
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- Teen hackers sentenced - Two California teenagers convicted of breaking into military and other government computers last February were sentenced to probation and community service this week, according to the U.S. attorney's office. [News.com]
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- Tel-Save charts course with new CEO - Former Network Solutions CEO Gabriel Battista will take over an unorthodox telephone company in his return to the telecommunications world. [News.com]
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- Telco newcomers look for pot of gold - A new breed of telecommunications companies is banking on an unquenchable thirst for bandwidth to drive sales, but some analysts wonder whether these companies are just speeding toward a short-term pot of gold. [News.com]
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- Telcos put the pieces together - As GTE announces its latest Internet service, Baby Bells and telco competitors continue their communications face-off in the ongoing struggle for market share. [News.com]
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- Telephone firms ready for Y2K - Telephone companies around the world have taken sufficient precautions to protect themselves from the millennium computer bug, industry leaders told a conference yesterday. [News.com]
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- Telephone firms ready for Y2K - Telephone companies around the world have taken sufficient precautions to protect themselves from the millennium computer bug, industry leaders told a conference yesterday. [News.com]
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- Telstra signs PC lease deal with IBM credit - Telstra says today that it has sold the majority of its personal computer asset base to IBM Australia credit in a deal worth more than $64.7 million. [News.com]
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- Testers get Office 2000 beta - Microsoft will this week launch the second beta of its latest desktop productivity suite, as expected. [News.com]
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- The Learning Co. surpasses views - The Learning Company today beat Wall Street consensus estimates for the third quarter by a penny on the continued strength of its retail software business. [News.com]
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- The lure of low-cost PCs grows - Plummeting PC prices are luring 50 percent more buyers into the home PC market this holiday season than last year, and IBM and Apple are leading the way, a study has found. [News.com]
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- The making of the Netscape buyout - America Online has had its sights on Netscape for at least a year. Now that the deal is done, the two firms must find a way to bring their very different cultures together. [News.com]
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- The naked truth - Adult content on the Net is a popular courtroom topic this week as one site claims a copyright victory for posting nude photos of a celebrity and another shuts down after being named in a lawsuit. Meanwhile, Internet analysts debate the contradiction created by cybersmut, wherein it has undoubted value as an economic driver--even as online industry tries to downplay it. [News.com]
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- The Net gets out the vote - High tech pushes the evolution of the election process as voter study guides proliferate online and election sites easily handle the results. Silicon Valley executives increasingly make donations to candidates that favor the tech industry. But Election Day on the Web isn't without its pitfalls, as demonstrated by ABCNews.com's mistaken posting of "complete" election results one day too soon. [News.com]
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- The new ICQ - Furthering its pursuit of a "multibranded portal strategy," America Online is set to launch a new version of its popular instant messaging and chat client, ICQ, with added links aimed at turning it into yet another gateway to the Net. [News.com]
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- The road to the AOL-Netscape deal - As Netscape Communications chief James Barksdale stood before a packed courtroom last month to testify against Microsoft in the software giant's antitrust trial, he was deeply involved in another matter: selling his own company to America Online. [News.com]
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- The week's news: All Microsoft, all the time - No stranger to the limelight, this past week Microsoft found itself at the center of controversy over "open source" software. A leaked internal memo identifies Linux as a threat to its revenues and mulls modifying open Internet protocols to become proprietary technologies tying consumers and developers to Microsoft products. [News.com]
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- The week's news: Compaq dives into direct sales - Compaq Computer, the world's largest PC manufacturer, inaugurated a direct sales program for small and mid-sized businesses that heralds a sea-change in the industry's business model. [News.com]
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- The week's news: DSL coming of age - High-speed Net access seemed to draw much closer at Comdex, as PC leaders Compaq and Dell both announced plans to include DSL (digital subscriber line) modems in consumer desktops. Telecom giants signed on, announcing service will begin as soon as year's end. [News.com]
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- The world according to Larry - In speeches to Oracle users, press conferences, and presentations to Wall Street analysts this week, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison touted the latest twist on his strategy to drive Microsoft from the center of the software industry's universe, and plant a stake in the outsourcing market. [News.com]
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- The world according to Larry - In speeches to Oracle users, press conferences, and presentations to Wall Street analysts this week, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison touted the latest twist on his strategy to drive Microsoft from the center of the software industry's universe, and plant a stake in the outsourcing market. [News.com]
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- TheGlobe.com sets IPO price - Despite postponing its initial public offering last month, TheGlobe.com today set an IPO target price and expects to hit the market tomorrow. [News.com]
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- TheGlobe.com's IPO one for the books - TheGlobe.com took Wall Street by surprise with its initial public offering this morning, blasting out of the gate with its first trade of the day at 87 a share--a ninefold increase from its target price. [News.com]
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- Thin monitors all the rage at Comdex - New liquid crystal display screens for desktop computers are springing up all over Comdex this week, but significant obstacles to widespread acceptance remain. [News.com]
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- Thin monitors all the rage at Comdex - New liquid crystal display screens for desktop computers are springing up all over Comdex this week, but significant obstacles to widespread acceptance remain. [News.com]
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- Ticketmaster sues N2K over deal - Ticketmaster has filed a lawsuit against online music retailer N2K, accusing the Internet-based outfit of reneging on a $12 million marketing deal the two companies signed in April. [News.com]
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- Time Warner shares soar on 2-to-1 split - Shares of cable and entertainment giant Time Warner soared to record levels yesterday after the company declared a 2-to-1 common stock split. [News.com]
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- To err is human, even online - New media's credibility ratings remain high with Netizens, a new study shows. But the potential for posting misinformation--or posting accurate information before its time--remains high as well, as demonstrated by two embarrassing errors that took place in the same week. [News.com]
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- Top DOJ prosecutor faces own charges - The top ranked Justice Department prosecutor in the Microsoft antitrust trial is on the hot seat himself, according to a report. [News.com]
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- Top secret chip less secret now - Transmeta, the highly secretive, well-funded Silicon Valley chip start-up, may be offering the first glimpses of its well-guarded microprocessor design. [News.com]
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- Toshiba expands server line - Toshiba today introduced the Magnia 7000 series enterprise server, expanding its relatively new server line. [News.com]
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- Toshiba slashes notebook prices - Toshiba cut prices on its notebook PCs by up to 32 percent as part of its effort to retain its lead in the increasingly competitive laptop market. [News.com]
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- Toshiba to rent DVDs in Europe - Toshiba said today it would enter the rental business in digital video disks and players in Europe in cooperation with VCL Communications of Germany. [News.com]
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- Transaction Systems buys Media Integration - Transaction Systems Architects, a banking software maker, said it bought closely held Media Integration of the Netherlands for $28.5 million in stock to expand its business into smart cards. [News.com]
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- Trial focuses on AOL, Netscape talks - Microsoft used merger talks between America Online and Netscape Communications to discredit the testimony of a government witness, painting the potential union as an example of the software giant's precarious place in an industry that can radically change very quickly. [News.com]
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- True North to offer part of Modem Media - Ad agency True North Communications plans to offer to the public a minority stake in Modem Media Poppe Tyson, a subsidiary that offers Web site design and electronic commerce services. [News.com]
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- TSI to buy Software Consulting Partners - Application integration system developer TSI International Software today said it will acquire Software Consulting Partners (SCP), a certified SAP implementation partner, for an undisclosed amount. [News.com]
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- Two indicted for fake peripherals - A federal prosecutor is throwing the book at two people for allegedly selling fake peripheral devices. [News.com]
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- U.S. banks shell out bucks for Y2K bills - U.S. banks have already paid a large chunk of their bills to prevent computers from crashing in the year 2000, although the project's total price tag is higher than originally estimated, analysts said. [News.com]
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- U.S. fights back on thin displays - U.S. manufacturers are fighting back with bold yet risky technology as they try to get a foothold in the thin "flat-panel" display industry. [News.com]
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- U.S. firms join flat-panel push - Motorola joins the display market as other companies also move in, including a well-funded Silicon Valley start-up and Samsung. [News.com]
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- U.S. Net shopping nears $13 billion - Internet retailing in the United States could make as much as $13 billion in revenue this year, beating other forecasts and showing the industry is growing faster than previously thought, according to reports. [News.com]
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- U.S. proposes privacy principles - The Clinton administration has released a proposed voluntary approach for U.S. companies to meet the requirements of European privacy laws. [News.com]
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- U.S. to hand over Net administration - The U.S. government today is expected to hand off oversight of the Internet's infrastructure to a nonprofit corporation, in a move that exemplifies the changing nature of the Net. [News.com]
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- Unisys to offer Ascend on-site services - Unisys has inked a deal to provide on-site service for Ascend Communications' networking gear. [News.com]
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- United site to add cargo bookings - Soon, cargo customers will be able to book space on United Airlines' cargo Internet site, making the airline one of the first to provide such capability, says Peter Kreiser, United's new director of cargo marketing. [News.com]
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- Universal Studios chairman steps down - Seagram, the distilled spirits company that also produces motion pictures, television products, and recorded music, said today that Frank Biondi Jr. has resigned as chairman of Universal Studios, giving Seagram chief executive Edgar Bronfman Jr. direct control of the company's entertainment operations. [News.com]
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- Upgraded Sun server to battle NT - [News.com]
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- US West criticized over local rule - A telecommunications company trying to break into US West's Colorado local phone market will file a new round of complaints with regulators Monday, charging that the Baby Bell is sabotaging its ability to operate. [News.com]
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- USWeb's Firmage steps down - USWeb announced today that it has named Robert Shaw as its CEO, while its current chairman, CEO, and cofounder Joe Firmage will become the company's chief strategist. [News.com]
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- Vantive's plan protects stockholders - Vantive is circling the wagons to protect its stockholders against a hostile takeover. [News.com]
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- Venezuela telecoms price bug at $100 million - Venezuela's telecommunications sector is spending more than $100 million to beat the Year 2000 technical bug, a senior telephone company executive said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Verio amends Hiway deal after slump - Internet service provider Verio will pay $257.2 million in cash and stock for Hiway Technologies under an agreement revised after a 37-percent drop in Verio's share price. [News.com]
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- Via breaks Intel grip on chips - Intel and a processor rival have reached an agreement paving the way for more competition in the market for Pentium II chips. [News.com]
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- Viasoft updates Y2K compliancy suite - Viasoft today rolled out the latest version of its suite of applications for making PCs and client-server networks Year 2000 compliant. [News.com]
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- Viewers barely notice HDTV debut - Just as "living color" replaced black-and-white television decades ago, another historic milestone was made Sunday when networks officially introduced the first "high definition" broadcasts. [News.com]
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- VocalTec soars on Cisco deal - Internet telephony upstart VocalTec Communications got a stock boost with the announcement that its technology will interoperate with back-end systems from data networking company Cisco Systems [News.com]
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- WallStreetSex.com backs down - Faced with a $5 million lawsuit over its design, WallStreetSex.com has decided it doesn't pay to be cute. [News.com]
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- Wang Global beats the Street - Shares of international computer networker Wang Global moved higher today after the company posted third quarter earnings that beat Wall Street estimates and said previously announced cost-cutting measures are on track [News.com]
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- Wang touts spy-proof portable - Wang Global has introduced a new portable computer, but it's not going to be winning any svelteness contests. [News.com]
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- Wang: Technology should boost sales - Technologies today used primarily to cut corporate costs should be redirected to boost sales, keynoter Charles Wang told a Comdex audience today. [News.com]
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- Wang: Technology should boost sales - Technologies today used primarily to cut corporate costs should be redirected to boost sales, keynoter Charles Wang told a Comdex audience today. [News.com]
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- WavePhore revs delivery service - WavePhore today announced that it will launch the beta release of the next version of its WaveTop information delivery service. [News.com]
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- Web flocks to Prince Charles site - The launch of Prince Charles' Web site Wednesday proved to be a huge success on the Internet, with 1.75 million hits recorded in its first 24 hours. [News.com]
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- Webnoize takes on digital music - Rockers met computer geeks at the Webnoize Internet music show as the $40 billion music industry grappled with issues ranging from piracy to new strategies emerging from rapidly evolving technology. [News.com]
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- WebTV adds features - Microsoft's WebTV Networks is adding features to its Internet TV service, including online commerce partners and a shopping guide, in a bid to attract subscribers this holiday season. [News.com]
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- WebTV under pressure - WebTV users can't get the newest version of the most popular audio software on the Net. And a survey indicates there's more WebTV dissatisfaction brewing. [News.com]
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- WebTV users want features - WebTV users want support for Java, Real Audio, and a host of multimedia Web standards, according to a recent survey of its subscribers. [News.com]
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- Wells Fargo's Y2K costs could hit $141 million - Wells Fargo said yesterday that it has incurred $77 million in charges on its Year 2000 project so far and costs could rise to $141 million. [News.com]
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- Will DTV kill commercial breaks? - Digital television will kill the commercial break as viewers revel in their ability to roam across dozens of programs and channels, according to a new study. [News.com]
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- Will strike ground e-commerce? - E-commerce companies are girding for the possibility that Federal Express pilots may go on strike just in time for the Christmas season. [News.com]
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- Williams to offer shares in telecom unit - Williams Companies said it plans to sell shares worth $500 million to $750 million of its Williams Communications Group in an initial public offering designed to help investors evaluate the unit's value. [News.com]
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- Windows 95 patch for K6-2 chips now free - A patch that corrects an obscure glitch that occurs when Windows 95 is run on AMD K6-2 processors running at 350-MHz or faster is now free. [News.com]
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- Windows 98 pirates on the loose - Counterfeit copies of Microsoft's Windows 98 Operating System have surfaced in several American cities, after having been spotted in Australia two weeks ago. [News.com]
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- Windows CE finds home in retail - Microsoft executives in Japan announced that an embedded version of Windows CE will be used in retailer terminals from NTT Data, a major step forward for the operating system's adoption in non-PC business applications. [News.com]
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- Witness says IE bundling not an improvement - Bundling Microsoft's Internet Explorer with Windows provides "few real-world benefits and several significant real-world costs and risks" for corporate customers that do not standardize on the browser, according to testimony released today by a government witness in the software giant's ongoing antitrust trial. [News.com]
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- World fiber network faces steep hurdles - An ambitious project to drape the globe in $10 billion worth of fiber optic cable could simultaneously bring half the world into the high-speed future and change the way bandwidth is sold worldwide. [News.com]
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- WorldNet, iVillage team on women's service - Candice Carpenter, chief executive of iVillage, wants the increasing number of women heading online to feel at home there--especially at her site. [News.com]
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- X-ceed gives exec pretty package - X-ceed paid cash and options exceeding its earnings for the first nine months of 1997 to recruit co-chairman and chief strategic officer Scott Mednick in July, according to a registration statement. [News.com]
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- XML grows up with intro of XQL - XML took a basic but crucial step toward maturity today with the World Wide Web Consortium's introduction of XQL, a querying language for XML documents. [News.com]
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- Xybernaut boosts wearable PC - The last barrier to total ergonomic nirvana has been lifted this week, with the arrival of a body-mounted flat-panel display. [News.com]
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- Y2K may cost Sears $143 million - Sears Roebuck, the second-largest U.S. retailer, said it has spent $67 million so far to get its computers ready for the Year 2000 changeover, but the cost could reach $143 million. [News.com]
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- Y2K may cost Sears $143 million - Sears Roebuck, the second largest U.S. retailer, said it has spent $67 million so far to get its computers ready for the year 2000 changeover, but the cost could reach $143 million. [News.com]
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- Y2K to affect U.S. economic growth - According to a survey of more than 30 leading economists, the Year 2000 technology problem will have a minimal effect on the economy over the next couple of years, spurring growth in 1999 and then contraction in 2000. [News.com]
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- Y2K war: Less time, more money - The Year 2000 bug is hitting corporate budgets hard on a global scale, according to a new study. [News.com]
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- Y2K war: Less time, more money - The Year 2000 bug is hitting corporate budgets hard on a global scale, according to a new study. [News.com]
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- Y2K will bring lower lending rates - The Federal Reserve will steadily cut U.S. interest rates through 1999 to ease borrowing costs for businesses trying to solve their millennium bug problems, an investment strategist said Friday. [News.com]
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- Y2K will bring lower lending rates - The Federal Reserve will steadily cut U.S. interest rates through 1999 to ease borrowing costs for businesses trying to solve their millennium bug problems, an investment strategist said Friday. [News.com]
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- Y2K, euro could hurt high tech in '99 - The Year 2000 problem, unforeseen delays in Microsoft's next operating system, the conversion to the euro, and further turmoil in the worldwide economy could send the PC market into a trough next year. [News.com]
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- Y2K, euro could hurt high-tech in '99 - The Year 2000 problem, unforeseen delays in Microsoft's next operating system, the conversion to the euro, and further turmoil in the worldwide economy could send the PC market into a trough next year. . [News.com]
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- Yahoo forges sales pact in China - Internet giant Yahoo has signed a promotion and sales agreement with China's state-run Infoshare Technology, the official Xinhua news agency said today. [News.com]
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- Yahoo opens online mall - Yahoo wants a cut of the holiday shopping profits, but the leading portal doesn't plan to stock up on Barbies and Beanie Babies. . [News.com]
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- Yahoo pushes Nasdaq higher - Stocks surged to close higher today in the wake of four major U.S. corporate mergers, signaling a possible rebirth of investor confidence in the equities market. [News.com]
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- Yahoo stock hits record high - Yahoo shares rose as much as 7 percent to a record high after the company said it will share content with the Wall Street Journal's Interactive Edition for a new career-search service. [News.com]
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- Yahoo sued by finance site - An Illinois-based online stock brokerage is suing Yahoo for negligence in the portal giant's administration of a joint Web site. [News.com]
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- Yahoo, British Telecom sign pact - Net portal Yahoo and British Telecommunications have unveiled a new European service providing Internet access and search tools without a subscription fee. [News.com]
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- Zapata cuts quarterly dividend - Zapata, a fish-oil and meat-casings company, said it will discontinue its quarterly dividend and use the cash to repurchase stock as part of a plan to buy back 5 million shares. [News.com]
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