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- $999 Gateway PC for business - Gateway rolled out a sub-$1,000 PC that comes with built-in networking features to appeal to business customers, as part of the direct vendor's effort to nab a larger share of the commercial PC market. [News.com]
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- 30-year IBM veteran to retire - IBM said today that its worldwide head of sales and distribution, Ned Lautenbach, will retire next month after 30 years with the company. [News.com]
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- 300-MHz G3 Mac reaches Asia - Apple Computer introduced its most powerful home computer in Asia, two months after it debuted in the United States, as its regional chief said the continent is crucial to the company's comeback dreams. [News.com]
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- 3Com CEO: Keep it simple, cheap - 3Com's chief Eric Benhamou opened this year's Networld+Interop trade show with a call to keep things cheap to buy and simple to use. [News.com]
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- 3Com, eFusion team on telephony - Data networking provider 3Com and Internet telephony application vendor eFusion today announced an alliance to jointly provide telephony applications based on 3Com's Total Control remote access hardware. [News.com]
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- 3Dlabs to report losses - 3Dlabs' stock plunged nearly 25 percent in midmorning trading after the graphics chipmaker announced a disappointing earnings projection. [News.com]
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- 7am News adds original content - 7am News is delving deeper into the news business. [News.com]
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- @Home to launch service in U.K. - @Home Corporation said today it will develop a British version of its high-speed Internet service through a distribution partnership with ComTel, a U.K. cable and telecommunications company. [News.com]
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- A failure to communicate - A massive satellite glitch disrupted pager service and Internet access throughout the nation. Service has been restored, but PanAmSat is still investigating the cause of the problem. [News.com]
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- ACLU suffers hack on AOL - When America Online users wanted to check up on the latest information from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today, they were greeted with a simple message: "HEY DID ENDO HACK ME?" [News.com]
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- Adaptec earnings short of forecast - Adaptec, a maker of input-output devices and components, reported lower-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings, citing industry price wars and turmoil in the disk drive market. [News.com]
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- AGIS sues WorldCom over Net service - In another volley aimed at WorldCom, Internet backbone provider AGIS has filed an antitrust suit charging the telecommunications firm with providing shoddy service to eliminate competition. [News.com]
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- Aiming for black consumers - Bell Atlantic and BET Holdings said they plan to test-market packages of telecommunications services to respond to the growing needs of African American consumers. [News.com]
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- Allchin hypes integration - If a computer aficionado just returned from an extended stay on the moon and found himself at the Networld+Interop industry trade show he or she might think all was right on Planet Microsoft. [News.com]
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- AltaVista beefing up - Search site AltaVista next week will add a feature that aims to make it easier for Web surfers and product vendors to find each other. [News.com]
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- AltaVista launches financial area - Digital Equipment-owned search engine AltaVista today launched its Finance Zone, the company's latest attempt to squeeze into the Internet gateway or "portal" space by beefing up its content. [News.com]
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- AltaVista steps aside on Yahoo - With Inktomi now slated to become the power behind Yahoo's searches, the question becomes: what about AltaVista? [News.com]
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- AltaVista takes on languages - Digital Equipment said today its Internet search engine supports one-step searching across the entire Web in a variety of languages, among them Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. [News.com]
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- AMD renames K6, may reprice - Advanced Micro Devices has renamed the K6 3D chip just before its launch and given some indications that it may try to price its lead processor against Pentium II chips for the first time. [News.com]
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- America Online born again - America Online has come a long way in a relatively short time. [News.com]
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- America seeing Pentium II fakes - Although the existence of counterfeit 300-MHz Pentium II chips was believed to be largely confined to Europe, the majority of occurrences so far have turned up in the United States. [News.com]
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- Ameritech to ring cash for Qwest - Qwest Communications International said today that it expects its marketing pact with Ameritech to add at least $100 million to $200 million to the company's 1999 revenues. [News.com]
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- Ameritech ups Net access fees - Ameritech said today that effective June 1, it will raise the price of unlimited access to the Internet via its Ameritech.net service, with the new monthly rate increased to $21.95 from $19.95. [News.com]
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- Another DVD scheme emerges - Just when it seemed that the DVD world had ended its standards rivalry, a technology announced today from Multimedia 2000 gives developers another option for digital video discs. [News.com]
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- Another Netscape giveaway - Netscape Communications is giving away software again. [News.com]
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- Antitrust activity "unprecedented" - Microsoft isn't the only company keeping trustbusters in Washington busy. [News.com]
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- AOL ad policy under fire - What America Online claims was an act of integrity has caused some AOL message board aficionados to cry foul. [News.com]
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- AOL adopts antitakeover plan - America Online today announced that its board of directors has adopted a new shareholder rights plan aimed at warding off any unsolicited takeover attempts. [News.com]
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- AOL chief calls for Net alliance - America Online chairman Steve Case today proposed the formation of an "Internet Alliance" in hopes of promoting self-governance among Internet companies. [News.com]
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- AOL eyes instant message firm - America Online is expected to buy Israeli Internet software company Mirabilis for $300 million in cash and stock, according to a published report. [News.com]
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- AOL moves on Internet TV - In a move to expand its service into the television realm, America Online announced, along with its most recent quarterly earnings report, that it has acquired NetChannel, a struggling Web-based television company. [News.com]
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- AOL security lapse opens accounts - Hackers have discovered an apparent security lapse in America Online that has yielded access to subscriber and AOL staff accounts in at least some instances, giving them free rein to alter or deface company pages or subscriber profiles. [News.com]
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- AOL settles case with 44 states - America Online reached an agreement with 44 state attorneys general to provide clear information to subscribers the next time the online giant raises prices or changes its service. [News.com]
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- AOL taps exec for CompuServe - America Online today announced the appointment of Audrey Weil, the company's current senior vice president of brand marketing, to the newly created position of senior vice president and chief operating officer for CompuServe Interactive Services. [News.com]
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- Apple adopting Intel technology - Apple Computer is swallowing its pride and adopting technologies developed in the "Wintel" world as it strives to lower manufacturing costs and offer customers a wider array of hardware options in forthcoming systems. [News.com]
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- Apple breaks $30-per-share mark - Yesterday, for the first time in two years, Apple Computer's stock broke the $30 barrier. With the shares closing at $30.31, it was the second time this week that the company has hit a 52-week high. [News.com]
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- Apple buys Macromedia tools - Apple Computer announced today it acquired technology from Macromedia for use in future versions of its popular QuickTime multimedia playback and authoring software. [News.com]
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- Apple demos 400-MHz notebook - Apple is getting ready to put some serious power into its PowerBook portable computers, while it officially sanctions new Motorola chip technology. [News.com]
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- Apple online store booming - Apple Computer said today that its online store received a record $1.9 million in orders in a single 24-hour period, driven by sales of its new PowerBook G3 notebooks. [News.com]
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- Apple pruning back dealers - Apple is trimming back the number of computer dealers and integrators authorized to sell its products in an effort to cut costs and invigorate remaining dealers with a sense of mission. [News.com]
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- Apple snags 52-week high - Apple Computer stock did something today that it hasn't been able to do for the past nine months--break into record territory. [News.com]
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- Apple's new consumer Macintosh - Apple Computer announced its first product in the spirit of its "Think different" campaign: a desktop system that comes in a translucent case and is stuffed to the gills with features at a low price. [News.com]
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- Applied Materials to cut 1,000 jobs - Applied Materials said today it would seek to cut 1,000 jobs, or nearly 7 percent of its workforce, through a voluntary job-cut plan. [News.com]
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- Arbor Software, Hyperion merge - Arbor Software and Hyperion Software said today that they are merging into a new software company, to be called Hyperion Solutions, through the exchange of stock. [News.com]
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- Artx ousting MIPS from Nintendo - Upstart processor designer Artx has ousted MIPS, the chip subsidiary Silicon Graphics, as the silicon provider and chief technology partner of gamemaker Nintendo, but the threat of lawsuits may keep SGI in the mix. [News.com]
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- Asia Pacific PC shipments fall 4% - Asia Pacific's personal computer factory shipments fell 4 percent in the first quarter compared to the same period last year, research firm International Data Corporation said today. [News.com]
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- AT&T broadens Net strategy - After a wild week on the Internet, in which it announced partnerships with three major search and content sites, AT&T is promising more of the same to come. [News.com]
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- AT&T in talks to sell paging unit - AT&T said it is in serious talks to sell its paging unit, which Wall Street estimates could go on the trading block for up to $450 million. [News.com]
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- AT&T wants Bells to sell services - Ma Bell wants her offspring to hawk her wares. [News.com]
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- ATM resurgence noted by networkers - ATM technology is starting to live up to the hype, giving networking companies a needed financial boost. [News.com]
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- Axent ships security software - Axent Technologies today begins shipping Web Defender, turnkey software that offers centralized, secure access to Web-based information on intranets. [News.com]
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- Baan forms new business arm - Dutch software firm Baan today said it had formed a new business unit to focus on the accounting, financial, and human resource sectors. [News.com]
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- Baan shares fall on earnings news - Shares in software company Baan fell today as bearish sentiment around the stock deepened in the wake of disappointing first quarter results. [News.com]
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- Ballmer sure of legal win - Microsoft Executive Vice President Steve Ballmer said yesterday that the software giant is not limiting access to the Internet and will win its legal battle with the government. [News.com]
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- Banks urged to focus on privacy - Banks must take the lead in protecting their customers' privacy if they want to continue expanding into other lines of business, a top federal regulator says. [News.com]
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- Banners get e-commerce boost - Advertising and multimedia streaming firm Narrative Communications today is introducing ad technology that allows surfers to buy goods directly from a banner ad without leaving the site that delivered the ad. [News.com]
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- Bay expands networking plans - Bay Networks hopes to extend its strategy for networking to incorporate software services on top of its bevy of hardware. [News.com]
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- Bay shares up on takeover talk - Bay Networks' shares jumped more than 15 percent today after a report that the company rejected a takeover offer from Northern Telecom but was open to higher bids. [News.com]
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- Bay to update management tools - Bay Networks soon will lay out a strategy to tie its network and systems administration story to several prevalent management software themes in the industry. [News.com]
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- Bay to update routing tools - Bay Networks next week will announce plans to tie its older networking devices to new high-speed equipment. [News.com]
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- Bay, Ascend vie in VPN market - Bay Networks and Ascend Communications are two of many firms that aim to use the stage of the largest networking trade show of the year to roll out plans to add support for secure connections across the Net. [News.com]
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- Bay, OzEmail in Net phone deal - Internet services group OzEmail and Bay Networks plan to collaborate on integrating and promoting their respective Internet telephony services. [News.com]
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- BEA furthers middleware push - BEA Systems continues to gobble up technology on its way to becoming a powerhouse in the transaction processing middleware market. [News.com]
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- BEA Jolt extends reach for Web - BEA Systems continues to extend the reach of its transaction software to the Web. [News.com]
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- Bell Atlantic gets new chief early - Bell Atlantic said today that its vice chairman, president, and chief operating officer, Ivan Seidenberg, will be elevated to chief executive on June 1, succeeding current CEO Raymond Smith two months earlier than originally planned. [News.com]
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- BellSouth offers ADSL in 30 areas - BellSouth joined the growing ranks of telcos offering high-speed ADSL service this week when it announced a 30-market rollout of the high-speed Internet service. [News.com]
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- BellSouth offers free email - Telecommunications firm BellSouth today joined the free email wars, offering the service to its existing customers and anyone else who wants it. [News.com]
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- Bill seeks crypto compromise - Backed by a consortium of high-tech heavyweights, legislation introduced today seeks a compromise between law enforcement officials and the software industry in the debate over federal export controls on strong encryption, technology that secures electronic communication. [News.com]
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- Book index on Net only - Hard copies of Burn Rate, a new nonfiction book about the rise and fall of an Internet start-up, are missing an index. Instead, in what may be a first, the book's index is only available on its Web site. [News.com]
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- Borders Net bookstore to launch - The online bookstore war is about to escalate. Borders Books today announced that it will launch its much-anticipated online bookstore some time this week. [News.com]
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- Borders sales site launching tomorrow - The new Borders Books and Music e-commerce site is in launch mode today and by tomorrow the company is expected to announce that it is up and running. [News.com]
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- British Net project loses power - An ambitious project to provide high-speed Internet access through electricity lines hit a snag when street lights using the same power supply turned into rogue radio transmitters. [News.com]
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- Broadcom, Sony tie up on digital TVs - Broadcom will collaborate with Sony on developing a range of integrated circuits for use in consumer electronics products for the developing digital TV market. [News.com]
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- BSA: Singapore piracy is rampant - Malaysia's laws on software piracy are among the best in the world, but Singapore's efforts leave much to be desired, the president of the Business Software Alliance said today. [News.com]
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- Buffett won't invest in tech stocks - Berkshire Hathaway chief executive Warren Buffett, the nation's second-richest man behind Bill Gates, doesn't plan to invest in companies such as Microsoft and Intel because he doesn't know enough about the industry. [News.com]
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- Bug holds up IE 4 users - Microsoft has acknowledged the presence of a bug that may be related to three of its Internet software products. [News.com]
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- Business PCs down to $699 - IBM introduced a $969 business desktop based on Intel's low-cost Celeron processor while Acer came to market with a $699 Pentium MMX system, as PC makers increasingly pitch inexpensive systems at corporate users with simple computing needs. [News.com]
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- Business Week adds free email - Business Week today will join the ranks of content sites "going portal" with the addition of free email to its site. [News.com]
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- Byte to cease publication - The print edition of Byte magazine, the 23-year-old computing magazine with an estimated 500,000 subscribers, will cease publication after the July issue, according to both a taped message at the magazine's office and an editorial staffer. [News.com]
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- C&W taps global telecom market - Cable & Wireless's buyout of MCI Communications' Internet backbone business marks one of its biggest forays yet into the U.S. market, a key outpost in the global telecommunications war. [News.com]
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- CA, Fujitsu offer Jasmine for Japan - Computer Associates and Fujitsu said today that they had launched a Japanese version of the Jasmine 1.2 object-oriented multimedia database. [News.com]
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- Cable show all modems, set-tops - Cable modems, another nascent technology for delivering high-speed Internet access, are all the rage at the annual National Cable Television Association show, along with next-generation set-top boxes running Microsoft's Windows CE. [News.com]
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- Cabletron looks to corporate niche - Cabletron Systems has turned to its past to pave the way for its future. [News.com]
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- CalPERS calls Sybase on carpet - "Shareholders unite." That is the message that the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) sent to Sybase shareholders today, in an effort to improve board accountability and the company's stock performance. [News.com]
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- Canadians getting Viagra online - The wildly popular male potency drug Viagra has not been approved for sale in Canada but concern is growing in medical circles that Canadians are shrugging off safety concerns and turning to the Internet, where the drug is easy to order. [News.com]
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- Casio to offer Net-capable phones - Casio is set to offer its own $100 twist on Internet telephones for the consumer market. [News.com]
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- CDnow, MTV in $22.5 million deal - MTV Networks and Net music retailer CDnow today became the latest content and commerce players to enter a broad, money-soaked alliance. [News.com]
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- CEO resigns from Netcom - David Garrison has resigned as chief executive officer of Netcom On-Line Communication Services, parent company ICG Communications said today. [News.com]
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- Changes coming to Media Central - Daily news site Media Central, which, like many Net properties, has struggled to make a buck, soon will be revamped following an internal shakeup, its new publisher said today. [News.com]
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- Cheaper, faster notebooks on way - Next year will likely be a watershed for the pricing and performance of notebook computers. [News.com]
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- Check Point reassures itself - Seeking to reassure anxious investors, Check Point Software today said it has expanded a two-year strategic agreement with Microsoft to provide policy-based management for Windows NT. [News.com]
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- China police, CA attack viruses - China's police are teaming up with U.S. software giant Computer Associates to develop software to combat computer viruses, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Chinese PC maker gets big loan - Chinese computer maker Legend Group has signed a deal for one billion yuan ($120 million) in loans from the Bank of China to finance its drive to stay on top of Chinas personal computer market, the China Daily said on Thursday. [News.com]
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- Chip equipment shrugs off Asia - The semiconductor equipment industry will continue to grow into 2002, although the Asian economic crisis has dented demand this year, officials of a trade association said today. [News.com]
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- Chip sales down in March - Global chip sales for March dropped almost 1 percent on a month-to-month basis, to $10.42 billion from $10.525 billion in February, the Semiconductor Industry Association said today. [News.com]
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- CIA: Nations not ready for Y2K - Many countries appear ill prepared for the disruption to basic services that the Year 2000 computer glitch may cause, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency office studying the issue said today. [News.com]
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- Cirrus takeover talk bumps stock - Amid talk that its largest shareholder might seek to buy the company, the stock of semiconductor maker Cirrus Logic rose about 10 percent today, a day after it adopted a takeover defense plan. [News.com]
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- Cisco claims Granite pays off - Evidence that Cisco Systems made a rare acquisition misstep is getting harder and harder to find. [News.com]
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- Cisco jumps on directory train - Cisco Systems is taking advantage of its relationship with Microsoft to build new support for software services on top of the software giant's forthcoming Active Directory administration tools. [News.com]
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- Cisco ready to do DSL - Cisco Systems announced a broad product strategy today to win the hearts of service providers looking to roll out DSL (digital subscriber line) technology, a high-speed alternative that works over standard phone lines. [News.com]
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- Cisco to acquire Israeli company - Cisco Systems has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held software maker Class Data Systems, of Ra'anana, Israel and Cupertino, California, in a cash and stock deal valued at $50 million. [News.com]
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- Cisco up despite networking woes - Cisco Systems today posted a 33 percent increase in third-quarter revenue and increased net profits, excluding one-time charges, as the networking sector continues to see tough times. [News.com]
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- Cisco, Lucent won't partner - The window of opportunity for data communications leader Cisco Systems to partner with telecommunications giant Lucent Technologies has closed, according to Cisco's chief executive. [News.com]
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- CitySearch, Zip2 call off merger - CitySearch and Zip2, two companies that specialize in city directories and entertainment listings, are dropping their plans to merge. [News.com]
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- Clinton outlines cyberthreat plan - Vowing to fight terrorists and new forms of cyberattacks, President Clinton today outlined a government initiative to protect the nation's electronic infrastructure both from deliberate sabotage and from accidents such as the satellite outage that silenced pagers across the nation this week. [News.com]
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- Clinton to outline cyberthreat policy - In a commencement speech at the U.S. Naval Academy tomorrow, President Clinton is expected to highlight cyberthreats to the nation's electronic infrastructure, both from deliberate sabotage and from accidents such as the satellite outage that silenced pagers across the nation this week. [News.com]
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- Clinton urges global tax-free Net - President Bill Clinton urged the rest of the world to join the United States in a moratorium keeping electronic commerce free of border customs duties. [News.com]
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- Clinton: Suit may hurt economy - President Clinton said today that the Microsoft antitrust case could affect the U.S. economy but voiced confidence in the way the Justice Department is handling its investigation. [News.com]
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- Cloudy future for Japan makers - Embattled Japanese computer and chipmakers have yet to see any signs of recovery on the horizon, although rationalization and capital spending cuts will help to raise profits in the current business year, analysts say. [News.com]
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- Coalition makes final crypto offer - A private-sector coalition opposed to strict U.S. export controls on data scrambling technology made its final offer yesterday to compromise with the Clinton administration, people familiar with the talks said. [News.com]
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- Comcast buys Jones cable shares - Comcast Corporation said today it agreed to purchase from BCI Telecom Holding 6.4 million shares in Jones Intercable Incorporated in a $500 million cash deal. [News.com]
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- Compaq cuts flat panel prices - Compaq Computer said today that it cut prices by as much as 36 percent on its flat panel displays, reflecting the changing flat panel market. [News.com]
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- Compaq introduces line of printers - Compaq introduced a new line of low-cost color ink jet printers made by Lexmark, but delayed a major release of consumer PCs to be sold alongside them in bundling arrangements. [News.com]
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- Compaq plans raft of new PCs - Compaq Computer will revamp its consumer K6-based computing line tomorrow when it releases printers under its own brand name for the first time in years, along with a new fleet of Presario PCs. [News.com]
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- Compaq predicts shakeout in Europe - Compaq Computer expects a further shakeout in the European computer industry following the demise of Tulip Computers and Siemens-Nixdorf's decision to stop making computers. [News.com]
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- Compaq to ship new servers - Compaq released a new PC server using one of Intel's fastest chips, as it continues to grapple with an inventory surfeit. [News.com]
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- Compaq, IBM see server decline - Amid new numbers from a marketing research house showing a decline in domestic market share, Compaq Computer cut its server computer prices by up to 20 percent today. [News.com]
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- Compaq: Y2K won't affect PCs - Compaq Computer today confirmed claims by a U.K. firm that makes software fixing the Year 2000 bug that the PC maker's real-time clock inside its machines won't properly recognize dates after January 1, 2000, but insisted that this does not affect the overall performance of its PCs. [News.com]
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- CompuServe conviction - A German court's conviction of a former CompuServe manager of complicity in spreading child pornography rocks Internet regulators and libertarians. Netizens around the world are weighing the implications. [News.com]
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- CompuServe manager convicted - Free speech advocates are decrying a Bavarian court's conviction today of a former CompuServe executive accused of trafficking child pornography over the Net. [News.com]
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- Condé Nast nabs Wired - Wired magazine is being bought by Advance Magazine Publications' Condé Nast Publications unit, the companies announced today. [News.com]
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- Congress looks at tech gender gap - Congress edged closer today to launching a federal study on gender inequality in the high-tech and science industries. [News.com]
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- Controversial domains go to civil rights groups - In the latest chapter of an old controversy, civil rights groups have quietly registered some of the most racially and ethnically derogatory domain names on the Net. [News.com]
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- Convicted CSI manager speaks out - The former CompuServe manager convicted in Germany in a key Internet pornography case said today that he is "100 percent confident" that the decision will be overturned. [News.com]
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- Copper chip age coming - The next copper age may come sooner than expected. [News.com]
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- Corel joins Linux fest - Linux, the free, user-supported version of the Unix operating system, just keeps gaining friends. [News.com]
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- Corel ports WordPerfect to Linux - Adding to its Linux-based applications and tools cache, Corel is planning to port its WordPerfect 8 business application suite to the free operating system, the company confirmed today. [News.com]
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- Corporate PC buyers unhappy - Corporate satisfaction with PC products is slipping, according to an upcoming market research study. [News.com]
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- Court deals Net gambling blow - Perhaps it comes with the trade, but Net gambling entrepreneur Kerry Rogers can't stand losing. [News.com]
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- Court guts E-Data patent - In a decision hailed by online software vendors, a federal judge has stopped a closely watched patent lawsuit in its tracks. [News.com]
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- Court rules against Baby Bells - A U.S. District Court has upheld the government's rejection of a plan by SBC Communications to offer long distance service in Oklahoma, dealing a setback to regional Bell companies trying to expand into long distance. [News.com]
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- CSI case draws German Net lobby - A group of German Internet lobbyists called on a Munich court to shelf a case against a former manager of the CompuServe online service for failing to rid his network of pornography and other illegal material. [News.com]
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- CSI porn case in German court - A German court opened proceedings in a case that could define local responsibility for pornography available through the Internet. [News.com]
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- Dell PCs to offer ADSL modems - US West Communications, Dell Computer, and Cisco Systems will introduce personal computers with high-speed digital modems that work over traditional copper telephone wires. [News.com]
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- Dell posts strong growth - Dell Computer reported that its earnings per share grew more than 60 percent for its first quarter, as its business increased across all geographic regions. [News.com]
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- Dell rejiggers site to boost sales - In another step toward its goal of making half of its sales online by 2000, Dell revamped its Web site and simplified its look. [News.com]
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- Dell reports strong global growth - Dell Computer reported earnings growth of 60 percent for its first quarter, as its business increased across all geographic regions. [News.com]
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- Dell taps Unisys as service partner - On Monday, direct vendor Dell Computer will announce a far-reaching agreement under which Unisys will become one of the company's major customer service providers. [News.com]
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- Dell to launch $70 million ad campaign - Seeking to build global brand awareness in an increasingly competitive industry, Dell Computer will pour an estimated $70 million into a worldwide advertising campaign that will start later this year. [News.com]
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- Digital amends earnings results - Digital Equipment said today that it agreed to amend its fiscal third-quarter results, increasing net income by $35 million but cutting operating income by $54 million. [News.com]
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- Digital TV in Britain this year - British TV firms Granada Group and Carlton Communications say they are on track to launch digital television in the fourth quarter, forecasting strong profits from the venture. [News.com]
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- Digital, Intel complete chip plant sales - Digital Equipment said it completed the sale of its semiconductor manufacturing operations to Intel for about $625 million. [News.com]
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- Discover to try online service - Leaping into an increasingly crowded market, credit card firm Discover today announced it is launching a Web-based online service. [News.com]
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- Disney blasts into Italy - U.S. entertainment company Walt Disney is launching its first subscriber-supported Web site in Europe, in partnership with the Internet unit of Italian telephone service operator Telecom Italia. [News.com]
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- Divx rollout delayed again - The rollout of Divx had been delayed again, as a developer finishes preparing movie titles for a limited launch now scheduled for early next month. [News.com]
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- DOJ to block Murdoch-MCI deal - U.S. antitrust regulators said today they would go to court to block the $1.1 billion sale of a key television satellite slot by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and MCI Communications to a group of cable operators. [News.com]
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- DOJ walks fine line with Microsoft - Microsoft's top lawyer flew to Washington and began negotiating today with government lawyers and two state attorneys general in an effort to avert a major antitrust lawsuit. [News.com]
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- DOJ, Microsoft take on Windows 98 - After dodging the issue for five months, Microsoft--and now the Justice Department--finally are taking a position on whether a lower court's preliminary injunction applies to Windows 98, due on retail shelves in late June. [News.com]
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- DOJ, states file suits - Attorneys general from 20 states and the District of Columbia today joined the Justice Department in filing parallel historic antitrust suits against Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Domain registry charged with fraud - The Australian government filed fraud charges against the operator of "www.internic.com" for allegedly collecting up to $3 million from consumers worldwide who apparently mistook the site for the official domain name registry in the United States. [News.com]
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- Domain tax approved - Congress last night retroactively approved a tax on the registration of Internet domain names--a tax that had been struck down by a federal judge three weeks earlier. [News.com]
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- Drawing the line in NT integration - The high-stakes legal battle between Microsoft and the Justice Department has focused on what should and should not be integrated into the company's consumer operating system. But what if that focus turned to the corporate Windows NT and Microsoft's booming server efforts targeted at businesses? [News.com]
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- DVD systems expanding - Without much fanfare, consumer computers priced from $1,200 to $2,000 have increasingly been incorporating digital video disc drives, as leading manufacturers try to stay ahead of the coming wave of DVD software and movie titles. [News.com]
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- DVD upgrade kit for Macs shipping - E4 announced a DVD-ROM upgrade kit for the Macintosh that will allow Mac owners to upgrade their internal CD-ROM drives to DVD (digital versatile disc). [News.com]
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- E*Trade chat plans face scrutiny - Federal regulators and lawmakers today are weighing the implications of a plan by online brokerage E*Trade to add chat to its investment site. [News.com]
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- Earnings outlook slumps EDS - Shares of Electronic Data Systems tumbled as much as 11 percent today as investors remained skeptical that the world's largest computer services consultant can quickly recover from its weak first-quarter results. [News.com]
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- eBay to name new CEO - Internet shopping site eBay is expected to announce tomorrow that Meg Whitman, a former senior-level executive at Hasbro and the Walt Disney Company, will become its president and chief executive officer. [News.com]
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- EC attacks WorldCom merger - European competition chief Karel Van Miert lashed out at the $37 billion merger between WorldCom and MCI Communications, saying that any overlap between the two U.S. companies in the Internet market should be eliminated. [News.com]
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- EC: WorldCom report "rubbish" - The European Commission today dismissed as "rubbish" a report that the EU antitrust watchdog was expected to insist WorldCom sell off some of its Internet holdings. [News.com]
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- Economic slump slices NEC profits - Japanese electronics maker NEC said today that its group profits were halved last business year as its computer and telecommunications businesses stumbled due to a domestic economic slump. [News.com]
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- EDS under fire from CalPERS - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) today urged shareholders of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) to support its call for an independent chairman at the company. [News.com]
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- Ellison attacks Microsoft, again - Oracle CEO Larry Ellison accused archrival Microsoft of taking "outrageous" and "tacitly illegal" measures to protect its PC desktop dominance. [News.com]
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- Embedded NT en route - News of a forthcoming version of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system optimized for embedded settings--such as the underlying software to run networking devices--continues to emerge, underscoring the major bet the software giant is making on its cash cow for the new millennium. [News.com]
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- Engines churn out deals - The search rivals--such as Yahoo, Excite, and Lycos--have announced a slew of deals this week, many of which echo each other. [News.com]
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- Ericsson eyes Silicon Valley firms - Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson today signaled interest in acquisitions in Silicon Valley to stay ahead of the mobile communications revolution. [News.com]
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- Ericsson mum on Bay rumor - Swedish telecom group Ericsson declined to comment on a recurring rumor that it was interested in buying Bay Networks, which rose amid speculation it was the target of a takeover. [News.com]
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- ESPN tackles NFL Net deal - In an instance of the Web imitating TV and generating a multimillion-dollar deal in the process, SportsZone has emerged the winner of a bidding war to partner with the National Football League online. [News.com]
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- EU expects new U.S. domain plan - European Union Commissioner Martin Bangemann said he expected the United States to present new plans soon to loosen its grip over the Internet domain name system after Europe criticized an earlier U.S. plan. [News.com]
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- EU favors new cell phone technology - European Union telecommunications ministers provisionally endorsed a draft law designed to replace the current cell phone standard and keep the 15-nation bloc at the cutting edge of technology for the next generation of mobile phones and information devices. [News.com]
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- EU holds millennium bug summit - Experts from across the European Union are trading ideas on preventing computer chaos when the new century dawns. [News.com]
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- EU to take up mobile phones - European Union telecommunications ministers will try Tuesday to agree on a plan to ensure that the 15-nation bloc maintains its lead in developing technology for the next generation of mobile phones. [News.com]
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- Excite going big with Netscape deal - Excite solidified its position as the No. 2 search engine service today by muscling its way into a two-year, $70 million contract with Netscape Communications. [News.com]
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- Excite owes Intuit $50 million - Excite borrowed $50 million from Intuit last month to fund its major deal with Netscape Communications, a regulatory filing revealed today. [News.com]
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- Excite rejects Zapata's bid - Excite quickly rejected a $72-per-share unsolicited bid it received yesterday afternoon from Zapata. [News.com]
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- Excite to power Netscape search - Netscape Communications today announced that it chose Excite as the much-anticipated partner for its Netscape-branded search engine. [News.com]
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- Excite upgrades search engine - Excite today became the latest Net gateway or "portal" site to return to its roots: search. [News.com]
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- Excite, AT&T do online service - AT&T and search firm Excite today joined the Web-based online service herd, announcing plans to launch "Excite Online Powered by AT&T WorldNet Service." [News.com]
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- Execs file to cash in on bull run - Insiders ranging from @Home executives to Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen are planning to cash in some of their holdings, taking advantage of the seemingly unstoppable bull run the market, and tech stocks in particular, have experienced of late. [News.com]
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- Extras for new PowerBook arrive - While Apple Computer garnered a lot of attention this week with the introduction of new Macintosh notebooks, a number of other companies were busy introducing their own Mac-related products. [News.com]
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- Fate of Win 98 anyone's guess - As they prepare for possible Windows 98 lawsuits next week, all sides of the battle over Microsoft's business practices are stepping up their efforts in the court of public opinion. [News.com]
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- FCC: School funds may fall short - The Federal Communications Commission is warning that schools and libraries may receive less than the $2 billion they requested from the federal government this year under a new program to subsidize Internet connections. [News.com]
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- Feature or bug in FrontPage 98? - Critics are calling it one of the most destructive software bugs in years. Microsoft is calling it a feature. [News.com]
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- Fed to start Y2K testing on banks - The Federal Reserve will start testing banks for compliance with the Year 2000 problem on June 29, a top Fed official said. [News.com]
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- Fed: Y2K to gobble $5 billion - Though the federal government has earmarked roughly $5 billion in the 1999 budget to handle the Year 2000 bug, administration officials say more will be needed before the new century begins. [News.com]
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- FedEx sees surge in e-commerce - Federal Express expects its worldwide business to expand in the future through the growth of electronic commerce and Internet technology, a senior executive at the U.S. transport company said today. [News.com]
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- Firewall software options open up - An increasing number of choices in the types of networks available to companies, coupled with a growing concern about security over the Internet, is creating the demand for more flexible security software to protect the information sitting on business networks. [News.com]
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- Firm takes aim at Deja News - Silicon Valley start-up Talkway has launched a service it hopes will serve as the primary gateway to Usenet newsgroups and perhaps provide an easier alternative to newsgroup cataloguer Deja News. [News.com]
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- Forecast bright for industry - Whether it's groupware, server software, or plain old PCs, a cornucopia of research predicts fair weather for the computer industry in all sorts of markets. [News.com]
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- Former king to fight spam - Self-dethroned spam king Sanford Wallace is putting a new spin on the old cliché: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. [News.com]
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- Fox customizes Net video news - In an effort to grab Net market share from its network competitors, Fox News Online today launched a customized streaming video newscast service. [News.com]
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- FTC to update Net ad rules - The Federal Trade Commission is planning to update its advertising rules to insure that Web sites selling fake gold or unproved medical "miracles," for example, post disclaimers that are loud and clear. [News.com]
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- FTC: Nothing against Intel--yet - The Federal Trade Commission has no meeting set next week at which it could bring charges against Intel, although that could change, according to a recorded FTC telephone message late today. [News.com]
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- G8 addresses Y2K - As expected, the Group of Eight over the weekend nailed down plans to smash the Year 2000 bug, but some criticized the effort as spineless. [News.com]
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- G8 leaders mull high-tech crime - A top British detective warned world leaders that they were sitting on the threshold of a high-tech boom in international crime. [News.com]
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- G8 to view Net crime video - Leaders of the Group of Eight nations will interrupt their summit meeting this weekend for a video presentation by a senior British detective on high-tech computer battles between international criminals and police. [News.com]
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- G8 urged to tackle Year 2000 bug - As the kick-off ceremonies begin for the G8 Summit today, the Senate Special Committee on the Year 2000 problem has called on the U.S. delegation to the gathering to make Y2K a top priority during discussions this weekend. [News.com]
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- Games suffer in Japan economy - Japanese video game makers Nintendo, Sega, and Sony are expected to face a tough year as consumers here tighten their belts amid prolonged weakness in the domestic economy, analysts say. [News.com]
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- GAO warns traders on Year 2000 - The securities industry must first ensure that computers are ready for the next century before trying to shift trading to decimals, according to a top General Accounting Office official. [News.com]
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- Gates addresses "CEO Summit" - Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates today addressed more than 120 CEOs and outlined his vision of the Internet, but ducked questions about one big issue facing the software giant: antitrust lawsuits. [News.com]
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- Gates hosts Windows 98 rally - In a well-choreographed show of support for Microsoft, CEO Bill Gates and other company executives joined about 60 partners in warning that any delay in the release of Windows 98 would have serious consequences for the personal computer industry and the U.S. economy. [News.com]
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- Gates meets with DOJ officials - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates met with senior Justice Department officials last night as a possible new antitrust action against the software company loomed, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Gates refused to blink - Love him or hate him, Bill Gates is a force to be reckoned with--in the computer industry and beyond. [News.com]
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- Gates to sell 2.2 million shares - Bill Gates has filed to sell 2.2 million shares of Microsoft stock since the beginning of the month, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday. [News.com]
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- Gates to unload 500,000 shares - Bill Gates has filed to sell 500,000 Microsoft shares, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings. [News.com]
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- Gates: Cable can lead Net way - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who has placed bets on a number of the horses trying to win the high-bandwidth Internet access sweepstakes, urged the cable television industry to speed up deployment of its high-speed service. [News.com]
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- Gateway offers financing, Net service - Gateway debuted a financing program and a host of other services for consumer PCs today while promoting its own Internet service on the machines. [News.com]
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- Gateway portables mark price drops - Gateway introduced a new lineup of notebooks featuring the mobile Pentium II processor, at prices that seem to be more evidence of falling costs owing to "compression" in the portable market. [News.com]
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- Gateway servers aim high - Gateway announced two sophisticated PC servers incorporating Intel's fastest processors, as the consumer PC vendor attempts to make inroads into the high end of the business computer market. [News.com]
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- Gateway to unveil leasing program - Tomorrow, Gateway will announce a leasing program for buyers of consumer PCs, hoping the scheme will generate more sales and more repeat customers. [News.com]
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- Gateway trims notebook prices - Gateway trimmed notebook prices across its Solo line today, reducing one model to $1,799, making it the cheapest Gateway notebook ever. [News.com]
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- Gay site to launch local guides - In a twist on Net local city guides, Gay.Net, an online gay community, next week is launching a series of local resources on the Net specifically geared toward its audience. [News.com]
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- General Magic shelters voice, data - General Magic today said its new Portico service, formerly code-named Serengeti, will be available nationwide starting July 30 through resellers. [News.com]
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- GeoCities entering portal race? - The Internet "portal" landscape may have a new player: Web community GeoCities quietly launched a redesign of its home page. [News.com]
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- German Net future questioned - A Bavarian court convicted a former CompuServe manager today of spreading pornography over the Internet, surprising some industry specialists. [News.com]
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- German PC demand a bit sluggish - German households are likely to buy 5 million personal computers this year, around 500,000 more than in 1997, a trade association said today. [News.com]
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- Giants focus on wide area networks - Across the networking landscape, companies continue a collective rush to provide next-generation equipment for carriers, service providers, and large corporate networks, with an emphasis on support for particular networked services and multimedia traffic. [News.com]
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- Giants team for privacy self-regulation - Worried that privacy concerns are keeping consumers off the Internet, major Net players including IBM, Hewlett Packard, Disney, AT&T, and others are pulling together an alliance aimed at privacy self-regulation with teeth. [News.com]
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- Gore pushes Net privacy - Signaling impatience with the high-tech industry's privacy efforts, Vice President Al Gore today called for an "electronic bill of rights" to protect individuals online. [News.com]
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- Graphics merger joins allies - Diamond Multimedia will acquire troubled circuit board maker Micronics Computers in a move that could create a more competitive force in the PC circuit board and 3D graphics chip market. [News.com]
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- Grove to Japan: Don't cut IT money - Intel chairman Andy Grove today warned that spending cuts on information technology have dangerous ramifications for Japan's economic health. [News.com]
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- Grove: No Band-Aid for Asia woes - Intel chairman and chief executive officer Andrew Grove said today that the effect of the Asian financial crisis on the computer chip giant will not disappear overnight. [News.com]
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- GTE files suit to block merger - GTE said today it filed a lawsuit to block the proposed merger of WorldCom and MCI, citing antitrust problems with the mega-deal. [News.com]
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- GTE optimistic on WorldCom merger - GTE said it is confident U.S. and European Union antitrust authorities will conclude that the merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications is anticompetitive. [News.com]
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- Guide to Net wedding resources - Two years ago, Tim Gray was just another frustrated groom-to-be, spending hours driving around Pasadena with his fiancee looking at reception halls, when he had an epiphany. [News.com]
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- Hard times at Applied Materials - Applied Materials is intermittently shutting down company operations to cut costs amid an industry slowdown. [News.com]
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- Hatch deflates Microsoft event - Just hours before Bill Gates and executives from a number of Microsoft partners were to stage a rally promoting the high level of competition they say exists in the software industry, conservative Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) made a preemptive strike against the event. [News.com]
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- Hayes falls short, reports loss - Hayes today reported a larger-than-expected loss, citing industrywide softness in the modem market. [News.com]
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- Hearing to kick off Microsoft suits - Lawyers for Microsoft and the government will attend a hearing Friday before U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to discuss scheduling for the two antitrust suits filed against the software giant. [News.com]
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- Heated Microsoft debate in letters - The sharpest barbs being traded between Microsoft boosters and its foes are not being aired in public, but rather in letters exchanged behind the scenes among U.S senators and the software giant's top-level executives. [News.com]
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- High court asked to hear AOL suit - The Supreme Court is being asked to hear a case that could place Internet service providers back in the liability line of fire. [News.com]
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- Hitachi aims at 1GB memory card - Hitachi and subsidiary Hitachi ULSI Systems have jointly developed a technology for drastically increasing the capacity of memory chip-based data storage. [News.com]
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- Hitachi subsidiary leaving memory - Hitachi subsidiary Hitachi Hokkai Semiconductor will cease memory chip production in March of 1999, according to a report in Japans Nihon Keizai Shimbun,, more evidence of major chip manufacturers' continuing retreat from this market. [News.com]
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- Hitachi to roll out servers - Hitachi will release server computers for the first time in the United States this June, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Hitachi to support Merced effort - Hitachi will open a laboratory for developing software applications based on Intel's forthcoming 64-bit Merced processor, according to a report in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, another sign that the Japanese vendor is making a transition from mainframes to high-end PC servers. [News.com]
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- Hitachi, Microsoft tie up on servers - Hitachi said on Tuesday it has agreed to cooperate with Microsoft to improve Windows NT-based server systems. [News.com]
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- Hole found in 3Com switches - Computing networking giant 3Com notified users of its switching devices that passwords used by the company's support operations have leaked onto public discussion groups, necessitating an overhaul in login administration for certain products by the company's installed base. [News.com]
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- Hotmail stops spammers in court - A California court has dealt yet another blow to junk emailers who use deceptive tactics to send out spam. [News.com]
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- House committee clears Net tax bill - Sealing a compromise between state leaders, the online industry, and federal lawmakers, the House Commerce Committee cleared legislation today to set a three-year moratorium on new taxes targeted at Internet access and services. [News.com]
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- House committee to review Net tax bill - A key House panel plans to debate groundbreaking legislation this week that would impose a three-year moratorium on taxes that could discourage greater use of the Internet, congressional aides said. [News.com]
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- House passes database bill - Legislation to safeguard electronic database companies' future, potentially lucrative business ventures was passed by the House today. [News.com]
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- How I got hacked on AOL - At least one person I know was eagerly chipping away this weekend at his computer while I was avoiding mine on the beach. [News.com]
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- HP bails out partner Samsung - Hewlett-Packard (HP) will purchase Samsung Electronics' 45 percent share in the companies' 13-year-old joint venture, Hewlett-Packard Korea, for $36 million. [News.com]
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- HP considering Polish PC plant - Hewlett-Packard is considering building a computer plant in Poland late this year or early in 1999, a spokeswoman for the company's Polish unit said today. [News.com]
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- HP desktop discounts run gamut - Hewlett-Packard made price cuts of up to 21 percent on a broad array of desktop computers with Pentium II processors. [News.com]
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- HP pursues small business - Hewlett-Packard is today taking the wraps off new sales and marketing initiatives that will target the rapidly growing small-business computer market. [News.com]
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- HP reports earnings down 13% - Hewlett-Packard reported, as expected, that fiscal second quarter earnings fell 13 percent due to weakness in Asian markets, high business expenses, and a price war that ravaged profits in the personal computer business. [News.com]
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- HP reworks e-commerce strategy - In a major e-commerce announcement Hewlett-Packard today unveiled new software and e-commerce software bundles for hardware servers running HP's brand of Unix, targeted to the ISP market. [News.com]
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- HP snags Java supporters - Hewlett-Packard has licensed its Java technology to four operating system vendors and gained endorsements from both Intel and Wind River Systems in a series of deals calculated to challenge Sun's dominance of Java. [News.com]
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- HP stock tanks on warning - Hewlett-Packard stock plummeted 14 percent today after the computer maker said that earnings for its fiscal second quarter, which ended in April, will be below expectations. [News.com]
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- HP sues Xerox on touchscreens - Hewlett-Packard yesterday filed a patent infringement suit against Xerox, the third new lawsuit involving the two rivals in the last year. [News.com]
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- HP tackles networking needs - Hewlett-Packard continues to push its networking business in the face of ever-increasing competition from the likes of recent entrants such as Intel and Compaq Computer. [News.com]
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- HP to rebate Merced servers - Hewlett-Packard will give customers up to $20,000 in rebates on select server computers based on Intel's upcoming Xeon and Merced chips, as HP moves aggressively to establish itself as the leading vendor for 64-bit servers. [News.com]
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- HP wins crypto export for Japan - The U.S. government has given the go ahead to Hewlett-Packard to export its VerSecure data encryption technology to Japan, the company said today. [News.com]
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- HP, Compaq in cheap bundle battle - Compaq Computer has begun shipping consumer printers that will come with a rebate when purchased with low-cost PCs, as part of an effort to challenge Hewlett-Packard's strategy of bundling peripheral devices with computers. [News.com]
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- HP, NETS team on e-commerce - Hewlett-Packard and Singapore's Network for Electronic Transfers Singapore (NETS) signed a memorandum of understanding today to market a service for secure credit card payment and settlement over the Internet. [News.com]
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- Huge Net marketing merger - True North Communications says it is merging two agencies to create the largest Internet marketing organization in the world. [News.com]
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- Hungary to broadcast soccer game on Net - Hungary hopes to score a first on the Internet by broadcasting a soccer game live on the Web later this month, a sports newspaper reported today. [News.com]
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- IBM battles for corporate dollars - IBM is conceding nothing to software giant Microsoft in the fierce battle for corporate computing dollars. [News.com]
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- IBM brings clustering to medium-sized businesses - As part of its relentless push into electronic commerce, IBM released a series of server bundles for small and medium-sized businesses that will bring mainframe-style "fail-safe" technology to these customers. [News.com]
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- IBM brings flat panel to Aptiva - In an effort to grab the computer buyer looking for something beyond a run-of-the-mill sub-$1,000 PC, IBM has begun to bundle a 14.1-inch liquid crystal display (LCD) monitor with one of its Aptiva consumer PC models. [News.com]
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- IBM execs may face arrest - An Argentine judge will ask that four current and former IBM head office executives be arrested within weeks if they continue to refuse to come and testify as suspects in a bribery scandal. [News.com]
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- IBM makes faster Cyrix chips - The chipmaking arm of IBM will release two new versions of a Cyrix-designed processor later this month, even though IBM's PC division dropped the processor family from its U.S. product lineup. [News.com]
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- IBM plans Web application server - IBM is jumping into the rapidly growing market for application server software. [News.com]
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- IBM scores another NC win - Score another one for IBM and its Network Station. [News.com]
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- IBM sees growth in services - International Business Machines may be poised to emerge from years of single-digit revenue growth, powered by its surging computer services business, the company's top executive said today. [News.com]
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- IBM ships business suites for NT - IBM today will begin shipping new business software suites designed to run on Microsoft's Windows NT network operating system. [News.com]
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- IBM site focuses on JavaBeans - These beans may still be a little green, but at least they're free. [News.com]
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- IBM to offer Windows 98 for free - IBM will offer free upgrades to Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system for Aptiva consumer models and also certain ThinkPad notebook models purchased before the software's scheduled June 25 release. [News.com]
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- IBM to promote Net phone service - IBM will begin promoting Internet phone services provided by IDT, the New York Times reported today, citing executives close the negotiations. [News.com]
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- IBM upgrades database software - IBM will announce today a new version of its DB2 family of database software for use on the company's mainframe systems. [News.com]
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- IBM will offer Netscape on Win 98 - IBM said today it will offer both Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers on its Aptiva consumer PCs. [News.com]
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- IBM's fifth-generation mainframe - IBM announced the fifth generation in its microprocessor-based mainframe family, saying it will deliver ahead of schedule a system more powerful than the company had promised. [News.com]
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- IBM, others to promote 3D graphics - IBM, Rendition, and Fujitsu today announced an alliance promoting a new chip architecture for increasing 3D graphics performance. [News.com]
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- IBM, Sprint team on networks - Telecommunications provider Sprint said today that it has entered into a deal with IBM to switch companies from private networks to more advanced data networking services. [News.com]
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- IBM, Symantec in antivirus deal - International Business Machines and Symantec have agreed to join forces to develop and market virus protection software. [News.com]
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- IBM, Western Digital in pact - Western Digital and IBM said today they signed a letter of intent on a supply and licensing agreement under which IBM would make its leading-edge hard drive technology available to Western Digital. [News.com]
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- Ichat turns to customer service - A company that made its name in software for consumer-oriented chat on Web sites is trying to turn itself into a player providing enterprise software for companies to manage their customer interactions online. [News.com]
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- ICL inks deal with Microsoft - Microsoft continues to forge partnerships to drive the adoption of its Windows NT operating system and related applications. [News.com]
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- IDT lays out low-cost chip plans - Integrated Device Technology (IDT) today previewed a product road map for its low-cost WinChip family. [News.com]
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- IFS rolls out business app - A small Swedish company, Industrial & Financial Systems, is attempting to plant its flag in the growing market for business application software. [News.com]
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- Impulse buying on the Net - For those who have embraced online shopping but miss the excitement of a blue-light special, a new network is trying to replicate that experience on the Net. [News.com]
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- Independent counsel posts site - Readers interested in independent counsel investigations can now read an official Web site devoted to one. [News.com]
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- Informix can't win for losing - Database maker Informix, which is struggling to turn itself around and rebuild Wall Street's confidence after having to restate its financial results going back several years, said it now must restate its first-quarter profits to reflect a loss. [News.com]
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- Infoseek CEO wins big on options - Infoseek chief executive Harry Motro snagged 1 million options last year, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing today. [News.com]
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- Infoseek tunes up search engine - Net gateway Infoseek today introduced a new technology on its site aimed at getting users where they want to go faster. [News.com]
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- Inktomi to power Snap search - Software firm Inktomi has inked a partnership with Web-based online service Snap to power the service's search function. [News.com]
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- Integration key in Oracle release - Oracle is set to roll out the latest version of its Oracle Discover data query and analysis tool next week. [News.com]
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- Intel antitrust case heats up - Government lawyers are preparing charges that Intel illegally abused monopoly power to hurt rivals, sources familiar with the case said today. [News.com]
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- Intel builds China research center - Intel chairman Andrew Grove today announced plans to invest $50 million over the next five years in the building of an information technology research center in China. [News.com]
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- Intel case in FTC chief's hands - A Federal Trade Commission decision on whether to file an antitrust case against Intel has moved to the second-to-last phase in the process, making it possible for a case to be filed in the next few weeks. [News.com]
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- Intel cuts 650 from PC plant - Intel will lay off up to 650 manufacturing employees at a Dupont, Washington, facility, the first group of some 3,000 positions the company expects to trim from its rolls over the next five months. [News.com]
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- Intel eyes corporate networks - Chip giant Intel is making a play for corporate networks. [News.com]
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- Intel falters on bearish comments - Shares of Intel fell in active trading after some cautious comments by Deutsche Morgan Grenfell sparked new fears about the company's second quarter, analysts and traders said. [News.com]
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- Intel files counterfeit chip suit - Chip behemoth Intel today filed suit and won a restraining order against an alleged racket that tampers with its microprocessors and stamps them with false speed ratings before selling them at higher prices. [News.com]
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- Intel forms new group as VP retires - Intel said today that it will reorganize its small business and networking divisions to form a stand-alone networking business, and that Frank Gill, the executive vice president who headed the divisions, will retire. [News.com]
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- Intel open to Intergraph settlement - Intel is making settlement overtures to Intergraph in an effort to end a legal dispute that has become a central issue in the Federal Trade Commission's investigation into Intel's business practices. [News.com]
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- Intel opens plant in Shanghai - Intel officially opened a $198 million flash memory chip plant in Shanghai, a move company executives called a vote of confidence in China despite the Asian financial crisis. [News.com]
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- Intel unlocks Pentium II - Intel acknowledged that it has licensed an underlying and hitherto proprietary piece of microarchitecture to an unnamed third party, loosening its stranglehold on the high-end computing market. [News.com]
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- Intel's Xeon to tip price scales - The expensive price tag on Intel's upcoming Xeon processors should boost the chip giant's bottom line as it faces sagging margins due to the growing use of cheap chips in popular sub-$1,200 PCs. [News.com]
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- Intel, Oracle to fund Road Runner - Looking to push development of high-speed, broadband networks, Intel plans to throw some of its investment funds toward Road Runner, a high-speed Internet access service via cable, according to sources. [News.com]
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- Intel, Sony, 3Com unveil cable plans - At the National Cable Television Association trade show in Atlanta this week, companies such as Intel, Sony Electronics, and 3Com are detailing plans for producing a new generation of easy-to-use cable modems. [News.com]
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- Intel-based 3D graphics board out - Diamond Multimedia released its first 3D graphics circuit board using the new Intel740 graphics processor, and the price indicates that Intel is selling its graphics chip for a lot less than expected. [News.com]
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- Intel: Spending in Taiwan to double - Tapping into the strength of Taiwan's personal computer market, microprocessor giant Intel today predicted that the amount it spends buying products in Taiwan will double in 1998. [News.com]
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- InterBase joins Linux crusade - Database maker InterBase Software is jumping on the Linux bandwagon. [News.com]
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- Intergraph adds to line despite suit - Although locked in a bitter legal battle with Intel, workstation vendor Intergraph will add to its product lines Monday by announcing a new workstation and a PC based around Pentium II processors. [News.com]
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- Intergraph now in PCs, notebooks - Intergraph unveiled its first notebook and low-cost PCs in the wake of a legal ruling that ensures that the company will have a supply of Intel processors to use in the systems. [News.com]
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- Intuit faces Y2K lawsuit - A lawsuit is charging Intuit with selling versions of its popular Quicken financial software program that are unable to process dates after December 31, 1999. [News.com]
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- Intuit makes acquisition on upside - Personal finance software maker Intuit reported pro forma earnings of 20 cents a share today--four cents ahead of First Call's consensus of analysts' estimates. [News.com]
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- Intuit opens center for small firms - Personal finance software giant Intuit is expanding its online offerings with a one-stop center for small businesses to shop for cash. [News.com]
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- Intuit shares priced at $47 - Intuit said today that its public offering of 9 million shares of common stock has been priced at $47.375 a share. [News.com]
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- Intuit top execs regrouped - Intuit today announced plans to shuffle its top ranks, promoting its chief to chairman of the board and passing the CEO baton to another executive. [News.com]
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- Investors dismiss FTC vs. Intel - Investors yesterday appeared to shrug off, for now, a looming lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission against Intel, whose chips are inside more than 80 percent of the world's personal computers. [News.com]
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- Iomega bug favors Mac users - A flaw in Iomega's Zip Plus drive can cause data to drop out of spreadsheets or other programs, but the low-cost storage drive maker has already stepped forward to solve it. [News.com]
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- Iomega loses another senior exec - Disk drive maker Iomega said today that it will lose another senior executive after the company reported poor earnings in the first quarter of 1998. [News.com]
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- IRS priority must be Year 2000 - The Senate unanimously passed legislation yesterday to overhaul the Internal Revenue Service, but the head of the tax agency has asked a congressional committee to delay any new directives until the bureau readies its computer and telecommunications systems for the year 2000. [News.com]
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- Is MCI's divestiture enough? - Today's announcement that Cable & Wireless will purchase MCI Communications' Internet backbone service appears to be doing little to placate the raft of competitors and consumers groups who have voiced concern over MCI's proposed megamerger with WorldCom. [News.com]
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- Jackson: No value in megamerger - Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson yesterday further escalated his campaign against the wave of megamergers sweeping the U.S. economy, lashing out at SBC Communications' proposed purchase of Ameritech. [News.com]
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- Japan delays digital TV services - After a year of debate, Japan has decided to delay the official launch of digital TV services by three years to 2003, giving in to concerns from broadcasters over expected high costs. [News.com]
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- Japan's PC shipments down in '97 - Japan's domestic shipments of personal computers are expected to increase five percent to 7.2 million units in the business year that started on April 1, bolstered by the rapidly growing notebook market, an industry group said on Wednesday. [News.com]
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- Japanese chipmakers lose big - Protracted weakness in memory chip prices and stumbling sales of personal computers and consumer electronics slashed the profits of major Japanese producers last business year. [News.com]
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- Judge: IBM execs are suspects - An Argentine judge investigating alleged bribes in a $250 million contract for IBM's local unit said yesterday that he summoned four executives from its U.S. headquarters as suspects, not witnesses. [News.com]
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- Judge: Avant can sell software - A federal court has formally declined to issue an order to stop Avant from selling its Aquarius electrical engineering software, a product that Avant's main competitor alleges is based on stolen computer code. [News.com]
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- Justice to probe MCI divestiture - A Justice Department spokeswoman said yesterday that the government will review MCI Communications' $625 million sale of its Internet broadband business along with the company's proposed merger with WorldCom. [News.com]
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- K-Tel offers Billboard charts - K-Tel is continuing its ride on the Net wave today, announcing that it will publish Billboard magazine's album, singles, and video charts each week on its Web site. [News.com]
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- K-Tel tunes into @Home - K-Tel International said today it has signed a comprehensive Internet marketing and services agreement with @Home Network, a provider of high-speed Internet services via the cable infrastructure. [News.com]
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- Katmai prototypes out this summer - Software developers will receive prototypes of "Katmai" processors along with related software tools this summer, as part of Intel's effort to get the ball rolling on its next generation of chip technology. [News.com]
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- KeyCorp offers Net payment service - Transaction system supplier KeyCorp said today that it has launched a new secure payment service for Internet merchants enabling customers to pay for goods by credit card. [News.com]
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- Kingston drops memory prices - Memory circuit board maker Kingston Technology said it has cut prices on its memory products, bringing a select number of its 64MB products to a price of $199 or lower. [News.com]
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- Kmart ups online offerings - Kmart this week unveiled a new electronic catalog that will allow shoppers to buy washing machines, personal computers, and flowers online. [News.com]
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- Kodak ups digital camera ante - Kodak upped the ante in the digital imaging game today, introducing two high-resolution cameras with advanced connection technology that cost under $1,000. [News.com]
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- Kodak, AOL offer photos online - America Online and Eastman Kodak said in a joint statement today that they would offer AOL members the ability to have their pictures delivered directly to them via the online service. [News.com]
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- Layoffs loom in Compaq-DEC deal - Compaq Computer disclosed for the first time today that the restructuring charge it will incur as a result of its megamerger with Digital Equipment will exceed $1 billion and include workforce reductions that some analysts estimate will affect at least 10,000 employees. [News.com]
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- Learning Co. to acquire PF. Magic - In another sign of consolidation in the educational software market, the Learning Company today announced plans to acquire virtual pet software maker PF.Magic. [News.com]
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- Lexmark names CEO - Paul Curlander was named president and chief executive of Lexmark International Group as part of a senior management restructuring at the maker of computer printers and office imaging products, the company said today. [News.com]
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- LG in Zenith reorganization talks - LG Electronics said it is in talks to reorganize its majority-owned Zenith Electronics, which may include discussion about the sale of Zenith assets or a substantial change in its capitalization. [News.com]
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- Library sued for not filtering Net - A Livermore, California, parent is hoping that a lawsuit she filed against the city will legally persuade it to install filtering software on its library computers that have Internet access--or otherwise limit children's unfettered access to the Net. [News.com]
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- Linux gains converts - As a free flavor of Unix turns heads on the Web, other companies clamor to enter developers' homes by offering their source code for free. In addition to its can't-beat-it price tag, Linux also offers users the freedom and creativity to meld the operating system to meet their needs. [News.com]
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- Logitech unveils new keyboards - Logitech announced two keyboards with programmable buttons for use with Web browsers and Windows 95. [News.com]
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- London area in Net experiment - It looks like a normal street, but behind the elegant 19th-century facades, residents are taking part in an experiment to create a community of the future. [News.com]
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- LookSmart enters search game - It may be show time for LookSmart. [News.com]
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- Looming suits hit Microsoft shares - Microsoft stock fell today amid renewed speculation that antitrust regulators would file another lawsuit against the software giant next week. [News.com]
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- Lotus builds Net store - Lotus Development today launched LotusStore, an online storefront that displays and details Lotus products and directs potential buyers to resellers for purchase. [News.com]
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- Lotus to buy DataBeam, Ubique - IBM subsidiary Lotus Development today said that it will purchase real-time software vendors DataBeam and Ubique, and outlined a product strategy based on the acquisitions. [News.com]
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- Lucent pushing DSL technologies - At the Networld+Interop trade show today in Las Vegas, Lucent unveiled new products for accessing networks with high-speed DSL (digital subscriber line) technology, including new modem chipsets. [News.com]
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- Lucent to debut Net "call waiting" - Lucent Technologies will release a new product in hopes of curing a common source of aggravation among Netizens: missing phone calls when logged on to the Internet. [News.com]
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- Lucent wants data traffic - Telecommunications giant Lucent Technologies fired the latest in a series of salvos at established data networking companies today with the introduction of new products targeted at service providers. [News.com]
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- Lucent wins undersea cable deal - Lucent Technologies said it will be the exclusive provider of land-based optical networking equipment, management software, power systems, and professional services for CTR Group's future undersea cable network called Project OXYGEN. [News.com]
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- Lycos does site with nonprofit - Online environmental nonprofit group EnviroLink has launched a cobranded Web site with Internet search engine and gateway Lycos. [News.com]
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- Lycos grows, takes charges - Acquisition charges weighed heavily on Lycos during its most recent quarter and pushed the search engine company further into the red, but revenue and e-commerce deals nevertheless boosted its revenue. [News.com]
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- Lycos improves Tripod search - Net community Tripod, owned by Lycos, today said it is improving the search capabilities among its personal home pages. [News.com]
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- Lycos, AT&T in online deal - Lycos continues to make deals intended to spawn its growth into a full-blown Web portal service. [News.com]
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- Mac momentum mounting - Faster notebooks, a radically revised desktop model called the "iMac," and a rising stock price are revitalizing Apple Computer, a company that had long been buffeted by falling market share and quarterly losses. Is interim CEO Steve Jobs turning Apple around? [News.com]
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- Macromedia inches back into black - Macromedia reported a jump in revenue today and said that it climbed into the black for its latest quarter, as the company improved operations and updated some of its products. [News.com]
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- Macromedia, adult site in copyright flap - In the Internet's latest "David and Goliath" conflict, a giant is claiming copyright infringement over a little guy's cries of censorship. [News.com]
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- MacWeek gives up the ghost - MacWeek, the only weekly publication devoted to covering the Macintosh platform, said it will transform itself into Emedia Weekly and expand its purview to cover Windows- and Unix-based machines. [News.com]
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- Major move toward wireless standard - A group of telecommunications and PC technology leaders today said they have joined to develop and deliver a new wireless communications technology. Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Nokia, and Toshiba unveiled a specification for a new technology, code-named Bluetooth, being developed through the contributions of the members of the so-called Bluetooth Special Interest Group. The group was formed earlier this year by the five companies. [News.com]
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- Malaysia reports bleak outlook - Malaysia's economy contracted sharply in the first three months of 1998 as the full brunt of Asia's crisis put an end to a heady decade of growth, according to the nation's central bank. [News.com]
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- MasterCard gives Excite credit - Eager to establish its brand on the Web, MasterCard has entered a marketing and branding agreement with Web gateway Excite. [News.com]
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- Matrox, 3Dfx top graphics poll - Circuit boards for 3D graphics powered by processors from 3Dfx and Matrox topped the chart in a performance test survey conducted by Mercury Research, using new technology to boost performance. [News.com]
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- MCI cuts unlimited Net access - MCI Communications is no longer offering unlimited Net access to new users--including customers who sign up for Yahoo Online, the two firms' cobranded Web-based online service. [News.com]
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- MCI dives, but beats Street - MCI Communications said yesterday that its first-quarter net income plunged 66 percent but still beat Wall Street forecasts amid strong growth in revenues, traffic, and its data services business. [News.com]
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- MCI seeks bids for part of Net unit - MCI Communications is quietly soliciting bids for its backbone business, in an apparent move to ease the concerns of antitrust regulators reviewing its pending megamerger with WorldCom [News.com]
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- MCI sells Net backbone - Looking to win approval from European regulators for its pending $37 billion sale to WorldCom, MCI Communications sells off its Internet facilities to Britain's Cable & Wireless for $625 million in cash. [News.com]
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- MCI sells Net backbone to C&W - Britain's Cable & Wireless said today that it would acquire the Internet facilities of MCI Communications for $625 million, payable in cash. [News.com]
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- MCI-WorldCom merger questioned - Facing growing concern from a broad range of government and industry players over its proposed acquisition by WorldCom, MCI Communications is searching for ways to get approval for the $37 billion deal. [News.com]
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- McNealy blasts Microsoft - A Cambridge, Massachusetts-based conference intended to explore the implications of the Net explosion on society has turned into a Microsoft-bashing session of sorts. [News.com]
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- McNealy: DOJ on right track - Sun Microsystems Chief Executive Officer Scott McNealy said yesterday that Microsoft should be forced to divest from all its minority investments or be broken up. [News.com]
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- Mecklermedia buys One Inc. - Mecklermedia said today that it bought One Inc., which organizes the ISPCON trade shows and Boardwatch Magazine, in a cash and stock deal worth $29.5 million. [News.com]
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- Mercury Center drops charges - Mercury Center, the online edition of the San Jose Mercury News, said today that it will no longer charge a fee to subscribers. [News.com]
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- Merger will still close in summer - WorldCom and MCI Communications said today that they remained hopeful that their planned $37 billion merger would be completed by the summer. [News.com]
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- Messages mixed on Win 98 delays - The sky is not falling. [News.com]
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- Micrografx plans design tools - Graphics software company Micrografx is trying its hand at a new market. [News.com]
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- Microsoft actions getting closer? - Speculation is mounting that regulators will take legal action against Microsoft as soon as next week. [News.com]
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- Microsoft bids on Road Runner - Looking to expand its cable presence, Microsoft has made a last-minute offer to acquire a 20 percent stake in high-speed Internet access provider Road Runner, according to sources. [News.com]
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- Microsoft gets it from all sides - It's not duck season, and it's not rabbit season. It's Microsoft season. [News.com]
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- Microsoft gives on Gateway - Today's move by Gateway to give users of its PCs more choice in selecting Internet browsers signals another concession by Microsoft as it prepares to fight landmark antitrust lawsuits. [News.com]
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- Microsoft pairs OLAP, database - Microsoft has made it official: its forthcoming online analytical processing (OLAP) server, code-named Plato, will be included as part of its SQL Server 7.0 database, due in the second half of the year. [News.com]
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- Microsoft pilloried in tell-all - A new book about a certain software company that can't seem to keep a low profile these days promises to tell all, but does it? [News.com]
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- Microsoft plays up COM - Windows NT isn't the only game in town. [News.com]
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- Microsoft pushes NT agenda - Compliance with new technologies being rolled into the mammoth Windows NT Server 5.0 operating system upgrade due early next year tops the list of added requirements for an enhanced Microsoft BackOffice certification program to be unveiled next week at a company developer conference. [News.com]
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- Microsoft releases last Win 98 beta - Microsoft has released what might be the last major upgrade to the Windows 98 beta and says it expects to ship the operating system to PC makers this Friday, despite the fact that as many as 20 states and the Justice Department are expected to file antitrust actions against the company by the end of the week. [News.com]
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- Microsoft rounding up supporters - Microsoft has lined up a new political ally in its bid to ward off Justice Department antitrust enforcers, who are seriously considering filing another lawsuit targeting allegedly anticompetitive practices by the software giant. [News.com]
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- Microsoft sees R&D at $3 billion - Microsoft will spend more than $3 billion on research and development in the coming fiscal year, up from about $2.6 billion this year, company chairman and chief executive Bill Gates said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Microsoft speaks out on lawsuits - The antitrust lawsuits filed against Microsoft today will hurt consumers, the software industry, and the U.S. economy, chief executive Bill Gates and other company executives said today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft spurs spin cycle in D.C. - The Microsoft spin cycle continues, with two opponents on Capitol Hill weighing in on news that the software giant and state and federal antitrust regulators are trying to settle their differences without going to court. [News.com]
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- Microsoft stock down - Microsoft stock fell nearly four points today after antitrust regulators filed lawsuits against the software giant. [News.com]
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- Microsoft suit not a political play - The Clinton administration's top antitrust official said Friday that political factors have played no role in determining how the government would act against software giant Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Microsoft suits could drag on - Once the initial hype over the lawsuits against Microsoft has subsided, the case will face a lengthy and tedious process that ultimately may take years to complete. [News.com]
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- Microsoft tests streaming software - Microsoft said today that a number of streaming media packages and a new Web animation tool have entered beta testing. [News.com]
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- Microsoft to post Office 97 update - Microsoft plans to stamp out bugs in its Office 97 desktop application package with an update slated to be posted to its Web site this summer. [News.com]
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- Microsoft trial date: Sept. 8 - A federal judge today combined two lawsuits that the Justice Department and 20 state attorneys general filed against Microsoft and set a trial date of September 8. [News.com]
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- Microsoft trickles out Office plans - Microsoft product managers yesterday offered an additional peek at features planned for Office 9x, an update of the company's desktop application suite, now slated to ship by year's end. [News.com]
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- Microsoft unveils software for ISPs - Microsoft announced version 2.0 today of Microsoft Commercial Internet System (MCIS), a family of Internet servers for ISPs, hosting services, and phone carriers. [News.com]
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- Microsoft wants more time - Microsoft today gave the first official indication how it plans to respond to lawsuits filed by the Justice Department and 20 states in court documents filed in preparation for a scheduling conference to be held tomorrow. [News.com]
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- Microsoft warns Wall Street - Microsoft is continuing its efforts to prevent antitrust regulators from filing lawsuits that might delay the arrival of its Windows 98, reaching out to business partners and Wall Street analysts and staging a rally in New York City tomorrow that will feature speeches by Bill Gates and top executives from other high-profile companies. [News.com]
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- Microsoft woes benefit competitors - Netscape isn't the only company that stands to gain from Microsoft's legal battle with federal and state regulators. [News.com]
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- Microsoft workers blasé about case - Microsoft faces the threat of one of the biggest antitrust actions in U.S. history, but many of the company's rank and file seem larglely uninterested in the high-stakes legal battle. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, DOJ in last-minute talks - Last-minute negotiations between Microsoft and the Justice Department and state attorneys general will begin in earnest tomorrow in an attempt to settle a pending antitrust suit. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, DOJ in last-minute talks - Microsoft is in last-minute negotiations with the Justice Department and state attorneys general in an attempt to settle a pending antitrust suit, a source close to the case said today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, DOJ talks collapse - Eleventh-hour negotiations between Microsoft and antitrust regulators collapse, clearing the way for possible legal action. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, HP exchange messages - Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard announced plans to expand a mutually beneficial alliance to further the installation of the software giant's Exchange Server messaging system. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, TCI sign set-top deal - After several months of negotiations, Microsoft and Tele-Communications Incorporated have sealed a deal for using Microsoft's operating system software in digital set-top boxes. [News.com]
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- Microsoft: Foe, partner, or both? - Despite the industry perception that Microsoft gobbles up everything it needs and stomps on everyone in its path, there is evidence that companies can coexist with the enterprising software giant. [News.com]
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- Microsoft: Lawsuit a possibility - Microsoft and regulators aren't saying much about their closed-door settlement talks in Washington, but a regulatory filing today by the software giant says the company believes that a lawsuit is "likely" if talks break down. [News.com]
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- Microsoft: Win 98 in legal clear - According to Microsoft, the Justice Department has no legal leg to stand on in opposing the company's request to block a preliminary injunction from applying to Windows 98, the software giant argued today in a court brief. [News.com]
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- Millennium bug warning to utilities - In an industry where a glitch can leave people shivering in the dark, the nation's electricity and fuel providers still don't know how vulnerable they will be to Year 2000 malfunctions, according to a federal regulator. [News.com]
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- Mixed ratings on 3Com shares - Trading of 3Com's stock has been active amid speculation there could be more bad news about upcoming results. [News.com]
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- Motley Fool to try radio - In another melding of new and old media, Cox Radio and the Net finance wizards of the Motley Fool today announced a partnership to produce the "Motley Fool Radio Show." [News.com]
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- Motorola plans hybrid modem - Motorola will develop a new hybrid modem that can be used with both regular phone lines and ADSL high-speed Internet connections. [News.com]
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- Motorola teams with Teledesic - Motorola is investing $750 million for a 26 percent stake in Teledesic, the "Internet-in-the-Sky" venture led by Microsoft's Bill Gates and wireless entrepreneur Craig McCaw, executives said today. [News.com]
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- Motorola to invest in S. Korea - Motorola has decided to invest a total of $300 million in South Korea in a decision due to be announced later this week, Seoul-based newspapers reported Tuesday. [News.com]
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- Motorola to unveil new PowerPC design - Tomorrow, Motorola will formally unveil new technology for boosting the performance of PowerPC chips, taking the venerable chip architecture in new directions. [News.com]
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- Motorola up on Siemens rumor - Shares of Motorola jumped today on speculation that Siemens was considering buying the telecommunications equipment maker. [News.com]
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- Mounting sub-$1,000 PC sales hurt margins - The market for sub-$1,000 personal computers will continue to grow rapidly through the year 2001, which could have severe ramifications for PC vendors without strong server and workstation product lineups, International Data Corporation said in a report released today. [News.com]
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- NBC.com reprograms--for Net - Network television goes into reruns for the summer, but NBC.com, the online arm of the TV network, is slated to announce tomorrow that it will offer new online programming in June, July, and August. [News.com]
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- NCI in set-top software deal - General Instrument (GI) will use Network Computer Incorporated's DTV Navigator browser software in upcoming digital TV set-top boxes for the international market, a deal that will allow the Oracle unit to focus on signing up cable operators as licensees of its set-top solution. [News.com]
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- NCR adds OLAP to database - NCR is bringing online analytical processing (OLAP) capabilities to its venerable Teradata database. [News.com]
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- NCR wins $82 million bank deal - British banking group National Westminster Bank said today that it had awarded NCR contracts worth more than $81.4 million, over three years, to service its cash dispenser network and branch IT equipment. [News.com]
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- NEC laptop doesn't bundle IE 4 - NEC Computer Systems Division will begin selling a new laptop computer with Windows 95 that has Microsoft's Web browser icon hidden, a spokeswoman said yesterday. [News.com]
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- NEC targets 256-megabit chips - Japanese electronics company NEC will invest more than 300 billion yen ($2.20 billion) to build production facilities for 256-megabit dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips, a Japanese financial daily reported on Saturday. [News.com]
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- NEC touts "companion PC" - NEC announced its MobilePro 750C Handheld PC, its latest diminutive computing device, as the so-called companion PCs that will challenge thin-and-light portables continue coming to market. [News.com]
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- NEC, Gateway back Navigator - Two major PC manufacturers, NEC and Gateway 2000, have broken ranks with Microsoft by quietly allowing certain customers to configure computers with Netscape Communications' Navigator on Windows 98 machines and are planning larger-scale programs to make Navigator more accessible to all their customers. [News.com]
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- Net a boon to offline shopping - Everyone knows that people increasingly are going online to shop. According to a new study, however, that's only half the story: Right now, the Net is contributing more to commerce offline than online. [News.com]
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- Net a boon to summer movies - Here come the summer blockbusters. Not movies--movie Web sites. [News.com]
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- Net companies in demand - Despite their billion-dollar valuations, Internet companies may hold the key to old media's push into the online world. [News.com]
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- Net firms debut game services - The Net gateway sites are getting into the game--literally. [News.com]
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- Net music pirates face lawsuits - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is putting the legal squeeze on Web site operators in its ongoing effort to crack down on music pirates who illegally distribute tunes over the Net. [News.com]
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- Net replaces satellite for NPR - At 6:10 p.m. ET last night, thousands of radios tuned to National Public Radio's popular drive-time show All Things Considered went dead. [News.com]
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- Net to help track food poisoning - A new Internet-based network should quickly help identify and stop outbreaks of food poisoning around the United States. [News.com]
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- Net-controlled robot "born" - Imagine logging on to the Net before you leave work and commanding a personal robot to water the plants, flip on the lights, and defrost a pot roast for dinner. [News.com]
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- Netcenter adds job boards - Netscape Communications will announce a career section tomorrow for its Netcenter site, the latest addition in its 60-day blitz to build out portal's portfolio of content and services. [News.com]
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- NetChannel price tag revealed - America Online paid about $29 million for its acquisition of Web-enhanced television company NetChannel, government documents revealed. [News.com]
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- Netizens ponder universal access - After rural schools and underfunded libraries get plugged into the Net, an online event kicking off today asks, "Who's next?" [News.com]
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- NetObjects execs back the farm - The top management at NetObjects is showing its confidence in the company by taking a stake worth more than $1 million in the venture-backed Internet software toolmaker. [News.com]
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- Netscape book details browser war - As far back as 1995, Netscape Communications quietly began investigating the legality of Microsoft's business practices and had contact with the Justice Department about its nemesis, according to a newly published book on the software maker. [News.com]
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- Netscape by the numbers - With a controversial earnings report involving a $54.2 million loss for the month of January, in addition to the announcement of two new content deals and the release of a tell-all book, Netscape Communications finds itself back in the spotlight. [News.com]
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- Netscape CEO to increase stake - Netscape Communications' chief executive Jim Barksdale, who earned only $1 in compensation last year and returned a stock option grant of 300,000 shares to the company, plans to increase his stake in the software maker. [News.com]
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- Netscape channel for small firms - In the latest addition to its two-month Netcenter construction effort, Netscape Communications today announced the launch of a channel for small-business content. [News.com]
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- Netscape deals pad bottom line - Wall Street gave its stamp of approval to Netscape's Web site alliance with Excite today, further boosting the once-slumping shares of the software maker--at least for now. [News.com]
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- Netscape does new search deals - Netscape Communications has signed on search engines AltaVista, Infoseek, LookSmart, and Lycos to become "premier providers" to the search page on its heavily trafficked Netcenter gateway site. [News.com]
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- Netscape e-commerce suite ready - Netscape today released the final piece of its Internet commerce software, completing the CommerceXpert suite of offerings it acquired from Actra, Netscape's former joint venture with GE Information Systems. [News.com]
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- Netscape expected to post loss - Revenues are of the essence for Netscape Communications. [News.com]
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- Netscape guides China on Net - Internet heavyweight Netscape Communications today took another step into the swelling China market with plans to launch a Chinese-language guide to the global computer network. [News.com]
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- Netscape shifts focus to "ESPs" - When is an automaker an Internet service provider? [News.com]
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- Netscape shuffles loss - Netscape Communications broke even today for its second fiscal quarter but reported a $54.2 million loss for the month of January. [News.com]
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- Netscape unveils email client code - Communicator 5.0 has nothing left to hide. [News.com]
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- Netscape ups portal efforts - Netscape Communications tomorrow will announce both a redesign as well as a trio of new offerings for its Netcenter portal site. The company also will announce some additional features for its Navigator browser. [News.com]
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- Netscape ups small-business offering - In the latest addition to its two-month Netcenter construction effort, Netscape Communications tomorrow will announce the launch of a channel for small-business content. [News.com]
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- Netscape wins over Citibank - In its largest deal ever with a major bank, Netscape Communications has signed a licensing pact with Citibank for worldwide deployment of Netscape's e-commerce, server, and browser software. [News.com]
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- Netscape's services, source code, site - Netscape Communications continues its marketing push by setting its sights on serving the software needs of large corporations, offering more services on its Netcenter portal site, and posting the source code for Messenger, part of its Communicator 5.0 suite--moves that illustrate the company's ever-evolving business plans. [News.com]
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- Network Associates hits Y2K - Network Associates today extended its product line for Year 2000 software, shipping an enterprise software product called Zero Administration Client 2000 to diagnose and resolve Y2K compliance issues in desktop computer hardware, software, and files. [News.com]
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- New AMD pricing undercuts Intel - A window of opportunity may open up for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) with today's introduction of the new K6-2 processor, although analysts caution that aggressive pricing by Intel could quickly shut it again. [News.com]
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- New Apple ad on Seinfeld - As more evidence of a spendy media blitz that has already included TV ads deriding Intel Pentium II processors as snails and Time magazine glossy foldouts touting its latest PowerBook notebook, Apple Computer is paying for a new 30-second version of its "Think different" commercial that will offer tribute to the comedian Jerry Seinfeld during tonight's final episode of NBC's Seinfeld show. [News.com]
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- New Egghead came at a cost - Personal computer retailer Egghead.com said today that it lost $35 million, or $1.51 per share, during the fourth quarter, following a restructuring that "significantly affected" its results. [News.com]
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- New HP e-commerce plan coming - In a major e-commerce announcement, Hewlett-Packard on Monday is slated to unveil new hardware servers running HP's brand of Unix that are bundled with e-commerce software and targeted to the ISP market. [News.com]
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- New HP workstations face Dell surge - Hewlett-Packard will release three new Windows NT-based workstations based around 350-MHz and 400-MHz Pentium II chips next week as part of its effort to stave off a new threat from Dell. [News.com]
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- New Intel Celeron chip planned - Intel has decided to speed up the development plan on its Celeron processors and will release two more versions of the chip rather than one this year. [News.com]
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- New PowerPC design unveiled - Motorola unveiled a new technology for boosting the performance of PowerPC chips, taking the venerable chip architecture in new directions. [News.com]
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- New thriller based on Microsoft - It's the story of a Seattle software firm led by a power-minded billionaire, and it's not about Microsoft. [News.com]
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- NFL stays on ESPN team - The NFL today made official its selection of Disney subsidiary ESPN as its Web site partner. [News.com]
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- Nintendo: Artx in, SGI chips out - Upstart processor vendor Artx scored a dual victory today when it was confirmed that Nintendo has chosen to use the company's products in its new generation of Nintendo 64 game units and that Silicon Graphics has dropped its lawsuit against the company. [News.com]
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- No spam on the spambone - The long-anticipated and much maligned so-called spambone--a backbone network for spammers--has finally launched. And even the most ardent of antispammers are wishing it luck. [News.com]
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- Nomai disk sales OK in U.S. - Disk drive maker Iomega said today that a California court has ruled that Nomai can continue to sell in the United States its Nomai XHD disks, a rival to Iomega's high density ZIP disks. [News.com]
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- Notebook damage mounting - As the use of portable PCs continues to grow, notebook damage and unreliability is skyrocketing, according to a study released by International Data Corporation (IDC) today. [News.com]
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- Novell boosts clustering support - Novell planted its flag in the clustering market today by announcing a pair of packages to boost system reliability and lessen downtime. [News.com]
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- Novell gets Java cocreator - Novell chief executive Eric Schmidt has continued his makeover of the networking company by adding another figure from his past at Sun Microsystems. [News.com]
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- Novell up on expectations - Shares in Novell rose today as Wall Street appeared to be betting that the Utah-based software company will meet expectations when it reports earnings after Thursday's close. [News.com]
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- Novell upswing continues - The turnaround at network software provider Novell continues, with the company posting the first appreciation in revenue since the fourth quarter of its previous fiscal year. [News.com]
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- NSI could see downside - Network Solutions' stock has fallen more than 35 percent since mid-April, as investors become increasingly concerned about an impending federal report on domain names. [News.com]
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- NT antitrust's next battleground - While the marriage of Microsoft's Internet Explorer to its Windows 95 and Windows 98 operating systems so far has been the most visible front in the war between the company and antitrust enforcers, Windows NT is likely to become the next high-profile battleground, according to regulators and outside observers. [News.com]
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- Online auctions planned for Japan - Online auction retailer Onsale and Japanese software vendor Softbank today launched a joint venture to perform online auctions for the Japanese market, the companies said. [News.com]
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- Online games pay off - Adrenaline Interactive, which recently changed its name from Wanderlust Interactive, said today it will begin developing "pay-to-play" games for the Internet that allow players to win cash prizes. [News.com]
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- Onsale to auction condo rentals - Onsale, a leading online auction retailer, said it is in an exclusive partnership with a unit of Cendant Corporation to auction resort condominium rental weeks over the Internet. [News.com]
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- Open Market buy expands lineup - E-commerce software maker Open Market has acquired ICentral, which markets ShopSite software for building online stores. [News.com]
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- Open season on Microsoft - As if getting slapped with lawsuits weren't enough trouble for the software giant, Microsoft increasingly is being targeted by Internet jokesters, competitors looking to kick the company while it's down, and former employees turned tell-all authors. While CEO Bill Gates may be somewhat used to being the guy with pie on his face, the latest controversy enveloping the Redmond, Washington, company has elevated the anti-Microsoft buzz to a spiteful roar. [News.com]
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- Oracle expects slump in Asia - Software company Oracle expects a slower rate of growth in its South Asia region during its next fiscal year starting in June, a senior official said on Wednesday. [News.com]
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- Oracle plans bill payment software - Oracle is joining the fray to provide technology to present and pay bills online, entering an emerging market for letting consumers view and pay their monthly bills on Web sites. [News.com]
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- Oracle polishes HR apps - Oracle today announced new enhancements to its Oracle Human Resource Management System (HRMS) applications suite, including Web- and workflow-based competency management, increased self-service functions, and enhanced reporting and analysis capabilities. [News.com]
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- Oracle ships analysis toolset - Oracle today rolled out a series of analysis tools for its business applications package, the first results of chief executive Larry Ellison's stewardship of the company's sluggish applications division. [News.com]
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- Oracle to roll out new client apps - Oracle next week will roll out a series of analysis tools for its business applications package, the first tangible results of chief executive Larry Ellison's stewardship of the company's sluggish applications division. [News.com]
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- Oracle updates clustering software - Oracle will next week announce new Windows NT versions of its Parallel Server clustering software and Fail Safe failover package. [News.com]
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- Oracle, IBM to offer database trial - Oracle said today that its Oracle8 database will be offered on a trial basis free of charge by IBM on its servers. [News.com]
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- OS X is the future for Apple - Speaking at an Apple software developer's conference, Apple Computer acting CEO Steve Jobs outlined the company's new operating system strategy, revealing that features destined for the next-generation Rhapsody OS will be incorporated into a separate, hybrid product called "Mac OS X," casting doubt on the future of Rhapsody. [News.com]
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- OS X spells the end for Rhapsody - Apple Computer yesterday elaborated on an operating system strategy that amounts to the death of Rhapsody, its one-time next-generation operating system, and its rebirth as a separate, hybrid product called Mac OS X. [News.com]
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- Outage hits pagers, Net access - Service is slowly being restored to tens of millions of pager customers throughout the United States, following a massive satellite glitch that disrupted service throughout the nation. [News.com]
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- Pac Bell fires up fast Net access - Today's announcement by SBC Communications, the parent company of Pacific Bell, that it is dramatically beefing up access to high-speed digital phone lines in California notches up the high-speed access war. [News.com]
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- Pac Bell plans major DSL rollout - Pacific Bell tomorrow is planning to announce a major deployment of Net access service over high-speed copper phone lines. [News.com]
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- Packard Bell offers $699 home PC - Packard Bell announced a $699 consumer PC based on a Cyrix processor, one week after announcing it would incorporate less-expensive, non-Intel chips for the first time. [News.com]
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- Packard Bell seeks momentum with Cyrix - Packard Bell NEC is returning to what it knows best: low-ball pricing. [News.com]
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- Packard Bell to cut 400 jobs - Packard Bell NEC will lay off approximately 400 employees as it consolidates all of its U.S. operations into its Sacramento, California, facilities. [News.com]
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- Packard Bell to use Cyrix chips - Thursday, Packard Bell NEC is expected to announce that it will begin to incorporate processors from Cyrix in a number of its computers, a bold move for the ailing vendor that will likely bring industrywide PC prices down further. [News.com]
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- Packard Bell to use Cyrix chips - Packard Bell NEC announced today that it will begin to incorporate processors from Cyrix in a number of its computers, a bold move for the ailing company that will likely bring industrywide PC prices down further. [News.com]
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- PalmPilot heads handheld sector - The worldwide market for handheld computers grew by 65 percent in 1997 as 3Com's PalmPilot fended off an attack from Windows CE-based devices for another year, a new study revealed today. [News.com]
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- PanAmSat restores pager service - PanAmSat, whose Galaxy IV communications satellite spun out of control Tuesday night severing services to millions of paging customers across the country, said today that it had restored video and telecommunications services via other satellites in its fleet. [News.com]
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- Panasonic tunes into digital TV - Panasonic's television division announced new products in anticipation of the debut of digital TV service expected in November. [News.com]
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- Partners toe Microsoft line - Hoping to stave off lawsuits that could delay the shipment of Windows 98, dozens of Microsoft partners--many from high-profile companies--are warning government regulators that their much-anticipated legal action against the software giant could have serious consequences. [News.com]
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- Patent office slammed for not posting data - A private citizen who took on the herculean task of posting online a profusion of raw data from the Securities and Exchange Commission now is preparing to publish a stack of patent and trademark information on the Net because he says the government is dragging its heels once again. [News.com]
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- PC firms keep options open - Amid Microsoft's antitrust troubles, personal computer makers are testing the waters of browser choice by eschewing exclusivity, offering Netscape's Navigator along with Internet Explorer. [News.com]
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- PC, cable giants to plug cable modems - Intel and Microsoft, which recently formed a group touting high-speed Internet access through the use of DSL (digital subscriber line) technology, are joining forces with companies such as Tele-Communications Incorporated and Time Warner to promote even faster Internet access via cable. [News.com]
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- PersonalJava for all TCI set-tops - Tele-Communications Incorporated (TCI) said it has selected the PersonalJava software environment from Sun Microsystems as its standard language on all of its TV set-top boxes, including those running Microsoft's Windows CE software, a momentous decision as the cable giant eyes new interactive programming. [News.com]
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- Philips in a buying mood - Philips Electronics said today that it would start to look for acquisition opportunities. [News.com]
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- Plans for new Amiga emerge - Amiga, once one of the hottest PC companies in the world, spelled out how it intends to reinvent itself with a new operating system strategy, but may have ended up raising yet more questions. [News.com]
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- PointCast files for public offering - PointCast, a pioneer in so-called push technology, filed to go public today, becoming the latest Internet company to jump on the IPO bandwagon. [News.com]
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- PointCast planning IPO - PointCast is planning to file for an initial public offering later this month, jumping on the bandwagon for Internet IPOs, sources said today. [News.com]
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- Porn case shows need for global talks - The European Commission said today that the pornography conviction of a former CompuServe manager in Germany was surprising and highlighted the need for global cooperation on how to regulate the Internet. [News.com]
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- Portal fight intensifies - The battle to be the gateway site for Netizens rages on, with new players entering the game and already-established portals trying every trick to appeal to the broadest-possible audience. Offline businesses also are turning to the portals for deals when they want to get the word out on the Net. [News.com]
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- Prison time for email threats - The first Net user found guilty of an online hate crime--where death threats were sent by email to 59 Asian university students--was sentenced to one year in prison today, time that already has been served. [News.com]
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- Problems delay Merced chip - Merced, the 64-bit processor from Intel, will be delayed about six months, a major blow to workstation and server makers such as Hewlett-Packard that are betting heavily on the chip. [News.com]
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- Processor prices plunging for summer - Processor prices will plunge 15 to 20 percent in July as Intel and rival Advanced Micro Devices make deep cuts, part of an ongoing market share battle that will lead to more powerful and less expensive PCs. [News.com]
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- Programmer faces crypto probe - A Silicon Valley programmer on Tuesday is slated to respond to a subpoena by an arm of the Commerce Department investigating whether a security plug-in that can be downloaded from his Web site violates U.S. laws barring the export of strong encryption. [News.com]
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- Protecting benefit plans from Y2K - Congress is considering a bill that would help protect pension investments from the Year 2000 bug and give the federal government unprecedented regulatory powers to prevent interruption of many services due to the problem. [News.com]
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- Quicken for Mac after all - Intuit said it will make a new version of Quicken for Macintosh available in 1999, after saying just last month that it was halting development of the popular financial planning software. [News.com]
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- Qwest: Bell deal means revenue - Qwest Communications International said it expects its pact with US West Communications to add about $100 million to $200 million to its 1999 revenues. [News.com]
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- Rational ships NT analysis tool - Rational Software is shipping a tool to let software developers pinpoint gaps in the testing of new software. [News.com]
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- RCA's consumer NCs recalled - RCA has sent recall notices to customers of its TV set-top network computers (NCs) which use Network Computer Incorporated (NCI) software. [News.com]
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- Reaction split on Microsoft - Reaction to parallel antitrust lawsuits filed against Microsoft has been swift on both sides. [News.com]
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- Remarketer sells Compaq PC for $299 - Recompute took another step toward its goal of offering corporate-caliber desktops at garage sale prices, selling 100-MHz Compaq Pentium-based desktop for $299. [News.com]
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- Report of glut hurts chipmakers - Shares of semiconductor giant Intel and other chipmakers fell after a Merrill Lynch analyst said he sees a pronounced oversupply of microprocessors, pointing out that Intel now has the capacity to make more processors than the market needs. [News.com]
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- Report: DOD's Y2K efforts lacking - The Department of Defense's efforts to fix its computer systems for the year 2000 are moving at a snail's pace, making failure of "at least some mission-critical systems and the operations they support almost certain," according to a government report released yesterday. [News.com]
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- Report: Groupware market doubles - Driven by broad market support for Internet standards and increasing business reliance on groupware products, the worldwide market for collaborative systems doubled in 1997, according to a report by the International Data Corporation. [News.com]
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- Report: Y2K bug to shock economy - The millennium bug is expected to put a brake on the global economy, with stock markets feeling the shock from 1999 onwards, researchers at Dutch financial group ING Barings said today. [News.com]
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- Retailers think iMac will sell - Apple Computer yesterday took the wraps off its most innovative-looking computer in years, placing a big bet that style will help distinguish the Mac from the pack of PC systems. [News.com]
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- Robertson Stephens OKs buy - Robertson Stephens, the investment banking arm of BankAmerica, has told employees in a company-wide meeting that it has agreed to be sold to BankBoston. [News.com]
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- RSA sues Network Associates - RSA Data Security is seeking to bar Network Associates from shipping any Trusted Information Systems software that uses RSA encryption technology. [News.com]
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- S3 sues Nvidia as IPO approaches - Nvidia, a rising star in the graphics processor world, has been hit with another patent infringement suit, a legal setback that could affect the value of the company's proposed initial public offering. [News.com]
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- Sanctions to hurt business in India - U.S. sanctions imposed yesterday will hinder virtually all American companies doing business in that country, government and commerce officials said. [News.com]
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- SAP previews business software - SAP gave a sneak preview yesterday at its German headquarters of new features planned for version 4.0 of its human resources business application, including front-end tools for accessing and analyzing data within the system. [News.com]
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- SAP sees exec shift, predicts growth - German software group SAP was due today to complete the first leadership transition in its 26-year history, laying the basis for continued high growth in a new era. [News.com]
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- SAP to reorganize, boost staff - Software group SAP faces challenges in reordering its internal structure to maintain growth and taking on thousands of new employees, its chief financial officer told a German newspaper today. [News.com]
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- Satellite woes to hurt AirTouch - AirTouch Communications said yesterday that last week's satellite failure, which disrupted paging service nationally, will cost the company about $2 million in customer credits and labor overtime costs. [News.com]
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- Saudis to allow Net access - Saudi Arabia plans to legalize the Internet in the kingdom and allow select local firms to provide direct access, a state science and technology official told businessmen. [News.com]
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- SBC to buy Ameritech - SBC Communications, which has bought two local phone companies in the past year, said today that it had agreed to acquire Midwest Baby Bell Ameritech in a stock swap valued at $62 billion. [News.com]
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- Scient snares big name execs - With three high-visibility executives in the fold, start-up computer services firm Scient is targeting three segments of the "electronic business" market for consulting engagements. [News.com]
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- Search chiefs "converge" - The heads of six leading Internet search engine companies agreed that partnerships and alliances are a growing part of their business but they differed on how the deals should pan out. [News.com]
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- Secondary offering for EarthLink - In the wake of big deals between Internet service providers and telecommunications companies, EarthLink Network said today that it plans to file for a secondary offering that will generate about $175.75 million. [News.com]
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- Security buying binge continues - Continuing on its buying binge, Network Associates today said it will acquire a small Canadian security firm called Secure Networks Incorporated (SNI), which develops tools that scan networks for security holes. [News.com]
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- Security firms add services - Faced with shrinking margins and dropping prices, security software firms are branching into the professional services area in search of new revenue sources. [News.com]
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- Security hole in My Excite - Net search engine and gateway Excite is working to fix a security hole that affects users who customize news and information based on tailored settings such as their education level or personal interests. [News.com]
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- Sega game to use Windows CE - Japanese game maker Sega Enterprises today said it would launch a new home video game console, Dreamcast, with the help of Microsoft . [News.com]
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- Select upgrades toolset - Component-based modeling tools vendor Select Software Tools next week will roll out the newest version of its flagship toolset, complete with a new Java code generator. [News.com]
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- Semio debuts "text mining" suite - Intranet-based "text mining" software maker Semio rolled out its latest package today. [News.com]
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- Senate approves copyright bill - The Senate has overwhelmingly approved legislation to uphold intellectual property rights in the digital age, which outlaws technologies that can crack copyright-protection devices. [News.com]
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- Senate OKs more foreign visas - Boosting the number of foreign workers U.S. firms can hire each year to 90,000, the Senate voted 78 to 20 to pass the American Competitiveness Act today. [News.com]
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- Senate passes spam regulation - Junk emailers who try hide their identities could be fined up to $15,000 under a provision unanimously passed by the Senate late yesterday. [News.com]
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- Senate to stem shareholder suits - Legislation to curb shareholder lawsuits against companies with volatile stock prices was cleared today by the Senate. [News.com]
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- Senate to tackle labor shortage - The legislative wheels of the Senate will be in motion this week as Sen. Spencer Abraham (R-Michigan) proposes to expand the limit on the number of foreigners allowed to petition each year for a work visa. [News.com]
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- Senators spar over Microsoft letter - Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) attacked Microsoft Friday and was in turn attacked by a senator from the company's home state, Slade Gorton (R-Washington), in an escalating battle between the two senior Republicans. [News.com]
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- Setback for Intel in Intergraph suit - A federal appeals court today denied Intel's request for an expedited appeal of a lower court decision ruling that the chip giant must resume selling microprocessors and providing proprietary information to Intergraph. [News.com]
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- SGI boosts speed, drops prices - Silicon Graphics will introduce new workstations in its low-end and midrange product families while simultaneously cutting prices. [News.com]
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- Site warns against light trucks - Surfing the Internet to buy a sport utility vehicle could bring you just a mouse click away from "Roadhog Info Trough"--a Friends of the Earth site that asks you to reconsider and buy a car. [News.com]
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- Slow sales hit National Semi - National Semiconductor's stock sunk to a new year low today as the company announced it will likely record a wider-than-expected loss for the current quarter due to slower-than-expected sales across its product lines. [News.com]
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- Smoking gun in Microsoft memos? - The sweeping antitrust lawsuit filed today by the Justice Department against Microsoft is built partly on internal memos allegedly sent by its executives, including CEO Bill Gates. [News.com]
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- Software to filter workers' access - Net filtering firm SurfWatch Software today released a Professional Edition, aimed at keeping workers off unauthorized Web sites during business hours. [News.com]
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- Solectron buys IBM plant - Solectron, a provider of manufacturing services for computer makers, today said that it agreed to buy IBM Electronic Card Assembly and Test operations located in Charlotte, North Carolina. [News.com]
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- Solid quarter for AOL - America Online beat analysts' expectations today, citing gains in advertising and electronic commerce, and said it would acquire NetChannel, a Web-enhanced television company. [News.com]
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- Sony notebook down to 3 pounds - Next week, Sony Electronics will introduce a three-pound notebook at an aggressive price point, a combination which could hit the sweet spot for subnotebooks. [News.com]
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- Sony reveals Win 98 boxes - Sony announced a $999 consumer PC that uses Intel's Celeron processor, as well as high-end models with Pentium II processors and DVD-ROM drives. [News.com]
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- SPA denies Microsoft seat again - Microsoft has lost another chance to win representation on the board of Software Publishers Association, an influential trade group that recently has taken a number of positions against the software giant. [News.com]
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- SportsLine, E*Trade team up - SportsLine USA and Net investment firm E*Trade Group announced a marketing deal that will shore up SportsLine's attempts to compete in the exploding content aggregation or "portal" site business. [News.com]
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- Sprint extends EarthLink offer - Sprint said today that it has extended until June 5 its $45-a-share tender offer for 1.25 million shares of EarthLink Network common stock. [News.com]
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- Sprint takes over PCS service - Sprint said today it has agreed to take ownership and management control of Sprint PCS, its wireless joint venture with Tele-Communications Incorporated, Comcast, and Cox Communications. [News.com]
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- Spyglass turnaround on track - With a complete business transition under his belt, Spyglass president and chief executive Douglas Colbeth can say he has been vindicated. [News.com]
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- Start-up ships security suite - Security start-up Centrax today began shipping eNTrax Security Suite for Windows NT, an intrusion detection and response offering to protect corporate networks from both outside hackers and insiders seeking access to corporate data. [News.com]
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- State board mulls Net rules - Focusing on how the Internet can create jobs in California, not on the potential tax revenue or new regulations, Gov. Pete Wilson urged a new state industry advisory body to encourage Internet commerce. [News.com]
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- State Y2K lawsuit bill defeated - A California legislative committee defeated a bill that would have immunized the state's software firms from lawsuits related to the millennium bug, an industry coalition said. [News.com]
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- States pressured over Win 98 - Nine top computer executives in California, including Intel's Andy Grove, Hewlett Packard's Lew Platt, and Advanced Micro Devices' W.J. Sanders, have written California attorney general Dan Lungren urging him to rethink taking antitrust action against Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Sterling unveils e-commerce offerings - At its annual customer conference, e-commerce software vendor Sterling Commerce announced a slew of new e-commerce and secure communications software and services for business-to-business commerce over the Internet. [News.com]
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- Stock sites sound off - Netscape Communications and some Wall Street analysts may be pleased with today's quarterly earnings report by the company, but others are decidedly bearish. [News.com]
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- Street sees mixed day of trading - Wall Street rallied early on in the wake of a multibillion-dollar merger, but interest rate concerns knocked some of the kick out of the bulls by day's end. [News.com]
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- Study: ISP performance improves - Dial-up reliability and Web performance among Internet service providers have stabilized this year after improvements to network infrastructures, a new study shows. [News.com]
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- Study: Net can help cancer patients cope - Traditional support groups help cancer survivors bear the burden of their illnesses. Now, online networks--so-called cybersolace--can offer many of the same benefits and more, according to a study by the University of Delaware (UD). [News.com]
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- Study: Net tax bills to divide U.S. - Affluent U.S. households, which are more likely to own personal computers, would benefit from Internet tax bills moving through Congress at the expense of poor and middle-class Americans, a new study said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Subsidies blamed for phone hike - Higher rates planned by AT&T to subsidize the costs of Internet and other services could result in substantial increases for phone service throughout the long distance market. [News.com]
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- Suit expected as DOJ talks end - Eleventh-hour negotiations between Microsoft and antitrust regulators collapsed today, clearing the way for possible legal action next week. [News.com]
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- Suit expected as DOJ talks end - Eleventh-hour negotiations between Microsoft and antitrust regulators collapsed today, clearing the way for legal action as early as Monday. [News.com]
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- Suite helps pay the bills - In a move that could challenge Microsoft's joint venture with payment processor First Data Corporation, Just In Time Solutions has released new software for billers that lets them present and receive payment for consumers' monthly bills. [News.com]
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- Suits could lead to NT, Office - Microsoft chairman and CEO Bill Gates said there could be broader implications for his company's remaining software products under the principles used by the Justice Department and several states in filing action against the firm. [News.com]
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- Sun aims Java at big business - If Sun Microsystems is to make serious money selling Java software, it needs to first tap into development budgets at big corporations. [News.com]
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- Sun cuts prices, unveils new chip - Sun Microsystems is announcing price cuts on workstations today and introducing a high-end system with Sun's fastest chip yet. [News.com]
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- Sun seeds Java in Singapore - Sun Microsystems and Singapore's National Computer Board (NCB) said they are setting up a venture capital fund to help companies develop Java products and applications. [News.com]
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- Sun shakes up Java groups - Following last month's corporate shake-up, Sun Microsystems is reorganizing its Java software efforts to separate its Java standards-setting role from its efforts to sell Java-based applications. [News.com]
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- Sun tests 64-bit Solaris - A full-blown 64-bit version of Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating system and associated development tools has entered beta testing, with final shipment of the upgrade due by the fall, according to the company. [News.com]
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- Sun to Microsoft: Change Win 98 - Sun Microsystems today stepped up its battle with Microsoft over the Java programming language, making allegations of exclusionary conduct and taking aim at Windows 98, which is already in the crosshair of federal and state antitrust officials. [News.com]
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- Sybase CEO: Q3 will be better - The president and CEO of Sybase said today that the company will concentrate on selling and marketing in an effort to bring it into profitability by the third quarter. [News.com]
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- Sybase responds to CalPERS - Sybase responded today to an "urgent message" that CalPERS sent to its shareholders this week in an effort to improve the database maker's accountability and stock performance. [News.com]
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- Sybase seeks profitable niche - True to their stated goals, Sybase executives are busy looking for greener pastures to prop up the company's sagging revenues. [News.com]
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- Sybase shareholders speak out - Sybase shareholders today backed a CalPERS proposal that urges the database software company to adopt annual elections for its board of directors. [News.com]
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- Symantec offers NT 5.0 plug-in - Symantec will launch what is sure to be one of several software plug-ins next week for Microsoft's Management Console (MMC), a component of the company's Windows NT 5.0 upgrade that is currently available for use. [News.com]
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- SyQuest struggles but CEO doesn't - SyQuest chief executive Edwin Harper just marked the end of his first full year running the troubled storage maker. Though the company's situation did not vastly improve on his watch, he will receive 1 million options, according to a filing today with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [News.com]
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- TCI buying cable modems - Tele-Communications Incorporated subsidiary TCI.Net is boosting efforts to make cable modems as ubiquitous and easy to use as dial-up modems by announcing it will purchase interoperable equipment from 3Com and Bay Networks, among other vendors. [News.com]
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- TCI disavows CBS's digital TV - Tele-Communications Incorporated, the second-largest cable system in the United States, will refuse to carry new high-definition programming from CBS unless the network alters its chosen format, TCI chairman John Malone said today. [News.com]
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- Tech bounty hunters on the rise - The red hot job market is prompting high-tech companies to adopt creative ways to recruit new employees. [News.com]
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- Tech drawing most VC money - Silicon Valley has a golden lining and it is called venture capital. [News.com]
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- Tech for Net growth still to come - Predicting a rosy future for the Internet, WorldCom vice chairman and UUNet chief executive John Sidgmore acknowledged that the technologies that will enable the Net's 1,000 percent annual growth--a rate he expects to continue--have not been invented yet. [News.com]
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- Tech insiders book 'em - Technology and literature converge as a spate of books--ranging from an expose of Microsoft's inner sanctum, to an insider's account of Netscape's battle with Bill Gates, to a fictional thriller set on the campus of a Seattle software company--explore the underbelly of Silicon Valley. [News.com]
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- Tech publisher making deals - Net firm Imagine Media, which has fashioned itself as an alternative to larger technology publishers, is beginning to follow the marketing lead of the bigger fish by forming higher-profile alliances and launching properties with a public relations push. [News.com]
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- Tech Week agenda weak - The Senate made its "High-Tech Week" sound intriguing. But in an effort to dodge controversy, this week's agenda casts aside the hottest Net and computing issues. [News.com]
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- Teen threatens Clinton via email - A suburban Detroit teenager sent a threatening email to President Clinton shortly before the student's class visited Washington but will not be prosecuted, the Secret Service said. [News.com]
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- Telco CEOs take no prisoners - Call them the Pac Men of the telecommunications business. [News.com]
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- Telcos aim for one-stop shops - Today's $62-billion buyout of Ameritech by SBC Communications is another bold move to create a "one-stop shop" for phone and data services in the telecommunications industry, a result of deregulation and converging technologies. [News.com]
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- Telcos merge and converge - The "urge to merge" among telecommunications carriers is heating up once again. Telco buyouts, such as SBC Communications' agreement to buy Ameritech this week, are brought on by deregulation and the marriage of voice and data technologies. [News.com]
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- Texas rethinks Microsoft suit - In a surprise announcement, Texas's attorney general said today he is rethinking taking any antitrust action against Microsoft because computer companies in that state are raising concerns that such a suit may hurt the industry. [News.com]
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- Third search deal for AT&T - AT&T today inked yet another agreement with a Web gateway. This time it's a three-year deal with Infoseek to create a Web-based online service. [News.com]
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- Tibco pushes middleware - Enterprise middleware and application integration firm Tibco Software today announced a series of alliances intended to promote its middleware technology. [News.com]
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- Ticketmaster Online sales up 270% - Ticketmaster Group said it sold 522,926 tickets worth $19.5 million over its Internet site in its first quarter--a 270 percent increase over the year-ago quarter. [News.com]
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- Tivoli struggles for spotlight - IBM subsidiary Tivoli Systems is having a hard time returning every volley from enterprise management software competitor Computer Associates. [News.com]
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- Top-speed PowerBooks out - Apple Computer made a play for the title of "world's fastest notebook" with today's unveiling of its speediest PowerBook model yet. [News.com]
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- Toshiba chops Libretto to $699 - Toshiba has further discounted its ultraportable Libretto model, offering the mini-notebook for under $700. [News.com]
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- Trade powers: No tariffs on Net - The United States, Canada, Japan, and the European Union pledged yesterday to seek agreement on a "standstill" to keep electronic commerce free of tariffs, but disagreed on their approach to future trade talks. [News.com]
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- Treasury eyes online bond sales - Pining for a bit of the action the private sector has captured with online stock trading, the Treasury Department is proposing to sell U.S. savings bonds over the Net. [News.com]
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- Two more Netscape content deals - Netscape Communications took two steps toward its goal of expanding its content offerings with the announcement of deals with Deja News and NEWS.COM publisher CNET: The Computer Network. [News.com]
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- U.K. fights illegal investment firms - Britain's Financial Services Authority admitted it was fighting an uphill battle in efforts to prevent rogue overseas firms from trying to sell investments to people in the U.K. via the Internet. [News.com]
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- U.K. stock decline predicted - British information technology stocks are overpriced and should suffer a correction in the next 12 months, according to a leading industry expert. [News.com]
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- U.K.: New media regulation needed - New media regulation will be needed to ensure that digital broadcasting and advertising offers choice and quality to consumers, U.K. Secretary of State Chris Smith said. [News.com]
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- U.S. revises Net address plan - A senior adviser to President Bill Clinton said yesterday that he hoped a revised plan for reforming the Internet address system would dispel European and Australian concerns that it was too U.S.-dominated. [News.com]
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- U.S. wants proof in IBM case - The United States has insisted on proof a crime was committed before it will send four IBM employees to give evidence in Argentina in a bribery case, two Argentine newspapers reported on Saturday. [News.com]
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- U.S., Japan agree on Net rules - Japan and the United States today said government interference in the development of the Internet should be kept to a minimum. [News.com]
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- U.S.: First cyberattack by terrorists - U.S. intelligence officials reported yesterday what they said was the first known attack by a "terrorist group" on a target country's computer systems. [News.com]
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- Umax cuts Mac prices by 16% - Umax, the sole remaining Mac clone vendor, lowered prices as much as 16 percent as the expiration of its license to the Macintosh operating system draws near. [News.com]
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- Umax launches $1,600 notebook - Umax launched its first line of notebook computers based on the Windows-Intel platform, as the Taiwanese company continues its transition from the Mac market to the PC world by starting out with a full-featured system for $1,600. [News.com]
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- Umax lost money on Mac clones - Umax Data Systems said Friday that it expects it lost more than 1 billion Taiwanese dollars making Macintosh clones and had all but stopped production. [News.com]
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- Umax to offer networking gear - Umax Technologies, the scanner giant that is also the lone company still cloning Apple Computer Macintosh compatible systems, announced its intentions to enter the competitive market for networking equipment. [News.com]
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- Unisys pushes NT envelope - Unisys introduced an Intel-based server architecture that can accommodate up to 32 processors, raising the possibility that Intel chips and Microsoft's Windows NT operating system will go another step deeper into the enterprise computing arena. [News.com]
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- Unisys, Wang to serve Dell - Direct vendor Dell Computer announced a far-reaching agreement under which Unisys and Wang will become two of the company's major customer service providers. [News.com]
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- United stakes Net travel firm - United Airlines today bought a minority stake in a travel technology company, underscoring the heated nature of Net travel sites. [News.com]
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- US West speeds up Denver, Boise - US West Communications said it launched its previously announced high-speed Internet service in Denver and Boise, Idaho. [News.com]
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- US West, Qwest dispute lawsuit - US West Communications Group and Qwest Communications International, disputing claims made by AT&T and others in a lawsuit, said their marketing alliance meets the "spirit and letter" of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. [News.com]
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- USWeb to acquire networking firm - In its largest acquisition to date, USWeb, an Internet services firm, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire New York-based Gray Peak Technologies (GPT) in a deal valued at between $80 million and $100 million. [News.com]
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- Valley lukewarm on WTO decision - The decision by the World Trade Organization to keep the Internet duty free for the time being brought little relief in Silicon Valley, where many companies say they are still in the dark as to the exact rules of doing business online. [News.com]
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- Valley's new star hits the road - Move over, Beetle. [News.com]
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- Verio goes public, jumps 30% - Taking its cue from the run-up in Internet stocks, Verio raised $126.5 million in its initial stock offering and gained nearly 20 percent on its first day of trading. [News.com]
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- Vignette to buy RandomNoise - Internet publishing software vendor Vignette plans to acquire RandomNoise, a maker of Web site design software, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Vignette tries personalization - With an eye toward an IPO, Internet publishing software vendor Vignette is hiring a seasoned chief executive and moving into the personalization software market, going squarely up against BroadVision. [News.com]
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- Visual FoxPro 6.0 on the way - Microsoft's Visual FoxPro development tool keeps chugging along. [News.com]
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- Vitria launches BusinessWare 2.0 - Vitria Technology this week launched a new version of its software for linking the hodgepodge of packaged applications, custom software, and database applications. [News.com]
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- VPN firms win OK for auto project - Six virtual private network vendors have had their products certified by the International Computer Security Association, making the goods eligible to be used in a huge automotive industry project for e-commerce over the Internet. [News.com]
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- W3C drafts privacy system - The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today released a working draft for a system that allows Net sites to seamlessly declare their data-collection policies, while at the same time letting surfers decide which personal details they are willing to give up in exchange for goods and services. [News.com]
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- W3C seeks updated style sheets - A new style sheet recommendation is expected to make the Web quicker, more accessible, and better-looking. [News.com]
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- W3C to mull vector graphics spec - The World Wide Web Consortium today agreed to evaluate a 2D vector graphics specification, the third such specification on its docket. [News.com]
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- Walker rolls out business apps - Walker Interactive has rolled out its latest suite of analytic applications for enterprise resource planning and financial applications. [News.com]
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- Wall Street takes a hit - Asian economic fears hit Wall Street--take two. [News.com]
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- Wang patent claims dismissed - Netscape Communications said today that a federal judge has dismissed all patent claims raised by Wang Global against Netscape and America Online. [News.com]
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- Washington focuses on tech, Net - This week marked the Senate's "High-Tech Week," but the rest of Congress and the White House are focusing more intensely on hard-hitting Internet and technology issues such as taxes, privacy, spam, encryption, and gender representation. Lobbyists, special interest groups, and civil liberties organizations also are weighing in as several bills move forward. [News.com]
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- WatchGuard targets ISPs - WatchGuard Technologies is targeting ISPs that want to manage security on customers' networks with WatchGuard's new Firebox II security appliance. [News.com]
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- Web server flavors abound - Only two years ago, Web servers came in one flavor: plain old HTTP servers that faithfully dished up Web pages to browser clients. [News.com]
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- Web-based calendaring service - Software and service start-up WebCal today launched a free Web-based calendaring and event information service that allows anyone with Internet access and a browser to set up a personal calendar and browse a public events database. [News.com]
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- WebTV does Windows on new box - Microsoft and General Instrument will demonstrate the WebTV service on GI's next-generation digital set-top boxes at the National Cable Television Association trade show, a harbinger of new WebTV technology coming from Microsoft as it tries to muscle into the digital TV set-top box business. [News.com]
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- Western Digital lays off over 400 - Western Digital said on Thursday it was laying off 439 employees at its hard disk drive manufacturing operation in Singapore. [News.com]
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- Western Europe emerging as hot PC market - PC vendors have traditionally viewed the United States and Asia as their strongest growth markets, but favorable economic conditions in Western Europe are increasingly causing manufacturers to look at the Old World as a focal point for sales. [News.com]
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- Whirlwind for Windows 98 - Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and his colleagues in the PC sector may have been plugging Windows 98 today in the Big Apple, but analysts and observers say delaying the operating system upgrade will be far from devastating to the industry. [News.com]
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- White House sets children's summit - Young surfers are the focus of yet another White House summit convening next month. [News.com]
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- Why only one satellite? - When close to 90 percent of all U.S. pagers stopped beeping and vibrating this week, consumers from teens to doctors may have wondered for the first time how the little box they so depend upon actually works and what made it suddenly stop. [News.com]
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- Wild ride for Netscape - It's been a week full of ups and downs for Netscape Communications, with search deals beginning and ending, the browser war taking a turn, and the firm's software getting a boost from Citibank. The financial outlook for Netscape will show itself next week, when the firm reports its earnings. [News.com]
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- Will Dell be next victim of price wars? - Although Dell has thus far managed to sidestep the PC price wars that have gouged the profits of other major computer makers, analysts say it is only a matter of time until the Austin, Texas-based manufacturer has to cut its prices to remain competitive. [News.com]
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- Win 98 not subject to injunction - A federal appeals court has ruled that a lower court's order requiring Microsoft to offer its Internet Explorer browser separately from its Windows operating system does not apply to Windows 98, which will be shipped to computer vendors on Friday. [News.com]
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- Win 98 sales to lag behind Win 95 - Microsoft and its partners have predicted severe economic consequences should the launch of Windows 98 be delayed by the Justice Department, but a new study says that initial sales of the upgraded operating system will be significantly lower than sales of its predecessor, Windows 95, especially among large companies. [News.com]
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- Windows 98 marketing gathers steam - Vacation offers, free software, rebates, widespread retailer advertising, T-shirts, and massive exposure from the constant drumbeat of news on the Justice Department's investigation of Microsoft have touched off an explosion of publicity for Windows 98. [News.com]
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- Windows 98 may be early - Windows 98 may be available on computers in retail stores up to a full week or more before the official launch date of June 25, retailers said today. [News.com]
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- Windows 98 ships today - Microsoft said today that it has shipped Windows 98 to personal computer makers, as the Justice Department and 20 states filed parallel antitrust lawsuits against the software giant. [News.com]
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- Windows 98's rocky road - A newly set September trial date puts renewed time pressure on Microsoft in its legal turmoil with the Justice Department and 20 states, but the software giant says its plans for Windows 98 remain on track. [News.com]
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- Windows NT next for DOJ? - While Windows 95, Windows 98, and Internet Explorer remain under the antitrust microscope, Windows NT 5.0 and the BackOffice server application bundle have evaded such scrutiny. That could all change as Microsoft integrates new features into its server software, the company's key strategic product line. Do bundled features such as built-in network security, transaction processing, and data analysis tools threaten the livelihood of third-party software makers? [News.com]
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- WorldCom to operate GEIS network - In a major strategic shift, GE Information Systems, the biggest player in electronic data interchange (EDI) e-commerce, will let telecommunications giant WorldCom operate its secure, private network. [News.com]
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- Worst over for hard disk industry - The worst is over for the disk drive industry, Seagate Technology chief executive Alan Shugart said today. [News.com]
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- WTO, U.S. agreement on Net taxes expected - The Clinton administration is close to announcing an agreement that would limit international tariffs on international commerce conducted over the Internet, a senior presidential advisor said today. [News.com]
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- WTO: No Net taxes for a year - Trading powers and developing nations clinched a deal today to keep software and goods delivered on the Internet duty free for at least a year. [News.com]
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- Xerox sues HP over ink jet printers - The world's foremost developer of ink jet printing technology, Hewlett-Packard has been accused of stealing proprietary technology from newcomer Xerox in a patent infringement lawsuit that industry watchers say may be a publicity stunt. [News.com]
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- Xybernaut plans wearable PC - Xybernaut is hoping its pedestrian-sounding Mobile Assistant becomes the next blockbuster electronic gadget, akin to Sony's sexy Walkman. [News.com]
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- Yahoo ends ties to Netscape - Yahoo will discontinue the Net guide it provides for Netscape Communications, in a move that reflects the rapidly changing rivalries in the home page race. [News.com]
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- Yahoo gets a face-lift - Leading Net directory and gateway site Yahoo over the weekend posted a redesign of its site. [News.com]
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- Yahoo inks AT&T, Inktomi deals - Yahoo today struck two separate deals with search technology developer Inktomi and telecommunications giant AT&T. [News.com]
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- Yahoo offers Chinese language version - Attempting to transcend national and political borders with the commonality of language, Yahoo has launched Yahoo Chinese in hopes of becoming the preferred Internet guide for the world's Chinese speakers. [News.com]
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- Yeltsin chats on Net site - Russian President Boris Yeltsin put another modern milestone between himself and his secretive Kremlin predecessors today when he took to the Internet to field questions from a global public. [News.com]
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- Yeltsin set for Net debut - Russian President Boris Yeltsin will give his first Internet interview next week. [News.com]
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- ZDTV starts broadcasting - Hoping to bring its print and Web content to yet another medium, Ziff-Davis today launched ZDTV, its much-anticipated 24-hour cable channel. [News.com]
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- Zoom patent case settled - Zoom Telephonics says a patent infringement suit against it has been settled at no financial loss to the company. [News.com]
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