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- $400 million in China telecom deals - U.S. companies and Chinese officials signed more than $400 million in telecommunications deals today, two days before President Clinton begins a landmark state visit here. [News.com]
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- $800 LCD monitor to debut - Samsung Electronics America is slimming down the price of new flat panel displays to below $800 for the first time, the company said today. [News.com]
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- "E-books" gauge budding market - You can't always judge a book by its cover, but now you can judge it by the quality of its LCD screen or handsome leather carrying case. [News.com]
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- "Virtual woman" makes waves - Would-be Casanovas will be able to hone their seduction skills on their computer screens next week when a "virtual woman" hits the market. [News.com]
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- 3Com beats expectations - 3Com wrapped up an eventful fiscal year with earnings that slightly beat analysts' estimates. [News.com]
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- 3Com insiders hedging their bets - 3Com director Jean-Louis Gassée recently took home $1.45 million by exercising some of his stock options, making him one of just a handful of insiders within that company to take profits this year. [News.com]
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- 3Com shares soar in early trading - 3Com jumped more than 15 percent in trading this morning, a day after posting quarterly earnings that slightly beat analysts' expectations. [News.com]
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- 4-gigabit memory chips? - Samsung Electronics has wrapped up development work on an advanced manufacturing process that would enable the production of memory processors with more than 60 times the capacity of today's 64-megabit DRAM chips. [News.com]
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- 448-bit encryption approved - On the eve of an encryption meeting between the FBI and major technology companies, a tiny Tennessee firm has won U.S. approval to export its new software that contains encryption of up to 448 bits, far stronger than most current crypto export licenses. [News.com]
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- @Home to offer DSL service - The @Home Network and NorthPoint Communications will team up to offer high-speed Net access over copper wires, dubbed DSL, to small businesses later this year. [News.com]
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- A double buy for Cabletron - Struggling Cabletron Systems continues to fill holes in its product line through acquisitions, snapping up technologies from two firms that specialize in high-speed networks. [News.com]
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- A dream to connect everyone - Alex Blok gets positively giddy when a computerized voice over the speaker phone announces that the caller has reached "Qcommand" and then requests that the caller punch in his Q. [News.com]
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- Acer takes a gamble - Acer is banking a substantial portion of its future on inexpensive, easy-to-use computing devices optimized for one or two functions. [News.com]
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- Acer's IBM deal to promote XCs - As part of its strategy to become a low-cost leader through its "XC" information devices, Acer has licensed microprocessor manufacturing technology from IBM so that it can potentially supply itself with processors. [News.com]
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- ACLU slams library Net filtering - The American Civil Liberties Union, already pursuing a lawsuit against a Virginia library that filters Net access, today issued a report calling the mandatory use of blocking software at public institutions "inappropriate and unconstitutional." [News.com]
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- Acta, Arbor team for data analysis - Acta Technology and Arbor Software are teaming up to make analyzing data in SAP's R/3 a bit easier. [News.com]
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- Adaptec, Symbios scrap merger - Adaptec and Symbios are scrubbing their planned $775 million purchase agreement amid staunch opposition from the Federal Trade Commission, the companies said today. [News.com]
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- Adobe falters but beats Street - Adobe Systems today reported a dip in second-quarter revenues and a 30 percent drop in profits, but the graphics software maker beat Wall Street's estimates by a healthy margin. [News.com]
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- Alcatel pays $4.4 billion for DSC - DALLAS- France's Alcatel Alsthom said early yesterday it is buying telecommunications equipment maker DSC Communications for $4.4 billion in stock. [News.com]
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- Alexa stats now on IE 4 - Alexa Internet has updated its "surf engine" technology with a version designed specifically for Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 users. [News.com]
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- AltaVista adds content channels - AltaVista has quietly launched three new content channels in a further step to become a viable player in the hyper-competitive Internet gateway landscape, a spokesman confirmed today. [News.com]
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- Amazon launches Net music store - Net bookselling giant Amazon.com today launched its online music store, long anticipated by Net consumers and much feared by industry rivals. [News.com]
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- Amazon stock hears the music - Amazon.com's foray into the music business is fraught with risks, but the response from Wall Street is more like, "What, me worry?" [News.com]
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- Amazon.com surges on Muze deal - Amazon.com climbed into record territory again today after striking a deal to add Muze's content to its newly launched music store. [News.com]
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- Amdahl to take on Big Blue - Amdahl, the No. 3 maker of IBM-compatible mainframes, plans to roll out systems in the first quarter of next year that will be faster than IBM "big iron" coming this August. [News.com]
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- American Airlines gets personal - In one of the broadest uses of personalization on the Net to date, American Airlines is scheduled on Monday to give its 31 million frequent-flyer club members access to their accounts on the Internet. [News.com]
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- American Airlines site back up - American Airlines got its Web site back early today after heavy traffic generated by adding new personalization features forced it offline for more than 12 hours to add more hardware. [News.com]
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- Amex-NASD merger moves ahead - American Stock Exchange members approved a merger with the parent of the Nasdaq stockmarket at a special meeting held yesterday. [News.com]
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- An antivirus booster shot - Network Associates is on a sumo wrestler's diet, swallowing up other companies to get big fast so it can compete with powerhouses like Computer Associates and IBM's Tivoli unit in the security and network management market. [News.com]
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- Analog offers speedy voice chips - Analog Devices will today unveil a new generation of high-performance voice processing chips that promise to offer speeds ten times faster than the company's existing products. [News.com]
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- Antigay group blocked by filter - In a conflict that pits accusations of intolerance against claims of free speech, the American Family Association is protesting a decision by a popular filtering software firm to block its Web site. [News.com]
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- Antispammers pay tribute to Nitchals - They don't know what he looked like. Most didn't know how old he was or where he was from. But a tightly knit group of Netizens known as spam fighters did know Jim Nitchals. [News.com]
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- AOL acquires instant message firm - America Online today said it acquired Mirabilis, a maker of real-time messaging technology. [News.com]
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- AOL adopts 56-kbps standard - America Online says it will provide connections in mid-July capable of speeds up to twice as fast as the previous generation of modems. [News.com]
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- AOL affirms independence - America Online's top executives have told employees at the largest U.S. Internet service provider that the company is committed to remaining independent. [News.com]
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- AOL aims to revive CompuServe - America Online has upgraded its CompuServe subsidiary with new features, hoping to lure new members by leveraging existing AOL services and technology. [News.com]
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- AOL deals with Net brokerages - Internet access provider America Online said today it signed two-year marketing agreements with three cyberspace brokerages for a total of $75 million. [News.com]
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- AOL does its civic duty - As citizens in eight states place their ballots in primary elections today, America Online signed on two services that it hopes will help members make more informed decisions about public policy and politics. [News.com]
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- AOL gaming fight goes to court - After months of barbs traded in court filings, an antitrust lawsuit filed against America Online by Kesmai, the computer game maker owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, is headed for trial. [News.com]
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- AOL gets into video business - America Online and Videos Now, a division of Digital Courier Technologies, said today they had agreed to market videotapes to consumers. [News.com]
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- AOL hacker pleads guilty - A juvenile pleaded guilty today to stealing more than 500 passwords that America Online users had entered into their computers, federal prosecutors said. [News.com]
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- AOL inks deal with Packard Bell - America Online signed a marketing agreement with Packard Bell NEC, the third-biggest supplier of computers in the United States, under which Packard Bell will feature AOL as the preferred Internet online service on its computers, the companies said today. [News.com]
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- AOL revamps security policy - After several highly publicized security breaches, America Online has posted a new version of its membership policy that addresses some of the privacy concerns raised by users and critics. [News.com]
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- AOL settles accounting suit - America Online said today that it has reached a preliminary agreement in a class-action lawsuit regarding its accounting practices in 1995 and 1996. [News.com]
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- AOL shuts site after Muslim protest - America Online has closed a Web site found to be in violation of the online service's terms of service by carrying material deemed offensive to Muslims, the company said today. [News.com]
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- AOL to sell $500 million of shares - America Online says it will offer about $500 million of common stock in a block trade that would involve one half of the shares the online service provider filed to offer earlier this month. [News.com]
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- AOL up after AT&T report - Shares in America Online rose in preopening trade this morning following a report that the online service had rebuffed a tentative buyout offer from AT&T. [News.com]
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- AOL volunteer list hacked - A database containing sensitive account information about America Online community leaders was hacked and the data circulated via email, CNET NEWS.COM has learned. [News.com]
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- AOL wants AT&T-TCI business - America Online today hailed the proposed merger of AT&T and Tele-Communications Incorporated, saying it hoped to resell AT&T-TCI high-speed Internet access to its customers once the merger was completed. [News.com]
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- Apple taps education, again - On the heels of two consecutive profitable quarters, Apple Computer pulled some money out of its pockets and awarded grants of over $1 million to ten K-12 schools. [News.com]
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- Arbor eases OLAP integration - Arbor Software is making it easier to link its online analytical processing software to other applications for building data warehouses. [News.com]
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- Arrow to miss expectations - Arrow Electronics does not expect to meet analysts' expectations in the second quarter, the company said in a statement today. [News.com]
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- Ascend offloads data traffic - Ascend Communications will launch a calculated component of its strategy next week to help telecommunications carriers alleviate congestion on phone layouts and begin the migration to a merged voice and data-based networking future. [News.com]
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- Ascend to replace DEC on S&P 500 - Standard & Poor's Financial Information Services yesterday said it will add Ascend Communications to the S&P 500 index as of the close of trading Thursday, replacing Digital Equipment. [News.com]
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- Asia crisis slows development - The rate at which economies in the Asia-Pacific region can be linked electronically in a seamless network has been slowed by its economic crisis, Singapore communications minister Mah Bow Tan said today. [News.com]
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- AT&T buyouts well-received - More than 15,000 AT&T managers have opted to take advantage of a sweetened early retirement offer, according to the company's official final tally. [News.com]
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- AT&T expands Net telco services - Telecommunications giant AT&T said today it debuted a new service that allows users to turn an online conversation into a phone call and initiate conference calls over the Internet. [News.com]
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- AT&T has troubled past in mergers - When executives at AT&T try to explain why its acquisition of Tele-Communications Incorporated makes good business sense, don't expect them to point to a stellar track record. [News.com]
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- AT&T managers opt to retire - AT&T today said at least 14,000 managers will leave the company under a voluntary management retirement plan recently announced in January that boosted pensions by 20 percent and expanded benefit eligibility. [News.com]
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- AT&T sells paging arm to Metrocall - Metrocall said today it would buy AT&T Wireless Services' advanced messaging division for $205 million in a deal that expands the paging company's national reach in next-generation services. [News.com]
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- AT&T stock dims profit prospects - As AT&T's stock continues to slip in the wake of its merger announcement with cable giant Tele-Communications Incorporated, TCI chairman John Malone has seen his potential booty shrink by more than $100 million. [News.com]
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- AT&T to buy TCI for $48 billion - AT&T said today that it has agreed to acquire Tele-Communications Incorporated in an all-stock deal worth an estimated $48 billion. [News.com]
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- AT&T to offer Net bill payment - Bolstering the e-commerce sector, AT&T soon will let customers pay their bills over the Net using the CheckFree processing service. [News.com]
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- AT&T-TCI merger faces hurdles - It's not a done deal, at least not until the trustbusters have spoken. [News.com]
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- ATM catches up with hype - Left for dead after hype far outpaced reality, the high-speed technology known as ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) is finally reaching maturity, buoyed by wide adoption in telecommunications and service provider networks. [News.com]
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- Atreve updates site management - Next week Atreve Software will unveil a new version of its WebSpective software for managing large, complex Web sites, adding a module for heading off problems before they crash a site. [News.com]
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- Awards recognize Web marketing - The Cannes Advertising Festival marked a rite of passage for the young world of marketing in cyberspace today when it awarded the first international "Cyber Lions" prizes for interactive advertising. [News.com]
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- Ballmer touts Microsoft vision - Microsoft executive vice president Steve Ballmer laid the foundation for future company technologies and espoused the benefits of an integrated set of software tools on the opening day of the company's TechEd conference here. [News.com]
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- Bargain notebooks set to roll out - Consumers and small businesses will start to get more bang for the notebook buck starting next week with a new raft of bargain-priced Pentium II and Pentium MMX notebooks from Compaq Computer, Toshiba, and Acer. [News.com]
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- Barksdale maps Netscape plans - Netscape Communications chief executive Jim Barksdale said today that his company is broadening its horizons and expanding into new areas--but the enterprise resource planning market will not be one of them. [News.com]
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- Barrett downplays FTC suit - Intel's chief executive said the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust lawsuit would not have much effect on its business or any financial impact in the marketplace. [News.com]
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- Bay freeware takes on Cisco - Bay Networks is changing the course of the rapidly evolving market for routing technology by purchasing Phase2 Networks for an undisclosed sum. [News.com]
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- Bay, Net One ink network system deal - U.S. computer networking firm Bay Networks said today that it had signed a partnership agreement with Japan's Net One Systems to market its new computer network system in Japan. [News.com]
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- BEA boosts middleware line - BEA Systems today debuted a long-awaited product intended to give it a boost in the fast-growing market for middleware technology. [News.com]
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- BEA Systems ups middleware effort - BEA Systems tomorrow will debut a long-awaited product intended to give it a boost in the fast-growing market for middleware technology. [News.com]
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- Berners-Lee gets "genius grant" - The founder of the World Wide Web was among 29 people awarded a total of $8.5 million in no-strings-attached "genius grants" today. [News.com]
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- Bertelsmann funds Web books - Bertelsmann Ventures today made an investment in NuvoMedia, a Silicon Valley start-up that is developing a hand-held device allowing users to publish, distribute, buy, and read electronic books over the Web. [News.com]
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- Big business still wary of Net - A new study shows that growth in intranet, extranet, and even Internet development may be stalled as corporations remain concerned about the reliability and security of the Internet. [News.com]
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- Big players going portal - New media, old media, entertainment, and telephone companies are all jockeying to become the portal brand of choice. Some efforts are home-grown, such as Netscape Communications' Netcenter, while others--Disney's purchase of a large stake in Infoseek, for example--are the result of companies buying what they can't create. [News.com]
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- Bill may pressure DOJ's Klein - A coalition of Microsoft supporters in the Senate is looking to use a funding bill to put Justice Department antitrust chief Joel Klein on the defensive, according to Capitol Hill sources. [News.com]
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- Bill seeks more Net filters - Civil liberties groups are protesting a newly proposed law that would require public schools and libraries that receive federal funds for computers to install filtering software "to protect children from obscenity." [News.com]
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- Birth to be Webcast - A 40-year-old Florida woman is scheduled to give birth live on the Internet Tuesday, the first ever online delivery, a cable television health network said today. [News.com]
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- Blackout fears in Year 2000 bug - The Senate committee devoted to the Year 2000 problem warned of the strong possibility of power shortages due to the computer glitch that plagues computer systems around the country. [News.com]
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- BMC, Compaq enterprise deal expected - Corporate software developer BMC Software Incorporated and computer maker Compaq said today they will announce a joint marketing and technology alliance in the area of enterprise management tomorrow. [News.com]
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- Bob Hope report a glitch - Put this one in the digital slip file. [News.com]
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- Boca adds NCI to set-top line - Boca Research said it will use software from Network Computer Incorporated in Internet access devices, breathing some life into NCI's ongoing efforts to bring set-top computers to the mass market. [News.com]
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- Boca hires another Apple survivor - Executives formerly in the top ranks at Apple Computer keep landing--but far from the tree. [News.com]
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- Bowie: The man who fell to Net - Do you consider yourself a real David Bowie fan? Will you let him provide your Net access? [News.com]
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- Britain to get Net-ready pay phones - The distinctive red phone booths that dot Britain's landscape will soon face a high-tech challenger. [News.com]
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- British bookseller takes to Web - Britain's largest bookseller W.H. Smith Group today said it has agreed to buy the online book company bookshop.co.uk, which owns the Internet Bookshop Limited. [News.com]
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- Broderbund slides after report - Broderbund's stock slid more than 14 percent today after the company said it expects third-quarter results to be below analysts' expectations, blaming higher customer returns and customer rebates. [News.com]
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- Browser crashes bug Win 98 - Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system boasts tight integration between its file management application and the Internet Explorer Web browser. [News.com]
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- Bug exposes script source code - Server software vendors and Windows operating system maker Microsoft are pointing fingers at each other after the discovery of a bug that leaves Web site scripts' source code vulnerable to exposure. [News.com]
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- Building blocks for e-commerce - A new entrant into the e-commerce software market, EC Cubed, is marketing e-commerce components that software developers can use as the foundation for building e-commerce applications. [News.com]
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- Business software opens up - Enterprise resource planning companies such as SAP and J.D. Edwards may be spreading their wings to every nook and cranny of corporate computing, but that doesn't mean they aren't willing to share some of the spotlight. [News.com]
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- CA extends management apps - Computer Associates added new capabilities to its management software today, partnering with PageNet to extend automatic notification of network and systems problems to paging devices. [News.com]
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- Cable & Wireless files suit vs. MCI - Cable & Wireless says it has filed a lawsuit to require MCI Communications to comply with its existing agreement to sell its Internet backbone business to the British company. [News.com]
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- Cable & Wireless lets MCI off hook - Cable & Wireless today dropped a breach-of-contract lawsuit it filed against MCI Communications, but said the two companies remain in discussions. [News.com]
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- Cable firms ride PC-TV wave - A small black box continues to redefine the mission of the cable television industry. [News.com]
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- Cable's long road ahead - Where do you want to go today? In its latest gamble, Microsoft spent $212.5 million for an investment in cable Net access provider Road Runner, and the software giant also is in talks with Telstra about a cable joint venture. But the nascent cable modem business faces competition from DSL and other high-speed Net access technologies. [News.com]
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- Cabletron posts a profit - Cabletron Systems rebounded from a fourth-quarter loss to post a profit yesterday, but first-quarter earnings still came in just below expectations. [News.com]
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- California mulls privacy bill - While advocates, officials, and the online industry debate about the best way to shield Net users' personal information next week, forces will be at work in California to pass a consumer-protection law that aims to snuff out the worst privacy nightmare--identity theft. [News.com]
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- Canon declines IBM printer offer - Canon says it has declined an offer for IBM's printer business. [News.com]
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- CDnow acquires custom CD firm - Net music retailer CDnow today announced it has acquired Net custom CD firm SuperSonic Boom, part of a few recent investments aimed at broadening its reach into the ever-more-crowded and competitive Net music space. [News.com]
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- CDnow backpedals on offering - Online music retailer CDnow today said it is terminating its proposed secondary stock offering, one of the most tangible signs yet of waning confidence in high-flying Net stocks. [News.com]
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- Cell phone makers shun CE - Cell phone makers Nokia and Ericsson joined British handheld manufacturer Psion in forming a joint venture to popularize a handheld-class operating system with wireless capabilities. [News.com]
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- Chemistry key to future PCs? - A supercomputer using factory-reject chips and having more than 220,000 defects, each deadly enough to disable any other machine, could be the forerunner of "chemical computers" that are faster, cheaper, and more powerful. [News.com]
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- Chinese site explains American behavior - Americans are noisy, informal, and outgoing--but don't get too close. [News.com]
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- Chinese site to get Dow indexes - Dow Jones will provide financial indexes for SinaNet, encouraging the Web site in its goal to become the primary Internet gateway among Chinese-speaking Netizens. [News.com]
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- Chip market to weaken in 1998 - The worldwide semiconductor market is expected to weaken in 1998 due to the Asian financial crisis, but its long-term outlook is still good, especially in Asia, a Japanese electronics group said today. [News.com]
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- Chip sales to shrink in 1998 - Amidst a spate of chip forecasts, an industry trade association today said that slow semiconductor sales during the first quarter of 1998 will likely result in a shrinking market this year, confirming findings from other reports. [News.com]
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- CIA: Cyberattacks aimed at U.S. - China and other countries have begun to focus on U.S. computer networks as a target for possible high-tech attacks that could cripple anything from telephones to electricity, CIA Director George Tenet said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Cirrus Logic names new chief - Cirrus Logic said today that David French, formerly a vice president and general manager for Analog Devices, was named president and chief operating officer. [News.com]
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- Cirrus plans $599 computer - Chipmaker Cirrus Logic announced a design blueprint for a low-cost consumer PC and a partner to manufacture such a system, which could sell for as little as $599. [News.com]
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- Cisco won't join merger rush - Cisco Systems will remain an independent maker of telecommunications networking equipment after acknowledging that it failed to create partnerships with Lucent Technologies and Northern Telecom, according to reports. [News.com]
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- CitySearch files to go public - CitySearch, the city guide directory, today filed for a public offering of up to $50 million, becoming the latest Net company to jump on the IPO bandwagon. [News.com]
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- Clark writes tell-all Netscape book - Once again, Bill Gates is facing competition from Netscape's Jim Clark--but this time, the battle is over books, not browsers. [News.com]
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- Clinton: Close "digital divide" - President Bill Clinton today will announce new initiatives to close the "digital divide" by bringing Internet access to children in poor inner city and rural areas, White House officials said. [News.com]
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- Cognos plugs query tool for Plato - Cognos wants Aristotle and Plato to be best buds. [News.com]
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- Cognos profits jump 28% - No matter how you slice and dice the numbers, analytical toolmaker Cognos is starting its fiscal year off right. [News.com]
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- College site strikes portal deals - College students may not have tons of disposable income--at least not yet. But they are quickly emerging as one of the hottest growing markets on the Net. [News.com]
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- College tech deal folds - A groundbreaking deal to make four high-tech heavyweights business partners with the world's largest university system has been scrapped after financial negotiations collapsed. [News.com]
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- Commerce Dept. slams privacy efforts - Plans for industry self-regulation to protect online privacy came under heavy criticism from government and Internet groups at a national summit here today. [News.com]
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- Commerce Dept. wants kids' rules - From the Internet's addressing system to Net telephony and e-commerce, the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is the Clinton administration's eyes and ears on the Net policy front. [News.com]
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- Commerce One debuts SAP-oriented tools - Commerce One is finally delivering products to go along with the recent investment by German software giant SAP. [News.com]
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- Commerce weighs in on Net privacy - In another push to keep the Net free of privacy regulation, the Commerce Department today proposed voluntary guidelines for protecting consumers' sensitive information. [News.com]
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- Companies war malicious code - A consortium of Internet security software makers today announced it has formed a new vendor group called the Malicious Mobile Code Consortium for companies that market software to guard computers against malicious Java applets and rogue ActiveX components. [News.com]
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- Compaq deal a boon for SyQuest - Shares of SyQuest Technology were the most actively traded issue in midday trading on the Nasdaq today, amid news that the company has signed a three-year pact with computer giant Compaq Computer. [News.com]
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- Compaq debuts desktops in Japan - The Japanese unit of Compaq Computer said today that it is launching eight new models of its Presario series in this country. [News.com]
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- Compaq debuts handheld PC - The Japanese unit of Compaq Computer today unveiled a handheld personal computer that uses Microsoft's Windows CE operating system. [News.com]
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- Compaq hit with copyright suit - Compaq Computer is the subject of a $10.2 billion federal lawsuit brought by the publishers of a handbook designed to help computer keyboard users avoid injuries, an attorney for the plaintiff said today. [News.com]
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- Compaq investing in start-ups - As part of its goal to become a world-class computing power, Compaq Computer has joined the ranks of Intel and Microsoft in making equity investments in an increasing number of start-ups to strengthen the PC market. [News.com]
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- Compaq keyboard skirts Windows - Compaq Computer today joined a club of PC makers in proving that a little ingenuity and some good luck are all it takes to get around Microsoft's desktop dominance. [News.com]
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- Compaq launches consumer PC campaign - Compaq today launched a multifront consumer PC campaign, announcing low-cost Internet PCs, a retail build-to-order program, and new notebook computers on the heels of gains in its market share. [News.com]
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- Compaq lays off 5,000 - Compaq will eliminate 5,000 manufacturing jobs as part of its previously announced plans to cut 17,000 jobs and integrate its Digital Equipment and Tandem Computer acquisitions. [News.com]
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- Compaq moves into consulting - Compaq Computer will make its foray into the consulting business next week with the release of a Web-based service that will attempt to simplify the process of adopting enterprise applications from vendors such as SAP and Baan. [News.com]
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- Compaq moves into consulting - Compaq Computer unveiled a new Web-based library that will attempt to simplify the process of adopting enterprise applications from vendors such as SAP and Baan. [News.com]
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- Compaq notebook in cool market - Compaq Computer will release two new consumer notebooks next week, including another model based around the Cyrix MediaGX processor, amid signs of slowing sales and declining prices in the portable arena. [News.com]
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- Compaq primed to break even - Compaq Computer said today that it expects to report break-even earnings in the second quarter and to shoulder through a "transitional" third quarter before its now-completed merger with Digital Equipment starts adding to earnings in the final quarter of 1998, while it also plans more layoffs. [News.com]
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- Compaq puts faith in Alpha chip - Compaq executives yesterday said that the company's first Compaq-branded computers using Digital Equipment's speedy Alpha processor and its Unix technology will come out later this year, though some doubts linger about the viability of the architecture. [News.com]
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- Compaq sets sights on China - Compaq Computer will use the low-cost PC and possibly cobranding strategies in its effort to become the largest computer and service supplier in China after its acquisition of Digital Equipment. [News.com]
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- Compaq shuffles management - Compaq CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer today revealed the management team that will guide the company after its acquisition of Digital Equipment, and, as expected, the team relies heavily on the Compaq side. [News.com]
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- Compaq slices prices in Japan - The Japanese unit of Compaq Computer said today that it had cut the price of its DeskPro series of corporate desktop personal computers by 2 to 13 percent. [News.com]
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- Compaq switches ad agency - Compaq Computer is switching its entire $200 million global advertising account to Omnicom Group's DDB Needham from Interpublic Group's Ammirati Puris Lintas, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Compaq teams with Net giants - Compaq Computer and several Net giants today gave the one-stop shop model a push--offering a host of Net services with Compaq's new Internet PC. [News.com]
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- Compaq to rewire network unit - Compaq Computer will reorganize its networking operations in the aftermath of the Digital Equipment merger last week and the recent departure of a high-level executive. [News.com]
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- Compaq to spend millions on ads - With its acquisition of Digital Equipment complete, Compaq Computer will launch a brand advertising campaign tomorrow designed to gain global recognition for the world's second-largest computer company. [News.com]
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- Compaq to take DEC charge - Compaq Computer said today that it will take a $4.7 billion charge against its 1998 results in connection with its acquisition of Digital Equipment. [News.com]
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- Compaq's new lineup - The leading PC maker is undertaking a new business strategy that will change the company's product and executive lineup. On the eve of completing its merger, Digital CEO Robert Palmer is notably absent from the team. [News.com]
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- Compaq, Dell ship new computers - Compaq introduced a new line of powerful yet inexpensive workstations and reduced prices on existing workstations by up to 28 percent. [News.com]
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- Compaq, HP add to lineups - On the eve of the PC Expo trade show here, Compaq Computer and Hewlett-Packard are offering new Pentium II-based business systems as the industry sorts through recent mergers and ongoing inventory control problems. [News.com]
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- Compaq-DEC deal gets green light - The Federal Trade Commission has effectively cleared the way for the $9.6 billion merger between Compaq Computer and Digital Equipment. [News.com]
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- Compromising the code - The Internet's infrastructure--from protocols to networks--still proves fragile as holes and glitches continue to crop up. [News.com]
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- CompUSA takes huge stride - CompUSA is shaping up as a major force in the PC industry. [News.com]
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- CompUSA to buy Computer City - CompUSA said today it would buy Tandy's Computer City for $275 million, expanding its computer retail sales chain. [News.com]
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- CompuServe ruling blasted again - A former CompuServe manager convicted in a key Internet pornography case in Germany and his attorney said today they are confident the prosecution's unusual move for reversal would help to clear him. [News.com]
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- Concentric acquires DeltaNet - Concentric Network announced today that it is buying Delta Internet Services, or DeltaNet, marking the latest sign of consolidation in the Internet service provider market. [News.com]
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- Copyright bill clears hurdle - A bill to update copyright laws for the Internet and other digital environments passed a House Commerce subcommittee yesterday on the way to a vote by the full panel next week. [News.com]
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- Corel to cut workforce by 20% - Corel said today that it plans to cut 20 percent of its workforce as it continues to strive toward profitability. [News.com]
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- Court clears MCI sale of Net assets - A federal court has denied an attempt by Cable & Wireless to prevent MCI Communications from selling Internet assets to any firm other than C&W in the next ten days. [News.com]
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- Court rejects challenge to Qwest - A U.S. Court of Appeals has rejected a challenge to a key 1994 acquisition creating Qwest Communications. [News.com]
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- Court stops US West-Qwest deal - A U.S. District Court today temporarily barred US West from marketing the long distance service of Qwest Communications, the Baby Bell said in a statement. [News.com]
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- Cox expands financial info - Individual Investor Group, which publishes Individual Investor magazine, said it signed a deal to offer financial information to more than 32 Cox Communications Internet sites. [News.com]
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- Creative misses the mark - PC multimedia technology maker Creative Technology said today that its fourth quarter results for this year will fall short of analyst expectations. [News.com]
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- Creative, Cyrix settle lawsuit - Creative Technology has settled its lawsuit with Cyrix, which alleged trademark infringement against the National Semiconductor subsidiary, the companies announced today. [News.com]
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- Crypto battle rages on - If a heated debate yesterday over federal encryption export rules is any indication, today's meeting between industry executives and the director of the FBI may prove to be difficult. [News.com]
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- Crypto compromise coming? - Sounding much more optimistic than he did earlier this month, Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Montana) said today that a compromise could be on the horizon to end the ongoing debate over federal limits on the export of encryption. [News.com]
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- Crypto compromise not in cards - As high-tech giants plan to meet with the Clinton administration over its contested encryption export regulations, a lawmaker who has long fought to lift limits on the technology said today that he doubts that a legislative compromise will be reached this year. [News.com]
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- Crypto panel fails to create system - A U.S. government panel has failed in a two-year effort to design a federal computer security system that includes "back doors," a feature that would enable snooping by law enforcement agencies, people familiar with the effort said this week. [News.com]
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- Crypto rules slammed in Congress - Top software executives gathered on Capitol Hill today to charge that federal restrictions on encryption will cost Net users and the government billions of dollars over the next five years. [News.com]
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- Cryptographer slams NT security - A top cryptographer said Microsoft's version of a key protocol in Windows NT is so flawed that users should avoid using virtual private network software based on Microsoft's Point to Point Tunneling Protocol. [News.com]
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- Customization coming trend, Intel exec says - Forget the one-box-fits-all model, or the PC as we know it. [News.com]
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- CyberCash stock takes a hit - CyberCash stock dropped more than 14 percent in trading today, one day after announcing it would post lower-than-expected revenue for the second quarter ending today. [News.com]
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- Cyrix envisions sub-$200 system - Chipmaker Cyrix is teaming up with two other companies to offer a network computer system design for under $200, as the National Semiconductor subsidiary continues trying to enter the corporate market [News.com]
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- Cyrix lands terminal deal - Cyrix has landed a deal to provide microprocessors to terminal vendor Wyse, an alliance which marks Cyrix's entry into corporate computing. [News.com]
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- Deal to join front, back offices - Call center software is working its way into the back office. [News.com]
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- DEC teams for Net telephony - VocalTec Communications joined forces with Digital Equipment in an effort to bring it's "carrier class" telephony products to more corporate and telecommunications companies. [News.com]
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- Deliberations in Digital RSI suit - Jury deliberations begin today in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Digital Equipment over workplace injuries allegedly caused by use of its computer keyboards. [News.com]
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- Dell aims to cut costs, streamline - After several years of expansion and strong growth, direct vendor Dell Computer is looking for ways to cut costs and streamline its business. [News.com]
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- Dell can't avoid low-cost PCs - It appears that Dell is being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the low-end PC price wars, a development that could tarnish the company's above-the-fray image. [News.com]
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- Dell directs focus on enterprise - Hoping to maintain its torrid pace of growth, Dell Computer outlined new service and hardware offerings it said will propel the company into the $24 billion market for high-end computing systems. [News.com]
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- Dell execs file to sell shares - Michael Dell, founder of Dell Computer, has filed to sell 1.2 million of his shares in his company, a typical quarterly sale that coincides with a dip in the stock. [News.com]
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- Dell jumps ranks in notebooks - Amid a shakeup in their domestic market rankings, notebook vendors are focusing on inventory control and profitability at the expense of market share this quarter, a new report says. [News.com]
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- Dell plans $70 million ad campaign - Dell Computer will today unveil plans to launch a $70 million worldwide image advertising campaign, its first such effort. [News.com]
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- Dell to resell HP products - Dell Computer will expand its product offerings next week when it announces an agreement with Hewlett-Packard to sell HP printers and scanners. [News.com]
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- Dell to resell HP products - Dell Computer is expanding its product lineup to include printers and scanners by turning to Hewlett-Packard (HP) as a technology supplier. [News.com]
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- Dell: Antitrust suits "dangerous" - Dell Computer chairman Michael Dell said today that he saw a "dangerous potential" in antitrust actions against key PC industry suppliers Microsoft and Intel. [News.com]
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- Desktop integrated with LCD - Toshiba today introduced its Equium 100, a space-saving commercial desktop with an innovative form factor. [News.com]
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- Developers get peek at IE 5 - Microsoft today released a developer preview of its Internet Explorer browser version 5.0. [News.com]
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- Digital buy prompts Compaq makeover - It will be a whole new Compaq. [News.com]
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- Digital cameras adding floppies - Sony introduced its new Digital Mavica digital camera line, which again includes an easy-to-use floppy disk storage system. [News.com]
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- Digital cameras adding storage - Digital camera enthusiasts today gained a couple more options for storing their electronic images. [News.com]
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- Digital cameras cheaper, sharper - Toshiba introduced two new digital cameras, offering high-resolution digital imaging at aggressive pricing. [News.com]
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- Digital certificate rivals make up - In a move designed to make digital certificates easier to use, Network Associates and VeriSign said today that they will support each other's certificates in their corporate product lines. [News.com]
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- Digital certs advance for Net - The National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA) today launched a pilot test to develop rules, guidelines, and business practices for banks to issue digital IDs for their customers. [News.com]
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- Digital investors OK merger - As expected, shareholders of Digital Equipment approved the acquisition of the company by Compaq Computer at a special meeting this morning in Westford, Massachusetts. [News.com]
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- Digital off hook for RSIs - In another setback for computer users taking aim at PC makers for repetitive stress injuries, a federal jury ruled today that Digital Equipment is not responsible for the injuries of nine office workers who used its keyboards, the company said. [News.com]
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- Digital takes Compaq into enterprise - Compaq Computer will use newly acquired Digital Equipment to make a push into 64-bit computing while delving into the services industry, company executives said here this morning. [News.com]
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- Disney flat despite Net efforts - The magic of the Internet hasn't rubbed off on Disney's stock--at least not yet. [News.com]
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- Disney takes stake in Infoseek - Walt Disney today bought a 43 percent stake in Infoseek in exchange for Disney's ownership in Starwave plus $70 million in cash--ending a week of speculation that the two would combine forces. [News.com]
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- Disney to launch children's search engine - Disney today introduced a children-oriented search engine, trying to further its online reach to its core market: children and families. [News.com]
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- Disney, Music Boulevard team up - Disney quietly has begun marketing its music on N2K's Music Boulevard retail site, while Music Boulevard ads have appeared on Disney's Web site. [News.com]
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- Divx debut in limited rollout - After two false starts, Divx is here--if you live in San Francisco or Richmond, Virginia. [News.com]
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- Doctors collaborate online - As President Clinton continues his nine-day trip to strengthen political and economic ties with China, a group of Bay Area doctors are using the Web to establish their own ties with their mainland Chinese counterparts--with a little help from Silicon Valley. [News.com]
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- DOJ antitrust division criticized - The following is a proposed rider to a Justice Department appropriations bill that criticizes the agency's antitrust division. The rider will be marked up on June 23 before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary Appropriations. [News.com]
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- DOJ confident in new case - Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein said today that he continued to have confidence in the his antitrust division's new case against Microsoft, saying no settlement talks were taking place. [News.com]
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- DOJ wants MS documents released - The Justice Department has asked a federal judge to unseal confidential documents in its pending lawsuit against Microsoft. [News.com]
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- DOJ, Greenspan at antitrust odds - Reinvigorated antitrust activity under the Clinton administration has forged its share of odd alliances and divisions, with the latest example being the public debate yesterday between the nation's top trustbusters and Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan. [News.com]
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- DOJ: Gaming bill too broad - A bill pending in the Senate that would prohibit Net gambling is inconsistent, overly broad, and subject to constitutional and other legal challenges, an attorney for the Justice Department said. [News.com]
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- Domain white paper comes up short - The long-awaited U.S. government "white paper" on how to transfer the Internet's domain name system to the private sector appears to resolve nothing. [News.com]
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- Dow closes at three-month low - The Dow slid to a three-month low by the close of markets today after rekindled worries about Asia's finances triggered a fresh rout in global stocks, with investors seeking safety in the dollar and bonds. [News.com]
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- Drudge holds own in lion's den - Matt Drudge, the Internet gossip columnist who first posted the Monica Lewinsky sex tale on the Web, ventured into the lion's den yesterday as the featured attraction at a National Press Club luncheon. [News.com]
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- DSL and cable vie for market share - The battle between two high-speed Net access technologies--DSL and cable modems--will heat up with AT&T's proposed buyout of Tele-Communications Incorporated. [News.com]
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- E*Trade plans U.K. venture - Electronic Share Information Limited, a U.K. provider of Internet equities data, announced today a joint venture with U.S. online stockbroker E*Trade Group. [News.com]
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- E-check initiative to launch - In the first transaction in a pilot program for e-checks, the Treasury Department and a group of banking and technology firms said today that an electronic check for $32,153 was sent by email from the Treasury to GTE as payment for an Air Force contract. [News.com]
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- E-commerce a hard sell - Now that consumers can cross-check prices at the click of a mouse, online retailers will have to differentiate themselves through product offerings, partnerships with popular Web sites, brand recognition, and other factors if they are to survive, the chief executive of CNET: The Computer Network told an audience at PC Expo here today. [News.com]
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- E-commerce boon to Singapore - Information technology demand in Singapore is being driven by firms plugging into the Internet to conduct electronic commerce, a top official said today. [News.com]
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- E-commerce crypto code cracked - Secure Internet commerce may not be so secure, at least in the sterile environment of Bell Labs. [News.com]
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- E-commerce firm opens wallet - In a move that could speed adoption of an online payments protocol, Internet commerce software vendor GlobeSet has announced a server-based "wallet" for making credit card purchases securely over the Internet. [News.com]
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- E-commerce standards pushed - Worried that e-commerce standards are being set but not adopted, some 30 major software, hardware, distribution, and retail players have launched a two-year push to implement standards for enabling Internet-based supply chain management. [News.com]
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- EarthLink peddles its real estate - EarthLink Network today began cashing in on its status as a popular Net service provider. [News.com]
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- EarthLink woos Bell customers - National Internet service provider EarthLink today is once again trying to lure Net users dissatisfied with price increases away from its competitors. [News.com]
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- EC grapples with MCI-WorldCom - European Union regulators were still talking to WorldCom and MCI Communications today about conditions to approve the $37 billion merger of the two companies, only two days before a key EU panel meets to give its advice. [News.com]
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- EC nears MCI-WorldCom decision - The European Commission said today that it had made "substantial progress" in the review of the merger of MCI Communications and WorldCom, and confirmed that a panel of European Union merger experts on Friday recommended in favor of the deal. [News.com]
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- Entegrity tools for digital certs - Entegrity Solutions today announced a series of new tools and partnerships to make it easier to use digital certificates in enterprise applications. [News.com]
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- Entrust files to go public - Entrust Technologies has filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission to make an initial public offering for up to $115 million in common stock. [News.com]
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- Equifax to become a CA - Consumer credit agency Equifax today announced it's jumping into the certificate authority (CA) business, running a service to issue digital certificates using IBM technology. [News.com]
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- EU not investigating Intel - The European Commission has not received any complaints against Intel, the world's biggest microprocessor maker, and therefore is not investigating its marketing practices, a commission spokesman said today. [News.com]
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- EU reviews Microsoft deals - The European Commission sought comments today on licensing agreements between Microsoft and online service providers on the promotion of the software giant's Internet browser. [News.com]
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- EU seeks to tax e-commerce - European consumers who buy and receive products or services over the Internet should pay value-added tax (VAT) on them, even if they order from an overseas supplier, the European Commission said today. [News.com]
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- EU, U.S. agree on MCI merger - European Union and U.S. regulatory authorities have reached similar conclusions in reviewing the planned $37 billion merger between MCI Communications and WorldCom, an EU official said today. [News.com]
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- EU: E-commerce rules need clarity - Electronic commerce requires clear ground rules to enable it to blossom, and obstacles to trading must also be removed, European Tax Commissioner Mario Monti said. [News.com]
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- European ISPs protest costs - European Internet service providers declared war against high telecommunications costs today, saying they were tired of paying up to 20 times more than their U.S. counterparts. [News.com]
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- Excite announces 2-for-1 split - Excite today became the latest Internet company to announce a 2-for-1 stock split this year, joining Amazon.com, K-Tel, and America Online in splitting its shares. [News.com]
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- Excite debuts auction service - Excite today rolled out an auction service that it hopes will attract Netizens eager to buy and sell goods on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Excite eyes local listings - In an attempt to move in on the potentially lucrative market for localized content, Excite today announced a search tool for local entertainment listings. [News.com]
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- Excite goes for the green - So much for the 60-day cushion. [News.com]
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- Excite goes to Italy - Excite has added Italy to a growing list of overseas markets that Internet firms are entering in a rush to claim a stake in the World Wide Web. [News.com]
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- Excite sued for spurning buyout - Two separate lawsuits have been filed against Excite, both alleging breach of fiduciary duty by the search firm's rejection of a recent unsolicited $72-per-share buyout offer by Zapata. [News.com]
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- Excite to host Disney content - Excite said today it will put information from the Walt Disney Company on its Web site. [News.com]
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- Excite, AT&T service launches - Excite and AT&T WorldNet today launched their joint Web-based online service in hopes of attracting new users with a package of services at a lower price point. [News.com]
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- Face of PCs to change with Win 98 - While Windows 98 may not spur millions of consumers to rush out and buy new computers, some PC makers are finding signs of encouragement as the upgraded product launches. [News.com]
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- Fast modem does double duty - Rockwell announced a new chipset that combines high-speed DSL (digital subscriber line) and dial-up modem capabilities while enabling dual usage, the first product to result from a recent partnership with DSL equipment maker PairGain Technologies. [News.com]
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- FBI posts the real "X files" - As fans rush to see the anticipated X-Files movie today, another unusual phenomenon is unraveling. [News.com]
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- FCC cuts e-rate funding - The Federal Communications Commission has decided to cut back funding for the nation's most ambitious program to hook up schools to the Net. [News.com]
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- FCC official joining IBM - Michael Nelson, director of technology policy at the Federal Communications Commission, is leaving the agency to join IBM, the company confirmed today. [News.com]
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- FCC stalls Net subsidy decision - The Federal Communications Commission has extended until the end of the week a deadline for deciding how much money to raise for a controversial program for subsidizing Internet access for schools, agency officials said. [News.com]
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- FCC to review AT&T-TCI merger - The head of the Federal Communications Commission said he would examine the impact AT&T's proposed $68 billion merger with Tele-Communications Incorporated would have on local phone competition and high-speed Internet access. [News.com]
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- FCC: Cable boxes must be sold - The Federal Communications Commission today voted to mandate the sale of cable set-top boxes at retail stores, a decision that has broad implications for consumer electronics and PC companies alike. [News.com]
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- FCC: Telcos to kill Y2K bug in year - Despite concerns by members of Congress and industry observers, U.S. phone carriers plan to rid themselves of the Year 2000 computer bug in less than a year, according to a member of the Federal Communications Commission. [News.com]
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- FDIC launches fraud-busting site - Federal regulators today said they launched a new Web site to help detect banking fraud on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Fear blocking Net travel industry - Fear of fraud rather than fear of flying has held back the growth of air travel sales on the Internet, travel industry experts told the International Air Transport Association annual general meeting. [News.com]
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- Fed center sees cyberattacks - A half-dozen substantial attacks have been launched since February against U.S. government computer systems, according to the head of a new U.S. cyberlaw enforcement agency. [News.com]
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- Fed doesn't shake markets - Wall Street took Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's latest assessment of the economy in stride, and blue chips erased earlier losses by midday today. [News.com]
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- Fed domain plan defers decisions - The Clinton administration this morning released its final plan to overhaul the Internet's naming system, but some of the most difficult decisions will be deferred to a newly created nonprofit group, the report said. [News.com]
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- Federal Y2K funding bills slashed - As GOP leaders continue to criticize the White House for neglecting to give the Year 2000 technology problem more attention, House Republicans have stripped two bilateral efforts to pay for fixing the problem. [News.com]
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- Feds pledge $10m for flat panels - A U.S. government agency has pledged $10 million in funding for the United States Display Consortium (USDC), part of a continuing effort to establish a domestic manufacturing base for flat panel displays based on more efficient production techniques than those currently practiced in Asia. [News.com]
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- Feinstein, Freeh meet on crypto - In the latest effort to quell the ongoing tug-of-war over encryption, FBI director Louis Freeh met with powerful high-tech executives today to discuss federal restrictions on the technology to secure digital communication. [News.com]
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- Fidelity revises online rates - Fidelity Investments is revising its pricing structure for online trading to give customers that use its service frequently incentive to continue doing so. [News.com]
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- Finance industry can't skip Net - Brokers, banks, and insurers must get ready to provide their services in cyberspace or risk alienating younger customers, an analyst said. [News.com]
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- Finance sites walk fine line - Financial sites are continuing their struggle today to seek a balance between offering enough information to attract a wide audience and meeting the requirements of regulators and others. [News.com]
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- Finding a niche in financial sites - In a move that proves yet again that financial sites are one of the hottest properties on the Net, a new site that attempts to take the mystery out of buying stock will launch today. [News.com]
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- Firm looks to lure hackers - Network Associates announced Friday a new suite of "intrusion protection" tools, including one that creates a decoy network that draws hackers in and then "stings" them. [News.com]
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- Firm offers antihack insurance - The International Computer Security Association is offering insurance of up to $250,000 for customers of its TruSecure security assurance service if a malicious hacker successfully attacks their network--even if no losses are suffered. [News.com]
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- Firms back away from DRAMs - Two major DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chipmakers are considering moving out of the profitless memory chip market. [News.com]
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- Firms release software for retailers - The summer fashions in retail industry-specific packaged applications hit the runway this week at the Retail Collaborative Supply Chain conference in New Orleans. [News.com]
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- Firms try to speed e-commerce - Pivotal Software and PenOp inked a deal this week to embed PenOp's electronic signature software in Pivotal's customer relationship management system. [News.com]
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- First Access offers smart card security - Israeli high-technology start-up company First Access hopes to hitch a ride on an expected boom in smart cards and enable personal computer users to operate and transact Internet business more securely. [News.com]
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- First digital computer 50 years old - At 11 a.m. on June 21, 1948, Tom Kilburn gave his computer the task of finding the highest proper factor of 2 to the power of 18. [News.com]
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- Flat-panel screens steal show - As their prices continue to drop, flat-panel monitors have become stars of this year's PC Expo in one of the industry's most radical design changes in recent years. [News.com]
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- Flexi to buy Dodge Group - FlexiInternational Software said today that it bought the Dodge Group, a privately held company headquartered in London, for 863,500 shares of common stock and $754,000 in cash. [News.com]
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- Focus on wired children - Children online have been in the center of government discussion and debate this week, on the heels of a Federal Trade Commission report that slammed the online industry for its data collection practices, especially where young surfers are concerned. A conference this week designed to examine content for children instead focused a great deal on children's Net issues, including privacy and the "e-rate," a fund to that provides Net access discounts to schools and libraries. [News.com]
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- Fore makes gigabit bet - Can you teach an old dog new tricks? [News.com]
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- Former AOL exec to take profits - Scott Zakarin, who pioneered America Online's Entertainment Asylum and the now-defunct Web soap The Spot, has filed to sell stock in the online giant. [News.com]
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- Former stockbroker pleads guilty - A former stockbroker has pleaded guilty to insider trading in the stock of Spectrum Information Technologies, admitting his role in a scheme to profit from the high-tech company's 1993 hiring of the former head of Apple Computer. [News.com]
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- Free Net access in the future? - While Internet service providers angle for customers with discounts of a few dollars per month, other players are developing strategies to offer service for free. [News.com]
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- Free Net access thrives outside U.S. - Offering free Internet access has proved a perilous experiment in the United States, with the number of failed efforts roughly matching the number of struggling ones. But in other countries, including Canada, Sweden, Spain, Germany, and the United Kingdom, free Net access appears to be a thriving market. [News.com]
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- French Net services a done deal - America Online, German publisher Bertelsmann, and France's Vivendi conglomerate said today that they had sealed a pact for Internet services in France. [News.com]
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- FTC has Intel "talking points" - When the Federal Trade Commission sued Intel on June 8, it distributed the complaint and a press release describing the case to all who were interested. [News.com]
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- FTC ready to vote on Intel - The Federal Trade Commission is expected to meet on Monday to vote on whether to take action against Intel. [News.com]
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- FTC report calls for Net privacy law - The Federal Trade Commission is asking Congress for legislation to shield the privacy of young Net surfers, according to the executive summary of the agency's anticipated report on electronic data collection practices. [News.com]
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- FTC seeks Net privacy law - Dressed up like digital candy stores, Web sites have enticed children to reveal private details about themselves and their families, such as whether mom and dad play the stock market, the Federal Trade Commission said today. [News.com]
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- FTC to slam Net sites on privacy - The Federal Trade Commission is expected to drub most of the online industry in a report to Congress Thursday, saying consumer privacy is not adequately protected, sources said. [News.com]
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- FTC votes to sue Intel - The Federal Trade Commission voted today to sue Intel, charging the company with using its market dominance to hurt rivals and hinder competition in the computing industry. [News.com]
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- FTC's privacy crackdown - The Federal Trade Commission is no longer preaching self-regulation for the online industry where privacy is concerned. After a study showed a lack of consistent efforts to protect personal information--especially for children--the commission is asking Congress for legislation. [News.com]
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- Fujitsu forgoes Netscape - Fujitsu has stopped preinstalling Netscape Communications' Navigator browser in its personal computers. [News.com]
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- Fujitsu to make Java chips - Fujitsu said today that it plans to mass-produce system chips for operating systems based on the Java programming language starting next year for Internet and home devices. [News.com]
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- Futures trading heads for Net - Trading via the Internet is on the verge of becoming an everyday reality, raising new challenges for market watchdogs, European and U.S. regulators told a financial industry conference today. [News.com]
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- Galileo suffers in weak chip market - Semiconductor maker Galileo Technology said today it expects results for its second quarter will be below analysts' expectations due to reduced demand and cancelled orders in the midst of a transition to new product lines. [News.com]
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- Game chipmaker goes mainstream - 3Dfx Interactive, a graphics chipmaker that has built a name for itself in video games with its Voodoo 3D products, unveiled a new chip intended to help the company expand into the mainstream PC market. [News.com]
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- Gates blasts DOJ in essay - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has slammed federal and state trustbusters who have filed an antitrust action against his software company as "the government's lawsuit on behalf of Netscape Communications," in his broadest defense of the company to date. [News.com]
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- Gates group buys London hotel - A U.S. consortium including Microsoft chief Bill Gates today said it had agreed to buy Britain's Cliveden house west of London, a hotel steeped in political history. [News.com]
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- Gates headlines Windows launch - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates introduced Windows 98 today at an official launch party here in the Bay Area. [News.com]
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- Gates is the richest man, again - Microsoft mogul Bill Gates has cracked the $50 billion barrier, making him once again the richest man in the world, according to Forbes magazine's ranking of the world's billionaires. [News.com]
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- Gates: Antitrust case now moot - Microsoft chairman and chief executive Bill Gates told CNBC today that the heart of the government antitrust suit against his company was destroyed by this week's federal appeals court ruling. [News.com]
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- Gates: Net boxes to pass PCs - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates today predicted that consumer devices such as televisions and cameras that can access the Internet will become more common than personal computers. [News.com]
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- Gates: PCs to weather Asia crisis - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said today that he is optimistic about the continuing growth of the personal computer industry despite Asia's financial crisis. [News.com]
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- Gates: Suit won't disrupt business - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said today that the U.S. government's antitrust suit against his company would not affect its business. [News.com]
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- Gateway cuts notebooks again - Gateway cut prices yet again on Pentium II notebooks as the company attempts to consolidate gains it has made in the notebook market. [News.com]
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- Gateway cuts PC prices - Gateway 2000 said today it cut prices by up to 9 percent on its business PCs. [News.com]
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- Geeks to play San Francisco - This Friday, three bands of amateur musicians, who by day are computer programmers, venture capitalists, investment bankers, and other high-tech executives, will live out a fantasy playing a gig at one of the most famous venues in rock and roll history--the Fillmore. [News.com]
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- GeoCitizens fume over watermark - A transparent, floating watermark that GeoCities introduced last week has caused an emotional uproar among a number of the Net community's "homesteaders." [News.com]
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- Germany to appeal CSI case - German state prosecutors in the Bavarian city of Munich today took the unusual step of filing an appeal against the conviction of a former CompuServe manager in a key Internet pornography case. [News.com]
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- Gingrich talks crypto in Valley - Encryption was at the top of a list of high-tech issues addressed by House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Rep. Bob Goodlatte at a roundtable discussion with a Silicon Valley consortium here today. [News.com]
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- Going portal - "Portal madness" is sweeping the Internet industry, as new media, old media, entertainment, and telco companies jockey for position to become the next greatest portal brand in cyberspace. Some efforts are home grown, such as Netscape's Netcenter, while others, such as AT&T's rumored buyout overtures to AOL and its partnership with Excite, are the result of companies looking to buy what they can't create in hopes of cashing in on the latest online craze. [News.com]
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- Goldman Sachs to go public - Goldman Sachs, considered by many to be the crown jewel of the investment banking community, and the last big private partnership on Wall Street, is expected to dispense with the latter distinction and become a publicly traded company, according to reports. [News.com]
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- GOP leaders blast Y2K efforts - Republican leaders are lashing out at the Clinton administration for playing down the Year 2000 bug, establishing a new congressional committee and a plan to seek $4 billion in emergency spending to fix the technology problem. [News.com]
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- Government puts patents online - The Clinton administration soon will make available hoards of patent and trademark information free over the Internet, Commerce Department Secretary William M. Daley announced today. [News.com]
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- Government's Y2K progress slows - The latest round of quarterly reports on the federal government's efforts to remedy the Year 2000 computer problems began on a sour note yesterday, as a U.S. House subcommittee released a progress report giving the government a failing grade. [News.com]
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- Greenspan: Let monopolies be - Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan says U.S. regulators should leave most monopolies alone because they could not survive long in a world of rapidly advancing technology and global competition. [News.com]
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- Ground zero for convergence - Ground zero in the ongoing convergence of voice and data networks will be the SuperComm '98 telecommunications trade show this week in Atlanta. [News.com]
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- Group to speed in-home networks - A group of leading technology companies announced plans to develop standards to facilitate high-speed in-home networks using existing phone lines. [News.com]
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- Groups use Net to register voters - Though voting online might be a long way off, use of the Net for related activities has gotten a boost with the launch of a new online voter registration program. [News.com]
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- Hands off desktop management - On Technology next week will launch the latest version of its enterprise desktop management system. [News.com]
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- Hatch takes on Microsoft, again - Microsoft critic and Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today turned up the heat on the software giant, accusing it of stonewalling his investigation and announcing a new round of hearings into its business practices. [News.com]
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- High-tech IPOs buck trend - Amid nervousness about overvaluation, Net stocks took investors for a wild ride last week with K-Tel falling after its dramatic entry and Inktomi doubling its IPO price. Tech offerings continue to defy market caution on initial offerings. [News.com]
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- Hotmail beats spammers in court - Microsoft's free email company Hotmail today announced that a federal judge issued a permanent injunction against spammers that had used the Hotmail name to send junk email and ordered them to pay damages to the firm. [News.com]
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- Hotmail, Excite have privacy hole - The free email services by Microsoft's Hotmail and Excite are unwittingly revealing their users' account names to other Web sites--giving spammers precious private data. [News.com]
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- House candidate uses pop lyrics - Anarchistic pop group Chumbawamba might be happier if conservative California firebrand Bob Dornan would just stay down. [News.com]
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- House passes Net antitax bill - The House today passed the Internet Tax Freedom Act, legislation that would temporarily ban new Internet access and service taxes. [News.com]
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- House passes Net pedophile bill - The House unanimously approved a measure designed to crack down on pedophiles who use the Internet to lure minors into sexual relations. [News.com]
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- How strong is the FTC's Intel case? - If the Federal Trade Commission takes legal action against Intel for cutting off technical information to its partners, the agency will be moving into uncharted and legally risky territory, legal experts say. [News.com]
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- HP adopts AMD chips - Hewlett-Packard launched a line of home PCs using processors from Advanced Micro Devices, becoming the third top-tier vendor to adopt chips made by one of Intel's closest rivals. [News.com]
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- HP bundles services for small business - Hewlett-Packard (HP) introduced a program for selling integrated Internet services to small businesses, the latest top-tier PC company to add service offerings to the standard hardware platform. [News.com]
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- HP confident of Asia recovery - Asian markets will be "difficult" over the next several quarters, but Hewlett-Packard is confident about long-term prospects in the region. [News.com]
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- HP freezes work in Singapore - Hewlett-Packard Singapore said today that it has sent 3,000 people, one-third of its local staff, on leave for five days in an effort to cut costs. [News.com]
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- HP opens business help center - Hewlett-Packard launched its first enterprise computing support center in Brussels, Belgium, one of three such facilities it plans to operate worldwide, in an effort to meet one of its corporate customers' most pressing concerns while also addressing one of the computing industry's most lucrative markets. [News.com]
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- HP paints new PC picture - Hewlett-Packard unveiled new Pavilion consumer PCs, its first systems to offer substantial support for the company's emerging digital imaging strategy. [News.com]
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- HP releases 400-MHz workstations - Hewlett-Packard released three new Windows NT-based workstations based around 350-MHz and 400-MHz Pentium II chips in an effort to keep its line competitive, as Dell breathes down its neck. [News.com]
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- HP tackles Web printing woes - Hewlett-Packard introduced a desktop application which will allow users to print customized information from the Web, something that's a tricky proposition today. [News.com]
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- HP tops Asia in PC workstations - Hewlett-Packard expects workstation sales to rise slightly in Asia this year despite regional economic malaise and sales restrictions imposed by the United States in the aftermath of Indian and Pakistani nuclear testing. [News.com]
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- HP trims desktop prices - Hewlett-Packard trimmed prices on several corporate desktop models, as the company looks to maintain the PC sales momentum generated earlier in the year. [News.com]
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- HP updates OpenView - Hewlett-Packard continues to roll out new management software technology at a rapid rate, looking to keep pace and differentiate itself from competitors such as IBM subsidiary Tivoli Systems and Computer Associates. [News.com]
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- HP, others try direct sales - Joining Compaq and IBM, Hewlett-Packard will experiment with its consumer sales model in an effort to match the low-cost practices of direct vendors such as Gateway and Dell. [News.com]
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- Hybrid finances in question - Accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand said its reports on the earnings of Hybrid Networks should no longer be relied upon, according to Hybrid. [News.com]
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- Hyundai halts memory plants - Hyundai Electronics Industries is cutting memory chip production because of a global glut, and South Korea's two other big chipmakers said they may do the same. [News.com]
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- IBM adds Java to CICS - IBM is bringing some of its most crucial mainframe software into the Web era and in the process is hoping to become an instant player in the hot application server software market. [News.com]
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- IBM debuts cheaper workstations - IBM formally rolled out its new class of Windows NT workstations, the E Pro series, in an attempt to attract users who want the power of a workstation but not performance overkill. [News.com]
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- IBM down on analyst comments - Is Big Blue soon going to be singing the blues? [News.com]
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- IBM execs face arrest in Argentina - An Argentine judge said today that he expects to sign arrest warrants soon for four current and former IBM executives from the United States who refuse to testify in Argentina as suspects in his bribery investigation. [News.com]
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- IBM execs held in Mexico case - Mexican officials said today they detained 22 suspects Friday in a case involving the supply of a multimillion-dollar computer system to judicial authorities in the capital. [News.com]
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- IBM fuels "freeware" efforts - IBM will bolster the movement to provide source code over the Net next week when it announces a deal to bundle and support Apache's freely distributed Web server. [News.com]
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- IBM heads Japan PC shakeup - Notebook PCs seem to have passed desktops in popularity among Japanese consumers, while NEC's once-dominant hold on the market has all but disappeared in the eight months since it introduced industry-standard systems. [News.com]
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- IBM leans toward IE - When it comes to Netscape, IBM is playing a strange game of give and take. [News.com]
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- IBM looking to sell printer unit - IBM has engaged the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs to help it find a potential buyer for its printer business, the electronic edition of the Wall Street Journal reported today. [News.com]
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- IBM may customize low-cost PCs - IBM is set to unveil fully loaded consumer PCs, some of which include a new 300-MHz processor from Advanced Micro Devices, even as it considers building customized systems in an effort to recover from last year's late start in the market for sub-$1,000 PCs. [News.com]
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- IBM plans Web media initiative - First came an embrace of network computing. Then came a full-throttle rush to develop Java-based tools and software. Now Big Blue intends to give its huge installed base a jolt of multimedia support. [News.com]
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- IBM seeks help in supply chain - IBM wants to slim down its supply chain, and it's calling on i2 Technologies for help. [News.com]
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- IBM services booming in Europe - International Business Machines expects its revenues from services in Europe will continue to boom in 1998, with growth well above 20 percent. [News.com]
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- IBM steers around Microsoft too - IBM today introduced two new keyboards that offer direct access to the Internet, an emerging trend in the PC peripherals. [News.com]
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- IBM teams for Chinese Java apps - IBM and the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (MII) have announced agreements under which IBM will work with the ministry and with Chinese independent software vendors on the development of Java-based business applications. [News.com]
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- IBM to bundle America Online - America Online and IBM signed a multiyear marketing agreement in which IBM will preinstall AOL software on two lines of its computers. [News.com]
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- IBM to handle UTC's purchasing - United Technologies plans to announce today an agreement in which IBM will handle key purchasing functions for United as part of an effort to slash $750 million in costs by the year 2000. [News.com]
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- IBM to rival TI with cell phone chip - IBM will compete directly with Texas Instruments (TI) in the digital signal processor market for cellular phones. [News.com]
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- IBM to sell servers direct - IBM said today it would sell its servers directly to customers as part of a new marketing effort aimed at competing with direct vendors such as Dell Computer. [News.com]
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- IBM to work with global utilities - IBM plans to open information technology centers at four international sites to develop software applications to integrate various functions in running an electric utility. [News.com]
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- IBM touts ordering service - IBM intends to change how retailers shop to fill their stores while curtailing "bad buying," which costs the industry an estimated $170 billion in revenues. [News.com]
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- IBM, Kojima pen PC sales deal - IBM Japan, the Japanese unit of IBM today said it had agreed on a tie-up with Kojima on the sale of personal computers. [News.com]
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- IE 5 preview coming soon - Microsoft will deliver a "developer preview" release of the company's next version of Internet Explorer this month, kicking off a renewed effort to get programmers to take advantage of new underlying features of the Web browser, according to executives. [News.com]
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- Industry rushes to form Net group - On the eve of online privacy conference in the nation's capital, nearly 50 U.S. companies and associations announced they have formed the Online Privacy Alliance, a cross-industry coalition to protect the privacy of individuals in cyberspace. [News.com]
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- Industry spins smart card hole - The smart card industry, scrambling to address a security vulnerability found in the plastic cards with embedded microchips, today downplayed the seriousness of the problem by citing the technical complexity of the attack. [News.com]
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- Info Advantage gets IQSoftware - Information Advantage said it has agreed to acquire IQ Software for stock valued at $61.6 million based on today's closing price. [News.com]
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- Informix offers free NT database - Informix Software is offering its Windows NT database software at a price that's hard to beat: free. [News.com]
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- Infoseek adds home pages - Joining the ranks of rivals Yahoo and Lycos, Infoseek today became the latest portal to add personal home pages to its list of technology and community offerings. [News.com]
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- Inktomi doubles IPO price - Following a strong performance by Internet stocks yesterday, Inktomi jumped into the public realm today and doubled its initial offering price to close at 36 points. [News.com]
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- Inktomi inks international deals - Inktomi has entered two international licensing agreements for its network caching software designed to reduce bottlenecks on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Inktomi, GeoCities near IPOs - Two hot Internet companies--Inktomi and GeoCities--are closing in on their first steps into the public realm. [News.com]
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- Inprise updates development tool - Inprise has updated its Delphi development tool with better support for building multitier applications. [News.com]
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- Intel buys stake in Open Market - E-commerce software vendor Open Market said today that Intel has purchased about 330,000 of the Internet commerce software provider's restricted common shares. [News.com]
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- Intel chip out amid problems - Computer makers joined Intel in announcing new corporate lines based on the Xeon Pentium II processor, though a bug and relatively scarce supply may delay the most powerful multiprocessor systems. [News.com]
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- Intel confirms server chip bug - Intel confirmed that a bug exists in the Xeon Pentium II processor when the chip is used in "four-way" server configurations, a problem that rules out the release of some Xeon servers in conjunction with the chip's scheduled debut on Monday. [News.com]
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- Intel countersues Intergraph - In a two-punch counterattack on Intergraph, Intel has accused the workstation maker of infringing seven of the chip giant's patents and argued that an existing cross-licensing deal gives it "absolute immunity" against Intergraph's initial patent claims. [News.com]
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- Intel cuts mobile chip prices - Intel cut prices on Mobile Pentium II chip prices Chip Old price New price 266-MHz Pentium II $637 $444 233-MHz Pentium II $391 $262 266-MHz Pentium MMX $348 $241 233-MHz Pentium MMX $213 $134 200-MHz Pentium MMX $134 $95 166-MHz Pentium MMX $95 $95 Source: Intel its processors for portable PCs, paving the way for more Pentium notebooks priced around the closely watched $1,000 watermark. [News.com]
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- Intel down but not out - Intel had another weight loaded onto its already depressed stock today as the Federal Trade Commission decided to sue the company. [News.com]
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- Intel funds iVillage health site - iVillage, an online community-building site for women, has received an investment from Intel as part of the chip giant's health technology initiative. [News.com]
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- Intel lawsuit may be flawed - The governments anticipated antitrust lawsuit against Intel--expected to focus on the chip giants practice of withholding its intellectual treasuresfrom some computer makers--will probably be flawed, analysts say. [News.com]
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- Intel plows ahead - Intel has released a Pentium II-style processor intended for high-end workstations and servers, dubbed Xeon, which can utilize four processors at once. But a bug is delaying the debut of the fastest "4-way" servers. The chip will allow the company to recover lost profit margins in the low end of the PC industry. In the meantime, reducing the cost of processors for portable PCs paves the way for more Pentium models around $1,000. [News.com]
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- Intel rebounds but faces doubts - Intel shares rebounded today after investors breathed a sigh of relief that the chip giant had not issued any warning of a second quarter earnings shortfall, but analysts continued to cut their estimates on the chip giant. [News.com]
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- Intel reveals FTC defense - A brief filed yesterday by Intel in its ongoing litigation with Intergraph could be a guide to interpreting the legal position the chipmaker will take in its case with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). [News.com]
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- Intel set back in court - Intel suffered a minor setback Friday when an administrative law judge rejected the chipmaker's motion to compel the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to define the issues in its antitrust case. [News.com]
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- Intel ships new low-cost chip - In tandem with price cuts on its mainstream Pentium II processors, Intel released a new 300-MHz version of its Celeron microprocessor for budget computers, which is expected to spawn a spate of new low-cost machines, including the first for less than $1,000 from Dell Computer. [News.com]
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- Intel speeds 500-MHz rollout - Intel is accelerating the release of Katmai--its highly anticipated, next-generation multimedia processor--and will make more high-speed Pentium II and Celeron chips than originally planned after better-than-expected success with its current manufacturing technology. [News.com]
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- Intel stock keeps sinking - As if El Niño had hit Wall Street, the past year has been a long stormy season for Intel's stockholders, and the waters are getting rougher after the company announced that it delayed its Merced chip project. [News.com]
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- Intel stock sees Merced fallout - Technology stocks fell today amid a round of downgrades for Intel after it warned of production delays in its next-generation Merced chip. [News.com]
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- Intel suit to hurt Intergraph - Intergraph said today that its projected second-quarter revenues will come in flat compared with the first quarter, blaming slower-than-expected recovery related to its lawsuit against Intel. [News.com]
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- Intel wants FTC to clarify charges - Intel filed a motion late on Friday asking an administrative law judge in Washington to demand from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) a clearer definition of what market it is allegedly monopolizing. [News.com]
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- Intel's graphics chip pricing: fair or foul? - Is Intel coercive or not? The latest debate over the character of the chipmaker's business dealings centers on its foray into the graphics chip business. [News.com]
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- Intel, Fujitsu expand alliance - Japanese computer powerhouse Fujitsu and semiconductor giant Intel said today that they will strengthen their strategic alliance, including the development of high-capacity servers and workstation technology. [News.com]
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- Intel, Intergraph in war of words - Intel and one of its chief antagonists, Intergraph, wasted little time in waging a public war of words over the government's decision to pursue legal action against the chip behemoth today. [News.com]
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- Intergraph CEO details Intel charges - Intergraph CEO Jim Meadlock knew he was in a tough spot: His company was trying to sell Intel-based workstations even as the chipmaking giant was trying to persuade customers to reject Intergraph, he says. [News.com]
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- Intergraph, Intel given deadline - Intergraph said the judge in its antitrust suit against Intel set a deadline of Valentine's Day in the year 2000 for the companies to settle or go to trial. [News.com]
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- Internet telephony down under - Australian telephone giant Telstra said it was keen to provide international Internet telephony services, although the service would undercut current margins in its traditional telephone service. [News.com]
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- Iomega cuts Jaz drive prices - Iomega cut prices by up to $150 on its Jaz 2GB drives, as much as $50 on 2GB disks, and as much as $25 on 1GB disks. [News.com]
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- Iomega warns of layoffs, losses - In another dose of bad news, Iomega said yesterday that it will record special charges of between $5 million and $10 million as part of a cost-cutting plan that includes eliminating 600 to 700 jobs, or more than 12 percent of the company's workforce. [News.com]
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- Iomega, Nomai settle suit, partner - Iomega, a maker of computer storage disk drives, today said it settled a patent infringement case with France's Nomai and will also purchase a majority stake in the company for $21 million. [News.com]
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- IPO at Computer Associates unit - Accpac International, a unit of Computer Associates International, filed today an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission for up to $52 million worth of common stock. [News.com]
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- Iran to put Ayatollah's writing online - Iran plans to put the complete works of its late spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on the Internet, an Iranian official said today. [News.com]
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- Iran weighs effects of Internet - Iranian officials began discussions this weekend on the appropriate use of the Internet in the Islamic Republic, state-run television said. [News.com]
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- Is 3Com out of step with rivals? - As 3Com ekes out another quarter of tepid growth in the aftermath of inventory issues--closing the books on a tumultuous fiscal year and the mammoth purchase of US Robotics--its competitors have started to zero in on providing equipment for the convergence of voice and data networks within carriers. [News.com]
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- Is cyberterrorism a real threat? - You jolt awake, trembling, in the middle of the night with that recurring nightmare. The bad guys have penetrated the Pentagon's computers. They now control the instructions for the U.S. nuclear arsenal and are holding the Western world for ransom. [News.com]
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- Is Inktomi overrated? - Add Inktomi's initial public offering to the likes of those by Netscape Communications, Yahoo, and Amazon.com, which were propelled to dizzying heights despite untested business models. [News.com]
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- Is the rush to float shares folly? - As investors grow increasingly nervous over issues facing some of the bellwether technology companies, prospects for floating out shares are rapidly diminishing. [News.com]
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- Is Year 2000 standard needed? - Weeks after computer giant Compaq was publicly challenged by a British firm over the Year 2000 compliance of its PCs, debate over the need for a global compliance standard is growing. [News.com]
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- It's a small world on the Net - If there ever were any doubts about whether the industries on the peripheries of the Internet were converging, deals struck just this week should erase them. Companies ranging from entertainment giant Disney to telco titan AT&T and broadcast powerhouse NBC all have forged partnerships with Net companies, looking to become the latest, greatest portal brand. [News.com]
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- Japan firms plan email over phone - Japan's NEC said today it would work with Canon Sales to develop and sell computer products that can read email over the telephone. [News.com]
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- Japan sales spur team effort - Fujitsu Business Systems said today that it had agreed to a Japan sales tie-up with Netscape Communications and Netscape's Japanese unit. [News.com]
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- Japanese buying worries U.S. - American computer manufacturers and the U.S. Trade Representative are worried about a new survey showing that the number of foreign-made computers purchased by Japanese government agencies is steadily dwindling. [News.com]
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- Japanese LCD production on the rise - Japanese electronics firms are increasing production of thin-film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal displays (LCDs) due to a recovery in domestic demand for personal computers. [News.com]
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- Japanese politicians turn to Web - Japan's largest opposition party is heading into key parliamentary elections with an irreverent Web page that pokes fun at Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto. [News.com]
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- Japanese stick to DRAM plans - Major Japanese memory chipmakers said today that they do not plan to follow South Korea's Hyundai Electronics in cutting back production. [News.com]
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- Java fund looks to long term - It's been nearly two years since venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers formed its Java Fund, which came amid continued skepticism that Java technology would not take off as expected. [News.com]
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- Java suit rescheduling denied - A federal judge has denied Sun Microsystems' request to move up a hearing on its motion for a preliminary injunction concerning Microsoft's Windows 98, a spokeswoman for Sun said. [News.com]
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- JDA buys management apps - JDA Software is helping Comshare lighten its load. [News.com]
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- Judge moves IE case forward - A federal judge has cleared the way for trial proceedings to begin tomorrow in a case that could have a major effect on Microsoft's future use of the name "Internet Explorer." [News.com]
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- Judge seeks arrest of IBM execs - An Argentine judge yesterday signed international arrest warrants for four current and former IBM executives from the United States who refuse to testify in Argentina as suspects in his bribery investigation. [News.com]
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- Juniper funding paying off - A well-financed Silicon Valley networking start-up is finally ready to deliver on promised next-generation technology for the Internet backbone. [News.com]
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- K2 sells ad sales unit - Internet advertising and marketing agency K2 Design announced the $4 million sale of its CliqNow unit to 24/7 Media, marking a further consolidation of the Web ad business. [News.com]
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- Kennard defends Net subsidy - Federal Communications Commission chairman William Kennard renewed his defense of a program for subsidizing Internet access for schools and libraries before a crowd of mostly hostile lawmakers. [News.com]
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- Kenya slow to adopt Net - While the United States debates the issue of technology's haves and have-nots and looks for ways to wire everyone to the Net, entire countries are locked out of the high-tech world. [News.com]
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- Kocher becomes Micron CEO - Joel Kocher was promoted to chairman and chief executive officer of Micron Electronics as part of the company's strategy for improving its direct sales model and surviving coming industry-wide consolidation. [News.com]
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- Komag lays off 480, posts loss - Komag today said it would lay off 10 percent of its employees, or about 480 people, and post a quarterly loss of about $58 million, as orders for its disk drive components continue to fall. [News.com]
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- Koreans to slow memory making - South Korean memory manufacturers will further scale back production of 64-megabit chips in an effort to achieve price stability on a product that continues to drop in value. [News.com]
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- KPMG launches push service - Professional services firm KPMG Peat Marwick LLP said today it launched an Internet push technology called Banking Insider, which is a knowledge management tool for the banking and finance industry. [News.com]
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- Lam to eliminate 1,100 jobs - Lam Research plans to cut up to 1,100 jobs as part of a restructuring in anticipation of further weakening in the sales for semiconductor capital equipment. [News.com]
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- Law firms profit from tech IPOs - The flood of high-tech companies going public has raised more than a few boats, but among Silicon Valley law firms, none more than Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. [News.com]
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- LCD prices falling fast - Intense price wars have broken out in the Japanese market for LCD (liquid crystal display) monitors, with some vendors dropping prices by more than 50 percent compared to a year ago. [News.com]
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- Lockheed to cut 2,500 jobs - Lockheed Martin expects to eliminate up to 2,500 jobs at its spacecraft and missile systems division this year as it continues to make a difficult transition from military contracts to commercial satellites. [News.com]
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- Lotus plugs new Notes, Domino duo - As the early July beta launch date looms large for the latest version of its groupware suite, Lotus Development here today showed off some new features in the messaging client and new real-time collaborative technologies. [News.com]
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- Lotus readies new Java suite - Lotus Development plans to release the next version of its Java-based applications suite in September, with a focus on the PC and a promise that it's not leaving the NC behind. [News.com]
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- Lotus to ship SmartSuite - IBM subsidiary Lotus Development will roll out the next version of its office application suite next week. [News.com]
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- Lotus upgrades Domino server - IBM subsidiary Lotus Development next week will debut further enhancements to its Domino Web server intended to simplify integration with other business applications. [News.com]
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- Lotus working in real time - Lotus Development detailed more of its real-time collaboration strategy here today, including how it will incorporate real-time messaging into its new education and training product line and where the technology fits into its overarching knowledge management agenda. [News.com]
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- Lotus, Verity settle license case - Lotus Development and Verity have signed a licensing agreement and have settled legal action between the two companies. [News.com]
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- Low expectations for Win 98 - Windows 98, the operating system software at the heart of a landmark antitrust case against software giant Microsoft, goes on sale this week amid subdued expectations and lukewarm early reviews. [News.com]
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- LSI Logic to buy Symbios - Semiconductor chipmaker LSI Logic said today that it has agreed to acquire Symbios from Hyundai Electronics America for $760 million, including assumption of debt, payable in cash. [News.com]
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- Lucent concedes to unions - Lucent Technologies' unionized workers will receive average base wage increases of 18.7 percent over five years under a tentative contract agreement reached early this morning, the unions said. [News.com]
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- Lucent gets British phone firm - British business telephone systems company SDX Business Systems said today it has agreed to be taken over by American communications group Lucent Technologies for 325 pence for each of its shares. [News.com]
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- Lucent slams Cisco with suit - The battle between Cisco Systems and Lucent Technologies has moved to the court room. [News.com]
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- Lucent, Motorola team on chips - Lucent Technologies and Motorola will work together on developing digital signal processors--powerful, specialized microprocessors commonly found in communications devices such as cell phones. [News.com]
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- Lucent, uniView eye Internet TV - Consumer electronics company uniView Technologies said today that it and Lucent Technologies are collaborating to bring Internet telecommunications capabilities to interactive television and Internet device markets. [News.com]
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- Lycos gets search patent - Lycos said today that it received a patent on a widely used technology the company developed to search and index information from the World Wide Web. [News.com]
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- Mac upgrade board uses G3 chip - Mactell, the Austin, Texas-based maker of Macintosh peripherals and processor circuit boards, said today it is offering redesigned processor upgrade cards that use the PowerPC 750 processor. [News.com]
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- Macromedia to animate Netscape browser - Netscape Communications agreed to include Macromedia Flash computer animation software in its Navigator Internet browsing software, a key win for Macromedia. [News.com]
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- Macy's goes online - Federated Department Stores said today that it plans to launch an online outlet for its venerable Macy's chain. [News.com]
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- Magaziner predicts deregulation - A senior adviser to President Clinton says the growth of the Internet will lead to the deregulation of the telecommunications and broadcast industries as the businesses converge. [News.com]
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- Magaziner: Domain consensus possible - President Clinton's Internet policy adviser Ira Magaziner may not win a Noble Peace Prize if he succeeds in bringing together the various factions of the domain name issue. But he just might be nominated. [News.com]
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- Man admits AOL child porn charge - A New Jersey man who sent and received child pornographic images over the Internet pleaded guilty today in federal court to one count of possessing child pornography, authorities said. [News.com]
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- Manugistics beefs up offerings - Manugistics is beefing up to stay alive. [News.com]
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- Manugistics faces shareholder suit - Manugistics' posting of poor financials for its first quarter ended May 31 has landed its executives in hot water with some stockholders, specifically those that bought stock during the final two months of the three month quarter. [News.com]
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- Manugistics lets down the Street - Manugistics disappointed Wall Street more than expected with its latest earnings report. [News.com]
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- Manugistics loses $8.2 million - Manugistics didn't disappoint Wall Street with its earnings report yesterday, posting a loss as predicted. [News.com]
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- Marimba sticks by push software - Confident that "push" technology is alive and well in the enterprise, Marimba today released Castanet 3.0, the latest version of its push software suite. [News.com]
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- Market firms to test for Y2K - A securities industry trade group said a number of major securities markets, firms, and clearinghouses are gearing up for a test run of their systems in preparation for the coming of the year 2000. [News.com]
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- Markets tumble on Asia crisis - Stocks tumbled in morning trading today as Wall Street again got caught up in the latest downturn of the Asian markets. [News.com]
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- Markets up as Asia jitters fade - Stocks rose today as investor jitters about Asia and second-quarter earnings faded and money managers bought stocks to dress up their holdings by the end of the quarter. [News.com]
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- Master of whose domain? - The government's highly anticipated "white paper" on how to handle the transition of control over registration of the top-level domains leaves resolution of many of the major issues up to an as-yet-unformed nonprofit organization. [News.com]
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- Maxtor files IPO for $575 million - Maxtor, a provider of hard disk drive storage products for desktop PC systems, today filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission an initial public offering for up to $575 million in common stock. [News.com]
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- MCI joins phone hike trend - As expected, long distance phone service carrier MCI will begin charging residential customers a new fee in July to cover the cost of funding low-income telephone service, Internet connections for schools, and other federally subsidized institutions. [News.com]
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- MCI service for Oracle apps - MCI Communications is speeding up more than the time to connect a phone call. [News.com]
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- MCI spinoff "not good enough" - MCI Communications' divestment of its wholesale Internet business is "not good enough" to satisfy antitrust concerns raised by WorldCom's proposed acquisition of the company, the top antitrust official of the European Commission told Bloomberg today. [News.com]
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- MCI, Cisco, IBM in mainframe pact - MCI Communications today unveiled plans to offer hardware, software, and services for customers seeking to modernize their older mainframe systems to make them work better with the Internet. [News.com]
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- MCI, WorldCom shift asset sale - MCI Communications and WorldCom are revising the sale of certain Internet assets to gain regulatory approval for their proposed merger, Cable & Wireless revealed in its lawsuit filed against MCI. [News.com]
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- Memory chips for a buck - It's a very bad time to be in the memory chip business. [News.com]
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- Merger mania in telecom market - Two multibillion-dollar mergers and the roll-out of a new voice and data network--all announced this week--offer another reminder that it's a new world for the telecommunications industry. [News.com]
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- Mexico to arrest IBM brass - Mexico City's attorney general's office said today that it had issued arrest warrants for three IBM executives and 19 former city officials in connection with a deal over a multimillion-dollar computer system. [News.com]
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- Micro Focus buys Intersolv - Development tool maker Micro Focus said today that it is acquiring data access technology maker Intersolv in a deal worth $534 million. [News.com]
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- Micron 400-MHz system to $2,199 - Direct marketer Micron announced modest price cuts on higher-end consumer desktops and PC servers, as the Boise, Idaho, company continues striving to be an industry price leader. [News.com]
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- Micron deal lays groundwork - When it cut a deal to acquire the memory manufacturing assets of Texas Instruments for $800 million in stock, Micron Technology wasn't thinking about the DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chip market today, where manufacturers are selling chips below cost and voluntarily shutting down factories. It was thinking about the market in 2000. [News.com]
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- Micron getting back on track - Despite facing stiff competition, Micron Electronics appears to be making some headway in its business recovery. [News.com]
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- Micron president shoots high - To put it mildly, Joel Kocher has his hands full. [News.com]
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- Micron revels in memory - "Out with the old, in with the new" could epitomize Micron's recent moves: naming a new CEO and buying up Texas Instruments' assets in a deal that reshapes the memory market. [News.com]
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- Microsoft adds dimension - Microsoft is going 3D. [News.com]
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- Microsoft buys into Road Runner - Microsoft and Compaq will invest a combined $425 million in high-speed Internet access via cable service Road Runner, the companies said today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft CFO: Numbers look good - Microsoft chief financial officer Greg Maffei said today he was comfortable with Wall Street estimates that the company's earnings will rise to 47 cents a share in the current fiscal fourth quarter from 40 cents a year ago. [News.com]
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- Microsoft donates to Republicans - Stepping up its political donations, Microsoft gave $100,000 to the Republican National Committee last month, according to federal documents. [News.com]
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- Microsoft down on tepid Win 98 - After hitting all-time highs two days in a row, shares of Microsoft fell more than 3 percent today amid concern that sales of the company's Windows 98 operating system would be tepid. [News.com]
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- Microsoft hits 52-week high - Microsoft stock hit another 52-week high in midday trading today, continuing its run-up from last week, when the software giant released its Windows 98 operating system. [News.com]
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- Microsoft hones business tools - Further extending its reach into big corporations, Microsoft will tomorrow announce a new package of its development tools intended to be more enterprise-friendly. [News.com]
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- Microsoft injunction overturned - A federal appeals court today overturned an injunction that had required Microsoft to offer its Windows 95 operating system without requiring computer makers to carry its Internet Explorer Web browser. [News.com]
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- Microsoft invests in Korean firm - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said today that the software giant has submitted a proposal to the South Korean government to invest in Hangul & Computer. [News.com]
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- Microsoft invests in Pluto - In another play for PC-TV convergence, Microsoft today made an equity investment in Pluto Technologies, a privately held networking and video storage company. [News.com]
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- Microsoft invests in Tut Systems - Microsoft has expanded its efforts to bolster the high-speed data market by making an investment in Tut Systems, a developer of high-speed data connectivity. [News.com]
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- Microsoft photo site overwhelmed - After promising the world, a red-faced Microsoft is finding itself unable to deliver. [News.com]
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- Microsoft pictures the world - Until today, the World Wide Web has been missing one thing: the world. [News.com]
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- Microsoft plans high-end SQL - Microsoft plans to start testing a new high-end version of its SQL Server database by the end of the month that will add support for clustered servers and very large databases. [News.com]
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- Microsoft plans NT software launch - Microsoft may have trouble sticking to delivery dates for major operating system releases, but the company will deliver an optimized version of its Windows NT Server software for centralized corporate computing on time. [News.com]
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- Microsoft readies Visual Basic 6.0 - Microsoft is hoping to lighten the load on application developers with a new, more Web- and database-friendly version of its Visual Basic development tool. [News.com]
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- Microsoft ruling may be symbolic - Despite the celebratory claims from corporate headquarters in Redmond, Washington, today's appellate court victory could end up largely symbolic for Microsoft in the long run. [News.com]
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- Microsoft sells Softimage to Avid - Here's a switch: Microsoft is selling a company, not buying it. [News.com]
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- Microsoft shares soar on ruling - Microsoft stock neared the psychological $100-per-share mark on today's news that the U.S. Court of Appeals had overturned an injunction that blocked the software giant from requiring PC makers who use Windows 95 to also use its Internet Explorer Web browser. [News.com]
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- Microsoft shows off Office 2000 - Microsoft last night previewed a much-anticipated update to its desktop applications package, Office 2000, to a group of 500 "key" customers at the PC Expo show in New York, according to the company. [News.com]
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- Microsoft tests Start site - As part of a gradual rollout of its portal site, Microsoft today quietly launched a public beta of its Internet Start site. [News.com]
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- Microsoft Word bug eats data - Microsoft has confirmed the existence of a data-munching bug in its popular Word word-processing software that can cause users to lose all unsaved data. [News.com]
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- Microsoft wraps tool bundle - Microsoft announced today the final piece of its Visual Studio 6.0 development tool bundle. [News.com]
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- Microsoft wraps Visual C++ bundle - Microsoft is set to announce the final piece of its Visual Studio 6.0 development tool bundle next week. [News.com]
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- Microsoft's cable gambit - Having a cool $10 billion on hand, as Microsoft does, makes it a lot easier to decide "where you want to go today." [News.com]
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- Middle East a software piracy hotbed - The rate of computer software piracy in the Middle East and Africa is the second-highest in the world, but some regional states are taking successful steps to fight the crime, a software watchdog said. [News.com]
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- Middleware market booming - Worldwide middleware revenue will top $7 billion by 2002, according to a recent report by International Data Corporation. [News.com]
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- Midwest to get @Home service - Cable Net access firm @Home today announced an alliance with cable provider Bresnan Communications to deliver high-speed service to Bresnan's subscribers in the Midwest. [News.com]
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- Millennium bug threatens ships - World shipping is at risk from the millennium computer bomb, delegates to a conference here have been told, and much work needs to be done to ensure against catastrophic failure. [News.com]
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- MindSpring gains in Net stocks - Shares of national Internet provider MindSpring closed up 14.31 to 94.87 on news that the Atlanta-based company had declared a 3-for-1 stock split. [News.com]
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- MIPS stock off to sluggish start - MIPS Technologies, a Silicon Graphics spin-off that designs chips for embedded products, hit the public markets today. [News.com]
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- Moody's upgrades Apple - Moody's Investors Service today upgraded Apple Computer's senior and subordinated debt ratings. [News.com]
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- More Americans getting news online - The number of Americans reading news on the Internet at least once per week has more than tripled in the past two years, according to a survey released today. [News.com]
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- More firms certified for SET - Four vendors have had their "wallet" software certified for complying with the Secure Electronic Transactions (SET) protocol, a small step toward implementing the protocol for secure credit card transactions over the Internet, according to an announcement due Thursday. [News.com]
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- More firms embrace "virtual office" - The "virtual office" is continuing to reshape the way businesses are operated--among high-tech companies and corporate giants alike. [News.com]
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- More firms eye home networking - By the end of year, Rockwell Semiconductor and Advanced Micro Devices are planning to address demand for home networking with new chips that will allow users to create domestic computer networks without remodeling. [News.com]
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- More high-speed DSL service - Bell Atlantic said it will launch a new high-speed Internet access service in September, becoming the latest phone company to use new technology that allows traditional copper phone lines to connect to the World Wide Web. [News.com]
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- Motorola invests in Neoware - Motorola said today that its semiconductor products unit had signed an agreement to buy a minority stake in Neoware Systems, which makes products related to so-called thin-client computing. [News.com]
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- Motorola to cut 15,000 jobs - As part of a massive cost-cutting campaign, chip and electronics conglomerate Motorola said today it would eliminate 15,000 jobs, or 10 percent of its workforce, and take $1.95 billion in charges for doing so. [News.com]
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- Motorola to make "biochips" - Motorola, Packard Instrument, and the U.S. government's Argonne National Laboratory are teaming up to mass produce "biochips"--devices akin to computer chips that can perform thousands of biological reactions, such as decoding genes, in seconds. [News.com]
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- Motorola upped despite warning - After Motorola announced a massive restructuring campaign and said it likely would drop into the red in its June quarter, the company was upgraded based on an improved outlook. [News.com]
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- Motorola: Chip market to shrink - Motorola said today that analysts now expect the global semiconductor industry to shrink about 2 percent in 1998, compared with initial estimates of growth as high as 17 percent. [News.com]
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- Music firms mull Net copyright claim - As the music business gets further entrenched on the Internet, the copyright issues involved are becoming increasingly complicated--and contentious. [News.com]
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- Music site closed over copyright - The information-wants-to-be-free environment that once pervaded the Web was dealt another death-blow this week with the shutdown of the Online Guitar Archive (OLGA), a Net-based library of guitar music charts, following a legal threat by a division of the National Music Publishers' Association. [News.com]
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- Music sites sing new tune - While online music retailing is hot these days, it remains fraught with risk. The past week has seen Amazon.com attempting to leverage its success in books into CDs, as K-Tel--a relatively new player on the Net--looks to recapture its brief but dramatic entry into e-commerce. [News.com]
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- N.Y. Times to launch local guide - When the New York Times launches New York Today, its localized content site, it will be entering an already competitive market. [News.com]
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- N2K deals with Disney, ABC - N2K's Music Boulevard garnered more valuable real estate in the ongoing Net music retail war today by inking e-commerce and marketing deals with Buena Vista Internet Group for its properties Disney.com and ABC.com as well as the ABC Radio Networks. [News.com]
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- Nader calls for AT&T-TCI hearings - Consumer advocate Ralph Nader is asking Federal Communications Commission chairman William Kennard to hold public hearings on the potentially harmful effects of AT&T's proposed $48 billion buyout of Tele-Communications Incorporated. [News.com]
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- Nader to call for AT&T-TCI hearings - Consumer advocate Ralph Nader is expected to ask Federal Communications Commission chairman William Kennard to hold public hearings on the potentially harmful effects of AT&T's proposed $68 billion buyout of Tele-Communications Incorporated. [News.com]
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- Nader urges Windows probe - Consumer-rights advocate Ralph Nader tomorrow will send a letter to Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein urging the Justice Department to investigate "barriers to entry faced by alternative operating systems" other than Microsoft's Windows, including free software. [News.com]
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- Nader's latest target: AT&T-TCI - Ralph Nader made a name for himself three decades ago by challenging the Big Three automakers and other smokestack industries, but the boom in information technology has given the consumer-rights advocate a new lease on life. [News.com]
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- Nando joins portal ranks - Seems like these days, one can't turn around on the Net without encountering another site going portal. [News.com]
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- Nasdaq drops on Intel concerns - Worries about lower earnings from chipmaker Intel drove the Nasdaq lower today in a late-session turnaround that muted gains made earlier in the day among telecommunications stocks. [News.com]
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- National Semi bookings off - National Semiconductor said that its fourth-quarter bookings declined compared with both the year-ago quarter and the third quarter, but that the rate of decline slowed during the month of May. [News.com]
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- Navy, AOL settle privacy case - The settlement this week by the Navy and a sailor accused of being gay based on his America Online membership profile closed a chapter in a landmark privacy case that raised controversial issues online and off, including the convergence of gay rights and security issues in cyberspace. [News.com]
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- NBC buys stake in CNET, Snap - NBC announced yesterday that it has purchased a 19 percent stake in CNET's Snap Internet portal service, and that it will operate the service as a joint venture. [News.com]
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- NCI sells software to Japan telcos - Network Computer, Incorporated said yesterday that it has sold software to four Japanese telecommunication companies which plan to offer Internet access to customers through television sets, a sale that shows growing momentum for the company in foreign markets. [News.com]
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- NEC to set memory price minimum - NEC plans to set a minimum price for its 16-megabit DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips in a bid to shift demand toward 64-megabit DRAM chips. [News.com]
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- NEC touts fastest supercomputer - NEC today launched its SX-5 series of supercomputers, which it said are the fastest in the world. [News.com]
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- Net a boon for airfare bargains - Summer airfare sales for U.S. flights are likely to be fewer and more restrictive this year, but bargain hunters may still find cheap seats for trips abroad and for off-peak travel. [News.com]
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- Net a center for election info - Online voting may still be a long way off, but a quick sweep of Net sites for tomorrow's elections show that digital democracy is definitely catching on. [News.com]
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- Net ad firms team up - Two leading Internet advertising firms, DoubleClick and AdKnowledge, said they have formed a strategic partnership that promises to smooth the process for corporate marketers to buy and sell advertising on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Net ads top $351 million in quarter - Online advertising in the first three months of 1998 totaled $351.3 million, up just 5 percent from 1997's last quarter, according to figures released today by the Internet Advertising Bureau. [News.com]
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- Net aflame with Disney protests - Once again, Disney theme park loyalists are using the Web to protest what they think are plans to close another beloved attraction: the Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland. [News.com]
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- Net aflame with Taco Bell protests - The Taco Bell Chihuahua may be smaller than a cat or even a loaf of bread, but he has folks all across America, especially those of Latino heritage, growling at him--especially on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Net banking services for Japan - Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi (BTM) said today that it would introduce a new Internet banking service for private clients in collaboration with Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Net brokers look overseas - Electronic brokers are starting to follow big U.S. securities firms abroad, with E*Trade Group announcing it is entering the Japanese market. [News.com]
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- Net called boon to music sales - Seagram chief executive Edgar Bronfman Jr., whose company recently agreed to buy rival music producer PolyGram, says the Internet could cut costs and revolutionize music distribution. [News.com]
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- Net catalog for Home Depot unit - Connect Incorporated said it is creating an online catalog and ordering system for Home Depot Incorporated's Maintenance Warehouse, a leading reseller of building repair products. [News.com]
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- Net celebrates James Joyce - Fans of the Irish writer James Joyce can participate in the annual Bloomsday celebration of Joyce's most famous novel Ulysses by listening to readings from all over the world for the first time via the Internet. [News.com]
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- Net could change education - Without ever taking a seat in a classroom, millions of students around the world will soon be able to earn a diploma by taking courses over the Internet, computer industry leaders said. [News.com]
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- Net crusaders target Madison Ave. - Pioneers of Internet marketing are gearing up for a long campaign to win over the pessimists of the advertising world. [News.com]
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- Net forcing car sales reform - Canada's retail auto sector was jolted by news that a major auto retailer in southern Ontario intends to take its shares public and seek a listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange. [News.com]
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- Net gambling set to take off - More than $10 billion will be gambled online by 2002 as operators take advantage of the huge audience reach and cost savings of the Internet, market analyst Datamonitor said today. [News.com]
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- Net gaming to reach billion mark - More than 15 million people in the United States and Europe will be paying around $1.4 billion to play computer games online by the year 2002, according to a new report. [News.com]
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- Net helps Chinese dissidents - In this electronic era, the police guards outside the home of Beijing dissident Ren Wanding can watch his movements day and night, but they can't stop him from networking online with his democracy activist friends. [News.com]
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- Net industry reacts to FTC threat - In a last-ditch effort to counter the Federal Trade Commission's scathing report due tomorrow about the state of online privacy, high-tech trade groups representing more than 11,000 companies sent President Clinton a letter today asking for a final shot at self-regulation. [News.com]
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- Net music business tunes in - The active Internet music business has shown its two sides of late, with copyright issues popping up on one hand and executives waxing bullish about sales on the other. [News.com]
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- Net music firm faces copyright push - A company with a unique plan for making money on the Net in the music business could find its lucrative enterprise threatened by one of the thorniest issues around: Net copyright. [News.com]
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- Net no substitute for stockbrokers - The dawn of Internet trading does not mean stockbrokers are becoming obsolete, a Merrill Lynch executive told a technology conference. [News.com]
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- Net privacy plans scrutinized - Leading online industry proposals to safeguard privacy were slammed by experts today for lacking strict enforcement mechanisms and consumer recourse. [News.com]
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- Net quandary for Bells - "Shall we dance?" Internet companies can expect to hear that proposition increasingly from telcos and print media corporations seeking to expand in cyberspace. Today's report of AT&T tentatively bidding for America Online is just one case in point, and more are expected. [News.com]
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- Net radio firms tune up deals - The Internet radio sector got a boost today with two players striking deals to increase distribution and e-commerce. [News.com]
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- Net retailer hurt by congestion - Internet retailer CyberShop International said today that congestion on its computer systems had hurt sales, but sales in April and May had doubled from a year earlier. [News.com]
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- Net stock rebound boosts Nasdaq - Nasdaq stocks pulled higher today as deals by America Online and CNET fired up a cyberspace recovery that sent Internet stocks soaring. [News.com]
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- Net stocks stymie short-sellers - Short-sellers increased their stakes in Yahoo and Excite in mid-June over the previous month, but those moves may come back to haunt them, as the stocks in those companies have charged ahead in recent days. [News.com]
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- Net strategy boosts Audio Book Club - Audio Books Club's Internet strategy has dramatically boosted its membership from the beginning of the year, which is a key factor in its growth prospects, but chief executive officer Norton Herrick said he is comfortable with estimates for a second-quarter loss of $0.20 per share. [News.com]
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- Net subsidy fight in Congress - Forces are escalating in Congress to stop the Federal Communications Commission from collecting funds to discount Net access for rural hospitals, libraries, and schools. [News.com]
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- Net to speed HMO claim payments - Aetna U.S. Healthcare has launched an electronic system to speed up the payment of claims to doctors and reduce bureaucratic delays associated with managed health care. [News.com]
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- Net traffic ratings debated - With a common belief that only one or two of them are likely to survive an imminent shakeout, four companies providing Web usage ratings took to the stage here last night in what sponsor Infoseek called the first "great Web ratings debate." [News.com]
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- Net-based commerce on the rise - Traditional online commerce conducted on secure private networks with suppliers will continue to grow in the Internet era, but more orders from customers will pour in from Web-enabled systems, according to the chief executive of Sterling Commerce. [News.com]
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- Netcenter ads pay off for Excite - When Excite shelled out $70 million for its partnership with Netscape Communications a month ago, skeptics wondered how the company would get its money's worth out of the deal. Now the company says it has started to do just that. [News.com]
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- Netcenter wants new white pages - Netscape Communications is expected to announce a deal next week under which WhoWhere will provide Netscape's Netcenter portal site with white-page directory information for individuals, according to sources close to the deal. [News.com]
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- NetManage to purchase FTP - NetManage said today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire FTP Software in a stock deal worth about $77.4 million. [News.com]
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- Netscape CEO ups stake by 6.2% - Netscape chief executive James Barksdale has spent nearly $7.3 million to increase his holdings in the software maker by 6.2 percent, marking one of the most significant insider stock purchases of late. [News.com]
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- Netscape expands portal plans - Netscape Communications today will announce both a redesign and 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 hangs onto browser lead - Once again, a study is showing Microsoft gaining on Netscape Communications in their battle for dominance in the Web browser market. [News.com]
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- Netscape in talks with media giants - Following today's debut of the firm's new and improved Netcenter site, Netscape Communications executive vice president Mike Homer said the next step would be to partner with major media companies to position Netcenter to compete more effectively with popular Internet services such as Yahoo. [News.com]
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- Netscape next in portal madness? - Forget about America Online or Yahoo: Is Netscape Communications the next big portal buy? [News.com]
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- Netscape rolls out portal beta - Netscape Communications today invited the public to tour its Netcenter construction zone with the launch of the Netcenter 2.0 beta. [News.com]
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- Netscape strategy questioned - Has the company that was formed with a clear vision of how it could change the World Wide Web--and the world itself--lost focus? [News.com]
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- Netscape to support Web ratings - The move to support Web site rating systems in Netscape Communications' Communicator 4.5--to be rolled out Wednesday, according to sources--will likely bolster the use of these online content controls. [News.com]
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- Netscape to update Communicator - Netscape Communications will announce the latest version of its Communicator Internet software Wednesday, according to sources familiar with the release. [News.com]
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- Netscape updates Communicator - Netscape Communications today officially announced the latest version of its Internet software suite, Communicator 4.5. [News.com]
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- Netscape updates Netcenter - Netscape Communications' Project 60 came to a close last night as the company launched the first major revision to its Netcenter portal site. [News.com]
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- Netscape updates portal, software - Netscape Communications is pushing forward full force this week, announcing an updated version of its Communicator software suite and rolling out a beta upgrade of its Netcenter portal site. Meanwhile, software licensing deals are inching up the firm's bottom line. [News.com]
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- Netscape's deal dependency - Netscape Communications' dealmaking ability is being put to the test, with or without help from the legal woes of rival Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Netscape's e-commerce push - Kicking off its corporate strategy day, Netscape Communications today announced that two new versions of its Internet commerce software are now in a limited beta test, underlining e-commerce as a key element in the company's future. [News.com]
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- Netscape's grand strategy - Netscape executives today outlined their vision for the company's future, describing hoped-for synergies in its three disparate businesses: enterprise software, e-commerce software, and its popular Netcenter Web site. [News.com]
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- Network Associates goes global - Network Associates is calling on Dr. Solomon to bolster its health. [News.com]
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- Network Associates settles suit - Ending a long, bitter dispute, encryption technology firm RSA Data Security and Network Associates, a networking and security software firm, said today that they have settled patent infringement and copyright violation lawsuits filed by RSA. [News.com]
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- Network Computing's losses rise - Network Computing Devices says that, as announced in March, it will report lower revenues and a larger operating loss for second quarter than the previous three-month period. [News.com]
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- Networking firms' boom time over - These are the times that try networking companies' souls. [News.com]
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- New chipmaking process could slash costs - Tokyo Electron and university researchers have been jointly developing a system to drastically reduce the cost of making next-generation semiconductors. [News.com]
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- New company for Alpha chips due - Next week at PC Expo, Samsung will provide details on a new subsidiary that will be charged with marketing Digital Equipment's Alpha architecture chips, as Compaq Computer assumes oversight of the chip design team. [News.com]
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- New face for Deja News - Hoping to cash in with advertisers by categorizing its vast array of content, Deja News, a Web-based newsgroup aggregator, today launched a revamp of its home page, which now resembles the look and feel of a Net gateway site. [News.com]
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- New holes in Net services - Although America Online is taking a hard line against hackers, the largest online service continues to be subject to security breaches--the latest example being the compromised account information for its community leaders. In addition, free email providers may be helping their spammer nemeses cull data about users. [News.com]
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- New India Net policy coming - India will announce a new Internet policy regarding monopolies within three months, the chief of a government-appointed panel on information technology said today. [News.com]
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- New Intel design to cut costs - To further cut manufacturing costs on its low-end chips while beginning its move into information appliances, Intel will release a version of the Celeron processor next year that abandons the "Slot 1" architecture that has become synonymous with the Pentium II. [News.com]
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- Newbridge meets expectations - Computer networking firm Newbridge Networks met analysts' expectations for fourth-quarter earnings today, after posting three straight quarters of disappointing results. [News.com]
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- News Corp. unit to launch IPO - News Corporation said today that it plans to sell up to 20 percent of its Fox Group--whose programs include the hit TV show The X-Files and which owns baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers--in a public stock offering. [News.com]
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- NEWS.COM wins industry awards - NEWS.COM swept all four categories it entered at the Annual Computer Press Awards this year, including best overall site. [News.com]
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- Newsweek coming to the Web - The Washington Post Company's new media subsidiary today said it has taken over operations of Newsweek Interactive, which controls Newsweek magazine's presence on America Online, and plans to launch a Newsweek Web site in the fall. [News.com]
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- Nickelodeon taps Disney VP - Nickelodeon online will announce Monday that it has hired David Vogler, former vice president for Disney online, in a newly created role for the network's online division, vice president, creative. [News.com]
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- No Intel smoking gun--yet - In sharp contrast to a separate antitrust action filed last month against another PC industry giant, the Federal Trade Commission's complaint against Intel contains few dramatic revelations or previously unknown allegations. [News.com]
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- No Q2 warning from Intel - Intel said that it does not plan to issue any statement today on its second-quarter financials, and that its previous guidance for its second-quarter earnings to Wall Street has not changed. [News.com]
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- No rush to upgrade browsers - Would you upgrade your browser in exchange for a shiny new BMW? How about a Reba McEntire CD? [News.com]
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- Nortel buys Bay for $9 billion - Canadian telecommunications firm Northern Telecom bought its way into the data networking market with the $9.1 billion acquisition of Bay Networks, catapulting the duo to the forefront of a converging marketplace. [News.com]
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- Nortel merger key to networking future - To hear chief executives David House and John Roth tell it, the merger of their two companies is a match made in heaven. [News.com]
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- Nortel-Bay deal a sea change - The $9.1 billion merger between telecommunications firm Northern Telecom and data communications provider Bay Networks is the most striking representation of the changes taking place in the networking industry. [News.com]
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- Notebooks to get new Zip drives - Iomega kicked off PC Expo this week with new Zip drives for notebooks, as well as new distribution and licensing deals that will likely lead to more types of removable high-density storage products. [News.com]
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- Novell cleared in patent case - Novell said today that it has been cleared of any wrongdoing in a long-running patent infringement case brought by Action Technologies. [News.com]
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- Novell names Raney CFO - Novell said today that it named Dennis Raney senior vice president and chief financial officer. [News.com]
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- Novell to repurchase 10% of shares - Novell said today that its board of directors has authorized the company to repurchase up to 10 percent, or about 35 million shares, of Novell common stock over the next twelve months. [News.com]
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- Novell, Intel to serve Java - Network software maker Novell outlined plans to build a next-generation "virtual machine" based on the Java programming language with Intel, focused on fast delivery of server-side software applications. [News.com]
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- Novellus offers copper chip gear - Novellus, a maker of semiconductor production equipment, will unveil today a full line of systems for chipmakers to manufacture faster semiconductors using next-generation copper technology. [News.com]
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- NSI stock jumps - Shares in Network Solutions, one of the high-flying Net stocks, jumped 20 percent in trading today after the Clinton administration released what the company called a "market-focused, evolutionary" plan to overhaul the Internet's naming system. [News.com]
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- NT 5.0 hits second beta in July - A second beta of Microsoft's mammoth upgrade to its Windows NT operating system will be delivered to test sites by mid-July, according to several prominent customers at the company's TechEd developer conference here. [News.com]
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- NT release delayed--again - The release schedule for Microsoft's anticipated Windows NT operating system upgrade seems as murky as ever. [News.com]
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- NTT in new telecom partnership - A unit of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone today unveiled a partnership with International Digital Communications to sell and market telecommunications services. [News.com]
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- Old media shop for new media - While industry pundits and analysts talk of the coming convergence between personal computers and television, media titans such as Disney and NBC are snapping up Internet media brands, and rumors of other "old" media companies shopping for new media companies abound. [News.com]
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- Old Microsoft bug hits Macs - A two-year old problem in Office 95 has resurfaced, this time in Microsoft's Office 98 for the Mac. [News.com]
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- Online bill payment makes strides - The day when consumers can view and pay all their bills online is moving closer. [News.com]
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- Online investing via plastic? - Don't have the cash to invest online? Why not test the limit on your credit card? [News.com]
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- Online Y2K conference gearing up - Final preparations are being made for Monday's launch of a first-of-its-kind online global conference on the Year 2000 technology problem, organizers said today. [News.com]
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- Oracle 8 update is app-friendly - Oracle has already tackled support for universal data types in its Oracle 8 database. Now the company is shooting for universal application support with a new update now in development. [News.com]
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- Oracle earnings on target - Oracle hit the mark with its quarterly earnings report today at 41 cents a share, slightly higher than Wall Street estimates. [News.com]
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- Oracle plans database to go - Oracle is already a big name in massive database servers running on powerful computers. [News.com]
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- Oracle to ship sharpened tools - Oracle will next week make good on promises to ship updates to its development tool and video server software products. [News.com]
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- Oracle, HP team up for NC - Oracle and Hewlett-Packard are teaming up to put guarantees behind Oracle's network computing architecture. [News.com]
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- Oracle, PeopleSoft clash anew - Fierce rivals Oracle and PeopleSoft are pushing further into specific industries with the help of some services friends. [News.com]
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- Outlook email can be abused - A new feature in Microsoft Outlook Express could result in users sending thousands of email messages to the same mailbox, the company confirmed today. [News.com]
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- Pac Bell to hike fees, cap access - Pacific Bell is planning to cap its Internet access at 150 hours per month and increase its monthly access fee to $21.95 as of August 1, a move that some analysts applaud and others call perilous. [News.com]
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- PalmPilot, Netscape do business - In yet another example of how 3Com's Palm Computing subsidiary is making a big push into large corporations, Netscape Communications announced this week that its browser software will soon offer features which allow 3Com's handheld computers to make better use of corporate applications. [News.com]
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- Panel: Net future is wireless - Within five years, consumers will routinely surf the Internet from their mobile phones, a panel of wireless communications executives said today. [News.com]
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- PC browser plans unchanged - PC makers' plans to depart from past practices and include Netscape Navigator on new computers will probably not be derailed by today's ruling that Microsoft can compel vendors to offer its Internet Explorer browser along with the Windows 95 operating system. [News.com]
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- PC Expo pushes industry envelope - Servers, direct sales, and software for "dumb terminals" headlined this week's PC Expo trade show in New York, which offered a glimpse of the near-future of corporate computing. [News.com]
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- PC growth expected to slow - Hampered by inventory problems and weakness in Asia, the global personal computer market is expected to grow by only 9 percent in the second quarter, according to research firm International Data Corporation. [News.com]
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- PC industry in Big Apple - The computing industry, wracked by price wars, parts gluts, and inventory issues, is putting on its best face to corporate buyers at this week's PC Expo in New York. [News.com]
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- PC makers target the dumb terminal - In conjunction with today's release of a new version of Microsoft's NT Server software, computer makers are rolling out stripped-down computers that offer basic hardware features--so-called "dumb terminals"--but low-cost PCs may be conspiring against widespread use of the devices. [News.com]
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- PC server market tumbling - An oversupply of PC servers will trouble Compaq Computer, IBM, and other leading server manufacturers throughout the year, forcing them to slash prices and clear out inventory, according to a new market research report. [News.com]
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- Pension funds sue Cendant - Pension funds in New York and California said today that they had filed suits against Cendant, alleging that the business and consumer services company misled investors about its financial results. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft buying an old friend - PeopleSoft is no longer window shopping in the retail market--it's buying. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft climbs ERP ladder - PeopleSoft overtook Oracle in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) application market in 1997, while SAP continued to hold a commanding lead over all other players, according to a new study by International Data Corporation. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft gets insurance - PeopleSoft is buying a little insurance to guarantee a place for itself in the financial industries market. [News.com]
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- Peripherals to surge with Win 98 - Peripheral vendors--companies that specialize in modems, digital cameras, add-in cards, and the like--will likely experience an upswing in business following Microsoft's Windows 98 rollout, since the new operating system will bring built-in support for a number of emerging hardware technologies. [News.com]
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- Pfeiffer: Web sales, Alpha key to Compaq - Compaq chief executive officer Eckhard Pfeiffer today outlined a future for his company that will involve more sales of products and services over the Web as well as an increased push into high-end corporate computing, including support for the Digital Equipment 64-bit Alpha processor. [News.com]
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- Philips ties up with Mitsumi on storage - Philips Electronics reached an initial agreement with Japan's Mitsumi Electric to cooperate in the development, manufacture, and sales of optical data storage products. [News.com]
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- Philips tries to keep up in monitors - Trying to stay abreast of the changing monitor market, Philips Electronics announced new products in its flat panel display and conventional monitor lines today at PC Expo. [News.com]
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- Pivotal releases management package - Pivotal Software is rolling out today the latest release of its customer management software system. [News.com]
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- Pixel finds computer screen niche - It may not seem like much, but developers at a small Seattle software company have found a sliver of computer screen real estate not controlled by giant Microsoft. [News.com]
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- PlayNet files for bankruptcy - PlayNet Technologies filed for chapter 11 protection late yesterday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware. [News.com]
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- Plug pulled on server maker - Axil Computer, a subsidiary of Hyundai Electronics America, is pulling the plug on development of high-end, Intel-based servers, pulling down some of Hewlett-Packard's 8-way Intel server efforts in the process. [News.com]
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- Poll cools cybersex speculation - Cybersex, it turns out, is not so steamy after all. In what is being billed as the first major "click-and-tell" poll about online sex, Internet users poured cold water on feverish speculation about their hot-and-heavy, high-tech love lives. [News.com]
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- Portals look to commerce - The heated competition among "portal" sites--those all-in-one services seeking to become home pages to the world--is moving to the e-commerce, with Yahoo and Excite leading the way. Others other players continue to cut deals at a feverish pace. [News.com]
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- Potential bug clouds Xeon release - Corporate computer manufacturers will join Intel Monday to announce new lines based on the Xeon processor, though a potential bug may put off four-processor Xeon servers. [News.com]
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- PowerPC chip venture ends - Motorola and IBM closed the door on an era today, announcing that the PowerPC chip design center the two companies have operated jointly in Austin, Texas, since 1992 will now be wholly owned by Motorola. [News.com]
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- Premiere falls on analyst warning - Shares of Premiere Technologies plummeted more than 26 percent today, following an analyst's warning that its recent acquisitions would hurt quarterly results. [News.com]
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- Preview Travel plans buyout - Net travel firm Preview Travel today said it has signed a nonbinding letter of intent to acquire Adventure Media, a privately held company that operates Net vacation site Travelon.com. [News.com]
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- Prices plunge in storage market - Technology advances and increased competition from Asian storage makers are driving storage prices down to record levels, a recent study says, resulting in a bane for some manufacturers but a boon for consumers as demand reaches an all-time high. [News.com]
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- Privacy order for GeoCities - Online community builder GeoCities said it has agreed to a proposed consent order to avoid possible action by the Federal Trade Commission over privacy issues, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [News.com]
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- Problems delay Merced chip - Merced, the next-generation processor from Intel, will be delayed about six months, a blow to workstation and server makers such as Hewlett-Packard that are betting heavily on the chip. [News.com]
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- Problems persist for Iomega - While trying to revitalize sales on some of its removable storage drives by cutting prices, Iomega is facing many challenges in its attempt to get back to profitability and growth. [News.com]
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- Project tool uses Java, Net - One of the few companies to make real world use out of Java has found a new use for the project management applications in it. [News.com]
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- Quantum expects revenue growth - The world's second largest disk drive maker, Quantum, expects modest profit growth in 1998-99 in the face of several hurdles, chief executive Michael Brown said today. [News.com]
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- Quarterdeck layoffs, losses loom - Struggling utilities maker Quarterdeck today said it plans to cut its workforce, as it faces weaker-than-expected third-quarter revenues and a substantial operating loss. [News.com]
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- Qwest strikes service deals - Qwest Communications has announced two separate deals in which companies have committed to using its planned fiber optic network to provide new, Internet-related telephone services. [News.com]
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- RadiSys to buy back stock - RadiSys today said its board has authorized the repurchase of up to $5 million of the company's common stock in open-market transactions. [News.com]
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- Rambus technology vindicated - Shares of Rambus have climbed more than 24 percent since an announcement yesterday that industry heavyweights are embracing the company's core technology, which allows computers to work more quickly and efficiently. [News.com]
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- Read-Rite warns of shortfall - Read-Rite said today that it expects its third-quarter results to fall below analysts' expectations due to continuing difficult industry conditions and reductions in demand. [News.com]
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- Record election turnout online - Tuesday's primary elections in eight states seemed to prove once again that politics and the Net make good bedfellows. [News.com]
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- Red Brick offers query-priority tool - Data warehousing firm Red Brick Systems wants to let its customers do the analytical equivalent of walking and chewing gum at the same time. [News.com]
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- Regulators still mining Microsoft - The Justice Department and state attorneys general are continuing ongoing investigations of Microsoft that are separate from the parallel antitrust lawsuits filed on May 18, the software giant stated in a regulatory filing today. [News.com]
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- Remedy, Oracle integrate software - Oracle today said it will integrate Remedy's Help Desk applications suite with its Oracle8 database server and Oracle Applications. [News.com]
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- Report: Competition hurts Japan - The competitiveness of Japanese manufacturers has waned in recent years due to structural changes in industry and increasing global competition, Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) said today. [News.com]
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- Report: Federal Y2K efforts slow - As the end of the century nears, government department efforts to fix Year 2000 computer problems slowed during the last quarter, according to an Office of Management and Budget report released yesterday. [News.com]
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- Resellers wary of Microsoft store - Nitro, Microsoft's online software store, isn't the only explosive Redmond will spring on its resellers. [News.com]
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- Rest of '98 key for Intel - The first half is over, and it hasn't been pretty. [News.com]
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- Ricoh blends camera technology - Ricoh announced the commercial availability of a moderately priced "megapixel" camera offering a combination of digital and traditional photography features. [News.com]
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- Rock star latest AOL hack victim - Trent Reznor, lead singer and songwriter for the industrial-rock band Nine Inch Nails, has become the latest victim of an America Online account takeover-- and the alternative rock guru plans to take action against the perpetrator. [News.com]
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- Rockwell plans major overhaul - Rockwell International said today that it would cut 3,800 jobs and spin off its semiconductor unit in a sweeping restructuring. [News.com]
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- Rockwell to slash staff by 10% - Rockwell International is expected to announce that it will cut its 48,000-member workforce by 10 percent, according to reports. [News.com]
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- RSA opens its software safe - With a bow to a competing technology, RSA Data Security will release on Monday version 4.0 of its flagship BSafe toolkit, its basic encryption engine and tools for programmers to create secure applications. [News.com]
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- Russia not taking Y2K seriously - Russia has yet to take the millennium computer bug problem seriously and could face catastrophic consequences if it does not act quickly, U.S. and Russian business representatives said today. [News.com]
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- Russia, U.S. meet on Year 2000 - The scenario is out of a Cold War novel, but American officials fear it could really happen: Russian military early-warning computers go blank, panicked officers suspect Western sabotage and spring into action. [News.com]
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- S. Korea leader to meet big firms - South Korea today confirmed that President Kim Dae-Jung is scheduled to meet heads of Intel, General Motors, and Hewlett-Packard during his U.S. visit. [News.com]
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- Sabre to resell Sun JavaStations - Sun Microsystems announced a major sale of JavaStation network computers to airline reservation system operator Sabre Group Holdings, a coup for Sun's much-maligned NCs. [News.com]
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- Sales off before Windows debut - Consumers stayed away from computer, peripherals, and software purchases last month as they awaited the release of Windows 98, according to new research. [News.com]
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- Samsung announces Alpha subsidiary - Samsung announced details of a new subsidiary charged with marketing Digital Equipment's Alpha architecture chips, focusing the processor's drive into the Windows NT market. [News.com]
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- SAP adds to warehouse apps - German software giant SAP is spreading its flagship R/3 software system to even more corners of corporate computing environments, this time to the warehouse. [News.com]
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- SAP distributes free Euro upgrade - With the European Monetary Unit set to take flight next year, SAP is giving its global and European customers a leg up on the new currency with a free patch to allow R/3 and R/2 systems to process it. [News.com]
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- SAP expands flagship for all - SAP is continuing to turn its flagship R/3 product into all things software for corporate users. [News.com]
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- SBC to expand data services - SBC Communications outlined plans to spend $600 million over the next three years and more than double its sales force to upgrade to a high-speed digital network capable of meeting the explosion in demand for data services. [News.com]
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- Schmidt: Novell to speed up Java - Novell chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt outlined plans to improve Java performance on Intel-based servers and offer key software technologies for Windows NT in a keynote speech today at the PC Expo trade show. [News.com]
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- School cashes in on Amazon - Call it an elementary lesson in economics. [News.com]
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- Sci-Atlanta sees gains, charges - Scientific-Atlanta said that it expects a fourth-quarter gain of $100 million and charges totaling between $60 million and $75 million, but that the actions will not negatively impact the company's results. [News.com]
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- SCO updates messaging - Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) today rolled out its latest enterprise messaging server for Intel-based computer systems. [News.com]
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- Searching for pot of gold - Portals sites--those all-in-one services seeking to become home pages to the world--are intensifying their efforts to chase customers and businesses, while looking to benefit from Wall Street's riches. And they all continue to cut deals at a feverish pace. [News.com]
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- SEC to testify on millennium bug - Government regulators, economists, and corporate executives will testify this Wednesday before the Senate Banking subcommittee on the need to get more meaningful disclosure from publicly traded companies on their Year 2000 preparedness. [News.com]
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- Semiconductor slump to drag on - The two-year-old worldwide semiconductor slump may drag on due to the Asian financial crisis, lackluster personal computer demand, and a worldwide glut of memory chips, industry analysts say. [News.com]
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- Senate mulls spam issues - It doesn't matter that scores of Net users hate spam--it's still clogging their email in-boxes and the congressional schedule. [News.com]
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- SGI spinoff readies IPO - Silicon Graphics may spin out its MIPS business as early as next week in an initial public offering and sell its Cosmo Software unit to Sony. [News.com]
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- SGI stock suit could set precedent - When lawyers for Silicon Graphics and some of its shareholders square off in federal appeals court tomorrow, high-tech companies and investors advocates alike will be watching closely. [News.com]
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- Shopping.com gets a new leader - Shopping.com, an electronic commerce site with a short but volatile history, today named a new president and chief executive. John Markley, who has 25 years of experience in the non-Internet retail industry, will be replacing Robert McNulty, the Corona Del Mar, California, company said. [News.com]
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- Shopping.com shopping for funds - Shopping.com said today that it has hired Ladenburg Thalmann as its investment banker to evaluate "potential strategic opportunities." [News.com]
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- SilverStream updates app server - SilverStream Software is revamping its Java-based development tool and application server package to make it easier to build multitier applications. [News.com]
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- Singapore passes e-commerce law - Singapore passed an electronic commerce law today as part of an effort to establish the country as an international hub for growing cybertrade. [News.com]
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- SkyBridge ups broadband ante - SkyBridge said today it would invest an additional $700 million in its broadband satellite network in order to double the network's capacity--heating up the rivalry to provide data communications from space. [News.com]
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- Small businesses wary of high tech - The majority of small businesses are confused by technology purchasing decisions and skeptical that technology spending will bring much return on the investment, according to a new study, notwithstanding the efforts of high-tech companies to convince them otherwise. [News.com]
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- Softbank, E*Trade ink Japan deal - Softbank said today that it and E*Trade Group of the United States had agreed to set up an online securities trading joint venture in Japan. [News.com]
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- Software firms to link back offices - Hyperion Software is calling on Oberon Software to help build links to leading enterprise resource planning systems. [News.com]
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- Software makes it on the charts - Chart management software company ChartWorks has unveiled a product that it hopes will enliven, by using the Internet, the otherwise cumbersome process of creating and deploying charts for businesses. [News.com]
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- Software piracy put at $11.4 billion - Applications worth $11.4 billion were pirated in 1997, two software trade groups said today. [News.com]
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- Software vendors try consulting - Enterprise resource planning vendors such as German giant SAP in the next few years will begin to look more like systems integrators than providers of all the software fit to implement, according to a new report by Forrester Research. [News.com]
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- Sony continues portable push - Sony Electronics introduced more new portables, adding to its recently announced line of ultraslim notebooks. [News.com]
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- Sony plans PC push into Europe - Sony plans to ride the popularity of its PCs in Japan by making a push into the European market. [News.com]
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- Sony to launch new PC in Europe - Sony will launch a new low-cost PC model in Europe tomorrow, at a time when things couldn't be worse because of severe downward pressure on pricing as manufacturers scamper to shift sales from dying markets in Asia. [News.com]
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- Sony, Microsoft to make TV box - Sony and Microsoft will market an "interactive cable TV" product by next year, Bill Gates said today in Japan. [News.com]
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- Soros funds Y2K help in Bulgaria - International financier and philanthropist George Soros has offered to set up a joint software company in Bulgaria that would employ cheap local talent to work on the millennium bug, a top official said today. [News.com]
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- Source code bug bites Sun - Sun Microsystems is the latest software company to acknowledge being bitten by a security bug that exposes script source code. [News.com]
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- South Park stars come to life - They throw up. They're flatulent. And they're just cute and portable enough to want to get for yourself. [News.com]
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- SPA warns of NT threat - The Software Publishers Association has released its long-anticipated white paper outlining its "serious concerns with Microsoft leveraging its desktop monopoly" to Windows NT, a document the software giant was quick to dismiss as "misguided." [News.com]
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- Speculation drives Net stocks - Most Internet stocks soared again today, fueled by ongoing speculation about which would be the next to align with a media company or telecommunications carrier. [News.com]
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- Sprint aims to ease congestion - Sprint, the nation's third-largest long distance telephone company, is launching a new telecommunications capability that can provide homes and businesses with copious bandwidth through a telephone line for simultaneous voice, video calls, and data services. [News.com]
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- Sprint dashes for Net - Facing competition from the likes of AT&T, MCI, WorldCom, and the Baby Bells in the newly deregulated world, Sprint is betting on new technology such as an integrated network for voice, video, and data, a stake in ISP EarthLink, and its PCS wireless venture. [News.com]
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- Sprint sees upside on ATM news - Sprint's stock climbed higher on news of its lower-cost ATM network for voice, video, and data--another sign of a rebound by the nation's No. 3 long distance carrier. [News.com]
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- SQL 7.0 in final beta, on time - Microsoft is wrapping up the high-end version of its SQL Server database today, right on schedule. [News.com]
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- SQL Financials revamps apps - SQL Financials' application package has a new look and name. [News.com]
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- Stake in @Home a bonus for AT&T - AT&T's buyout of Tele-Communications Incorporated gets it a controlling stake in @Home, an alliance that is expected to play a pivotal role in the telecommunication giant's strategy to expand its Net access and provide local phone service via cable. [News.com]
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- STAR to acquire PT-1 - STAR Telecommunications said today that it has agreed to acquire privately held PT-1 Communications, the largest prepaid debit phone card company in the United States. [News.com]
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- Starlight to manage multimedia - Multimedia software specialist Starlight Networks will announce a new tool next week that provides management of streaming media servers, including those provided by Microsoft and RealNetworks. [News.com]
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- Start-up revs data packet engine - Start-up NetBoost has devised a new method to speed the performance of networked applications within a corporate layout. [News.com]
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- State Net porn law in dispute - A New Mexico law making it a crime to send minors sexually explicit material over the Net will not go into effect on July 1 as planned, a judge ruled today. [News.com]
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- Steve Case elected to NYSE board - The New York Stock Exchange said its members elected six new directors at an annual meeting today. [News.com]
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- Stocks, deals drive IPO fever - Amid dizzying deals and a run-up in Internet stocks, Net companies are jumping on the IPO train. The latest to join the pack: local guide CitySearch. This comes despite cutthroat competition and continued losses for the IPO candidates. [News.com]
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- Storm clouds lurk for Baan, Oracle - The Baan Company, once the Dutch darling of the packaged application world, may be in for rough times as it tries to integrate a slew of recently purchased products into its core system, analysts predict. [News.com]
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- Street spikes on tech-led rally - A rally in technology stocks sent Wall Street sharply higher in midday trading today. [News.com]
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- Street, global markets recover - Wall Street soared today, tracking the big gains in global stock markets on news that central banks are rescuing the relentlessly battered Japanese yen. [News.com]
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- Study predicts boom in digital TV - Nearly 23 million homes worldwide will be watching digital television by the end of this year, most of them via satellite with cable likely to expand rapidly in the future, according to a study released today. [News.com]
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- Study predicts Net shopping boom - The number of consumers online is expected to boom by the year 2002, according to a study released today. [News.com]
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- Study: Net phones threaten telcos - Making telephone calls over the Internet is getting cheaper and easier, and soon will provide profit-threatening competition to established big operators, a report published today said. [News.com]
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- Study: Parents would pay for safe Net - More than half of parents with Web-surfing children are willing to pay for services that police Internet content and chat rooms for inappropriate material, according to a study released today. [News.com]
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- Summit aimed at Net, bottleneck - In an attempt to encourage cooperation on bandwidth and other problems facing the Internet, the Global Internet Project today called on Internet companies and organizations to convene a summit this year. [News.com]
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- Summit deals with Net privacy issues - On the heels of a stinging federal online privacy report, today's White House meeting about creating better Net content for children also is turning to more sobering issues, such as how to best protect young surfers' sensitive information. [News.com]
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- Sun buys science software firm - Sun announced it has acquired Dakota Scientific Software (DSS), a South Dakota-based software vendor concentrating on the scientific market. [News.com]
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- Sun does away with 200 jobs - Sun Microsystems said it is consolidating about 200 jobs at the company, a move that stems from a recently announced reorganization, CNET NEWS.COM has learned. [News.com]
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- Sun plans "self-healing" software - Sun Microsystems today said it has acquired Redcape Policy Software in an effort to bolster its storage management software systems. [News.com]
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- Sun turns PCs into NCs - After nearly a yearlong delay, Sun Microsystems announced the availability of software that allows Windows-based PCs to perform as network computers. [News.com]
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- Sun ups ISP focus - Sun Microsystems unveiled a specialized software focus tailored for the service provider market--a traditional stronghold--highlighted by the announcement of a partnership with telecommunications equipment behemoth Lucent Technologies. [News.com]
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- Sun, Hitachi plan Java set-tops - Sun Microsystems is expected later today to announce an initial implementation of 30,000 TV set-top boxes in Japan through Hitachi, the first rollout of Java-based set-top boxes, according to the companies. [News.com]
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- Supply chain software shakeout - As a plethora of players consolidate and the market reaches critical mass, the supply chain management software industry faces a shakeout. [News.com]
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- Supreme Court backs AOL - The Supreme Court handed America Online a significant victory today by refusing to hear a case that accused the largest online service of liability for material posted on its system. [News.com]
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- Survey: Microsoft plays fair - A majority of people polled agree that Microsoft uses "legally acceptable" business practices, according to a newly released survey by the New York Times and CBS. [News.com]
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- Sybase targets financial services - Sybase wants to cash in on the lucrative financial services market. [News.com]
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- Sybase's mobile focus continues - True to its game plan, Sybase is continuing to court builders of mobile computing applications. [News.com]
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- Symantec CEO: growth on track - Symantec remains on track to see revenues grow by 20 percent this fiscal year despite the prospect of heightened competition from the merger of two rivals, said the company's chief executive, Gordon Eubanks. [News.com]
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- Symbol withdraws Telxon offer - Symbol Technologies said today it had withdrawn its offer to buy Telxon Corporation, three days after Telxon rejected the bid. [News.com]
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- Taiwan chip giant upbeat - The global semiconductor industrys outlook is bright despite chipmakers tumbling share prices, the chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said on Sunday. [News.com]
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- Taiwan firms stick with Win 98 - Shrugging off U.S. antitrust action, Taiwanese computer makers plan to embrace Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system, suppliers said today. [News.com]
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- Taiwan VC firm backs DRAMs - Taiwan venture capital giant China Development Corporation said today it would invest T$2.186 billion in a money-losing microchip maker, citing the industry's strong long-term potential. [News.com]
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- TCI deal may speed PC-TV marriage - The proposed $48 billion merger between AT&T and Tele-Communications Incorporated is expected to help speed the convergence of PCs and TVs by increasing the size and speed of the infrastructure investment needed to transform analog technology into digital format. [News.com]
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- TCI gets into new media - Is TCI becoming a new-media company? [News.com]
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- TCI moving slowly on telephony - People who are curious about Tele-Communications Incorporated's telephone offerings are instructed on the company's Web site to click on the icon called "People Link." But the link is broken, a telling indication that the cable giant's plan for phone service is still very much a work in progress. [News.com]
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- TCI, United Video buy TV Guide - News Corporation will sell its TV Guide properties to United Video Satellite Group and units of Tele-Communications Incorporated in a $2 billion deal. [News.com]
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- Tech credited for GDP growth - The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta said today that new technology likely helped raise productivity and growth in the U.S. gross domestic product. [News.com]
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- Tech giants team over Net rules - About 50 of the world's top computer and communications companies agreed today to set up a body to channel industry viewpoints about Internet regulation to public authorities and international organizations. [News.com]
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- Tech IPOs buck market fears - The initial public offering market has become a chaotic mess, but price jumps for recent technology deals show that investors are still betting there is money to be made in software and the Web, analysts say. [News.com]
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- Tech issues begin to rebound - Stocks powered ahead in early trading today, buoyed by a rebound in technology shares after yesterday's steep fall. [News.com]
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- Tech recovery pushes markets - U.S. stocks ended higher today after a rebound in the recently battered tech sector, which helped to lift some of Asia's gloom still hanging over Wall Street. [News.com]
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- Tech stocks drag down markets - Technology stocks extended their slide this morning, dragging the rest of the market down amid nervousness about profits and a recession in Japan. [News.com]
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- Tech stocks rebound - Blue chips made a modest comeback from yesterday's sell-off but failed to keep pace with a strong rebound rally in technology issues. [News.com]
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- Tech stocks up, but Disney down - Technology stocks continued to surge today, as Yahoo and Excite reached new 52-week highs. Disney, however, did not fare as well. [News.com]
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- Technology fuels bank mergers - Technology, not just deregulation, is a catalyst for the spate of recent bank buyouts, the latest being today's merger between Wells Fargo and Norwest to form the nation's seventh-largest bank. [News.com]
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- Teens arrested for email threats - Two teen girls were arrested for sending death threats via email to several classmates, police said today. [News.com]
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- Teens try on byte-sized clothing - Fashion-conscious teens and Generation Xers will soon have a Web site where they can dress online mannequins--modeled on their own body types--in trendy outfits and then click over to an online store to buy the clothes. [News.com]
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- Tel-Save likes AT&T-AOL rumors - Tel-Save Holdings, which has an exclusive marketing alliance with America Online, said it would benefit if AT&T tried buy or form a partnership with the online service provider. [News.com]
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- Telco gets N.J. Net contract - Intermedia Communications said the state of New Jersey awarded it a one-year contract to sell dedicated private-line Internet services and Internet frame relay services to state entities. [News.com]
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- Telco speculation fuels Net stocks - Internet stocks surged today on renewed speculation that they may become the prey of telecommunications carriers and "old media" companies. [News.com]
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- Telcos hit snags in Net efforts - "I'm dialing up 911. I'm on the brink of trouble again. If you could change the time a little, then everything would be fine." --Cyndi Lauper, "911" [News.com]
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- Telecom Italia beefing up Net business - Telecom Italia, after striking online content deals with Excite and Disney, said it is building up its Internet operations in an effort to become an integrated communications company. [News.com]
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- Telecom megamerger - AT&T's announcement today to buy Tele-Communications Incorporated is another tangible sign of PC-TV convergence. The companies aim to create a "one-stop" shop for cable television, phone, and Internet access for consumers, perhaps controlled from a next-generation set-top TV box. They face intense competition, however. [News.com]
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- Tellabs to acquire Ciena - Tellabs has agreed to acquire Ciena in a stock swap worth $7.1 billion, the two fast-growing telecommunications companies said today. [News.com]
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- Telstra plays down Microsoft talks - Telstra said today that it has not entered into any definitive discussions about a joint venture with Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Telstra, Microsoft in cable talks - Australia's former telephone monopoly Telstra said today that it was in talks with Microsoft about a joint venture using Telstra's cable network. [News.com]
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- The AT&T merger and you - Well, it's official: AT&T owns me. [News.com]
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- The Learning Co. buys Broderbund - The Learning Company said today that it has agreed to buy Broderbund Software in a stock swap valued at $420 million. [News.com]
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- The Spot creator gets new gig - Scott Zakarin, who established America Online's Entertainment Asylum and the defunct Web soap The Spot, has resurfaced as a cofounder of a film company. [News.com]
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- Thinking inside the box - The set-top box, the locus of next-generation television and always-on Internet access, is at the center of intense business and regulatory interest, even though the new devices and applications are still nascent. [News.com]
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- Three chat software firms team up - Internet chat software developers Electronic Communities, the Palace, and OnLive Technologies have merged to focus on the corporate market, the companies said today. [News.com]
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- TI out of memory - Texas Instruments announced today that it will sell the remainder of its memory chip business to Micron Technology, an $800 million deal that finalizes TI's protracted exit from the slumping memory market while resulting in some 3,500 layoffs. [News.com]
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- TI wraps up memory sale - Taiwan computer manufacturer Acer has taken over management of a microchip venture it cofounded with Texas Instruments (TI) and begun to aggressively restructure the money-losing firm. [News.com]
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- Top FTC litigator: Sue Intel - The top prosecutor for the Federal Trade Commission in its investigation of Intel has recommended pursuing an action against the chipmaker for alleged antitrust violations. [News.com]
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- Toshiba notebooks even slimmer - Early next month in Japan, Toshiba will launch a portable lineup it calls world's slimmest and lightest. [News.com]
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- Toshiba servers back Solaris - Sun Microsystems claimed a victory in the contest to become the industry's standard variant of Unix, as Toshiba announced that it will market Intel-based servers running the Solaris operating system. [News.com]
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- Toshiba to enter server market - Toshiba is set to make its long anticipated entrance into the PC server market at next week's PC Expo trade show. [News.com]
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- Tracking network firewall traffic - WebTrends has released its WebTrends for Firewalls and VPNs software to monitor and report on firewall activity in real-time. [News.com]
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- Tripod, SportsLine play ball - Net community Tripod and Net sports content firm SportsLine USA struck deals to beef up their offerings today, underscoring the ongoing power of sports content and products as valuable Net commodities. [News.com]
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- Tseng, Cell Pathways to merge - Cell Pathways has agreed to acquire Tseng Labs in a stock swap that would give Tseng shareholders a 23 percent stake in Cell Pathways. [News.com]
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- Turkish teen convicted for postings - A Turkish court gave a teenager a ten-month suspended jail sentence for making comments on the Internet criticizing rough police treatment of a group of blind protesters, a court official said today. [News.com]
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- Twins marry after meeting online - Two sets of French and Canadian twins got married in southern France during the weekend after meeting and falling in love on the Internet. [News.com]
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- U.K. to seed high-tech firms - Britain tomorrow will announce the grant of a "substantial" sum of start-up money for small, mainly high-tech companies, according to the nation's Treasury. [News.com]
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- U.N. passes Year 2000 appeal - The United Nations today passed a resolution on the Year 2000 technology problem, appealing to all member states to cooperate on global awareness initiatives and calling upon government, the public, and the private sector to share their experiences in addressing the issue. [News.com]
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- U.S. blocks India, Pakistan sales - The U.S. government will curb exports of high-powered computers to nuclear rivals India and Pakistan, but will not stop companies from selling them into the private sector. [News.com]
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- U.S. markets dip despite Asia rally - Stocks drifted lower in early trading today as Wall Street shifted into a cautious mode, waiting to see what new remedy Japan takes to cure its sick economy. [News.com]
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- U.S. might try EU commerce rules - A senior adviser to President Clinton said today that the United States would be willing to try Europe's more intrusive approach to regulating commerce over the Internet if the free-market approach failed. [News.com]
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- U.S. official urges free Net in China - Putting a cyberspace slant on visiting President Clinton's calls for a freer China, U.S. Secretary of Commerce William Daley today urged Beijing to let the Internet grow without state interference. [News.com]
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- U.S. to finalize domain plan - The United States is looking at putting out a final proposal on the naming system for the Internet within the next two weeks, a senior government official said today. [News.com]
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- U.S. to quell Russia Y2K fears - The United States is drawing up plans to keep Russia and others from being spooked into millennium bug-related "nightmare" military scenarios, a top Pentagon official said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Uncle Sam, online shopper - In its efforts to encourage Internet commerce, the federal government can play a role as a major online purchaser, a Commerce Department official told an e-commerce trade group today. [News.com]
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- Undaunted Toshiba sells servers - After a failed attempt to break into the U.S. consumer computing market and a late start in the desktop PC business, Toshiba formally introduced its first PC servers. [News.com]
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- Unisys has next-gen mainframes - Unisys is planning today to unveil a new generation of its ClearPath mainframe computers, a product critical to its profits, according to reports. [News.com]
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- UPS sees surge in Net delivery - About a third of all urgent document deliveries will be switched from physical to virtual transmission over the Internet by 2002, express delivery firm United Parcel Service (UPS) predicted. [News.com]
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- US West splits up voice, data traffic - US West announced a limited rollout of a system for carrying voice and Internet data traffic on separate networks. [News.com]
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- Visa forms Java smart card group - Five major U.S. banks have joined a financial industry user group, sponsored by Visa International, to promote Java-based smart cards that can handle more than one application. [News.com]
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- Visual Basic 6.0 shown off - Microsoft today gave developers here a sneak peek at the next release of its Visual Basic development tool. [News.com]
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- VitalSigns tracks app performance - VitalSigns Software may be best known for seeding the market with a free piece of software for browsers to track Web performance. Now the company has targeted corporate networks with a suite of tools to monitor business applications. [News.com]
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- W3C aims to make browsers accessible - The World Wide Web Consortium today took a step toward making browsers more useful to people with disabilities. [News.com]
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- W3C recommends SMIL - The Web today improved its coordination with the World Wide Web Consortium's formal recommendation of Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, a specification that helps synch up images, text, and sound on the Web. [News.com]
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- Wall Street lower on Asia malaise - Stocks are sharply lower today as the latest slump in Asian markets has caused further nervousness on Wall Street. [News.com]
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- Wallet software sparks SET debate - A debate has erupted among developers creating software for secure credit card transactions over whether a server-based electronic "wallet" announced June 15 by GlobeSet complies with the Secure Electronic Transactions (SET) protocol. [News.com]
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- Wang wins NASA contract - Wang Laboratories announced that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Goddard Space Flight Center had awarded Wang Global one of seven outsourcing contracts for computer hardware, networking, and services. [News.com]
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- WDC warning hurts storage sector - News of a more than $100 million loss for Western Digital rippled through the disk drive industry today. [News.com]
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- Web databases boon to Dell - Dell Computer's use of Web-based databases to transact business with the companies that supply it with components is enabling the direct vendor to further reduce its inventory from levels that are already among the lowest in the PC industry. [News.com]
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- WebTV outage shows PC-TV kinks - Users of WebTV's Internet access devices got an unpleasant surprise last night. [News.com]
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- Wells Fargo offers Net loan service - Wells Fargo said it is now offering a real-time home equity credit decision-making service. [News.com]
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- Western says signs pact with IBM - Western Digital said it has signed a definitive agreement with IBM, completing plans announced in May. [News.com]
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- What will AOL do with ICQ? - Now that rumors about America Online's bid to acquire Internet messaging company Mirabilis have turned out to be true, many questions have surfaced among industry observers and analysts about how AOL intends to transform this immensely popular service into dollar signs. [News.com]
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- What's at heart of the FTC case - Three computers makers are at the heart of the Federal Trade Commission's case against Intel. [News.com]
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- When the Net drives you crazy - If you're spending all your time on the Internet, you might be crazy. [News.com]
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- Who will pay bills online? - A dozen panelists at a recent conference on Internet billing were asked how many consumers they expected to view and pay their bills online in the next few years. There were a dozen answers, ranging from 5 percent to 30 percent. [News.com]
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- Will AT&T buy a portal? - It isn't hard to figure out what AT&T wants: a lot of loyal customers. [News.com]
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- Will K-Tel's stock fizzle? - Is K-Tel a one-hit wonder? [News.com]
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- Win 98 not enough in Japan - The launch of Windows 98 operating software next month is expected to lift Japan's personal computer market, but not enough to avert a flat year, the head of the Japanese unit of Compaq Computer said today. [News.com]
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- Win 98 sales equal Win 95 - More than 500,000 copies of Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system upgrade were sold nationwide in the first four days on the market, equaling the launch of Windows 95, according to a market researcher. [News.com]
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- Win 98 wins over consumer PCs - Ten days before its official launch, Microsoft announced today that 15 of the top computer makers will ship systems with Windows 98 on June 25, representing 60 percent of the overall consumer PC market. [News.com]
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- Win 98 won't lift Japan - The launch of Microsoft's Windows 98 operating software is unlikely to give much of a lift to Japanese personal computer makers, bogged down in the worst sales slump so far this decade. [News.com]
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- Win 98: Minor upgrade, forced march - Today marks the arrival of Windows 98, the upgrade of an operating system that's put Microsoft at the center of a number of courtrooms, and the big question is whether it will become obsolete before its extended publicity campaign is over. [News.com]
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- Windows 98 sparks midnight madness - Customers may be lining up around the block to get Windows 98 after all. [News.com]
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- Windows in 95% of PCs by 1999 - Microsoft could command 95 percent of all operating system shipments on all computers worldwide by 1999, paced by the rollout of Windows 98 and the coming transition to Windows NT, a market research firm predicted. [News.com]
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- Windows launch muted in Europe - Windows 98 hit the ground walking in Europe today. [News.com]
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- Windows NT software ships - Microsoft and Citrix Systems officially took the wraps off new software intended for companies looking to centralize desktop applications on a server computer. [News.com]
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- Windows NT to extend reach - Microsoft will announce its intentions next week to license technology from a company called VenturCom to facilitate the creation of custom versions of its Windows NT server-based operating system for so-called embedded software markets. [News.com]
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- Windows Terminals fall short - Microsoft will ship its software for centralized corporate computing on time, but anyone looking to get the most out of their computing hardware may not be pleased with the caveats. [News.com]
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- Wired upgrades Shop Wired - Wired Digital tomorrow will launch an upgrade to the Shop Wired service on its HotBot search site. [News.com]
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- Woman Netcasts childbirth - A 40-year-old Florida woman gave birth to a boy today in what was billed as the first-ever live birth on the Internet before an estimated audience of 2 million people, a cable health network said. [News.com]
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- World Cup tickets iffy online - A World Cup ticket in the hand may be as precious as gold dust, but virtual tickets are swirling around cyberspace by the thousand. [News.com]
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- WorldCom, MCI working with EC - WorldCom and MCI Communications held talks with the European Commission today about winning approval for their merger, but it remains unclear whether they were successful. [News.com]
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- WorldCom-MCI probe near end - European Union competition commissioner Karel Van Miert said in an interview published yesterday that his investigation of a planned merger between WorldCom and MCI Communications was almost complete and that conditions were being imposed on the two U.S companies. [News.com]
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- WorldNet: Not hurt by rate hike - AT&T today said it had no major customer losses due to its WorldNet price change, which eliminated its flat-fee unlimited Internet use plan with one that imposes additional charges for heavy users. [News.com]
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- Xeon, Intel price cuts due - Intel will release its first Xeon Pentium II processors for servers and workstations this month, while it cuts prices on its desktop processors next week. [News.com]
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- Xeon, terminals for PC Expo - Starting today at the PC Expo trade show, leading PC makers are showing off systems with the next-generation of Pentium II processors while other companies are taking the wraps off Microsoft's version of the network computer. [News.com]
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- Xerox takes on HP in printers - Copier giant Xerox will roll out a new line of laser and ink-jet color printers and sell them through retailers in a bid to win market share from Hewlett-Packard. [News.com]
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- Y2K compliance a selling point - Financial firms that have solved their Year 2000 computer problem might have a competitive advantage and attract more business, said Ernest Patrikis, first vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. [News.com]
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- Yahoo buys Viaweb for $49 million - Yahoo is doing some e-purchasing to move deeper into the e-commerce industry. [News.com]
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- Yahoo expects to post loss - Yahoo expects to post a loss for the second quarter and full year because of a one-time charge related to its recent buyout of Viaweb, the Internet directory said in a regulatory filing today. [News.com]
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- Yahoo leads Net stock sell-off - Internet stocks fell sharply today, but analysts were unsure whether they were just following the weakness on Nasdaq or responding to specific industry concerns. [News.com]
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- Yahoo starts speaking Spanish - Internet company Yahoo introduced its new Spanish-language Web guide, saying it saw Latin America as a big growth area for Internet use. [News.com]
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- Yahoo traffic trounces rivals - Yahoo's Internet site, the consistent pacesetter for Web traffic, drew in 36 percent more Web surfers in May than its nearest competitor, according to an industry report. [News.com]
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- Yahoo's 60-day e-commerce jump - At Yahoo, 60 days is all they ask. [News.com]
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- Yahoo, AOL hit record highs - Yahoo and America Online hit historic highs today as Internet stocks continued to ride speculation that more investments, partnerships, and buyouts would be fueled by the portal fever that has swept the industry. [News.com]
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- Yang: Net no threat to radio - Traditional media got a taste of new media today when a Web torchbearer gave his perspective of things to come. [News.com]
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- ZD narrows losses - Ziff-Davis said yesterday it lost $5.12 million in its first quarter because of lower advertising revenues in business publications and one-time costs for office relocations and new publication launches. [News.com]
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