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- $499 PCs coming to market - The low-cost phenomenon shows no signs of letting up, as a little-known vendor will try to make its mark on the PC market with systems costing less than $500. [News.com]
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- "Special master" to aid Java suit - A federal judge said today that he wants to appoint a "special master" to help determine which documents should be unsealed in the ongoing lawsuit filed by Sun Microsystems against Microsoft over Java. [News.com]
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- "Virtual University" gets boost - Fattened up with a total of 1,600 courses, the California Virtual University (CVU) relaunched its online catalog today, and announced a $75,000 infusion from Oracle. [News.com]
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- 1GB memory due in early 1999 - Early next year, Hitachi Semiconductor plans to begin offering chip technology that would allow a personal computer's main memory to store as much as one gigabyte of data--an amount rivaling the size of many hard drives in use today. [News.com]
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- 2000 census to address Net use - In a definitive sign of the times, the year 2000 U.S. Census may start tracking computer and Net usage. [News.com]
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- 3Com inks China deal - 3Com, the world's second-largest maker of computer network equipment, inked an agreement today to invest as much as $100 million in China and said it plans to start selling its Palm Pilot handheld computer in Asia. [News.com]
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- 3Com names president and COO - 3Com today named Bruce Claflin, former senior vice president of sales and marketing at Digital, its president and chief operating officer, effective August 10. [News.com]
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- 3Dlabs cuts 15 percent of staff - Graphics chip vendor 3Dlabs said it cut its workforce by 15 percent, or about 20 staffers, as it reported a wider-than-expected operating loss for its second quarter. [News.com]
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- 3DO posts loss - Video game developer 3DO reported a slightly narrower-than-expected loss for its first quarter and said revenues rose on the strength of its Might and Magic VI and Army Men games. [News.com]
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- 400-MHz system falls to $1,999 - The low-price wars that started in early 1997 are taking their toll on the market's high end too, as one of the price-cutting leaders brings out a system with Intel's fastest Pentium II chip below the $2,000 mark. [News.com]
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- 450-MHz chip spurs price cuts - A new round of price cuts arrived from Intel, while a 450-MHz chip--the fastest Pentium II yet--should hit the streets next month. [News.com]
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- 700-MHz, integrated Pentium IIs for 1999 - In 1999, Intel will boost the speed of its Xeon chips to 700 MHz, desktop Pentium IIs to 600 MHz, and mobile chips to 366 MHz, according to sources, while the company will also release its first Pentium II with high-speed "cache" memory integrated directly onto the processor. [News.com]
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- 7th Level animation goes mainstream - 7th Level announced today that its animation software can be used to create talking characters on the pages of all major personal computer software programs and link them to the Internet. [News.com]
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- @Home to go to more homes - @Home, which provides high-speed Internet access using cable modems, said today it signed ten new distribution agreements with North American and international cable operators representing more than 10 million new homes. [News.com]
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- A big week for tech earnings - This is a week of reckoning for the high-tech sector, as companies across the board--from giant chipmakers to Internet start-ups--post quarterly earnings. [News.com]
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- A look at the FTC - From an overall market perspective, the railroad, sugar, oil, and computer industries don't appear to have much in common--except for the Federal Trade Commission's scrutiny of them all. [News.com]
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- A new kind of palm reading - A Boston-based publishing concern is betting that 3Com PalmPilot users, famously loyal to free applications developed for the handheld platform, will pay to read books on the increasingly popular devices. [News.com]
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- A new look for AOL.com - Charging ahead with its portal push, America Online today quietly launched the long-awaited redesign of AOL.com. [News.com]
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- A peek at Disney Blast for Mac - After more than a year of exclusive Windows software deals, Walt Disney announced today that its Blast Online service for children is available to Macintosh users in a beta version. [News.com]
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- A spam-free email address? - A Washington state-based nonprofit group is introducing an email service that uses the state's month-old antispam law to create what it hopes will become a spam-free email address. [News.com]
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- A whole new Macworld - Some think that the Macworld Expo should be renamed iMacworld for all its emphasis on the new Apple consumer system. The excitement surrounding the New York show seems to highlight Steve Jobs's profitable business strategy, though it remains to be seen whether the company can complete its turnaround. [News.com]
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- Ad-driven Net firms in danger - If their Wall Street valuations are any indication, advertising-supported media companies are ruling the Internet roost these days. But the nature of Internet advertising may cause a precipitous fall for these firms, attendees here at Internet World learned today. [News.com]
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- Adaptec chief resigns - Adaptec, a data transfer hardware and software company, said yesterday that Grant Saviers, its chairman and chief executive officer, has resigned and Larry Boucher has been named interim CEO. [News.com]
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- Advanced chipmaking on the way - In October, Canon will start shipments of semiconductor production equipment capable of making the most densely packed circuits to date. [News.com]
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- Advanced Fibre warns, plunges - Shares of Advanced Fibre Communications lost more than half their value today after several brokerage houses downgraded the stock following a negative earnings forecast on yesterday. [News.com]
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- Alarmists serious about 2000 - Fears the Year 2000 computer bug could black out power plants and turn cities into war zones have some Americans stockpiling food and water, buying guns and ammunition, and heading for the hills. [News.com]
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- All Macworld's eyes on iMac - Apple Computer's translucent Macintosh, the iMac, will be the focus of this week's Macworld trade show in New York, as Apple seeks to whip up more interest in its new consumer product before it goes on sale in next month. [News.com]
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- Allaire targets Web developers - Allaire is stepping up its attempt to capture a chunk of the corporate Web application development market. [News.com]
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- Allen buys second cable firm - Billionaire investor Paul Allen today got some more connections for his "wired world." [News.com]
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- Allen increases DreamWorks stake - Venture capitalist Paul Allen has increased his stake in entertainment company DreamWorks SKG, according to his investment group, signaling his increasing interest in the content arena. [News.com]
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- Alpha chip may reach 1 GHz in '99 - Samsung subsidiary Alpha Processors aims to bring out a 1-GHz chip in 1999, possibly becoming the first chip manufacturer to reach this lofty goal, while Compaq announced price cuts on Alpha-based computers. [News.com]
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- Alpha eases e-commerce entry - Setting up an e-commerce Web site may soon be as easy as swinging by CompUSA to pick up the latest version of Doom. [News.com]
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- AlphaBlox delivers tools via Web - Software start-up AlphaBlox today rolled out a beta version of a new package for simplifying the delivery of its analysis tools over the Web. [News.com]
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- AltaVista plans children's area - AltaVista will launch a new Family Zone later this year that includes a retooled children's search engine, according to sources close to the company. [News.com]
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- AltaVista searches for its roots - AltaVista is joining the ranks of its competitors by strengthening its search engine, a trend in portals that is bringing the site back to its roots. [News.com]
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- Amazon partners with Intuit - Amazon.com said today that it has entered into a pact with Intuit to be the exclusive bookseller in the U.S. on Intuit's popular Quicken.com Web site. [News.com]
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- AMD eyes copper, 1-GHz chip - Motorola's chip division and Advanced Micro Devices detailed a technology-sharing alliance today that will give AMD the ability to make copper-based microprocessors and give Motorola needed components to build "system-on-a-chip" parts for intelligent devices. [News.com]
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- AMD keeps its distance - Just has it has done for over a year and half, Advanced Micro Devices has adjusted its processor prices to undercut Intel's by 25 percent. [News.com]
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- AMD losses shatter estimates - Advanced Micro Devices reported a loss of 64.6 million, or 45 cents a share--double the consensus estimate--on sales of $527 million for the second quarter. [News.com]
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- AMD stock drops on reported loss - Advanced Micro Devices shares fell nearly 13 percent today to close at 15.875 after the company yesterday reported a loss of 64.6 million, or 45 cents a share--double the consensus estimate--on sales of $527 million for the second quarter. [News.com]
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- AMD to postpone IBM K6 effort - Just months after recruiting IBM to manufacture its processors, Advanced Micro Devices is putting the brakes on the deal. [News.com]
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- AMD walking microprocessor tightrope - Sales of processors are way up at Advanced Micro Devices, but that's just part of the problem. [News.com]
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- AMD, Motorola in copper chip deal - On Monday, Motorola's chip division and Advanced Micro Devices will announce they're teaming up to advance the use of copper-based chipmaking technology, giving both companies a needed boost in a fiercely competitive, resource-intensive industry. [News.com]
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- Ameritrade announces stock split - Online brokerage Ameritrade today became the latest Internet company to declare a 2-for-1 stock split--a reminder of the sharp run-up Net stocks have seen lately. [News.com]
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- AmeriTrade signs on with AOL - For $25 million, cyberspace brokerage AmeriTrade has bought two years' worth of face time on America Online, the company announced today. [News.com]
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- AMP restructures, cuts 3,500 jobs - Beset by weak market conditions and a strong dollar, AMP has unveiled a major restructuring that calls for the elimination of 3,500 jobs or about 7.5 percent of the company's global workforce. [News.com]
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- An optimistic view of Y2K - In a direct contradiction to many recent predictions, a new survey says corporations across the world are making aggressive efforts to tackle the Year 2000 technology problem, and most are making headway. [News.com]
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- Analog Devices falls on warning - Analog Devices shares fell more than 12 percent today after the company announced that sales for its fiscal third quarter, which ends August 1, could be approximately 10 percent below the previous quarter, significantly lowering earnings. [News.com]
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- Analysts eye Apple lineup, profits - As the Macworld Expo show opens in New York today, Apple Computer steps into the industry spotlight as a stronger company. [News.com]
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- Analysts scope Microsoft - When Microsoft reports its fourth-quarter results today, Wall Street will focus on key information such as how its deferred revenue is shaping up and how many enterprise license agreements the giant is entering. [News.com]
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- Andreessen buys into e-commerce - Netscape Communications is likely to acquire at least one e-commerce company to round out its own software offerings, particularly for specific industries like financial services, cofounder Marc Andreessen told a group of venture capitalists and investment bankers today. [News.com]
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- Another Network Associates buy - Acquisition-hungry Network Associates announced today that it has agreed to buy CyberMedia for about $130 million in cash. [News.com]
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- Another source code bug surfaces - Web servers using Microsoft Internet Information Server 3.0 and 4.0 software are vulnerable to a bug that can expose the source code to scripts on certain Web sites, and could reveal sensitive information such as passwords stored in the script. [News.com]
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- Antiporn group, police face off - A member of the Belgian antipornography group Morkhoven, which tipped off Dutch police about an international child pornography network, is being questioned by police for a second time, Belgian police said today. [News.com]
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- Antivirus firm adds spam filter - Antivirus firm Trend Micro is joining the race to offer antispam software to keep unwanted email off corporate networks. [News.com]
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- AOL 4.0 released - After two years of development and beta testing, America Online today quietly premiered the highly anticipated new version of its software, AOL 4.0. [News.com]
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- AOL deploys 56-kbps standard - America Online today said it has deployed the International Telecommunication Union standard V.90 modem protocol for 56-kbps access across its network, in an effort to open up access lines for users who increasingly are taking advantage of faster modems. [News.com]
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- AOL hosts federal antidrug push - The White House today launched a new national antidrug campaign, with America Online as an online partner. [News.com]
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- AOL scores Unilever ad deal - Scores of consumer brands will be appearing online under a new marketing deal announced today between America Online and Unilever, Europe's largest consumer products company and one of the largest global advertisers. [News.com]
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- AOL tests AOL.com feature - AOL.com, the Web site and portal progeny of online service America Online, has quietly launched a preview version of its My News section, the latest step in the site's redesign. [News.com]
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- AOL ups stake in video firm - America Online has opted to take an increased equity stake in Videos Now, sending stock in its parent company higher. [News.com]
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- AOL, Netscape push portals - The battle to be Net users' home page rages on, with AOL beefing up its AOL.com offering with a beta of its personalized news service and Netscape launching a multimillion-dollar showbiz campaign to push the consumer content on its Netcenter portal. Meanwhile, AOL is tapped for a high-profile government antidrug campaign. [News.com]
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- Apple back in the fold at Yale - The old adage "nothing succeeds like success" is apparently holding for Apple Computer at universities these days. [News.com]
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- Apple extras fill up show - While the focus at Macworld Expo is squarely on Apple's iMac consumer computer, plenty of new software and hardware is being rolled out for Apple Computer's "other" desktop and notebook products. [News.com]
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- Apple manufacturing on the upswing - Apple's third straight profitable quarter shows how far the company has come during the last year in getting its manufacturing processes up to speed with the rest of the PC industry. [News.com]
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- Apple posts $101 million in profits - Driven by strong sales of its Macintosh G3 computers, Apple Computer today reported third-quarter profits that far surpassed Wall Street estimates. [News.com]
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- Apple ready to tackle Asia - Apple Computer, fresh from reporting a stronger-than-expected set of third-quarter results, said today that it's geared to grow in Asia despite the region's downturn. [News.com]
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- Apple subpoenaed in Microsoft case - Apple Computer has been subpoenaed by both sides in the antitrust fight between the Justice Department and Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Apple to downsize at Irish plant - Apple Computer said today that it will cut 150 jobs at its County Cork plant in southwest Ireland. [News.com]
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- Apple-Microsoft match paying off - Apple and Microsoft--a match made in heaven? Apple acting chief executive Steve Jobs thinks so, and analysts seem inclined to agree. [News.com]
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- Applied Materials to miss target - Applied Materials, the largest wafer fabrication supplier to the worldwide semiconductor industry, warned Friday that its fiscal third-quarter earnings would fall below market expectations. [News.com]
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- Arbor rolls out new analysis tools - Just in time for fiscal year-end audits, Arbor Software is rolling out a series of new analysis tools. [News.com]
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- Are PDAs the wave of the future? - Motorola's buyout of Starfish Software signals the growing convergence of wireless phones, pagers, and personal digital assistants into palm-sized devices that do nearly everything but make coffee. [News.com]
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- Armstrong: Time to focus on Net - AT&T tapped British Telecommunications to strengthen its international strategy, but the telecom giant still needs to bolster its presence in the Internet market, AT&T chairman C. Michael Armstrong said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Arrest made in pager scam - PageNet, one of the largest wireless message providers, said U.S. federal agents arrested a San Diego man who allegedly set up unauthorized voice mailboxes and paging accounts on its system, costing the company about $1 million. [News.com]
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- Artemis adds cost estimation - Project management software maker Artemis Management Systems is adding cost estimation to its software development project management system. [News.com]
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- Ascend beats estimates - Shares of Ascend Communications were up in morning trading following a positive earnings announcement and an upgrade in estimates from a Wall Street brokerage. [News.com]
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- Ascend descends on rumor - Ascend Communications stock fell more than 13 percent today on renewed rumors that the company may soon acquire Stratus Computer. [News.com]
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- Asia woes take toll on Sun stock - Sun Microsystems stock fell nearly 6 percent in midday trading after an influential Wall Street analyst downgraded the stock based largely on concerns about sluggish sales in Asia. [News.com]
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- AT&T outlines post-TCI vision - AT&T is ready to wire the world, or at least the 17 million households it will add to its customer base when its merger with cable giant Tele-Communications Incorporated is complete. [News.com]
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- AT&T revenues up slightly - AT&T the largest U.S. long distance carrier, today posted better-than-expected second-quarter profits and slightly improved revenues as growth in business services, online ventures, and wireless services was partially offset by a decline in the company's consumer business. [News.com]
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- AT&T's acquisition strategy - Though AT&T's new international partnership with British Telecommunications is the latest move by AT&T chairman C. Michael Armstrong to assemble a bold strategy to transform the once sleepy telecoms giant, his biggest challenge may be making the pieces fit. [News.com]
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- AT&T, British Telecom face scrutiny - AT&T and British Telecommunications will face intense regulatory scrutiny for their new $10 billion international partnership and may be required to agree to concessions to gain approval, analysts said. [News.com]
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- AT&T, British Telecom strike deal - British Telecommunications and AT&T today announced a $10 billion global venture that links the two industry giants in the world's most competitive telecom markets. [News.com]
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- AT&T, Lycos unwrap Web service - AT&T WorldNet and Lycos today officially introduced their joint Web service, offering Internet access with the portal as a default home page. [News.com]
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- AT&T: TCI buy is a done deal - Tele-Communications Incorporated, which agreed to be bought by AT&T for $48 billion, may not solicit rival bids but is free to consider any unsolicited offers, the companies said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [News.com]
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- Atmel reorg forces job cuts - Atmel said yesterday that it will cut about 650 jobs, or about 10 percent of its workforce, as part of a restructuring needed in light of continued weakness in the semiconductor market. [News.com]
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- Auction site files for IPO - Creative Computers said yesterday that its Internet auction unit, uBid, has filed a registration statement for an initial public offering of common stock, raising about $20.54 million, based on the midpoint price of the shares. [News.com]
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- Baan beats Street estimates - The Baan Company today beat Wall Street's profit predictions of 11 cents a share, posting profits instead of 13 cents per share, or $26.9 million, for the second quarter ended June 30. [News.com]
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- Baan chairman to step down - Jan Baan resigned today as chairman of the management board of business application software maker Baan. [News.com]
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- Baan revised profits down - Computer software firm Baan said today that it had revised its first quarter net profit down to $2.136 million from $2.4 million, the figure announced on April 22. [News.com]
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- Baan's inroad to auto industry - The Baan Company's buying binge continued today with the purchase of Compact 3000, a British consulting firm specializing in supply chain systems for the automotive industry, particularly lean manufacturing. [News.com]
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- Baby Bells appealing telco law - Regional Bell telephone companies are asking a federal appeals court today to toss out parts of a 1996 telecommunications law and allow them to offer long distance service immediately. [News.com]
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- BackWeb backs Microsoft - Push software maker BackWeb has extended its client support for Microsoft's desktop software. [News.com]
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- Ballmer named Microsoft president - Microsoft today appointed Steve Ballmer, formerly executive vice president of sales and support and Bill Gates's longtime business partner, as its president. [News.com]
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- Banyan beats earnings estimates - Networking software provider Banyan Systems beat earnings estimates for its fiscal second quarter by a cent, continuing a comeback from a sea of red ink. [News.com]
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- Barksdale takes Amazon profits - Dell's top dog, Michael Dell, and Netscape Communications chief executive Jim Barksdale both have filed to unload some of their shares in online bookseller Amazon.com. [News.com]
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- Battle over worst-case EPA data online - When Pam Nixon's husband took a teaching position in West Virginia's Kanawha Valley, her family moved within a quarter-mile of a pesticide plant--something that was hard to avoid in an area that ranks second in the nation for chemical production. [News.com]
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- Bay Networks back in black - Bay Networks today posted a net profit of $20.6 million for its fiscal fourth quarter, compared with a loss of $118 million reported for the like period a year ago. [News.com]
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- Bay to acquire NetServe - Bay Networks intends to marry voice and cable networks, the latest in a laundry list of signs that portend a converged future. [News.com]
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- BBC maps digital broadcast plan - The British Broadcasting Corporation confirmed today that it plans to invest about 1.0 billion pounds ($1.63 billion) over the next five years to set up its digital television, radio, and online services. [News.com]
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- Behind the Compaq curtain - Although Compaq Computer surpassed analysts' expectations with a slight quarterly gain, it still must face market conflicts that could affect the company in the long run: slowing demand and lower prices for PCs. [News.com]
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- Beleaguered CA getting overhaul - At Computer Associates' annual users conference last year, chief executive Charles Wang dazzled the crowd with a spectacle of dry ice, explosions, and a magician dressed like a bumble bee. [News.com]
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- BellSouth offers ADSL for Macs - With Apple Computer making its comeback with the upcoming release of iMac and acting CEO Steve Jobs predicting profits, it seems fitting that BellSouth today is singing the praises of Mac users and offering them its high-speed Net access service. [News.com]
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- Bertlesmann chair seeks Net rules - The designated chairman of German global media giant Bertelsmann, Thomas Middelhoff, called for "appropriate" international rules for the Internet and online services. [News.com]
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- Big names to invest in NTT unit - Microsoft, Sony, Softbank, and other Japanese firms are expected to make fresh capital investments in Nippon Telegraph and Telephone's (NTT) satellite unit, the NTT unit said today. [News.com]
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- Birth of a telecom giant - AT&T and British Telecom launch a $10 billion venture linking the industry giants in the world's most competitive telecom markets. But the firms will face intense regulatory scrutiny, and analysts say the partnership may leave much to be desired. [News.com]
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- Book sites chase each other - The online book battle is beginning to look like the portal wars, with players constantly trying to one-up each other. [News.com]
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- Bork says DOJ has strong case - Judge Robert Bork calls the antitrust case against Microsoft brought by the Justice Department "rock solid." [News.com]
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- British ministers join digital age - Britain moved a step closer today to the day when government ministers will start using laptop computers instead of paper. [News.com]
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- British Telecom profit falls - British Telecommunications announced today that first quarter profit fell 19 percent, largely because of intense competition with Europe's telco giants. [News.com]
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- Broadbase targets managers - Broadbase is targeting the customer management industry with a new packaged data mart and analytical tool. [News.com]
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- Broadcast.com's bang-up IPO - In its first day of trading today, shares of online audio and video broadcaster Broadcast.com more than tripled in price, joining a growing list of Internet-related companies whose stocks have soared following their initial public offerings. [News.com]
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- Browser battle assessed - A spate of studies has shown Netscape's Navigator browser's market share slipping under pressure from rival Microsoft's Internet Explorer. But whether there will be an all-out winner and who it will be remains to be seen. [News.com]
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- Bucks from bugs - Security holes, flaws, and bugs in everything from operating systems and email have companies across the computer map donning exterminator gear to rid their products of pests. Even firms that aren't bug-ridden themselves are seizing the opportunity to cash in on others' need to eradicate the software insects. [News.com]
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- Bug spurs standard drive - The war of words over an alleged bug that "breaks" multimedia software rages on. The fight began at a Senate hearing where Microsoft came under criticism from Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks, and now 20 firms are backing that company's effort to devise a new standard. [News.com]
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- Business software chill not fatal - The Asian flu is more of a sniffle for SAP and the rest of the business software makers. [News.com]
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- C&W may pick up MCI's Net assets - MCI Communications may be close to unloading its Internet business, stepping up approval of its pending $37 billion merger with WorldCom. [News.com]
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- CA faces class-action suit - Computer Associates was named in a class-action lawsuit that alleges that certain company executives and directors made a series of misleading and false statements about the demand for CA products, business trends, and the impact of the Asian financial crisis on its operation. [News.com]
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- CA stock plunges on warning - Computer Associates International shares plunged more than 32 percent this morning after the company warned of tough times ahead due to conditions in Asia and order delays, some of which it linked to customer spending to fix the year 2000 bug. [News.com]
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- Cabletron readies new switches - Cabletron Systems will on Monday debut a new line of switches intended to boost performance and manageability of corporate networks. [News.com]
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- Cadence steps up legal battle - Cadence Design Systems said it has stepped up its legal battle against archrival Avant by asking a federal judge to expand an earlier preliminary injunction to cover Avant's Aquarius product line. [News.com]
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- Caldera offers NetWare for Linux - Caldera is bringing NetWare services to the increasingly popular Linux operating system. [News.com]
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- Caldera wins Windows access - Caldera has won the latest round in its fight to gain access to Microsoft's Windows 95 source code. [News.com]
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- Calling for telecom Y2K fixes - After the clock strikes midnight on December 31, 1999 and the New Year's party comes to an end, will you be able to call a cab to get home? [News.com]
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- Cambridge Tech meets Street - Cambridge Technology Partners, a consulting and systems integration firm, today posted second-quarter results that were right on the money, meeting expectations with a 52 percent increase in revenues. [News.com]
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- Can Yahoo stock outdo itself? - After high-flying Yahoo crushed second-quarter earnings estimates last week, fans of the company heaved a collective sigh of relief. [News.com]
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- Casio to join subnotebook market - Japanese electronics maker Casio is apparently poised to reenter the personal computer market after a decade-long absence by expanding its established lineup of handheld devices into the closely related field of "subnotebooks." [News.com]
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- CDA II added to Senate bill - The Senate has added controversial amendments to spending legislation that would make it a crime for Web sites to distribute "harmful" material to children and also require most schools and libraries to filter federally funded Net access. [News.com]
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- Celestica plans more acquisitions - Celestica, the former manufacturing arm of IBM Canada, will continue to blaze up the acquisition trail, Chief Executive Eugene Polistuk said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Cendant: CUC fraud "systemic" - Cendant today alleged that fraud at its CUC group was even worse than originally thought and would force it to cut its 1998 earnings forecast and restate financial results going back three years. [News.com]
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- Cerf suggests planetary domains - One of the fathers of the Internet said today that the Web was growing too fast for planet Earth and will soon have to take to outer space. [News.com]
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- Cheap computers: A scary business - If Compaq's example holds for the rest of the industry, computer vendors can turn a profit in the bargain-basement market, but they probably can't do it forever. [News.com]
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- Cheap PC is moneymaker - Compaq Computer's cheapest computer is now its most profitable consumer personal computer, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Check Point adds VPN hardware - Check Point Software today grouped its virtual private network (VPN) offerings into a new product line and added a VPN hardware device available in four versions. [News.com]
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- Chicago OKs pit, e-trading - Chicago Board of Trade directors at a special meeting yesterday approved a controversial plan to permit concurrent electronic and open outcry trading in the exchange's benchmark treasury futures contracts. [News.com]
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- China Net use exploding - The number of Internet surfers in China swelled to 1.175 million at the end of June from 505,000 at the beginning of this year, the China Economic Times said today. [News.com]
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- Chip market buzzing - As it's done for a year and half, Advanced Micro Devices matched Intel price drops by lowering processors to undercut its rival by 25 percent. Meanwhile, Motorola introduced speedier PowerPCs for the Macintosh, while Intel indicated it will move aggressively on the intelligent device market with its low-cost StrongARM line. [News.com]
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- Chip price war leads to more AMD losses - Despite a year featuring new deals with major computer vendors, increased sales, and improved manufacturing, chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices is expected to report its fourth consecutive quarterly loss today, and hopes of recovery do not seem to be on the horizon. [News.com]
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- Chipmakers expect bleak earnings - South Korean memory chipmakers are expected to see profits shrink sharply or post big losses for the first half of this year, hit by a plunge in global memory chip prices, analysts said today. [News.com]
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- Chips pounded by supply, Asia crisis - Global semiconductor sales slumped by 12.7 percent in May, a consequence of Asia's economic slowdown and a worldwide glut of both microprocessors and memory, the core chips used in computers. [News.com]
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- Chromatic to lay off 50% - Chromatic Research is laying off approximately 50 percent of its workforce and will discontinue its Mpact media processor line, as the company struggles to survive in the competitive graphics chip arena. [News.com]
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- Cirrus, VLSI report earnings - Cirrus Logic and VLSI Technology yesterday posted quarterly earnings that exceeded Wall Street's expectations, but both chipmakers said challenges lie ahead--prompting VLSI to cut 190 of its 2,390 workforce. [News.com]
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- Cisco hits $100 billion mark - Cisco is now a $100 billion company. [News.com]
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- Cisco sticking to acquisition guns - Shrugging off recent telecommunications megamergers, Cisco Systems said today that it will stick to its smaller growth-by-acquisition program. [News.com]
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- Cityscape mistaken for CitySearch - Attempting to explain a recent pop in its Bulletin Board stock, Cityscape Financial said today that investors might be confused by recent regulatory filings about CitySearch, an Internet company that intends to go public on the Nasdaq with Cityscape's old Nasdaq ticker symbol. [News.com]
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- CitySearch sets IPO price - CitySearch today set a price for its previously planned initial public offering at a range of between $11 and $13 per share for up to 4 million shares, according to a regulatory filing. [News.com]
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- Clinton calls for Year 2000 action - President Clinton today called for accelerated efforts to fix the Year 2000 problem, announcing that he would propose legislation to limit legal liability for companies that share information to fix the massive software bug. [News.com]
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- Committee votes for 2-year tax ban - The Senate Finance Committee today voted to impose a two-year moratorium on new state and local taxes of the Internet. [News.com]
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- Communicator 4.5 beta released - Netscape Communications has launched a public beta test of Communicator 4.5, the latest version of its Internet software suite. [News.com]
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- Companies may bite bullet on Win 98 - Many large companies may be willing to endure the pain of upgrading to Windows 98 to solve problems in current operating systems, analysts say. [News.com]
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- Compaq aims to shore up servers - Compaq introduced two new Pentium II servers as well as a final upgrade to one of the company's most popular server systems in an effort to reinvigorate the middle tier of its product lineup after a slow first half of the year. [News.com]
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- Compaq cuts jobs in Hong Kong - Compaq Computer local arm Compaq Computer Hong Kong said today that it would lay off less than 10 percent of its staff after restructuring. [News.com]
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- Compaq cuts notebook prices - Compaq Computer reduced Armada notebook prices by as much as 26 percent, part of an effort to move older Pentium MMX models as the more powerful Pentium II processor begins to predominate its lineup, but the transition could be tricky. [News.com]
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- Compaq drops Y2K ad campaign - In an ongoing battle with a British testing firm over whether its products properly recognize the Year 2000, Compaq Computer today confirmed that a controversial ad campaign that claimed its systems do identify the new century has stopped circulating. [News.com]
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- Compaq earnings mask deeper woes - Although Compaq surpassed analysts' predictions today in reporting an operating profit of two cents a share, the numbers don't resolve underlying market conflicts facing the Houston-based vendor and PC makers in general. [News.com]
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- Compaq expands in workstations - Compaq Computer continued its expansion into sophisticated computing markets today with the introduction of a new line of 3D graphics subsystems for its high-end workstations. [News.com]
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- Compaq lowers Asia sales targets - Compaq Computer is lowering sales targets in economically troubled Asia, a senior executive said today. [News.com]
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- Compaq price cuts look ahead - Compaq trimmed prices on a limited number of consumer PCs, preempting processor price cuts and new Celeron chips from Intel coming in the very near future. [News.com]
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- Compaq reports slight gain - Compaq Computer today reported a second-quarter profit of $32 million, or 2 cents a share, slightly better than Wall Street expectations. [News.com]
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- Compaq rolls out Radio Shack outlets - Compaq formally launched its "store-within-a-store" retail outlets in Radio Shack franchises, offering four consumer models that begin at $899 and feature Internet access. [News.com]
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- Compaq setting Asian goals - Compaq Computer expects to set new targets for its Asia-Pacific business this month, after it puts in place the last steps for integrating recently acquired Digital Equipment. [News.com]
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- Compaq tests extranet tool in Asia - Compaq Computer said today that it is launching a pilot project in Asia called activeAnswers that offers standards-based technology and products on the World Wide Web. [News.com]
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- Compaq tool gets a Web face - A homegrown systems management software tool bundled with hardware from Compaq Computer soon will gain long-promised hooks to the Web. [News.com]
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- Compaq's low-cost workstations - Last week, Compaq Computer focused on the high end of the workstation market, and this week the PC giant brought out a stripped-down, single-processor system aimed at the growing bargain segment. [News.com]
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- Compaq: Second-half growth expected - Compaq Computer will enjoy earnings growth in the second half of 1998, a senior executive said in the immediate aftermath of the company's reporting a net loss of $3.6 billion in the second quarter, compared with a net profit of $257 million in the same period a year ago. [News.com]
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- CompUSA predicts loss - CompUSA said it would report a loss in its fiscal fourth quarter, when sales edged up by only 3 percent as consumers held off on buying new systems equipped with Windows 98, which was released on June 25. [News.com]
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- CompUSA touts $800 iMac rebate - CompUSA is putting some promotional muscle behind the upcoming launch of the iMac, Apple's much-ballyhooed all-in-one model for the consumer market. [News.com]
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- Computer 2000 test "successful" - An initial test among top securities firms and stock exchanges to see whether their computers can handle the date rollover into the next century was completed successfully, a trade group said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Computer Horizons beats Street - Computer Horizons, a company that offers Year 2000 solutions, today posted record revenues to beat estimated earnings for its second quarter. [News.com]
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- Concerns linger on new Apple high - Apple Computer's stock soared to a new 52-week high in morning trading today, buoyed by its larger-than-expected third-quarter profits and increases in analysts' earnings estimates. [News.com]
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- Congress mulls digital IDs - Congress is mulling over legislation today to create a national framework for authenticating people's identities when they shop online or send documents over the Net. [News.com]
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- Convergence takes the day - Amidst much hype, the ballyhooed trend of PC-TV convergence got a boost today, with investor Paul Allen buying cable company Charter Communications for $4.5 billion, as Microsoft, NEC, Alcatel, and DirecTV forged an alliance with Thomson Multimedia to develop and promote interactive television. [News.com]
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- Copyright bill charging ahead - The House Commerce Committee today approved the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to shield copyrights for digital works and to outlaw technologies that can crack copyright-protection devices. [News.com]
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- Copyright report opposes new laws - When radio launched, music companies worried that their works would be ripped off. [News.com]
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- Corel chief under investigation - Michael Cowpland, chief executive of software maker Corel, is being investigated by Canada's leading securities regulator for selling $13.7 million in stock a month before the company's share price plunged. [News.com]
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- Cottage industry for Windows 98 - Windows 98 is spawning a cottage industry of troubleshooting and installation guides. [News.com]
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- Court asked to drop filtering suit - A Silicon Valley library today asked a California court to throw out a lawsuit filed by a local parent who wants the library to filter Net access for all patrons. [News.com]
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- Cryptic billboard deciphered - For more than a month, Bay Area commuters from Silicon Valley into San Francisco on Highway 101 have been driving past a prominently placed billboard bearing a cryptic message: "Yahoo gets it. July 7." [News.com]
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- Crypto ad campaign this week - A private-sector coalition opposed to strict U.S. export controls on data-scrambling technology this week will unveil an advertising campaign to press for change, coalition members said. [News.com]
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- Crypto export rules lighten up - Cutting some government red tape, Commerce Department Secretary William Daley said today that the Clinton administration will lighten restrictions on strong encryption used by financial institutions to secure electronic transactions sent around the globe. [News.com]
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- CyberCash inherits Net merchants - Pioneering Internet payments firm First Virtual Holdings is exiting the online payments business to concentrate on Internet messaging and will urge its 2,000 Net merchants to sign up with former rival CyberCash. [News.com]
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- Cyberian Outpost launches IPO - Cyberian Outpost launched an initial public offering today, and saw its shares gain more than 13 percent on its first trade, as online community-builder GeoCities waited in the wings for its IPO, scheduled to launch in two weeks. [News.com]
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- Cylink tries key recovery - Cylink is expected to announce this week a set of developer tools called CyKey to incorporate key-recovery mechanisms into security applications. [News.com]
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- Dancing Baby: Retail phenom - The biggest little star of virtual culture is on its way to retail reality. [News.com]
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- Data business leaves GTE flat - GTE today reported flat second-quarter earnings as investments in its data business offset 10 percent revenue growth and 13 percent volume growth. [News.com]
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- Deja News offers 17 languages - English is not the only language spoken on the Net and companies hoping to capitalize on that diversity are increasingly offering non-English service. [News.com]
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- Dell closes the gap on Compaq - But for Compaq's June acquisition of Digital Equipment, hard-charging Dell would have surpassed the long-time market leader in U.S. PC sales during one of the weirder, and slower, quarters in some time. [News.com]
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- Dell Japan adds corporate leasing - Tomorrow, Dell Computer's Japanese unit will start a leasing program for corporate customers in conjunction with Japans Orix, in an effort to boost its minimal market share. [News.com]
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- Despite Win 98, Japan woes likely - Microsoft's Windows 98 was released today (Saturday, the 25th) in Japan, but while its prospects are good, the new operating system software is expected to do little to stimulate the sluggish PC market. [News.com]
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- Digital City adds 12 markets - America Online has rolled out 12 new sites on its Digital City local guide network, furthering its position to reap potentially lucrative local advertising. [News.com]
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- Digital divide growing, study says - The technology-fueled "new economy" is driving up stock prices and expanding job opportunities, but the so-called digital divide between the technological haves and have-nots is growing at an equally fast pace, the Commerce Department said today. [News.com]
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- Digital music hits sour note - If you build it, will they come? [News.com]
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- Dipping chips - Microprocessors, which live at the core of computing and the technology industry, continue to be beset by Asia's financial woes and pricing pressures. Companies such as Compaq and Advanced Micro Devices still rely on the sector to advance their product lines and businesses. But just months after recruiting IBM to manufacture its processors, Advanced Micro Devices is putting the brakes on the deal. [News.com]
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- Disney making service for Mac - What's good for Apple Computer's iMac is good for Disney, and vice versa. [News.com]
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- Disney Online president quits - The president of Disney Online, Richard Wolpert, resigned his post yesterday to pursue other interests, the entertainment giant said. [News.com]
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- DOJ approves MCI-WorldCom - Justice Department officials said they have approved WorldCom's $37 billion purchase of MCI Communications because MCI has agreed to sell its Internet business. [News.com]
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- DOJ's efforts abroad faulted - In a move likely to further politicize antitrust enforcement of Microsoft, three senators are accusing Justice Department officials of improperly encouraging "foreign governments to use their antitrust laws" against the software giant. [News.com]
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- Don't blame apps for Win 98 flaws - If you run into Windows 98 problems, talk to your hardware maker and Microsoft first, not the software application companies. [News.com]
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- DoubleClick localizes Web ads - Internet ad firm DoubleClick today launched DoubleClick Local, a targeting service that lets local advertisers reach Web users from their own communities on sites that DoubleClick represents. [News.com]
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- DoubleClick talks to Compaq - DoubleClick said today it was in talks with Compaq Computer on strengthening the contract between DoubleClick and AltaVista, the Internet advertising company's largest customer. [News.com]
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- Drugstore.com gets Neupert - Peter Neupert, who recently left Microsoft after playing a key role in its Internet and cable strategies, has landed a chief executive post with start-up Drugstore.com, said company founder Jed Smith. [News.com]
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- Dutch child porn ring still online - The images of child abuse that have led to criminal investigations in the Netherlands can still be seen on the Internet, the Dutch media reported. [News.com]
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- Dutch police chase Net porn ring - Dutch police today were investigating allegations that an international child pornography ring exploited toddlers as young as two and distributed their images worldwide via the Internet. [News.com]
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- Dutch under fire for child porn - Dutch Justice Minister Winnie Sorgdrager has promised to invest more money and resources in fighting Internet child pornography in the Netherlands. [News.com]
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- E*Trade invests in Net services - E*Trade Group today invested in three Internet services that provide networking infrastructure, e-mail services, and content for Baby Boomers, as it continues to build out its finance portal. [News.com]
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- E*Trade to acquire ShareData - E*Trade Group, one of the largest online investing firms, will acquire privately held ShareData for about $30 million in stock later this year, the companies announced today. [News.com]
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- E-commerce legislation debated - As commissioners from a little-understood group convene this week, consumer advocates are warning that its vote on a major piece of proposed legislation could stifle the future of electronic commerce. [News.com]
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- E-rate boosted by digital divide concerns - Clinton administration troops are making strategic moves this week to rally public support for the e-rate, an embattled federal program to hook schools and libraries up to the Net. [News.com]
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- Earnings news boosts Symantec - The utility software company Symantec announced today that its earnings per share for the first quarter of fiscal year 1999 which ended July 3, will be 40 cents before one-time charges. Revenues will be $153 million. [News.com]
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- Earnings news boosts Yahoo - Yahoo shares saw some ups and downs today, with the stock rising as high as $204 in early trading, encouraged by the company's strong second quarter earnings report and its 2-for-1 stock split announcement. It later fell 2.1875 to close the day at $184. [News.com]
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- Earnings shed light on Net stocks - Internet stocks, which have been soaring for weeks largely on speculation that they have sunny futures, will get a dose of reality today when Yahoo reports second-quarter earnings. [News.com]
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- Earnings, rumors boost Lucent - Shares of Lucent Technologies surged more than 7 percent to a record high yesterday amid positive earnings expectations, a new contract, and rumors that another stock split may be imminent, analysts said. [News.com]
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- eBay acquires Jump - eBay, a personal online trading community today announced the acquisition of Jump, the developer and operator of Up4Sale, an advertising-supported trading service. [News.com]
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- eBay files to go public - Personal auction site eBay today filed to go public, the latest Internet company to file for an IPO. [News.com]
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- EC gets Microsoft complaint - The Computer and Communications Industry Association said it filed objections with the European Commission over cross-promotional agreements Microsoft has with Internet service providers. [News.com]
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- Eckerd expands IBM services - IBM will announce today that drug retailer Eckerd has renewed an existing service contract for Eckerd's 1,600 stores and expanded the deal to cover 1,100 drug stores owned by J.C. Penney. [News.com]
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- Economist warns of Y2K fallout - As the clock ticks toward the start of the year 2000, a leading Wall Street economist says the odds have risen that computer malfunctions will send the world into a severe recession. [News.com]
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- Egghead's Web move paying off - Egghead's move to put all its eggs into one basket by closing its retail stores and becoming an Internet-only commerce company has--so far--proven to be the right decision. [News.com]
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- Ellison an anti-Microsoft witness - Lotus president and chief executive Jeff Papows, Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison, and Sybase chief executive Mitchell Kertzman will be among witnesses speaking at Thursday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing concerning Microsoft's business practices, a committee staffer confirmed today. [News.com]
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- Email death threat spreads - A death threat spam that frightened America Online members last week now has spread to Yahoo Mail. [News.com]
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- Email security flaw discovered - A security hole in three of the most popular email programs has been identified by a team of researchers at a Finland university, raising the possibility that hordes of users may have to upgrade their software. [News.com]
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- Embattled e-rate due in fall - Federal discounts on Net hook-ups for schools and libraries will be doled out this fall, the head of the program said today during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing to scrutinize the administration of the program. [News.com]
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- EMC results beat Street - EMC reported second quarter earnings today that beat Wall Street's expectation of 33 cents per share by 9 percent. [News.com]
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- Enterprise firm turns new leaf - Symix Systems, a maker of enterprise resource planning systems for middle-market manufacturers, is expanding its reach. [News.com]
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- ERP vendors eye e-commerce - Forget "enterprise." The "E" in enterprise resource planning (ERP) is starting to stand for electronic, as in e-commerce. [News.com]
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- Ethernet extension wins support - An extension to the standard Ethernet networking protocol floated by start-up Alteon Networks recently got a boost when both Microsoft and Compaq Computer endorsed the format for delivering data to computers. [News.com]
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- EU backs U.S. domain plan - The European Commission said today it welcomed new U.S. proposals for reforming the Internet name and address system and urged Europeans to play an active role in the new structure. [News.com]
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- EU likely to clear MCI-WorldCom - The European Commission is expected to give final approval Wednesday to WorldCom's proposed $37 billion purchase of MCI Communications, on condition that MCI sell off its Internet businesses, sources said today. [News.com]
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- EU report seeks Net privacy laws - Fanning an international conflict over how to protect online privacy, the European Union has released a report rejecting the White House stance that industry solutions--not laws--can best safeguard sensitive information on the Net. [News.com]
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- Eudora free from email bug - Qualcomm, maker of the popular email program Eudora, said that its products are not susceptible to the long file name security flaw affecting Microsoft and Netscape Communications' email software. [News.com]
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- Europe ISPs to talk Net rules - Europe's leading Internet service providers will meet in Brussels, Belgium, next week to launch a coalition that will promote industry codes of conduct, a senior executive at AOL Bertelsmann Online said today. [News.com]
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- Europe plugs U.S. domain plan - A debate over who should manage the Internet shifts to Brussels this week, with European industry representatives set to push forward a U.S. plan for reforming the network's name and address system. [News.com]
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- Europe seeks global domain policy - Representatives of Europe's Internet industry decided today to join forces to ensure their voice is heard in the effort to reform the global computer network's name and address system. [News.com]
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- Europe weighs Net gambling rules - The European Commission said today it was studying existing rules pertaining to gambling over the Internet, but has not yet decided whether common legislation is needed. [News.com]
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- Excite confirms Throw purchase - Excite confirmed that it has acquired privately held Throw, which later this year will allow it to join other Internet directories in offering an online community product. [News.com]
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- Excite, Inktomi beat Street - Internet search companies Excite and Inktomi today posted quarterly losses that weren't as bad as Wall Street's projections. [News.com]
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- Extending Java developers' reach - Sun Microsystems has released a set of development tools intended to make Java application building easier. [News.com]
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- FAA: Y2K won't crash critical system - Federal Aviation Administration technicians have determined that a critical mainframe computer used in the nation's largest air traffic control centers will function properly in the year 2000, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Fastest AMD chip in notebook - Next month, Micro Express will introduce a new notebook featuring an AMD K6-2 processor and a large display for under $2,300. [News.com]
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- Fastest PowerPC chip debuts - Motorola introduced the industry's fastest PowerPC microprocessors, "G3" chips that run at 366 MHz while using less power than competing processors from Intel. [News.com]
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- FCC could spur speedy Net - In a move to boost the deployment of high-speed Net access, the Federal Communications Commission is considering a deregulation plan to allow large phone companies to more easily enter the growing market. [News.com]
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- FCC hashing out digital TV rules - The Federal Communications Commission has begun the difficult task of defining rules that require cable systems to carry all broadcast channels to the merging world of digital television. [News.com]
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- Fighting for security - International debates over online privacy protection and how to handle the export of strong encryption have dragged on with little obvious progress. Experts say the only solution is swift, sweeping action--though few will be entirely satisfied with the outcome. [News.com]
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- Fighting hackers with freeware - Been hacked? Only the Shadow may know for sure. [News.com]
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- Fill it up with R/3 - SAP is teaching its R/3 software new tricks. [News.com]
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- Fingerprint ID system in Japan - The Japanese unit of Compaq Computer said it began accepting orders in Japan today for a fingerprint identification system designed mainly for corporate users. [News.com]
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- Firm aims to fix broken links - For all the innovations in Net technology over the past few years, there are still few things more aggravating than broken hyperlinks. [News.com]
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- Firm tests antispam software - In the cat-and-mouse fight of spammers vs. antispammers, one company is launching what it hopes will become a major weapon against bulk email. [News.com]
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- Firms bring ATMs home - Out of cash? The ATM is no longer only down the block, around the corner, or across the mall. [News.com]
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- Firms profiting via portals - Amid the high-profile battle among portal sites such as Yahoo and Lycos, a growing number of Web companies are basing their businesses on the back of this sizzling market. [News.com]
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- Firms propose new crypto plan - Leading technology firms have proposed a new data encryption plan meant to ease U.S. government fears that exporting strong encryption will compromise national security. [News.com]
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- Flash memory capacity increased - Japanese electronics maker Fujitsu announced that it has developed a 64-megabit flash memory chip in cooperation with Advanced Micro Devices. [News.com]
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- Flat panel display dips below $900 - CTX International reduced the price of a 14-inch LCD display to $899, making the City of Industry, California, operation one of the first flat-panel manufacturers to break the $900 price barrier. [News.com]
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- FTC: Self-regulation won't cut it - Edging even further from endorsements of industry efforts to safeguard Net users' privacy through self-regulation, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission said today that new laws may be needed to eliminate concerns raised by the online collection of personal information. [News.com]
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- Fujitsu bundles Netscape browser - Netscape Communications said today that Fujitsu will include Netscape's Communicator Internet browser software on all four series of its latest LifeBook notebooks. [News.com]
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- Fujitsu offers cashless ATM - Fujitsu said today that it had introduced a cashless automatic teller machine (ATM) and an electronic wallet. [News.com]
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- Gates gives $7 million to libraries - While politicians squabble over the particulars of a federal program to hook schools and libraries up to the Net, Microsoft's Bill Gates and others are sidestepping bureaucrats and cutting fat checks to support public online access. [News.com]
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- Gates, Buffett a bit bearish - Billionaire bridge-playing buddies Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have different backgrounds, but they agree on one thing: The multiples of technology stocks probably are too high. [News.com]
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- Gates: BackOffice a rising star - Microsoft BackOffice--a suite of enterprise or high-end programs that runs atop Windows NT--is a rising star that is likely to join Windows 95 and 98, Windows NT, and Office 97 as a future revenue driver, company CEO Bill Gates told a group of financial analysts today. [News.com]
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- Gateway cuts target back to school - Gateway reduced prices on its consumer PCs as it readies for the "back to school" selling season. [News.com]
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- Gateway drops on earnings news - Gateway shares fell more than 10 percent today, and some analysts have downgraded the stock one day after the company reported lower-than-expected quarterly earnings due to lower average selling prices. [News.com]
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- Gemstar faces hostile offer - United Video Satellite Group announced yesterday that it made a hostile offer to merge with multimedia company Gemstar International Group for approximately $2.8 billion or $45 per share in cash. [News.com]
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- Gemstar, Microsoft expand TV deal - Gemstar International Group says it has struck a deal to expand its six-month-old interactive programming pact with Microsoft. [News.com]
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- General Magic reports loss - General Magic, which makes operating systems for communications software makers, has reported a net loss and a decline in revenues for its second quarter. [News.com]
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- GeoCities tries antispam measure - Yielding to pressure from an antispam boycott, Net community GeoCities tomorrow will finally take action against spammers who use its servers to send bulk email. [News.com]
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- German commerce boom predicted - Internet commerce is set to explode in Germany with sales likely to surge to $22.6 billion, Bertelsmann's multimedia director said today. [News.com]
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- German party reports hacking - Germany's Free Democratic Party, a junior partner in Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government, said today that a hacker had broken into its computer system and altered internal files, causing considerable damage. [News.com]
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- Germany high on e-commerce list - E-commerce companies hoping to peddle their goods to the European market should set their sights on Germany, a new report said. [News.com]
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- Get-rich-quick tips for execs - Tired of your company's sagging fortunes? Taking a cue from David Letterman, CNET NEWS.COM offers the top ten tips for revitalizing a business during the summer doldrums: [News.com]
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- Glaser breaks the silence - Rob Glaser, chief executive of RealNetworks, went to Washington last week and walked into a firestorm. [News.com]
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- Glaser, others blast Microsoft - Microsoft asks in its ads: "Where do you want to go today?" Clearly, one place it didnt want to go today was the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. [News.com]
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- GOP awaits Y2K encore - Republicans who had earlier criticized the White House for not taking the Year 2000 technology bug seriously are optimistic about yesterday's speech by the president on the issue, but caution that it's only a first step. [News.com]
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- Gore pushes new Net privacy laws - Faced with mounting public pressure to enforce stricter online privacy protections, Vice President Al Gore today called for new laws to deter identity theft and to prohibit the collection of data from children on the Net without parental permission. [News.com]
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- Gore to urge new Net privacy laws - Faced with mounting public pressure to enforce stricter online privacy protections, Vice President Al Gore is expected tomorrow to call for new laws to deter identity theft and to prohibit the collection of data from children on the Net. [News.com]
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- Governors, execs meet on schools - Incorporating technology into education tops a lot of priority lists in government--but officials also face a quandary in how to make a significant investment in it with limited resources. [News.com]
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- Graphics chipsets now a trend - Taipei, Taiwan-based Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) introduced a Pentium chipset that integrates 3D graphics chips, a precursor to more such products from Intel and others. [News.com]
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- Group cracks crypto standard - The current 56-bit Data Encryption Standard is not as secure as believed, the Electronic Frontier Foundation revealed today in an attempt to raise the ante in the political standoff with U.S. government officials trying to limit the strength of encryption approved for export. [News.com]
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- Group says bug's from Real - The war of words between RealNetworks and Microsoft took another turn as a computer technology group claimed that RealNetworks itself caused a glitch that rendered its software inoperable with Windows products. [News.com]
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- GTE to pursue MCI-WorldCom suit - While expressing pleasure that MCI Communications is required to divest its Internet assets before merging with WorldCom, GTE said it will pursue its lawsuit against the merger until all of its concerns are met. [News.com]
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- GTE, Bell Atlantic in merger talks - Bell Atlantic and GTE are in merger talks to create a U.S. telecommunications powerhouse with revenues of $53 billion, second only to those of AT&T, according to published reports. [News.com]
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- GTE, Bell Atlantic shake on it - Bell Atlantic and GTE announced today that they have agreed to a merger that would create a company capable of providing a wide range of services, including long distance, local and wireless services, as well as Internet access. [News.com]
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- Guilty plea in Net porn case - A journalist has pleaded guilty to two counts of receiving and trafficking child pornography on the Net, a strategy his attorneys say will help them beat a federal ruling that prohibited him from using the First Amendment as a defense. [News.com]
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- Haiti slowly getting Net - PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti--Though most Haitians have missed out on the technological breakthroughs of this century, a few determined entrepreneurs are battling to pull them into the next one with the help of the Internet. [News.com]
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- Handheld goes after Webcasting - Zulu Broadcasting today released Video Vamoose, a handheld device that allows anyone with a VCR or camcorder to stream video directly to the Internet. [News.com]
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- Hangul won't need Microsoft - A struggling South Korean software company said today that it was withdrawing a plea to Microsoft for an investment after a consortium came to its rescue. [News.com]
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- Hard times for storage sector - Looks like there's no relief in sight for the disk drive industry, as Western Digital posts a larger-than-expected loss. The earnings report comes on the heels of last week's ouster of Seagate CEO Al Shugart, and in the midst of a continued slump for the storage sector. [News.com]
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- Hatch wants Gates back - Microsoft critic and Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch says it's time to move beyond browser software in examining the company's business practices, and he has scheduled a new hearing to do just that. [News.com]
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- Healtheon to buy Metis for stock - Healtheon, founded by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Jim Clark, said today it would buy Metis in a stock swap--its second acquisition since February. [News.com]
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- High-end portables for Win 98 - Prices on top-line notebooks sporting Windows 98 are heading south, led by Intel price cuts and new Compaq Computer models incorporating processors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). [News.com]
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- High-tech Hollywood - Time was when Silicon Valley and Tinseltown may as well have been two different planets. These days, it's getting harder to tell them apart, as partnerships between entertainment and high-tech giants continue to rise. The strategy has yet to pay off, however. [News.com]
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- Hitachi driving Windows home - Microsoft is stepping up efforts to move its Windows CE operating system into new markets, inking a deal with Hitachi in which the Japanese electronics manufacturer will add to its lineup of handheld computers and create a new breed of home computing devices. [News.com]
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- Hollywood steps up copyright fight - Along with all the bells, whistles, and hype, one of the themes of this year's Herring on Hollywood conference was that the entertainment industry has to be prepared to protect its copyrighted material as widespread broadband access approaches. [News.com]
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- Home networking set to take off - Current efforts aimed at making it easy to network multiple PCs and devices within homes will reap a $4 billion market reward by the year 2002, according to a new study by a West Coast securities firm. [News.com]
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- Hong Kong fiasco for Intel cargo - Intel logistics have suffered a "significant impact" from the cargo fiasco at the newly opened Hong Kong airport, prompting a partial shutdown at two plants, an executive said here last week. [News.com]
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- Hotmail log-out leads to Start - Microsoft took a significant step in promoting its Start portal site today when it began automatically redirecting users of the company's Hotmail service to Start. [News.com]
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- House OKs investor lawsuit bill - The House overwhelmingly approved a bill today that would require most shareholder lawsuits against public companies to be filed in federal court, a shift that would place limits on such actions. [News.com]
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- How will Y2K hit hospitals? - The Senate subcommittee responsible for addressing the year 2000's impact on computer systems today said the health care industry is not yet ready for the end of the century. [News.com]
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- HP backs Windows Terminals - Hewlett-Packard rolled out its first Windows-based computers for the low-end "dumb" terminal market priced at $699, the first stage in the company's plan to become the No. 1 supplier in that segment of the business computing market. [News.com]
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- HP cuts notebook prices in sales push - Hewlett-Packard is undertaking a major campaign on behalf of its notebook computers, today adding its entire lineup to a reseller sales incentive program while aggressively cutting prices nearly across the board. [News.com]
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- HP cuts workstation prices - Hewlett-Packard (HP) reduced prices by as much as 18 percent on Pentium II-based workstations, two days after the chipmaker unveiled its new Xeon processor for high-end workstations and servers. [News.com]
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- HP managers to take pay cut - Hewlett-Packard has asked about 2,400 managers to take a temporary 5 percent pay cut, and the company will close its U.S. offices for four days between Christmas and New Year's as part of a cost-cutting campaign, a spokeswoman confirmed today. [News.com]
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- HP subject of customs inquiry - U.S. customs officials are investigating whether Hewlett-Packard workers illegally shipped $6 million worth of computer merchandise without paying the proper duties, an HP spokesman said. [News.com]
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- HP to port server OS to Merced - Hewlett-Packard said it will port the operating system for its large-scale 3000 series computers to Intel's 64-bit Merced processor, the latest evidence of mushrooming support for Intel's next-generation chip architecture. [News.com]
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- HP warns of lower earnings - Citing weak business conditions in Asia, Hewlett-Packard today warned its third-quarter financial results will likely fall below Wall Street's estimates. [News.com]
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- HP, Check Point detect intrusions - Hewlett-Packard and Check Point Software today beefed up their security offerings with agreements to add intrusion detection software, which monitors networks for break-ins by unauthorized users. [News.com]
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- HP, Circuit City do custom sales - Hewlett-Packard and Circuit City are teaming up to bring direct sales of HP computers to the latter's retail customers, following in the footsteps of Compaq, which has already launched a similar program. [News.com]
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- Hubble star pictures on Net - Massive baby stars, nestled in a cloud of glowing gases and shining as bright as 300,000 suns, are at the center of a galactic "family portrait" snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope and released over the Internet. [News.com]
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- Hughes examines satellite glitches - Hughes Electronics is investigating computer failures on two orbiting satellites identical to the one whose malfunction temporarily devastated pager communications nationwide in May, according to reports. [News.com]
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- IBM copper chip due for Macs - IBM's chance for chip greatness will come later this summer with the release of its first copper-based PowerPC microprocessors, intended for Apple Computer's Macintosh systems. [News.com]
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- IBM cuts Latin America projects - IBM, linked to bribe and fraud scandals in Argentina and Mexico, said it will only sign state-sector contracts for integrated projects in Latin America that result from public tenders. [News.com]
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- IBM execs cleared of fraud - A Mexican judge cleared three executives of IBM of fraud charges yesterday over a multimillion-dollar computer system sold to city officials that failed to work. [News.com]
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- IBM flat panel goes below $1,000 too - IBM is slashing prices on flat-panel desktop displays, bringing its lowest-priced product under the $1,000 price point for the first time. [News.com]
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- IBM gains new consumer head - IBM named the returned Mike Braun to head its recently restructured consumer unit, replacing James Firestone, who left to become president of a Xerox division. [News.com]
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- IBM guilty in supercomputer case - An IBM subsidiary has agreed to plead guilty to unlawfully exporting computers to a Russian nuclear weapons laboratory, U.S. government officials said today. [News.com]
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- IBM has resellers build PCs - IBM said yesterday that distributors have begun assembling all key components of its commercial personal computers, a major shift aimed at slashing the buildup of excess inventory. [News.com]
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- IBM lends Sun Java help - More than a year after it promised to back a key Internet protocol, Sun Microsystems said yesterday that it will work with IBM to develop a way for Sun's protocol for Java components to communicate across a network to work on the Net. [News.com]
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- IBM mainframe tops speed mark - IBM said that its upcoming line of mainframe computers has smashed industry performance records, giving the company at least a one-year lead over rival mainframe makers. [News.com]
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- IBM now takes CyberCash - IBM is linking up with CyberCash to boost Big Blue's Internet payment offerings by adding the most popular form of Internet payments today: credit or debit cards using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. [News.com]
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- IBM peaks on bullish run - IBM stock hit a lifetime intraday high today amid a strengthening outlook for the rest of 1998 and a belief by some analysts that the stock deserves a higher earnings multiple. [News.com]
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- IBM posts profit, flat revenues - IBM shares jumped nearly 6.5 percent in early trading this morning after the company yesterday reported a small rise in quarterly profits. [News.com]
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- IBM profit to show tepid growth - IBM is expected to show tepid year-to-year growth in its second-quarter results amid the economic slowdown in Asia, sales declines at its troubled personal computer business, and a transition for its mainframe business. [News.com]
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- IBM single sign-on software due - IBM debuted a new version of software that allows users in a diverse computing environment to sign on just once but access the network from anywhere. [News.com]
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- IBM to offer speech products - IBM is planning a partnership with Applied Language Technologies, a closely held speech-software company in Boston, as it continues to seek business uses for voice-recognition technology, according to reports. [News.com]
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- IBM touts fall PC lineup - IBM introduced its fall PC lineup, a collection for back-to-school buyers which includes Big Blue's first $799 consumer system and a feature-packed model with Intel's fastest Pentium II processor and a DVD drive. [News.com]
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- IBM trims workstation prices - IBM cut workstation prices and introduced a new software bundle, as Big Blue continues expanding its efforts in the Windows NT market. [News.com]
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- IBM, Equifax expand services deal - IBM will announce today that it agreed to a new computer services contract with credit information giant Equifax in a deal valued at about $900 million. [News.com]
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- IBM, Legend go postal in China - IBM, China's Legend Holdings, and a venture between TRW and Stone Electronic Technology have won a contract to computerize China's postal services, a Chinese official said today. [News.com]
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- IBM, NEC to secure DVD - IBM and NEC today announced they are working together to establish the first copyright protection standard for DVD (digital versatile disc), the high-capacity medium that's beginning to replace the CD. [News.com]
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- IBM, start-up both claim "e" - IBM faces a court battle with a tiny, two-person consulting company over the right to use the "e" mark, shaped much like the "@" used in email addresses. [News.com]
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- IBM-Equifax deal values services - IBM agreed to a new ten-year services contract with credit information provider Equifax that is valued at about $900 million. [News.com]
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- iDot tries to make its name - Startup PC maker iDot.com is trying to make its name as a Web-based direct vendor competing with the likes of Dell Computer, and so far it's off to a good start. [News.com]
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- IE leads browser war at work - Microsoft has grabbed the lead from rival Netscape Communications among companies that specify which browser their employees should use to access the Internet, a research company said today. [News.com]
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- iMac center stage at Macworld - The Macworld Expo trade show opens tomorrow in New York for the first time, but some wags are suggesting that it be renamed iMacworld for all the emphasis on the company's upcoming line of flashy consumer computers. [News.com]
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- iMac goes to the Ivy League - Before incoming freshmen at Dartmouth College arrive on campus this fall, the school is asking them to purchase Apple Computer's new iMac computer. [News.com]
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- Imagine Radio spinning off - Imagine Radio said today that it is spinning off from parent publishing company Imagine Media and merging with Net music technology firm Silver Island. [News.com]
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- In defense of Net advertising - Hours after learning that advertising dollars will not sustain the Internet media companies that depend on them, attendees at summer Internet World here heard a spirited defense of advertising on the Web. [News.com]
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- India court clears Net business - The Indian software industry today welcomed a court judgment that it said appeared to clear the way for private firms to provide Internet services. [News.com]
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- India proposes tech plan - Aiming to be a software superpower, India today released a proposed blueprint to spread the use of computers and to network the nation of 950 million people. [News.com]
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- Industries clash at EU on piracy - European Commissioner Mario Monti today pledged to consider the views of all sectors on how to prevent digital copyright piracy but will have a tough job reconciling them. [News.com]
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- Industry floats plan on privacy - Amid criticism from the Clinton administration, a major online industry group that includes America Online and Microsoft today unveiled its enforcement plan to protect consumer privacy on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Industry to meet over domains - Internet policy makers and industry leaders will meet in Geneva tomorrow to try to thrash out a U.S. plan to reform the network's name and address system and make it more competitive. [News.com]
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- Ingram goes for Dell's Web sales - Gearing up to battle Dell Computer's direct sales model, Ingram Micro will host e-commerce sites for 200 of its top resellers, giving them their own branded Web computer stores with "back-office" and commercial services provided by the Santa Ana, California, distributor. [News.com]
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- Inktomi to power @Home search - Search technology firm Inktomi today said it has licensed its search engine and networking caching technologies to cable access provider @Home. [News.com]
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- Inprise ships transaction middleware - Inprise has begun shipping VisiBroker Integrated Transaction Service (ITS), its transactional middleware that supports both Java and C++ clients and servers. [News.com]
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- Integrated chips shrink market - Manufacturers of graphics chips, sound chips, and main processors looking to integration as the path to profits will be waylaid by the low-cost PC phenomenon, according to a new report from Mercury Research. [News.com]
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- Intel antitrust trial date set - January 5 will be the start date for the Federal Trade Commission's high-profile antitrust case against Intel, an administrative law judge ruled today. [News.com]
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- Intel boosts tech stocks - Blue chips fell this morning while technology shares moved onto firmer ground, boosted by gains in Intel after bullish comments by Wall Street analysts. [News.com]
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- Intel defends actions to FTC - Intel defended its right to cancel agreements with three computer vendors in its answer to the antitrust complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission, claiming, among other grounds, that the information constituted proprietary information that the chipmaker could retrieve at any time. [News.com]
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- Intel developing Merced software - Although its first 64-bit processor has been delayed, Intel has been diligently assisting hardware and software vendors to optimize their products for its future chip architecture. [News.com]
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- Intel diagrams 700-MHz technology - A major manufacturing advance in the second half of 1999 will enable Intel to introduce smaller, faster, and less expensive chips running as fast as 700 MHz. [News.com]
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- Intel digs deeper into graphics - Intel bought 8.2 percent of graphics chipmaker Evans & Sutherland for $24 million today, another step in the processor giant's push to expand its presence in graphics chip technology. [News.com]
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- Intel dives into new chip line - After months of speculation, Intel is moving full speed toward selling and developing processors for consumer-oriented electronic devices based on the StrongARM chip, an architecture that's completely different from its long-established PC chip standard. [News.com]
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- Intel earnings looking up - Despite weeks of doom and gloom in the hardware sector, a better-than-expected second quarter from Intel today could prove the first step in a turnaround. [News.com]
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- Intel earnings off 29% - Intel reported a 29 percent reduction in earnings and sequentially flat revenues yesterday, but said that cost-cutting measures and new products should give the company a boost by next quarter. [News.com]
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- Intel investing in all of Net - The entertainment business and the technology industry continue to cozy up with the evolution of the Internet and digital delivery devices, an Intel executive told members of both camps today at the Herring on Hollywood conference here. [News.com]
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- Intel releasing new low-cost chip - Intel has once again accelerated its road map for low-end Celeron processors, moving up the release of faster versions with integrated high-speed memory from next quarter to this one and adding a 366-MHz version of the chip in the first half of 1999. [News.com]
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- Intel server chip coming soon - Despite some problems, Intel stated that server computers using its new high-end Xeon processor should be available in one to two weeks. [News.com]
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- Intel targets powerful workstations - As part of its strategy for moving deeper into digital content and the high end of the workstation computer market, Intel announced new 3D graphics and two new standard workstation designs, one month after introducing Xeon, its most powerful processor yet. [News.com]
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- Intel to cut Pentium II prices - A new round of price cuts from Intel is expected this Sunday, while a 450-MHz chip--the fastest Pentium II yet--should hit the streets next month. [News.com]
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- Intel to preview workstation, 3D graphics - As part of its strategy to move deeper into digital content, Intel will make a big play to ensconce its hardware firmly in the workstation market by previewing a new version of its 3D graphics technology as well as providing details for a standard workstation blueprint. [News.com]
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- Intel to shut plants temporarily - Intel will temporarily close two of its chipmaking plants for nine days beginning this weekend as it starts a "voluntary separation" program to reduce its workforce, CNET NEWS.COM has learned. [News.com]
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- Intel to shut plants temporarily - Intel will temporarily close two of its chipmaking plants for nine days beginning this weekend as it starts a "voluntary separation" program to reduce its workforce, CNET NEWS.COM has learned. [News.com]
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- Intel, Level One plan speedy LANs - Intel and Level One Communications said today that they have agreed to work together on developing high-speed corporate local area networking technology. [News.com]
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- Intergraph dispels Intel's claims - Intergraph president Jim Meadlock minimized the importance of Intel patent counterclaims made earlier this month against the Huntsville, Alabama, company, as the workstation maker projected that second-quarter revenue will be flat with the first quarter due to its patent infringement lawsuit the chipmaking giant. [News.com]
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- Intergraph: Intel deal confirms threat - Intel says that that its investment in graphics chip vendor Evans & Sutherland is about enhancing the performance of workstations, but Intergraph claims the move confirms all of its fears. [News.com]
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- Internet stocks fall again - Shares of Internet companies jumped in after-hours trading today after Yahoo solidly beat Wall Street estimates with its second-quarter earnings and announced a 2-for-1 stock split. [News.com]
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- Intuit, AOL team on mortgage site - America Online and Intuit said today that they have collaborated to launch a new mortgages area on AOL's real estate center, featuring Intuit's QuickenMortgage. [News.com]
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- Investment firm to buy Centennial - Centennial Communications, a cellular phone service company, said today that it has agreed to be bought by a corporation formed by private investment firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS). [News.com]
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- Iomega predicts profit after loss - Iomega chief executive James Sierk said today that he expects to see a small profit in the fourth quarter after posting a second-quarter loss earlier today. [News.com]
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- Iomega reorg to save $50 million - The chief executive of Iomega says his company will save $50 million in the second half of 1998 as a result of a reorganization at the firm. [News.com]
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- IPO fever hits new pitch - The latest spike among high-tech stocks has encouraged a raft of other companies to go public, ranging from hardware firms to Internet content operations. The latest examples: Cyberian Outpost, GeoCities, and Maxtor. [News.com]
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- Is browser war near end? - Could this be the beginning of the end of the browser war? The answer depends on whom you ask. [News.com]
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- Is it the browser or is it the portal? - Is it the browser or is it the portal? [News.com]
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- Is the worst over for chipmakers? - When Analog Devices said its microprocessor sales would take a downturn during the quarter ending August 1, the company became only the latest in a long line of chipmakers to warn about slumping sales and increasing competition. [News.com]
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- ISD soars on buyout speculation - Shares of Information Storage Devices surged after the supplier of semiconductors for voice messaging said it was considering an acquisition offer by one of its existing shareholders. [News.com]
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- ISPs ordered to reveal user names - Internet service providers including America Online, CompuServe, and PSINet have been served with court orders that could force them to reveal the names of members who posted messages online that allegedly disparaged Canadian waste recycling firm Philip Services Corporation. [News.com]
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- Jamaican teen to advise on tech - Jamaica has appointed a 13-year-old computer wizard as a government consultant to help the bureaucrats keep up to date with the latest developments in computer technology. [News.com]
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- Japan demands Windows 98 - Responding to surprising international demand for Windows 98, Microsoft is making more copies of the upgraded operating system software available in Japan. [News.com]
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- Japan firm embraces Net brokering - Anyone who's been to a Japanese bank knows the country's penchant for the latest technological gizmo doesn't extend to financial services. [News.com]
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- Japan police nab Net porn ring - In Japan's first cyberporn arrests, police said today they had nabbed 13 people for involvement in an Internet pornography ring. [News.com]
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- Java court date pushed back - A key hearing in a lawsuit filed by Sun Microsystems against Microsoft has been postponed to September 4 from July 31, officials said today. [News.com]
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- Java tool hits beta No. 2 - Microsoft is forging ahead with the next release of its Java development tool package. [News.com]
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- Java update still in the shop - Developers looking for Java performance-boosting features in Sun Microsystems' upcoming refresh of its Java Development Kit will be left wanting. [News.com]
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- Javagator down, not out - Netscape Communications has ceased all development efforts on its browser written in Java, the company confirmed today. [News.com]
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- Jobs missing out on Macworld - When Apple Computer holds the coming out party for the iMac in New York today, interim chief executive and cofounder Steve Jobs will not be present. [News.com]
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- Jobs's amazing appearing act - Apple interim chief executive Steve Jobs caught his own staff by surprise today when he showed up to give a Macworld keynote address in New York in person. [News.com]
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- Jobs: Apple pegs growth to iMac - Apple has moved beyond merely surviving and is now demonstrating it can grow again, acting CEO Steve Jobs said in his Macworld Expo keynote address here. [News.com]
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- Judge slammed for joking email - California's Commission on Judicial Performance admonished a superior court judge for calling a lawyer "chicken" and sending an email message saying he intended to "screw" a litigant. [News.com]
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- Juno moves to the Web - Free email giant Juno is stepping into the Internet access fray in an attempt to convert its strictly email subscriber base into Web surfers. [News.com]
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- Kahn sells--but steals the show - Philippe Kahn always has been a maverick with a flair for the dramatic. So he chose a Webcast to announce the surprise sale of his privately held Starfish Software to Motorola, complete with live jazz at the West Coast's newest major museum. [News.com]
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- Kasparov readies chess site - World chess champion Garry Kasparov said he will launch an Internet site for chess lovers eager to watch real-time matches and for a chance to take on grand masters. [News.com]
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- Kesmai and AOL settle dispute - Kesmai, a subsidiary of News Corporation and America Online, said they have reached a settlement of their legal dispute. [News.com]
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- KLA-Tencor to miss expectations - KLA-Tencor said today that it expects financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30 to come in below analysts' forecasts. [News.com]
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- KPN, Netscape team on hosting - Dutch telecom group KPN said today that it would launch a standard intranet hosting service for medium-sized companies. [News.com]
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- Lam sees impact from slump - Lam Research, a maker of semiconductor equipment, said it expects its business to continue to be impacted over the next several quarters by one of the worst industry downturns in more than a decade. [News.com]
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- Legislating the Net - As Congress took up a spate of Net issues this week, lawmakers unanimously approved a major spending bill that includes the controversial CDA II, a Net filtering mandate for federally funded access at schools and libraries, and bans on forms of online gambling. [News.com]
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- Level 3 in network-building pact - Level 3 Communications said today that it signed a cost-sharing network construction agreement valued at $700 million with Internext LLC, which is owned by Nextlink Communications, Nextel Communications, and Eagle River Investments LLC. [News.com]
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- Lewinsky case drags markets - Stocks tumbled today as the stepped-up pace of events in the White House sex scandal added to the bearish brew already rattling investors. [News.com]
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- Lexmark beats Street - Computer printer maker Lexmark International Group today reported second-quarter net income of $54 million, significantly ahead of Wall Street expectations. [News.com]
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- Linux gaining respect - Linux is finally gaining respect outside the hallowed halls of academia. [News.com]
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- Log-ins now done by fingerprint - Taking a design cue from '60s spy movies, Compaq Computer today outlined a new security system that will allow users to log in by fingerprint. [News.com]
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- Long view mixed for Apple - Despite hitting a 52-week high after posting its third consecutive profitable quarter, Wall Street analysts aren't sold on Apple Computer's future. The company may be getting up to speed with the rest of the PC industry, but concern still lingers on whether the Mac maker can achieve sustainable growth. [News.com]
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- Lotus debuts Notes search tool - IBM subsidiary Lotus Development today announced a new search tool that boosts Lotus Notes and Domino information gathering and storing resources, the company said. [News.com]
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- Lotus revamps email pricing - Lotus Development today continued the ongoing upgrade of its messaging strategy to help its huge installed base of cc:Mail users to migrate to its Notes software and keep them away from competitors. [News.com]
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- Lotus still bullish on Asia Pacific - Software company Lotus Development is still bullish about the Asia Pacific market despite Asia's economic crisis, a senior company executive said today. [News.com]
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- Lotus, Sun show faith in NC - Standing by their commitment to the network computer, Lotus Development, a subsidiary of IBM, and Sun Microsystems said they will show off new applications next week. [News.com]
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- Lotus: Acer vexed about Microsoft - Computer maker Acer America expressed concern about jeopardizing its relationship with Microsoft during negotiations to buy rival software from Lotus Development, a Senate panel heard yesterday. [News.com]
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- Love Hearts updated, technically - Love Heart sweets--passed for generations between the hands of British children to declare the first blush of romance--are moving into the computer age. [News.com]
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- Lucent bids $70 million for JNA - Telecommunications systems giant Lucent Technologies said late yesterday that it plans to acquire Australian telecommunications equipment maker JNA Telecommunications for $70 million in cash. [News.com]
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- Lucent posts loss, beats estimates - Lucent Technologies today posted a third-quarter loss due to acquisition-related charges but still beat Wall Street expectations amid strong revenue growth and higher gross profit margins. [News.com]
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- Lucent signs Saudi telecom deals - Lucent Technologies said today that it has been awarded two new contracts with Saudi Telecommunications valued at $810 million in total. [News.com]
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- Lucent to acquire LanNet - Lucent Technologies today said it will acquire LanNet, a supplier of next-generation Ethernet and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switching technologies for local area networks, for $117 million in cash. [News.com]
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- Lycos plans stock split - Lycos today became the latest Internet company to announce a 2-for-1 stock split, joining Amazon.com, Excite, and K-Tel on a growing list. [News.com]
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- Lycos to focus on community - Lycos president and chief executive Robert Davis said today that a sense of community is an essential aspect of the Internet, and his search engine company plans to encourage just that. [News.com]
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- Mac OS 8.5 due in September - Mac OS 8.5, previously known as Allegro, will start to ship by "late in the third quarter," according to Apple Computer executives here at the Macworld trade show, which means the software ought to be in customers' hands by September. [News.com]
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- Macintosh demand to eat supply - With Apple Computer expected to cut prices on its Power Macintosh G3 systems early next month, vendors are concerned that they might run out of inventory before a new line of Power Macs is available to replace them. [News.com]
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- Macromedia beats expectations - Macromedia gave Wall Street an upside surprise today, posting stronger-than-expected first-quarter results as it got a boost from its new Web products. [News.com]
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- Macromedia chairman steps down - Longtime Macromedia chairman Bud Colligan will step down later this month, and will be replaced by the company's chief executive, Rob Burgess, who now will hold both titles, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Macromedia launches Net "dance club" - ShockRave, Macromedia's entertainment site, wants to become the MTV of the Net. Toward that goal, today it is launching what it is billing as "the Web's first interactive dance club." [News.com]
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- Macromedia on a comeback - Macromedia shares rose more than a point to $17.50 on June 9 after it was announced that its Flash technology would be used in Netscape Communications' browser. [News.com]
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- Macromedia players on Win 98 - Furthering its quest for ubiquity, multimedia software company Macromedia made a formal announcement today that its Shockwave and Flash players are preinstalled in Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system. [News.com]
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- Macworld to return to Boston - IDG Expo Management said today that the East Coast venue for Macworld will return next year to Boston, where it has been held every year except this year since the inaugural event in 1984. [News.com]
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- Magaziner hopeful for domain deal - President Clinton's Internet adviser said today industry leaders and policy makers were close to a deal on a U.S. plan to reform the Net's domain name system and make it more competitive. [News.com]
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- Magaziner: Help fix domains - Senior White House adviser Ira Magaziner today urged companies doing business on the Internet to reach a consensus soon with other online groups over how the U.S. government should phase out its management of the vast global network. [News.com]
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- Management, e-commerce in one - IMI and IBM want to give a little electronic zap to order management software. [News.com]
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- Mark-up language wins praise - XML appears to be a long way from widespread use on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Marketers get new way to query - Marketing departments will soon be able to get one step closer to their companies' customers. [News.com]
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- Markets mixed on Japan news - Blue-chip stocks ticked lower today as Wall Street mulled the impact of the Japanese prime minister's resignation on the country's troubled economy, while the Nasdaq romped to yet another record high on the prospect of better earnings for some technology companies. [News.com]
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- Markets mixed, Egghead plunges - Stocks were mixed today as investors sorted through the latest data, which showed the economy is still cruising in high gear while inflation is holding in neutral. [News.com]
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- Markets shake off early losses - Stocks shook off a sell-off to end higher today, but the market still was hounded by memories of last week's headlong drop in the blue chips and renewed doubts that Japan will do the right thing to get its economy back on its feet. [News.com]
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- Markets soar to record highs - Stocks surged to record highs today as investors put aside their earnings worries and looked forward to an economic recovery in ailing Japan and Asia. [News.com]
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- Markets surge on inflation news - Stocks powered ahead today as the market toasted the good news that labor costs are still not sparking any serious inflation in the economy. [News.com]
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- MasterCard in Net credit pilot - MasterCard is teaming with several vendors for an experimental SET (Secure Electronic Transactions) Internet credit card pilot that uses smart card and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). [News.com]
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- Matsushita, Microsoft agree on PC-TVs - Matsushita Electric Industrial and Microsoft have signed an agreement to formalize their cooperation in developing products that combine audio-visual and personal computer technologies. [News.com]
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- Maxtor gives public trading a shot - Maxtor waded into the public market today, despite an industry-wide slump in the storage sector. [News.com]
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- MCI beats Street estimates - Telecommunications giant MCI Communications today beat Wall Street earnings expectations by posting an increase of nearly 11 percent in second quarter revenue, citing a growth in sales of data, conferencing, and managed services. [News.com]
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- Media mergers to double this year - Merger and acquisition activity in the media and communications industries this year should double the number of transactions in 1997, according to an investment bank survey. [News.com]
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- Media Vision execs sued by SEC - Capping a four-year investigation, the Securities and Exchange Commission today filed suit against four former top officers of Media Vision Technologies, accusing them of fraud and insider trading. [News.com]
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- Media, tech firms think digital - Some of the most influential media and technology companies are collaborating to create the technological underpinnings for a coming wave of TVs that will combine standard programming with Internet content, and Microsoft appears to be just one of many small fish in a big pond. [News.com]
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- Memory making a comeback? - The memory chip industry may be making a comeback, fueled by plant cutbacks, the proliferation of high-performance technology, improved manufacturing, and most of all a substantial increase in the amount of memory PC makers are putting into their systems. [News.com]
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- Mexico City, IBM settle snafu - The Mexican unit of IBM has agreed to pay $37.57 million to Mexico City prosecutors to compensate for a failed computer system that nearly landed three IBM executives in jail, officials said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Mexico hacking threats intensify - Mexican hackers who recently defaced a government Internet home page said this week they would break into and publicize official bank accounts, cellular phone conversations, and email addresses. [News.com]
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- Michelangelo's Pieta recreated - IBM is working with an Italian art historian to create a virtual model of a Michelangelo sculpture destroyed by the artist's own hand. [News.com]
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- Micron cuts desktop prices - Micron Electronics reduced desktop prices by up to ten percent, following a similar round of cuts at the beginning of June. [News.com]
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- Micron uses Intel 3D graphics - Micron Electronics has decided to use Intel's Intel740 graphics chip as a standard component in its high-end systems, but it's unclear whether this will lead to wider adoption of the chip giant's newest product. [News.com]
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- Micron will cut 130 - Micron Electronics said it will cut 130 jobs as part of a restructuring and reallocate the resources toward new sales positions. [News.com]
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- Microsoft "shocked" over Korea deal - U.S. software giant Microsoft said today that it was deeply disturbed by a South Korean software firm's sudden decision to drop out of an investment deal. [News.com]
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- Microsoft builds up toolset - Microsoft is throwing everything but the kitchen sink into its upcoming Visual Studio 6.0 development tool package. [News.com]
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- Microsoft can't seem to lose - Despite battling a lengthy antitrust investigation and consumer complaints about its newly released Windows 98 operating system, Microsoft is on a financial roll. [News.com]
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- Microsoft case depositions begin - Lawyers have begun taking depositions in preparation for a trial in the Microsoft antitrust case scheduled to begin in eight weeks, officials said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Microsoft debuts Chromeffects - Microsoft's Chrome is buffed, shined, and ready for prime time. [News.com]
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- Microsoft exec now with VC firm - Peter Neupert, a leading force in Microsoft's foray into new media, will join Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a "CEO in residence" starting next month, a partner in the Silicon Valley venture capital firm confirmed yesterday. [News.com]
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- Microsoft filing reveals details - As expected, Microsoft denied any wrongdoing in a filing today that refuted antitrust charges against the company. But the document did offer some insight into the software giant's business tactics to become the "leading supplier" of Internet-related technologies. [News.com]
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- Microsoft herds its Web sites - In a logical step to leverage its brand awareness, Microsoft will incorporate its myriad Web properties under one MSN umbrella, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft lands state deal - In a groundbreaking deal for Microsoft, the company has sealed a three-year, $23.6 million arrangement to install its Windows NT operating system and other applications on every state government computer in Pennsylvania. [News.com]
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- Microsoft launches real estate site - Microsoft today unveils a new real estate Web site aimed at getting a chunk of one of the biggest potential gold mines on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Microsoft money: Help or harm? - Money can buy a lot of things, but a trouble-free business relationship isn't one of them. Just ask companies that have received millions of dollars in investments from Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Microsoft new media VP resigns - In a surprising departure, Peter Neupert, a leading force behind Microsoft's foray into new media, is resigning. He is expected to lead a start-up backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, sources said. [News.com]
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- Microsoft opts out of hearing - Microsoft faces another congressional hearing on its business practices Thursday, but this time the software giant's top executives are not expected to testify. [News.com]
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- Microsoft pressure on Acer alleged - Pressure tactics by Microsoft often led computer maker Acer America to use the software giant's products, according to a former Acer product manager. [News.com]
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- Microsoft readies Web site tool - Microsoft will start shipping the next version of its Web site authoring and management tool in the first quarter of 1999, company sources said. [News.com]
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- Microsoft responds to suits - Microsoft today filed a counterclaim against 20 state attorneys general who sued the software giant in May, charging that their suits are unconstitutional. [News.com]
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- Microsoft settles trademark case - Microsoft said it has settled a trademark dispute that had challenged its use of the name "Internet Explorer" to market its popular Web browser. Sources close to the matter say the settlement will have the software giant paying $5 million for rights to the name. [News.com]
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- Microsoft to detail legal case - Microsoft is expected to outline a defense tomorrow in its high-stakes legal battle with the Justice Department and 20 states, the first visible development in the case in months. [News.com]
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- Microsoft to post strong earnings - Microsoft is expected to report at least a 20 percent increase in quarterly earnings tomorrow, with the potential to do better if it recognizes early revenues from the Windows 98 operating system upgrade, analysts said. [News.com]
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- Microsoft tool update moves ahead - Microsoft will move ahead with plans to update its management software tools, regardless of the murky timetable for release of its Windows NT operating system upgrade. [News.com]
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- Microsoft updates Exchange 5.5 - Microsoft today rolled out a service pack update to its Exchange 5.5 messaging server. [News.com]
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- Microsoft updates streaming - Microsoft today updated its streaming technology lineup with the rollout of the upgraded Windows Media Player and Windows NT Server NetShow Services, along with the release of the NetShow Theater Server. [News.com]
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- Microsoft warns of security hole - Microsoft has issued a warning to developers that a data access component included with its Web server and development tools could be used to gain unauthorized access to corporate databases, and could potentially crash Windows NT-based servers. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Cisco a stream team - Software titan Microsoft and internetworking giant Cisco are extending their partnership to develop streaming video and audio products. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Dell have record day - Microsoft and PC maker Dell Computer both climbed into record territory today as the tech-laden Nasdaq market rallied. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Glaser trade bug barbs - Microsoft and RealNetworks are locked in a public war of words over an alleged flaw that keeps multimedia software made by the two companies from working together. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Thomson in Net TV deal - Microsoft, NEC, Alcatel, and DirecTV said today that they each plan to acquire a 7.5 percent stake in Thomson Multimedia in a deal that will bring all the companies together to develop and promote interactive television. [News.com]
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- Microsoft: Email patch flawed - Microsoft has warned that a patch posted yesterday to fix a security hole in its Outlook Express email program does not repair a related problem. [News.com]
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- Microsoft: Indonesia sales to slump - Computer software giant Microsoft said today that it expected an 85 percent slump in its Indonesian sales this year. [News.com]
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- Motorola goes wireless - Motorola makes a run for a share of the digital wireless market by acquiring Starfish Software in a deal valued at several hundred million dollars. With dramatic flair typical of Starfish founder Philippe Kahn, the combination was announced--and simultaneously Webcast--at a surprise event held last night at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art. [News.com]
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- Motorola not out of woods yet - Motorola today posted better-than-expected results for its second quarter, but warned that the "negative impact" of the Asian economic crisis is likely to continue at least for the rest of the year. [News.com]
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- Motorola ready to make AMD chips - The alliance between Motorola and Advanced Micro Devices appears to be getting stronger by the day. [News.com]
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- Motorola to purchase Starfish - Motorola is digging in for a battle in the digital wireless market. [News.com]
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- Motorola to realign businesses - Motorola said today it will link all of its communications-related businesses in a single new unit so that they can share resources and technology and respond more quickly to customer needs. [News.com]
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- Motorola to report operating loss - Analysts said today that Motorola is expected to report its first quarterly operating loss in 13 years this week, as the Asian economic crisis continues to erode profits, especially in the company's semiconductor business. [News.com]
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- Movie exec pushes copyright bill - In a rousing speech at summer Internet World, Motion Picture Association of America chief executive Jack Valenti blasted Internet copyright violators and campaigned for an intellectual property bill under consideration by the House of Representatives. [News.com]
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- MRP veteran Mapics going strong - One of the original names in material requirements planning (MRP) is still chugging away--turning profits and finding itself in a good position as all eyes turn to the middle market for the next wave of growth in enterprise-level software sales. [News.com]
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- MSN adds instant messaging - Microsoft today unveiled plans to add an instant messaging client to its laundry list of Web-based services, the latest in a string of rollouts that will build on its Internet portal efforts. [News.com]
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- MTV to launch Net TV channel - Viacom's MTV Networks Europe and Internet service provider PSINet announced plans today to launch Europe's first continuously broadcasting TV channel on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Music antipiracy push in Europe - Europe's music industry continued its campaign against Internet piracy today, renewing a plea for tough European Union legislation. [News.com]
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- Music label turns to open Net - Even as analysts doubt the Net's immediate potential as a channel for direct delivery of music, Hollywood Records is giving it a boost this week in a format that music pirates favor and the record industry hates. [News.com]
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- Musicfest plays on Web - The creators of the Intel New York Music Festival say Net technology finally may have caught up with them. [News.com]
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- N.Y. freezes Net gambling firm - Continuing his high-profile fight against illegal Net activity, New York state attorney general Dennis Vacco has frozen the bank accounts of an Internet gambling company, alleging it conducted illegal and deceptive business practices. [News.com]
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- N.Y. Times lifts overseas fee - The New York Times on the Web today lifted the subscription fee it was charging users outside the United States. [News.com]
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- Nader challenges Gates on wealth - Consumer rights activist Ralph Nader today sent a letter to Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates, challenging the CEO to join financier Warren Buffett in leading a conference of billionaires in addressing wealth disparities and how to resolve them. [News.com]
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- Nasdaq eyes DoubleClick's rise - The sharp run-up and unusually high trading volume in DoubleClick today drew the attention of the Nasdaq stock market. [News.com]
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- Nasdaq tops 2,000 for first time - Technology stocks resumed their summer rally this morning, sweeping the Nasdaq composite above 2,000 for the first time ever and pushing the broader market modestly higher as well. [News.com]
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- Nat Semi orders staff furloughs - National Semiconductor will furlough all of its workers for ten days sometime between September and November, as the chipmaker continues its yearlong struggle with weak demand. [News.com]
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- NBC sale unlikely, analysts say - General Electric is not likely to sell its NBC television operations but could be looking to expand its cable TV properties, according to analysts and bankers. [News.com]
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- NBC stakes interactive TV project - Television network NBC said today it was buying a 5 percent stake in TDN, a joint venture of Gemstar International Group Limited and Thomson Consumer Electronics that is developing an interactive television guide called Guide Plus+ Gold. [News.com]
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- NEC licenses Java Card language - NEC signed a licensing agreement with Sun Microsystems for the Java Card IC card programming language, in an effort to further strengthen its IC card-related semiconductor and system solution businesses. [News.com]
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- NEC may take over Packard Bell - Japans NEC indicated it will consider tightening its control over Packard Bell NEC by making it a subsidiary, following an abrupt change in the PC vendor's top management. [News.com]
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- NEC tightens Packard Bell grip - Japanese electronics giant NEC said today that it would bring troubled U.S. personal computer maker Packard Bell NEC fully within its own camp with a fresh injection of funds. [News.com]
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- Net bill raises privacy flags - The Senate Commerce Committee today passed legislation that could create national standards for authenticating people's identities on the Net without the privacy protections pushed by consumer advocates. [News.com]
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- Net brokerage war escalates - The online brokerage battle is heating up, with E*Trade getting a $400 million investment from Softbank and Charles Schwab unveiling a redesigned Web site. [News.com]
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- Net companies post earnings - Wall Street hit the bull's-eye today with predictions of losses for @Home and DoubleClick. EarthLink, however, beat estimates, even though it still finished in the red. [News.com]
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- Net demand surging in Europe - European businesses and consumers will continue to spend more on Internet access as online audiences and demand for Internet services continue to surge into the next millennium, according to a new report. [News.com]
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- Net gambler sues credit firms - Cynthia Haines gambled away $70,000 on the Net over the course of 18 months. She doesn't believe she is a compulsive gambler, but she does admit she made a mistake. [News.com]
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- Net investors choose portals - Instead of banks or brokerage houses, Internet portals have become the key to financial services on the Web, according to a recent study. [News.com]
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- Net music firm signs Billy Squier - In another example of the music industry's move into cyberspace, rocker Billy Squier said he had signed a deal with an Internet-based record label called J-Bird Records. [News.com]
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- Net needs financial report rules - The high-speed landscape of the Internet could render the musty world of financial reports obsolete, but first a system to certify the numbers must be in place, the head of an accounting association said. [News.com]
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- Net sales downplayed in Germany - A German retail industry group said today that Internet commerce was not a serious competitor to traditional in-store shopping. [News.com]
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- Net shopping affecting markets - Economic booms and busts could become more frequent as shopping on the Internet takes off, according to a study published today. [News.com]
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- Net stock boom creates billionaires - With Internet stocks soaring, Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang today became the latest Net executive to gain entry into the billionaire club, joining Yahoo cofounder David Filo and Amazon.com chief executive Jeff Bezos. [News.com]
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- Net stocks boost markets - Internet stocks continued their dizzying ascent in trading today as investors once again took bullish announcements issued by individual companies as a sign that the industry as a whole remains hot. [News.com]
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- Net stocks cool off after rally - Following an extended rally during the last few weeks, Internet stocks were trading lower today. [News.com]
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- Net stocks defy Street smarts - Stock buyers who adhere to old-school investing rules are being left behind by the incredible run-up in risky technology and Internet stocks. [News.com]
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- Net stocks keep on climbing - Fueled by takeover speculation, Internet stocks soared in trading today, with many hitting new 52-week highs or posting percentage gains in the double digits. [News.com]
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- Net stocks keep on rising - Internet stocks continued climbing today, with Amazon.com, CNET, and Net access providers EarthLink and MindSpring leading the way. [News.com]
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- Net stocks move on Yahoo profits - Yahoo's better-than-expected earnings led a morning rally in Internet stocks, but the results became mixed as the day wore on. [News.com]
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- Net TVs falling by the wayside - Amid the "convergence" craze that's merging the PC with TV, some products are beginning to fall by the wayside. [News.com]
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- NetDynamics deal reflects boom - When Sun Microsystems bought middleware maker NetDynamics yesterday, it validated what many analysts have been saying for some time: Application server companies are the new hot properties in Silicon Valley. [News.com]
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- Netizen sues spam firm - Adam Engst wanted to file a lawsuit against a spammer the very day that Washington state's antispam law took effect June 11. [News.com]
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- Netscape inks directory deal - Netscape Communications has signed on InfoSpace to power its yellow- and white-page directories on its newly revamped Netcenter portal site. [News.com]
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- Netscape portal wants you - Netscape Netcenter today has formally launched a live beta version of its My Netscape personalization page, a day after the company quietly premiered it through a link on the page. [News.com]
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- Netscape turns on the charm - Netcenter 2.0--the portal with a comparatively businesslike reputation--is going for the glitz. [News.com]
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- Network Associates adds services - In a series of announcements this week, Network Associates demonstrated that it's beginning to digest and integrate offerings of its multiple acquisitions of Internet security and network management firms. [News.com]
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- Network Associates beats Street - Network Associates beat Wall Street's estimates for its second-quarter earnings today. [News.com]
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- Network Associates sues ISS - Network Associates today announced it has sued Internet Security Systems, alleging that the intrusion detection software firm has violated patent claims. [News.com]
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- New designs shrink business PCs - Three leading manufacturers today introduced "microtower" PCs that are up to 40 percent smaller than traditional desktops, setting the stage for a new wave of business systems that are easier to manage. [News.com]
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- New e-rate plan in store - In the wake of a political battle over funding for the so-called e-rate, federal lawmakers today proposed a new plan to hook up schools and libraries to the Net. [News.com]
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- New Microsoft Java flaws alleged - Sun Microsystems is warning Java developers of two additional alleged incompatibilities in Microsoft's implementation of the programming language. [News.com]
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- New suitor approaches Tel-Save - Tel-Save Holdings said it has been approached by a new suitor, which it described as an Internet-related company, but it remains in talks with other telecommunications companies as well. [News.com]
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- New tools to build online stores - Breakthrough Software, a two-year-old firm that counts Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak on its board, next week will ship new developer tools for creating online storefronts and unveil a new developer program. [News.com]
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- Newbridge creates new divisions - Computer networking firm Newbridge Networks announced organizational changes that will create three new divisions as it tries to focus on the key market segments it serves. [News.com]
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- No EU decision on Net gambling - The European Commission is studying existing rules on Internet gambling but has not decided whether common legislation is needed. [News.com]
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- No free-press defense in porn case - Although veteran radio reporter Larry Matthews argues he obtained online child pornography during a news investigation, he can't rely fully on the First Amendment as a defense to charges he possessed the material, a federal judge has ruled. [News.com]
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- No injunction in HP-Xerox lawsuit - A federal judge has refused to stop Xerox from selling toner cartridges in packaging objected to by Hewlett-Packard, Xerox said today. [News.com]
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- No Notes for Novell NetWare - Lotus Development is stopping work on Notes/Domino groupware for Novell's NetWare, saying few of its Domino customers are using the Novell operating system. [News.com]
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- Novell secures NetWare 5 - Novell plans to make its NetWare 5 operating system more secure through the addition of new encryption and digital certificate technology. [News.com]
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- NSI enters Asia domain market - Furthering its reach outside the United States, Network Solutions today announced agreements with eight Asian telecommunications and Internet companies for domain registrations in their host countries. [News.com]
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- NSI expands alliances overseas - Preparing to face competition in the lucrative business of registering top-level domain names, Network Solutions today announced an international marketing program and agreements with six Scandinavian Internet companies. [News.com]
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- NSI readies for competition - Network Solutions' exclusive government contract to run the Internet name registry may expire September 30, but the company is aggressively enhancing its position to prepare for competition. [News.com]
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- NSI registrations, profits up - Network Solutions said today that the 443,000 new Internet domain names it registered during the second quarter of 1998--a 91 percent increase over the year-ago quarter--significantly boosted the quarter's profitability. [News.com]
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- NSI registries up 91% - Network Solutions said today it registered 443,000 new Internet domain names in the second quarter of 1998, up 91 percent from the year-ago quarter, boosting the quarter's profitability. [News.com]
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- NT 5.0 delays stall Wintel plans - Operating system software is no easy engineering task, but the promises Microsoft has made related to its ambitious Windows NT 5.0 upgrade seem to be coming back to haunt the software giant. [News.com]
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- NT, NetWare, Unix vie for lead - Microsoft's Windows NT Server operating system blew past software from Novell and various Unix-based players this past year in units shipped, but Unix maintained a significant lead in revenue, and continues to rule at the high-end, according to final 1997 numbers released by market researcher International Data Corporation. [News.com]
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- NTT, Microsoft to partner - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone said today that it and Microsoft had agreed on a broad tie-up in the electronic commerce business. [News.com]
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- Number of Mac viruses expanding - There's a dark side to Apple Computer's resurgence: Viruses and other programs designed to inflict damage on Macs are making a comeback too. [News.com]
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- Oberon plans integration tool - Oberon Software is continuing to try to take the hassle of integrating software systems off corporate shoulders despite a shrinking market for such tools. [News.com]
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- Office dropped from antitrust case - In the latest wrinkle in the antitrust case against Microsoft, attorneys general from 20 states and the District of Columbia have dropped two claims that relate to the marketing of the software giant's office productivity suite and email software. [News.com]
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- Older PCs snarled by Windows 98 - Owners of older computers upgrading to Windows 98 may run into a host of problems, according to a deluge of postings from users and PC vendors, as well as an advisory from Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Onsale beats revised estimates - Onsale today announced that it has surpassed First Call's updated earnings-per-share estimate for its previously announced second-quarter earnings, based on analysts' expectations. [News.com]
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- Onsale down on earnings news - Shares of Onsale fell more than 9 percent today, one day after the online auctioneer's quarterly earnings announcement. [News.com]
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- Open season on Net IPOs - Like jets sitting on the tarmac, Internet companies looking to fly an initial public offering are crowding the runway in the hopes of soaring while the weather is good. [News.com]
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- Oracle expands data analysis - Oracle wants to turn the power of analytical tools over to more than heads-down financial and sales analysts in corporations. [News.com]
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- Oracle speeds up retail race - Forget Wal-Mart v. Kmart, the real battle in the retail market is taking place in merchandisers' back offices as corporate computing giants Oracle, SAP, and PeopleSoft fight for a piece of the $3 billion industry. [News.com]
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- Oracle struggles to hold ground - Oracle's struggling applications division is launching a full-scale assault on the enterprise resource planning market in an effort to catch up to seemingly untouchable market leader SAP and stay a step ahead of other competitors like PeopleSoft and its seemingly untethered growth. [News.com]
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- Oracle upgrades data tool - Oracle is stretching its data repository to handle all elements of application development within a corporation. [News.com]
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- Outsourcing the job of CTO - Steven Ericsson Zenith's business motto is Kiss: keep it simple, stupid. [News.com]
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- Ovitz consoles Shugart - A day after he was ousted as Seagate Technology's chief executive, Al Shugart said he has received support from rank-and-file workers and IBM executives. But among the well-wishers was a less familiar Silicon Valley name, former Disney president Michael Ovitz. [News.com]
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- Packard Bell in consumer notebooks - Packard Bell NEC added two notebooks to its NEC Ready line of consumer PCs, including an aggressively priced model with a 13.3-inch screen. [News.com]
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- Packard Bell names new chief - Packard Bell NEC has appointed a successor to chairman, president, and chief executive officer Beny Alagem, who said today he was resigning from the company to pursue other interests. [News.com]
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- Packard Bell tries to rebuild - What happens next for Packard Bell NEC is anyone's guess, but trends at the PC maker seem more ominous than upbeat, even with today's replacement of longstanding CEO Beny Alagem, the most visible symbol of the cavalier, devil-may-care Packard Bell of old. [News.com]
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- Palm founders to leave 3Com - 3Com said that two high-ranking executives of its Palm Computing unit are resigning to start their own business. [News.com]
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- Pandora pokes holes in NetWare - Novell continues to be the target of an independent security organization which has seen fit to develop software exploits that poke holes in the networking software firm's operating system and services. [News.com]
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- Parametric faces shareholder suit - Several Parametric Technology shareholders filed a class-action suit against the company yesterday, accusing it of artificially inflating its market price by making misleading statements. [News.com]
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- Parametric warns of shortcoming - Parametric Technology's stock tumbled more than 34 percent today after the software company announced yesterday that it would miss analysts' fiscal third-quarter earnings estimates by between 8 cents and 9 cents a share. [News.com]
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- Past Netscape exec to sell shares - Netscape Communications' former chief technology officer Eric Hahn has filed to sell a portion of his stake in the company, as its stock starts to inch down after a rocket-ride this month. [News.com]
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- PC makers ride out low-cost trend - No, the sky isn't falling on the personal-computer industry. [News.com]
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- PC makers' results to be mixed - Computer makers are expected to turn in mixed second-quarter financial results, but with bad news about inventories and the Asian economic crisis already figured in, investors are focused on a brighter second half. [News.com]
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- PC Welt probe dropped - German prosecutors have dropped a case in which Microsoft accused a computer magazine of inciting illegal use of its Windows 98 software, the company said in a statement. [News.com]
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- PCs hurt OfficeMax sales - OfficeMax announced its sales increased 13 percent in the second quarter, to $874 million from $776 million, but personal computers hurt "same store" sales at the office supplies chain. [News.com]
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- Playboy deeper into Net - In a move to lure young male Net users, Playboy Enterprises today announced a major online strategy that includes more original content and e-commerce services on its popular Web site. [News.com]
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- Playboy Online revenues double - Like most Internet companies, Playboy Online is growing but still unprofitable. [News.com]
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- Playing the telco name game - What's in a name? Not much when it comes to the telcos, which are caught up in the "urge to merge." [News.com]
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- PointCast pulls IPO - PointCast said yesterday that it is withdrawing its plans to go public in order to hold discussions about a strategic alliance with potential partners. [News.com]
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- PointCast to shuffle board - PointCast Network is expected to announce Monday that it is restructuring its board of directors, and sources say the company is in talks with Time Warner and others about possible investments. [News.com]
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- Political hackers hit 300 sites - More than 300 Web sites fell victim to a politically motivated hack this weekend, marking what might be one of the largest mass home page takeovers ever. [News.com]
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- Portals as Net's TV stations - Is "portal fever" just a case of the sniffles? Nothing of the sort, according to a study released today. [News.com]
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- Portals dig in - The portal fray is showing no signs of letting up, as new players, alliances, and industry stalwarts continue to one-up each other's efforts. In addition, the latest industry research says that these gateway sites are here to stay. [News.com]
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- Prince plugs Net access for all - Britain's Prince Andrew, on a four-day trip to Boston, said yesterday the Internet can open doors for people with disabilities, but too often remains inaccessible to the deaf and blind. [News.com]
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- Professor loses crypto case - An Ohio professor does not have a First Amendment right to post encryption code on his course Web site, a federal court has ruled. [News.com]
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- Professor to appeal crypto ruling - An Ohio professor is going to appeal a court's decision barring him from posting encryption code on his course Web site. [News.com]
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- Profit-taking hurts markets - The Dow industrials slid further in late-session trading today after the latest batch of profit warnings unnerved investors. [News.com]
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- Profits, 450-MHz chips to come from AMD - Advanced Micro Devices will release a 450-MHz version of the K6-2 and the first K6-3 chips toward the first part of 1999, and will turn a profit by this year's end, according to CEO Jerry Sanders. [News.com]
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- PSINet invests $46 million in ISPs - PSINet said today that it had completed the purchase of four Internet companies for about $46 million in cash. [News.com]
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- PSINet offers voice-over-IP - In an effort to mine a new niche beyond its usual data-networking market, Internet service provider PSINet today rolled out a new suite of voice-over-Internet protocol services for large corporate customers. [News.com]
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- PSINet wants out of Bavaria - Internet service provider PSINet is planning to move some of its Web site hosting servers out of the Bavarian region in Germany in reaction to the controversial conviction of a former CompuServe manager in May. [News.com]
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- Putting on the spin - During the past 48 hours, Microsoft and RealNetworks have been playing ping-pong over alleged flaws in streaming software. Here's the blow-by-blow account: [News.com]
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- Quantum posts steep drop - Computer disk drive maker Quantum yesterday reported sharply lower earnings for the latest quarter after being hit by oversupply and fierce price competition in the industry. [News.com]
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- Quarterdeck CEO resigns - Quarterdeck said today that its president and chief executive officer Curt Hessler had resigned. [News.com]
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- Query tools take to the Web - Business Objects is sending its query tools to the Internet. [News.com]
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- Quickturn to post loss - Quickturn Design Systems said it expects a second-quarter loss of between 12 cents and 14 cents per share before an inventory obsolescence charge of about $5 million to $6 million. [News.com]
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- Qwest to meet Street - Qwest Communications said yesterday that it expects its second quarter results to be in line with Wall Street expectations and sees better-than-expected revenue benefits and costs savings from its acquisition of LCI International. [News.com]
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- Rallying for the e-rate - The Clinton administration is rallying public support for the e-rate, seeking to capitalize on new reports illustrating technology disparaties based on gender, income, and race. These follow other reports on privacy concerns, capping a busy week for Washington's Internet agenda. [News.com]
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- Read-Rite posts loss, cuts costs - Read-Rite, which makes components for disk drives, yesterday reported a third quarter loss and said it was working to cut costs to address persistent weakness in its markets. [News.com]
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- Real estate is hot property - Real estate listings historically have made big money for newspapers in classified advertising. Net companies are taking that model and running with it, not only trying to cash in on the Net's flexible advertising capabilities, but also launching extensive real estate services of their own. [News.com]
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- Real estate the next big portal thing? - Following moves by market leaders Yahoo and Excite, big virtual properties on the Net such as America Online and Microsoft are hoping to cash in on the lucrative business of selling real properties in the physical world. [News.com]
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- RealNetworks tests G2 - RealNetworks today released the beta versions of streaming multimedia products featuring its new G2 technology. [News.com]
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- RealNetworks urges new standard - RealNetworks, embroiled in a battle with Microsoft over whether the giant's software "breaks" RealNetwork's audio and video player, said today that more than 20 companies are supporting a call for new file format standards. [News.com]
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- RealNetworks' stock keeps falling - Stock in RealNetworks continued to plunge for the third straight day after the company became embroiled last week in a war of accusations and counteraccusations with Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Red Brick's management shakeup - Red Brick Systems yesterday said it has promoted Phillip Fernandez to the newly created position of chief operating officer. [News.com]
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- Redmond outlines plans, fires back - Doing their best to counter criticism ranging from technology to business practices, Microsoft executives insisted today that its Windows development plans were on track and fired back at industry rivals and government regulators. [News.com]
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- Reel.com goes Hollywood - Hollywood Entertainment, which runs the video-rental chain Hollywood Video, said today it has agreed to buy Reel.com, the Internet video store, in a deal valued at $100 million. [News.com]
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- Report: FTC should slam spam - Regulators should have clear power to bust spammers who use fake return addresses, states a report delivered to the Federal Trade Commission today by a broad voluntary coalition. [News.com]
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- Report: Industry fighting privacy - With the emergence of the computer revolution, legislative proposals to institute stricter privacy protections for personal information in electronic form have been continuously derailed or watered down by medical, credit, or financial industry lobbyists, according to a report released today. [News.com]
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- Rich getting richer on Net stocks - The great bull run of Internet stocks continues, making billionaires out of "thirty-somethings," prompting more companies to sell via the Web, and sparking yet more initial public offerings. Skepticism still abounds, but the run-up is expected to hold out. [News.com]
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- Rockwell to report loss, charge - Rockwell International said today that a $597 million charge for global jobs cuts and planned plant closings caused the company to report a loss for the quarter. [News.com]
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- Safety through services - VeriSign's acquisition today of SecureIT marks another Internet security company adding a services arm to help corporate customers implement security measures on their networks. [News.com]
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- Sanyo Elec, IBM team on chips - Japanese electronics maker Sanyo Electric said today that it would join hands with IBM to develop, manufacture, and sell advanced semiconductor products. [News.com]
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- SAP catches the Asian flu - The Asian flu now has a German strain. [News.com]
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- SAP sees growth slowdown - German software darling SAP saw its growth slow the second quarter ended June 30 as personnel costs, an employee stock appreciation program, and the Asian economic crisis took a toll on the company's bottom line. [News.com]
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- SAP takes prepackaged route - SAP has a prepackaged version of its business process software for the prepackaged industry. [News.com]
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- SBC, Ameritech beat estimates - Merger partners SBC Communications and Ameritech have reported slightly better-than-expected second-quarter earnings, citing strong demand for additional phone lines and data services, as well as tight cost controls. [News.com]
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- SCO gains ground in clustering - The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) may gain the upper hand in Intel-based clustering software next week with the announcement of a deal with Compaq Computer subsidiary Tandem Computers. [News.com]
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- SCO sees nose-dive reaction - Santa Cruz Operation stock tumbled nearly 27 percent today after the maker of Unix Systems surprised Wall Street yesterday by warning that its third-quarter net income and sales will be sharply below expectations. [News.com]
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- SCO warns of sharp shortcoming - Santa Cruz Operation, the maker of Unix systems, surprised Wall Street today by warning that its third-quarter net income and sales will be sharply below expectations. [News.com]
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- SDRC to post loss due to Asia - Structural Dynamics Research said today that it expects to earn 14 cents a share in the second quarter, as revenues drop 8 percent below analysts' estimates on continued weakness in the Asian economy. [News.com]
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- Seagate asks CEO to resign - In a surprise move, Seagate Technology today announced that it is pushing out its chief executive, Alan Shugart, a pioneer in the invention of the computer disk drive, and replacing him with Stephen Luczo, the company's president. [News.com]
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- Seagate sees past tough times - Disk drive maker Seagate Technology expects its business will continue to make slight improvements even though falling prices, slower computer sales, and a glut still dog the industry. [News.com]
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- Seagate, Rambus report earnings - Seagate today posted fiscal fourth-quarter profits that exceeded analyst expectations. [News.com]
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- SEC tightens Y2K disclosure rules - The Senate leader on the Year 2000 technology problem praised federal regulators who said late yesterday they are clamping down on public companies which fail to give a complete picture of their efforts to solve expected computer glitches. [News.com]
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- SEC turns up heat on Net scams - The Securities and Exchange Commission beefed up its battle against Internet securities fraud today by creating a specialized unit to root out phony offerings, pyramid schemes, and other investment scams. [News.com]
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- Securing e-commerce at big firms - Two initiatives announced today could make it easier for large corporations to conduct secure electronic transactions. [News.com]
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- Security bug in Microsoft Exchange - Researchers have found a security flaw that hackers could exploit to crash Microsoft Exchange if the messaging server is connected to the Internet. [News.com]
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- Security firms target email flaw - As software titans Microsoft and Netscape Communications attempt to patch a security hole in their email packages, a growing number of smaller companies are cashing in on the problem by offering their own solutions. [News.com]
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- Security hole found in Navigator - Just in the nick of time for its Communicator 4.5 beta release, Netscape Communications has moved to fix a serious security hole that affects certain versions of its Web browser. [News.com]
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- Senate holds merger hearing - A Senate subcommittee met today to study whether the proposed $48 billion merger between AT&T and Tele-Communications Incorporated could help end the stranglehold the regional Bell companies have held over the $110 billion local telephone markets, and whether Microsoft is gaining too much control over the set-top box market, among other issues. [News.com]
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- Senate OKs CDA II, gambling bill - The Senate today approved the first legislation restricting content on the Internet since portions of the Communications Decency Act were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court last summer. [News.com]
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- Senate weighs halting Net taxes - A Senate panel is set to debate legislation today to impose a three-year moratorium on new state and local taxes on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Serious NT bug emerges - A flaw in Microsoft's Windows NT operating system allows an ordinary network user, and possibly anyone with Internet access, to impersonate a system administrator. [News.com]
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- Service convergence in Japan - Titus Communications, a cable television joint venture backed by five firms including Toshiba and Time Warner, said today it aims to start providing Internet services in Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo in October. [News.com]
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- Service gives Web site feedback - Is your Web site telling people what you want them to hear? [News.com]
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- Services demand strong in Asia - Hewlett-Packard expects demand for "mission critical" services to continue increasing, with growth in the Asia-Pacific region reaching 300 percent. [News.com]
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- Settlement in first antispam law - Stan Smith of Salem, Oregon, had never heard of junk email, let alone "spam" or any laws banning it. He just wanted to spread the word about Tahitian noni juice, which he says is pretty much a miracle cure for a wide variety of ailments. [News.com]
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- SGI misses, Infoseek beats mark - Silicon Graphics, Gateway, and Adaptec fell short of Wall Street's expectations for their quarterly earnings, while Infoseek and Pixar beat the Street's estimates. [News.com]
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- SGI to shutter Cosmo Software - Silicon Graphics said it plans to close its 3D and Web graphics unit, Cosmo Software, now that negotiations to sell it to Sony have broken off. [News.com]
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- SGI to slash workstation prices - Silicon Graphics is set to slash prices by 36 percent on its midrange line of workstations, as the company seeks to halt sliding sales while it puts the finishing touches on systems based on Intel processors and Microsoft's Windows NT. [News.com]
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- Shakeup at Baan - In an attempt to improve its image with Wall Street, Baan is prepared to divest its holdings in several resellers of its products and clarify a relationship with a venture capital firm set up with profits from software sales. [News.com]
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- Singapore ISP expands fast access - Singapore Internet service provider Pacific Internet said today it was setting up new high-speed links between Singapore, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. [News.com]
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- Singapore launches Y2K Web site - Singapore launched an Internet Web site today providing quick reference to companies seeking solutions to the looming millennium bug. [News.com]
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- Singapore plans new Net - Singapore's Kent Ridge Digital Labs, the National University of Singapore, and Nanyang Technological University said they have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop next-generation Internet technologies and applications. [News.com]
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- Sink or swim for Net resellers - With some trepidation, would-be titans of online software retailing look forward to 12 months of chaos, opportunity, and potential ruin for online computer stores--and that's the good part. [News.com]
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- Six tech companies post earnings - Amazon.com today posted a wider second-quarter loss than a year ago, but the online bookseller's latest quarterly results still beat Wall Street's expectations. [News.com]
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- Slim notebook market growing - Quite a few vendors plan to introduce new ultralight notebooks during the third quarter, more evidence that competition is heating up in the slimline sector. [News.com]
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- Slow sales hit modems - Modem makers and component suppliers aren't expected to see financial relief anytime soon, as prices on the newest 56-kbps modems continue to plummet amid unexpectedly tepid demand. [News.com]
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- Small firms too busy for Y2K - Small business owners are too caught up in everyday work to be worried about the Year 2000 technology problem, officials at a recent congressional hearing said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Smart browser or dumb idea? - Is Smart Browsing too smart for its own good? [News.com]
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- Softbank to invest in U.S. firm - The venture capital arm of Japan's Softbank will take a stake in U.S. Internet company Harmonix Music Systems, the Japanese firm said in a statement today. [News.com]
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- SoftRAM 95 maker in Chapter 11 - Syncronys Softcorp, the controversial software vendor that recently claimed its problems were a thing of the past, has filed for bankruptcy. [News.com]
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- Software pirate facing jail - A North Carolina retailer accused of replicating and then renting pirated software applications may spend up to five years in jail after being nabbed in a crackdown being promoted by the Software Publishers Association (SPA) and the FBI. [News.com]
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- Some analysts bullish on Apple - Apple Computer surpassed most Wall Street estimates for its third-quarter earnings, but not all analysts were blindsided by the news. [News.com]
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- Sony basing AV line on Vaio PCs - Sony aims to make its Vaio PC series the core of its audio-visual product lineup, rather than a key revenue source. [News.com]
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- Sony reenters workstation market - Sony's Broadcasting and Professional Systems division is teaming up with Intergraph in a bid to reenter the workstation market, even as NEC boosts its lineup with faster processors. [News.com]
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- SPA may call standards meeting - The Software Publishers Association is considering holding a meeting this summer to discuss industry guidelines for handling file formats, fueled by the RealNetworks allegations last week that Microsoft's Media Player "breaks" software from RealNetworks. [News.com]
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- Speech recognition branches out - Dragon Systems announced a kit intended to help software developers bring speech recognition to third-party applications, as the promising technology continues branching out beyond word processing. [News.com]
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- Speed boosts for Macs on tap - NEW YORK- Undoubtedly, some of the excitement of the Macworld Expo trade show is gone without the Mac clone manufacturers loudly hawking the latest, greatest systems--sometimes even before Apple had a chance to do so. [News.com]
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- Speed surfing with fast food - If you like to surf the Net while eating your burger and fries, then you can "have it your way"--as long as you're willing to eat a lot of fast food. [News.com]
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- Sprint guarantees firewall services - In a move to sweeten its Internet Protocol services, Sprint today rolled out online security performance guarantees for its suite of managed firewall offerings. [News.com]
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- Sprint to try Net telephony - Sprint said it will announce next month market trials of a consumer-targeted service to provide telephone service via the Internet. [News.com]
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- Spyglass results beat estimates - Spyglass, a provider of services and products that help consumer and business electronics work with the Web, today posted improved operating results to beat estimated earnings for the third quarter. [News.com]
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- SSA restructures, seeks niche - System Software Associates once owned the industrial software market. Now it's struggling to find itself. [News.com]
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- Start-up kicks off buying strategy - Trying to capitalize on the mad rush to outfit middle market companies with business software suites, Salt Lake City start-up SolutionBank is buying up third party implementation firms to create a national network of value added resellers (VARs). [News.com]
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- Start-up targets CyberCash - Just when one competitor of Internet payment service CyberCash exits the business, a new one crops up. [News.com]
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- Start-up VP taking on Microsoft - TV Host a start-up based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, isn't exactly a household name. But on Thursday, the company's vice president will be in the spotlight on Capitol Hill. [News.com]
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- Sterling revamped after deals - Closing a major acquisition, Sterling Commerce today outlined its plans for integrating remote access technology from XcelleNet into each of its three product lines. [News.com]
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- Stocks, market take a dip - The stock market took a breather this week, fueled by some disappointing technology earnings reports. [News.com]
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- Street cool on telco merger mania - Although the telecommunications industry is caught up in the "urge to merge," few Wall Street analysts and investors seem wooed by promises that the newly combined companies will grab greater market share and generate increased profits. [News.com]
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- Street has eye on Apple - Apple Computer's stock retreated slightly today but still hovered near the 52-week high it reached yesterday, even after one analyst cut his rating on the stock and Wall Street largely maintained a "hold" recommendation. [News.com]
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- Stretching the Ethernet niche - A new generation of more flexible Ethernet devices is changing the market and contributing to what is sure to be an ongoing price and feature war. [News.com]
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- Striking while the market's hot - Amid a sharp run-up in Internet stocks, CitySearch today proposed a price for its initial public offering. The implied valuation of about $270 million comes despite continued losses at the CitySearch directory, but it reflects optimism that the company can capitalize on the red-hot stock market. [News.com]
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- Study: Net literacy growing - The widespread adoption of the Internet across a variety of sectors has led to more people of all generations adopting the Net, a new study said. [News.com]
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- Sun at the crossroads - Despite software bugs, delays, and company layoffs, Sun pushes forward with its reorganization and acquires application software maker NetDynamics. [News.com]
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- Sun buys NetDynamics - Sun Microsystems today announced a deal to buy application server software maker NetDynamics, underscoring Suns push into software from its primarily hardware roots. [News.com]
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- Sun cofounder joins Novell board - Sun Microsystems cofounder Bill Joy today was named a director at Novell, whose chief executive is former Sun executive Eric Schmidt. [News.com]
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- Sun makes another run at Windows - Sun Microsystems is making yet another drive to reduce the influence of the Windows, this time with a program that makes it easier to connect and share devices such as printers and disk drives on a computer network. [News.com]
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- Sun may audit its Java efforts - Stung by criticism that it could manipulate the Java standards process to its own benefit, Sun Microsystems is discussing whether to hire a Big Five accounting firm to audit its activities. [News.com]
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- Sun shines despite Asia - Despite the turmoil in Asia, Sun Microsystems today posted a jump in fourth-quarter profits and revenues, spurred by record shipments of servers and workstations. [News.com]
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- Sun tops Unix server sales - Sun Microsystems has emerged as the No. 1 Unix server maker, becoming the biggest fish in an increasingly small pond. [News.com]
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- Sun, BEA Systems ship tools - BEA Systems on Friday will ship its M3 middleware and tools for building enterprise applications, a release that follows news from Sun Microsystems today that it is also shipping new Java tools. [News.com]
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- Sun, HP plug new workstations - Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard each announced two new workstations this week in their ongoing competition for the bragging rights to the No. 1 spot in the workstation market. [News.com]
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- Supply, demand drive earnings - Supply and demand is at the root of profitable quarters for i2 Technologies and Intelligroup this week while Open Market posts another losing quarter and continues to hold out for the e-commerce business to take off. [News.com]
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- Surfing at the gym - "Lose weight while surfing the Net." [News.com]
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- Survey confirms browser trends - Netscape Communications is still the leader in Internet browsers, but Microsoft is now very close on its heels, according to a new report by Internet advertising firm AdKnowledge. [News.com]
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- Survey: Britain not ready for Y2K - A majority of British IT professionals believe that many organizations will fall short of completing proper Year 2000 compliance testing before December 31, 1999. [News.com]
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- Survey: ISP deals favoring IE - Nine months after the Justice Department accused Microsoft of stifling competition in the Internet software market, it has become harder for newcomers to the Net to obtain browsers made by rivals of the software giant, a new report contends. [News.com]
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- Survey: Tech mergers soaring - A sharp decline in the number of initial public offerings helped drive technology mergers and acquisitions to record levels in the first half of 1998, according to a study released today. [News.com]
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- Sweden preps power plants for Y2K - Sweden may temporarily shut down its nuclear power plants on the eve of the new millennium if it can not guarantee their safety from computer problems arising from the year 2000, the country's safety watchdog said today. [News.com]
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- Sybase CEO: Back to growth - Sybase surprised Wall Street today, posting a slight profit, as opposed to a loss. [News.com]
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- Sybase fights to stay in tool game - Sybase is fighting to keep its place in the development tool game. [News.com]
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- Sybase holds off on China projects - Sybase will expand its investments in China but is awaiting completion of government restructuring, said the president of the company today. [News.com]
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- Sybase rolls out replication server - Sybase today rolled out the latest version of its replication server, the company said. [News.com]
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- Sybase, Intuit target home banking - Sybase and Intuit today unveiled a partnership to pursue financial institutions as customers and to make their financial software work together seamlessly. [News.com]
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- Symantec tool to fight Y2K bug - Symantec is launching utility software to help big companies squash the Year 2000 bug on PCs. [News.com]
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- Syncronys stabs at Win 98 - Struggling software maker Syncronys Softcorp is back with UpgradeAID 98, a program that allows users to run both Windows 95 and Windows 98 on their PCs, but observers say "caveat emptor." [News.com]
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- Syria slowly adopts Net - The Internet has finally arrived in Damascus, but don't expect to be swapping casual email messages with Syrians in the foreseeable future. [News.com]
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- System-on-a-chip design a hassle - As the semiconductor industry increasingly turns toward "system-on-a-chip" processors, manufacturers will become more reliant on a shrinking number of companies to provide intellectual property, industry experts said today. [News.com]
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- Taiwan Semi's outlook mixed - Taiwan Semiconductor is likely to report strong first-half profits, analysts say, but its full-year outlook is being squeezed by rivals piling into its lucrative "foundry" niche. [News.com]
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- Tech chic is newest star - High tech is going Hollywood, but the ballyhooed convergence of technology and entertainment has yet to generate much of anything other than hype. [News.com]
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- Tech companies vie for trademarks - The booming high-technology industry is creating a land grab for catchy names in an effort to sell new goods and services. [News.com]
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- Tech earnings boost Nasdaq - Sun and Sybase, buoyed by strong earnings released yesterday, are leading the way today as the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index is again trading above records levels. [News.com]
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- Tech firms do the numbers - PeopleSoft and E*Trade are among the high-technology companies reporting strong quarterly growth for the quarter. [News.com]
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- Tech stocks maintain upside - Blue-chip stocks drifted higher today while technology stocks extended their winning streak, as investors sifted through a mixed batch of corporate earnings. [News.com]
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- Tech stocks not slowing - High-tech stocks surged again this week, fueled by positive earnings reports. Some analysts remain cautious, however, pointing to the lingering Asian economic crisis and slower demand for PCs. [News.com]
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- Tech stocks see up and downsides - The Nasdaq fell along with the broader market today, as tech stocks reacted to mixed earnings reports released yesterday. [News.com]
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- Technology by and for women - Glossy gadget magazines often pitch digital toys to boys, but a budding organization in Silicon Valley wants high-tech companies to design better products for the other half of the population. [News.com]
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- Teen hackers plead guilty - Two California teenagers who mounted one of the most organized and systematic hacker attacks ever on U.S. military computers pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of juvenile delinquency. [News.com]
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- Teen hacks Fox TV affiliate site - Here's one incentive to send your computer-savvy kid to summer camp. [News.com]
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- Telco giants' pact lacks Net push - A partnership between AT&T and British Telecommunications, telco giants in their own right, may result in a stronger global presence for AT&T and a share of the U.S. market for BT, but the deal will leave much to be desired in terms of Internet presence for both companies. [News.com]
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- Telco hurdles may hurt customers - Ameritech yesterday said federal regulators' decision to temporarily halt Ameritech's long distance deal with Qwest Communications hurts customers. [News.com]
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- Telco merger frenzy - GTE and Bell Atlantic agreed to merge today, the latest sign of consolidation in the telecommunications industry. Adopting a "grow-or-die" philosophy, telcos are expected to keep buying one another. Whether the merger mania will pass regulatory muster, however, remains to be seen. [News.com]
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- Telcos merge for survival - Grow or die. [News.com]
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- Telcos: FCC relief not enough - Local telephone carriers are unhappy with proposals floated by federal regulators to remove only some restrictions on the companies' Internet and data service offerings, the head of the U.S. Telephone Association said. [News.com]
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- Telecom deal validates Global One - French telecommunications firm France Telecom said yesterday that the formation of an international joint venture by British Telecom and AT&T validated the French company's global strategy. [News.com]
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- Telmex to invest in Prodigy - Mexican phone company Telefonos de Mexico (Telmex) said today that it would invest $49 million in cash in the U.S. Internet service provider Prodigy. [News.com]
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- The darlings of tech mutual funds - Every industry has its top dogs, and technology mutual funds are no different. [News.com]
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- The life and death of Channel A - When Steve Chin launched Channel A two years ago, the former newspaper reporter flipped through his Rolodex for Asian American writers, commentators, and community leaders to help establish an editorial forum on an uncharted medium. [News.com]
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- The Net's underworld - Hacks, email death threats, and an ugly battle surrounding an online casino show that as the Net evolves into a more widely used medium, it also becomes increasingly susceptible to the less savory elements of the offline world. [News.com]
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- The site formerly known as TheDJ.com - Net broadcaster TheDJ.com is getting a face-lift and changing its name tomorrow, with a relaunch that will unveil a new design and newly integrated features. [News.com]
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- The struggling storage sector - How tough is it for computer disk-drive makers? So tough that the industry leader today pushed out one of its technology pioneers to let the chief operating officer run the show. [News.com]
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- TheGlobe.com hosts spam debate - Online community TheGlobe.com used the Net as a platform for debate at its interactive conference on issues surrounding unsolicited commercial email. [News.com]
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- TheGlobe.com plans IPO - TheGlobe.com, the "friendly" online community Web site, declared its intentions to go public in documents filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [News.com]
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- TheGlobe.com to host spam summit - Online community TheGlobe.com today will host an interactive conference on spam in an effort to foster dialogue between pro- and antispammers as well as the Net community's members. [News.com]
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- Threat of counterfeit Windows 98 - Microsoft today warned that a burglary which took place in Scotland on Friday may result in counterfeit copies of Windows 98 hitting the market. [News.com]
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- TI to see slower growth - Texas Instruments expects the market for its digital signal processor (DSP) chips to slow down this year, but hopes growth will head back up to 30 percent in 1999, chief financial officer Bill Aylesworth said today. [News.com]
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- Time Warner delays telco unit IPO - Time Warner said today that it has delayed the planned initial public stock offering of its business telecommunications unit, Time Warner Telecom, citing market conditions. [News.com]
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- Time Warner pleased with DVD - Time Warner's home video division has generated more than $110 million in revenue from DVD (digital versatile disc) titles in the first year of sales, its president said today. [News.com]
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- Tivoli chairman steps down - Tivoli Systems chairman Frank Moss completed his graceful exit from the company he helped catapult to the forefront of the management software market today, heralding the end of an era at the rambunctious firm. [News.com]
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- Toshiba unveils sub-$1,400 portable - Toshiba introduced a sub-$1,400 notebook in an effort to put some oomph behind its drive into the low-cost portable segment and reverse its declining notebook share. [News.com]
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- Trademarks on trial - Microsoft and IBM are finding that their ubiquitous brand names don't give them the upper hand in trademark disputes. IBM is fighting a challenge to its "e" products, while Microsoft has opted to shell out $5 million rather than face yet another court battle over "Internet Explorer." [News.com]
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- Trend gives Cisco more voice - New office buildings for Cisco Systems are rising out of dusty and vacant lots here, unimpeded by the flux surrounding the industry--a testament to the networking giant's position as king in sales of data communications equipment. [News.com]
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- Tripod to offer ad service - Large and midsized businesses that want to advertise on the Net generally go to companies that put together entire Internet strategies for them. [News.com]
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- TV driving digital technology - Despite the wide array of emerging digital technologies, consumers are still most interested in watching TV--including digital TV, TVs with DVD players, and PC-TV. [News.com]
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- Two Apple execs file to divest - Apple Computer's chief financial officer and senior vice president of hardware engineering have filed to sell some of their shares in the company, at a time when it is coming off a 52-week high. [News.com]
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- Unisys beats the Street - Unisys today reported second quarter earnings of $90.1 million, or 24 cents a share, slightly better than Wall Street expectations. [News.com]
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- Using the Net to find pensioners - The federal agency that insures pensions said it is using the Internet to try to find almost 7,200 people who are owed nearly $13 million in benefits from defunct pension plans. [News.com]
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- VeriFone CEO names management team - The new chief executive of Hewlett-Packard's VeriFone payments subsidiary, Robin Abrams, has named her management team, but it doesn't include George Hoyem, who headed VeriFone's efforts in Internet payments. [News.com]
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- Verio to buy Hiway Technologies - Verio said today that it would acquire Hiway Technologies, a Web hosting company, for about $351 million in cash and stock. [News.com]
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- Verio to buy TABNet - Continuing its plan to buy smaller Internet service providers, nationwide ISP Verio today purchased TABNet, a Web design and hosting company catering to businesses, for at least $45.5 million. [News.com]
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- VeriSign buys SecureIT - VeriSign, a provider of digital certificates, announced today that it has acquired privately held SecureIT, an Internet-related security service. [News.com]
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- Virginity Webcast a hoax - The two 18-year-olds who invited the world to watch them lose their virginity online admitted yesterday that they were neither 18 nor virgins and had no plans to have sex together--but insisted their motives had been purely to promote abstinence. [News.com]
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- Virus rumor overblown - Rumors of a potentially nasty virus that hits on the 26th day of each month are making the newsgroup rounds, but experts say the chances of such an attack taking place are slim. [News.com]
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- Visa eyes Europe smart-card firm - Credit card giant Visa International will announce today that it will invest in a big European smart-card business for an undisclosed sum, a card industry source familiar with the deal said. [News.com]
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- Visio buys Kaspia Systems - Technical drawing software maker Visio today said it has acquired Kaspia Systems, a developer of network documentation tools, for about $23.3 million. [News.com]
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- W3C center of standards debates - Tensions are rising in the world of Internet standards as the leading players part company on key Web development technologies. [News.com]
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- W3C proposes HTTP overhaul - In an attempt to simplify and speed the flow of information over the Web, the World Wide Web Consortium proposed an overhaul of the current hypertext transfer protocol, or HTTP. [News.com]
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- Wall St. bullish on Windows 98 - Despite negative press generated by the perils of upgrading to Windows 98, Microsoft appears to be virtually immune to financial fallout from upgrade snags. [News.com]
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- Warnings on Windows 98 snags - Dell Computer, Compaq Computer, and others are posting workarounds, fixes, and warnings on their Web sites about upgrading to the Windows 98 operating system that Microsoft released just last week. [News.com]
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- WavePhore crests on article - WavePhore stock jumped more than 35 percent today after a BusinessWeek said in the July 20 edition of its closely watched "Inside Wall Street" section that it may be one of the very few "underappreciated" Internet stocks in these crazy times for stock prices. [News.com]
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- Web ads part of brand strategy - Advertising on the Web will not work if it is detached from conventional marketing campaigns, the head of the new digital unit of advertising agency Ammirati Puris Lintas said today. [News.com]
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- Web firm to animate recommendations - Web site animation company 7th Level said today it had agreed to use software by Net Perceptions, a company backed by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, to allow 7th Level's animated Internet characters to respond specifically to user preferences. [News.com]
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- Webmasters slam Net casino - Thousands of small-time Web site operators hoping to cash in on an online casino's banner advertising scheme have found themselves deprived of payment and accused of cheating. [News.com]
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- WebTV outage strikes again - For the second time in seven days, users of WebTV's Internet access devices found their on-ramp online was down. [News.com]
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- Western Digital posts loss - PC hard drive maker Western Digital today reported a larger than expected fourth quarter loss due to industry-wide oversupply of storage devices and plummeting prices for desktop computers, the company said. [News.com]
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- Western hard drive joins 10.1GB crowd - Western Digital introduced a low-cost 10.1GB hard drive today, joining a bevy of manufacturers in offering more capacity for less money. [News.com]
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- What's the meaning of RealNetworks? - Though accusations of nefarious conduct hurled at Microsoft by RealNetworks over the last few days may have been overstated, the larger issue of how software is controlled certainly concerns smaller companies vying for revenue in Microsoft's shadow, not to mention consumers. [News.com]
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- Whatever happened to MSN? - A German newspaper created something of stir this weekend when it reported that online service Primus-Online was taking over Microsoft Network's local subsidiary. [News.com]
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- White House delays e-report - The White House has delayed a progress report on its Internet commerce policies until September to coordinate its release with the hoped-for passage of two key elements of Clinton's e-commerce policy, a White House source said today. [News.com]
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- Who will buy MCI's Net assets? - As reported earlier today, the European Commission, Europe's regulatory governing body, granted conditional clearance for the proposed $37 billion merger of MCI Communications and WorldCom, pending the sale of MCI's Internet business. [News.com]
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- Who will win the crypto war? - The high-tech industry and privacy advocates are happy to see congressional leaders ramping up pressure to ease export restrictions on encryption. [News.com]
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- WhoWhere makes spate of deals - Portal firms are enjoying a wild ride on Wall Street lately, but behind-the-scenes players also are cashing in on portal fever. [News.com]
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- Why you should care about crypto - Believe it or not, my mom gets the encryption debate. [News.com]
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- Wild week for AltaVista suit victor - Jack Marshall was standing in a hospital watching a doctor prepare his newborn son for circumcision when a reporter paged him to ask about a reported $3.3 million lawsuit settlement over the domain name "www.altavista.com." [News.com]
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- Will iMac's rollout be enough? - Apple Computer has switched the hype machine into full gear to generate consumer demand for the iMac, but with the anticipation surrounding its biggest and most challenging product launch in recent memory comes the danger that the company could alienate customers if it doesn't deliver all the systems that people want on time. [News.com]
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- Win 98 bug rankles ISP - An angry Internet service provider based in Canada said Microsoft's new Windows 98 software appeared to suggest some of his customers should go elsewhere. [News.com]
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- Win 98 China to launch in August - Microsoft will launch a version of its Windows 98 operating system on August 31 for users in mainland China. [News.com]
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- Win 98 selling well in Japan - Microsoft's Windows 98 sold more than 250,000 copies in Japan in the first two days after its July 25 debut, far surpassing initial sales of its predecessor. [News.com]
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- Win 98 upgrade snares PC makers - This week, major computers manufacturers struggled to explain why months of testing failed to ensure their systems could not easily upgrade to Windows 98. [News.com]
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- Win 98, Office boost Microsoft - Microsoft slightly beat Wall Street's fourth-quarter estimates today, as the company's revenues rose in part on strong Office 97 sales. [News.com]
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- Windows 98 hits snags - As PC manufacturers attend to customers facing Windows 98 upgrade problems with older PCs, two questions remain: How significant are these difficulties, and who is affected? [News.com]
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- Windows 98 sales match Win 95 - Sales of Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system software are on track to match those of the blockbuster Windows 95 over its first three months on the market, a top executive said today. [News.com]
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- Windows 98, price drops lure buyers - The combination of new Windows 98 systems and falling prices lured consumers back to computer stores in June, according to the new study. [News.com]
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- Windows satisfies, at a price - Although 90 percent of Windows 98 customers are said to be satisfied with their purchases, those that aren't may be out of luck. [News.com]
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- Windows upgrades: Who wins? - At an extraordinary Manhattan rally in May, Bill Gates and Microsoft supporters warned of dire consequences if legal actions were to delay Windows 98. They eventually prevailed, and Redmond's PR machine revved into high gear for the software's release last month. [News.com]
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- WIPO deals with domain disputes - In an attempt to quell heated trademark disputes over Internet domain names, the World Intellectual Property Organization is working on recommendations for dealing with the growing problem. [News.com]
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- Workstations get graphic - Once confined to business markets, Windows NT workstations are riding graphics advances ever deeper into multimedia and content territory. Intel is seeking to capitalize on this trend, but it faces antitrust scrutiny over such expansion. [News.com]
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- WorldCom-MCI wins conditional OK - The European Commission, Europe's regulatory governing body, today granted conditional clearance for MCI Communications and WorldCom's proposed $37 billion merger, pending the sale of MCI's Internet business. [News.com]
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- WTO talks on tariffs suspended - Negotiators in Geneva today suspended World Trade Organization talks to remove tariffs on a list of information technology products worth $50 billion in annual trade after they failed to strike a deal, officials said. [News.com]
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- Xing seeks exit in bug battle - Xing Technology appears to be seeking a graceful exit from the heated bug battle between RealNetworks and Microsoft that erupted last week. [News.com]
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- Y2K bug could bite Navy - U.S. Navy operations worldwide could be severely disrupted by any failure to fix the Year 2000 computer bug in critical systems, the audit and investigations arm of Congress said. [News.com]
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- Y2K bugs abroad may zap U.S. - The new global economy holds great promise for U.S. companies--and potential nightmares for businesses dealing with foreign partners that have not adequately prepared for the Year 2000 computer glitch, experts and government regulators warned yesterday in New York City. [News.com]
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- Y2K may stall transit - The transportation industry could be the latest victim of the Y2K bug, a federal official warned today. [News.com]
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- Yahoo plays fantasy sports game - Ramping up efforts to gain customer loyalty in a competitive space, Yahoo today announced a free fantasy football league on its Yahoo Sports channel. [News.com]
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- Year 2000 lawsuit bill revived - Taking advantage of growing concerns in Washington D.C. about the Year 2000 technology problem, advocates for an anti-Y2K lawsuit bill that failed in the California Assembly have persuaded some members of Congress to push for a similar bill on Capitol Hill. [News.com]
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- Zap continues Net buying spree - Extending its Internet buying spree, Zapata announced today that Zap, its Internet subsidiary, moved to acquire Bianca Troll Productions, a Web community with an estimated 1.5 million unique users per month. [News.com]
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- Zapata income jumps - Zapata, which, until a few months ago, when it branched into Internet ventures, was a food-packaging company, reported today that its net income rose 14-fold during the third quarter. [News.com]
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- Zapata kicks off buying spree - Zapata announced today that Zap, its Internet subsidiary, moved to acquire CoolChat, a 300,000 member Web community. [News.com]
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- Zapata's next shot at the Net - Zapata, which failed to buy Internet directory Excite in May, said today that it will split itself into two companies--one focusing solely on the Net. [News.com]
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