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- $100 million for iMac ad blitz - Apple Computer says it will spend a whopping $100 million on the iMac ad parade from now till Dec. 31. [News.com]
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- $400 billion seen in e-commerce - Despite modest growth in the percentage of Netizens making purchases on the Web, e-commerce revenue is expected to hit $400 billion by 2002, according to a new study by research firm International Data Corporation. [News.com]
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- 15 enter crypto standard race - The usually staid world of cryptography is abuzz today as 15 companies and universities outline their submissions to become the next standard for encrypting U.S. government data. [News.com]
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- 2 orders for NEC's supercomputer - NEC has scored 2 orders for its new supercomputers, said to be the fastest in the industry. [News.com]
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- 24/7 Media goes public - Web advertiser 24/7 Media announced today an initial public offering of its common stock on the Nasdaq. [News.com]
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- 300-MHz Pentium II notebooks on tap - A flotilla of new notebooks will set sail on September 9 when Intel releases a 300-MHz Pentium II for portable PCs and cuts prices on the rest of its mobile chip line. [News.com]
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- 31 cities to get Net phone service - Telecommunications firm ICG Communications today said it had launched long distance telephone service over the Internet in 31 U.S. cities, and it expects to offer the service in 166 markets by year's end. [News.com]
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- 34,000 workers strike at US West - About 34,000 members of the Communications Workers of America went on strike early today at US West. [News.com]
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- 3Com cable modems in Argentina - 3Com will provide cable modems for a high speed Internet access project in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that is slated to become the largest high speed Internet service in South America. [News.com]
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- 450-MHz PII servers coming - Along with a slew of desktops, vendors will be releasing new servers and workstations based around the 450-MHz Pentium II processor to be released Monday. [News.com]
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- 450-MHz PII servers, workstations debut - Along with a slew of desktops, vendors released new servers and workstations based around the 450-MHz Pentium II processor introduced today from Intel. [News.com]
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- 450-MHz Xeon delayed again - Intel will put off releasing the 450-MHz Xeon chip for 4-processor servers until the first part of next year, although the chip for use in 1- or 2-processor workstations and servers will come out later this year. [News.com]
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- 80-gbps cable to span Japan, U.S. - A unit of Japan's Kokusai Denshin Denwa today said that it and three other companies had jointly won a $1.15 billion order to build an undersea cable system connecting Japan and the United States. [News.com]
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- @Home suffers local outage - About 200 @Home subscribers in Tennessee have their Net access back today following a 48-hour service outage caused by a circuit malfunction within a local cable company. [News.com]
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- A view into the Intel machine - Albert Yu, who is in charge of the crown jewels at Intel --its microprocessor products--likes to stay ahead of the technology curve. Once he even left the chip giant's employ in the 1970s to jump on his belief that personal computing was the next big wave. [News.com]
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- Access to Gates grilling denied - A federal appeals court today sided with Microsoft and allowed pretrial depositions of CEO Bill Gates and other top executives to begin without the public or the media present in the landmark antitrust case against the software giant. [News.com]
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- Acer cuts '98 net profit forecast - Taiwan computer leader Acer trimmed its 1998 net profit forecast by 36 percent to $100 million, but said 1998 sales would edge higher due to waning losses at key subsidiaries. [News.com]
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- Acer Group announces reorg - Taiwanese computer giant Acer Group today announced a remodelled business structure, aiming to transform Acer into a customer-centric and intellectual property-oriented group. [News.com]
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- ACLU sues over student site - The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against a school district in Missouri, charging that it violated a student's free speech rights when it suspended him for posting criticism of teachers and administrators on his Web site. [News.com]
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- Activerse updates messaging - Messaging software maker Activerse today rolled out the next version of its Java-based instant messaging application. [News.com]
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- Adaptec to lay off 100 - In a move to shore up operating expenses, Adaptec is shedding about 100 employees, or 4 percent of its total workforce, at its Milpitas, California, storage systems division. [News.com]
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- AdForce gets new name, funding - AdForce, a supplier of online ad management technology, today unveiled its new corporate identity, new software, and a new set of heavyweight financial backers, including America Online. [News.com]
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- Adobe down on hat trick - Shares of Adobe Systems fell more than 11 percent today after the company delivered a triple-whammy bombshell yesterday in which it warned that it would fall short of Wall Street's third-quarter earnings expectations, that three of its top executives--including its CFO--had resigned, and that it will impose layoffs of up to 10 percent of its workforce. [News.com]
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- Adobe seeks silver lining - Adobe Systems has been a pioneer in helping San Jose reclaim its position as the capital of Silicon Valley. [News.com]
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- Adobe updates Illustrator - Adobe Systems today rolled out the latest version of its illustration software package which features tighter integration with Microsoft Windows, while adding more designing tools for artists and business users alike. [News.com]
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- AEA seeks support for Y2K bill - One of the largest high-tech trade groups is calling on President Clinton and congressional leaders to back legislation in Congress that would allow businesses to share information on the Year 2000 technology problem and protect them from litigation related to the issue. [News.com]
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- Agencies crack down on Net scams - Three federal agencies today are joining forces to fight firms they allege are deceiving consumers with entertainment-related investment scams, the Federal Trade Commission said. [News.com]
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- Agency warns of Net banking risks - Banks must take steps to avoid the risks associated with online banking services, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said as it issued a new guide to PC banking. [News.com]
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- AgriBioTech falls on Net chat - You can't shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater, but you can write "sell" on an Internet message board. [News.com]
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- Allaire tests public waters - Web development toolmaker Allaire today filed to go public with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [News.com]
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- Alleged software pirate held - German customs authorities have seized a large number of illegally copied computer programs, preventing damages of more than $56.6 million, Microsoft executives said. [News.com]
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- AltaVista debuts Discovery search app - Compaq is continuing where Digital Equipment left off with the AltaVista search site, beefing it up to compete in the cutthroat portal market. [News.com]
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- Altera, Xilinx primed for growth - In case you haven't noticed, the entire semiconductor industry has been getting pounded for the last year. According to the Semiconductor Industry Association, the industry is expected to post a 1.8 percent decline in unit sales to $134.7 billion in 1998, due largely to a combination of overcapacity, weak demand from Asia, and a slackening in PC sales. [News.com]
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- Amazon to buy two companies - Online book and music retailer Amazon.com today announced it is acquiring two Internet companies to strengthen and broaden the services available at its Web site. [News.com]
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- AMD beefs up K6 - Advanced Micro Devices released a 350-MHz version of the K6-2 processor today, the company's fastest microprocessor ever, and is promising to ship hundreds of thousands of the chips in its effort to take market share away from Intel. [News.com]
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- American Software to post loss - American Software said today that it expects to post a first-quarter operating loss of between 11 cents per share and 17 cents per share on revenues of between $24 million and $28 million because of losses at one of its units. [News.com]
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- American Software's Net plan - Enterprise software stalwart American Software is finally hopping on the Internet train. [News.com]
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- Analog Devices earnings short - Analog Devices today reported sharply lower fiscal third-quarter earnings and forecast a disappointing fourth quarter. [News.com]
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- Analysts mixed on Intel - Wall Street analysts can't seem to agree whether semiconductor giant Intel is a good buy or not. [News.com]
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- And now for the real dirty laundry - If dirty laundry is what Ken Starr is after, that's exactly what he'll get from the Net. By the basketful. [News.com]
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- Andersen faces millennium suit - In one of the first cases related to the Year 2000 problem against a computer consulting firm, a large retail apparel company is seeking reimbursement for the cost of a computer system that Andersen Consulting ordered nearly ten years ago on grounds that the system allegedly will not recognize the year 2000. [News.com]
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- Andersen faces millennium suit - In one of the first cases related to the Year 2000 problem against a computer consulting firm, a large retail apparel company is seeking reimbursement for the cost of a computer system that Andersen Consulting ordered nearly ten years ago on grounds that the system allegedly will not recognize the year 2000. [News.com]
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- Another rebirth for MSN - Microsoft today is officially renaming its Internet access service as part of the company's continuing effort to break down its firewalls and turn itself into an Internet portal. [News.com]
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- Ansoft warns of loss - Electronic design software company Ansoft today warned of an earnings shortfall for its fiscal first quarter ending July 31, as a slowdown in the Asia-Pacific market hurt its bottom line. [News.com]
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- Antislamming act draws fire - A House Commerce subcommittee today approved by voice vote the Consumer Antislamming Act, containing controversial provisions aimed at protecting Net users from junk email that antispammers say actually legitimize spam. [News.com]
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- AOL aims to speed access - America Online chose Cisco Systems to supply high-volume network equipment in a bid to speed its subscribers' access to the Internet, the companies said. [News.com]
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- AOL earnings spark reaction - Shares of America Online rose at the opening bell and then fell today after the company reported late yesterday that its earnings had topped Wall Street analysts' expectations. [News.com]
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- AOL plans faster access - America Online today announced that it would streamline its Internet connections into a leaner pipeline to Web servers in an effort to speed up members' access. [News.com]
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- AOL quietly tests community site - America Online this week quietly began a public test of Hometown AOL, a home page site aimed to compete with the likes of GeoCities, Tripod, and TheGlobe. [News.com]
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- AOL takes good with bad - America Online seems to be on a roll with its multiple portal strategy, Web community plans, and an earnings report for its most recent quarter that beat analysts' estimates. Nevertheless, a delay in posting its net profits and some additional charges is giving Wall Street the jitters. [News.com]
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- AOL tops 13 million mark - America Online today said its AOL Internet service has surpassed 13 million members worldwide. [News.com]
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- AOL's multiple portal strategy - Three portals are better than none. That's America Online's philosophy, according to its president, Bob Pittman. [News.com]
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- AOL, HP enter marketing pact - America Online said today that it entered a multiyear marketing agreement with personal computer maker Hewlett-Packard. [News.com]
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- AOL, Netscape in portal pact - America Online and Netscape Communications have unveiled a cross-marketing alliance linking AOL's online city guides with Netscape's Netcenter Web portal site. [News.com]
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- Apple cuts G3 prices up to 33% - As anticipated, Apple Computer cut prices on some Power Macintosh G3 systems as much as 33 percent over the weekend, as vendors await even faster Power Macs by mid-month. [News.com]
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- Apple extends custom sales - In a bid to become a more efficient manufacturer, Apple Computer said today that its reseller partners will be able to offer custom-configured Macs. [News.com]
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- Apple peaks on iMac momentum - Spurred by strong response to its trendy new iMac during the weekend, shares of Apple Computer today hit a 52-week high for the second day in a row, forcing analysts to keep pace with their target prices for the high-flying stock. [News.com]
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- Apple rises in rocky market - Shares in Apple Computer continue to climb after hitting a new 52-week high yesterday, following the company's disclosure that it received 150,000 orders for iMacs, which roll out to stores Saturday. [News.com]
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- Apple scrambles to restock iMacs - The iMac buying spree is going strong, and Apple Computer says it will refill dealer shelves by the weekend. [News.com]
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- Apple soars amid market slump - Apple Computer shares hit a new 52-week high today, following the company's disclosure that it sold 150,000 iMacs during the product's first week of shipping. [News.com]
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- Apple to beef up G3 PowerBook - Following on the heels of the successful launch of the iMac, Apple Computer will next turn attention to its notebooks by refreshing the PowerBook G3 systems with faster processors and an emphasis on gigantic 14.1-inch displays. [News.com]
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- Apple's golden marketing ticket - The film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is proving to be fertile ground for a high-profile marketing scheme for Apple Computer's iMac computer. [News.com]
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- Application server eludes definition - Software makers agree: Application servers could be the hottest new product category the software business has seen in years. [News.com]
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- Application server trend grows - Joining a growing trend among software development tool companies, Inprise and Sybase today announced plans to ship new application server software for building Web-based applications. [News.com]
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- Application servers rolling out - The Web development software market is hot, and toolmakers are scrambling to beat each other to market with new products. [News.com]
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- Applied Materials cuts back - Stock in struggling semiconductor equipment maker Applied Materials fell nearly 6 percent today, one day after announcing that it will cut 15 percent of its workforce and post a net loss during the fiscal fourth quarter due to a restructuring charge. [News.com]
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- Applied Materials earnings drop - Applied Materials said its quarterly profits dropped as the world's largest computer-chip equipment maker was held back by delayed orders, the Asian economic crisis, and slowing personal computer sales. [News.com]
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- Ascend buys Stratus Computer - In a bid to move closer toward an era of multimedia telecommunications over the Internet, networking equipment maker Ascend Communications announced today that it will acquire Stratus Computer for about $822 million in stock. [News.com]
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- Asian PC market dips 5 percent - Personal computer shipments in the Asia-Pacific region fell five percent in the second quarter compared to the same period last year, according to research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). [News.com]
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- AT&T, Lycos let users chat--for real - AT&T today launched a new version of its Chat 'N Talk service on Lycos, tying together one of the more popular communication features on the Internet with the standard telephone. [News.com]
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- ATI wins GI set-top contract - ATI has been selected by General Instrument, the largest manufacturer of TV set-top boxes, to provide graphics chips for GI's next-generation set-top boxes. [News.com]
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- ATI's Rage in the system - ATI Technologies announced a new 128-bit graphics processor today as the company seeks to solidify its lead in the fickle graphics chip market. [News.com]
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- ATI, S3 vie for 3D chip leadership - ATI vaulted to the top spot as a supplier of speedy graphics chips to the computer industry in the second quarter of this year, according to a report from Mercury Research. [News.com]
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- Audio Book Club finds home at GeoCities - Audio Book Club said it signed a marketing and sponsorship pact with GeoCities in which Audio Book will be featured as the recorded book seller on the GeoCities community site. [News.com]
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- Aussie power industry fights Y2K - The Australian electricity sector is facing costs of more than $120 million as it arms itself to avert power blackouts spawned by the Year 2000 computer bug. [News.com]
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- Autodesk plunges on downgrades - Autodesk has cut its profit and revenue expectations for the second half of the year because of new signs of weakness in its Asian businesses. [News.com]
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- Autodesk to buy Discreet Logic - Autodesk announced yesterday that it plans to acquire Discreet Logic, a digital video effects and editing software tools maker, in a deal valued at $520 million. [News.com]
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- Banks may merge to beat bug - Small and midsized U.S. banks may have to merge with larger rivals for safe haven from the millennium bug which threatens to crash computer systems and bring electronic commerce to its knees on January 1, 2000. [News.com]
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- Barnesandnoble.com to go public - Barnes & Noble, the world's largest brick-and-mortar bookseller, today announced plans to spin-off its online unit in an initial public offering. [News.com]
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- Bay pitches wireless intranets - Will the entry of an established networking player give the wireless corporate market a boost? [News.com]
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- Behind the community boom - The bevy of technology and service features that Internet portals aggregate on their sites reads like a laundry list of online fads. [News.com]
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- BellSouth stamps out email bugs - BellSouth spent the morning plugging security holes in its free Web Mail Service. [News.com]
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- BeOS increases Intel support - Be, the operating system vendor once courted by Apple Computer, today announced an updated version of its software that boosts support for Intel and Intel-compatible processors and adds some new applications, indicating the company is slowly gaining attention from some significant developers. [News.com]
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- Big Blue's new big iron - In an attempt to grab a bigger share of the high-end enterprise market, IBM has released a new version of its corporate enterprise server that the company says substantially outperforms its predecessor. [News.com]
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- Big names struggle for ISP email - Successful corporate email software vendors, like Microsoft, Netscape Communications, and Lotus Development, are having trouble duplicating that success in the ISP messaging and collaboration markets, according to a new report. [News.com]
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- Big sales help Novell's earnings - Networking software player Novell beat analysts' estimates for its fiscal 1998 third quarter by a cent, buoyed by strong third-party sales and sales to large accounts. [News.com]
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- Bristol files suit vs. Microsoft - A development tool maker today slapped Microsoft with a lawsuit claiming the software giant violated federal antitrust laws by stifling competition in the marketplace. [News.com]
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- British e-commerce heating up - Britain's traditional small-town bookshop--cramped, dusty, and run by genteel, bookish types--is under threat. [News.com]
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- British insurance firm sees Net surge - Eagle Star Direct, a unit of B.A.T.'s large British insurance subsidiary Eagle Star, forecast a 260 percent rise in Internet insurance buying over the next 18 months as it launched its own home cyberpolicy. [News.com]
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- Broadcast.com sees downside - Broadcast.com, one of this summer's hottest initial public offerings, today saw its share price fall nearly 10 percent following an analyst's initiation of coverage on the company with a "neutral" recommendationm, based the stock's high valuation. [News.com]
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- Buffer-overflow bug in IE - Microsoft is urging users of its Internet Explorer browser to download a patch for a newly discovered buffer-overflow security bug. [News.com]
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- Bugs? What bugs? - While software bugs are a prevalent part of the computer industry, several firms are either making about-faces in addressing flaws in their products or denying they exist altogether. Most notably, Microsoft is eschewing the term "service pack" for a Windows 98 upgrade, even though it will patch some bugs. [News.com]
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- Building a faster, richer Net - Turning the Internet into a full-fledged medium takes only two things: vastly improved technology and new, creative forms of content that have yet to be seen. [News.com]
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- Bulls still like online booksellers - Wall Street is applauding yesterday's news that Barnes and Noble plans to spin off its online unit into a publicly traded company. [News.com]
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- Business software to grow 37% - Despite conventional wisdom, the enterprise resource planning market will not come to a screeching halt when the clock strikes midnight January 1, 2000, according to a new report. [News.com]
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- C&W considers British ISP deal - Cable & Wireless Communications, which last month bought MCI Communications' entire Internet holdings for $1.75 billion, is considering entering into a partnership with Telewest Communications and NTL to create a national Internet service provider in Britain. [News.com]
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- C&W in talks with IBM for contract - IBM is engaged in exclusive negotiations with Britain's Cable & Wireless Communications to help manage and maintain C&W's computer network and billing operation. [News.com]
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- CA acquires Realogic - Computer Associates International said today that it had acquired Realogic, a consulting firm with expertise in corporate networking, software development, and systems integration. [News.com]
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- CA back on buyout roll - Plan A flopped. [News.com]
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- CA up on CEO's bullish comments - Computer Associates shares are up today after chief executive Charles Wang spoke at the annual shareholders meeting and assured investors that the company's core business and financial fundamentals remain strong. [News.com]
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- CA wins NCI enterprise contract - Computer Associates International said today that NCI Information Systems, a $100 million network and systems firm, has selected Computer Associates' Unicenter TNG as the foundation for its new enterprise management center. [News.com]
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- Cable firm to Webcast heart surgery - The cable TV company that showed the first live birth on the Internet said today it would air the first live broadcast of a heart operation. [News.com]
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- Cabletron makes corporate push - With its stock in the dumps and the potential for a sustained turnaround still looming as a large question, networking hardware player Cabletron Systems will use the fruits of its recent acquisition binge to get back into its core strength: corporate networks. [News.com]
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- Cadence to buy Lucent design unit - Circuit design software maker Cadence Design Systems and Lucent Technologies today jointly announced an agreement under which Cadence will acquire the Bell Labs Design Automation Group. [News.com]
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- Caldera to MS: Fork over the code - Caldera executives claim that Microsoft has failed to hand over all of the DOS and Windows source code required by the judge presiding over the antitrust suit it filed against the software giant, and the company now plans to ask the court to force Microsoft to hand over the rest of it. [News.com]
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- California ahead on Net laws - California lawmakers appear to be leading the way in regulating the Net. [News.com]
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- California law bans Net taxes - On the day after his 65th birthday, California Gov. Pete Wilson gave Internet businesses a present, signing the California Internet Tax Freedom Act that bars local governments from levying new or discriminatory taxes on Internet companies and transactions. [News.com]
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- California's big risks are foreign - California's chief economist today said the steep slide in global stocks has not altered the fundamentally positive outlook for the Golden State's economy, but he also warned that the state faces more risks as a result of uncertainty abroad. [News.com]
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- Cambridge Tech to acquire Excell - Cambridge Technology Partners today said it will acquire systems integrator Excell Data of Bellevue, Washington, for about 1.68 million shares in exchange for all Excell shares. [News.com]
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- Can Netcenter turn Netscape around? - Netscape Communications' quarterly earnings report was supposed to provide a clear sign of whether the company is on its way to becoming a top-flight Internet portal, despite entering the space later than many industry players. [News.com]
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- Canon takes aim at Xerox - Targeting a traditional Xerox stronghold, Canon U.S.A plans to offer printers in three new market segments and a new product in its existing high-speed color printer business. [News.com]
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- Canon, Victor team on new flat TVs - Canon said today that it would tie up with Victor of Japan in developing and marketing wall-mounted televisions. [News.com]
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- Casahl plans data integration tools - Casahl Technology later this month plans to rollout a number of new products to boost its family of server-based integration tools. [News.com]
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- Casio camera packs more features - Casio is expected to announce a new high-resolution digital camera for $799, the latest digital camera from the consumer electronics company. [News.com]
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- CD-ROMs speed up despite DVD - AOpen, Asustek, Behavior Tech Computer and Ultima Electronics, among others, are in the process of developing 44X, 48X and even 60X CD-ROM drives, according to Commercial Times, a Taiwanese business publication, as reported by Nikkei's AsiaBizTech web site. [News.com]
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- CDnow goes to Europe - Internet music store CDnow said it launched CDnow in Europe, with a European shipping hub serving more than 37 countries in Europe and the Middle East. [News.com]
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- Celeron may help PC makers - Most analysts are betting that sub-$1000 personal computers running on Intel's new Celeron processor will help, not hinder, the tenuous recovery of some PC makers. [News.com]
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- Cendant adjusts earnings results - Cendant today announced that it had lowered its 1996 and 1997 earnings results after concluding an investigation into accounting irregularities in some of its businesses. [News.com]
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- Charges over Smith Barney email - A judge has ordered a former Smith Barney investment banker to appear in court next month on charges of harassing top executives at the firm by electronic mail using the Internet. [News.com]
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- Chat room confessor plans plea - A man who confessed to his online chat group that he killed his daughter three years ago by setting fire to their house will formally admit his guilt and be sentenced this week, authorities said. [News.com]
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- CheckFree falls on revenue news - Shares of CheckFree fell more than 45 percent today after the company announced yesterday that it expected revenues for the fiscal year 1999 to be much lower than expected, citing a delay in major banks marketing online banking to consumers. [News.com]
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- Chinese site urges hit standard - China's most popular Web destination, Sohoo, today announced steps establishing a national standard that would give advertisers accurate data for traffic on Chinese sites. [News.com]
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- Chip crunch hits Siemens plant - The decision by Germanys Siemens to close a semiconductor plant in England just 15 months after opening the facility is the latest in a series of wrenching consolidation moves in the global chip industry. [News.com]
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- Chip inserted into man's arm - Professor Kevin Warwick of England claimed on Tuesday to be the first person in the world to have a computer chip surgically implanted into his body. [News.com]
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- Chip slide may have hit bottom - The semiconductor industry got a break today from the Wall Street bruising that began Tuesday, as market leaders regained some ground while looking forward to a new report that provides evidence of a rebound. [News.com]
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- Chip slump continuing - Global semiconductor sales continued their slump in June, slipping over 14 percent from the same period a year ago as regionalized economic disruptions continued to drag down worldwide revenues. [News.com]
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- Chipmakers to fund more research - A consortium of semiconductor companies, their respective trade groups, and the federal government launched a new research organization today that will likely lead to a vast increase in the amount of dollars going toward university research departments. [News.com]
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- Ciena recovers from plunge - Ciena said last week that potential customer AT&T no longer will evaluate its products, a decision that may cast a cloud over the telecommunications equipment provider's plans to merge with Tellabs. [News.com]
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- Ciena up, Tellabs falls on merger - Telecommunications equipment makers Ciena and Tellabs today cut the terms of their proposed merger by more than a third to $4.7 billion, sending Ciena's shares higher and Tellabs' stock lower. [News.com]
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- Ciena, Tellabs deal on track - Telecom equipment provider Ciena shares tumbled 27 percent and its future parent, Tellabs, followed suit on Friday after Ciena warned that its third-quarter earnings would miss estimates. [News.com]
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- CIH virus real but not epidemic - A virus that activates on the 26th of each month struck some computers yesterday but doesn't appear to be widespread. [News.com]
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- Cisco buys land for expansion - RALEIGH-DURHAM, North Carolina--Cisco Systems said today that it had bought additional land in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, so it can expand its operations there in future years. [News.com]
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- Cisco countersues Lucent - Data networking leader Cisco Systems today countersued voice giant Lucent Technologies, marking the latest salvo in a high-profile technology spat between the two equipment giants. [News.com]
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- Cisco details routing upgrades - Seeking to shore up the commodity-oriented side of its routing hardware business, Cisco Systems wrapped a series of new technology enhancements today in the cloak of versatility. [News.com]
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- Cisco income jumps - Networking giant Cisco Systems posted another profitable quarter and declared a 3-for-2 stock split. [News.com]
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- Cisco patches software glitch - Cisco Systems attempted to nip a potential problem in its routing software in the bud recently by posting a series of fixes to patch a programming error. [News.com]
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- Cisco rises on earnings news - Shares of Cisco Systems rose nearly 2 percent at the opening bell today after the company reported late yesterday that its earnings had topped Wall Street analysts' expectation. [News.com]
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- Cisco to buy American Internet - Cisco Systems continues to go the acquisition route to purchase the technology it needs to compete in developing markets. [News.com]
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- Cisco, PeopleSoft in alliance - Business software maker PeopleSoft and networking gear provider Cisco Systems said today they have forged an alliance to tailor PeopleSoft's applications to take better advantage of Cisco's routers and other technology. [News.com]
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- Citicorp raises Y2K cost estimates - Citicorp estimates the cost of fixing and testing its computer applications for Year 2000 compliance will reach about $650 million, a $50 million increase from previous estimates. [News.com]
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- CitySearch guides local market - When city guides started launching nearly two years ago, they were seen as the Net's next Holy Grail, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, the magic key that would make the Net hum with bucks. [News.com]
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- CitySearch to merge, stalls IPO - CitySearch said today that it is postponing its initial public offering--previously planned for this week--because the company has entered into an agreement with USA Networks' Ticketmaster to merge CitySearch with Ticketmaster Online. [News.com]
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- Clinton, Rubin discuss stock slide - President Clinton, while on route to Russia, spoke to U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin regarding today's slide in stock prices and the soundness of the global balance of payments system, the White House said. [News.com]
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- CNBC, Quote.com may partner - Cable television network CNBC and financial Web site Quote.com have held talks that could lead to an investment or even a buyout of the privately held Internet firm, sources said. [News.com]
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- CNNfn to add e-commerce - CNNfn today announced plans to launch a retail channel on its business news and information Web site, furthering its push to become a one-stop shop for its professional user base. [News.com]
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- Cognos tool eases selling data - Pssst! Hey buddy, got some data to sell? Then Cognos wants to talk to you. [News.com]
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- Community First passes Y2K test - Community First Bankshares said yesterday that it has successfully completed Year 2000 compliance testing of its "mission-critical" computer systems--the primary systems the company uses to provide financial services to its customers. [News.com]
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- Compaq buys AltaVista domain - It took a few years and a reported $3.3 million, but Compaq today said the news is official: it now owns the coveted domain name "www.altavista.com." [News.com]
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- Compaq cuts flat-panel prices - Compaq today announced price cuts on its flat-panel and traditional computer monitors, bringing its lowest-priced LCD display under $1,000. [News.com]
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- Compaq delays Alpha stations - Compaq has put off the release of its first Alpha-processor-based workstations until the fourth quarter, and may push it back further, to clear up performance issues with the system. [News.com]
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- Compaq lights up new monitors - Compaq today announced a series of low-cost computer monitors as the No. 1 PC vendor continues its push into the market for branded PC displays. [News.com]
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- Compaq sees growth in Europe - Compaq said today that it expected European PC demand to remain firm in the second half of 1998, with growth rates in the region topping those in North America and Asia. [News.com]
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- Compaq ships Xeon servers - Compaq and Dell have started to ship four-processor servers based around Intel's Xeon chip, the first two vendors to get these delayed machines out the door. [News.com]
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- Compaq trims server prices - Compaq cut prices by as much as 14 percent on select server models, saying it had reached its goal of reducing inventory below four weeks' supply. [News.com]
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- Compaq unveils new Armada - Compaq today introduced a new series of slim notebooks, the Armada 7400 line, the latest in a wave of portable announcements expected to continue through September. [News.com]
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- Compaq workstation specs - Compaq Professional Workstation AP500 • Single or dual 450-MHz Pentium II • Intel 440BX AGP chipset • 128 MB of memory, expandable to 1GB • Gloria Synergy+ 3-D graphics subsystem from Elsa, expandable to PowerStorm 300 graphics • 4.3GB Wide Ultra SCSI hard disk drive • Starting at $3,411 [News.com]
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- Compaq, HP update servers - Compaq and Hewlett-Packard are offering up new takes on familiar server products. [News.com]
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- Compaq, SCO team on server technology - The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) will begin to market clustering technology from Compaq that will allow users to group together Intel-based servers into a cohesive computing whole for backing up corporate data. [News.com]
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- Confab explores DSL, cable - In the race to provide high-speed data access to Internet users, DSL will win over cable modems, an analyst at a BancAmerica Robertson Stephens conference on the subject said today. [News.com]
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- Confab marks 500 days until Y2K - Marking the 500th day before January 1, 2000, a leading Y2K bug watchdog will host a conference to discuss the technology problem in an effort to spur global action on the issue. [News.com]
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- Controversy over Win 98 update - Microsoft is releasing its first update to the Windows 98 operating system, officially calling it a "multimedia update" as controversy over its purpose persists. [News.com]
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- Copyright bill hits Net broadcasters - An amendment to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, passed today by the House, could spell big financial changes for Internet radio stations and other Webcasters. [News.com]
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- Creative ends year with a thud - Multimedia firm Creative Technology can expect weaker revenue growth this year despite the launch of a new Sound Blaster Live product, analysts said Friday. [News.com]
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- Crypto back in court - A Silicon Valley man being investigated for posting software that uses strong encryption on his Web site will have to testify before a grand jury next week, after testimony scheduled for today was delayed. [News.com]
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- Cutting-edge PalmPilot pondered - The next-generation PalmPilot is expected to hit stores by the end of 1998, but handheld observers already are citing features slated for the new device. [News.com]
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- CWA: US West, union settle strike - The Communications Workers of America (CWA) said it settled its 15-day-old strike against US West, the regional Bell telephone company, last night after four days of intensive bargaining. [News.com]
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- CyberCash adds merchants - CyberCash said today that the number of merchants using its Internet commerce software and services topped 7,000, a sharp increase from 280 merchants at the end of 1996. [News.com]
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- CyberCash moves to thin wallet - CyberCash, creator of the first wallet software for making purchases on the Web, announced today that it will forsake that bulky software this fall for a new technology, designed so shoppers can make repeat purchases at multiple Web stores with a single click. [News.com]
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- CyberCash sees consolidation - The Internet electronic payment industry is heading for consolidation which could see more mergers, Bill Melton, president and chief executive officer of CyberCash, said today. [News.com]
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- CyberCop 3.0 guards servers - Network Associates today rolled out the newest version of its intrusion detection server. [News.com]
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- CyberGuard plunges on bad news - It's only Tuesday, but it's already been a long week for CyberGuard. [News.com]
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- Data access bug affects Jet - A bug affecting Microsoft's Access database also affects a widely used database engine known as Jet, the company confirmed today, dramatically expanding the potential scope of the problem. [News.com]
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- Data bug in all versions of Access - Microsoft executives are acknowledging that a data access bug discovered last week affects more versions of its Access database than it originally thought. [News.com]
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- Data bug infestation - A recently discovered bug seems to be multiplying, at least from Microsoft's step-by-step concessions. On successive days this week, executives admitted that the Access problem exists, that it affects all versions of the popular database, and that it is more deeply infested in other products. [News.com]
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- Data, voice-in-one race continues - Upping the ante in the race to provide technology for a converged networking future, data player Ascend Communications has looked to a veteran provider of high-end server computers for help. [News.com]
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- Date rollover bug in Windows 98 - Microsoft confirmed Friday the existence of the first known Windows 98 bug. [News.com]
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- Dell looks out for No. 1 - With its strong market growth, stable margins, and growing brand name cachet, Dell Computer appears to have a chance to take the No. 1 position in the U.S. PC market, although observers caution the window of opportunity will stay open for only so long. [News.com]
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- Dell offers online buyer security - Dell has introduced an online shopping security guarantee for its online customers in the U.S. [News.com]
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- Dell starts Web sales in China - U.S. computer maker Dell Computer is launching its popular direct sales strategy in China, training its sights on an explosive market that will fuel its growth in Asia, company executives said today. [News.com]
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- Dell to open plant in Brazil - Computer maker Dell will open a manufacturing and customer center in Alvorada, Brazil, that will employ more than 250 employees within two years, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Demand grows for DVD players - Sony, Matsushita Electric, and other consumer electronics makers plan to increase production of DVD (digital versatile disc) and MiniDisc (MD) players to meet growing demand, according to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japan's largest business daily. [News.com]
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- Deposition day for Gates - Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates is set to be deposed today and maybe tomorrow as well in the antitrust lawsuit filed against the software giant, according to a spokeswoman for New York Attorney General Dennis Vacco. [News.com]
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- Digital cameras focus on simplicity - Digital cameras are evolving and becoming the latest gadget to have, but don't expect them to replace regular cameras any time soon. [News.com]
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- Digital divide an income gap - Despite posturing by government officials and others about the importance of a ubiquitous Net across all segments of society, low-income communities have much less access to the network than the wealthy, a new study says. [News.com]
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- Digital TV not ready for prime time - The federal government, worried that technical and political imbroglios are stalling critical aspects of next-generation television, is calling on the consumer electronics and cable industries to ensure the transition from analog to digital technology. [News.com]
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- Direct gains for Dell - Dell Computer beat Wall Street expectations yesterday by reporting net income of $346 million or 50 cents per share for its second fiscal quarter, and also declared a 2-for-1 stock split. [News.com]
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- Direct Hit aims to refine searches - For all their community features, aggregated content, and other bells and whistles, a portal is only as good as the search engine that is its backbone. [News.com]
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- Do you know about Oracle's ads? - Do you know that Oracle is launching a massive marketing blitz to blanket the media in order to boost sales in its sagging applications division? [News.com]
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- DOJ probe turns to Wintel - Renewed charges of Microsoft pressure on chip partner Intel point up stark disparities between the two halves of the Wintel juggernaut. [News.com]
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- DOJ probes Microsoft-Intel ties - The U.S. government is investigating whether Microsoft has used its market muscle to force Intel to shelve new technology efforts that conflicted with Microsoft's ambitions, according to reports. [News.com]
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- DOJ to add to Microsoft case - The Justice Department and 20 states suing Microsoft plan to turn up the heat on the company this week by pressing new allegations of predatory and monopolistic business practices, according to reports. [News.com]
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- DOJ: No appeal for Microsoft - The Justice Department agrees with Microsoft on one thing: It doesn't like a rarely enforced law that could allow public access to chairman Bill Gates's deposition. [News.com]
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- Domain name accord a step closer - The Internet community appears to be a step closer to reaching consensus on how to run the complicated and powerful Internet domain naming system. [News.com]
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- Dow and Nasdaq plummet - The stock market took a nose dive today, continuing its recent weakness. [News.com]
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- Dow Jones archives hit the Web - In a move to expand its reach to a wider audience, Dow Jones Interactive Publishing has entered into agreements with several general-interest Web sites and Internet services to provide free searches of archived content within its proprietary service. [News.com]
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- Dow recovers, Nasdaq surges - The Dow ended higher today, with blue chips still a bit hesitant after their headlong 299-point plunge on Tuesday, while the Nasdaq stormed to its third-largest point gain ever. [News.com]
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- Dow sees modest loss - Wall Street posted modest losses after putting the brakes on today to stop a sharp decline early on in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell as much as 135 points, mirroring the slide of global markets as investors faced renewed fears about Russia's economy and political instability. [News.com]
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- Dow, tech stocks enjoy upside - After racking up its fourth largest gain of the year yesterday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average continued to surge today, taking technology stocks along for the ride. [News.com]
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- Downloads up for Real - Streaming media firm RealNetworks today announced 3.5 million users downloaded its RealPlayer software last month. [News.com]
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- DRAM doldrums ending - The plunge in the price of the latest generation of memory chips will soon run its course, an increasing number of market observers say, according to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japan's largest business daily. [News.com]
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- Drug distribution firm sues SAP - The bankruptcy trustee appointed to oversee the liquidation of FoxMeyer and Foxmeyer Drug has sued the companies' software supplier, SAP, for $500 million for alleged "gross negligence." [News.com]
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- Dutch step up child porn fight - The Dutch justice ministry, stung by criticism over its handling of child pornography on the Internet, is to increase the number of investigators working on it and boost cooperation between Dutch authorities. [News.com]
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- E*Trade does marketing deals - In an attempt to increase the number of users in an increasingly competitive arena, E*Trade Group, an online investing service, today announced that it has expanded its marketing and commerce agreement with Web portal Yahoo and has also signed an exclusive marketing and content agreement with ZDNet, Ziff-Davis's Internet site. [News.com]
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- E*Trade warns of losses - Online brokerage E*Trade Group expects to add one million accounts to its current base of 460,000 over the next four to eight months, senior vice president Rebecca Patton told investors today. [News.com]
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- E-commerce for Singapore - Netscape Communications and Singapore Network Services (SNS) signed a partnership agreement today to provide electronic commerce software to businesses in Singapore and the region. [News.com]
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- E-commerce to boom in India - Electronic commerce in India will climb sharply to $160 million by calendar 2001 from a negligible $2.8 million in 1997, market research firm International Data Corporation said. [News.com]
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- E-rate issue still on table - The heavily debated e-rate is back before Congress, as FCC chairman William Kennard says hearings will be held to discuss the disparity in online access among poorer communities. But opponents across the political spectrum are slamming the Net access discounts as an unfair tax. [News.com]
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- Earnings to speak for Netscape - Netscape Communications navigates under the spotlight again today when the software company, which is revamping its business strategy, posts its third-quarter results. [News.com]
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- EarthLink looks out for No. 2 - The sky's the limit for national Internet service provider EarthLink Network. At least that's what founder and chairman Sky Dayton likes to think. [News.com]
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- eBay sets IPO pricing range - Online auctioneer eBay has announced plans to raise up to $56 million in capital through a proposed initial public offering that could be floated out in late September. [News.com]
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- EDS chief exec to retire - EDS announced that chairman and CEO Les Alberthal informed the company's board of directors that he has decided to retire. [News.com]
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- Education official: E-rate must survive - It's not enough that Congress, presidential hopefuls, high-tech CEOs, and parents want schools and libraries plugged into the Net. [News.com]
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- Email bug found in Eudora - Strike three for email programs. [News.com]
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- Email outage on MSN - Spammers aren't the only ones the Microsoft Network has been blocking since it spam-proofed its servers. [News.com]
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- Entrust Technologies goes public - Entrust Technologies, a vendor of certificate authority software, announced today an initial public offering of its common stock on the Nasdaq market. [News.com]
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- eSafe to ship antivirus gateway - Security firm eSafe Technologies will release Monday a new version of its software that works with firewalls to block computer viruses and malicious code from entering a network. [News.com]
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- EU clears French ISP deal - The European Commission said today that it had cleared a French Internet service provider joint venture between Cegetel, Canal Plus, America Online, and Bertelsmann. [News.com]
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- EU privacy plan lacks support - The White House has been scrambling to ensure that U.S. Web sites aren't hindered by a strict European Union electronic privacy directive set to hit this October. [News.com]
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- Euro chipmakers slug it out - European semiconductor makers are engaged in a fight for survival in which billions of dollars of cash are needed to stay ahead in a technological rat race. [News.com]
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- Even break for Netscape - Netscape Communications eked out a $88,000 profit for the third fiscal quarter in posting its earnings today, citing "strong momentum" in its enterprise software and Web site businesses. [News.com]
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- Even without PC, email finds you - Email is like getting a telephone call without ringer. The drawback of is that it's often hard to tell when a new message has arrived. [News.com]
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- Exchange, Notes vie for email lead - Microsoft's Exchange messaging server is chipping away at the huge chunk of the corporate email market that Lotus has enjoyed for years, but threats from outside players may leave them both in the lurch. [News.com]
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- Excite localizes free email in U.K. - Leveraging the tremendous popularity of free Web-based email in the United States, Excite has introduced the service for users in the United Kingdom to further beef up its localized offerings overseas. [News.com]
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- Excite readies community builder - Excite is expected to launch a community builder service powered by recently acquired Throw, giving the portal an early jump on a landscape characterized by fast followers, CNET News.com has learned. [News.com]
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- Excite takes taste of Peapod - Online grocer Peapod said today it signed a multiyear Internet marketing alliance with Excite. [News.com]
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- Excite tests new communities - Excite today launched a beta version of its end-user community builder resource as expected, marking another addition of services geared toward cultivating a more consistent and loyal audience base. [News.com]
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- Excite, IDT in Net telephony pact - Internet company Excite said today that it has signed a two-year agreement with Net2Phone, a division of telecommunications company IDT, to bring Internet telephony to Excite customers in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Australia, Netherlands, Japan, and Sweden. [News.com]
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- Execs divesting in weak market - Cisco chief executive John Chambers and several Cisco directors have filed plans to sell a sizable number of their shares in the company, at a time when its stock has been flat for weeks. [News.com]
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- FAA ahead on Y2K fixes - WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday it had so far renovated over two thirds of its air traffic control computers to cope with the Year 2000 computer problem. [News.com]
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- FAA ripped for Year 2000 reports - The Federal Aviation Administration was severely criticized yesterday by members of the House Subcommittee on Technology for not telling the whole story on the status of its efforts to prepare its computer systems for the Year 2000. [News.com]
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- Fake Viagra selling online - Fake copies of the impotence drug Viagra reportedly are being manufactured in Thailand and India and sold around the world via the Internet. [News.com]
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- Faster Celeron PCs due this month - A slew of new PCs will emerge on August 24 when Intel releases two new versions of the low-cost Celeron processor and a 450-MHz Pentium II. [News.com]
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- Faster, cheaper workstations here - Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, and Intergraph rolled out new workstations today that highlight pricing differences between Intel's growing number of Pentium II and Xeon processors. [News.com]
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- FCC aims to fix e-rate - With critics lambasting the e-rate program as too bureaucratic, the Federal Communications Commission is readying a plan to streamline the administration of the discounts for school and library Net access. [News.com]
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- FCC to hold hearings on e-rate - Federal Communications Commission chairman William Kennard said yesterday that public hearings would be held later this year on community access to communications. [News.com]
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- FCC: Bells lost billions in gear - A preliminary audit by the Federal Communications Commission has found that the regional Bell telephone companies cannot locate an estimated $5 billion worth of communications equipment that they claim on their accounting books, according to reports. [News.com]
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- FCC: Let Bells build networks - Striving to speed up the Net, the Federal Communications Commission today proposed lifting restrictions on Baby Bells to spur their investment in high-speed networks. [News.com]
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- Fed Reserve stocks cash for Y2K - Will tense Americans want to stuff their pockets with extra cash on December 31, 1999? [News.com]
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- Fee voids Sun's Java suit, MS says - Court papers filed by Microsoft argue that Sun Microsystems' May 1998 acceptance of a $3.75 million licensing fee voids claims that the software giant has breached its license for Sun's Java. [News.com]
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- Feisty at Quark, frothy at Adobe - In a David-and-Goliath battle, desktop publishing software maker Quark said sales are way up, after disclosing its proposal to buy or invest in graphics software company Adobe. The overtures by the much-smaller Quark were rejected by Adobe, notwithstanding the latter's continuing financial turmoil. [News.com]
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- Firewall market to hit $1.8 billion - Sales of firewall software, the programs that protect computer networks against unauthorized users or viruses, are projected to grow to $1.8 billion by 2002, according to a report by research firm International Data Corporation. [News.com]
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- Firm launches pop-up ad network - Though many Net users hate them, pop-up ads are growing in popularity among advertisers who are constantly seeking new and innovative ways to bring attention to their products. [News.com]
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- Firm offers certified email - Certifiedemail.com today launched a service aimed at keeping important email messages from getting lost in the cyberspace abyss. [News.com]
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- Firm searches for domain conflicts - If you don't know what's in a domain name, just ask a company like Compaq, which reportedly paid $3.3 million for "altavista.com" for its popular search engine by the same name. [News.com]
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- Firms battle over term "e-media" - A new multimedia industry news magazine will launch on Monday under the cloud of possible trademark infringement lawsuit. [News.com]
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- Firms partner to cache streams - Inktomi and RealNetworks today announced they are developing a system to cache streaming media using RealNetworks' products. [News.com]
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- Firms unclear on Year 2000 needs - U.S. companies are failing to assess the extent of the Year 2000 technology bug on their desktop computers because they lack the technology to adequately track hardware and software inventories, according to a new study. [News.com]
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- Firms unclear on Year 2000 needs - U.S. companies are failing to assess the extent of the Year 2000 technology bug on their desktop computers because they lack the technology to adequately track hardware and software inventories, according to a new study. [News.com]
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- First iMac glitches surfacing - Apple Computer's new iMac is getting its own site for technical support and information just as word of the first few minor glitches are surfacing. [News.com]
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- First Int'l gets big NEC order - Taiwan's First International Computer said today it has received a big order worth more than $289 million under which it will make notebook computers for NEC of Japan. [News.com]
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- Five Excite insiders to divest - As Internet portal stocks have seen some softness since their sharp rise earlier this summer, five Excite executives have filed to sell more than $9 million in stock. [News.com]
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- Floodgates open for patent cases - The rain of recent technology patent actions has turned into a downpour. [News.com]
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- Foes hammering away at e-rate - Defending federal Net connection discounts for low-income schools and libraries is becoming a full-time job for the Federal Communications Commission. [News.com]
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- For music, the next front is Europe - Online music retailers appear to be looking toward Europe for the near-term future of their businesses. [News.com]
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- Fore makes gigabit bet - Can you teach an old dog new tricks? [News.com]
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- Fore to buy Berkeley Networks - Fore Systems stock fell more than 22 percent today, one day after the company said it would buy Berkeley Networks in a deal that could be worth $250 million. [News.com]
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- Former Disney exec tries start-up - Richard Wolpert, the former president of Disney Online who last month abruptly left the media giant's Internet department, has resurfaced as a partner in an Internet start-up. [News.com]
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- Fox Sports Online beefs up - Just in time for football season, Fox Sports Online is planning to kick off a newly designed site, in an effort to keep its rank in the crowded but lucrative online sports field. [News.com]
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- Framatome to buy Berg Electronics - Connector and cable assembly supplier Berg Electronics said today that it has agreed to be acquired by French connector firm Framatome Connectors International in a deal valued at $1.85 billion, including assumption of debt. [News.com]
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- Free email's pest problem - Hotmail is once again in the hot seat, as yet another security hole comes to light following last week's epidemic. [News.com]
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- Free emailers scramble to gauge risk - Hotmail may not be the only one with a security problem. [News.com]
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- Free site offered with groupware - US West Enterprise Networking and start-up Changepoint have their own take on the hot rent-an-app groupware market: removing the rent. [News.com]
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- Free tool evaluates Y2K issues - Software and services provider Accelr8 Technology today debuted a free scanning tool designed to get companies started on Year 2000-related computer fixes. [News.com]
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- From the world to Wall St. - Political and economic turmoil in Asia and Russia is sending shivers throughout U.S. markets. The Russian crisis has yet to affect technology stocks, though Asia continues to batter the sector, with Autodesk being the latest casualty. However the uncertainty isn't putting a damper on tech IPOs, which are expected to ramp up this fall. [News.com]
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- FTC unopposed to Nortel-Bay deal - Federal Trade Commission regulators will not oppose the pending merger of Bay Networks and Nortel, the companies said today. [News.com]
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- FTC, GeoCities settle on privacy - In what the Federal Trade Commission is calling its first case involving Internet privacy, the agency announced today that it has agreed to settle charges with Net community GeoCities. [News.com]
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- Fujitsu screens new technology - Fujitsu has developed a new technology for plasma display panels suited for high-definition television sets, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Fujitsu's Java workflow system - Fujitsu Software may not be well known in the Internet technology game but it's ready to take on Netscape Communications with a new Java-based workflow system. [News.com]
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- Fujitsu, Philips to develop flat TV - Fujitsu and Philips Electronics will jointly develop a new low-cost plasma display panel (PDP) for flat television sets for home use. [News.com]
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- G3 notebook dearth decried - While Apple Computer races to build enough snazzy iMacs to meet the 150,000 orders it says are in hand, the supply of another curvaceous Macintosh product remains tight. [News.com]
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- Gap searches for interactive mate - Clothing retailer the Gap is searching for an interactive agency partner to help expand its online marketing efforts, a company spokeswoman said. [News.com]
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- Gartner, ICSA check security risks - Gartner Group and the International Computer Security Association will unveil a new security service tomorrow that gives customers an in-depth analysis of their Internet security risks, including both business practices and technical aspects. [News.com]
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- Gates answers Nader's challenge - Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates has responded to consumer activist Ralph Nader's challenge to the world's richest man, but sidestepped Nader's invitation to convene a conference on wealth disparity. [News.com]
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- Gates called to court - A federal court has ordered Microsoft to make CEO Bill Gates and 16 other top executives available for deposition in the Justice Department's antitrust case and required it to release the source code of Windows. Microsoft is expected to file a motion on Monday to dismiss the case altogether. [News.com]
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- Gates deposition called evasive - In a boardroom at Microsoft headquarters, chief executive Bill Gates yesterday gave his deposition in the pending antitrust case against the software giant to attorneys from the Justice Department and the New York attorney general's office, in much the same fashion that he delivered his earlier testimony before a Senate committee. [News.com]
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- Gates depositions open to public - The news media and the public will be allowed to attend the depositions of Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates and other top executives, a federal judge ruled today. [News.com]
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- Gates gives browser decision date - In a possible preview of his testimony in a government antitrust lawsuit, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has pinpointed the date the software giant decided to combine its Internet browser and Windows operating system. [News.com]
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- Gates, Allen file to sell stock - Microsoft cofounders Bill Gates and Paul Allen have announced plans to sell a total of 2.5 million of their common shares in the software giant. [News.com]
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- Gateway debuts $1,999 PC-TV - Gateway said it is now offering a system that combines a PC and 27-inch television monitor for just under $2,000 in an effort to remove barriers inhibiting the growth of the market for PC-TV convergence devices. [News.com]
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- Gateway picks Colorado for IT center - Gateway has selected Lakewood, Colorado, as the site for its new information technology (IT) development center. [News.com]
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- GeoCities doubles on first day - Despite a market downturn, GeoCities' initial public offering ran up almost 120 percent on its first trading day. [News.com]
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- GeoCities keeps climbing - After rising almost 120 percent in its first day of trading, GeoCities continued to climb today, rising another 21.94 percent in early trading. [News.com]
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- GeoCities prices high - Reflecting investor enthusiasm, GeoCities today set its initial public offering price at $17 a share--exceeding the high end of its pricing range--and said that it expects to raise $80.75 million. [News.com]
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- GeoCities updates watermarks - GeoCities is launching initiatives focused on keeping its existing users on its site, while also trying to draw in new users with the allure of easy home page building. [News.com]
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- German leader plans Net debut - Chancellor Helmut Kohl is to take to the Internet for the first time to answer questions from the public ahead of Germany's general election in September, his Christian Democrat party said today. [News.com]
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- German Net use exploding - The number of private Internet users in Germany soared 60 percent to 6.6 million adults this year compared to 1997, according to a study released today. [News.com]
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- German phone war moves online - German telephone rivals today took their price war to a new front, unveiling offers that could significantly cut the cost of surfing the Internet. [News.com]
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- Goldman: Y2K will sting economy - The Year 2000 computer bug could shake up the U.S. economy as much as the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake, say economists at Goldman Sachs, though it is not likely to cause a worldwide recession. [News.com]
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- Gov. Wilson pushes tech labor bill - California Gov. Pete Wilson urged President Clinton not to veto a bill that would allow more highly skilled foreign workers to come work for U.S. technology companies. [News.com]
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- Group feels need for Web textures - The Web is accepting donations of fox furs, mowed lawns, sidewalk pavements, bright shiny chrome, viscous fluids, and fish scales. [News.com]
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- Group seeks structure for Linux - Linux originator Linus Torvalds's recent photo shoot for a Forbes magazine cover was just the latest in a surge of publicity on the man behind the booming Net-based software movement. [News.com]
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- Group takes on tech regulation - A group of technology companies has joined forces to combat what it considers undue government interference in the high-tech industry, arguing that recent actions against Microsoft and Intel are "symptomatic of the growing trend toward government over-regulation of technology." [News.com]
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- Hack raises flags about small ISPs - Ever since network administrators at a small Midwestern Internet service provider discovered unauthorized visitors in their system, the company has spent nearly $100,000 and many sleepless nights trying to close its security holes. [News.com]
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- HDTV clicks with Matsushita - Matsushita Electric will begin making digital television sets in the United States and United Kingdom in preparation for November's much-anticipated launch of high-definition digital TV broadcasting. [News.com]
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- Health privacy rules proposed - The federal government is seeking public comments on proposed rules to protect the privacy of medical records transmitted on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Healtheon files to go public - Healtheon, the Internet health-care firm cofounded by Netscape chairman Jim Clark, filed to go public. [News.com]
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- Heavy hitters want Primestar - News Corporation and an affiliate of Tele-Communications Incorporated are in talks to explore a way to buy a stake in direct broadcast satellite company Primestar Partners, sources close to the talks said. [News.com]
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- Help for voice recognition mess - Lernout and Hauspie announced today that two U.S. patents have been granted for technology in its consumer voice recognition software, L&H Voice Xpress. [News.com]
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- High-tech execs drubbed - As tech stocks led today's 512-point collapse in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, it's no surprise that option-holding high-tech executives were drubbed on Wall Street. [News.com]
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- Hitachi, doctors in research project - Computers capable of predicting how drugs will react and move through the human body are the target of a collaboration between Japanese electronics group Hitachi and a team of Irish academics announced on Thursday. [News.com]
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- HK Telecom warns of Y2K fears - Hong Kong Telecommunications said today that it would be millennium compliant by the end of this year but was afraid many of its clients would not be ready by 2000. [News.com]
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- Home pages to unite families - In an effort to capitalize on the hot home-page market, online community developer KOZ today launched a service that aims to unite extended family members into one locale on the Web. [News.com]
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- Hospital Netcasts open-heart surgery - In another first for the Internet, a Seattle hospital today broadcast live images of a woman having open heart surgery. [News.com]
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- Hot IPOs don't equal huge gains - IPOs that soar on their first days of trading often post the least impressive results over the next six to twelve months, according to a new study by data-research firm CommScan. [News.com]
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- Hotmail bug fix not a cure-all - Microsoft's free Web-based email service Hotmail last night implemented a partial fix for a JavaScript security problem. [News.com]
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- Hotmail flaw exposes passwords - Microsoft's free Web-based email provider Hotmail says it is working "feverishly" to fix a security breach that lets malicious JavaScript programmers alter the Hotmail user interface and swipe user passwords. [News.com]
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- Hotmail plugs security hole - Microsoft's Hotmail today claimed victory over the security holes that have put the free email firm on the hot seat this week. [News.com]
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- Hotmail to expand beyond U.S. - Microsoft's free email firm Hotmail is looking beyond the U.S. market to garner a huge number of new users. [News.com]
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- House clears copyright act - In a landmark move, the House passed legislation today to safeguard copyrights for music, software, and written works on the Internet and to outlaw technologies that can crack devices protecting this property. [News.com]
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- How the Web is killing DCE - A grand scheme introduced in the early 1990s as a way to link disparate computer systems is being usurped by Web technologies popularized through the Internet's ubiquity. [News.com]
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- HP exceeds estimates - Hewlett-Packard, battered by PC pricing pressures and Asia's economic woes, today surprised Wall Street by posting third-quarter earnings that were stronger than expected. [News.com]
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- HP offers $599 color-faxing device - Hewlett-Packard today introduced its newest all-in-one device that features color faxing, a novel feature and one that is not yet widely supported. [News.com]
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- HP offers stripped-down $799 PC - Continuing its effort to reach the cost-conscious customer, Hewlett-Packard today released a new series of "microtower" computers that start at $799, as well as a $2,199 400-MHz Pentium II machine with a recordable CD-ROM drive. [News.com]
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- HP rolls out new printers - Hewlett-Packard today announced new low-priced printers, as well as a DeskJet Web site to support the new products. [News.com]
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- HP rolls out speedy recordable CD - Hewlett-Packard today announced a new line of rewritable CD (CD-RW) drives, capable of reading and recording data twice as fast as previous models. [News.com]
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- HP to report profit decline - Hewlett-Packard today is expected to report a decline in third-quarter profits, marking the second consecutive quarter in which the computer giant's year-over-year profits have fallen. [News.com]
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- HP to revamp workstation line - Hewlett-Packard will refresh its Kayak PC workstation line this coming Monday with new machines that incorporate the 450-MHz Pentium II chip and come with a broader array of graphics subsystems. [News.com]
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- HP to tighten belt - A day after reporting better-than-expected third-quarter earnings, Hewlett-Packard said today that it will make every effort to keep costs down but that it is not anticipating taking any drastic measures to do so. [News.com]
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- HP workstation specs - HP Kayak XA PC Workstation • Single processor: 350-MHz, 400-MHz, or 450-MHz Pentium II • Intel 440BX AGP chipset • 64MB of memory, expandable up to 768MB • Graphics: 2D Matrox G200 graphics subsystem or Gloria Synergy+ 3-D graphics subsystem from Elsa • 4.3GB Wide Ultra ATA hard disk drive • Starting at $1,900 [News.com]
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- HP Yugoslav sales booming - Yugoslav distributor Comtrade Group said today that it almost doubled domestic sales of Hewlett-Packard computers in 1997, the best growth rate of any of the company's European agents. [News.com]
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- Hyundai: Talks with Intel off - Hyundai Group's talks with Intel on a $1.15 billion joint venture to use the Korean company's semiconductor chip plant in Scotland have broken off, Hyundai said today. [News.com]
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- IBM adds Zip to new PCs - Iomega today announced that IBM will distribute IBM-branded Zip drives for its new commercial desktop computers. [News.com]
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- IBM ends Olympic sponsorship - IBM has decided to end its 40-year sponsorship of the Olympics after the Sydney 2000 Games, a company executive said today. [News.com]
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- IBM expands deal with Comdata - IBM will announce today that it has won an expanded multiyear deal to provide computer technology services to Comdata, a top supplier of financial services to the U.S. trucking industry. [News.com]
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- IBM forms new software division - Big Blue is getting bigger. [News.com]
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- IBM hits 350 MHz with K6 box - IBM refreshed its Aptiva consumer computer line with a 450-MHz Pentium II system aimed at users itching for performance and released a more cost-conscious desktop built around the new 350-MHz K6-2 processor from Advanced Micro Devices. [News.com]
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- IBM in financial services pact - IBM said it and financial institutions in Asia have formed an interactive financial services alliance to create a secure framework for online banking in the region. [News.com]
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- IBM offers free management tool - Furthering its aim to make PC and server management more accessible for administrators, IBM released a free piece of agent software that offers more detailed information concerning the state of a machine and also allows managers to access systems via the Web. [News.com]
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- IBM readies secret weapon - IBM aims to upset the sleepy conformity of the consumer personal computer industry next week when it unveils a screaming-fast machine targeted at power-hungry PC users, industry sources said. [News.com]
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- IBM touts new chip technology - IBM unveiled a breakthrough process for building high-speed transistors that can boost the performance of computers and communications gear by up to 35 percent. [News.com]
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- IBM unveils new print systems - IBM has introduced a new generation of corporate printing systems that enable computer users to deliver print output to devices anywhere in an organization. [News.com]
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- IBM's copper chips set to ship - The world's first commercial computer chips wired with copper instead of aluminum will begin shipping tomorrow, according to IBM, which plans to market the faster, more efficient chips for use in a wide range of computers and consumer electronics. [News.com]
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- IBM, NetGravity in online ad pact - IBM today said it has entered into a marketing, service, and technology pact with online advertising software maker NetGravity, to address the online advertising needs of IBM and its customers. [News.com]
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- iDot squeezes in DVD-ROM - Startup PC manufacturer iDot announced it has started including third-generation DVD-ROM drives from Toshiba on select systems. [News.com]
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- Ilog reaps business software deals - Ilog wants to be to supply-chain software what Intel is to PCs. [News.com]
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- iMac debuts in Japan Aug. 29 - Consumers in Japan, one of Apple Computer's strongholds outside of the U.S. market, will soon be able to get their hands on the much-hyped iMac. [News.com]
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- iMac gets a Web community - Users of the new iMac, which hit store shelves on Saturday, will be able to create Web pages on a site made specifically for them. [News.com]
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- iMac hits Japan - Apple Computer delivered the iMac to the eager arms of consumers in Japan this weekend, traditionally the second biggest market for Macintosh computers. [News.com]
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- iMac in the real world - As customers continue to snap up the snazzy all-in-one computers, which hit stores last Saturday, iMacs get their first real world feedback. Many buyers claim to be replacing a Windows-based computer. In the meantime, Apple tries to crank out more machines and launches its own iMac support site--just as word of the first few minor glitches are surfacing. [News.com]
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- iMac modem trouble ISP based? - Apple Computer's new iMac just got its own site for technical support and information and is already using it to dispense advice on some minor glitches that have cropped up. [News.com]
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- iMac sales stay strong - Apple Computer's iMac has been available for little over a week now, but retailers report continuing record levels of interest in the much-hyped new system. [News.com]
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- iMac spurs new publication - On the cusp of the launch of Apple Computer's new iMac computer, a new online publication from the publishers of Macworld is scheduled to launch as well. [News.com]
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- iMac survey shows switchover signs - If trends at a California retailer bear out nationwide, the iMac may be succeeding in an area that far overshadows the machine itself: the defection of PC users to the Apple camp. [News.com]
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- India firms look to freer Net - It's not just a fashion but a serious business--that's what Internet luminaries told Indian firms that will soon face freer access to the Web as the government ends a state monopoly in September. [News.com]
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- India prepares for Net revolution - As India opens up the Internet with the end of a state communications agency monopoly, computer industry players are involving themselves in the country's first major commercial Internet conference. [News.com]
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- Indiana University to host Net2 - Indiana University will harbor the guts of Internet2's Abilene network, which will connect more than 130 universities at breakneck speeds. [News.com]
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- Informix's new strategy - Informix Software is rearranging its deck chairs to stay afloat in the slowly sinking database market. [News.com]
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- Infoseek buys Net directory firm - Looking to boost its e-commerce offerings down the road, Infoseek today acquired Internet directory service Quando for $17 million in common stock. [News.com]
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- Inprise, Sun in Java tools deal - Inprise is making powerful allies. [News.com]
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- Intel flash memory suit dismissed - Silicon Storage Technology said a patent infringement lawsuit filed against it by chipmaker Intel was dismissed by a U.S. District Court in Delaware, on the basis of jurisdiction. [News.com]
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- Intel gets cheap - PC vendors are jumping on the cheap chip bandwagon. Earlier this year, AMD made ground on Intel, but lately low-cost systems have been incorporating the Celeron, while Pentium II notebook prices have been dropping. In the future, Intel will develop an even cheaper line of StrongARM processors. [News.com]
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- Intel hit by $500 million lawsuit - A technological consulting group is seeking approximately $500 million from Intel for alleged infringement on a patent relating to a now-defunct effort to develop Pentium-class chip clone. [News.com]
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- Intel invests in two start-ups - Chip giant Intel announced that it has made more undisclosed investments in two start-up companies, Liquid Audio and Quokka Sports. [News.com]
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- Intel sees growth in Latin America - The head of U.S. microchip giant Intel said in Argentina yesterday that he saw good growth possibilities in Latin America for the industry. [News.com]
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- Intel to begin low-cost assault - Intel will make a major push into the low-cost computing arena Monday by releasing the first Celeron processors with integrated high-speed memory, a substantial change in design that will allow vendors to put a high-performance chip into a sub-$1,000 machine. [News.com]
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- Intel works to cool down Xeon - Xeon needs to chill. [News.com]
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- Intel's copper chip plans emerge - Shortly after Intel moves to its 64-bit chip architecture in the year 2000, the chip giant is expected to switch over to a copper chip design, following on the heels of such rivals as IBM. [News.com]
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- Intel's Moore relaxed about Y2K - Intel co-founder Gordon Moore said today that all major computer systems should be able to cope with the millennium, but problems could arise with non-mainstream systems. [News.com]
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- Intel: Outlook remains positive - Intel said today that it still expects to post a stronger second half of the year and that, so far, all the current signs go along with that view. [News.com]
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- Intel: Stepchild of Wintel? - If there is any sibling resentment within the Wintel family, there may be good reason for it. [News.com]
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- Interactive Web advertising pact - The Internet firm Broadcast.com has entered into an agreement for Pegasus Systems' TravelWeb service to become the exclusive full-service travel reservations provider on Broadcast.com, the companies said. [News.com]
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- Intergraph workstation specs - Intergraph TDZ 2000 GX1 ViZual Workstation • Up to two 400-MHz Pentium II Xeon processors • Intel 440GX AGP chipset • 2GB of memory, expandable to 3GB • Graphics: 2D and 3D choices, including Intense 3D and RealiZm II 3D Graphics • Wide Ultra2 SCSI hard disk drives • Starting at $4,999 [News.com]
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- InterTrade offers e-invoicing - Murphy's law of business says if something will go wrong, it will likely be with the invoice. [News.com]
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- Intuit posts improved earnings - Shares of financial software maker Intuit jumped as much as 5.2 percent this morning after the company yesterday reported improved fourth-quarter results bolstered by sales of its recently launched QuickBooks 6.0. [News.com]
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- Iomega details Nomai stock deal - Iomega said about 665,000 shares of the French company Nomai were tendered in its offer to buy the stock at 188 francs per share, or $21 million. [News.com]
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- IP may force private line cost cuts - As more and more users want broadband services delivered via the Internet protocol, or IP, the price for private line services could be forced down, according to a new study. [News.com]
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- Is Merced doomed? - Touted as a major milestone for Intel and the computer industry in general, Merced, the company's first 64-bit chip, appears to be losing its luster because of delays, performance issues, and upstaging by other processor manufacturers. [News.com]
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- Is push still dead? - When PointCast pulled its IPO last month, some thought it signaled the end of the era of overhyped push technology. [News.com]
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- Is worst over for chips? - The semiconductor industry seems to have two faces: It is still reeling from Asia's financial woes and a worldwide sales slump, but stocks in the sector are beginning to recover as a new report forecasts a rebound. [News.com]
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- ISPs amid service evolution - The term "ISP" is already becoming passe. [News.com]
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- ISPs win in phone subsidy ruling - A U.S. Appeals Court today upheld the Federal Communications Commission's massive 1997 overhaul of subsidies and charges paid by long distance carriers to local telephone companies. [News.com]
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- J.D. Edwards adds FormScape - J.D. Edwards' OneWorld enterprise resource planning software system will soon allow users to generate and print electronic forms. [News.com]
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- J.D. Edwards outshines competition - SAP may own the high-end enterprise resource planning market. But J.D. Edwards owns the middle market. [News.com]
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- Jamaica to miss Y2K deadline - Jamaica will not overcome its Year 2000 computer problems until 2004, with the private sector hardest hit by the delay in swatting the millennium bug, a government minister said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Japan PC prices head to $1,000 - Japanese consumers are following their American counterparts in opting for low-cost PCs, according to newly released market research. [News.com]
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- Japan's Windows 98 sales surge - More than 500,000 copies of Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system (OS) have been sold in Japan in the month since the Japanese-language version made its debut, according to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japan's largest business daily. [News.com]
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- Japanese war criminals testify - Four members of the "Chu-Kin-Ren," a group of Japanese war criminals, used the Internet on Sunday to broadcast their solemn, and often times emotional, testimonies about their roles in some of the most gruesome events in human history. [News.com]
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- JDA Software adds e-commerce - JDA Software is energizing its business with a new e-commerce division. [News.com]
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- JDA, Baan form joint venture - And then there was Baan. [News.com]
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- Judge says Microsoft must comply - A United States judge today ordered Microsoft to make available its chairman, Bill Gates, and 16 other top officials for deposition by government lawyers who are bringing an antitrust suit against the software giant. [News.com]
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- Judge to rule on deposition access - A federal judge said he would rule later today on whether depositions to be taken in preparation for the Microsoft antitrust case are to be open to the public. [News.com]
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- Kent warns of slimmer margins - Kent Electronics said today that it expects lower sales and orders from its contract manufacturing business to hurt gross margins in that segment, and said September shipments will determine whether the company reports a profit or loss for the second quarter of its fiscal year. [News.com]
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- Key e-rate executive resigns - The embattled e-rate initiative to wire the nation's public schools suffered another blow today as a key executive announced that he will be stepping down later this month. [News.com]
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- Key Net security hitch resolved - Mathematicians at IBM and a Swiss university say they have developed a new system of securing information against the most aggressive type of attack by computer hackers--a step seen as resolving concerns about privacy and the integrity of electronic transactions on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Landmark copyright law - In a move that may have broad industry impact in the digital age, the House approves a landmark bill already passed by the Senate to safeguard copyrights for music, software, and written works on the Internet. In addition, an amendment to the legislation will affect the way Webcasters do business. [News.com]
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- Language boosts Australia on Net - English language use has given Australia a lead over its Asia-Pacific rivals in utilizing the Internet, a senior IBM executive said today. [News.com]
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- Lawson's single focus pays off - Lawson Software's strategy of hitting middle market companies in specific industries is paying off. [News.com]
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- Learning Company stands by deal - The Learning Company said it remains committed to its previously announced $420 million deal to buy Broderbund Software. [News.com]
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- Lessig: Who will shape Net rules? - The policy debate over online regulation is no longer about whether certain rules and values will govern the Internet, according to Larry Lessig. The real question is who will set the tone for that governance--the online community, technology makers, or the government. [News.com]
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- Logility suffers in crowded market - [News.com]
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- Lotus delays groupware beta - Just more than a month after the company released the beta preview of its groupware package Notes and Domino 5.0, Lotus Development said today the public beta release will be delayed to later in the fall, bringing the fourth-quarter shipping date into question. [News.com]
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- Lotus: Notes glitch is not a bug - Lotus Development is challenging earlier reports that described a glitch in its Notes client software as a bug. [News.com]
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- LSI plunges on warning - Shares of LSI Logic fell more than 13 percent today after the company warned that it expects its third-quarter earnings to miss Wall Street's already lowered expectations. [News.com]
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- Lucent aims to expand in Asia - Lucent Technologies said today that it would expand its business in the Asia Pacific region including Japan by introducing its fast-growing data networking products and other communications software. [News.com]
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- Lucent gets acquisition green light - Lucent Technologies is poised to gobble up a large networking company in hopes of capitalizing on opportunities presented by the convergence of voice and data networks, industry analysts speculate. [News.com]
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- Lucent mum on Data Race suit - Telecommunications equipment giant Lucent Technologies today declined to comment on a patent infringement lawsuit filed against it by Data Race. [News.com]
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- Lucent revs speech software - Lucent Technologies today introduced a new speech software package and outlined a new agreement with Intel to develop remote-user business applications based on the new technology. [News.com]
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- Lucent sees flat revenues in Asia - Lucent Technologies sees flat revenues from the Asia Pacific in its fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, its regional president and chief executive officer said today. [News.com]
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- Lucent to take $145 million charge - Telecommunications equipment maker Lucent Technologies, which this year went on a buying spree of smaller networking equipment makers, plans to take a charge of $145 million related to two recent acquisitions, according to its 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [News.com]
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- Lycos acquires GuestWorld - Internet directory Lycos announced today that it has acquired GuestWorld, an online guestbook provider, for $3.9 million in stock. [News.com]
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- Lycos buys WhoWhere - Aiming to build its Net portal, Internet search provider Lycos announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Net information service WhoWhere for $133 million in stock. [News.com]
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- Lycos deals for health plan - Lycos and HealthAxis.com said they have reached agreement on a $13 million electronic commerce alliance, making HealthAxis.com the exclusive direct marketer of health insurance on Lycos. [News.com]
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- Lycos ends environment site alliance - Just three months after announcing its "innovative alliance" with environmental Web site EnviroLink, leading portal Lycos has abruptly terminated the relationship. [News.com]
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- Lycos focus: Eyeballs, not image - Image isn't everything for Lycos. [News.com]
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- Lycos gets patent for WiseWire - Lycos said today that it has received a patent for its WiseWire technology that helps in searching for information on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Lycos posts improved earnings - Lycos today reported a narrowed fourth-quarter loss, excluding one-time charges, as it pushed ahead to beat analysts' expectations. [News.com]
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- Lycos reacts to improved earnings - Shares of Lycos rose more than 5 percent today after the company yesterday reported a narrowed fourth-quarter loss, excluding one-time charges, as it pushed ahead to beat analysts' expectations. [News.com]
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- Lycos, iPrint in e-commerce deal - Lycos and online print shop iPrint.com today announced a $2.25 million, multiyear deal that makes iPrint the exclusive print shop on both Lycos and its Tripod subsidiary for several years. [News.com]
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- Macronix cools on PC market - The head of chipmaker Macronix International says the glut in Taiwan's market for PC-related integrated circuits makes him glad to be steering his company's focus elsewhere. [News.com]
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- Mad for iMac - Apple Computer continued preparations for the release of its iMac with a blitz of announcements, including early indications that there are large numbers of potential buyers waiting to plunk money down for the new computer. [News.com]
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- Malaysia arrests 2 over rumors - Malaysia has used its powerful Internal Security Act to arrest two people on suspicion of spreading rumors of riots in the capital over the Internet last week, the official Bernama news agency said. [News.com]
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- Manufacturers' 2000 plan wins OK - The Justice Department told manufacturers they could share information on resolving Year 2000 computer issues without running afoul of antitrust laws. [News.com]
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- Mapics pushes e-commerce plan - An old dog in the manufacturing automation software business is learning a new trick. [News.com]
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- Market frenzy boosts e-trades - With the stock market in significant decline--the Dow Jones Industrial Average has shed about 500 points during the last two weeks--nervous investors appear to be trading via the Internet more than ever before. [News.com]
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- Market hungry for Apple - As Apple Computer prepares to roll out its new all-in-one computer, the iMac, to stores on Saturday, anticipation for the product and its own marketing efforts appear to be paying off. However, the availability of high-end, high-margin G3 PowerBooks continues to be a problem. [News.com]
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- Market momentum doesn't last - Stocks closed only slightly higher today after jumping out of the starting gate early on, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbing as much as 123 points. [News.com]
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- Market slide hurts IPO prospects - Analysts warn that Wall Street's recent downturn could dampen enthusiasm for some upcoming initial public offerings. [News.com]
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- Market slides then settles - The stock market shaved some of its losses today, one day after suffering its worst single-day decline of the year. QUOTE SNAPSHOTDecember 31, 1999, 1:08 p.m. PT DOW JONES INDUS. AVG INDU9181.43 -93.21 -1.00% NASDAQ COMPOSITE INDEX CCMP2192.69 +25.74 +1.19% S&P 500 INDEX SPX1229.23 -2.70 -0.22% > more from CNET InvestorQuotes delayed 20+ minutes [News.com]
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- Market turns lower again - The Dow Jones Industrials closed lower today after having fallen as much as 50.46 points earlier in the day, and were unable to sustain a turnaround from last Tuesday's 299-point big decline. [News.com]
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- Marketing iMac devices in Japan - Apple Japan, the Japanese unit of Apple Computer, said today that 48 peripheral support devices from 16 firms would be marketed in Japan for iMac, its new desktop computer. [News.com]
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- Markets fall on Asian fears - The Dow Jones Industrial Average stumbled and fell more than 200 points today on fears that the Asian financial crisis will be prolonged after Japan's yen slumped to eight-year lows against the dollar. [News.com]
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- Markets plunge on Russia turmoil - Stocks on Wall Street plunged today, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 357.36 points, or 4.62 percent, as investors grew fearful that Russia's economic and political turmoil would linger longer than anticipated. [News.com]
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- Markets rally after Clinton speech - Stocks extended their rally into a second straight day today amid receding worries over the White House sex scandal. [News.com]
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- Markets recover in early trading - Wall Street stocks, which took their worst beating of the year yesterday, rose slightly early this morning after an initial plunge of more than 70 points. [News.com]
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- Markets slide on profit worries - U.S. stocks fell today, hit by worries that a further slide in the yen and a slowing domestic economy will put more pressure on corporate earnings. [News.com]
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- Masterminding the mail - As email becomes increasingly crucial, commercial providers like Microsoft and Netscape are battling software bugs and having a tough time cracking the ISP and telco market. [News.com]
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- McDonald's beefs up smart cards - In a boost to smart cards in Europe and possibly elsewhere, more than 870 McDonald's restaurants in Germany are installing smart-card terminals so visitors can download electronic cash onto smart cards, then spend it at the fast-food outlet and elsewhere. [News.com]
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- MCI to sell stake in Concert - MCI Communications reported that it reached an agreement to sell its 24.9 percent equity stake in Concert Communications Services to British Telecommunications for $1 billion. [News.com]
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- MediaOne's broadband success - One of the leading "pure plays" in broadband became a standalone company only two months ago: MediaOne Group. [News.com]
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- Mentor wants to acquire Quickturn - Software maker Mentor Graphics today launched an unsolicited cash tender offer for Quickturn Design Systems for $216 million, or $12.125 a share. [News.com]
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- Mexican hackers speak out - They have plastered the face of revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata on the Finance Ministry's Web site and claim to have monitored visits by senators to X-rated Internet salons. [News.com]
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- Mexican telco eyes U.S. market - Telmex, the former Mexican telephone monopoly now facing U.S. competitors at home, is set to turn the tables on its northern rivals by offering long distance phone service in the United States. [News.com]
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- Micron revs middle-tier PC push - Micron Electronics kicked off a new marketing push and a comprehensive financing program designed to give the company a stronger personality with the growing middle-tier of the market and putting it up against direct-seller Gateway, which has been a leader in this market. [News.com]
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- Microsoft beefs up NT security - Aiming to expand its business with federal agencies, Microsoft will boost security for Windows NT by supporting FIPS 140-1 and Fortezza, two key cryptographic standards for federal government users. [News.com]
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- Microsoft brands itself to WebTV - The Microsoft brand name already is displayed somewhere on most desktop PCs, and now it is showing up on TV--WebTV, that is. [News.com]
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- Microsoft buys Valence Research - Microsoft today said it acquired fault tolerance software developer Valence Research for an undisclosed amount to extend its NT clustering capabilities. [News.com]
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- Microsoft cools buyout pace - Despite Microsoft's announcement today that it has purchased Valence Research, the software giant has greatly slowed the pace of its acquisitions during the past two years as compared with the pace of its investments. [News.com]
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- Microsoft database loses records - Developers are furious over a flaw discovered in Microsoft's Access database that could cause a loss of data and scrambled records. [News.com]
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- Microsoft discussed Windows bug - In 1991, when a competitor threatened to break Microsoft's lock on desktop software, Microsoft engineers discussed an unusual counterattack: a software bug to be hidden inside an early version of Microsoft Windows, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Microsoft eases software rentals - In a bid to boost the short-term rentals of software over the Net, Microsoft has released a new version of its software for ISPs and phone carriers offering Internet access, email, and Web hosting. [News.com]
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- Microsoft mints Money 99 - Microsoft said today that it will roll out its Money 99 Financial Suite this month, featuring personalized financial planning tools and further connectivity with investment institutions that host online services. [News.com]
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- Microsoft moves to dismiss - In its most detailed defense yet, Microsoft today refuted the government's broad antitrust case against it by arguing that its actions benefit consumers and urging a judge to dismiss the matter altogether. [News.com]
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- Microsoft on Java: "Sun agreed" - A key Microsoft executive reiterated that the software giant has complied with its Sun Microsystems contract for using the Java programming language. [News.com]
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- Microsoft plans Singapore center - Software giant Microsoft said today that it would establish a regional operations center in Singapore, generating about $58 million in manufacturing and other spending annually. [News.com]
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- Microsoft rebuts DOJ in filing - Contending that the source code for Windows 98 is "the software equivalent to the formula for Coca-Cola," Microsoft today argued why it should be allowed to deliver that code to the Justice Department on its own terms, not anyone else's. [News.com]
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- Microsoft seeks summary ruling - Microsoft on Monday is expected to file a motion to dismiss all or key parts of the antitrust lawsuit filed against the software giant by the Justice Department and 20 states, sources said today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft steps up NT efforts - It's official. [News.com]
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- Microsoft sweetens own java deal - Microsoft is embracing java these days--but not the well-known programming language. [News.com]
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- Microsoft teams on Web TV plan - German telecommunications group Deutsche Telekom and Microsoft plan to enter jointly the market for Internet television, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Microsoft trial delay likely - Microsoft and government officials have agreed to a two-week delay in what will be one of the most closely watched antitrust trials in history. [News.com]
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- Microsoft trial delayed - The trial for the government's antitrust suit against Microsoft will begin September 23, not September 8 as originally planned, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson said today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft updates DirectX tools - Microsoft is giving multimedia and game developers an easier way to program on Windows today in releasing its software development kit for the DirectX 6.0 technology. [News.com]
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- Microsoft wants case dismissed - Microsoft on Monday is expected to file a motion aimed at dismissing all or key parts of the antitrust lawsuit filed against the software giant by the Justice Department and 20 states. [News.com]
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- Microsoft warns of false fix - The ongoing turmoil caused by a security hole in Microsoft Outlook 98 and Outlook Express 4.x messaging client continued today, as the company said it posted a new patch for problem but warned that someone is emailing users a false fix for the issue. [News.com]
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- Microsoft's dilemma: Invest or acquire? - Perhaps in an effort to lower its profile as it fights off antitrust lawsuits from both the federal government and attorneys general from 20 states, Microsoft seems to be concentrating on strategic investments these days, curbing its acquisition fever of just a few years earlier. [News.com]
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- Microsoft's new college curriculum - As college students get ready to return to school, Microsoft is unleashing a broad initiative to push its software on campus computers nationwide. [News.com]
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- Microsoft's war on Java detailed - Microsoft's Java jihad against Sun Microsystems began in May 1996 with the announcement of JavaBeans, a Microsoft executive said in a court declaration. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, DOJ to go before judge - Microsoft and the Justice Department will appear before U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson on Wednesday to discuss differences over pretrial testimony. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, HP team on e-commerce - The e-commerce outsourcing train has left the station, with Microsoft and a handful of friends seated comfortably and firmly on board. [News.com]
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- More trouble seen in Tuesday market - Like a bad hangover, the market is likely to cause investors more pain the morning after. [News.com]
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- Most Asia banks seen as bugproof - Asia's banks could prove the only bright spot on a slim list of industries prepared to deal with a potentially harrowing computer glitch, government officials and analysts say. [News.com]
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- Motorola boosts paging chip - Motorola announced today a new chip that combines paging communications technology with a processor in a bid to boost its fortunes in the market for smart information appliances. [News.com]
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- Motorola dials in voice activation - Motorola formed a new business unit called the Internet and Connectivity Services Division (ICSD), focused on developing and providing integrated mobile communication and information services. [News.com]
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- Motorola joins set-top fray - Motorola next month will unveil a mini-computerized set-top box that sits atop a television and is said to provide a vast array of services including Internet access to movies on demand. [News.com]
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- MRV drops nearly 53% on warning - MRV Communications saw its stock drop 52.61 percent in trading today, one day after it warned that it expects its third-quarter revenues and income to be lower than those posted for its second quarter due to weaker demand for its high-speed optical networks and delays in introducing the next generation of those networks. [News.com]
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- MSN suffers email outage - Spammers aren't the only ones the Microsoft Network has been blocking since it spam-proofed its servers. [News.com]
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- N2K restructures label, cuts costs - Online music entertainment company N2K said today it would take a charge ranging from $5 million to $7 million to restructure its record label, N2K Encoded Music. [News.com]
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- N2K tries multifaceted promotion - The search for a formula to make money selling music on the Net got a boost today by Net music firm N2K. [News.com]
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- National Semi leads chip downturn - In another sign that recovery remains elusive for the chipmaking industry, a profit warning yesterday by National Semiconductor, followed by a downgrade this morning for chip giant Intel, sent the semiconductor sector on a downward trajectory. [News.com]
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- National starts making Cyrix chips - National Semiconductor has begun to ship samples of microprocessors based on the manufacturing standard currently employed for other cutting-edge PC processors, a technological step forward that will allow the company to catch up to competitors Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. [News.com]
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- NBC invests in Intertainer - NBC today made another move to increase its Internet interests, taking a 6 percent stake in Intertainer, a company that has created on-demand video entertainment and shopping services that will be available to consumers via PCs or television sets beginning this month. [News.com]
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- NEC cuts chip investment - NEC said today it will cut its capital investment for semiconductors to 150 billion yen from a planned 180 billion yen, due to a weak chip market. [News.com]
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- NEC wilts on chip, PC sales woes - Shares in NEC languished for the fifth consecutive session today, hitting a 22-month low amid worries over its loss-making U.S. PC unit and weak chip prices, analysts said. [News.com]
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- Net bookseller goes to college - As the major players concentrate on killing each other off in the online bookselling battle, a new challenger is setting its sights on a niche market aimed at college students. [News.com]
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- Net brokerages cope with plunge - Online brokerage firms say they are easily handling the double-digit increase in trading traffic today, which followed a more-than-350-point plunge in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. [News.com]
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- Net brokerages unfazed by drop - Online brokerages said today that they are managing to handle the trading traffic brought on by today's stock market plunge. [News.com]
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- Net calls: Local or interstate? - BellSouth said it asked a U.S. federal court to allow the Federal Communications Commission to resolve questions regarding the nature of telephone calls made to Internet service providers. [News.com]
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- Net firms mix sex, stock quotes - Online investors are no doubt tired of watching their stocks tank, so a new site plans to offer a distraction: sex. [News.com]
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- Net gambling crackdown in N.Y. - A New York online gambling firm is at the center of state and federal crackdowns on Internet companies charged with illegal activity and deception. [News.com]
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- Net investment still exceeds return - U.S. firms will invest $124 billion in the "Internet Economy" this year--and for every $1.50 they invest, they'll get back $1, according to a study by International Data Corporation. [News.com]
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- Net marketing firms merge - Interactive advertising firm Agency.com said it was merging with Eagle River Interactive to form the world's largest agency specializing in marketing on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Net metrics inching along - Web audience measurements have become the golden fleece of the Internet, the underlying fabric behind the way companies spin eyeballs into revenues. [News.com]
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- Net outlet for Northern Ireland - An online book of condolences for victims of the bomb in the Northern Ireland town of Omagh opened on the Internet today and messages have arrived from as far away as Australia and Canada. [News.com]
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- Net protest can't save Mr. Toad - A Net protest meant to change the hearts and minds of executives at the Walt Disney Company has come up short. [News.com]
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- Net reacts to Clinton testimony - As President Clinton delivers his testimony before a grand jury on the subject of his alleged relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, the Internet's citizen army of prognosticators and jokesters is weighing in on the scandal and its latest, extraordinary development. [News.com]
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- Net retailers gear up for holidays - In the lazy days of summer, online retailers are already preparing feverishly for what they hope will be the biggest holiday shopping season ever on the Net. [News.com]
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- Net spending has corporate focus - The focus of spending on Internet technologies remains on use of the information flows between companies and within companies, despite enormous potential for trade and retailing, an industry expert said today. [News.com]
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- Net store eyes office supply market - In an attempt to repeat the Amazon miracle, a new company is bringing a virtual office supply store to the Web. [News.com]
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- Net tax debate heats up - The Internet will simplify a lot of things in life, but don't count on the country's unwieldy tax system being one of them. [News.com]
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- Net traders weather storm - Online brokerage firms said they generally managed to handle the double-digit increase in trading traffic today, despite a plunge of more than 500 points in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the largest single-day point drop for the Nasdaq. [News.com]
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- Netcenter banks on Citibank - Citibank said it has teamed up with Netscape Communications to help advance its goal of reaching 1 billion customers by the year 2010. [News.com]
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- NetObjects acquires a Lotus tool - NetObjects has added to its Web tool collection, courtesy of Lotus Development. [News.com]
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- Netscape finds groupware niche - Netscape Communications is diving deeper into the corporate computing pool with the release tomorrow of a new application that pits the company against groupware makers Lotus Development and Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Netscape reacts to profit news - Shares of Netscape Communications retreated from an earlier rise this morning after the company announced yesterday that it had eked out a $88,000 profit for the third fiscal quarter in posting its earnings yesterday, citing "strong momentum" in its enterprise software and Web site businesses. [News.com]
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- Netscape scores e-commerce deal - Forget the courtroom. [News.com]
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- Netscape subpoena part of rising trend - A move by Microsoft to obtain internal online postings at rival Netscape Communications is raising new questions about the role of electronic correspondence in legal cases. [News.com]
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- Netscape to set up Asian Netcenter - Netscape Communications intends to set up an Asian Netcenter by the end of this year, chief executive officer James Barksdale said today. [News.com]
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- Netscape up on deals, COO - Netscape Communications' stock jumped nearly 25 percent today as Wall Street reacted positively to several announcements by--and much speculation about--the Internet software company. [News.com]
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- Netscape updates Communicator - Netscape Communications is calling its latest Communicator update a "maintenance release," but the new version is more of a sneak preview of the company's anticipated 4.5 product. [News.com]
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- NetTV packs more into home system - NetTV today announced its new low-cost digital entertainment system for home users, an all-digital system packing in a DVD player and PC technology for under $3,000. [News.com]
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- NetValue cancels IPO plans - NetValue pulled its plans to go public and said that it will instead try to find new investors in a private deal being brokered by its new CEO. [News.com]
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- Network Associates merger review delayed - Network Associates and CyberMedia said they had voluntarily withdrawn and then resubmitted merger reporting forms to the Justice Department, extending the initial 15-day waiting period for review of their proposed merger. [News.com]
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- New 256 megabit flash memory chip - Mitsubishi Electric said today that it had developed a new 256-megabit flash memory chip jointly with Hitachi. [News.com]
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- New Apple G3 computers coming - Apple Computer has officially released four new G3 desktop systems and some resellers are already taking orders for an unannounced G3 desktop with a 366-MHz processor. [News.com]
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- New bugs plague free emailers - Just as Microsoft's Hotmail cleans up after a widely publicized security problem, free email providers across the Web are struggling to plug a host of similar, newly recognized holes. [News.com]
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- New chapter in book wars - The bookselling market continues its evolution on Internet time, shifting again with Barnes & Noble's announcement that it would spin off its online unit in an IPO, much to Wall Street's delight. Bertelsmann plans to enter the business as well, while Amazon.com has yet to turn a profit. [News.com]
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- New chips heat up industry - A whole slew of new computers will be announced today. Some are based on Intel's fastest Pentium II processor, some based on the new integrated Celeron chip. [News.com]
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- New enemy rises against e-rate - The government's ambitious but embattled program to wire the nation's schools and libraries encountered new opposition today, this time from a Net campaign by a powerful lobbying group. [News.com]
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- New face for Net security? - Remembering computer passwords may become a thing of the past. [News.com]
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- New group formed for online ads - The major constituencies in the Internet advertising industry--advertisers, Web publishers, ad agencies, and technology suppliers--have banded together in a series of initiatives designed to boost online advertising. [News.com]
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- New IBM PCs aim high and low - IBM will refresh its Aptiva consumer computer line this Thursday with the release of Cobra, a high-end Pentium II Aptiva system for users with an itch for performance and style, as well as a more cost-conscious computer built around the upcoming 350-MHz K6-2 processor from Advanced Micro Devices. [News.com]
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- New Intel chip drives prices lower - The $500 Intel-based computer is coming, possibly as early as Tuesday. [News.com]
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- New Intel chips raise stakes - Celeron is charting its comeback. [News.com]
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- New ISP recovers from glitch - A+Net, a California Internet service provider, yesterday announced the test launch of an Internet telephone service that will enable customers in four U.S. cities to make long distance calls at very low rates. [News.com]
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- New package for Pentium II - Starting in the fourth quarter, Intel will begin to deliver the Pentium II processor in a new package that will allow it to push chip speeds to 500 MHz and beyond. [News.com]
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- New Pentium II, Celeron lines - PC makers are expected to announce their new Celeron and the fastest Pentium II desktop systems yet today, timed to arrive with Intel's introduction of the new and improved low-cost processor and its newest Pentium II processor. [News.com]
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- New Pentium II, Celeron PCs here - As expected, PC makers today announced their new Celeron systems and the fastest Pentium II systems yet, in concert with the arrival of Intel's new and improved low-cost processor and its newest Pentium II processor. [News.com]
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- New security glitch for Hotmail - Security-minded programmers are finding holes in Microsoft's Hotmail faster than the free Web-based email service can plug them. [News.com]
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- New wave of thin notebooks coming - The next wave of ultralight notebook computers is being readied for market, as companies such as Compaq, Gateway, and Micron target a growing market segment currently dominated by IBM. [News.com]
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- New wireless technology in Germany - The German government's telecommunications agency today disclosed plans to issue licenses for a new generation of wireless technology for local phone services aimed at increasing competition with Deutsche Telekom. [News.com]
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- News sites flooded after bombings - As the United States carried out antiterrorist missile strikes against targets in Afghanistan and Sudan today, the servers of Internet news outlets endured a punishing attack of their own from news-hungry Netizens. [News.com]
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- Next-gen Net consulting - A new generation of Internet consulting firms is emerging, each aiming to take advantage of the Net to become the next EDS or Andersen Consulting. [News.com]
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- Nintendo cancels satellite plan - Japanese video-game company Nintendo has canceled a plan to send video games and other data direct to homes via satellite, due to wrangling with a broadcast affiliate. [News.com]
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- No progress in US West strike - US West said a Utah judge issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting union workers from picketing at the regional telephone company's buildings in Utah as a strike ended its first week. [News.com]
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- No quick fix for Year 2000 bug - The race to fix the millennium bug in computers has become easier with high-speed technologies, but there is no wonder cure, the India head of a leading software firm said today. [News.com]
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- No respite for Applied Materials - When Applied Materials reported its earnings this week, it became the latest reminder that the semiconductor industry is hardly out of the woods. [News.com]
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- No slowdown in sight for Onsale - Online auctioneer Onsale will continue to see rapid growth in sales and customers, chief executive Jerry Kaplan predicted today at BancAmerica Robertson Stephens' New Millennium Conference in San Francisco. [News.com]
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- Nokia invests in GPS firm - SiRF Technology, a developer of global positioning system technology, today announced a strategic alliance with cellular phone giant Nokia, which has made a $3 million investment in the company. [News.com]
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- Norton fix coming Monday - A patch is on the way for a bug in Symantec's Norton Utilities, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Norton upgrades for Windows 98 - Symantec will introduce the latest version of its popular antivirus suite next week, the first of its Norton utilities for Windows 98 users. [News.com]
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- Novell makes Y2K upgrades free - In response to dissatisfied customers, networking powerhouse Novell has changed its upgrade policy for making a version of its software Year 2000 compliant. [News.com]
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- Novell plans NetWare 5.0 release - Network software provider Novell finalized plans today for the release of one of the most anticipated operating system updates in the company's history. [News.com]
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- Novell primed for growth, rebound - Having proven with its latest quarterly earnings report that it can cut costs, Novell is now tackling the other half of the rebound equation--revenue growth. [News.com]
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- Novell settles with former programmers - Networking software maker Novell has reached a legal settlement with a rogue crew of former programmers who allegedly stole trade secrets from the firm. [News.com]
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- NSI ready for competition - U.S.-based Network Solutions said today it is ready to face competition once it loses its monopoly in the registration of popular Internet domains ".com," ".org," and ".net." [News.com]
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- NT 5.0 enters second test round - Microsoft will release the second test version of its Windows NT 5.0 Workstation and Server operating system this week in Seattle, according to sources close to the company. [News.com]
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- Nuke plants prepare for Y2K - As many organizations today mark the 500th day before January 1, 2000, one government agency is preparing to raise its level of effort--the nuclear power industry is warning that plants will be shut down if they don't meet the deadline for Y2K compliance. [News.com]
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- Oblix readies software update - Intranet software start-up Oblix plans to roll out, later in the month, new versions of its corporate resource management software packages which help users organize and simplify business changes and the task of providing corporate services. [News.com]
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- Odetics patent ruling overturned - Odetics, a supplier of communications equipment for the television broadcast, video security, telecommunications, and intelligent traffic solutions markets, said today the judge in its case against Storage Technology has overturned the $70.6 million jury verdict previously awarded to Odetics. [News.com]
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- Office 2000 to ship next year - Microsoft executives today said they expect to ship Office 2000, a new version of the company's business application suite, in the first quarter of next year, months after analysts expected it to hit shelves. [News.com]
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- Olympic committee ends IBM pact - The International Olympic Committee said Friday it cut ties with 38-year sponsorship partner IBM because Big Blue's payment demands would have been financially devastating. [News.com]
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- Online billing for utilities - U.S. utilities could save $1.2 billion in billing costs by using electronic bill presentment and payment, according to an upcoming study. [News.com]
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- Online riot rumors stir Malaysia - The Malaysian government said today that police had traced the source of embarrassing rumors spread over the Internet that riots had broken out in the capital. [News.com]
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- Open Market updates Web tools - Three months after buying ICentral, e-commerce software vendor Open Market has released a new version of ICentral's tools for building Web storefronts. [News.com]
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- Oracle database emphasizes Net - Not that it will surprise anyone, but Oracle says it has seen the future of business computing, and it's on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Oracle exec now Netscape COO - Shares of Netscape Communications rose sharply today as Wall Street reacted to its announcement that it had named a new chief operating officer, as well as to growing expectations of a strong third quarter and talk of an alliance with Citicorp, analysts said. [News.com]
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- Oracle offers Year 2000 software - Oracle, the world's largest maker of database software, is unveiling a group of software programs to help midsized companies ready their computers for the turn of the century. [News.com]
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- Oracle shifts apps, database units - Oracle continued the organizational shuffle this week to further bolster its applications business and draw a solid partition between the division and its database business. [News.com]
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- Oracle to acquire Versatility - Oracle is upping the ante in the high stakes enterprise resource planning game with a $12 million bet on Versatility, a maker of front-office call center management software. [News.com]
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- Oracle to lease space over Net - Looking to utilize its expertise in building sophisticated software infrastructure for corporations, Oracle disclosed that it soon will offer a new outsourcing service for small and medium-sized businesses that do not want to handle their computing needs in-house. [News.com]
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- Oracle's tight grip on the database - Microsoft may own the operating system but Oracle is refusing to let its archrival own the database. [News.com]
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- Oracle: Not affected by Asian woes - Database software maker Oracle said today that its business had not been affected by the Asian financial turmoil. [News.com]
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- Outsourcing's hot, but no cash cow - SAP's doing it. Oracle's doing it. Even PeopleSoft's doing it. [News.com]
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- Oxford dictionary adds Net terms - Spam. Gates. Digerati. Infobahn. [News.com]
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- PalmPilot to get thinner, faster - The next generation of 3Com's PalmPilot will offer improved handwriting recognition, a slimmer design, and a faster processor, industry sources confirmed today. [News.com]
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- PanAmSat can't explain outage - PanAmSat said today that a broad investigation into its recent satellite problems was completed, but that it still could not explain the complete failure of one spacecraft that knocked out pager service across the United States in May. [News.com]
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- Panasonic set to ship HDTV - This week, Panasonic will begin shipping high-definition televisions (HDTVs), next-generation TVs that are capable of displaying high-resolution digital television broadcasts. [News.com]
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- Papers want Gates's testimony - Two U.S. newspapers are trying to gain access to the deposition to be given by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates in connection with the government antitrust suit against the world's leading software company. [News.com]
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- Paramount puts top flicks on DVD - Paramount's home video division said it will premiere a new line of movies on digital video disc (DVD) in October, with ten hits led by Star Trek: First Contact and Face/Off. [News.com]
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- Patent could push firms' buttons - Major Internet companies using "push" technology to broadcast information on the Internet may be headed for trouble thanks to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. [News.com]
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- Patent suit paints broad brush - Twenty-six semiconductor companies, including Intel, a division of Advanced Micro Devices, VLSI, and Texas Instruments have been named as defendants in a controversial patent infringement lawsuit that, in different forms and actions, has generated close to $500 million for its plaintiff. [News.com]
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- Patenting the Internet - A U.S. Court of Appeals recently ruled that it is legitimate to patent ways of conducting high-tech business, making a few firms happy but potentially creating big headaches for many other Internet shopkeepers. Will legal protection for budding business practices help or hinder the new economy? [News.com]
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- PC makers ready new Celeron lines - PC makers are expected to announce their new Celeron and the fastest Pentium II desktop systems yet Monday, timed to arrive with Intel's introduction of the new and improved low-cost processor and its newest Pentium II processor. [News.com]
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- PC makers see silver lining - Despite across-the-board weakness on Wall Street this morning, several personal computer makers are managing to hold on to slight gains. [News.com]
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- Pentium II portables below $2,000 - Just as last year saw the rise of the sub-$1,000 PC in the desktop market, this year is witnessing a similar phenomenon in notebooks: A spate of sub-$2,000 notebooks with the newest mobile Pentium II processors. [News.com]
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- Pentium II prices inch up - Prices on older Pentium II processors have inched up in the past two weeks as Intel begins concentrating production on faster versions of the Pentium II and on new low-cost Celeron chips. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft plays front office field - PeopleSoft is playing the front office field, and still isn't making any real commitments to expand its offerings beyond the back office. [News.com]
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- Pioneer aims for No. 1 in DVDs - Japan's Pioneer Electronic said today that it aims for group sales of $8.4 billion in fiscal 2005-06 and aims to become the No. 1 company in the global market for digital video discs. [News.com]
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- Pioneer joins cable TV alliance - Japan's Pioneer Electronic said today that it had joined hands with Canal Plus of France and U.S. firms C-Cube Microsystems and DiviCom to develop an advanced digital cable TV system. [News.com]
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- Pitney delivers documents online - Postage meter giant Pitney Bowes is jumping into the business of secure online document delivery, entering a market already targeted by United Parcel Service. [News.com]
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- Pitney pushes Net postage meters - Pitney Bowes, which dominates the market for postage meters in the physical world, is moving to license its computer-based postage metering patents to vendors of digital mailing services. [News.com]
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- Platinum to buy Memco Software - Software vendor Platinum Technology is expanding its reach into the corporate data security market. [News.com]
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- Pointcast changes HP's mind - On Monday, PointCast is expected to announce that Hewlett-Packard has had a change of heart. [News.com]
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- PointCast founder plans new firm - PointCast cofounder Chris Hassett is quietly proceeding with plans to launch a New York-based Internet start-up dubbed PrizePoint Entertainment that focuses on Net entertainment programming. [News.com]
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- Portable's new identity - Portable Software is changing its identity. [News.com]
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- Portals offer alternative gateways - Even on a new medium, the old tenets of consumer marketing are being adopted by the big players. [News.com]
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- Portugal divests from Web service - After nearly two weeks of protest over the Portuguese government's decision to temporarily shut down a Web hosting service, the government decided to divest itself of the service, according to people protesting the move. [News.com]
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- Pouncing on the iMac - Apple Computer's iMac computer arrived at stores and resellers Saturday, with pent-up demand turning into a flurry of sales after the company announced a large number of advance orders for the snazzy consumer system. [News.com]
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- Powerful notebooks get cheaper - A number of major vendors have been pushing Pentium II-based notebooks under the $2,000 mark of late, but Gateway is the first to approach this price with both a Pentium II chip and a gigantic, high-quality 14.1-inch LCD screen. [News.com]
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- Priceline.com appoints new CEO - E-commerce firm Priceline.com tapped former Citicorp president Richard Braddock as its new chairman and chief executive officer, hoping a big name with extensive experience in brick-and-mortar businesses can help the company take off. [News.com]
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- Primeon offers Y2K analysis tool - Burlington, Massachusetts-based Primeon, a distributed application conversion systems provider, today rolled out a new Year 2000 bug remediation tools and services package for auditing previously converted code. [News.com]
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- Priorities straight for Bay - Bay Networks will hop on a rapidly emerging management software trend next week in a series of upcoming moves that seek to make it easier for network managers to allocate bandwidth and prioritize application traffic across their layouts. [News.com]
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- Profits expected for AOL - Wall Street expects America Online to post a fourth-quarter profit tomorrow and to focus growth in e-commerce transactions and subscribers. [News.com]
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- Programmers protest with code - When ordinary citizens have a gripe, they might write a letter to their congressional representative or to the editor of their local newspaper. When programmers have a gripe, they write code. [News.com]
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- PSINet to acquire Japanese ISP - PSINet, one of the largest independent commercial Internet service providers, continued its global expansion efforts with an announcement today that it has moved to acquire Rimnet, a Japanese commercial ISP serving businesses and dial-up customers. [News.com]
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- Public sector trails in Y2K fixes - Despite growing criticism and oversight by federal and state legislators, the public sector's computer systems continue to be less prepared for the Year 2000 than those in the private sector, according to a study released today. [News.com]
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- Putting Office 2000 to the test - The general release is expected a little later than originally thought, but Microsoft is ready to put its Office 2000 desktop application package to the test. [News.com]
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- QAD warns of net loss - QAD Software caught a slight sniffle from the Asian flu and the software firm is feeling a bit of a new millennium hangover as customers mull over their plans for the century date change. [News.com]
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- QAD, American, SSA struggling - The midsize manufacturing software market is taking a tumble as some software giants start stomping on its territory. [News.com]
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- Quark sales up 23% - Publishing software developer Quark seems to have become quite brazen of late. [News.com]
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- Quark says bid for Adobe rebuffed - Quark disclosed that last week it had proposed to purchase larger rival Adobe Systems, but Adobe dismissed the offer, which Quark described as a premium-priced cash bid. [News.com]
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- Quark says bid for Adobe rebuffed - Quark disclosed that last week it had proposed to purchase larger rival Adobe Systems, but Adobe dismissed the offer, which Quark described as a premium-priced cash bid. [News.com]
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- Quickturn nixes Mentor offer - Quickturn Design Systems, a maker of design-testing products for multimedia, computing, and communications systems, said today that it has rejected Mentor Graphics' unsolicited $216 million bid. [News.com]
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- R/3 users get good news - Users of SAP's R/3 business application software got some good news on several fronts today. [News.com]
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- Radio features at center of Net law - Net broadcaster Imagine Radio today relaunched its service with controversial features it acquired from its recent merger with music technology firm Silver Island. [News.com]
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- RCN strategy starting to pay off - RCN's strategy is beginning to pay off. Since August, when the new-generation telecommunications carrier reported strong second-quarter results, its shares have moved higher despite a turbulent market. [News.com]
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- RealNetworks goes into training - Dublin-based software company CBT Group said it had formed a strategic alliance with U.S. firm RealNetworks to work together on the development of new interactive training solutions. [News.com]
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- Recordable CD drives for Gateway - Gateway will begin offering recordable CD drives on its home, small office, and business line of desktop computers. [News.com]
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- RedCreek to refresh VPN offerings - Security hardware firm RedCreek Communications is set to refresh its Ravlin line of virtual private network (VPN) offerings today, upgrading its crypto cards, management software, and software for remote users. [News.com]
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- Redmond fights access issue - Microsoft lawyers today reiterated their concern that the presence of the press and public at pretrial depositions for the landmark antitrust lawsuit against the company would turn into "a media circus, causing both delay and disruption." [News.com]
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- Report: Wait on NT 5.0 - Technology industry pundits continue to predict more delays before the final delivery of an upgrade to Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. [News.com]
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- Revenues rise for AOL - Fueled by a rise in advertising and e-commerce revenues, in addition to stronger-than-expected membership growth, America Online today soundly beat analysts' fourth-quarter earnings estimates. [News.com]
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- Rises and falls of tech stocks - It's been a tumultuous week for markets worldwide, and tech issues in particular have found their fortunes tied to the daily roller-coaster ride. CheckFree is in a free-fall as it warns its fiscal 1999 revenues will come up short; GeoCities sees that even a 200-point slide in the Dow couldn't deflate its much-anticipated IPO; and Adobe feels the consequences of skittish investors as it imposes layoffs and watches its stock dive. [News.com]
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- Royal banks on $99 handheld - Royal has announced the daVinci series of palm-sized organizers, a line of simple, low-cost Personal Digital Assistants that harken back to the early PalmPilot. [News.com]
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- Russia adds to market anxiety - Chaos in Russian markets coming on top of Asia's financial crisis heightened fears of worldwide recession and bruised U.S. stocks today. [News.com]
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- S3's inexplicable spike - S3 shares jumped 21 percent yesterday on an announcement that its graphic chips will be used in Compaq's new Armada 7400 series computers. But was the spike an overreaction by investors? [News.com]
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- Samsung to produce for Rambus - Chipmaker Samsung Electronics said today it had completed development of the 64-megabit Rambus memory module and was set to begin mass-producing the device. [News.com]
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- SAP lists on NYSE - German enterprise application software maker SAP today made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "SAP," and headed straight downward to 59.5 on volume of 1.2 million shares. Shares of SAP stood at 60.12 shortly after the stock was listed. [News.com]
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- SAP sees American gains - German software group SAP said today that it expected a clear increase in its market share in the United States in the next few years. [News.com]
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- Satellite firm adds content partner - Satellite television broadcasting service EchoStar today signed on its first content partner as part of its new strategy to deliver broadband interactive content such as news, weather, and shopping links using its satellite network. [News.com]
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- Saudis ready local Net access - When Yasir, an 18-year-old Saudi college student, ran up a bill of 2,000 riyals--that's $530 in the United States--dialing up the Internet on international phone lines, his parents told him he would have to start paying. [News.com]
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- Saudis to get local Net access - Saudis will finally be able to get local access to the Internet by the end of 1998, but they will have to do so through firewalls put in place by authorities to bar access to sites deemed offensive. [News.com]
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- SCI Systems slides on warning - Pressure on personal computer makers to cut costs as Asia's crisis bites prompted SCI Systems to warn Wall Street about weaker near-term profits, sending its stock tumbling today. [News.com]
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- Seagate names COO in reorg - Seagate Technology, the top maker of computer disk drives, said today that it has appointed industry veteran William Watkins as chief operating officer and that it will reorganize some of its units. [News.com]
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- Seagate to pay for Shugart ouster - Seagate Technology, the world's biggest disk drive maker, said today it expects to take a charge of between $8 million and $10 million in the current quarter because of a separation agreement with its chief executive Alan Shugart, who the company fired in July. [News.com]
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- SEC issues Y2K moratorium - The Securities and Exchange Commission announced yesterday a moratorium on implementation of its new rules requiring the securities industry to undergo major year 2000 reprogramming of its computer systems. [News.com]
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- SEC issues Y2K moratorium - The Securities and Exchange Commission announced yesterday a moratorium on implementation of its new rules requiring the securities industry to undergo major year 2000 reprogramming of its computer systems. [News.com]
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- SEC probes space site - Stock regulators have accused a San Diego company that announced over the Internet that it planned to launch an unmanned spacecraft to an asteroid near Earth of making claims that were out of this world. [News.com]
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- SEC puts investment info online - The Securities and Exchange Commission has created an Internet version of the "Financial Facts Tool Kit" on its Web site to educate Americans on making wise investment choices, the agency said. [News.com]
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- Sendmail posts fix for email glitch - The slew of email program security holes found in recent weeks is prompting one of the leading makers of server-based routing software to develop its own solution to the problem. [News.com]
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- Service helps target email ads - Web maintenance and promotion service AtWeb today launched a new service that allows site managers to send targeted email messages to members. [News.com]
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- SGI unveils data mining tool - Silicon Graphics is diving deeper into the data warehousing pool with a new version of its data mining tool. [News.com]
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- Shopping in data warehouse market - A lightbulb is going on over the heads of data-mining and report-writing toolmakers. [News.com]
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- Shugart gets sweet separation deal - Ousted Seagate chief executive Al Shugart will receive $750,000 per year during the next three years, keep his outstanding stock and stock options, and agree to work as a part-time consultant for the disk-drive maker, according to his separation agreement. [News.com]
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- Sidewalk expands with shopping - Microsoft's Sidewalk city guides will expand their services by adding a shopping resource to their local arts and entertainment editorial information. [News.com]
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- Singapore eyes e-commerce - A group of Singapore companies outlined plans today to group together into virtual retail communities aimed at encouraging Internet shopping. [News.com]
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- Singapore layoffs hit 5,500, will rise - Electronics firms in Singapore have laid off about 5,500 workers so far in 1998 and the number is expected to rise, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Sinking chips - Chipmakers are finding that emerging from an industry-wide slump is a slow, arduous process. Though some analysts have speculated that the semiconductor sector has bottomed out, earnings reports and warnings from some of its bellwethers tell a different story. Today, National Semiconductor reported that its earnings and sales are still suffering, LSI Logic warned of a shortfall, and Analog Devices posted weak earnings while predicting more hard times still to come. [News.com]
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- Small India firms slow to face Y2K - Small Indian businesses have been slow to tackle the millennium bug problem and bigger companies must shake them awake in their own interests, leading experts said. [News.com]
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- Snap makes personal move - Snap today introduced two weapons--a new search interface and personalization--that it hopes will give it a boost in the overheated portal wars. [News.com]
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- Sony's camera a little too candid - Electronics giant Sony said Wednesday it had halted shipments of some video cameras after finding they could be used for filming more of their subjects than meets the eye. [News.com]
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- Sony, Nintendo cut console prices - Video game rivals Sony and Nintendo have cut prices on their competing PlayStation and Nintendo 64 game consoles to position themselves with retailers before the holiday shopping season. [News.com]
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- Spammers jump gun on legislation - A growing number of spammers have started using disclaimers that imply their mass emailings comply with a new law, the Consumer Antislamming Act. There's only one problem: The legislation is not yet law. [News.com]
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- Spate of Net IPOs expected in fall - With only a handful of initial public offerings slated for the rest of this summer, Wall Street is focusing on a slew of new Internet stocks lining up for the fall, wondering if they all can become high-flyers. [News.com]
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- Specs for Gateway's new PC-TV - Gateway D6-333c • Intel 333-MHz Celeron processor • Intel 440LX chipset • 32MB 100-MHz SDRAM expandable to 384 • 2GB Ultra ATA hard drive • STB 2MB EDO DRAM graphics w/ cable-ready TV tuner • 2X DVD-ROM w/DVD titles • 16-bit wavetable audio card • 27" SVGA monitor • 56-kbps voice Winmodem • wireless keyboard w/ trackpad pointing device • wireless field mouse remote w/ integrated track ball • Windows 98 • $1,999 [News.com]
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- Specs for new G3 PowerBook - New G3 PowerBook notebook • Suggested retail price: $2,799 • 233-MHz PowerPC 750 with 512K of backside L2 cache • 32MB of SDRAM • 20X CD-ROM • 4MB of SGRAM video memory • ATI Rage LT Pro video controller with VGA, S-video and TV output • v.90 56-kbps modem • Built-in 10-BaseT ethernet [News.com]
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- Sprint tries Net phone service - Sprint announced today that it plans to try out a phone-to-phone service that uses its Internet Protocol backbone to carry calls instead of the regular phone network. [News.com]
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- StampMaster to test Net postage - StampMaster today announced that the U.S. Postal Service has given it permission to test its technology for delivering postage over the Internet. [News.com]
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- Star renegotiates PT-1 buy - Long distance provider Star Telecommunications today announced that it has renegotiated the terms of its proposed acquisition of PT-1 Communications because the Securities and Exchange Commission rejected its bid based on the accounting treatment used for the acquisition. [News.com]
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- Start-up wins e-commerce patent - Start-up Priceline.com, known for its "name your price" e-commerce system, has been awarded a patent that it says covers its technology as well as its business model. [News.com]
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- State postpones new Net taxes - The California Senate gave e-commerce a shot in the arm this week by voting 31 to 1 to restrain "discriminatory" taxes on Net access and services until 2002. [News.com]
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- State speaker meets Valley - A state Democratic leader today endorsed the high-tech sector's desire to upgrade the state's education system but disagreed that the Net industry should be self-regulated. [News.com]
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- Stay refused on access to Gates - A federal judge today denied Microsoft's request for a stay to have extra time to appeal yesterday's ruling allowing the public to be present when chief executive Bill Gates and other executives are questioned by the government as part of a landmark antitrust case. [News.com]
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- Steel industry takes to Net - Weirton Steel Corporation said it formed a limited partnership with LTV Corporation's LTV Steel and Steel Dynamics to offer a secure Web-based marketplace for the online purchase of metals products from various U.S. suppliers. [News.com]
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- Sterling Software to buy Cayenne - Cayenne Software said today that it has agreed to be acquired by Sterling Software in a cash transaction worth about $11.4 million. [News.com]
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- Stock markets continue descent - Stocks plunged on Wall Street today, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbling as much as 280 points before rallying to close the day down only 77.76 points. [News.com]
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- Stocks end up in rocky week - The Dow Jones industrials ended higher today with investors breathing a sigh of relief over a benign unemployment report and the stock market's resilience in the wake of Tuesday's big decline. [News.com]
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- Street closes mixed after rally - Stocks closed mixed on Wall Street today, barely able to sustain Friday's late rally and eased jitters over Russia's economic and political instability. [News.com]
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- Street expects profits for AOL - Wall Street expects America Online to post a fourth-quarter profit today, and analysts will focus on AOL's growth in e-commerce transactions and subscribers. [News.com]
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- Street still searching for upside - The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 357.36 points, marking the third-biggest point loss in the history of the index. The drop, a long-expected correction in the markets, was blamed on the economic crises looming over Russia and Asia. The technology and Net sectors were hard hit, and online brokerages saw some of their heaviest traffic days yet. [News.com]
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- Students to get a taste of Java - University students could get a taste of Java in the classroom this fall. [News.com]
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- Study looks at Amazon's future - Amazon.com must generate $1 billion in annual sales simply to break even, according to a new study by e-commerce consulting firm IceGroup. [News.com]
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- Study shows record Net shopping - A new survey by Nielsen Media shows that more people than ever before are logging on to the Net and doing their shopping there. [News.com]
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- Study shows top 50 growth sites - Personal expression and communication seem to be the name of the game for Web site growth, according to a study released today by Media Metrix, the PC Meter Company. [News.com]
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- Study: Net ads to hit $15 billion - Steady growth in the world's online population and the arrival of mainstream advertisers will push global spending for online advertising to more than $15 billion in 2003, according to a report from Forrester Research released today. [News.com]
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- Study: Net users watch less TV - America Online and Nielsen Media Research today revealed that households wired up to the Internet watch 15 percent less television than households without Net access. [News.com]
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- Summer stock surprises - U.S. markets take investors for a wild ride as they react to Asian and Russian financial crises, stalled U.S. corporate earnings, and the latest on the White House sex scandal. In just the past three days, the Dow saw huge gains followed by flat trading, while Dell and Netscape posted profits amid erratic market activity, and Broadcast.com stumbled on an analyst's comments. [News.com]
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- Summit on Net, telecom issues - Top business technology and government officials plan to meet at a conference to share their perspectives on policy issues and legislation affecting telecommunications, the Internet, and information law. [News.com]
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- Sun COO files to sell shares - Sun Microsystems' chief operating officer Ed Zander has filed to sell up to $3.4 million in the company's stock, during a year in which it has seen little insider selling. [News.com]
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- Sun exec battles "phantom NT" - What's a company to do? [News.com]
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- Sun offers discounts to ISPs - Sun Microsystems rolled out substantial discounts on customized software packages for Internet Service Providers (ISPs), a traditional stronghold for the company. [News.com]
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- Sun offers new Java toolkit - Sun Microsystems has released new Java-based software tools for writing collaborative applets and applications such as chat rooms, shared whiteboards, and stock tickers. [News.com]
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- Sun publishes Java Message spec - Advancing its middleware strategy, Sun Microsystems has published a new Java Message Service specification that is designed to make it easier for enterprise software developers to exchange information among separate applications. [News.com]
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- Sun slows Asia investment pace - Sun Microsystems' rate of investment growth in Asia has dipped because of the region's economic crisis, Edward Zander, its chief operating officer, said today. [News.com]
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- Sun software goes to India - Sun Microsystems will set up a software development facility in India, a senior company executive said today. [News.com]
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- Sun's JDK 1.2 delayed, again - Already tardy Java development technology from Sun Microsystems has been delayed again, this time for about two months, the company confirmed today. [News.com]
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- Sun, IBM offer new Java OS - Sun Microsystems and IBM will today announce the availability of the JavaOS for Business, a new Java-based operating system derivative targeted at network computer rollouts and other client devices such as kiosks. [News.com]
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- Sun, Lucent combine software efforts - Computer systems maker Sun Microsystems and telecommunications equipment firm Lucent Technologies later today will unveil plans to develop and market new software, once code-named Cozmo, that combines multiple types of messaging services, according to sources. [News.com]
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- Sun, Wingra team on email - In an effort to firm up its position in the large enterprise and ISP markets for email software, Sun Microsystems today announced an extended partnership with migration tools and services specialist Wingra Technologies. [News.com]
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- Survey: Firms think twice on Intel - A growing number of businesses don't care if their PCs feature Intel inside, according to a new survey, but that doesn't mean rivals will soon make substantial gains. [News.com]
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- Survey: Japan firms not Y2K ready - Less than 10 percent of the Japanese companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange have completed millennium compliance, a corporate survey released by the Exchange showed yesterday. [News.com]
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- Sweden may face frosty year 2000 - Swedes may get an unwelcome foretaste of their plan to phase out nuclear power by 2010 unless computer experts crush the millennium bug. [News.com]
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- Switchboard to build own brand - Shares of enterprise software maker Banyan Systems were hammered today after the company announced that the white pages directory contract between its subsidiary Switchboard.com and America Online will not be renewed at the end of its current term in November, so that Switchboard can build its own customer base and develop its brand name. [News.com]
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- Symantec adds stockholder plan - Utility software maker Symantec announced that its board of directors has a stockholder rights plan designed to protect the long-term value of the company during any unsolicited acquisition attempts. [News.com]
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- SyQuest levels layoffs, cutbacks - Computer disk-drive maker SyQuest Technology said that it will lay off about 950 employees and end manufacturing at its Fremont, California, plant as part of restructuring designed to cut costs in half. [News.com]
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- Talk time for PCs - The "killer" application that could fully justify buying an expensive, powerful computer may be as plain as the nose on your face, or rather, the mouth: speech. [News.com]
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- Targeting urged for Net ads - Web sites must offer advertisers the ability to target users by demographic criteria or the rapid growth of Internet advertising will falter, according to a new study from Jupiter Communications. [News.com]
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- TCI down on earnings report - Tele-Communications Incorporated shares fell nearly 2 percent today after the company announced a decline in second-quarter earnings. [News.com]
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- Tech firms' sites not up to snuff - The very companies that are helping to develop the Web seem to have forgotten to make their own sites user-friendly, a new study said. [News.com]
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- Tech stocks elude Russia crisis - Unlike the problems crippling Asia's economy, Russia's economic and political crisis is not likely to have an impact on U.S. technology stocks, most analysts agree. [News.com]
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- Teen cracks Netscape filter - Score one for young free speech advocates in their high-tech battle against protective parents. [News.com]
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- TelCom Semi closing plant - TelCom Semiconductor said it will restructure its manufacturing operations to become more efficient and cut costs. [News.com]
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- Tellabs board to weigh Ciena deal - The board of telecommunications equipment supplier Tellabs will meet today to discuss the company's proposed $7.1 billion merger with Ciena and the recent news that Ciena would not win a big AT&T contract, Tellabs said. [News.com]
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- Tellabs, Ciena deal may change - Tellabs adjourned a board meeting without public comment on a proposed $7.1 billion merger with Ciena, but Wall Street expects the telecommunications equipment suppliers to alter the deal. [News.com]
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- Telstra in talks with Microsoft, IBM - Australia's biggest telecommunications group, the former state monopology known as Telstra, admitted today it is in early talks with Microsoft and IBM about joint ventures that would use Telstra's broadband cable network. [News.com]
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- Terabit start-ups challenge Cisco - It is fair to say that data communications giant Cisco Systems provided the technology that built the Net as we know it. Now a new generation of high-end networking equipment start-ups want to renovate it. [News.com]
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- Terrorism plays into Net debate - It may never be known if Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born millionaire accused of ordering the bombing of two U.S. embassies this month, sent his alleged commands through encrypted messages or studied terrorist tactics on the Internet. [News.com]
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- The high cost of browser problems - Web developers fed up with browser incompatibility are teaming up to do something about it. [News.com]
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- The Java legal lock - Sun's protracted legal struggle with Microsoft is heating up again in the courtroom and in corporate offices. Newly released legal documents summarize Microsoft's position, including its "great surprise" upon learning that it was sued by Sun, which continues to complain about the software giant's business practices. [News.com]
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- The neighborhood rush - Internet portal sites and others are tripping over themselves to offer home page tools and virtual meeting places to users. But even with explosive growth in recent months, there is no guarantee that this community-building will translate into dollars. [News.com]
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- The Net remembers Diana - One year after Princess Diana of Wales died in a car accident in Paris, online media firms still are finding news value in the story. [News.com]
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- The pharaoh of home networking? - Rockwell Semiconductor has announced that it will include Tut Systems' technology in its upcoming home networking products, the second high profile deal in as many days for the company. [News.com]
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- The start of Y2K lawsuit rush? - A medical equipment vendor and a major software maker have been slapped with Year 2000-related lawsuits in the past 24 hours, fueling suspicions that the millennium bug could trigger a rash of related lawsuits. [News.com]
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- The week's news: Bugs, bears, and lawyers - But for the stock market's precipitous fall off, software bugs might have stolen the week's headlines. Then again, what's a news week without "Wintel?" [News.com]
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- TheGlobe tries pop-up ads - Despite complaints about them in some circles, pop-up ads, are becoming increasingly popular with online services. [News.com]
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- Thomson to buy digiTrade - Market information provider Thomson Financial Services is set to announce today that it has acquired digiTrade, an automated Internet and telephone-based trading and account management company. [News.com]
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- TI claims chip manufacturing coup - Researchers at Texas Instruments claimed they have developed chip manufacturing technology that will allow them to pack as many as 400 million transistors--the basic building blocks of a processor--onto a single chip the size of a fingernail and run them at breaktaking speeds. [News.com]
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- Toronto exchange offers Net rules - Canada's largest stock exchange is hoping that its listed companies get online with its latest proposal regarding disclosure and the Internet. [News.com]
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- Toshiba notebook under $2,000 - Toshiba expanded its notebook line to include a sub-$2,000 Pentium II system and a leaner version of its Portege ultraportable notebook. [News.com]
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- Toshiba slashes notebook prices - Toshiba announced price cuts across its Tecra, Satellite, and Libretto portable lines, as the longtime market leader continues its push to regain share. [News.com]
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- Toshiba to reduce DRAM output - Japanese electronics maker Toshiba says it plans to cut the percentage of its mainstay dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips in its overall memory chip output to 50 percent from the current level of more than 70 percent by the financial year 2000/01. [News.com]
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- Treasury to put bonds online - The Treasury Department announced plans to make it easier for the "little guy" investor to buy short-term U.S. Treasury securities over the Internet or by telephone. [News.com]
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- Trilogy cuts cost of e-commerce - Next week companies wanting to automate their purchasing online will get an option that doesn't run into six-figure sums, as front-office marketing software firm Trilogy Software jumps into both packaged and e-commerce software. [News.com]
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- Tripod relaunch to copy portals - Adopting the marketing strategy of successful Internet portals, Lycos-owned home page builder Tripod will roll out a redesign in hopes of attracting more advertisers and developing an e-commerce revenue stream. [News.com]
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- Turkey looks to expand Net access - Turkey's network linking users to the Internet is on its way toward rapid expansion under a multimillion-dollar investment project aimed at speeding up communications, a top sector official said. [News.com]
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- TV flick on Gates, Jobs planned - Turner Network Television is planning a made-for-television movie featuring Hollywood actors playing high-tech superstars such as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, according to Variety magazine. [News.com]
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- Two more join flat TV fray - Expectations of rapid growth in next-generation television sales is prompting Japanese electronics companies to team up on flat television technology and related products. [News.com]
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- U.S. e-stores lead in profits - European Internet storefronts generate far less revenue than e-stores in the United States, according to a new report from strategic analyst firm Datamonitor. [News.com]
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- U.S. markets fall but rebound - U.S. markets headed straight south at the opening bell today, but managed to pull off a dramatic 150-point turnaround later in the day. [News.com]
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- U.S. markets rebound - U.S. markets rebounded from yesterday's sharp decline, closing higher despite a continued slide in the Japanese market. [News.com]
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- U.S. markets rise, then tumble - After an early climb on Wall Street, stocks tumbled following the lead of the falling Asian and European stock markets. [News.com]
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- U.S. prods Japan on foreign computers - U.S. trade officials, disappointed with the results of a 1992 agreement with Japan on government computer purchases, today urged Tokyo to do more to open up its public procurement process. [News.com]
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- U.S.-Japan economy talks planned - With anxiety growing on global financial markets, Treasury Department officials confirmed today that Secretary Robert Rubin and Japanese finance minister Kiichi Miyazawa will hold talks in San Francisco early next month. [News.com]
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- Ultraportable notebook specs - ThinkPad 600, typical configuration • estimated retail price of $3,105 • 233-MHz Pentium II processor • 12.1-inch 800x600 resolution active matrix display • 32MB of memory/expandable to 288MB • 3.2GB hard disk drive • 10/24X CD-ROM • 56-kbps modem with x2 technology/14.4 kbps fax [News.com]
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- Uneasy software alliances - The now-infamous bug battle between RealNetworks and Microsoft represents a problematic part of the software industry: how competitors' products work together. Microsoft, for example, may take on Apple's popular multimedia platform QuickTime even though the software giant is an investor in the Mac maker. [News.com]
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- Unfriendly skies in New England - The computer system serving air traffic in New England and New York blacked out for 37 minutes on Wednesday night causing havoc from the Canadian border to Long Island, the Boston Globe is reporting. [News.com]
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- Union Pacific RR tackles Y2K - Union Pacific's Union Pacific Railroad said today that it would spend $46 million to fix its information systems so that they are not derailed by the Year 2000 computer problem. [News.com]
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- Update to Windows 98 released - As expected, Microsoft today released the first update to the Windows 98 operating system as the company continues to deny that the package of multimedia enhancements were ever positioned as a "service pack" of bug fixes. [News.com]
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- Upside seen for storage - Investors snapped up shares in several large storage companies today, following an analyst's report that the beleaguered disk drive sector may finally be ready to grow again. [News.com]
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- US West seeks labor mediator - Baby Bell US West says it wants a federal mediator to get involved in its talks with the Communications Workers of America to avert a weekend strike by 35,000 employees. [News.com]
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- US West tries DoubleClick Local - Internet advertising network DoubleClick and Dex, US West's online yellow pages unit, announced today they will team up to promote Web advertising to small and medium-sized businesses in US West's 14-state service region. [News.com]
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- User profiles in privacy stir - The simmering Internet privacy controversy has been reignited by an announcement today from Engage Technology that it has garnered 30 million user profiles for targeting online advertising. [News.com]
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- Using the Net to search for aliens - There is good news for interstellar explorers. [News.com]
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- Vanstar president resigns - Personal computer consultant Vanstar said today that Jay Amato was resigning as president and chief operating officer. [News.com]
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- Vanstar in cost-cutting mode - Vanstar, a provider of services and products designed to build and manage computer network infrastructures, said today that it will reduce its workforce and eliminate some of its facilities in the second quarter ending in October in an effort to reduce annual costs by at least $50 million. [News.com]
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- Vantive defends front office turf - Vantive is fighting back at bigger enterprise resource planning vendors who are slowly stretching their products into Vantive and like vendors' territories. [News.com]
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- Venture eyes India Net market - India's Bharti Telecom Limited and British Telecommunications Plc are close to forming a joint venture for Internet services in India, Bharti's chairman said today. [News.com]
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- VeriFone sees demand in S. Asia - Sliding business in Southeast Asia has not worried VeriFone which is finding a good demand for its electronic payment systems in South Asia, a top company executive said. [News.com]
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- Virtual networks for providers - Cisco Systems will wrap technology for creating secure tunnels for information delivery across internal corporate network links or through the Net into its Inter-networking Operating System (IOS), the "brains" for the company's wide range of network routing and switching devices. [News.com]
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- VSI-Navidec merger called off - Multimedia company VSI Holdings says its plan to merge with Internet technology company Navidec has been called off. [News.com]
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- W3C mulls XML spec - A specification being considered by the World Wide Web Consortium today seeks to soup up XML. [News.com]
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- W3C releases XSL draft - The World Wide Web Consortium today released the first working draft of extensible style language, or XSL. [News.com]
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- Wall St. cuts Netscape's gains - Netscape Communications today gave back some of the surprising 25 percent gain it posted on Wall Street yesterday. [News.com]
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- Wall Street a rough road - The markets' roller-coaster ride continued today with the Dow Industrial Average rebounding from yesterday's 93-point decline and the Japanese market plunging more than 258 points after climbing slightly higher yesterday. [News.com]
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- Wall Street continues free fall - Wall Street continued to free-fall today with the Nasdaq market posting its largest single-day drop, battering technology and Internet stocks and beating last week's record point decline amid growing concern over Russia's economic and political crisis. [News.com]
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- Wall Street Journal seeks affiliates - In an effort to increase both readership and revenues, the Wall Street Journal today launched an affiliate program in which Web sites get money for bringing in subscriptions. [News.com]
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- Wall Street spike slowing down - Stocks closed lower on Wall Street today after registering 100-point-plus gains for two days straight. [News.com]
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- Wang Global reports loss - Wang Global, an information technology services company, today reported a net loss of $260.5 million, falling below Wall Street earnings expectations for the second quarter. [News.com]
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- War criminals to atone online - It has taken more than 50 years and the emergence of a new medium for six war criminals to publicly talk about their past misdeeds. [News.com]
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- Web radio guide, take two - Hankering to hear some country, folk, and bluegrass from the Czech Republic? Like a taste of Mohawk Indian audio? Want to tune in to the Web-waves from your old hometown radio station? [News.com]
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- Web sites catch iMac mania - The mania over Apple Computer's new iMac computer has spilled over from the showroom floor to online warehouse and auction sites. [News.com]
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- When is email marketing spam? - Like it or not, email is still the best way to reach a mass online audience--and even community sites and online services are willing to use it. [News.com]
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- Who will win the memory war? - After years of sliding prices, the time is drawing closer for computer memory chipmakers to consider seriously whether to remain in the industry. [News.com]
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- Who's got the patent? - In State Street Bank vs. Signature Financial Group, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on July 23 that patents for a way of conducting business are legitimate. [News.com]
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- Who's on top in online trading? - Online stock trading is continuing to expand, but the players are shuffling positions, according to a Wall Street study released today. [News.com]
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- Why are Net stocks deflating? - The stock market has been busy shedding points in recent weeks, dragging down Internet stocks along the way. [News.com]
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- Why can't HP impress investors? - Hewlett-Packard is one of the legends of Silicon Valley with a long-standing reputation for top-notch computers and printers. So why does it continue to disappoint Wall Street? [News.com]
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- Will CitySearch's IPO fly? - While the enthusiasm generated before the initial public offerings of some Internet companies have helped them soar on their first days of trading, CitySearch's IPO may not catch the same tailwind because of cautious optimism among institutional investors. [News.com]
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- Will patents help e-commerce? - A recent decision by a patent appeals court appears to give smooth sailing to a flurry of e-commerce patents issued this year, cheering e-commerce patent holders but potentially creating big headaches for Internet shopkeepers. [News.com]
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- Will QuickTime take on Microsoft? - As Apple Computer prepares to enter the market with its own streaming media, it faces the specter of squaring off with Microsoft, which bears the unusual distinction of both investor and one of the Mac maker's most formidable competitors. [News.com]
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- Will Valence balance NT's load? - Handling large applications and server loads has not been a strong point of Microsoft's Windows NT Server operating system thus far in its development, despite promises of future industrial-strength technologies from Redmond. [News.com]
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- Win98 gets glitzy launch in China - Microsoft launched the mainland Chinese version of its Windows 98 operating system today in a glitzy ceremony that underscored its ambitions for one of the world's fastest growing computer markets. [News.com]
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- Win98 hole follows Database bug - A longstanding feature of the Windows OS that enables networked PCs to access shared files may expose users of Windows 98 to hackers. This issue follows the revelation that a bug in Microsoft Access, which can cause information that should be associated with a given record to be attached to the wrong account, exists in several versions of the database program. [News.com]
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- Windows "back door" raises flags - While Microsoft downplays its significance, a Windows back door is generating anxiety among consumers and fixes from numerous security firms. [News.com]
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- Windows 98 "enhancement" due - The first update to Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system will be available on the company's Windows Update site beginning August 18, according to a letter sent out to beta testers yesterday. [News.com]
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- Windows 98 utilities suite coming - Symantec will announce on Monday an integrated antivirus and systems utility suite encompassing its Norton line of utilities applications, the first such package for the Windows operating systems, including Windows 98, according to the company. [News.com]
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- Windows 98 vulnerable to hacking - An old feature of the Windows operating system which enables networked PCs to access shared files may expose users of the newest Windows software to hackers, although there is disagreement as to how likely the scenario is. [News.com]
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- Windows lines flooded in Japan - After experiencing the joy of unexpectedly brisk sales, Microsoft Japan is now dealing with the agony of a flood of customer support calls. [News.com]
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- Wintel equation favors Microsoft - Microsoft and Intel have been partners for years, to such a degree that their product alliance came to be morphed into the bastardized shorthand Wintel. [News.com]
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- Wireless One in dire straits - Wireless One said that, in seeking to address its capital needs, it will have to revise its current business plan if it does not obtain proposed short-term financing. [News.com]
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- Word 97 bug for Windows 98 users - A Microsoft Word 97 bug is causing problems for Windows 98 users. [News.com]
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- Worker visa issue takes break - The impasse between Congress and the White House over legislation to raise the annual cap on skilled foreign workers allowed into the country will continue to linger now that the House has recessed for the summer. [News.com]
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- World impact on Wall Street - Another day, another downturn. Wall Street stocks plunged 280 points in response to sliding foreign markets and U.S. military action, before rallying to close the day off 77.76 points. In the midst of it all, online brokerages kicked into overdrive, Net booksellers got caught up in the downside, and five Excite insiders filed to sell big. [News.com]
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- WorldCom offers $6.1 billion bond - WorldCom today sold $6.1 billion in debt to finance its planned $37 billion acquisition of MCI Communications, matching a record for the biggest corporate bond offering ever. [News.com]
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- WorldCom sees huge MCI charge - WorldCom said it expects to record charges of $6 billion to $7 billion in connection with its $37 billion purchase of MCI Communications and other big one-time costs could follow as the company ponders a post-acquisition restructuring. [News.com]
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- Xerox to expand ink jet plant - Xerox is expanding its ink jet manufacturing operations and hiring up to 400 new workers at its plant near Rochester, New York, as it battles industry leader Hewlett-Packard for a bigger share of the printer market. [News.com]
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- Xylan stands on its own - What's a niche data networking company to do? [News.com]
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- Y2K bug sweep in Philippines - Philippine president Joseph Estrada has ordered all government offices and state-owned corporations to ensure their computers are free from the millennium bug by the end of this year, the presidential palace said today. [News.com]
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- Y2K may cost Sprint $200 million - Long distance provider Sprint said yesterday that it faced about $200 million in expenses this year and next to complete its Year 2000 compliance program. [News.com]
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- Y2K study paints grim picture - Although nobody is sure just how much havoc the Year 2000 technology problem will cause, a new study released today paints a decidedly grim picture. [News.com]
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- Yahoo email not in the bag - Leading Net portal Yahoo hit a bump in the road today as almost 20 percent of its free email customers lost service for several hours. [News.com]
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- Yahoo offers community building - Yahoo today became the latest portal to offer its own end-user community builder service, further indication of the breakneck pace at which portals are releasing products to remain ahead of the competition. [News.com]
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- Yahoo to continue Asia efforts - Yahoo plans continued investment in its Asian Internet products, despite the economic slowdown in that region and a squeeze on advertising revenues, a senior company executive said today. [News.com]
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- Zapata buys game Web site - Continuing its seemingly endless Internet buying spree, Zapata announced today that Zap, its Internet subsidiary, moved to acquire game information Web site Attitude Network. [News.com]
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- Zapata hires investment firm - Zapata, a one-time oil driller trying to break in to cyberspace, said today that it has hired Salomon Smith Barney to evaluate financial and strategic alternatives to boost shareholder value. [News.com]
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- Zapata in legal battle over name - Electronic brokerage ZAP Futures has filed for injunctive relief against fish-processing company Zapata and its new Zap Internet subsidiary over the use of the Zap name. [News.com]
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- Ziff-Davis loss widens - Computer magazine publisher and trade show producer Ziff-Davis said today that its losses more than quadrupled during the second quarter as weakened technology companies cut advertising budgets. [News.com]
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