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- 2Bridge updates Web publishing - 2Bridge Software, a vendor of Web-based enterprise applications, today rolled out the latest version of its Web publishing and content management package. [News.com]
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- 300-MHz K6 to spur low-cost laptops - Advanced Micro Devices today released a 300-MHz version of its K6 processor for notebooks, a move that should advance the slow but steady march toward low-priced portables. [News.com]
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- 300-MHz notebook specifications - A sampling of the specifications for new 300-MHz Pentium II-based notebooks. [News.com]
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- 3Com palms Sybase database - Sybase and 3Com today announced a deal to bring Sybase's mobile database, Adaptive Server Anywhere, and its UltraLite technology, to the Palm Computing platform. [News.com]
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- 3Com surprises Wall Street - Meeting Wall Street whispers of an upside surprise, 3Com beat analysts' expectations for its fiscal 1999 first quarter by 4 cents, the latest sign that the data networking giant may have overcome a tumultuous fiscal 1998 to return to sustained growth. [News.com]
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- 3Dfx sues rival Nvidia - Nvidia, a rising star in the graphics chip market, has been hit with yet another patent infringment lawsuit, this time from 3Dfx. [News.com]
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- 3DO exec ups stake 19% - 3DO said today that Trip Hawkins, its chairman and chief executive, had bought about 2.9 million company shares on the open market, raising his stake to 5.1 million shares, or about 19.8 percent. [News.com]
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- @Home ramps up retail strategy - High-speed Internet service provider @Home Network is teaming up with retail vendors such as CompUSA to ramp up the rollout of cable modem service in select areas, the companies said today. [News.com]
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- @Home to test flashy ads - Cable Net access provider @Home is teaming up with a number of high-profile companies to test the effectiveness of media-rich advertisements on the high-speed platform. [News.com]
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- @Home won't suffer from FCC - Wall Street is watching closely as the Federal Communications Commission weighs whether to regulate high-speed cable Net access services such as @Home, but most analysts aren't concerned, at least for now. [News.com]
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- A billion cell phone users in 2005? - Cellular phone giant Nokia said today it has raised its forecast for the world's mobile phone subscribers to one billion users in 2005. [News.com]
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- A call for e-commerce research - More research is needed to discover the possibilities --both current and future--of electronic commerce, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reported today. [News.com]
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- Adaptec expects charge for reorg - Adaptec, a maker of data input-output devices, said it expects to record a charge of about $22 million to $28 million post-tax in the second quarter to cover recent restructuring moves. [News.com]
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- Adobe denies it's dropping Apple - Adobe Systems strongly denied a published report that it plans to stop supporting its Apple customers. [News.com]
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- Adobe upbeat despite adversity - It's been a tough month for Adobe Systems. The graphics and publishing software firm has laid off 10 percent of its 3,000 employees, dumped some top managers, warned Wall Street that its earnings report wouldn't be up to expectations, and took a $25 million hit in third-quarter revenues in Japan. [News.com]
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- Aetrium to disappoint Street - Aetrium, a supplier of proprietary technologies and equipment that are used by the semiconductor industry, today announced that its financial results for the third quarter will be significantly lower than analysts' expectations. [News.com]
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- Agencies lag on millennium bug - The federal government's computer system preparations for the year 2000 will now cost $5.4 billion, according to the latest quarterly report by the Office of Management and Budget, which also added another agency to its Y2K slowpoke list. [News.com]
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- Agencies lag on millennium bug - The federal government's computer system preparations for the year 2000 will now cost $5.4 billion, according to the latest quarterly report by the Office of Management and Budget, which also added another agency to its Y2K slowpoke list. [News.com]
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- Agency posts cholesterol help - A federal health agency has set up a Web site that should give people practical help in controlling their cholesterol. [News.com]
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- Alcatel hit with class-action suit - Paris-based Alcatel and senior officers and directors were named in another class action law suit alleging the telecommunications firm's concealment of poor operating results prior to a recent merger. [News.com]
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- Alcatel plunges on profit warning - Shares in telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel plummeted by as much as 39 percent in morning trading, after the French company warned that its performance for the year will be hurt by economic turmoil in Southeast Asia and Russia. [News.com]
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- Alcatel, Ascend in networking deal - Things seem to get more interesting by the day in the ever-changing world of voice and data networking. [News.com]
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- Allaire updates Web editing toolset - Allaire today debuted its latest release of its Web editing toolset. [News.com]
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- Alliance boosts local Net ads - Internet ad network Flycast Communications has signed BellSouth's interactive group to sell local ads for the 500 Web sites on Flycast's network. [News.com]
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- Amazon, RealNetworks rally - Internet stocks came back to life today, catching up to the rest of Wall Street a day after many other companies rode a broader market rebound. [News.com]
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- AMP tries to stave off takeover - Electrical connection company AMP, which is fighting a takeover bid by AlliedSignal, said today that it will make a tender offer for up to 30 million of its own shares at $55 each--a substantial premium over AlliedSignal's offer of $44.50 per share. [News.com]
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- An end to mile-long searches? - When IBM scientist Prabhakar Raghavan was planning a vacation to Thailand about a year ago, he did what many of us in the Internet age now do. He turned to cyberspace. [News.com]
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- Analyst: Net stock upside "a blip" - Internet stocks that have floundered during the past several weeks got a bump this morning, buoyed by double-digit gains yesterday, but one analyst tempered hopes that the activity marks the beginning of another bull run. [News.com]
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- Andreessen selling 200,000 shares - Marc Andreessen, executive vice president and cofounder of Netscape Communications, has filed to sell 200,000 shares of the company's stock valued at $4.28 million, according to a regulatory filing. [News.com]
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- Annoy.com free to bother Netizens - The publishers of the scorching commentary site Annoy.com say they can keep raising eyebrows without fear of prosecution under a federal court ruling today. [News.com]
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- Another exec departs Disney - Disney Online today confirmed that Susan Wyland, vice president of its online property Family.com, has left the company to pursue other opportunities. [News.com]
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- Another glitch in BofA Net service - Some Netizens have turned to their banks' Internet offerings to avoid going to the bank and waiting on line. But many have found themselves instead merely waiting online. [News.com]
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- Another new face for HotWired - Wired Digital today launched its fourth revision of HotWired. [News.com]
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- Another security hole in Hotmail - Microsoft's Hotmail has acknowledged a security problem with its Web-based email service that could compromise the accounts of users in corporate computing environments. [News.com]
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- Antitrust case could be delayed - Microsoft and government prosecutors have agreed to postpone trial in the landmark antitrust case against the software giant until October 15, but the judge presiding over the suit has not yet approved the delay, a source familiar with the matter said. [News.com]
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- AOL aims for half of new Netizens - Online giant America Online expects to reach half of all new U.S. Internet users in coming years--in a market that could grow by as much as 7 million homes annually. [News.com]
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- AOL completes earnings report - After more than a month of involved talks with the Securities and Exchange Commission, America Online today reported full earnings results for the fourth quarter of 1998. [News.com]
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- AOL down this morning - America Online said customers were unable to sign on for about an hour this morning after software malfunctioned during a scheduled update. [News.com]
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- AOL gets customer service software - Hoping to streamline its customer service operations, America Online announced it will license software technology from Inference for use in its call centers. [News.com]
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- AOL lowers game rates - America Online today lowered its hourly rate for games, calling into question whether the online giant can maintain a pay-for-play model for games that are free elsewhere on the Net. [News.com]
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- AOL plans CD-ROM onslaught - Harking back to a marketing strategy that transformed America Online into a household name, the online giant on Monday will launch its campaign to distribute millions of its new AOL 4.0 CD-ROMs. [News.com]
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- AOL revival brings more ads - Last week, when America Online announced the signing of a deal with CBS to promote the network's television programs throughout its service, the online giant also decided to revive an old marketing tool it had shelved for the past two years. [News.com]
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- AOL signs dotted lines - The online giant's wrangling with the SEC has not hindered its deal-making momentum, as it aligns itself with both Macromedia and RealNetworks on the same day. [News.com]
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- AOL speeds broadband plans - America Online has taken another step in developing future broadband initiatives by tapping Mario Vecchi, a cofounder of Time Warner's cable Net access provider, Road Runner. [News.com]
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- AOL, eBay in auction pact - America Online and eBay, an online auction site, said today they had agreed on a three-year deal that would make eBay the preferred provider of auction services on AOL, the leading online service. [News.com]
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- AOL, Scudder Funds form ad pact - America Online and Scudder Funds, a family of 60 no-load mutual funds with about $30 billion in assets, said today that they agreed on a two-year advertising pact that would make Scudder Funds AOL's premier mutual fund advertiser. [News.com]
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- Apple fixes iMac printer problems - Apple Computer has developed a fix for iMac owners unable to use an Epson printer based on a connection scheme that's new to the Mac platform. [News.com]
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- Apple may outsource iMacs - Overwhelmed with demand for its popular iMac, Apple Computer may soon resort to using outside manufacturers to maintain supplies of Macintosh computers, harking back to problems the company has historically had with meeting demand for popular products. [News.com]
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- Apple revs AppleWorks software - Apple Computer took a step toward revitalizing its consumer and education offerings today by releasing a new version of its AppleWorks software for Macintosh computers. [News.com]
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- Apple sets OS 8.5 release date - The date has been set for the release of the newest version of the Macintosh operating system, as Apple Computer also prepares to roll out a low-cost PowerBook portable computer early next month. [News.com]
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- Argon revs up high-speed play - Even with an actual product not due until the first half of next year, high-end networking start-up Argon Networks continues to release details of its strategy to go after the core of service provider layouts. [News.com]
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- Asia shipping mixed on Y2K - The computer scourge of year 2000, the millennium bug, has drawn responses from Asia's shipping industry ranging from casual to confident. [News.com]
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- Asyst hurt by chip sector slump - Asyst Technologies, an equipment supplier for chipmakers, said today that it expects its second-quarter revenues to fall 65 percent from the same period a year earlier and to drop even further for the third quarter due to the slump in the semiconductor industry. [News.com]
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- AT&T adds Yahoo to portal roster - AT&T today signed on another major Web portal in its ongoing quest to attract new subscribers to its WorldNet access service by offering popular navigation and content properties. [News.com]
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- AT&T chief eyes more Net deals - On the heels of striking a marketing partnership with Yahoo last week, AT&T expects to establish similar alliances with other Internet companies, chairman and chief executive officer C. Michael Armstrong said today. [News.com]
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- AT&T could acquire IBM unit - AT&T is in talks to acquire IBM's global networking unit, Rick Roscitt, president and chief executive officer of AT&T's AT&T Solutions unit, said today. [News.com]
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- AT&T speeds convergence - AT&T is testing a major new high-speed communications service that will let many of its 10 million business customers cut costs by combining their phone and computer networks, the telco giant said. [News.com]
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- Auction site's ads probed - As eBay prepares to go public, a state attorney general's office has notified the online auction company that it has received customer complaints about its advertising practices and its role in sales that occur on its site. [News.com]
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- Austria plans global Net meeting - Austria has offered to host a conference next spring in Vienna to draw up a global charter on legal and technical issues affecting the Internet, Austrian Research Minister Caspar Einem said. [News.com]
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- Avnet to fall short - Avnet said today that it expects its fiscal 1999 first-quarter earnings to fall below Wall Street expectations due to continued weakness in the global electronic components markets. [News.com]
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- Award ordered in Shopping.com case - An arbitration panel has ordered the underwriters of beleaguered Shopping.com to pay $400,000 for inflating the stock price of the online commerce company. [News.com]
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- Baan joins outsourcing trend - Baan is bringing up the rear yet again in the four-way ERP horse race. [News.com]
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- Baan's shopping spree continues - Somebody call shoppers anonymous. Baan is at it again. [News.com]
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- Baby's life could hang on Web site - In a last-ditch effort to save their eight-week-old baby's life, a New Zealand couple is seeking medical help through the Internet. [News.com]
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- Ballmer woos Web publishers - Microsoft president Steve Ballmer no longer has to speak to publishers as an executive from an often-vilified software company that holds only a microscopic percentage of the market for tools to design snappy print and Web content. [News.com]
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- Banc One in pact with IBM, AT&T - Banc One, a rapidly growing Ohio-based bank with branches in 12 states, said today that it had signed networking and computer services contracts worth more than $1.8 billion with AT&T and IBM. [News.com]
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- Banc One Takes a Bold Step - A "virtual bank" being created from a technology alliance forged today among Banc One, International Business Machines, and AT&T could reap benefits for the providers and create a cornerstone for other financial institutions to develop such capabilities. [News.com]
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- Banks not yet immune to Y2K - Banks around the world are not yet prepared to tackle the millennium bug and need to share experience in preparations for it with customers and competitors, a senior bank supervisor said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Banks not yet immune to Y2K - Banks around the world are not yet prepared to tackle the millennium bug and need to share experience in preparations for it with customers and competitors, a senior bank supervisor said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Banks struggle with Net services - Banks around the world are pouring money into Internet services, but many have no idea who they are targeting or how to make money out of it, according to a report published today. [News.com]
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- Banks to Jupiter: Back at you - Bankers today fired a return salvo at market researcher Jupiter Communications, which yesterday had warned bankers that they stood to lose market share to online brokerages. [News.com]
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- Banks will face Y2K disruptions - A federal bank regulator said today that more than 90 percent of the nation's banks are on track to have their computer systems ready for the Year 2000 date change. [News.com]
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- Banks will face Y2K disruptions - A federal bank regulator said today that more than 90 percent of the nation's banks are on track to have their computer systems ready for the Year 2000 date change. [News.com]
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- Barnesandnoble.com files for IPO - Barnesandnoble.com, a subsidiary of giant book retailer Barnes & Noble, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering. [News.com]
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- Barrett: Slow PC growth in '98 - Craig Barrett, chief executive officer of Intel, said today that 1998 would be a year of slow growth in the personal computer arena. [News.com]
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- BEA aims for app server market - Add BEA Systems to the list of companies sweeping up Web application server vendors. [News.com]
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- Bell Atlantic earnings on target - Regional telecommunications powerhouse Bell Atlantic said it remains on target to achieve its double-digit earnings-growth objective for this year. [News.com]
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- Bell Atlantic, Intermedia in pact - Bell Atlantic said today that it has reached an agreement with Intermedia Communications that will enable it to provide data services outside the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States once the government allows it to offer long distance service. [News.com]
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- BellSouth to charge for Net calls - In a move that could drive up prices for voice calls carried over the Internet, BellSouth said long distance companies will no longer escape access charges in its nine-state region. [News.com]
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- Benson sees easy turnaround - Cabletron Systems was founded in a garage in New Hampshire when two friends decided to build a business shipping Ethernet cable, then a nascent means to connect machines together, to businesses. [News.com]
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- Bertlesmann to go solo on Web - Bertelsmann AG, the German media conglomerate, expects to move into the U.S. online bookselling business on its own, incoming chairman and chief executive Thomas Middelhoff said today. [News.com]
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- Big Blue by you - IBM charges into cutting-edge technology, including the Home Director, a wearable PC, and voice recognition software on more PCs. [News.com]
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- Blockbuster to rent DVD flicks - Starting this month, video rental giant Blockbuster Video will begin renting movies on DVD disks to customers at more than 500 stores. [News.com]
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- Broadcom preps modem chip - Broadcom, in a major boost for bringing the Internet to television screens, is expected to announce a single computer chip that contains the complicated circuitry needed for home connections. [News.com]
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- Browser deals counterproductive - In the past two days, Netscape Communications has won a significant deal to distribute its Internet browser to millions of new customers and lost out on another to rival software maker Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Bug in Outlook Express for Mac - Microsoft today acknowledged a problem with its Outlook Express email application for the Macintosh platform that threatens to erase incoming mail before it is read. [News.com]
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- Bugs infest high tech - There seems to be no escape from bugs of late, with flaws cropping up in browsers, processors, and operating systems alike. [News.com]
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- Bull pens pact with Netscape - Giant French computer firm Bull is entering the U.S. network security market through a partnership with Netscape Communications. [News.com]
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- Business apps for Linux - A small German company today launched a suite of business applications for the increasingly popular Linux operating system. [News.com]
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- Business sites to reflect business - The debate over e-commerce is surrounded by hype and fanciful data but most companies cannot run the risk of not getting involved, experts said today. [News.com]
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- C&W begins global push with MCI - British telecommunications giant Cable & Wireless yesterday announced the completion of its acquisition of MCI Commumications' Internet business for $1.75 billion, marking the beginning of the company's global expansion with one of the premier networks in the world. [News.com]
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- CA, Siemens strike a deal - Computer Associates has struck a deal with European giant Siemens AG to purchase its network management software tools while gaining marketing and support for its own products from the systems firm. [News.com]
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- Cabletron shops for a boost - There is a long tradition of buying to grow a company's business in the networking industry, and as the market will find out this fall, Cabletron Systems is no exception. [News.com]
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- Cadence snaps up Ambit Design - Cadence Design Systems, a maker of software to design computer chips, agreed to buy closely held Ambit Design Systems for $260 million in cash, adding to its own system-on-a-chip technology. [News.com]
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- California enacts antispam laws - Spammers practicing in the state with the greatest concentration of Net users may find it tough to conduct business as usual under landmark legislation signed by California Gov. Pete Wilson. [News.com]
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- Cambridge Tech feels Y2K impact - Cambridge Technology Partners, a fast-growing computer consultancy, warned of slower growth as its customers delay spending on new projects to focus on fixing Year 2000 computer issues, prompting a sharp decline in its stock. [News.com]
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- Cambridge Tech feels Y2K impact - Cambridge Technology Partners, a fast-growing computer consultancy, warned of slower growth as its customers delay spending on new projects to focus on fixing Year 2000 computer issues, prompting a sharp decline in its stock. [News.com]
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- Camcorder adding DVD-RAM - Hitachi plans to market a digital camcorder that uses DVD-RAM instead of videotape by the end of next year, potentially a breakthrough step into the consumer market for the high-capacity storage medium. [News.com]
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- Canadian firm extends Divx reach - Divx, the much maligned and controversial alternative to DVD, is showing signs that it may outlast its detractors. [News.com]
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- Canadian firms face more hacks - More Canadian businesses are becoming the target of Internet-related computer crimes, according to a report by a professional services firm. [News.com]
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- Canadians claim Web movie a first - Canadian movie and Web site makers have unleashed a Net film that invites viewers to choose the order in which they watch its scenes. [News.com]
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- Canon, IBM Japan tie up - Canon and IBM Japan will team up to offer corporate consulting services, specifically PC server maintenance, an increasingly important market for PC vendors. [News.com]
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- Canon, Kodak unveil new camera - Canon has jointly developed with Eastman Kodak a digital camera for professional use that features better color reproduction than Canon's previous model. [News.com]
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- Carry-on computing - AMD develops a fast K6 for portables, and a low-cost upstart chip from Rise promises to shake up the notebook market. At the same time, Compaq, IBM, and Sybase announce new portable hardware and software lines. [News.com]
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- Case chose IE due to Windows - The head of America Online appeared to bolster a key allegation in the government's antitrust case against Microsoft, saying his company opted for the software giant's Internet browser to get a better position in the Windows operating system. [News.com]
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- Casio camera packs more punch - Casio today announced its latest digital camera, a feature-packed model that has been available in some catalogs for the last month. [News.com]
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- Categorizing Net users - Are you a Fast Forward or a Mouse Potato? Maybe you're a Techno-striver, or a Sidelined Citizen? The labels describe different kinds of people based on the way they think about and use technology such as computers and the Internet. [News.com]
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- CBS to advertise on AOL - While executives in the portal industry have touted television as a crucial medium for advertising their services, it seems that the tables are beginning to turn. [News.com]
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- CDA II behind closed doors - Civil liberties advocates are bracing themselves for a closed-door debate in Congress that could institute serious Internet content controls similar to the Communications Decency Act, defeated last year. [News.com]
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- CDnow eyes profitability by 2000 - CDnow's online music store may sell copies of an album named "Money to Burn," but the retailer is sold on keeping its revenues up and blazing a path to profits within two years, its top executive said. [News.com]
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- CE upgrade causes confusion - The latest version of Microsoft's Windows CE operating system for handheld computers is just around the corner, but questions about its suitability for older CE devices linger, pointing to critical differences in the upgradability of traditional PCs and these new-fangled handheld PCs. [News.com]
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- Cendant restates results - Cendant filed its long-awaited restatement of past results with the Securities and Exchange Commission today, clearing the way for regulatory review of the company's proposed $3.1 billion purchase of American Bankers Insurance Group. [News.com]
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- Chatter causes SEC probe - Great White Marine & Recreation, a distributor of power boats and other marine equipment, said it is being investigated by federal regulators in the wake of an Internet chat room participant's accusations of wrongdoing against the company. [News.com]
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- China sets Y2K deadlines - China's State Council has announced nationwide deadlines on tackling the millennium computer bug and said officials who fail to do so could be punished, according to reports. [News.com]
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- China sets Y2K deadlines - China's State Council has announced nationwide deadlines on tackling the millennium computer bug and said officials who fail to meet them could be punished, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Chip sector not out of woods yet - Chipmakers are expected to report some improvement when they post their quarterly earnings results in a few weeks, but analysts said the semiconductor sector has yet to emerge from its three-year recession. [News.com]
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- Chip slump hits NEC - Japanese electronics giant NEC said today that it would plunge deep into the red in the first half of this business year, succumbing to a global chip slump and joining a long list of industry peers that have issued harsh loss warnings. [News.com]
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- Chip slump hits Toshiba's profits - Japanese electronics maker Toshiba said today that a severe semiconductor slump and weak demand for computer products would wipe out profits in the current business year. [News.com]
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- Chrysler helps drive NT market - Workstations based around Microsoft's Windows NT received a shot of credibility today when auto maker Chrysler announced that it will shift its engineers from Unix workstations to NT based machines. [News.com]
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- Ciena soars on takeover rumors - Shares of telecommunications equipment supplier Ciena rose 26 percent today amid rumors it may be a takeover target following its failed merger with Tellabs, analysts and traders said. [News.com]
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- Cirrus cutting 500 jobs - Computer chipmaker Cirrus Logic today said it would slash its chipmaking capacity and eliminate as many as 500 jobs as it seeks to cut costs. [News.com]
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- Cisco CEO cites Ciena shortfalls - Cisco Systems chief executive officer John Chambers distanced himself from rumors yesterday that his company may purchase Ciena, a telecommunications equipment supplier. [News.com]
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- Cisco to buy Clarity Wireless - Networking giant Cisco Systems today announced it has moved to acquire privately held Clarity Wireless in a stock deal valued at approximately $157 million. [News.com]
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- Cisco updates management tools - Cisco Systems will take advantage of ever-present Web standards to open up its management tools to a bevy of third-party software, a strategy to extend the company's reach beyond its own networking equipment. [News.com]
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- Citibank joins Microsoft bill venture - Citibank has made an equity investment in MSFDC, a controversial joint venture of Microsoft and First Data for online bill presentment and payment. [News.com]
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- Clinton backs info exchange bill - President Bill Clinton has asked Congress to waste no time in passing legislation unveiled this week that would allow companies to share information about fixing computers unable to handle dates beginning with year 2000. [News.com]
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- Clinton backs info exchange bill - President Bill Clinton has asked Congress to waste no time in passing legislation unveiled this week that would allow companies to share information about fixing computers unable to handle dates beginning with year 2000. [News.com]
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- Clinton regrets "intimate contact" - President Bill Clinton told a grand jury that he had "inappropriate intimate contact" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and he regretted his conduct, in a statement made to the grand jury on August 17 and released today on television and online. [News.com]
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- Clinton video helps Broadcast.com - The White House sex scandal is the worst thing that's happened to President Bill Clinton, but it may be the best thing that's happened to Broadcast.com. [News.com]
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- Clinton video hits the Web - President Clinton's videotaped testimony about his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky hit the Internet today, adding to the piles of digital material that sparked the online fever for full disclosure about the scandal. [News.com]
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- Clinton video rolls online - As the president's videotaped grand jury testimony is released, news sites grapple with both bandwidth and ethical issues in posting it. [News.com]
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- CMG posts $16.5 million profit - CMG Information Services, which owns a stake in Lycos and GeoCities, posted fourth-quarter net income of $31.4 million, or $1.27 per share, compared to a net loss of $5 million, or 26 cents per share, for the like quarter a year ago. [News.com]
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- CMP Media sees lower earnings - CMP Media said today it expected results for its fiscal third quarter to be below analyst forecasts due to reductions in technology advertising. [News.com]
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- Cognos sees leap in profits - Getting data into your computer systems is easy. Doing something useful with it once it is there is another story altogether. [News.com]
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- Comcast pushing digital cable - Cable operator Comcast is on a fast track with its digital cable boxes, looking to increase their production tenfold during the next six months, the company's president said today at an investment conference. [News.com]
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- ComEd's cost for Y2K: $60 million - Chicago-based electric utility Commonwealth Edison said yesterday that it planned to spend a total of $60 million toward making its systems Year 2000 compliant and was in the second quartile of electric utilities in terms of progress on the project. [News.com]
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- Committee clears content bill - The House Commerce Committee today passed a controversial Internet bill that would slap commercial sites with stiff penalties for giving minors access to "harmful material." [News.com]
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- Companies OK memory chip spec - Fujitsu, NEC, and Toshiba said today they have agreed on specifications for stacked multi-chip package technology, which combines a flash memory and a static random-access memory in a single package. [News.com]
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- Compaq eyes Yahoo, Time Warner - Compaq is reportedly in talks with Yahoo and also Time Warner about a joint venture involving its recently acquired AltaVista search engine. [News.com]
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- Compaq makes moves in Germany - Compaq began offering more powerful home PCs at lower prices to increase market share in Europe in general and Germany in particular, announcing a new range of its Presario desktop and portable Internet models priced from $699. [News.com]
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- Compaq releases new Deskpros - Compaq has rolled out upgrades to its Deskpro line of corporate computers that incorporate the latest Pentium II and Celeron processors from Intel. [News.com]
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- Compaq wants inside track on NT - Compaq Computer effectively elbowed past its competitors in corporate computing today via a technology alliance with Microsoft, giving the Houston-based PC vendor a stake in the future development of Windows NT. [News.com]
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- Compaq's new lines for the fall - Compaq Computer made its move for the fall selling season today with several additions to the Presario family of notebooks and desktops, including a sub-$1,000 PC for the education market. [News.com]
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- Compaq, IBM, HP hop on bus spec - IBM, Compaq, and Hewlett-Packard have announced a joint development initiative on a computer specification that, if implemented, would wrest some control over the internal structure of PCs and servers from Intel. [News.com]
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- Computer City shuts some stores - CompUSA will shut down approximately half of the Computer City outlets it bought from Tandy now that the $211 million acquisition of its formal rival has been finalized. [News.com]
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- Computer Sciences falls on report - Computer Sciences Corporation's stock tumbled yesterday due to concerns the company might not meet the profit forecasts it disclosed in March while fending off a hostile $9.1 billion takeover bid. [News.com]
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- Computers off the rack from IBM - Call it the "smart-hat." [News.com]
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- Computing giants backing Linux - Is the freely distributed Linux operating system ready to handle the needs of corporations? [News.com]
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- Conflict over Y2K lawsuit limits - As Senate-approved Y2K legislation moves to the House of Representatives for a vote, some in the legal community are voicing concerns that the bill is overly friendly to big business. [News.com]
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- Congress facing broad Net issues - Between budget bills and impeachment issues, Congress may find time to advance new Net regulations on broad fronts. [News.com]
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- Congress hashes Net copyrights - The rules for computer research, buying software or music over the Net, and testing technology could be forever changed by seemingly mundane copyright legislation federal lawmakers are negotiating over now. [News.com]
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- Connections key to Red Hat deal - It's not what you know, it's who you know. [News.com]
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- Countries closer to Net accord - Europe, North America, and Japan moved a step closer today to agreeing on ground rules for Internet use and electronic commerce, though differences remain on such issues as data security and pornography. [News.com]
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- Court may call back Lessig - The judge overseeing the government's antitrust lawsuit against software giant Microsoft may ask a former adviser to return after Microsoft managed to oust him from his role earlier this year, according to a report. [News.com]
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- Crackdown on Net child porn - About 100 people in 12 countries were arrested today in what police said was the biggest-ever worldwide swoop on pedophiles operating on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Creative sounds low-cost card - Multimedia company Creative Technology has launched a new lower cost version of its Sound Blaster Live! audio card. [News.com]
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- CrossRoute: New name, new aim - CrossRoute Software is making a run to lead the software integration market, with the help of investments from key partners such as Intel and the venture arm of Baan. [News.com]
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- CSC rises on AT&T contract rumor - Computer Sciences Corporation shares rocketed to a new intraday trading high on speculation that it would win several new multiyear outsourcing contracts potentially worth billions of dollars to the company. [News.com]
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- Delays for BofA customers online - Users of Bank of America's online banking service may be experiencing a delay in accessing their accounts, according to a message posted on the banking giant's Web site today. [News.com]
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- Dell boosts servers, support - Dell is acting more like IBM and Hewlett-Packard every day. [News.com]
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- Dell deals for Net access on PCs - Dell Computer today outlined a two-pronged strategy for making it easier for consumers and small-business users to get online, which it hopes will raise its status in one of the few markets in which it doesn't have a commanding presence. [News.com]
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- Dell execs sell 2.3 million shares - Senior Dell Computer executives, including founder and chief executive Michael Dell, have sold 2.3 million common shares worth about $266 million since late June, recent Securities and Exchange Commission documents showed. [News.com]
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- Dell execs: Global demand strong - Dell Computer executives said today that strong demand for computers was pushing the company's sales upward, even in economically stricken areas such as Asia and Latin America. [News.com]
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- Dell eyes shipment milestone - In an industry fraught with turmoil, Dell Computer continues to do well as it races toward a new shipment milestone, selling lines of highly profitable computers and making strides internationally. [News.com]
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- Dell sees "great" quarter - Dell Computer chairman Michael Dell today said his company is enjoying a "great" third quarter in spite of economic and financial turmoil around the world. [News.com]
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- Dell's notebook display biggest yet - Dell Computer is rolling out a notebook PC with a gigantic 15-inch liquid crystal display and panoply of other features for $2,999 as it and vendors such as Compaq prepare to offer the latest and greatest models with the fastest notebook chips yet. [News.com]
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- Developing nations not Y2K-ready - Chaos and the loss of foreign investment await stock exchanges in developing countries if the so-called millennium bug isn't taken care of, a senior U.S. securities official said today. [News.com]
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- Dial-up connection rates improving - People dialing up the Net on their modems are twice as likely to get connected as they were a year ago, according to the latest figures by Net measurement company Inverse Network. [News.com]
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- Dictionary says oui to email - English, backed by the Internet, made new inroads into French today with an authoritative French dictionary giving its green light to the word "email." [News.com]
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- Did IBM stiff Connecticut? - Connecticut Comptroller Nancy Wyman today said she's asked the state to consider a lawsuit against International Business Machines in order to recover $19 million paid for a computer project that hasn't been finished. [News.com]
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- DigiCash loses U.S. toehold - DigiCash, a pioneering Internet firm that promotes "anonymous eCash," is losing its toehold in the United States as the only U.S. bank testing its eCash micropayment system is closing the trial September 14. [News.com]
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- Disk equipment maker bought - Japanese precision equipment maker Shimadzu and semiconductor and electronic equipment trader Marubun today said they would jointly buy British high-tech venture company Nordiko. [News.com]
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- Disney portal moving forward - Is the Disney portal a "go"? [News.com]
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- Dispute brews over modem patent - 3Com and a relatively obscure inventor say they have been granted a patent that could require some modem makers to pay royalties. [News.com]
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- DOJ submits new evidence - Prosecutors today released new evidence concerning Microsoft's dealings with its competitors and partners that is designed to bolster the government's case and show why the court should deny the company's request to dismiss the antitrust suit. [News.com]
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- Domain authority far from decided - Network Solutions got an extra week to hold its spot as the official registry of the most popular domains, but there won't be a storm of change over the governance of the Net naming system any time soon. [News.com]
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- Domain foes try consensus - The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and Network Solutions today released a new joint proposal for the administration of domain names--a responsibility now held by the U.S. government. [News.com]
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- Dow, Nasdaq down sharply - U.S. stocks closed sharply lower today following the lead of global markets, which were unimpressed by yesterday's record gains on Wall Street. [News.com]
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- Dow, Nasdaq part ways - Investors went bargain-hunting today for stocks still suffering from Monday's 512-point plunge, but the Dow ended falling more than 40 points in late trading while the Nasdaq index held onto early gains. [News.com]
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- DrugStore.com goes live--kind of - DrugStore.com, backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has opened a site on the Web--albeit it with scant information about the anticipated launch of the online drugstore. [News.com]
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- DVD your way through traffic - Matsushita Electric Industrial said today a subsidiary would launch the world's first digital video disk (DVD) car navigation system that can play video. [News.com]
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- E*Trade launches portal site - Online brokerage E*Trade today joined the legion of content sites "going portal." [News.com]
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- E-commerce causes security woes - The spread of e-commerce applications within corporations is increasing the risks of losing revenue or vital information to attackers, a new study of IT professionals indicates. [News.com]
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- EarthLink, Charter extend pact - EarthLink, an Internet service provider, and Charter Communications, a cable and telecommunications firm, said today that they have reached an agreement to deliver high-speed Internet service across the United States, extending an existing agreement between them. [News.com]
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- Eaton hit by chip slump - Eaton Semiconductor Equipment Operations detailed its approach to riding out a slump in the computer chip industry, announcing layoffs and other moves to scale back its semiconductor equipment operations. [News.com]
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- eBay roars into public trading - Online auctioneer eBay bolted out of the starting gate on its first day of public trading by nearly tripling its share price, ending a month-long IPO dry spell. [News.com]
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- eBay ups price on eve of IPO - Online auctioneer eBay today priced its pending initial public offering at $18 a share, demonstrating strong demand for its shares despite recent volatility in the markets. [News.com]
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- ECI Telecom buys NKO's Net unit - Israel's ECI Telecom has acquired the Internet telephony development and manufacturing operations of NKO, a unit of Israel's Clal Industries & Investments, Clal said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Economic report defies pessimism - A leading German economic institute forecasts solid growth to continue in Western Europe and in the United States despite world economic turnmoil and recession in Japan. [News.com]
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- Egyptian hackers arrested - Police arrested two Egyptian computer hackers, accusing them of using a stolen credit card number to download pornographic pictures and films worth $147,000 from the Internet, security sources said. [News.com]
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- Ellen Hancock named Exodus CEO - Former Apple Computer executive vice president and chief technology officer Ellen Hancock, who resigned in a palace coup in 1997, has found herself at the top of another Silicon Valley company. [News.com]
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- Ellison calls Gates the PC pope - Mark McGwire may be the biggest story of late, but when it comes to high tech the perennial topic is Bill Gates and the sway he holds over the industry. [News.com]
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- Ellison: I could have owned Apple - If not for some lawyerly advice, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison would today be a proud owner of Apple Computer. [News.com]
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- Enlisting high-end help for NT - Microsoft executives all but admitted today that if its Windows NT Server operating system is ever to gain the features that will make it an attractive alternative to proven high-end software, it's going to need some help. [News.com]
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- Enterprise resource services to grow - The enterprise resource planning software market is hot and it is bringing to a boil the related services industry. [News.com]
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- Ericsson buys networking firm - Ericsson announced today that it has agreed to buy Advanced Computer Communications, a maker of internetworking products, for about $285 million in cash. [News.com]
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- Erratic day on Wall Street - U.S. stocks fell hard today despite a surge in overseas markets following yesterday's rally, which was sparked by Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's hint that interest rates would be lowered. [News.com]
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- ESPN adds college football audio - ESPN.com has begun blending Broadcast.com's college football audio programming into its own content, a natural move for both parties that marks another small step in the march toward convergence. [News.com]
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- ESPN strikes a new course - Closely following a string of announcements from sports sites ramping up for the beginning of football season, giant ESPN today kicked off a new online strategy with the incorporation of SportsZone and other branded sites into newly launched ESPN.com. [News.com]
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- Europe execs wary of e-commerce - European executives remain hesitant about jumping into e-commerce initiatives, according to a new report from Andersen Consulting, which urges measures by both industry and European governments to boost online commerce. [News.com]
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- Europe Net use taking off - Europe is a tremendous growth area for Net and technology use and the gap is closing between Europe and the United States, a research executive said. [News.com]
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- Excite aims at Asia-Pacific region - Excite today announced plans to build out its existing service in Australia and to expand into other markets in the Asia-Pacific region. [News.com]
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- Excite gets new email partner - Excite said today that it has agreed to license technology from Software.com to power its Web-based email service, MailExcite. [News.com]
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- Exec exodus continues at Disney - Another high-level executive is splitting from the ranks at a Disney Internet site. [News.com]
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- Fast Net access homeward bound - A quarter of all online homes in the U.S. will use high-speed, broadband connections to the Internet by 2002, according to a new report. [News.com]
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- Fastest Macs still not here - Almost a month after the launch of Power Macintosh G3 computers, Apple's fastest of the bunch remains missing in action. [News.com]
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- FCC approves MCI-WorldCom - The Federal Communications Commission said today it had cleared WorldCom's acquisition of MCI Communications, subject to MCI completing the divestiture of its Internet assets. [News.com]
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- FCC doubts future long-distance mergers - Future mergers in the long-distance telephone market may be out of the question after the $37 billion combination of MCI Communications and WorldCom, the top U.S. regulator said today. [News.com]
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- FCC nixes Bell, Qwest deals - Federal regulators yesterday barred regional Bell companies US West and Ameritech from marketing long distance service on behalf of upstart carrier Qwest Communications. [News.com]
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- FCC opens up wireless Net - Companies that offer video programming over wireless networks can now jump into the fast Net access business, the Federal Communications Commission said today. [News.com]
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- Fed agencies' networks at risk - Network security weaknesses in the 24 largest U.S. government agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service and the Defense Department, put critical government operations and data at "great risk of fraud, misuse, and disruption," according to the investigative arm of Congress. [News.com]
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- Filter firms make most of Starr report - Parents worried about their children surfing into sexually explicit waters on the Net now have to contend with the widely posted, graphic Kenneth Starr report about President Clinton's relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. [News.com]
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- Firm aims to ease online graphics - The Net may be chock-full of compelling pictures and graphics, but getting them from the screen to the printed page is often a challenge that requires a lot of time and bandwidth. [News.com]
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- First CE-based "thin client" ships - Network Computing Devices has begun shipping its NCD ThinStar 200 terminal, a "thin client" device based on Microsoft's Windows CE operating system. [News.com]
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- First Y2K lawsuit filed is settled - A Detroit-area retailer and the maker of its computerized cash register system have settled their dispute over alleged flaws in the system--including Year 2000 recognition problems on credit cards--for $260,000. [News.com]
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- First Y2K lawsuit filed is settled - A Detroit-area retailer and the maker of its computerized cash register system have settled their dispute over alleged flaws in the system--including Year 2000 recognition problems on credit cards--for $260,000. [News.com]
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- Five firms attack digital pirates - Five leading electronics makers said today they have started licensing a method they've developed to protect copyrighted content transferred over digital interfaces from illegal copying. [News.com]
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- Flat panel has 4 times the pixels - Scientists at IBM say they have developed a new flat-panel computer display that allows users to see text and images with 200 pixels-per-inch clarity, a resolution virtually indistinguishable from the printed page. [News.com]
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- Florida bill limits Y2K liability - A Florida lawmaker proposed that the state limit liability for failure to fix the millennium bug. [News.com]
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- Florida bill limits Y2K liability - A Florida lawmaker proposed that the state limit liability for failure to fix the millennium bug. [News.com]
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- Former tech execs indicted - A federal grand jury indicted two former officers of a multimedia computer products firm in what has been described as the largest financial fraud case ever seen in Silicon Valley, officials said. [News.com]
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- Franklin revs Rex handheld - The ever-expanding world of handheld personal digital assistants got a little larger today, with the introduction of the Rex Pro, the latest credit-card sized communications device from Franklin. [News.com]
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- FTC bans Net auctioneer - An online auctioneer who allegedly took bids on computers but never delivered them has been banned from doing business on the Net for the rest of his life, federal regulators said today. [News.com]
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- Fuji Electric to cut 1,000 jobs - Fuji Electric said today it plans to eliminate 1,000 jobs by March of 2000. [News.com]
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- Fujitsu may shut UK chip plant - Fujitsu admitted to considering the closing of its British semiconductor plant, located within Prime Minister Tony Blair's electoral constituency in northern England. [News.com]
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- Gates accepts modest salary - The world's richest man is underpaid--at least compared to some of his peers. [News.com]
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- Gates donates $20 million to Duke - Multibillionaire Bill Gates and his wife have donated $20 million to Duke University, one of the largest financial gifts in the North Carolina school's history. [News.com]
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- Gates sees antitrust victory - Microsoft chief Bill Gates today said he is confident his company will defeat a U.S. government antitrust suit, although it could take a few months. [News.com]
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- Gates: IBM, Sun are biggest threat - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said yesterday that IBM and Sun Microsystems were likely to provide the toughest competition for the software giant in the future. [News.com]
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- Gateway CEO wrestles Intel over chip - Gateway chairman Ted Waitt sees at least one obstacle in the path of greater success for the low-cost Celeron processor and, oddly enough, it's Intel--a paradox that highlights the conflicts the chip giant faces in bringing out a cheap processor that performs as well as its premium line. [News.com]
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- Gateway PC stores a surprise hit - Gateway is increasingly relying on company-owned retail stores to sustain its success in the consumer and small business market, racking up impressive sales figures at these single-brand storefronts. [News.com]
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- Gateway unveils low-cost Celeron PC - Gateway today introduced the E-1200, a sub-$1,000 desktop computer with monitor for business users featuring Intel's new Celeron processor. [News.com]
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- Gateway's sleek new Solo - Gateway today introduced a new Pentium II notebook with an integrated DVD-ROM drive for less than $3,000, becoming one of the first vendors to offer a DVD drive at this price point and in such a compact design. [News.com]
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- GE brings another thing to light - General Electric says its new LightSpeed scanner produces faster and more detailed images than competing products and eventually will broaden applications of the technology. [News.com]
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- Global chip sales drop in July - Global sales of semiconductor microchips fell 1.9 percent in July to $9.66 billion from $9.86 billion in June as an oversupply of memory chips pressured prices, the Semiconductor Industry Association said. [News.com]
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- Global group to fight Net crime - The International Chamber of Commerce, the world's leading private business grouping, announced today it was setting up a special unit to help companies around the globe combat cybercrime. [News.com]
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- Global PC sales rebounding - Global PC sales are on the rebound despite worldwide economic uncertainties, with iMac frenzy expected to double Apple's shipments while Dell continues to gain ground, according to a new report. [News.com]
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- Greenspan speaks, stocks move - U.S. markets closed higher again today with the news that President Clinton had no plans to resign, offsetting afternoon declines after Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan dashed hopes for any cuts in interest rates. [News.com]
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- Hacking closes N.Y. Times site - The New York Times closed its Web site today after it was hacked, according to news reports. [News.com]
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- Half million Mexicans online soon - Just over a half million Mexicans are expected to have access to the Internet by year's end, according to a new study. [News.com]
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- Hard sell for BT speedy access - British Telecommunications faces a tough time selling its new BT Highway mass-market Internet access product and appears to have over-ambitious targets, experts said today. [News.com]
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- Harris warns of earnings drop - Semiconductor and communications' equipment maker Harris Corporation today joined a growing list of chipmakers by warning that it expects its first quarter earnings to be below last year's first quarter and about 10 percent below analysts' estimates. [News.com]
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- Hatch warns FTC on Intel - Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch said today that the Federal Trade Commission needs to be "careful" as it pursues Intel for alleged violations of antitrust law. [News.com]
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- Healtheon sets IPO price range - Healtheon, a provider of health care and benefits management services online, plans to raise up to $52.2 million in its proposed initial public offering, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission today. [News.com]
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- High-end notebooks, low-end sales - Notebook manufacturers are being pulled in opposite directions, toward the market's high and low ends. [News.com]
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- High-tech execs try start-up life - Hewlett-Packard's vice president of corporate sales, Dick Watts, is the latest in a string of high-tech higher-ups to leave their posts in favor of running a start-up venture. [News.com]
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- Higher ed fights Microsoft demand - Harvard University and MIT are fighting a demand by Microsoft for research gathered by two professors on Netscape Communications, charging that it threatens their First Amendment rights and ability to conduct research, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Hitachi to post massive loss - Japanese electronics giant Hitachi said today it will post a massive loss this business year to pay for a restructuring aimed at rescuing the company from the biggest crisis in its history. [News.com]
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- Home run race draws fans online - Thanks to its popular appeal, Mark McGwire's bid for Major League Baseball's single-season home run mark is becoming another chapter in the story of how online reportage is joining mainstream news coverage. [News.com]
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- Hope in sight for digital TV fight - Federal Communications Commission chairman William Kennard said yesterday that the cable television and consumer electronic industries have pledged to work aggressively to resolve some technological glitches that could slow the adoption of high-definitive television. [News.com]
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- HotWired relaunched again - Wired Digital today introduced its fourth revision of HotWired. [News.com]
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- House hearing live on Net - The House Agriculture Committee will become the first congressional body to broadcast proceedings live over the Internet, a committee spokesman said today. [News.com]
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- House OKs more work visas - After a late-night deal with the White House, the House passed legislation today to increase the number of highly skilled foreign workers allowed into the country each year while laying out some assurances that U.S. workers won't be displaced by H1-B visa holders. [News.com]
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- House subcommittee passes CDA II - In the wake of the House's rush to post the sexually explicit Starr report on the Net last week, lawmakers today pushed forward a bill that to the naked eye would seem to make it a crime for commercial Web sites to do the same thing. [News.com]
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- House to post Starr report online - If large parts of Kenneth Starr's report are made public tomorrow, the presidency isn't the only thing that could come crashing down. [News.com]
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- HP cuts Brio, Vectra prices - Hewlett-Packard today cut prices by up to 14 percent on its Vectra and Brio personal computers, effective immediately. [News.com]
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- HP offers ISPs deals - Hewlett-Packard today unveiled a new business strategy targeting Internet service providers, a market it believes could generate billions in HP revenue within a few years. [News.com]
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- HP pins hopes on Europe - Hewlett-Packard's CEO said that he hopes the company's success in Europe can help counter the collapse of much of its business in emerging markets. [News.com]
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- HP rolls out portable scanner - Hewlett-Packard unveiled the first in a series of "information appliances" in the company's effort to build a brand in the portable electronics market. [News.com]
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- HP sets up shop in Ireland - Hewlett-Packard today opened the headquarters of its equipment leasing bank in Dublin, the latest in a long line of multinationals to be lured by Ireland's friendly corporate tax incentives. [News.com]
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- HP slashes notebook prices - In the latest move in an ongoing campaign to spark its notebook sales, Hewlett-Packard announced price cuts of 7 to 28 percent on various OmniBook notebook lines. [News.com]
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- HP sued over recordable CD drive - Hewlett-Packard has been hit with a lawsuit stemming from a well-known problem which may cause the company's recordable CD drives to not consistently work as advertised. [News.com]
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- HP's Platt sees job cuts coming - Hewlett-Packard chairman Lewis Platt admitted the computing giant will cut some jobs as part of a coming restructuring operation. [News.com]
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- HP's Watts to head start-up - ConvergeNet Technologies, a maker of storage and networking products for high-end users, announced today that it has tapped Richard Watts as its president and chief executive officer. [News.com]
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- HP, Motorola face critical test - Hewlett-Packard and Motorola, two technology industry titans, continue to struggle with the impact of economic uncertainty in Asia. How they deal with those uncertainties could provide others with a roadmap for how--or how not--to react to market forces. [News.com]
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- I'm sorry, says Microsoft exec - Extending an olive branch to the software industry, a Microsoft executive in charge of relationships with Windows developers today apologized to members of the Software Publishers Association for the company's arrogance in the past. [News.com]
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- IBM adds two to elite committee - IBM is promoting two executives to its corporate executive committee, including only the second woman to join the elite group of Big Blue decision makers, according to reports. [News.com]
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- IBM adds ViaVoice to more PCs - IBM refreshed its line of Aptiva consumer PCs today, introducing new models featuring Big Blue's ViaVoice speech recognition software. [News.com]
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- IBM enters the copper age - IBM's new copper chip marks the computing giant's bid for glory in the microprocessor world. [News.com]
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- IBM expands Net payment options - IBM is fleshing out its Internet payments server by adding support for a hybrid it dubs MoSET. [News.com]
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- IBM exploring Korean joint venture - South Korean conglomerate SK Group and IBM are negotiating a joint venture which would provide consulting services to SK subsidiaries. [News.com]
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- IBM forced out of Intel chip market - The first casualty of the low-cost processor market is paradoxically one of the largest players in the computer industry: IBM. [News.com]
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- IBM gains in China joint venture - Great Wall Computer Shenzhen said yesterday it plans to sell a 19 percent stake in a joint venture with IBM to the U.S. computer maker. [News.com]
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- IBM lands $2 billion Boeing deal - Boeing extended its computing relationship with IBM today by awarding Big Blue a five-year outsourcing contract with an estimated value of $2 billion. [News.com]
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- IBM moves in on ISPs - IBM today rolled out a number of server software tools aimed at attracting Internet service providers looking to upgrade their networks and win more business in outsourced Web apps. [News.com]
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- IBM mum on NetObjects IPO - IBM on Friday declined to comment on a report the company plans to take public its NetObjects Internet software affiliate. [News.com]
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- IBM offers services for SAP, others - Big Blue is looking for some more green with a new global services division targeting the lucrative enterprise resource planning market. [News.com]
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- IBM perks up in Silicon Valley - In Silicon Valley, Big Blue's employees wear black. [News.com]
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- IBM plugs networking in China - Asia's financial turmoil has hammered spending on information technology in many countries but China remains a bulwark of investment, IBM chairman Lou Gerstner said today. [News.com]
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- IBM readies networking tools - Just as a new executive takes the helm of IBM's networking hardware division, Big Blue is adding a new series of networking tools to its roster, extending its presence in the corporate market and tying its line of routing devices to the multimedia age. [News.com]
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- IBM sale may draw many suitors - IBM may get to choose from among a long list of potential buyers for its Global Network, the far-flung data network operation which sources say it has put up for auction. [News.com]
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- IBM says may sell global network - IBM today announced that it is exploring the possibility of selling its global network, the underlying infrastructure that provides consumer and business connections to the Internet. [News.com]
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- IBM server finds new fans - What's in with the younger generation these days? Bell-bottoms, VW bugs, and...AS/400? [News.com]
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- IBM signs deal with China airline - IBM said today that it had signed a systems integration deal with China Southern Airlines. [News.com]
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- IBM takes aim at Microsoft - Big Blue's software message is becoming deceptively simple: Whatever you got, we'll make it work. [News.com]
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- IBM to manage C&W's IT support - IBM today announced it clinched a $3 billion pact with Cable & Wireless Communications to handle the company's information technology support. [News.com]
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- IBM to sell global network unit - IBM has put its Global Network operations up for sale, a transaction that could fetch $3 billion to $4 billion, according to reports. [News.com]
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- IBM to unveil smallest disk drive - IBM will unveil today the world's smallest and lightest disk drive--a potential boon to the digital camera market and other consumer electronics devices with increasing demands for data storage. [News.com]
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- IBM touts Home Director - IBM yesterday introduced its Home Director networking system, the latest in the company's efforts to increase its visibility as a provider of cutting-edge home technology. [News.com]
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- IBM touts new, high-clarity LCDs - Copper isn't just for processors at IBM. Now it's going into ultra-high-resolution liquid crystal displays for Big Blue's notebooks. [News.com]
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- IBM's ISP e-commerce software - Broadening its e-commerce offerings, IBM is slated to announce this week that it will add a version of its e-commerce software to ISPs and Web hosting services. [News.com]
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- IBM, Great Plains offer outsourcing - Big Blue is taking its e-commerce program to the Great Plains to create a financial management outsourcing program. [News.com]
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- IBM, Legend form software pact - Computer manufacturer Legend Holdings said it signed a deal with IBM to form an alliance to boost software application and development in China. [News.com]
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- IBM, SAP team for retail - German software titan SAP and computer giant IBM have galvanized their relationship in the retail sector. [News.com]
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- IE manager a smoking gun? - A Microsoft executive testified that his company "absolutely" meant to persuade rival Netscape Communications not to compete against it in the Windows market for Web browsers, according to testimony cited in yesterday's court ruling rejecting Microsoft's attempt to have government antitrust allegations thrown out. [News.com]
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- iMac aimed at larger Asian share - Apple Computer expects to capture a larger slice of the Asian market with its new iMac computer, according to J. Graham Long, Apple's president of the Asia-Pacific region. [News.com]
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- iMac knock-offs due in '99 - A joint venture out of Korea is developing new low-cost computers, including an iMac look-alike, to be introduced in the spring of 1999. [News.com]
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- iMac shoots to No. 2 - Apple Computer's iMac is a certified hit, according to new sales data from market research firm PC Data. [News.com]
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- India limits foreign software money - India's Information and Broadcasting Ministry has decided to limit foreign equity to 74 percent in television software firms not directly related to broadcasting. [News.com]
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- Info-tech age challenges Japan - The ongoing digital revolution and an emerging network age have posed a serious challenge to Japanese businesses, which are still mired in a "post-war" business mode, Sony president Nobuyuki Idei said today. [News.com]
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- Infomercial firm plans e-commerce site - Infomercial giant National Media Corporation is planning to launch a membership-based online shopping service. [News.com]
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- Informix joins Linux fans - Add Informix Software to the growing list of Linux fans. [News.com]
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- Infoseek searches for direction - It appears Infoseek is not ready to become a lame-duck site. [News.com]
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- Infoseek, Disney plan portal - Web firm Infoseek and Walt Disney's online division today announced plans to start a new Internet site to better position themselves in the ever-escalating portal competition. [News.com]
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- Inktomi to buy C2B - Search engine company Inktomi today announced that it is buying C2B Technologies, developer of online comparison shopping software. [News.com]
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- Intel aims Celeron at notebooks - Intel will release Celeron processors for notebook computers in the $1,299 to $1,399 range during the first half of 1999, in an effort to hitch onto the next wave of low-cost computing. [News.com]
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- Intel cloner vows $800 notebooks - A new processor vendor will jump into the notebook PC market later this year, and, once again, prices will very likely go down. [News.com]
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- Intel clones face tough market - Some relatively small start-ups with big ambitions are planning chips aimed at taking away business from Intel, but they face daunting obstacles that question their very survival. [News.com]
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- Intel customers push own design - Three of Intel's biggest customers are challenging the chip giant's influence over a key piece of technology within the personal computer, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Intel device not far from Apple tree - Intel is showing off a new home entertainment device at the Intel Developer Forum here. [News.com]
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- Intel donates $6 million to museum - The Whitney Museum of American Art received funding for an upcoming show from an unusual donor: Intel. [News.com]
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- Intel eyes set-top computers - Intel will start to place chips in set-top boxes later this year and come out with enhanced Pentium II and Xeon processors by the second half of 1999, according to company executives. [News.com]
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- Intel inside out - Intel laid out its long-range plans today at the Intel Developer Forum. The plans include placing chips in set-top boxes, enhancing Pentium II and Xeon processors, "thin servers" for small businesses, and a new entertainment device that borrows heavily from Apple's iMac. [News.com]
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- Intel moves up in network chipsets - Intel could be positioning itself as a leader in an important emerging market: network chips that are integrated onto the main PC circuit board, according to a new report. [News.com]
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- Intel pushing unified Unix - Intel will work toward establishing common standards among different versions of the Unix operating system, a critical requirement as the company lays the groundwork for its high-end server and next-generation 64-bit Merced technologies. [News.com]
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- Intel sees upside in PC market - Shares of Intel jumped higher today after the company said yesterday that revenues for its third calendar quarter will be 8 to 10 percent stronger than expected due to stronger demand in North America and Europe, although the effect of this strength on overall earnings has not been revealed. [News.com]
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- Intel slashes chip prices - Intel, pushing to blanket the market with Pentium II technology, announced price cuts today across its line of chips. [News.com]
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- Intel targets StrongARM chip at CE - A funny thing is occurring at the Intel Developer Conference here. Mention the word "StrongARM"--the low-cost, low-power processor that Digital assigned to Intel late last year in a legal settlement--and no one runs away. [News.com]
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- Intel tests "thin server" field - Intel is pushing an unusual strategy for a company which typically keeps its distance from finished computer products: sell Intel-branded servers. [News.com]
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- Intel to cut 675 jobs - Intel will let 675 employees go from a Massachusetts chip fabrication facility in a job cut that is separate from Intel's earlier stated goal of reducing its headcount by 3,000. [News.com]
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- Intel touts new display group - One of the next big stages for PC development will be improving the plugs, according to Pat Gelsinger, vice president of Intel's desktop product group, including a new group for defining the connection to the growing flat-panel display market. [News.com]
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- Intel's Barrett downplays MS rift - Intel is not siding with either Symbian or Microsoft's Windows CE in the coming battle for palmtop operating systems, but the chipmaker's relationship with the software giant is as strong as ever, according to chief executive Craig Barrett. [News.com]
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- Intel's Katmai chip aimed at video - If anything, the upcoming Katmai processors from Intel will be a boon for budding filmmakers. [News.com]
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- Intel, Adobe, Oracle see upside - Shares of Oracle, Intel, and Adobe Systems--each leaders in their respective sectors--rose higher today after the companies posted bullish financial reports, raising hope that these companies are seeing an end to their slumps. [News.com]
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- Intel, Dell show off server system - Intel, Dell, and others today showed off a high-end server system that they say matches the capabilities of many sophisticated Unix systems. [News.com]
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- Intel, Netscape back Red Hat - Red Hat Software, distributor of a version of Linux, today announced that Intel, Netscape Communications, and two venture capital firms will take equity stakes in it. [News.com]
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- Intel, Netscape stake Linux? - Intel, Netscape, and at least two venture capital firms are said to be preparing to announce a deal today under which they each will take an equity stake in software vendor Red Hat Software, the North Carolina-based software vendor that distributes a version of the Linux operating system. [News.com]
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- Intel, RealNetworks strike deal - Intel has announced that it is licensing video compression technology to software maker RealNetworks, in a pact that could spur demand for its high-end chips while further calling into question its de facto alliance with RealNetworks rival Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Intel, SGI bail on Java multimedia - Sun Microsystems has lost its two most valuable partners in its effort to develop a common framework for adding multimedia to Java applications. [News.com]
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- Intergraph asks for Intel ruling - Intergraph yesterday asked a federal court for a summary judgment in its antitrust lawsuit against Intel. [News.com]
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- Internet server market to double - Keeping pace with the steady increase of Net surfers, the market for Internet servers will more than double in 1998, a market study said. [News.com]
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- Internet2 backbone's debut - A gathering of researchers and corporate representatives are in San Francisco today to witness the first public demonstration of Abilene, a high-performance $500 million network developed by Qwest Communications, Nortel Networks, Cisco Systems, and the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development. [News.com]
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- Intershop stock surges in Germany - An e-commerce software firm which went public last month in Germany has already reached a market capitalization that's nearly as large as two U.S. rivals combined. [News.com]
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- Intuit Year 2000 suit dismissed - Intuit today said a lawsuit that was filed against it that alleged some of its products did not recognize the Year 2000 has been dismissed. [News.com]
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- Intuit Year 2000 suit dismissed - Intuit today said a lawsuit that was filed against it that alleged some of its products did not recognize the Year 2000 has been dismissed. [News.com]
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- Investment firm eyes e-commerce - Attention e-commerce start-ups--El Dorado Ventures has earmarked $40 million in venture capital for young Internet commerce companies. [News.com]
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- Iomega sued over Zip drive noise - Iomega said today that a lawsuit has been filed against the company alleging that a clicking sound in its Zip drive for personal computers may indicate damage to the drive and the disks on which information is stored. [News.com]
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- Irish eyes smiling on Dell - Dell Computer said it would build a $90 million computer factory in Limerick, Ireland, as part of a previously announced expansion of its European operations. [News.com]
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- Ironic time for Net content hearing - When a House of Representatives subcommittee planned a hearing on how to protect children from obscenity on the Internet, it probably did not have presidential sex in mind. [News.com]
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- Is 3Com a takeover target? - As speculation mounts that 3Com may be an acquisition target of chip giant Intel or Lucent Technologies, insiders at the networking company have been refraining from selling their shares. [News.com]
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- Is cable Net access like cable TV? - The Federal Communications Commission is exploring whether budding cable Net access services such as @Home and Time Warner's Road Runner should be regulated or be forced to open their high-speed networks to competitors. [News.com]
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- ISPs gain new respect - With 5,000 ISPs descending on Silicon Valley this week for a trade show, companies as diverse as Hewlett-Packard, Netscape, Open Market, Silicon Graphics, and IBM are targeting the suddenly hot ISP market, thinking to make it easier for Net access providers to handle outsourced applications for corporate customers. [News.com]
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- J.D. Edwards aims at front office - J.D. Edwards is looking toward the front of the corporate house. [News.com]
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- Jamaica banks fight Y2K bug - Jamaica's financial sector will be free from the bite of the millennium bug, according to the technology minister who alarmed investors with an earlier forecast of Year 2000 computer problems. [News.com]
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- Jamaica banks fight Y2K bug - Jamaica's financial sector will be free from the bite of the millennium bug, according to the technology minister who alarmed investors with an earlier forecast of Year 2000 computer problems. [News.com]
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- Japan laps up ultraportables - U.S. computer makers are urgently designing lightweight notebook computers for the Japanese market, where ultraportable sales are skyrocketing. [News.com]
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- Japan weighs U.S. accounting - Japanese companies are considering U.S.-style accountability to shareholders to help jolt the Tokyo stock market out of its long-term torpor, executives and legal experts say. [News.com]
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- Japanese chipmakers cut jobs - Japanese electronics giant Hitachi has announced that it will merge two of its U.S. semiconductor units in a move that will eliminate 650 jobs, or about 4 percent, of its stateside work force. [News.com]
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- Java court session to be closed - Today's final arguments in Sun Microsystems' request for a preliminary injunction against Microsoft remain off-limits to the public, an assistant to U.S. District Judge Ronald Whyte said this morning. [News.com]
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- Java suit hearing under way - Attorneys for Sun Microsystems and Microsoft squared off in a daylong hearing regarding Sun's request that the software giant modify Java features in Windows 98. [News.com]
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- Jaz drives get cheaper - Iomega today announced a $100 price cut on its Jaz 2GB drives, the second discount for the product this summer. [News.com]
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- Jobs maps Mac's future - Addressing the Seybold publishing conference here, interim CEO Steve Jobs detailed Apple Computer's strategy for the Mac OS 8.5 and upcoming OS X operating systems. [News.com]
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- Judge delays Microsoft trial date - A federal judge today denied the vast majority of Microsoft's request to dismiss antitrust prosecutors' landmark suit against it, ruling that genuinely disputed factual issues at the heart of the case--some substantiated in previously confidential memos among Microsoft executives--can be resolved only by going to trial. [News.com]
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- Judge denies cookie file request - A federal judge has dismissed a novel case testing just how far a state's public records act extends into cyberspace, ruling that a local government's refusal to turn over its computer files does not violate a journalist's First Amendment rights. [News.com]
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- Judge puts Microsoft on ice - A federal judge today told Microsoft that once the landmark antitrust trial of the software giant begins on October 15, he will consider the company's request to limit the breadth of testimony--but not now. [News.com]
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- Judge rejects limit on domain fees - A federal judge has affirmed the legality of a tax paid previously by millions of Internet domain name registrants, clearing the way for the government to resume collecting a fee of $15 to $30 per address. [News.com]
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- Judge: Java case about contracts - The judge presiding over Sun Microsystems' request for a court order halting Microsoft from shipping a modified form of Java told the litigants the case is about contract law, not arcane software development issues. [News.com]
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- Juniper ships speedy router - Start-ups naturally have to deal with a lot of big "ifs," and Juniper Networks is no exception. [News.com]
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- Juno finds infamous spammer - It took four months and some dogged detective work, but free email and online service Juno said it has finally tracked down one of the most notorious spammers on the Net. [News.com]
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- K6-2, Windows 95 mismatch cured - A relatively obscure, but annoying, glitch has been discovered when the fastest versions of the K6-2 processor from Advanced Micro Devices is used in conjunction with Windows 95, but the company and Microsoft have taken steps to eradicate it. [News.com]
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- Kaplan launches online law school - Joining the swelling rank of educators embracing the Net, test preparation firm Kaplan will launch a law school online this fall. [News.com]
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- Keeping e-commerce current - MCI WorldCom today updated its relationship with online procurement service Commerce One, stating that MCI Systemshouse will continue to be a preferred systems integrator. [News.com]
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- Kodak, Intel team on chips, photo CDs - Later this month at an industry event, Kodak and Intel will detail a plan to offer consumers digitized photographs on CDs and elaborate on a digital camera technology based on a lower-cost design, the first fruit of their six-month-old digital imaging alliance. [News.com]
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- Kodak, Intel to unveil disc product - Kodak and Intel today announced their plans to offer consumers digitized photographs on CDs and to elaborate on a digital camera technology based on a lower-cost design, the first fruit of their six-month-old digital imaging alliance. [News.com]
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- Korean chip merger at crossroads - Hyundai Electronics Industries may have the upper hand in a battle for managerial control over a proposed merger with LG Semicon, analysts in Seoul said today. [News.com]
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- Korean chipmakers to merge - Two top South Korean computer chipmakers have agreed to merge, but analysts said chances were dim that the deal would be actualized in the near future. [News.com]
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- Lawmakers examine privacy bill - Web sites that gather personal details from children came under scrutiny once again today when lawmakers met over a bill that would require data collectors to get parental permission before accepting private information from preteens. [News.com]
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- Lawson debuts self-service apps - Lawson Software wants users to get off IS's back and customize their own applications. [News.com]
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- Learning Company to cut 500 jobs - Education software maker the Learning Company said today that it will cut about 500 jobs and consolidate certain facilities as it integrates its purchase of Broderbund Software, the maker of software under the Myst and Carmen Sandiego titles. [News.com]
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- Level 3 to buy German ISP - Level 3 Communications announced today that it has purchased miknet Internet Based Services, a German Internet service provider based in Frankfurt. [News.com]
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- Level 3, Qwest reach out to Net - The new generation of telephone companies is making waves once again as it purchases its way onto the Internet. In the latest example, Level 3 acquired a German Internet service provider, just one day after Qwest Communications bought Icon CMT, an Internet services company. Qwest's CEO now predicts his company will be worth $3 billion by the end of the year. [News.com]
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- Liberty Media's interactive venture - Liberty Media announced it is forming a new venture to focus on the development of interactive programming and content for emerging new media platforms. [News.com]
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- Linux in the limelight - Red Hat's chief hails the new investments in his company by heavy hitters Intel and Netscape, which are now among a legion of players backing Linux. [News.com]
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- Lockheed plans to buy Comsat - Stock in defense contractor Lockheed Martin closed lower today after it agreed to acquire satellite communications provider Comsat yesterday in a two-step deal worth about $2.7 billion. [News.com]
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- Longtime MCI exec to retire - A longtime entrenched MCI Communications executive announced he plans to retire at the end of this year from the recently merged MCI WorldCom. [News.com]
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- Lotus details eSuite upgrade - As expected, Lotus Development today rolled out the latest version of its Java-based desktop applications suite. [News.com]
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- Lotus rolls out Organizer 5.0 - Lotus Development this month will roll out the latest version of its personal information manager and launch a new campaign intended to retain its cc:Mail customer base. [News.com]
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- Lotus shows off Domino tools - Lotus Development today continued to show off a number of its product families in the Web server, document management, and Web application hosting markets to its European customers. [News.com]
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- Lotus: Price cuts for everyone - Lotus Development isn't happy with just enticing the huge customer base of cc:Mail customers with cheap upgrade offers for Notes and Domino. [News.com]
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- Low-cost chip war intensifies - Like two late-night TV pitchmen, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices will both be vying for the right to say they will not be undersold when it comes to low-cost processors this fall. [News.com]
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- Low-income folks buying PCs - Low-income households, enticed by the lure of low-cost PCs and the Internet, will be the leading source of first-time PC buyers in 1999, according to a report from a marketing research firm. [News.com]
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- Lucent wins $30 million deal - Lucent Technologies said it received a $30 million contract to build Jabatan Telekom Brunei's telecommunications network infrastructure. [News.com]
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- Mac on the attack - With iMac sales still heating up the shelves, Apple hasn't yet caught up with the demand for its sleek new system. But iMac isn't the only ace in Apple's future hand--the company's also talking up Mac OS 8.5 and the OS X as part of its strategy. [News.com]
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- Macromedia aims line at training - Macromedia today unveiled a new product line geared toward the online corporate training market. [News.com]
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- Macromedia enters AOL deal - Macromedia announced a significant distribution deal today under which its Flash and Shockwave players are included in the new version of America Online. [News.com]
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- Macronix, VLSI in chip tie-up - Taiwan's Macronix International announced a technology-sharing agreement with specialty chipmaker VLSI Technology. [News.com]
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- Major vendors show OBI support - Backers of a protocol to make online procurement easier are hoping that a demonstration later this week that software from different vendors can communicate with each other will boost the Open Buying on the Internet protocol. [News.com]
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- Malaysia steps up tech efforts - Malaysia's ambitious plan to create a futuristic "Cybercity" is a year ahead of schedule and its builders are confident they can still maintain the pace despite recent financial difficulties sweeping over Asia. [News.com]
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- Manugistics to level layoffs - Software developer Manugistics Group said today that it has embarked on a restructuring program that will cut jobs and create a division to serve the technology and electronics market. [News.com]
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- Markets in flux - Stocks continued their roller-coaster ride today. The Dow surged early but was down again in late trading, while the Nasdaq index recorded a modest gain. [News.com]
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- Markets lower on fresh concerns - Stocks were under pressure again today as overseas financial turmoil capped the market's rebound from Monday's 513-point slide in the Dow Jones industrial average. [News.com]
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- Markets react to Clinton video - Wall Street stocks fell hard at the opening bell, as investors gauged what damage the release of President Clinton's videotaped grand jury testimony would inflict on already jittery markets, but recovered later after investors absorbed the initial shock. [News.com]
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- Markets slide on rate cut news - Wall Street stocks closed lower today after the Federal Reserve announced a quarter-percent interest rate cut, less than what most investors had hoped for. [News.com]
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- Markets up on Greenspan hints - Wall Street stocks soared today, with investors banking on Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's hints when he spoke before the Senate Budget Committee tody that a U.S. interest rate cut was imminent. [News.com]
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- MarketWatch.com going public? - Data Broadcasting said it plans to sell to the public a stake of MarketWatch.com, a joint venture with CBS Broadcasting. [News.com]
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- Matsushita closing part of trend - From Washington state to small towns in England, the semiconductor industry slump has German, Japanese, and U.S. chipmakers pulling up stakes and closing plants. [News.com]
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- MCI WorldCom charges reduced - In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, MCI WorldCom said it has reduced the amount of research costs it expects to write off for the merger of MCI Communications and WorldCom. [News.com]
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- MediaOne a telecom target? - Broadband service company MediaOne Group is the only attractive merger partner remaining for any major telecommunications outfit that wants to be a player in the coming convergence of personal computers and television, influential industry analysts speculated at a conference here today. [News.com]
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- Medical email has benefits, risks - Regular email communication between doctors and patients has the potential to enhance the health care of millions, but carries some risks as well, according to a report. [News.com]
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- Memory chip firms to cut back - Leading Japanese memory chip makers plan to cut back on production in coming months in response to continuing price drops, but the decision could be ill-timed. [News.com]
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- Merger delay hurts Ciena, Tellabs - Shares of Ciena and Tellabs dropped today after the two telecommunications equipment makers said the shareholder votes on their revised $4.7 billion merger would be held later than expected, analysts said. [News.com]
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- Merging factory, flow software - Buying software that handles the latest techniques in manufacturing processes is one thing. Changing your entire way of doing business to match that software is another. [News.com]
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- Micron Electronics turns corner - Micron Electronics bested analysts' expectations today when the No. 3 direct PC maker reported a larger-than-expected quarterly profit, due in part to strong server sales. [News.com]
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- Micron Technology wins for losing - Micron Technology beat Wall Street's expectations today but said it lost nearly $90 million during the three-month period ended September 3, "primarily due to severe declines in per megabit selling prices on the company's semiconductor memory products." [News.com]
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- Microsoft adds to Plato feature list - Surprising few observers and worrying some potential competitors, Microsoft has detailed additional features for its upcoming online analytical processing (OLAP) server, code-named Plato, which assertively positions the software giant as a player in the high-end online analytical processing market. [News.com]
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- Microsoft apps all business - The only way for Microsoft to extend its reach into the upper levels of corporate computerdom is through the front lines of business application developers. [News.com]
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- Microsoft beats GE market cap - Microsoft today surpassed General Electric as the nation's most valuable company. [News.com]
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- Microsoft COO speaks to investors - Microsoft chief operating officer Bob Herbold today discussed pending product upgrades and the software giant's ongoing antitrust battle against government regulators during an investment conference here. [News.com]
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- Microsoft cries ambush - Microsoft told a federal judge that antitrust prosecutors are attempting to ambush it with new evidence that's unrelated to the current case and asked for the allegations to be excluded or the trial delayed by six months. [News.com]
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- Microsoft does lawsuit hat trick - It was a busy day for Microsoft attorneys, as three separate lawsuits embroiling the software giant all moved forward. [News.com]
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- Microsoft eyes app server market - Microsoft is out to stake its claim in the application server market. [News.com]
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- Microsoft files copyright lawsuits - Microsoft said today that it has filed three copyright and trademark infringement lawsuits involving software, two of which fall under Arizona's new anticounterfeiting law. [News.com]
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- Microsoft fixes IE security hole - Microsoft has issued a patch for a browser security hole that could let a Web site operator view specific files on a user's hard drive. [News.com]
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- Microsoft plugs NT hole - Microsoft has plugged another security hole found in its Windows NT Workstation and Server operating system. [News.com]
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- Microsoft posts data access bug fix - Microsoft has issued an upgrade to its Jet database engine intended to fix an existing data access bug. [News.com]
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- Microsoft profits from license changes - Companies that buy Microsoft's BackOffice products better check the fine print on their licensing contracts before they find themselves shelling out millions more to the software titan than originally intended. [News.com]
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- Microsoft pulls Office 97 patch - Admitting its latest service release for Office 97 is faulty, Microsoft today said it has removed an update from its Web site to stamp out the bugs. [News.com]
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- Microsoft renews bid for exclusion - Setting off speculation about yet another trial delay, Microsoft said allegations recently introduced into the historic antitrust suit against the software giant are "tangential" and renewed a request to exclude the material from trial. [News.com]
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- Microsoft Russian sales stagnant - Microsoft acknowledged that sales here have stagnated since the beginning of the year, as the Russian economy has slowed and the ruble fallen. [News.com]
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- Microsoft shows developer tools - Microsoft is expected to roll out a tool bundle tomorrow for building business applications based on its Office desktop application suite. [News.com]
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- Microsoft subpoena pared back - A federal judge today narrowed the scope of a subpoena that Microsoft had issued to Oracle as part of its defense against charges of illegally using a monopoly. [News.com]
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- Microsoft subpoenas competitors - Microsoft said today it subpoenaed its chief competitors, including Netscape Communications, Sun Microsystems, and IBM, seeking details meant to ward off allegations in its antitrust case. [News.com]
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- Microsoft told to submit evidence - A federal judge ordered Microsoft to turn over evidence relating to business dealings with two of its partners, but put off ruling on the company's requests to exclude the evidence from the antitrust case or on delaying the trial set to start in three weeks, both parties in the dispute said. [News.com]
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- Microsoft tries to get SET - Microsoft is jumping back onto the SET bandwagon. [News.com]
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- Microsoft updates Office 97 - Microsoft today rolled out the latest free service pack for Office 97 corporate and individual customers. [News.com]
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- Microsoft updates photo-editing - Microsoft today rolled out the latest version of its photo-editing software product, adding it to the company's Graphics Studio line of publishing and imaging products. [News.com]
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- Microsoft ups portal efforts - Microsoft is continuing its portal push this week with several announcements aimed at gearing up its generally late-to-market MSN site. [News.com]
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- Microsoft wants secret testimony - Microsoft today argued that the pretrial testimony of Bill Gates and other executives in the landmark antitrust case against the software giant should remain secret. [News.com]
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- Microsoft woos Lotus users - Continuing its push to lure Lotus Development cc:Mail and Notes messaging server customers over to its Exchange server, Microsoft today rolled out a number of migration and coexistence tools. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Chinese firms tie up - Six of China's software giants will form service alliances with software superpower Microsoft to gain access to the latter's fast-growing corporate operating system, according to the Xinhua news agency. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Compaq ally on NT - Microsoft and Compaq Computer today unveiled a far-reaching alliance for developing a more powerful version of the Windows NT server operating system based partly around high-end technology from the PC giant. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, DOJ name witnesses - The Justice Department presented a 12-person witness list in its antitrust suit against Microsoft, marking a broadening of its case against the software giant. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Oracle debut Web tools - While Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is busy today wooing corporate developers with his company's latest tool bundle, long-time rival Oracle is also trying to turn some heads with a new tool aimed squarely at the software giant. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Sun have final face-off - Rivals Microsoft and Sun Microsystems faced off for the third and final day this week in a series of U.S. District Court hearings in Sun's lawsuit against Microsoft over the Java language. [News.com]
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- Microwave PC a hot idea - NCR today unveiled its Microwave Bank--a microwave oven which also offers access to online banking, shopping, email, and TV--and can cook dinner. [News.com]
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- MindSpring buys Sprynet from AOL - Internet service provider MindSpring today announced it has acquired rival Sprynet for $35 to $40 million from parent company America Online. [News.com]
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- Missouri slams Net gambling firm - Casino operators may think they can skirt state laws in cyberspace, but a Missouri case shows the Net can't always defy borders. [News.com]
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- More growth seen for digital tech - The U.S. entertainment and communications industries should grow at nearly twice the rate of the economy over the next nine years as cutting-edge digital technologies feed the American appetite for new products, an industry trade group said. [News.com]
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- More Japan chip plants delayed - Chipmaker Matsushita Electronics will delay the start of memory chip production at one new plant and put off construction of another, as low prices continue to impact the industry. [News.com]
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- More Java components from IBM - Big Blue is expanding the menu at its SanFrancisco Java café. [News.com]
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- More Net child porn arrests - German investigators said they had detained five more suspects as part of a worldwide crackdown on an Internet child pornography ring, and still more could be rounded up. [News.com]
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- More Xeon systems arriving - A variety of computers based on Intel's Xeon processor are coming to the market as the high-end server and workstation chip moves into volume production. [News.com]
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- Most Net users can't watch video - On the heels of the online release of the president's videotaped grand jury testimony, a new study has found that fewer than 25 percent of U.S. home PC users have the technology to watch video content online. [News.com]
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- Motorola debuts set-top computer - Motorola launched its first effort at making a TV set-top computer for cable companies that will provide a variety of multimedia features including Internet access and movie playback, underscoring a strategy that differs significantly from Microsoft's. [News.com]
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- Motorola halts copper chip plant - Telecommunications equipment giant Motorola said it is suspending construction of a $3 billion copper chip manufacturing plant in Virginia because of weak demand for semiconductors. [News.com]
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- Motorola mulls more closings - Motorola, which last week suspended construction of a $3 billion chip plant in Virginia, said it is continuing to evaluate its semiconductor business for possible other closures or postponements as the industry suffers an unprecedented slump. [News.com]
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- Motorola speeds telecom chip - Motorola's semiconductor unit rolled out a new processor today that promises to allow manufacturers of high-end communications equipment to make new products more quickly and at lower cost. [News.com]
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- Motorola sues two modem makers - Motorola said Wednesday it filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Boston against software modem makers PCTel and AltoCom. [News.com]
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- Motorola to unveil phone-Net link - Motorola today announced a new technology to let people use telephones and simple voice commands to get information from the Internet, the company said. [News.com]
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- Movie site joins face-lift trend - Everything old seems to be getting new again on the Web. [News.com]
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- MS hears Linux's footsteps - Microsoft said today in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission it expects its Windows operating system to have more competition from rival operating systems such as Linux. [News.com]
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- MS motions for contempt of court - Microsoft has accused Caldera of being in contempt of court for allegedly violating a protective order issued in their bitter antitrust case, both sides confirmed. [News.com]
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- MSN tests search engine - Microsoft has launched a beta version of its highly anticipated search engine, almost a year after the software giant said it was developing the product with technology firm Inktomi. [News.com]
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- MSN.com does search deals - Microsoft portal MSN.com has reached agreements worth $60 million with four Net companies to provide searches on a rotating basis. [News.com]
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- MTV "hack" backfires - When Netizens craving music industry skinny visited MTV Online last week, they were not greeted with the standard navigation menu, but instead with a crudely scribbled message: "JF was here." [News.com]
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- N.Y. opens health site for seniors - The New York State Office for the Aging has launched a Web site to provide health information for seniors. [News.com]
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- N.Y. Times hack tip of iceberg - Facing the worst hacker attack in its history, the New York Times found itself caught in the cross fire between computer hackers and people who write about them. [News.com]
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- N.Y. Times still suffers from hack - The bad news: You still can't use the New York Times Web site to look for a job. [News.com]
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- National Semi ends pact with IBM - Chipmaker National Semiconductor today announced it has reached an agreement with IBM to end their semiconductor manufacturing partnership, which will result in National taking a one-time charge of approximately $50 million to $55 million in the second quarter. [News.com]
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- National Semi shaves loss - National Semiconductor reported a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss today, saying its first rise in orders in a year might signal a bottoming out of the chipmaker's business downturn. [News.com]
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- Navigator bug exposes browser history - Netscape Communications today confirmed the existence of a security bug that lets a malicious Web site operator--and potentially a Web-based email sender--find out where a victim has been surfing. [News.com]
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- Navy fights new hack method - Hackers are banding together across the globe to mount low-visibility attacks in an effort to sneak under the radar of security specialists and intrusion detection software, a U.S. Navy network security team said today. [News.com]
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- NBC plans campaign for Snap - General Electric's NBC is about to unleash a massive promotional campaign for its 19 percent-owned Snap Web portal, betting the firepower of television's top-rated network will have little-known Snap breathing down the neck of Yahoo within months, according to reports. [News.com]
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- NCI gains IPO steam with AOL deal - Software maker Network Computer, long adrift for lack of a successful business strategy, today is on a two-track roll with new technology and several acquisitions under its belt as it prepares for an IPO that could prove pivotal for the company. [News.com]
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- NCI wins set-top deal - Network Computer said today that it beat archrival Microsoft for a deal to provide television set-top box software to Belgium's telephone company, Belgacom, for its new CyberTV service. [News.com]
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- NEC reportedly will post big loss - NEC is expected to post an interim loss of 10 billion yen, $76.3 million, for the fiscal half-year ending September 30, a Japanese financial newspaper reported today. [News.com]
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- NEC ups Packard Bell NEC stake - The European Commission said today that it had cleared a plan by Japanese computer company NEC to take control of U.S. personal computer maker Packard Bell NEC by boosting its stake to 52.81 percent from 49 percent. [News.com]
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- NEC, Lucent to team on DRAMs - Japan's top semiconductor maker NEC and Lucent Technologies joined hands today in developing chips that would support next-generation communication systems and digital home appliances. [News.com]
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- NeoMagic pulls out another rabbit - NeoMagic extended its lead in the second quarter of 1998 for notebook PC multimedia graphics accelerators, according to a new report from In-Stat. [News.com]
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- Net a boon for marketers - For companies in need of marketing information, the Internet offers a means of reaching consumers without having to call them away from the dinner table. [News.com]
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- Net a boon to private investors - In another example of a company using the Internet to arm investors with more information, computer retailer Cyberian Outpost plans to let mom-and-pop investors listen to a live broadcast of this week's quarterly earnings conference call via the Internet. [News.com]
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- Net abounds with Clinton humor - As the White House sex scandal barrels ahead, a faceless army of computer-literate practical jokers is busy turning President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky into X-rated burlesque on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Net abounds with reference guides - In the days before the Internet, if you wanted to learn more about a subject, a good place to start was the reference section of your school library or local public library. If the librarians at the desk did not know the answer, they always knew where to look. [News.com]
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- Net agenda in Congress - In spite of budgetary issues and the ubiquitous White House sex scandal, Congress is finding time to focus on high tech and the Internet. Lawmakers are tackling an array of issues from child protection to spam and copyrights. [News.com]
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- Net backbones handle Starr traffic - The Web posting of special prosecutor Kenneth Starr's report caused a significant rise in Internet traffic today, but backbone providers and Internet service providers alike said the network showed no signs of buckling under the pressure. [News.com]
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- Net cable in the clear? - Nascent cable modem services that provide fast access to the Internet such as @Home and Time Warner's RoadRunner may be the ones to watch in telecommunications policy and on Wall Street, as the FCC is looking into whether these providers should be subject to regulation. However, it's not readily apparent that they will be affected in the short term. [News.com]
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- Net cable to cross Atlantic - A consortium of telecommunications operators today signed on to a $1.5 billion project for a new fiber-optic cable link between Europe and the United States that's designed to cut waiting time on the World Wide Web. [News.com]
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- Net filtering back in court - The first constitutional challenge to filtering Net access at public libraries could be decided next week in Loudoun County, Virginia. [News.com]
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- Net fuels diversity, exec says - Internet technology and digital communications are driving the media industry toward an exciting new era of expansion and cultural diversity, the president of Time Warner said today. [News.com]
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- Net revives German synagogues - German synagogues destroyed 60 years ago in a night of Nazi-orchestrated hatred are being restored in a virtual world, evoking fond but ghostly memories for Jews who used to pray in them. [News.com]
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- Net speech faces legal challenges - The courts are dealing with an array of online speech issues. Expected next week is a move in the groundbreaking Loudoun County, Virginia, case that calls into question the constitutionality of filtering Net access in public libraries. [News.com]
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- Net Tax Freedom Act stalled - A closely watched bill that would temporarily halt new taxes on Net access and services had been scheduled for a Senate debate today, but has been put on the back burner. [News.com]
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- Netcenter boosts business channel - Furthering its push to compete as a new-media property, Netscape Communications' Web portal Netcenter today announced a series of agreements to boost its content offerings. [News.com]
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- Netscape aims at ISP market - Netscape Communications today announced a new Web service to distribute customized versions of its Communicator software suite to Internet service providers and other firms. [News.com]
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- Netscape almost ready for 2000 - Netscape Communications said today that current versions of nearly all of its products are Year 2000-compliant, and that it has completed almost all phases of its millennium readiness plan. [News.com]
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- Netscape almost ready for 2000 - Netscape Communications said today that current versions of nearly all of its products are Year 2000-compliant, and that it has completed almost all phases of its millennium readiness plan. [News.com]
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- Netscape hedges its foreign bets - Netscape initiated a hedging program in June to protect against foreign exchange rate fluctuations, citing increased exposure in foreign markets such as Japan, according to a regulatory filing today. [News.com]
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- Netscape leans on Linux - Demand for software based on the Linux operating system has mushroomed in the last year and will quickly overtake all other versions of Unix combined, said Netscape Communications cofounder Marc Andreessen in an interview today. [News.com]
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- Netscape outsourcing woos ISPs - Hoping to boost its business with ISPs, Netscape Communications will tomorrow announce new software for ISPs to handle outsourced applications from corporate customers which don't want to run Internet applications themselves. [News.com]
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- Netscape scientist forms new firm - Netscape Communications' chief scientist, Taher Elgamal, has left the software company to form a Silicon Valley security start-up, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Netscape tests server, R/3 bundle - Netscape Communications has begun private beta testing for a new version of its Application Server for SAP's R/3 enterprise software and an interface to link Netscape's e-commerce software to R/3 applications. [News.com]
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- Netscape, Lucent in e-commerce - Netscape Communications is teaming with Lucent Technologies to sell Netscape's e-commerce software to telephone carriers and large enterprises. [News.com]
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- Netscape, Qwest in Net pact - Netscape Communications continued its strategy to add breadth to its Netcenter portal site today through an agreement with telecommunications carrier Qwest Communications. [News.com]
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- Network Associates adds outsourcing - Security and network management firm Network Associates is entering the security outsourcing business to relieve network managers' headaches from worrying about attacks on corporate networks. [News.com]
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- Networker Larscom expects loss - Larscom said it expects to report a third-quarter net loss per share of between 13 and 15 cents. [News.com]
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- New book chronicles Wired - Wired Ventures soon will join the ranks of technology firms with their own biographies. [News.com]
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- New chip allows versatile modems - Santa Clara, California-based Virata says it has developed a single chip that offers high-speed digital subscriber line and 56-kbps modem functionality combined with networking capabilities. [News.com]
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- New iMac sales still hot - Apple Computer interim CEO Steve Jobs offered an update on iMac sales yesterday at the Seybold conference here, noting that the company hasn't yet caught up with U.S. demand and that the curvy computer can't be found in Japan. [News.com]
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- New Notes, Domino due in beta - With today's expected public beta launch of its flagship groupware package Notes and Domino 5.0, Lotus Development is confident that it will ship the products in the fourth quarter, despite earlier concerns by analysts and industry observers. [News.com]
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- New Xeon, price cuts for fall - A cavalcade of workstations and workgroup servers based around 450-MHz Xeon processors from Intel will be announced the week of October 5 when Intel releases its latest chip, but buyers might want to hold off on any impulse purchases. [News.com]
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- Newest Communicator takes aim at Windows - With the latest version of its Web browsing software suite, Netscape Communications is trying to beat Microsoft at its own game. [News.com]
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- News sites weather Starr storm - For all the jabs President Clinton has been taking since Friday, Web sites that published Kenneth Starr's report about the White House sex scandal have been glad to take the hits with him. [News.com]
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- Nortel to cut about 3,500 jobs - Telecommunications giant Northern Telecom said yesterday that it plans to cut about 3,500 jobs, or about 4 percent of its global work force. [News.com]
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- Nortel, Bay set up unified shop - Executives from Northern Telecom and Bay Networks basked in the afterglow of the completion of their merger today, calling the telecommunications and data equipment combination a marriage that sets them apart from competitors. [News.com]
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- Norton Utilities revved for the Mac - Symantec, developer of several top-selling Mac software programs, today announced a new version of its Norton Utilities programs in a significant signal of support for upcoming versions of the Macintosh operating system. [News.com]
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- Not every tech IPO can be an eBay - Internet audio aggregator audiohighway.com hopes to follow in the successful footsteps of both its primary competitor Broadcast.com and recent IPO standout eBay with a public offering next month. [News.com]
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- Novell exploiting NT delays - In the software business, product delays sometimes turn into market opportunities. [News.com]
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- Novell leans on directory - It has reached mantra status at Novell. [News.com]
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- Novell ships GroupWise update - Aiming to hold its ground in the groupware market, Novell announced today that it's shipping the latest version of its collaboration software, GroupWise 5.5. [News.com]
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- Novell software to bundle IE - Shedding historical baggage, networking software player Novell announced plans to include a copy of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser with every copy of the company's flagship operating system. [News.com]
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- Novell to test for Y2K by 1999 - Network software provider Novell said today it expects to complete testing of its main internal computer systems for Year 2000 compliance by mid-1999. [News.com]
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- Novell to test for Y2K by 1999 - Network software provider Novell said today it expects to complete testing of its main internal computer systems for Year 2000 compliance by mid-1999. [News.com]
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- Novell unveils NetWare upgrade - Novell's chief Eric Schmidt hailed the arrival of an upgrade to the company's NetWare operating system today, stressing its evolution to a Web-friendly package as evidence that the formerly struggling network software provider will be a player on the Net. [News.com]
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- Novell updates NetWare, tools - Rebounding network software maker Novell continues to roll out updated versions of its various tools, part of a conscientious strategy to keep functions coming to market. [News.com]
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- Novell updates security suite - Continuing a fast-paced effort to get products out the door, networking software maker Novell delivered a test version of its security software suite to a limited number of customers, with final shipment of the update due by the end of the year. [News.com]
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- NSI can flourish on its own - The five-year government contract that has made Network Solutions the largest supplier of Internet domain names in the United States is slated to expire next week, but that doesn't mean the death knell has been sounded for the company. [News.com]
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- NSI domain contract extended - The chaos expected to ensue as the United States cedes control over the domain name system has been postponed for a week. [News.com]
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- NSI runs domains 1 more week - News flash: the Net will not plunge into chaos tomorrow, thanks to the weeklong extension of a federal contract to run the domain name system. [News.com]
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- NTT Data's new Net banking - NTT Data said today that it would offer a new online money transfer service which enables account holders at brokerages to place orders and settle the transactions with banks through the Internet. [News.com]
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- NYSE rate hike ires e-brokerages - Online brokerages are crying foul after the nation's largest stock exchange has doubled the price it charges them for real time quotes. [News.com]
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- Office 97's browser discrimination - Microsoft is attempting to clear up confusion surrounding a Web site posting which leads users to believe they need the company's Internet Explorer browser to download a software update. [News.com]
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- Officials debate posting EPA data - The recent bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa and the Clinton administration's policy crusade against terrorism are heating up a fight to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from posting online chemical manufacturers' "worst-case" accident scenarios. [News.com]
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- Oki, Compaq team on e-commerce - Japan's Oki Electric Industry, Compaq Computer, and GlobeSet of the United States said today they had agreed to tie up in the development of electronic commerce settlement systems. [News.com]
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- One record McGwire doesn't hold - Now that he's the single-season record holder for home runs, St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire is one of the hottest sports marketing properties around. [News.com]
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- Online snags in trading overload - Equipment failures at Ameritrade and Waterhouse Securities stymied online traders for a short time today, a day the market dropped more than 3 percent. (See related story) [News.com]
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- Onsale tweaks its business plan - Back in the early days of electronic commerce, Onsale championed the idea that an auction conducted over the Internet could sell a lot more than dusty antiques or million-dollar paintings. [News.com]
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- Open Market adds e-commerce for ISPs - Next week, Open Market will unveil a new product line that merges the transaction processing of its Transact e-commerce software with the store-building tools it acquired earlier this year with iCentral. [News.com]
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- OpenTV hooks up with IBM, NEC - U.S. software firm OpenTV said it has signed licence agreements with chip making giants IBM and NEC plus three Asian set-top producers. [News.com]
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- Oracle aims software at handhelds - Oracle's got the sales and marketing world in its hands--literally. [News.com]
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- Oracle beats expectations - Shares of Oracle spiked after the company reported yesterday a quarterly profit that beat Wall Street's earnings estimates, fueled by a sharp increase in database sales. [News.com]
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- Oracle bets on the Net with 8i - Oracle chief Larry Ellison, who can thank the explosion of client/server computing for much of his company's success, now says that architecture is all but dead. [News.com]
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- Oracle details outsourcing plan - Oracle is jumping into the outsourcing business with both feet. [News.com]
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- Oracle dives deeper into Linux - Oracle is diving deeper into the Linux pool. [News.com]
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- Oracle launches e-commerce apps - Oracle today debuted new versions of its front office e-commerce applications for Web-based selling and customer service. [News.com]
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- Oracle supports the Euro - Oracle is ready to sell the Euro to the world. [News.com]
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- Oracle wants to take Net offline - Oracle wants to take the Internet offline. [News.com]
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- Oracle's Internet embrace growing - The scope of Oracle's Internet gambit became clearer, as more details emerged about its Oracle 8i database software update, scheduled to roll out next week in New York. [News.com]
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- Oracle, Adobe stock up after hours - Stocks of technology companies Oracle and Adobe Systems rose in post-session trading today after both companies reported quarterly earnings that beat Wall Street expectations. [News.com]
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- Oracle: E-commerce to grow 200% - Oracle sees electronic commerce over the Internet growing at a rate of 200 percent a year with the Internet increasingly a driving force in its own business, an Oracle executive said today. [News.com]
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- Outlook brightens for PC makers - This year has been a tough environment for PC makers. Unit volume increased 9.6 percent year-over-year, well below the high-teens growth of 1997, while average selling prices have plummeted. But a closer look reveals that the outlook for PC makers has brightened. [News.com]
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- Oxygen Media buys AOL women's sites - Oxygen Media agreed to acquire three online sites for women from America Online and the sites' other owners. [News.com]
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- Pac Bell fined for withholding data - The California Public Utilities Commission said it fined Pacific Bell $309,000 for holding back data on "poor" ISDN product quality. [News.com]
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- Packard Bell signs on CEO - Personal computer maker Packard Bell NEC announced it has tapped Alain Couder to be president and CEO. [News.com]
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- Pact speeds printing of digital pics - Photo Access and FotoWire have joined forces to allow consumers to order prints directly from digital cameras using the Internet and the Microsoft Windows CE operating system. [News.com]
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- PageNet expects revenue jump - Wireless messaging service PageNet today announced that the company expects third quarter revenues to increase 10 to 12 percent compared to third quarter 1997. [News.com]
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- PC components drop 25% yearly - PC component prices continue to decline significantly, according to Dell Computer chief financial officer Tom Meredith. [News.com]
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- PC Connection to disappoint Street - PC Connection, a direct marketer of personal computers and related accessories, warned that third-quarter earnings would come in below Wall Street's expectations. [News.com]
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- PC demand drives second half - As the stock market continues to slide, rising PC demand is setting the stage for a stronger-than-expected second half for Intel and other PC-centric companies. [News.com]
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- PC forecast: The big get bigger - Current trends in the PC market point to a seemingly inevitable conclusion: The big will get only bigger. [News.com]
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- PC market to rise 13% in '99 - Worldwide PC shipments will rebound to grow 13.2 percent in 1999, spurred by strong demand for lower-cost machines, a market research firm predicted. [News.com]
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- PCTel sues Motorola - The lawsuits continue to fly in the modem world. This time, PCTel has sued Motorola for alleged infringement of a patent for a computer modem. [News.com]
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- Pentagon orders new Net rules - The Pentagon may be a bastion of security, but the Defense Department's approximately 1,000 affiliated Web sites may have been giving up sensitive information to global computer users. [News.com]
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- PinPoint offers Y2K testing suite - PinPoint will roll out a desktop Year 2000 assessment package next week, targeting the growing market for PC-based Y2K readiness tools. [News.com]
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- PinPoint offers Y2K testing suite - PinPoint will roll out a desktop Year 2000 assessment package next week, targeting the growing market for PC-based Y2K readiness tools. [News.com]
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- Pirated Windows 98 found in China - Authorities have uncovered pirated copies of Windows 98 here, according to a Chinese newspaper report. [News.com]
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- Pitfalls of e-commerce - Competition is heating up between banks and brokerages for market share in the online personal financial services space, but technical troubles still plague many firms. [News.com]
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- Platinum adds help desk features - Platinum Software is keeping users' system problems on IT's mind. [News.com]
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- Platinum: No reason for stock drop - Financial management software maker Platinum Software said today that it was unable to explain the approximately 37 percent decline in its stock price on Friday. [News.com]
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- POBox.com held to new standard - It may be true that when it comes to the United States Postal Service, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night" will keep mail couriers "from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." [News.com]
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- Policing business online - The advent of online commerce has raised a variety of legal challenges. In some of the most recent cases, the courts and regulators have focused on auction and barter sites. [News.com]
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- Portal execs on common ground - Five high-profile Internet executives converged today to discuss their strategies for survival in an industry marked by rapid change and an often frenetic race to win over Netizens. [News.com]
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- Portals to see improved earnings - Despite dire predictions that the Asian and Russian economic crises would drag down U.S. earnings, a number of portal companies are expected to post improved quarterly results next month, according to Wall Street analysts. [News.com]
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- Portals under pressure - As the financial quarter comes to a close, several portal power plays are brewing, stepping up competition in the closely watched space. [News.com]
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- Pre-IPO Prodigy eyes new markets - Wall Street's affection for Internet stocks should buoy Prodigy Communications in its planned initial public offering, but analysts warned that the love may be quickly lost if the 15-year-old company fails to draw in new customers. [News.com]
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- Priceline, LendingTree tie up - Priceline.com and LendingTree formed a strategic alliance designed to allow consumers to name their interest rates and terms when shopping for home mortgages on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Printer sales drop in Asia - Amidst economic turmoil in Asia, demand for printers in the region declined 8.7 percent in the second quarter of 1998, according to a Dataquest report. [News.com]
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- Printer sales drop in Japan - Japanese printer sales in the first half of 1998 fell 10.5 percent to 1.95 million units from the same period a year earlier, market research firm Dataquest said today. [News.com]
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- Prodigy plans to go public - Prodigy Communications, one of the earliest Internet service providers, today announced that it has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of common stock. [News.com]
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- Profit warnings down for quarter - As the current quarter comes to a close, fewer tech companies are on track to post earnings surprises than the previous quarter, when a record number of companies issued preliminary warnings to Wall Street that their results would fall short of expectations. [News.com]
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- PSINet expands in Japan - Commercial Internet service provider PSINet said it had completed its previously announced acquisition of Rimnet, a leading Japanese commercial Internet service provider. [News.com]
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- Public policy body addresses Y2K - A nonprofit think tank is demanding more leadership from public policy makers, cooperation between industries in the private sector, and better coverage by the media with regard to the Year 2000 technology problem. [News.com]
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- Qualcomm merges phone, handheld - Qualcomm will come out with a combination digital phone and handheld digital assistant based around 3Com's Palm operating system in the first half of 1999, a merger of two executive toys that could define the shape of things to come. [News.com]
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- Quantum to revamp disk drive unit - Information storage devices maker Quantum said yesterday that it plans to implement operational changes to its hard disk drive business that would cut annual expenses by $60 million. [News.com]
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- Quark no longer wants Adobe - Quark today dropped its bid to acquire rival Adobe Systems, citing market conditions and Adobe's unwillingness to agree to a deal. [News.com]
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- Quark, Adobe merger questioned - Should Quark and Adobe merge? [News.com]
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- Qwest CEO sees revenue increase - Qwest Communications International chief executive said today that he sees the telecommunications company's 1998 revenue increasing to about $3 billion. [News.com]
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- Qwest will buy Icon CMT - Qwest Communications said today that it had agreed to buy Internet services company Icon CMT in a $185 million stock deal designed to bolster the telecommunications company's bid to expand its multimedia service offerings. [News.com]
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- Raising funds for Net names body - As the U.S. government prepares to withdraw from the business of administering Internet addresses, a private-sector consortium has launched a drive to fund the nonprofit organization that will take over the government's responsibilities. [News.com]
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- Rational debuts app testing tool - Implementing a massive enterprise resource planning software system like SAP's R/3 is painstaking, but it's only part of the equation. Making sure it works is also a necessary step. [News.com]
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- RealNetworks and 7th Level in pact - 7th Level said RealNetworks has begun selling 7th Level's animation software, leading to a surge in both companies' stocks. [News.com]
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- RealNetworks in AOL deal - RealNetworks has reached a deal to distribute its Internet media software through America Online, a key endorsement that already has given its stock a kick-start today [News.com]
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- Rebounding Cabletron beats Street - Despite beating estimates, networking equipment provider Cabletron Systems dipped more than 9 percent in early morning trading. [News.com]
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- Record point gains on Wall Street - Stock traders returned refreshed to Wall Street after the Labor Day holiday to spark a rally that boosted the Dow 380 points today, a record-setting gain. [News.com]
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- Redmond: DOJ is desperate - Microsoft today accused antitrust prosecutors of filing a groundless suit four months ago and then desperately trying to rewrite the case just weeks before the trial is set to begin. [News.com]
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- Regulators postpone wiretap rules - Federal regulators defused a looming confrontation between the telephone industry and the FBI by deciding that changes needed to the phone system to allow future law enforcement wiretaps would not be required until June 2000. [News.com]
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- Report questions interactive TV - The rollout of digital television may not lead to a revolution of interactive entertainment television programming, a new study says, throwing cold water on one aspect of a highly anticipated feature of next-generation TV. [News.com]
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- Report slams PC reliability - Computer vendors are not measuring up when it comes to shipping computers that work, according to a new report from Windows Magazine. [News.com]
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- Report warns of Valley recession - The Asian financial crisis is already hurting California and will cause a dramatic slowdown in the state's economic growth by early next year, a new report says. [News.com]
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- Report, video: Dangerous surfing? - It was a familiar scene: employees crowded around a computer monitor waiting to see President Clinton sweat. [News.com]
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- Retailers key to Compaq's Latin sales - Compaq Computer sees no electronic highway around middleman retailers in Latin America, even though the Houston-based PC company increasingly relies on selling directly in the United States, a Compaq executive said today. [News.com]
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- Roadblocks in the fast lane - The 56-kbps standard for modems is ratified, but problems remain. Meanwhile, Motorola sues two companies over software modems. V.90 modem standard approved But industry analysts warn that damage from the lengthy standards battle which preceded this detente may be difficult to reverse. [News.com]
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- Rockwell to spin off chip unit - Rockwell International, the struggling electronics control and communications company, said it will take a charge in the fourth quarter as part of its plans to resize and spin off its semiconductor business. [News.com]
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- Rocky Mountain delays bid - Rocky Mountain's bid to acquire Internet Communications for $42 million was delayed until October 2 after Rocky Mountain said it needed to complete financing before it could close the deal, the companies said. [News.com]
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- S&P wary of tech sector outlook - Tech companies increasingly are facing the prospect of falling credit ratings in light of exposure to ailing Asian economies and, as a result, are finding it more difficult to raise money to do business. [News.com]
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- Samsung develops 1GB memory - South Korea's Samsung Electronics said it has developed a 1GB memory module consisting of 256-megabit synchronous dynamic random-access memory chips, following on the heels of a similar announcement by Japanese rival Hitachi. [News.com]
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- Samsung sees chip glut easing - The years-old global memory chip oversupply will draw to an end by the second half of next year, helped by a massive shake-up in the industry now under way, a Samsung Electronics executive said today. [News.com]
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- Samsung speeds graphics chip - South Korea's Samsung Electronics said today it has begun shipping commercial samples of a super-fast graphics memory chip to graphics controller makers. [News.com]
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- SAP aims to make it easy - SAP wants to put the soft back in its software. [News.com]
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- SAP exec quits to run start-up - SAP America chief executive Paul Wahl is resigning to lead a Silicon Valley start-up company, another example of a corporate high-technology executive becoming more of an entrepreneur. [News.com]
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- SAP strategy extends scope - SAP owns the enterprise resource planning software market, but that isn't good enough. [News.com]
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- SAP tries to go user-friendly - Image is everything. Obey your user. [News.com]
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- SAP wins $35 million deal - Sumitomo Chemical said today that it planned to spend about $35.5 million on a corporate management software system developed by SAP of Germany. [News.com]
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- Satellite firm eyes India Net market - U.S.-based international satellite communications company Loral Orion today announced a tie-up with Indian telecommunications provider Natelco to deliver satellite-based Internet and private network services. [News.com]
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- SBC dismayed by telecom ruling - SBC Communications said it was disappointed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit's 2-to-1 ruling that the "special provisions" of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 are constitutional. [News.com]
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- Schwab diversifies in Asia - Brokerage giant Charles Schwab said today it was salvaging promising growth opportunities out of the gloom surrounding Asian markets by drawing Hong Kong investors to U.S. equities. [News.com]
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- Schwab reports record earnings - Broker Charles Schwab reported that its revenues and net income for the first half of 1998 were the highest in the company's history, and projected that its third-quarter earnings report also will beat Wall Street expectations. [News.com]
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- Schwab, Sony discuss venture - Japanese electronics giant Sony and U.S. brokerage Charles Schwab are discussing setting up a joint venture for Internet stock trading in Japan, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Screen matches printed page - Computer users, rest your weary eyes on this. [News.com]
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- Scrutinizing public policy on Y2K - As Washington falls under the shadow of Kenneth Star's much anticipated report on the President, economists, industry analysts, business leaders, and federal officials will convene there later this month to discuss current government public policy decisions on the Year 2000 technology problem and their impact on the country. [News.com]
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- Scrutinizing public policy on Y2K - As Washington falls under the shadow of Kenneth Star's much anticipated report on the President, economists, industry analysts, business leaders, and federal officials will convene there later this month to discuss current government public policy decisions on the Year 2000 technology problem and their impact on the country. [News.com]
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- Seagate launches backup software - Seagate Software has announced the launch of a series of backup software products. [News.com]
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- Searching expressly on Infoseek - Infoseek will release a desktop software tool next week in hopes of appealing to Netizens frustrated by common Web searches. [News.com]
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- SEC takes on voodoo accounting - The Securities and Exchange Commission wants to put the kibosh on creativity--at least when it comes to the way public companies report their earnings. [News.com]
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- SEC to Net brokers: Shape up - Online brokerage firms need to improve customer access through the Internet during periods of stock market turmoil, the Securities and Exchange Commission said in a review of the October 1997 stock market slump. [News.com]
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- Second half looks better, for some - Moderate growth is expected for the PC industry in the second half, but it will be mostly the major players that will benefit. [News.com]
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- Security vendors discuss interface - Major Internet security vendors are discussing a common application programming interface that will let antivirus software and scanning products that block hostile Java applets work easily with firewalls, routers, VPNs, and other security mechanisms. [News.com]
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- Senate backs Y2K lawsuit limit - Legislation that would limit lawsuits against corporations dealing with Y2K problems was passed by the Senate, staffers said. [News.com]
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- Senate backs Y2K lawsuit limit - Legislation that would limit lawsuits against corporations dealing with Y2K problems was passed by the Senate, staffers said. [News.com]
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- Senate to debate Net tax bill - A closely watched bill that would temporarily halt new taxes on Net access and services is scheduled for a Senate debate today. [News.com]
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- Senators unveil Y2K bill - The Senate Judiciary Committee today sent to the Senate a revised bill to shield industries from some litigation regarding their Year 2000 computer bug remediation efforts. [News.com]
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- Senators unveil Y2K bill - The Senate Judiciary Committee today sent to the Senate a revised bill to shield industries from some litigation regarding their Year 2000 computer bug remediation efforts. [News.com]
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- Server market drops in Asia - The server market is the latest casualty of the Asian economic crisis, as revenues in the region have declined 20 percent, according to a market study. [News.com]
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- Server snags put domains in limbo - For the past two days, a high-level network latency problem has left many new and updated domain name registrations in limbo, a spokesman for Network Solutions has confirmed. [News.com]
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- SGI adds hardware guarantee - Bolstering its Internet strategy, Silicon Graphics has added a guarantee that if its hardware doesn't do the job SGI consultants say it will, customers get more for free. [News.com]
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- SGI revs flat-panel technology - Silicon Graphics today introduced a 17-inch digital display that may push futuristic flat-panel technology into the mainstream. [News.com]
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- SGI shakeup came at hefty price - Though it has yet to turn around financially as a result, Silicon Graphics paid a hefty sum to replace its top management team nearly eight months ago, including a $5.3 million "golden parachute" to outgoing chief executive Ed McCracken, the company's proxy statement disclosed today. [News.com]
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- Sharp cuts profit forecast - Sharp today cut its profit forecasts for this business year as deepening economic gloom in Japan and the rest of the world clouded its earnings outlook. [News.com]
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- Sharp, JVC ready handhelds - Sharp and JVC will both introduce inexpensive, scaled-down handheld assistants this fall, in what is turning out to be a crowded field. [News.com]
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- Shifting from data to data analysis - Enterprise resource planning vendors are climbing the corporate ladder, all the way to the top. [News.com]
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- Siemens, Acer drop PC plant plan - Germany's Siemens AG said that plans to sell its main personal computer plant to Taiwan's Acer have collapsed because of irreconcilable differences over financing. [News.com]
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- Silicon Valley stands by Clinton - A San Jose fund-raiser tonight marks the first time President Bill Clinton has returned to California since the details of his admitted inappropriate relationship with a former White House intern were aired across the Internet and on television. [News.com]
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- Site puts Webcams in African bush - South Africa's famous wildlife, once inaccessible to the majority of the country's inhabitants, is being paraded into cyberspace by two Internet enthusiasts. [News.com]
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- Sites prepare for Clinton video - Online media companies, many of which posted the Starr report last week, now are grappling with new complications in the wake of the House Judiciary Committee's decision to release the president's videotaped grand jury testimony today. [News.com]
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- Sites rage with debate over Clinton - It would seem that the only link between Ginger Spice and President Clinton is the magnitude of publicity and proximity in age she shares with Monica Lewinsky. [News.com]
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- Sleek, pricey notebooks arriving - Another wave of slim, flashy notebooks is due to arrive next week with the release of Intel's Pentium II 300-MHz chip for mobile computers, but the low-end of the market appears to be the real hot spot. [News.com]
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- Soccer site kicks into gear - As America's Major League Soccer nears the end of its third regular season, it seems fitting that some of the neophyte league's closest coverage comes from an online outfit led by a college senior. [News.com]
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- Softbank to restructure - Japan's Softbank, a rapidly expanding software and publishing group, said today that it would overhaul its management structure next April in order to speed up decisions and boost profitability. [News.com]
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- Software trade groups talk merger - The Software Publishers Association and the Information Industry Association trade groups are discussing a merger, CNET News.com has learned. [News.com]
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- Softworks signs pact with IBM - Softworks said yesterday that it entered an agreement with IBM to integrate ten of its enterprise systems management products with IBM's operating system and software offering, OS/390 SystemPac, providing another avenue for product distribution. [News.com]
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- Sony joins digital TV fray - Sony Electronics has jumped into the digital TV fray, saying it will offer the industry's first high definition TV with a flat screen that's based on mainstream picture tube technology. [News.com]
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- SPA focuses on volume licenses - Aiming to make life easier for corporate software buyers, the Software Publishers Association is exploring whether technology can simplify volume licensing for buying organizations. [News.com]
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- Spam bill raises free-speech flags - California lawmaker Debra Bowen's plan to deter bulk emailers and adult sites from pushing sales pitches to unsuspecting Net users seems simple: Make spammers use labels so that email providers or surfers can screen the messages. [News.com]
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- Specifications for new Gateway notebook - Solo 3100 • 300-MHz Pentium II • 12.1-inch active-matrix display • 64MB of memory • DVD-ROM drive • 4GB hard drive • 56-kbps modem • 4.6 to 5.2 lbs, depending on configuration • $2,999 [News.com]
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- Specifications for Toshiba Satellite 4020 CDT - Toshiba Satellite 4020 CDT • 300-MHz Pentium II • 13.3-inch active-matrix display • 64MB of memory • CD-ROM drive • 6.4GB hard drive • 56-kbps modem • Lithium ion battery • $2,999 [News.com]
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- Specs for Dell Inspiron 7000 - Dell Inspiron 7000 • Pentium II processor • 32MB or 64MB of memory, up to 192MB • Liquid crystal display, 13.3", 14.1", or 15" • CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drives • ATI Rage LT Pro graphics chipset • integrated 56k modem • lithium ion battery • 8.2 to 8.9 lbs. • 4BG hard drive, expandable to 8GB • $2,799 to $2,999 [News.com]
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- Spielberg debuts Holocaust CD-ROM - Film director Steven Spielberg staged the world premiere of his educational CD-ROM on the Holocaust, which features "living memories" of elderly Jewish survivors, at a German high school today. [News.com]
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- Spinning banner ads with audio - Net radio firm Spinner.com is using its format to coordinate banner ads with audio programming, the firm said. [News.com]
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- Sports sites aim to score traffic - Between the home run race and the start of football season, sports sites have their hands full with material to cover. The big players are competing with ever-improving game plans that include redesigns, sports-oriented software applications, and even a new television show. [News.com]
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- SportsLine launches TV show - The growing convergence between the Net and television got a boost in the highly active sports space today, with SportsLine USA announcing the launch of its own cable television show. [News.com]
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- Sprint may take PCS unit public - Further clouding questions about the strength of the current IPO market, telecommunications company Sprint has filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission indicating that it intends to make a public offering of shares in its wireless phone business. [News.com]
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- Spyglass crows about "Blackbird" - Spyglass today said it has agreed to provide software technologies for Motorola's recently detailed "Blackbird" interactive TV set-top box. [News.com]
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- Spyglass develops browser for Microsoft - Spyglass complemented a recent string of licensing successes by releasing a version of its Web browser for limited-purpose devices running Microsoft's Windows CE operating system. [News.com]
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- Spyrus buys Signet Systems - Broadening its network security offerings, Spyrus, which markets hardware security tokens and software, has acquired an Australian certificate authority firm called Signet Systems. [News.com]
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- SQL Financials' new identity - SQL Financials is getting a whole new identity. [News.com]
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- Sri Lanka Net use to boom - Improved phone lines and cheaper computers are luring thousands of Sri Lankans to the Internet, officials said, predicting strong gains over the next few years. [News.com]
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- SSA leans on software system - Systems Software Associates is hoping to rise from the dead just in time for Halloween when its next fiscal year begins. [News.com]
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- Starr report arrives online - As expected, the House of Representatives has posted the Office of Independent Counsel's report, which outlines "substantial evidence" that President Clinton lied under oath, among other charges. [News.com]
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- Starr report hits the Net - Netizens everwhere rushed online to read the independent counsel's report on the presidential sex scandal. And despite widespread fears of crashes, networking backbones and servers survive the stampede. [News.com]
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- Starr report: Print follows the Web - After Friday's online stampede to read Kenneth Starr's allegations against President Clinton, many weekend newspapers arrived on doorsteps bulging with the same detailed report 24 hours after its release. [News.com]
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- Start-up fever still burning - It is a muggy summer night and, judging from the traffic jam outside one motel, half the town has come to hear a group of local business leaders tell how they got started. [News.com]
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- Start-up offers billing for ISPs - Calling their process the missing link for making money on the Internet, Israeli software start-up XaCCT Technologies unveiled a billing system today. [News.com]
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- Start-up to launch $399 PC era - A start-up backed by South Korean PC giant Trigem and display maker Korean Data Systems is planning to usher in the $399 PC era next month with three ultra-low-cost systems. [News.com]
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- Stephen Case, $160 million man - America Online chief executive Stephen Case received nearly $160 million in compensation last year, surpassing his pay package of the previous year nearly sixfold. [News.com]
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- Stock markets plunge - Wall Streets stocks plunged today, haunted by yesterday's statement from Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan that there would be no coordinated global effort to cut interest rates. [News.com]
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- Stocks mixed despite good news - U.S. stocks closed mixed today despite strong performance in Asian markets and renewed hopes of an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve. [News.com]
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- Street gains for third day running - Stocks saw some upside in trading today, following two straight sessions of big gains on Wall Street. [News.com]
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- Street rebounds on rate cut news - U.S. stocks staged an impressive turnaround to end higher today as hopes for an interest rate cut next week by the Federal Reserve trumped market fears that earlier sent investors scurrying. [News.com]
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- Street up on good inflation news - Stocks gained today as strength in technology stocks and a favorable inflation figure offset Wall Street worries that President Clinton might face impeachment. [News.com]
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- Strong showing for iMac in poll - The final numbers from an iMac buyer's poll show some encouraging signs for Apple Computer's stylish new Macintosh. [News.com]
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- Study: Boom in computer viruses - More companies are using antivirus software, but they're also suffering more computer viruses on their corporate networks, according to a study by private firm International Computer Security Association. [News.com]
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- Study: Chip revenue up in '99 - It's not over, but the so-called Asian flu may be easing, according to Dataquest in a new study that predicts the semiconductor industry will grow 11.8 percent in 1999 following a 6 percent decline in 1998. [News.com]
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- Study: Net brokers threaten banks - Discount brokerages will control more than 50 percent of personal finance activity online by 2002, taking significant market share away from banks, according to a study released today. [News.com]
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- Study: Net use causes depression - Spending just a few hours a week online appears to leave people feeling more socially isolated, lonely, and depressed, according to a two-year study of nearly 100 families with Internet access. [News.com]
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- Study: Netscape share below 50% - Netscape Communications is rapidly losing ground to Microsoft in their battle for the Web browser market, according to a new study. [News.com]
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- Study: Simplify e-commerce sites - There's no question that people are heading online with their wallets and shopping lists, but actually finding the items they are looking for is proving to be much more difficult. [News.com]
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- Sun exec held MS view of Java deal - Executives from Sun Microsystems agreed with Microsoft's reading of a licensing contract at the heart of their bitter legal battle until a Sun superior told the company's employees to disregard the document, an attorney for Microsoft argued. [News.com]
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- Sun execs to testify in Java suit - The bitter dispute over the Java computer language--designed to make programming easier--continues in federal court today. [News.com]
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- Sun plans to work with NT - Sun Microsystems is eating crow but it could end up tasting like filet mignon. [News.com]
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- Sun sees boon from others' delays - Sun Microsystems said that it sees a big opportunity from the delays by both Intel and Microsoft of their next-generation technologies. [News.com]
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- Sun sheds light on chip path - Sun Microsystems said it will come out with microprocessors running at 1,500 MHz, or more than four times faster than its current microprocessors, in less than four years under an aggressive roadmap that puts the company in the race to establish the standards for the next generation of computing. [News.com]
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- Sun ships latest mail server - Sun Microsystems today began shipping the latest version of its enterprise Internet mail server, showing signs that it plans to play in the big leagues in the tight enterprise groupware market despite earlier warnings by analysts about any positive outcome. [News.com]
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- Sun taps i-Planet for security - Sun Microsystems will soon announce the purchase of remote access specialist i-Planet, according to sources close to the deal. [News.com]
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- Sun, Quark keep rivals at bay - Publishing software provider Quark may have found itself spurned in one recent deal, but it has landed another without missing a beat. [News.com]
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- Sun: Give Java a chance - Seeking converts among disaffected Windows developers, the president of Sun Microsystems' Solaris unit preached the gospel of Java and touted the opportunity to make big bucks in software for non-PC devices. [News.com]
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- Sun: MS aims to "hijack" Java - The Sun Microsystems executive who runs the company's Java efforts yesterday charged that Microsoft is trying to "flood the market" with its own "divergent version of Java" in an effort to undermine the promise of letting developers create software that runs on different operating systems. [News.com]
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- Survey measures wired states - Washington and Wisconsin are the two best-wired states in the union for the second year in a row, according to an annual survey by conservative digital think tank the Progress and Freedom Foundation. [News.com]
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- Survey: Many gadgets tossed - Many electronic gizmos bought to enhance business productivity fail to do the job and end up as expensive garbage, according to a new survey. [News.com]
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- Surveys show Web jobs pay best - New evidence shows that the fastest road to riches, aside from winning the lottery or scoring a stock market coup, is a job in the Internet industry. [News.com]
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- Swedish political site hacked - Hackers sabotaged the Web site of Sweden's main opposition party last night, only hours before election voting began, a party spokesman said today. [News.com]
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- Sweet deals for high-tech execs - This year's run-up in Internet stocks has made America Online chief executive Stephen Case the $160 million man, in just the latest example of hefty compensation packages for high-tech executives. [News.com]
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- Swissair leverages Web site - Last night, when word started trickling out that a Swissair flight was lost in the Atlantic off Nova Scotia, people did what they have done to learn more about what's going on: hunt around for information, especially online. [News.com]
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- Sybase defends enterprise plans - Hoping to quash rumors that it's moving away from its core enterprise database business, Sybase plans to next month roll out a new version of its high-end database, along with additional technology aimed at the financial community. [News.com]
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- Sybase forms unit for handhelds - Sybase had the strategy--now it has the division to go along with it. [News.com]
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- Sybase sees sales flat in S.E. Asia - U.S. computer software maker Sybase said today that its Southeast Asian sales in 1998 would not top those in 1997. [News.com]
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- Symantec fields update complaints - Software maker Symantec, whose products aim to prevent and solve PC problems, is practicing damage control of a different kind this week. [News.com]
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- Symantec plunges on suit fallout - Shares of utility software maker Symantec fell as much as 15 percent today after the company projected that it could lose up to $5 million in revenues in the September quarter as a result of complying with the terms of a temporary restraining order issued in a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by rival CyberMedia. [News.com]
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- Symantec responds to suit with fix - Utility software maker Symantec said it had fixed a version of its software that allegedly infringed upon the copyrights of its rival CyberMedia. [News.com]
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- Symantec taps Intel for antivirus - Utility software maker Symantec announced today that it has bought Intel's antivirus business and has licensed the chip giant's technology, which it will combine with its own antivirus technology to create antivirus products for corporate organizations. [News.com]
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- Taiwan, China ink Net news deal - The Internet will provide a news link between mainland China and Taiwan under a first-of-its-kind deal between the political antagonists, according to China's official Xinhua news agency. [News.com]
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- Taking stock in Net brokerages - In spite of the stock market's drop, online brokerages continue their expansion efforts, with E*Trade unveiling its long-awaited financial hub site and Charles Schwab eyeing Asian markets. [News.com]
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- Talk cheaper at Intel - Intel has announced a new business-quality desktop videoconferencing system at a price far below its previous offering, but analysts say it will take more than lower prices to invigorate the market. [News.com]
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- TCI, AT&T seek cable firms - Tele-Communications Incorporated and AT&T are trying to persuade major cable-TV companies to join them in offering local phone service over cable-TV lines, executives familiar with the matter say, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Tech bellwethers boost Street - Wall Street stocks surged more than 100 points in early trading boosted by strong earnings news from several technology bellwethers which offset the growing turmoil surrounding the anticipated report on the Presidential scandal. [News.com]
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- Tech Data posts strong sales - Computer distribution firm Tech Data today said that second-quarter sales rose 42.6 percent to $2.21 billion from $1.55 billion, bolstered by the strong performance of its computer networking and peripherals divisions. [News.com]
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- Tech exports OK for now - U.S. high-tech exports have held up well this year despite Asias financial crisis, but the turmoil's spread is already hurting sales to Brazil, the American Electronics Association said today. [News.com]
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- Tech issues in Lewinsky balance - Silicon Valley technology executives say they are too busy to care about the details of President Clinton's personal life, even as they harbor hope that the sex scandal engulfing the White House won't delay industry-backed legislation or drag down the economy. [News.com]
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- Tech legislation put on hold - With Congress busy debating spending bills and sidetracked by the White House sex scandal, several Silicon Valley-backed bills will have to wait for their turn on Capitol Hill. [News.com]
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- Tech stocks take a fall - Led by networking firms, which hit Wall Street with some gloomy, albeit confusing news, tech stocks declined sharply today, one day after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a meager .25 percent. [News.com]
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- Tech tops government agenda - Just as Congress pushes forward legislation dealing with skilled foreign workers and Net content controls, a new report finds that 24 key agencies--including the IRS and the Defense Department--have serious network security weaknesses. [News.com]
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- Tektronix to lay off 860 - Electronic instrument and video manufacturer Tektronix said today that it would cut 10 percent of its 8,600-member workforce, largely because of losses at its partially owned electronic circuit boards unit. [News.com]
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- Tellabs, Ciena cancel merger - Shares of Tellabs hit an intraday high of 52.375 but later reversed course and fell 6.8125 or 16 percent, to 38.1875, while Ciena stock fell 16 percent, following an announcement by the telecommunications equipment makers that they had canceled their proposed merger. [News.com]
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- The lights will stay on--probably - Here's the good news: Your lights will probably still work on January 1, 2000. [News.com]
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- The lights will stay on--probably - Here's the good news: Your lights will probably still work on January 1, 2000. [News.com]
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- The Net's critical role in scandal - From the day that online gossip sheet Drudge Report broke the story eight months ago, the Internet has played a crucial and controversial role in the national uproar over the investigation of President Clinton. [News.com]
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- The Web goes too far, military says - The military's efforts to put information on the Internet may have gone too far, the Pentagon said today, pointing out that snoopers can read details on personnel, military facilities, and even weapons under development. [News.com]
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- The week's news: Keep your eye on Intel - Intel's developer conference in Palm Springs, California, produced a raft of news about the chipmaker's plans for several different computing markets. [News.com]
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- The week's news: Starring the Net - The world's biggest news story this week, the delivery of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's report, proved a stunning validation of the Internet as a mass medium. But database giant Oracle also delivered a shot in the arm, basing the newest version of its flagship product around the capability of running online. [News.com]
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- The week's news: Stocks, e-commerce down - High tech's week began and ended with falling stock prices. [News.com]
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- The week's news: Tech's the talk of the Hill - Amid all-consuming presidential impeachment proceedings, the House found time to pass a compromise bill expanding the number of skilled foreign worker visas while a committee advanced controversial Net content regulation, but Net tax legislation stalled in the Senate. [News.com]
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- The world according to Ellison - Of late, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has spoken on issues throughout the industry, including everything from giving accounts of Digital's NC woes with Microsoft and Andy Grove's push for Unix, to saying he could have owned Apple. He's also embracing Linux through partnerships with four vendors and revealing his firm's Net focus through details on the upcoming Oracle 8i database. [News.com]
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- TheStreet.com fighting sex site - In spite of a lawsuit threat, WallStreetSex.com still looks like the naughty sister of TheStreet.com--and the investment site is not happy about it. [News.com]
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- TheStreet.com: Sex-stocks site is foul - Mixing sex and money doesn't always lead to an arrest. [News.com]
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- Time Warner plans Web store - Media titan Time Warner said today it will market products on the World Wide Web, catching up in the tremendous electronic commerce marketplace. [News.com]
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- Tivoli centers management - IBM systems and network management software unit Tivoli Systems today formally displayed the fruits of a two-year effort to develop a new style of corporate systems administration. [News.com]
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- Top home-use software ranked - Streaming media firm RealNetwork's RealPlayer came in as the highest gainer in a survey of the 50 most-used home software applications, with Mirabilis's ICQ placing second. [News.com]
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- Top notebook prices dive quickly - The latest wave of high-end notebooks is pushing down the costs of notebooks that were much pricier only a week ago. [News.com]
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- Toshiba lays into laptop prices - Toshiba today cut prices on its notebooks by up to 44 percent, making room for new aggressively priced systems based on the fastest notebook processor from Intel. [News.com]
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- Toshiba regains notebook lead - Toshiba regained the lead in the notebook computer market last quarter, as Compaq grappled with the same inventory issues that knocked Toshiba out of the top spot earlier this year. [News.com]
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- Trellix updates desktop app suite - Web applications developer Trellix next week will roll out its latest desktop applications suite Trellix 2.0, a Web management product for the end user and a stress reliever for the Webmaster, the company said. [News.com]
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- Trojan horse fouls Mac site - An obscure new program that can prevent programs from running and otherwise create havoc has been discovered by some unfortunate Macintosh users. [News.com]
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- Tut inks deals with Intel, National - Tut Systems has announced that Intel will license its home networking technology, the second high-profile deal in as many days for the company. [News.com]
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- U.K. firm offers free Net access - Britain's largest electrical retailer Dixons Group today launched a free Internet service, providing unlimited access with no registration or subscription fees or hourly online charges. Customers using the new service, known as Freeserve, will only have to pay the normal charge for a local rate telephone call to get online. [News.com]
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- U.N. committee battles child porn - Officials and experts on child pornography will meet at the Paris headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization next January to coordinate a worldwide offensive against pedophilia on the Internet, the United Nations agency said today. [News.com]
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- U.S. markets mixed despite rally - Wall Street stocks were mixed in early trading with the Dow Industrial Average edging lower this morning despite yesterday's late afternoon rally and the good news that the Asian markets had climbed higher overnight. [News.com]
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- U.S. markets zigzag - Wall Street surged late in the day to close higher, after the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose as much as 56.9 points and dipped as much as 45.83 earlier on. [News.com]
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- U.S. trade rep to hold Japan talks - U.S. trade representative Charlene Barshefsky wants to be sure U.S. and other foreign firms get a "fair shake" at the Japanese public works spending that is to be a part of efforts to boost the country's flagging economy. [News.com]
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- U.S., Ireland in e-commerce pact - President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Bertie Ahern today became the first heads of government to electronically sign an international accord. [News.com]
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- U.S., Ireland to seal e-policy - U.S. president Bill Clinton and Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern are set to make digital history today when they use digital signatures to seal a U.S.-Ireland communique on electronic commerce. [News.com]
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- U.S., Japan share Y2K info - The Clinton administration's point man on the Year 2000 technology problem will travel to Japan this weekend to work with the Asian country's new Y2K task force to assess the severity of the problem there, White House sources said. [News.com]
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- U.S., Japan share Y2K info - The Clinton administration's point man on the Year 2000 technology problem will travel to Japan this weekend to work with the Asian country's new Y2K task force to assess the severity of the problem there, White House sources said. [News.com]
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- U.S.: SE Asia lags on bug fix - Authorities in the United States and Japan are worried that Southeast Asian nations are lagging behind in dealing with the millennium bug, a senior U.S. official said today. [News.com]
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- U.S.: SE Asia lags on bug fix - Authorities in the United States and Japan are worried that Southeast Asian nations are lagging behind in dealing with the millennium bug, a senior U.S. official said today. [News.com]
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- United Micro halts $14 billion plan - United Microelectronics, Taiwan's second largest microchip maker, said today it had decided to halt a massive $14.5 billion investment plan due to oversupply in the industry. [News.com]
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- USWeb, CKS Group to merge - USWeb said today that it would merge with CKS Group to form a new company called Reinvent Communications. [News.com]
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- V.90 modem standard approved - The International Telecommunications Union in Geneva, Switzerland, yesterday gave final approval to V.90 industry standard 56-kbps modem technology, but industry analysts warn that damage from the lengthy standards battle which preceded this detente may be difficult to reverse. [News.com]
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- Valley investors unconcerned - When you make $1.5 billion from a $1 million investment, you hardly worry about losing your shirt. [News.com]
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- Vantive calls on the call center - Vantive is calling on the call center to strengthen its market position. [News.com]
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- Visions from Intel, Sony - Intel licenses video compression technology to RealNetworks and offers a glimpse at the upcoming Katmai chip, while Sony details the first high-definition TV with a flat screen that's based on mainstream picture tube technology. [News.com]
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- VLSI also hurt by chip slump - VLSI Technology said today that its third-quarter results will be lower than Wall Street's expectations due to a slowdown in the semiconductor industry that has affected orders and shipments. [News.com]
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- W3C mulls HTML-TIME - Microsoft, Macromedia, and Compaq are saying it's about TIME. [News.com]
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- Wall St. Journal enters travel game - The Wall Street Journal's Web edition is getting into the online travel business with a new section that includes reservations services from TheTrip.com. [News.com]
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- Wall Street comes back - After an early roller-coaster ride today, Wall Street recovered significant ground from yesterday's massive market plunge. [News.com]
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- Wall Street ends day under water - Wall Street stocks plunged today, pushed lower by increasing fears that an end to the economic crisis in Russia and Japan is nowhere in sight, and increasing jitters over growing political turmoil related to President Clinton's weakening power. [News.com]
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- Wall Street rally sputters - Stocks on Wall Street fell today after zigzagging earlier, unable to shake off jitters over the Russian and Asian economic crisis. [News.com]
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- Wall Street rebounds - The markets recover significant ground the day after Wall Street takes a 512-point plunge that battered technology stocks over worries about international economic and political problems. [News.com]
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- Wall Street stocks soar - Wall Street stocks soared to close higher today, calmed by polls showing that Americans want President Clinton to finish his term despite his complicity in a sex scandal. [News.com]
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- Warning issued for Office patch - The plagued short history of Microsoft's Office 97 service release pack 2 got a little longer yesterday as a bug-finding group issued a bug advisory for the patch. [News.com]
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- Weak demand, low prices wreak havoc - PC and chip titans are feeling the strain of world events. HP says job cuts are coming while two companies halt plans for chip plants. [News.com]
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- Web users buy clothes online - More than 10 percent of active Internet users have shopped online for clothes in the past six months, and nearly half of them have actually made purchases, according to @Plan, a consumer marketing firm. [News.com]
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- WebTV more like PC - Even as major manufacturers are readying a third generation of the WebTV set-top box that's capable of word processing and other PC applications, one company, Philips Electronics, is moving into Asia's Internet set-top markets without WebTV. [News.com]
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- WebTV to use Infoseek--but why? - Web portal Infoseek today announced it will pay Microsoft $26 million for a two-year agreement to be the exclusive provider of search and directory services on WebTV, Microsoft's service that provides Internet access via the television. [News.com]
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- Welcome to Larry Ellison Inc. - Besides Netscape Communications, Sun Microsystems, and Compaq Computer, another one of Oracle's business partners--albeit it on a smaller scale--is Larry Ellison Incorporated, Oracle's proxy statement showed today. [News.com]
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- Where is Infoseek going? - Does next year's launch of the Walt Disney Company's Go Network signal the beginning of the end for Infoseek? [News.com]
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- White House eases crypto limits - Drawing a new line in the sand over the export of strong encryption, the White House updated its policy again today, relaxing some of its rules for companies that use or ship the security technology. [News.com]
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- Will Cisco fill the breach for Ciena? - Will Cisco Systems fill the breach for Ciena? [News.com]
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- Will eBay's IPO sputter or soar? - As online auctioneer eBay gears up to float out its public offering next week, the company may have more to worry about than volatile markets. [News.com]
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- Will Starr report bring down the House.gov? - If large parts of Kenneth Starr's report are made public today, the presidency isn't the only thing that could come crashing down. [News.com]
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- Win 98 bug alert feature improved - Microsoft is testing a new feature that will alert users of the Windows 98 operating system to critical updates as soon as they log on to the Internet, the company said. [News.com]
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- Win 98 sales exceed expectations - Microsoft chief Bill Gates said today that sales of his group's Windows 98 software product were so far better than sales of its previous product Windows 95 and had exceeded expectations. [News.com]
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- Windows 98 hits 2.5 million mark - Microsoft today said it has sold more than 2.5 million upgrades of its Windows 98 operating system worldwide since it was launched on June 25. [News.com]
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- Windows CE handheld for China - Chinese computer giant Legend Holdings is joining forces with Microsoft to take the first stab at selling a palm-sized computer in China, a company executive said today. [News.com]
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- Wired starting HotBot ad campaign - Trying to break out of the pack of Internet search sites, Wired Digital will launch a regional television advertising campaign next week for its HotBot search portal. [News.com]
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- Word, Charged set for relaunch - When Icon CMT decided it would close its culture e-zine Word earlier this year, the Word staff created Fred the Webmate, an unemployed interactive friend as a sort of tongue-in-cheek virtual memorial. [News.com]
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- Workstation has 10-foot screen - Hewlett-Packard today will unveil extreme-performance computing systems that will allow designers and engineers to create life-sized models of cars and aircraft parts. [News.com]
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- World rushes to Net for Starr report - People around the globe rushed to the Internet today in search of gritty details in Kenneth Starr's 445-page report about the White House sex scandal. [News.com]
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- WorldCom-MCI a force on the Net - After much hand-wringing, regulators approve the blockbuster telecommunications merger of MCI and WorldCom. The deal is expected to change the Net landscape significantly; already it has had some impact by leading to the cancellation of MCI's proposed deal with Yahoo to cobrand their recently launched joint online service. [News.com]
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- Xerox, IBM join copiers, software - Xerox will make its Document Centre product line compatible with International Business Machines' Lotus Notes and Domino.doc software environment. [News.com]
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- Y2K an issue in governor's race - Wooing the high-tech industry in California's gubernatorial race, state attorney general Dan Lungren today backed federal legislation to limit the costly lawsuits companies could face if their products go awry in the year 2000. [News.com]
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- Y2K an issue in governor's race - Wooing the high-tech industry in California's gubernatorial race, state attorney general Dan Lungren today backed federal legislation to limit the costly lawsuits companies could face if their products go awry in the year 2000. [News.com]
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- Y2K and pensions, mutual funds - The Y2K front man in the Senate is concerned that the Year 2000 technology problem could create serious risks for citizens' pensions and investments in mutual funds. [News.com]
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- Y2K and pensions, mutual funds - The Y2K front man in the Senate is concerned that the Year 2000 technology problem could create serious risks for citizens' pensions and investments in mutual funds. [News.com]
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- Y2K boosts Sri Lanka spending - Demand for computers in Sri Lanka will spurt over the next year due to explosive Internet user growth and a race by businesses to become millennium compliant, an industry official said today. [News.com]
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- Y2K boosts Sri Lanka spending - Demand for computers in Sri Lanka will spurt over the next year due to explosive Internet user growth and a race by businesses to become millennium compliant, an industry official said today. [News.com]
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- Y2K bug could endanger patients - The Year 2000 computer bug could endanger the lives of millions of patients by affecting health care delivery, according to a panel of experts who met to discuss the issue at a special summit held in Washington. [News.com]
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- Y2K bug could endanger patients - The Year 2000 computer bug could endanger the lives of millions of patients by affecting health care delivery, according to a panel of experts who met to discuss the issue at a special summit held in Washington. [News.com]
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- Y2K inaction threatens UK jobs - Failure to tackle millennium computer problems threaten as many as 300,000 jobs among small and medium-sized British firms, according to Prove It 2000, a UK-based supplier of millennium software. [News.com]
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- Y2K inaction threatens UK jobs - Failure to tackle millennium computer problems threaten as many as 300,000 jobs among small and medium-sized British firms, according to Prove It 2000, a UK-based supplier of millennium software. [News.com]
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- Y2K status info from EDS - In an effort to spread the latest word on computer system compliance, or the lack thereof, EDS today unveiled a huge database of information regarding the Y2K status of various hardware and software components. [News.com]
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- Y2K status info from EDS - In an effort to spread the latest word on computer system compliance, or the lack thereof, EDS today unveiled a huge database of information regarding the Y2K status of various hardware and software components. [News.com]
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- Y2K threatens U.S. transportation - It may have been buried under the fury of news coverage of Kenneth Starr's investigation of the President, but Congress warned late yesterday that the nation's transportation industry is likely to suffer major interruptions come the Year 2000. [News.com]
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- Y2K threatens U.S. transportation - It may have been buried under the fury of news coverage of Kenneth Starr's investigation of the President, but Congress warned late yesterday that the nation's transportation industry is likely to suffer major interruptions come the Year 2000. [News.com]
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- Yahoo debuts branded auctions - Yahoo today entered the crowded online auction space with its own service, powered by Onsale. [News.com]
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- Yahoo Mail, Amazon suffer outages - The Net isn't always open 24 hours a day. Two Net heavyweights had all or major parts of their services down for hours yesterday and today. [News.com]
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- Yahoo message board users sued - A publicly traded Internet company in Portland, Oregon, is suing 100 "John Does" for allegedly posting inaccurate and defamatory statements about it on a Yahoo Finance message board. [News.com]
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- Yahoo Online looking for partners - Yahoo is looking for another partner for its Yahoo Online service after a marketing pact with MCI Communications was ended by that company's acquisition by WorldCom. [News.com]
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- Yahoo secures Chinese domain - Yahoo extended the long arm of the law to Beijing in an effort to claim its domain name from Chinese squatters. [News.com]
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- Yahoo shifts message board policy - A lawsuit aiming to uncover the identity of 100 Yahoo message board users who allegedly posted defamatory statements about a public company has sparked the popular portal to shore up confirmation of who is speaking in its public forums. [News.com]
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- Yahoo to enter Nasdaq 100 - Internet media company Yahoo will replace phone company MCI Communications as part of the Nasdaq 100 Index after MCI completes its merger with WorldCom, the Nasdaq Stock Market said today. [News.com]
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- Yahoo, Amazon expand Web pact - Yahoo today said it has expanded its pact with Amazon.com, making Amazon.com the premier global bookseller within many of the Yahoo sites that serve users in Europe and Asia. [News.com]
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- Yahoo, MCI deal goes bust - Yahoo and MCI Communications plan to discontinue the cobranded online service they launched six months ago. [News.com]
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- Year 2000 bug a risk for New York - Few New York state localities are prepared to tackle the sorts of computer problems posed by the Year 2000 bug, and that might put emergency services at risk, a new report said. [News.com]
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- Year 2000 bug a risk for New York - Few New York state localities are prepared to tackle the sorts of computer problems posed by the Year 2000 bug, and that might put emergency services at risk, a new report said. [News.com]
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