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- $2,000 color business printers near - This week, Tektronix will launch a line of networkable printers that company executives hope will entice business users to switch to color from black-and-white. [News.com]
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- $3.4 billion devoted to Y2K bug - Nearly a week after lawmakers and the White House announced a budget agreement, President Bill Clinton signed the $520 billion spending package that includes $3.4 billion for covering costs associated with Year 2000 problems. [News.com]
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- $3.4 billion devoted to Y2K bug - Nearly a week after lawmakers and the White House announced a budget agreement, President Bill Clinton signed the $520 billion spending package that includes $3.4 billion for covering costs associated with Year 2000 problems. [News.com]
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- $399 PC maker signs retailers - A company called emachines, a start-up backed by South Korean PC giant Trigem and display maker Korean Data Systems, says it has signed up two U.S.-based retailers to sell its sub-$500 PCs. [News.com]
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- "Jupiter" devices slow to appear - If you build it, they will come--eventually. [News.com]
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- 1000-MHz chips on tap for Intel - Intel detailed a road map for upcoming microprocessors that will extend variations of its current technology well into the next century and range up to 1000 MHz in speed. [News.com]
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- 102 million Dell shares traded - Dell Computer became the third individual stock in Nasdaq history to post single-session trading volume in excess of 100 million shares, with more than 102 million shares changing hands today. [News.com]
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- 13 arrested for online child porn - Thirteen people have been arrested for operating an Internet child pornography ring that spanned four nations, officials in New York said. [News.com]
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- 3Com sees the light - When networking giant 3Com reported better-than-expected first-quarter earnings last month, executives cast the results as a sign that the company had turned the corner financially. [News.com]
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- 3Com ships new cable modem - 3Com said today it is shipping some of the first cable modems based on industry standards for interoperability to Tele-Communications Incorporated subsidiary TCI.Net. [News.com]
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- 4,000 Digital Euro jobs on the block - Compaq said today it expected to turn around money-losing German and French units of Digital Equipment by the middle of next year. [News.com]
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- @bigger.net goes belly-up - A lifetime of Internet access for just $60 lasts only as long as the company making the offer. [News.com]
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- @Home's losses narrowing - @Home today posted a narrower loss from the like quarter a year ago and a 50 percent increase in revenue from the previous quarter. [News.com]
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- @Home, Dell form alliance - Dell and Internet service provider @Home Network are joining the growing list of companies partnering to promote high-speed Internet access, today saying they have agreed to a comprehensive marketing and technology development program. [News.com]
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- @Home, Intel develop photo site - Intel and @Home are working together to create a digital imaging resource for users of @Home's high-speed broadband Internet service, the companies announced today. [News.com]
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- A glitch in Domino? - Bug-busting group L0pht has posted an advisory on its Web site warning Lotus Domino users and application developers of a glitch which occurs with some applications based on the Web server and opens up sensitive information to any user on the Internet. [News.com]
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- ABCNEWS.com announces layoffs - ABCNEWS.com told CNET News.com that less than 5 percent of its staff was laid off recently after a summer-long evaluation of the Internet news organization. "We reassigned some people and we realized some of our staff was not necessary going forward," said Katherine Dillon, vice president and general manager for ABCNEWS.com. Dillon said some of the employees have been offered positions at Starwave, ABC.com, and the new portal dubbed the Go Network. Shareholders are set to vote on that deal involving Disney, Infoseek, and Starwave Nov. 18. [News.com]
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- Aditi debuts e-commerce package - Aditi will next week begin shipping the first version of its customer email and Web form management package that helps companies better their online presence by providing a more personalized response to customer requests. [News.com]
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- Adobe chief: Graphics grow up - Adobe chief and cofounder John Warnock today said that graphics on the Web are currently in their infancy but the scene is likely to change as soon as the graphics and publishing software giant introduces technologies that close the gap between expressive print publications and graphics on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Adobe may beat Street - Shares of Adobe Systems jumped higher today after the company announced that results for its fourth quarter may exceed analysts' expectations. [News.com]
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- Agency: Telcos to pay for ISP calls - A phone call is still a local call, whether it's to another person or another computer, according to a new ruling by the California Public Utilities Commission. [News.com]
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- AGT drops on earnings warning - Shares of Applied Graphics Technologies plunged as much as 57 percent in afternoon trading after the company today announced that it expects to report third-quarter earnings that fall well below Wall Street expectations. [News.com]
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- Aiming for easier management - Oracle wants to make managing its business applications and databases as easy as pie. [News.com]
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- Ajax.org wins trademark fight - In what may sound like a hybrid between Greek and Hebrew stories, Ajax.org has slain its Goliath. [News.com]
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- Alcatel snags gigabit player - European giant Alcatel became the latest telecommunications equipment provider to be attracted to data-based networking, snagging gigabit-speed start-up Packet Engines in a $315 million cash deal. [News.com]
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- Allaire delays public offering - Allaire withdrew its initial stock offering today, the latest in a string of companies to shy away from going public amid difficult market conditions. [News.com]
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- AltaVista seeks deeper search - Internet navigation site AltaVista today unveiled a number of enhancements as well as a partnership with a natural-language technology developer and image search engine maker. [News.com]
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- Amazon takes on Europe - With the launch today of online stores serving Germany and the United Kingdom, Amazon.com is attempting to establish a beachhead in a difficult market against a homegrown competitor with a sizable advantage. [News.com]
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- Amazon unlikely to lose ground - In the last two days, Amazon.com's competitors have announced deals that seem to be aimed squarely at the company's core online book business, as well as its more recently launched music venture. [News.com]
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- Amazon.com cranks it up - Shares of Amazon.com, the giant online retailer, jumped higher in early trading today after the company beat analysts' expectations yesterday on the strength of its music sales, despite posting a third-quarter loss. [News.com]
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- AMD catching up to Intel in retail - Though Intel supplies close to half of the processors for computers in the retail market, its grip seems to be slipping. [News.com]
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- AMD feeling chipper - AMD is chipping away at Intel as it scores with strong quarterly earnings and a design win with Sony. [News.com]
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- AMD gets Rambus memory help - Advanced Micro Devices has licensed Direct Rambus, a high-performance computer memory technology developed by Rambus. [News.com]
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- AMD posts profit, record sales - Advanced Micro Devices today reported record revenues of $685.9 million for the third quarter and net income of $1 million, or 1 cent per share--the chipmaker's first profit in more than a year--as a result of a 30 percent surge in sales. [News.com]
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- AMD promotes Raza, Previte - Atiq Raza, who many believe will be the next CEO at Advanced Micro Devices, was appointed to the new post of co-chief operating officer at the company, while Rich Previte, the current COO and president, has been slated to take over as vice chairman. [News.com]
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- AMD unveils K7 chip design - Advanced Micro Devices provided details surrounding its next generation microprocessor, the K7, today at the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, California, while Intel and National Semiconductor also unveiled chip designs. [News.com]
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- Amendments for Net tax act? - Two controversial proposals could be tacked on to the Internet Tax Freedom Act before it is debated by the Senate today, one proposal to limit minors' access to adult online material, and the other seeking to repeal Congress's approval of a tax on Internet domain names, according to sources. [News.com]
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- Ameritech acquires Clover - In a bid to expand its data network service offerings, Ameritech has acquired Clover Technologies, the 11th-largest provider of corporate network services in the United States, Ameritech chief executive officer Richard Notebaert said. [News.com]
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- AMP ruling won't sway AlliedSignal - AlliedSignal chairman and chief executive Larry Bossidy said today that he did not expect a judge's ruling regarding electrical connection company AMP to derail AlliedSignal's plans for a $10 billion takeover. [News.com]
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- An online bookstore for children - Start-up online video shop KidFlix announced today that it has formed an alliance with Barnes and Noble to build a children's book store. [News.com]
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- Analog revs communications chip - Analog Devices unveiled a new chip yesterday that promises to allow manufacturers of high-end communications equipment to introduce servers that will cut equipment costs for Internet service providers. [News.com]
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- Analyst cuts Compaq estimates - Piper Jaffray today said analyst Ashok Kumar lowered his earnings and revenues estimates for Compaq Computer's fourth quarter, citing issues related to the giant PC maker's integration with recent acquisition Digital Equipment. [News.com]
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- Analysts bite on Apple's future - After suffering a drought for many years, Apple Computer yesterday announced its first profitable year since 1995, bolstering analysts' outlook that the company is in a strong position to continue to grow earnings. [News.com]
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- Another bug found in Navigator - The bug-battling efforts of Netscape Communications seem to be a case of cache-as-cache-can. [News.com]
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- Anti-fraud group spams by mistake - The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) accidentally sent numerous unsolicited emails, or "spam," to investors who sent inquiries to its anti-fraud email address, the group said. [News.com]
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- Anticipating eBay's earnings - Although numerous other Internet companies have seen their stock prices plummet or IPO plans dashed in 1998, online auctioneer eBay has already turned a profit and claims one of the most successful initial public offerings of the year. [News.com]
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- Antitrust suit for Visa, MasterCard - Explicitly identifying America's lagging "smart card" industry, the Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Visa and MasterCard, leveling charges of limiting competition both in traditional and emerging markets. [News.com]
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- Anxious investors stall Street - Stocks closed sharply lower today on growing concern about the quality of third-quarter corporate earnings, with technology stocks taking a hit as investors waited nervously for more companies to report their quarterly results. [News.com]
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- AOL builds up shopping sites - Coming on the heels of a robust earnings report yesterday that dazzled Wall Street, America Online today announced that it has signed on 40 merchants to further beef up its shopping services. [News.com]
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- AOL cleans up its accounting act - America Online, which has a history of controversial accounting practices, will now have an internal auditing department, a move that analysts say couldn't come at a better time. [News.com]
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- AOL earnings don't boost stock - Despite being reporting first-quarter results that exceeded Wall Street's expectations yesterday, America Online's stock slid half a point today, or 0.4 percent, to 121.5 in early trading. [News.com]
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- AOL exec details choosing IE - An America Online executive today provided seemingly damaging testimony on how Microsoft strong-armed AOL into using Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser by giving the online giant an offer it could not refuse--distribution on Windows 95. [News.com]
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- AOL insiders sell 1.8 million shares - Executives and a major shareholder at America Online sold nearly 1.8 million shares last week, raising questions among insider watchers but leaving analysts indifferent. [News.com]
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- AOL memos released in trial - Internal memos from America Online are being used to bolster the Justice Department's case in its antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. [News.com]
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- AOL reports record growth - Bolstered by record revenue growth and a strong climb in subscriber numbers, America Online today reported first-quarter results that exceeded Wall Street's expectations. [News.com]
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- AOL's Case sells shares - America Online chief executive Stephen Case recently sold 250,000 common shares in his company and a foundation named after him sold an additional 75,000 shares, according to Securities and Exchange Commission regulatory filings. [News.com]
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- AOL's chief tech exec leaves - America Online's chief technical executive, Michael Connors, will step aside six years after he joined AOL and oversaw its transformation from a small, proprietary online system into the world's leading Internet service. [News.com]
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- AOL, Bertelsmann eye Australia - Internet service provider America Online and European media group Bertelsmann said they would launch an Australian Internet service, AOL Australia, tomorrow. [News.com]
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- AOL, Microsoft rework portals - As the portal race ratchets up to the next level, two online giants today reintroduced their home pages, both with the same goal in mind: to dominate. [News.com]
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- AOL: Convenience is king - Convenience is still king in the eyes of Robert Pittman, America Online president and chief operating officer, and anything deemed inconvenient could face banishment. [News.com]
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- App makers flock to the Web - No one can claim the Internet is a passing fad anymore based on the number of software companies porting their products to the Web. [News.com]
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- Apple checks Sherlock for bugs - Apple Computer is investigating a few alleged bugs in its recently released Macintosh operating system software upgrade, including one in its much-touted Sherlock search technology. [News.com]
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- Apple drops despite big profits - Shares of Apple Computer continued to fall in early trading today despite the announcement yesterday from the company that it posted $106 million in profits on $1.56 billion in revenue for the fourth fiscal quarter, beating analysts' estimates and finishing its first profitable year since 1995. [News.com]
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- Apple readies iMac loan plan - Apple Computer will try to buttress sales of its popular iMac computer with a "loan" scheme for the holiday season, CNET News.com has learned. [News.com]
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- Apple rides iMac to big profit - Apple Computer said today it posted $106 million in profits on $1.56 billion in revenue for the fourth fiscal quarter, beating analysts' estimates and finishing its first profitable year since 1995. [News.com]
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- Apple rolls out Mac OS 8.5 - Apple Computer introduced an upgraded version of the Macintosh operating system that interim chief executive Steve Jobs called a "must-have upgrade" today at a company event in Cupertino's Flint Center auditorium. [News.com]
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- Apple sells 40,000 iMacs in Japan - Apple Computer has sold about 40,000 of its iMac personal computers in Japan since the launch on August 29, Apple's Japan unit said today. [News.com]
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- Apple sells Singapore building - Apple Computer has sold one of its buildings in Singapore for $19.7 million, marketing agent CB Richard Ellis said today. [News.com]
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- Apple sued over Newton drop - Apple Computer has been slapped with a lawsuit alleging that the company violated a licensing agreement when it discontinued its MessagePad handheld computer line and its Newton OS last year. [News.com]
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- Apple tells of Microsoft threats - Microsoft attempted to "sabotage" a popular multimedia program by causing misleading error messages to appear when it ran on Windows-based machines, a senior executive from Apple Computer has charged. [News.com]
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- Apple tried to buy PalmPilot - Apple Computer's interim chief executive Steve Jobs tried to buy the PalmPilot handheld computer from 3Com, but could not reach an agreement with the Santa Clara-based company, which specializes in networking. [News.com]
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- Apple's 5-step recovery plan - Apple Computer this week held its first financial analyst meeting in nearly two years, which some Wall Street analysts are taking as a positive sign that the company has finally gotten its financial house in order. [News.com]
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- Apple's profits roll on - Apple Computer will trumpet its quarterly financial results in a special briefing this week and introduce new products in an effort to keep up momentum gained during its first profitable year since 1995. [News.com]
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- Apple: First yearly profit since '95 - Set to report its first profitable year since 1995, Apple Computer plans to hold a briefing this week to tout the news and announce new products, industry analysts said. [News.com]
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- Applied Materials feels reorg cost - Semiconductor equipment maker Applied Materials announced it will take a nonrecurring charge for the restructuring of a joint venture with Applied Komatsu Technology in the fourth quarter. [News.com]
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- Applied Materials to take charge - Applied Materials, the world's largest supplier of equipment used to make computer chips, said today that it will take fourth-quarter charges totaling $285 million, mostly for a corporate restructuring to cope with the downturn in the semiconductor industry. [News.com]
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- Are airlines fair to online services? - The Transportation Department is investigating whether airlines are discriminating against online travel services. [News.com]
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- Argentine chamber outlaws piracy - Acting to catch up with modern standards, Argentina's Chamber of Deputies has unanimously approved changing the country's legal code to penalize software theft as a crime. [News.com]
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- Ariba automates expenses - Ariba Technologies has released version 5.0 of its flagship Operating Resource Management System procurement software, which now automates how companies handle their travel and entertainment expenses. [News.com]
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- Arrow makes two acquisitions - In a move to strengthen its position as the world's No. 1 computer products distributor, Arrow Electronics has agreed to acquire Richey Electronics and the electronics distribution group of Bell Industries. [News.com]
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- Ascend beats estimates by a cent - Ascend Communications beat Wall Street estimates for its fiscal 1998 third quarter by a cent today, exhibiting continued strength in its core service provider business. [News.com]
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- Asia, mergers cited in Open Market fall - Declining sales in Asia and difficulties in absorbing acquisitions are being blamed for a weak earnings report from pioneering e-commerce software company Open Market, which will furloughing up to 100 of its 480 employees, or nearly 20 percent. [News.com]
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- Asian flu leads to record layoffs - Job cuts in the computer, electronics, and telecommunications industries are far surpassing last year's figures--by twofold in most cases--as the impact of the Asian economic crisis hits, according to a report released today. [News.com]
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- Asian flu to affect competitiveness - Some Asian countries could fall behind in new technology and remain laggards for years as multinational companies and banks reposition to face the region's economic crisis, the Political & Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC) said today. [News.com]
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- Aspen Tech plunges on warning - Aspen Technology said today that it would report quarterly results well below Wall Street estimates, sending its stock to a record low. [News.com]
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- Association will promote MP3 - Five technology companies have joined forces to push for the widespread use of a technology that allows Netizens to download and play back stereo-quality music files. [News.com]
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- AT&T beats Street estimates - Shares of AT&T jumped higher today after the long distance telephone giant announced that third-quarter operational profits, excluding charges, grew by 66.7 percent, helping the company surpass Wall Street expectations. [News.com]
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- AT&T in talks with Time Warner - Time Warner and AT&T are reportedly discussing a partnership that would aid the telecom giant's efforts to sidestep the regional Bells' chokehold on the local phone market. [News.com]
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- AT&T looks for cable deals - AT&T chairman and CEO Michael Armstrong said he hopes to sign deals with several cable operators that will allow his company to bypass the stranglehold of regional Bells and provide local phone service over cable lines, according to a report. [News.com]
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- AT&T merger deal questioned - Telecommunications giant AT&T is dodging bullets aimed at its planned merger with Tele-Communications Incorporated. Public-interest groups say the union will stifle competition; telcos say the combined company will face less regulation. Meanwhile, AT&T CEO Armstrong is still on the prowl for more deals. [News.com]
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- AT&T says TCI deal on track - AT&T expects to close its acquisition of Tele-Communications Incorporated in the first half of next year, the telco giant disclosed in a regulatory filing today. [News.com]
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- AT&T ups Internet ante - In a major strategic announcement, AT&T today detailed a series of Internet initiatives that put using the Internet for phone calls and data transfers at the core of its strategy. [News.com]
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- AT&T wins Microsoft ATM deal - AT&T, the No. 1 U.S. long distance company, said today that it had won an 18-month contract from Microsoft to provide a global data network that will link nearly 70 locations in the United States and Japan to the software company's headquarters in Redmond, Washington. [News.com]
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- AT&T, BellSouth form new company - AT&T, the largest U.S. phone company, and BellSouth, the No. 4 U.S. local phone company, said today that they will form a new company to manage their wireless properties in three markets, with AT&T contributing $1 billion in cash for new investments. [News.com]
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- AT&T, Vanguard to merge - Telecommunications giant AT&T today announced that it had moved to acquire Vanguard Cellular Systems in a stock and cash deal valued at about $1.5 billion in an effort to significantly increase its cellular reach in the eastern United States. [News.com]
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- AT&T: No local phone monopolies - In a keynote address at Internet world this morning, AT&T chairman C. Michael Armstrong lashed out against local phone monopolies and called for a halt to mergers among the former Ma Bell subsidiaries that dominate local access. [News.com]
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- ATI buys struggling Chromatic - Graphics heavyweight ATI Technologies today acquired Chromatic, a once promising media processor venture that recently had to lay off a big chunk of its workforce, for $67 million and will use the new company to move into the market for integrated chips for set-top boxes and other intelligent devices. [News.com]
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- ATI on top of graphics world - Graphics chip leader ATI Technologies is on a roll in the 3D arena, and it seems that very little can knock the company out off its perch in the near future. [News.com]
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- Audiohighway.com IPO hits skids - High-tech initial public offerings continue to drop like flies. [News.com]
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- Automakers agree on computers - The Big Three U.S. automakers and three foreign competitors yesterday announced the formation of a consortium to cooperate on standardized multimedia systems for cars. [News.com]
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- Avid Technology stock in tailspin - Stock in Avid Technology went into a free fall today, losing more than 40 percent of its value and closing at a new 52-week low after the company warned of lower-than-expected revenues. [News.com]
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- Baan delays earnings report - Baan, the Dutch maker of business software, will delay its third-quarter earnings release until tomorrow. The firm had previously announced it would post a loss for the quarter of around 13- to 16-cents--far below Wall Street's expectations of a 15-cent profit--on revenue of $190 to $195 million. [News.com]
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- Baan kicks off component strategy - Baan may think its new component-based package will be the answer for those tired of upgrading entire suites each time a new release comes out, but analysts say the company still has to prove its new strategy. [News.com]
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- Baan posts loss, plans reorg - Coming off its first losing quarter, the Baan Company is cutting its workforce, reorganizing management, and taking other actions to bolster its sagging business. [News.com]
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- Baan struggles, seeks niche - Baan is in serious trouble and may be down for the count if its current plan to recover doesn't work--and work quickly. [News.com]
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- Baan taps Microsoft, IBM - Baan is turning to some big guns for help in boosting its enterprise resource planning system business. [News.com]
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- Baan warns Street of loss - Shares of business software maker Baan tumbled by more than 25 percent today after the company warned that it expects to post a 13- to 16-cent loss on revenues of $190 to $195 million, well below Wall Street analysts' expectations that the company would earn 15 cents, according to First Call. [News.com]
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- Ballmer downplays NT 5.0 - Microsoft president Steve Ballmer has sometimes been compared to an evangelist, and here at one of the largest networking events of the year, the affable executive sang the praises and admitted the limitations of his company's corporate operating system, Windows NT. [News.com]
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- Bands urged to help stop piracy - In its continuing battle against Internet piracy, industry group the Recording Industry Association of America is turning to artists to back it up. [News.com]
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- Banks will share bug plans on Net - Five financial institutions have agreed to make public their plans for fixing the millennium computer bug. [News.com]
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- Banks will share bug plans on Net - Five financial institutions have agreed to make public their plans for fixing the millennium computer bug. [News.com]
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- Barksdale on the hot seat - A Microsoft attorney today grilled Netscape chief executive Jim Barksdale on the witness stand, asking detailed questions that appeared designed to poke holes in allegations the CEO made in 127 pages of written testimony. [News.com]
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- Barksdale takes on MS in trial - Microsoft should be forced to separate its Internet Explorer browser from its Windows operating systems and should be barred from entering into any exclusive partnerships, according to Netscape Communications chief executive Jim Barksdale. [News.com]
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- Barksdale's credibility questioned - Microsoft today continued to tear away at the 127-page written testimony of Netscape Communications chief executive Jim Barksdale, introducing new evidence that suggested Netscape's account of Microsoft dealings were wrong on several key points. [News.com]
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- Battle flares over digital music - The Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) struggle against pirated Internet music intensified earlier this week after Silicon Valley high tech firm Diamond Multimedia fired back against the industry lobbying body that sued Diamond last Friday. [News.com]
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- Bell Atlantic trumps expectations - Regional telephone company Bell Atlantic today announced it posted earnings for its third quarter that beat Wall Street expectations, with data services providing a major source of revenue. [News.com]
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- Bell, Snap deal continues trend - Bell Atlantic and Web portal Snap are teaming up to offer high-speed Net access, in keeping with the trend of packaging portals with service. [News.com]
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- Bertelsmann charging online - German publishing giant Bertelsmann AG is aggressively extending its reach onto the Internet, highlighted by two high-profile deals announced this week. [News.com]
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- Bertelsmann gets traffic-hungry - The new media chief of the world's biggest book publisher loves traffic. [News.com]
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- Bertelsmann takes Barnes stake - In a surprise move, Barnes & Noble today announced that it would postpone IPO plans for its online book retailing site and allow German publishing giant Bertelsmann to take a 50 percent stake in it instead. [News.com]
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- Big banks back digital certificates - Aiming to boost large transactions over the Internet, eight banking giants said today that they will issue digital certificates worldwide that vouch for the identity of companies involved in business-to-business Net commerce. [News.com]
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- Big Blue continues freeware push - Big Blue continues to embrace the freeware world. [News.com]
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- Big future for Fibre Channel - Fibre Channel, an interconnection technology that's been waiting in the wings for several years, is poised to become widely used in the next few years as customers are increasingly clamoring for fast, reliable, and centralized storage systems. [News.com]
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- Bill echoing CDA sent to Clinton - Those caught using the Net to sexually solicit minors or knowingly send "obscene" material to a person under 16 could face stiffer criminal penalties, under a bill Congress sent to the White House today. [News.com]
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- Bristol gets ally in Microsoft suit - Bristol Technology gained an important ally in its private antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, as Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal filed a "friend of the court" brief in the dispute. [News.com]
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- Bristol suit cites Microsoft papers - Bristol Technology today became the latest company to use internal Microsoft documents to argue that the software giant has engaged in predatory behavior. [News.com]
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- Britain firms at risk from Y2K bug - Around 40 percent of Britain's medium-sized companies are running the risk of collapse if they do not take action to combat the threat of the millennium bug, the government-appointed Action 2000 group said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Britain firms at risk from Y2K bug - Around 40 percent of Britain's medium-sized companies are running the risk of collapse if they do not take action to combat the threat of the millennium bug, the government-appointed Action 2000 group said yesterday. [News.com]
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- British teens surf Net freely - British parents are largely unaware of what their preteen and teenage children are doing when they access the Internet, but the children themselves are enjoying the risks of the unregulated medium, new market research shows. [News.com]
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- Broadcast.com beats estimates - Webcast company Broadcast.com posted a better-than-expected third quarter loss today and its shares got a boost after the company announced a credit card deal with First USA. [News.com]
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- Broadcom gets SA set-top deal - Broadcom has announced a deal with Scientific-Atlanta to supply communications chips through the year 2000 in SA's next-generation digital TV set-top boxes. [News.com]
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- Broadcom to make new offering - Computer chipmaker Broadcom, which earlier had one of the year's most successful initial public offerings, announced that it has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a follow-on offering of 3 million shares of its class A common stock. [News.com]
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- BT to link up with Netscape - British Telecommunications will agree to a contract with Netscape Communications this week that will underpin its drive to sell Internet services, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Bug compromises Navigator - Netscape Communications today confirmed a problem with Navigator 4.5 that could make the browser less secure for users on shared computers. [News.com]
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- Bugs in Mac OS 8.5? - Apple is investigating reports of bugs in its most recent upgrade to the Macintosh operating system, including one that could delete data in some instances. [News.com]
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- Building Netscape around portal - After being introduced at his keynote address at Fall Internet World as a general, rather than a captain, in the Internet industry, Netscape Communications chief executive James Barksdale pointed out that a General Barksdale had led a charge during the Civil War, but died during the offensive. [News.com]
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- Business app firms lean on services - Enterprise resource planning firms are handing out service with a smile, a smile because it's one of the few revenue streams for the software vendors that isn't plummeting. [News.com]
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- Business portal targets Netscape - On the heels of a year-long acquisition binge that's swallowed up Internet security and desktop utility firms, fast-growing Network Associates now wants to get into the Internet portal business. [News.com]
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- Busy day for tech earnings - Like many component makers hurt by the falling cost of desktop computers, disk drive company Western Digital saw its revenue and earnings drop drastically from the year-ago period for the first quarter ended September 26. [News.com]
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- C&W network gets snagged - West Coast Net surfers experienced some slowdowns yesterday and today when portions of Cable & Wireless's West Coast network experienced a glitch, according to the company. [News.com]
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- CA beats Street - Computer Associates said its fiscal second-quarter earnings grew 8 percent, exceeding Wall Street estimates by a healthy 4 cents. [News.com]
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- CA bets on 3D future - Computer Associates sees the future of enterprise software in 3D. [News.com]
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- Cable Net access outpacing DSL - In the race to connect homes to the Internet at super-fast speeds, the cable industry is pulling far ahead of telephone carriers, but a major regulatory battle is brewing that could shake up the field. [News.com]
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- Cabletron leans on hardware buys - Cabletron Systems has big plans for this week's networking summit in Atlanta, underscoring the bets the company has made with a slew of recent purchases. [News.com]
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- Cabletron says expenses to rise - Network connectivity developer Cabletron Systems said today that it expects its operating expenses to increase between $2 million and $4 million in each of the next three quarters, including the current third quarter, because of accounting adjustments being made in connection with previously announced acquisitions. [News.com]
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- Can a free Net service survive? - Though free or nearly free Internet access providers have come and gone, a new company launching a free, ad-based service today is determined to make the model work. [News.com]
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- Can emergencies handle Y2K? - Two U.S. Senators are expected to call for the establishment of an international Y2K early warning system to notify emergency management entities of progress on the technology problem and possible public safety threats it might cause. [News.com]
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- Can emergencies handle Y2K? - Two U.S. Senators are expected to call for the establishment of an international Y2K early warning system to notify emergency management entities of progress on the technology problem and possible public safety threats it might cause. [News.com]
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- Can Gateway stay ahead? - Gateway 2000 and Dell Computer are leading a surge in direct-market PC sales, and others are not far behind. [News.com]
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- Canada weighs in on crypto - In a move aimed at encouraging e-commerce, the Canadian government today introduced a new policy with relatively loose restrictions on the export of encryption software. [News.com]
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- Canadians market Tuvalu's name - The world's smallest country, the south Pacific island of Tuvalu, could undergo a Cinderella-like transformation after hanging a "for sale" sign on its Internet domain name. [News.com]
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- Cancer medicine trials sped by Web - An Internet-based system that launched today promises to make it easier for doctors and patients who wish to try the latest experimental cancer treatments. [News.com]
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- Casio launches software company - Casio, manufacturer of the Cassiopeia handheld computers, has launched a separate company dedicated to developing software for the Windows CE platform. [News.com]
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- Casio revs CE-based handheld - Casio has introduced its latest palm-size device, a handheld personal assistant based on the newest version of Microsoft's Windows CE operating system. [News.com]
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- CDA II may slip into law - As it scrambles to adjourn, Congress could finally pass legislation that would make it a crime for commercial Web sites to give minors access to "harmful material," according to several sources. [News.com]
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- CDnow, N2K in merger talks - After a week in which CDnow and N2K each saw their depressed stocks slide more than 15 percent, the two online music retailers have confirmed that they are in talks regarding a possible merger. [News.com]
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- CDnow, N2K post mixed results - Online music sellers CDnow and N2K agreed to merge today, concluding negotiations that became publicly known earlier this month. [News.com]
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- CDnow, N2K to merge - Online music sellers CDnow and N2K agreed to merge today, concluding negotiations that became publicly known earlier this month. [News.com]
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- CDW nabs more PC sales - CDW Computer Centers, a major catalog and online computer dealer, reported record earnings of $17.1 million on sales of $462.7 million for its just-completed quarter, another indication of the growing appeal of shopping from home. [News.com]
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- Chambers: FTC probe is small - Cisco Systems chief John Chambers dismissed an ongoing probe by the Federal Trade Commission into possible collusion between his firm, Nortel Networks, and Lucent Technologies to divide up the networking market as a "small inquiry" today. [News.com]
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- China human rights site hacked - Shortly after it was unveiled, a new official Chinese Web site dedicated to promoting Beijing's view of human rights has been defaced by computer hackers. [News.com]
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- China nabs hacker robbers - China arrested its first suspected cyberbank robbers, charging two brothers with hacking into a bank network system and stealing $31,000 in the eastern province of Jiangsu, according to reports. [News.com]
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- China slams Net criminals - As China becomes ever-more wired, computer police must raise Internet security standards to catch the growing numbers of cybercriminals, the People's Daily said today. [News.com]
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- China sprays for Y2K bugs - With a self-imposed September 1999 deadline looming, Chinese government agencies and government-owned enterprises are hard at work tackling the millennium bug, the China Economic Times said Wednesday. [News.com]
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- China sprays for Y2K bugs - With a self-imposed September 1999 deadline looming, Chinese government agencies and government-owned enterprises are hard at work tackling the millennium bug, the China Economic Times said Wednesday. [News.com]
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- China to top Asian Net use by 2001 - China will have more Internet users than any other Asian country by 2001, excluding Japan, according to a new study. [News.com]
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- Chip aimed at Net appliances - STMicroelectronics has unveiled a single chip to operate network appliances, such as handheld computers, game consoles, and Internet phones, to replace the more expensive sets of up to six chips now needed. [News.com]
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- Chip eases DVD recording - C-Cube will introduce a chip that enables recordable DVD for consumers on Monday, the latest product release in the effort to bring DVD recording home. [News.com]
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- Chip market tightens - The computer memory chip market has tightened since mid-October due to production cuts by Japanese and South Korean makers and stronger demand from PC makers, industry officials said. [News.com]
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- Chip sales off even more in '98 - Worldwide microchip sales will shrink 10.9 percent in 1998, a greater decline than previously forecast, on a collapse in prices for memory chips and depressed demand for logic chips used in household electronics, said an industry group. [News.com]
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- Chip sales rise in August - Global sales of computer chips rose 1.5 percent in August, the first month-to-month gain this year, the Semiconductor Industry Association said today. [News.com]
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- Chips take center stage - Compaq will finally detail its Alpha strategy Monday. Meanwhile, AMD, Intel, National, HP, and other chipmakers outline a rapidly expanding future for chips this week at the Microprocessor Forum. Perhaps no processor has been as eagerly anticipated as Intel's first 64-bit chip, Merced. [News.com]
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- Cigna jumps into online insurance - Five separate data security initiatives were announced today, each aimed at calming the nerves of network managers who have been spooked by hacks of high-profile Web sites. [News.com]
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- Cisco jumps on VPN bandwagon - Cisco Systems hopped on the overcrowded bandwagon of companies marketing secure connections over the public Net to corporate branch offices and multi-site small businesses. [News.com]
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- Cisco software hit by another bug - Problems continue to crop up within older versions of the software that runs in various networking devices sold by Cisco Systems. [News.com]
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- Cisco to buy Selsius Systems - Networking giant Cisco Systems today announced it has moved to acquire privately held Selsius Systems, a supplier of network PBX systems for high-quality telephony over IP networks, in a stock and cash deal valued at $145 million. [News.com]
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- Cisco walks line with partnerships - The convergence of computer networking and telecommunications is creating a business climate where differentiating between strategic partnerships and illegal acts of collusion may be getting tougher. [News.com]
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- Cisco, Alcatel on the rocks? - The partnership between data networking king Cisco Systems and European giant Alcatel may be in trouble, according to a French newspaper. [News.com]
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- Cisco, HP detail ISP teamwork - Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard are betting that, in tandem, they can reach an integrated voice and data network Promised Land. [News.com]
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- Cisco, HP go after ISP business - In a high-profile bid for service provider dollars, Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard will today detail technology advancements intended to bring "telephone-class" support systems and services to networks based on the Internet protocol, the dominant means to send information on the Net. [News.com]
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- Clinton applauds Net tax act - President Bill Clinton said he is "pleased" with the Senate's passage today of landmark legislation to bar new state and local taxes on the Internet for three years. [News.com]
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- Clinton scandal costs employers - Employees reading the juicy details of the relationship between President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky on the Internet cost American companies $470 million in lost productivity, according to a report. [News.com]
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- Clinton signs Y2K disclosure bill - President Clinton yesterday signed into law the Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act, intended to promote the sharing of information between companies on how to best battle the Y2K bug. [News.com]
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- Clinton signs Y2K disclosure bill - President Clinton yesterday signed into law the Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act, intended to promote the sharing of information between companies on how to best battle the Y2K bug. [News.com]
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- Clumsy e-trader hits market - Electronic trading may be cheap, but leaning on the keyboard can be costly. A mystery plunge in the value of French 10-year bond futures on July 23 was triggered by a bank trader at Salomon Brothers in London who accidentally and repeatedly hit the "Instant Sell" button, investigators said yesterday. [News.com]
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- CMP pulls plug on LANTimes - The next issue will be the last for LANTimes, a magazine dedicated to computing over local area networks, after publisher CMP Media announced today it would shut the publication as part of a major corporate restructuring. [News.com]
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- CNET beats Street - CNET: The Computer Network exceeded analysts' third-quarter earnings expectations, in part because of overall revenue growth and decreased expenses for its TV operations. [News.com]
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- Committee to debate copyright bill - Congress today is fine-tuning controversial legislation that would strengthen protections for intellectual property on the Net, but also could help copyright and database owners put a digital barricade around their material--even if it's in the public domain. [News.com]
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- Communicator to include ngLayout - In a move welcomed by the developer community, Netscape Communications confirmed that it will include the ngLayout engine in the 5.0 version of its Communicator Web-browsing software. [News.com]
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- Compaq aims for direct hit - Compaq's holy war against Dell will ratchet up November 11 when the No. 1 PC vendor rolls out a new program to target small and medium-sized businesses through direct sales and new product bundles. [News.com]
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- Compaq backs Alpha future - Compaq will finally put its plans for the Alpha platform in concrete form on Monday when the Houston, Texas-based computing giant rolls out its first Alpha-based servers and provides details on future generations of processors that will hit 1,000-MHz and more. [News.com]
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- Compaq banks on AltaVista - When Compaq completed its buyout of Digital Equipment last June, industry watchers wondered aloud what a PC maker would do with the AltaVista portal it had inherited in the deal, fueling speculation that the Net directory would be sold. [News.com]
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- Compaq beats Street, barely - Shares of personal computer maker Compaq Computer moved higher in early trading today after the company announced that it had just managed to surpass Wall Street estimates for its third quarter, despite its profits tumbling by 78 percent. [News.com]
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- Compaq cuts Houston jobs - Compaq let go close to 1,000 manufacturing employees in its hometown of Houston this week as part of the company's plan to streamline operations by 17,000. [News.com]
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- Compaq forecasts profit from DEC - Compaq Computer said today that the integration of Digital Equipment was on track and that its takeover of the company would begin to contribute to earnings by the end of 1998. [News.com]
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- Compaq getting stronger in '98 - With the inventory glut behind it and the assimilation of Digital under way, Compaq Computer is expected to report improved earnings of 6 cents per share for the third quarter. [News.com]
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- Compaq headed for high end - Compaq's acquisition of Digital Equipment Corporation and Tandem is giving the company a serious and growing presence in the world of high-performance, "enterprise" computing, industry observers say. [News.com]
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- Compaq losing its grip - Although Compaq Computer has retained its No. 1 ranking in PC market share, the Texas giant is losing ground to all four of its closest competitors, according to reports released today. [News.com]
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- Compaq plans big storage push - Compaq plans to invest aggressively in its data storage system division and release a slew of new products as part of its overall effort to expand its offerings in the enterprise computer market. [News.com]
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- Compaq rolls out $699 PC - Compaq Computer released a $699 Internet PC today as the company strives to drive down prices still further and compete with Apple Computer's Internet-centric iMac and consumer PCs from Hewlett-Packard. [News.com]
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- Compaq rolls out Alpha server - Compaq released a new class of enterprise corporate servers today, its first products to contain Alpha processors. [News.com]
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- Compaq sees life in Alpha chip - Compaq Computer said today that it planned to continue using Digital Equipment's high-powered Alpha processor for another ten years even as Intel nears the release of its competing Merced chip. [News.com]
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- Compaq weathering transition - With the inventory glut behind it and the assimilation of Digital under way, Compaq Computer is expected to report improved earnings of 6 cents a share for the third quarter when it holds its conference call with analysts Wednesday. [News.com]
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- Compaq's software shift - First, it was consulting. Now, Compaq will move into the software market with discrete, server-level applications that will likely come out later this year. [News.com]
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- Compromise on copyright bill - Federal lawmakers have reached a compromise on copyright legislation that would drastically alter consumers' rights when it comes to online research and e-commerce. However, broad powers for database owners to safeguard their entire collections have been scrapped, sources say. [News.com]
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- Computer lease scam busted - Two men have been convicted in Los Angeles of receiving fraudulently leased Dell computers and reselling them to unsuspecting customers. [News.com]
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- Confusion mars DTV's debut - A study says the market for digital television will slog through a period of consumer confusion, but don't tell that to Mitsubishi or Intel. [News.com]
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- Congress OKs lawsuit curbs - With high-tech companies in mind, both the House and Senate today passed legislation to curb shareholder lawsuits against companies with volatile stock prices. [News.com]
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- Congress OKs tech gender gap study - Congress is creating a commission to study whether women face a "silicon ceiling" when trying to get--and keep--the most lucrative jobs in the high-tech and science industries. [News.com]
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- Congress pushes Net issues - With the end of its session looming, both houses of Congress are working furiously to move a number of Internet bills forward. At the forefront are taxes, keeping adult content away from wired children, and copyrights. [News.com]
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- Congress pushes tech bills - In the final hours of Congress's session, lawmakers are trying to slam through bills governing Net content for minors, skilled foreign worker visas, and shareholder lawsuits, among others. The high-tech provisions were slapped onto a major spending bill that President Clinton is expected to sign, and are set to be cleared by lawmakers as late as Tuesday. [News.com]
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- Congress takes on Y2K - The Senate seems to be taking on the Year 2000 technology problem at full force this week, backing a controversial bill that will protect companies that are disclosing information about fixing the bug, as well as debating the threat the millennium glitch poses to emergency services. [News.com]
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- Congress takes on Y2K - The Senate seems to be taking on the Year 2000 technology problem at full force this week, backing a controversial bill that will protect companies that are disclosing information about fixing the bug, as well as debating the threat the millennium glitch poses to emergency services. [News.com]
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- Congress's Y2K push - Before Congress adjourns tomorrow, there is likely to be heavy debate on whether to use surplus budget funds for Y2K expenses, and the president is expected to sign off on the recently passed Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act. [News.com]
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- Congress's Y2K push - Before Congress adjourns tomorrow, there is likely to be heavy debate on whether to use surplus budget funds for Y2K expenses, and the president is expected to sign off on the recently passed Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act. [News.com]
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- Consensus on DSL standards - A preliminary standard for digital subscriber line modems has been set, paving the way for faster modems that can offer high-speed Internet access over regular phone lines. [News.com]
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- Controversial ad standard in works - Two companies that supply software for online advertising are proposing a standard on how ads are counted, a plan that threatens to exacerbate tensions between Web sites and advertisers in the short run. [News.com]
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- Copyright law will cost Net radio - Now that President Clinton has signed into law sweeping protections for digital intellectual property, online radio stations will face new fees for spinning records on the Net. [News.com]
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- Corel adds Red Hat Linux again - Canadian software maker Corel and Red Hat Software today announced an agreement to bring Red Hat's Linux to the Corel Computer NetWinder family of thin clients and thin servers. [News.com]
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- Corel revs Linux strategy - Corel will give away its Linux-based version of WordPerfect 8 Personal Edition starting in November. [News.com]
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- Countries meet on Net security - Much like teachers who scheme to prevent schoolchildren from cheating on tests, government ministers from around the world toiled on ways to guard the security of firms and people doing business on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Critical care from Microsoft - Microsoft will roll out a new feature for the Windows 98 operating system next week that will alert users to critical bug fixes and patches needed for their system, the company announced today. [News.com]
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- Critical time for Net tax bill - The Senate successfully scrambled to pass the Internet Tax Freedom Act yesterday--but the bill faces one more hurdle before it is "signed, sealed, and delivered" to President Clinton. [News.com]
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- Cyberian Outpost gets a break - Shares in Cyberian Outpost, an e-commerce leader, dropped as much as 17 percent before closing higher today, one day after reporting better-than-expected second-quarter results despite a widening loss. [News.com]
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- Cypress jumps on earnings news - Shares of chipmaker Cypress Semiconductor moved slightly higher today after the company posted earnings that beat Wall Street estimates. [News.com]
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- Data General's upside surprise - Fiscal year 1998 was mostly a sad financial story for Data General--but the book had a rosy ending, as the company pulled out a profitable fourth quarter when analysts expected a loss. [News.com]
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- Data mart vendors go vertical - Data marts and analysis tools are going vertical. [News.com]
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- Datastream teams with MindSpring - Software company Datastream Systems and Internet service provider MindSpring said today that Datastream will provide its customers with MindSpring's Internet software. [News.com]
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- Deal extends NSI domain control - The Clinton administration gave Network Solutions a two-year extension today to keep administering the most popular domain names, including ".com." [News.com]
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- Dell answers program puzzles - Dell Computer is moving to take the pain out of software adoption through a new site that will identify programs certified to run on the company's computers. [News.com]
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- Dell cuts price of consumer PCs - Dell cuts prices up to 13 percent on its Dimension desktops for consumers and small businesses earlier today, a move which coincides with a company effort to penetrate the small office-home office (SOHO) market. [News.com]
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- Dell leads satisfaction survey - Dell is No. 1 in satisfying corporate information technology managers, according to a new survey, but competitors such as IBM and Compaq continue to improve in such areas as price, hardware reliability, and technical support. [News.com]
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- Dell notebooks get slimmer - On Monday, Dell will introduce a thinner, faster model to its Inspiron line of notebooks that's aimed at home and small business users. [News.com]
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- Dell to build Brazilian plant - Dell Computer confirmed its plan to invest 128 million reals ($108.5 million) in a new factory in Brazil, according to the Brazilian Industry and Commerce Ministry. [News.com]
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- Dell vows to grow Asian market - Dell Computer said it could continue growth in the Asia Pacific region despite a shrinking or stagnant overall market. [News.com]
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- Dell, Compaq clean their clocks - Computer giants Dell and Compaq are making sure they protect their PC customers from any Y2K threat to their computers by separately taking actions to address potential glitches in the real-time-clock related to the century date-change. [News.com]
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- Dell, Compaq clean their clocks - Computer giants Dell and Compaq are making sure they protect their PC customers from any Y2K threat to their computers by separately taking actions to address potential glitches in the real-time-clock related to the century date-change. [News.com]
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- Dell, Compaq clean their clocks - Computer giants Dell and Compaq are making sure they protect their PC customers from any Y2K threat to their computers by separately taking actions to address potential glitches in the real-time-clock related to the century date-change. [News.com]
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- Despite gains, Ameritrade misses - Ameritrade's fiscal fourth-quarter earnings were unchanged from the fourth quarter last year, lower than expected, even as online brokerage accounts gained. [News.com]
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- Details of new chips emerging - Advanced Micro Devices will provide the details surrounding its next generation microprocessor, the K7, next week at the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, California, and in all likelihood ignite a debate on whether the company has come up with a way to expand into the performance computing market. [News.com]
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- Digital copyright bill becomes law - President Clinton today signed a bill that sets new rules for downloading, sharing, or simply viewing copyrighted material online. [News.com]
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- Digital photo printing simplified - LexMark today introduced a photo printer for digital cameras that completely bypasses the computer, as well as a PC-free imaging solution featuring Iomega's Zip drive. [News.com]
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- Digital TV launched in Britain - Predicting 20,000 orders in its first day, Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB launched digital television across Britain today. [News.com]
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- Disney-Infoseek details emerge - Infoseek today released details about its deal with Walt Disney, including financial arrangements, valuation, and management appointments, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [News.com]
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- DNS glitch keeps AOL off limits - Internet users trying to send email to America Online or get to the online giant's site have been plagued by problems due to a major glitch with the Internet's domain naming system. [News.com]
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- Doctors discuss online medicine - Diagnosing illnesses via cyberspace may be a distant reality, but more physicians should take advantage of the Web and email to inform and communicate with patients, according to a special edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association. [News.com]
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- Documents: Goal to "pollute" Java - Microsoft tried to "kill cross-platform Java" by growing the "polluted Java market," while a Sun Microsystems manager acknowledged that "Microsoft was smarter than us when we did the contract," according to newly released documents in the licensing dispute between the two companies. [News.com]
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- DOJ assault opens Microsoft trial - Government attorneys wasted no time in laying into Microsoft in the landmark antitrust trial that got under way here today, detailing a series of business acts that allegedly demonstrate the software giant's attempts to illegally maintain a Windows monopoly and to create a new one for Internet software. [News.com]
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- DOJ assault opens Microsoft trial - Government attorneys wasted no time in laying into Microsoft in the landmark antitrust trial that got under way here yesterday, detailing a series of business acts that allegedly demonstrate the software giant's attempts to illegally maintain a Windows monopoly and to create a new one for Internet software. [News.com]
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- DOJ counters "set-up" claims - Now that Netscape Communications chief Jim Barksdale has left the witness stand, Apple Computer and America Online appear to be taking center stage in the antitrust trial against Microsoft under way here. [News.com]
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- DOJ files late in antitrust case - Government prosecutors today filed a number of last-minute court documents in their antitrust suit against Microsoft, hitting on procedural issues related to trial, scheduled to begin on Monday. [News.com]
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- DOJ ready for turn, may see Gates - As Microsoft prepares for what is likely to be the last day of its painstaking cross-examination of Jim Barksdale, government prosecutors have hinted at the direction they intend to take when it is their turn to "redirect" questions to the Netscape Communications' chief Tuesday. [News.com]
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- DOJ says Microsoft stonewalling - Government lawyers asked a judge to order Microsoft to provide evidence from a database they alleged had been altered to block their access to material relevant to the high-profile antitrust case that begins on Monday. [News.com]
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- Domain authority in flux - Network Solutions' contract to run the domain name system was extended for only a week, and there are still myriad details left to be decided. But observers say Network Solutions will survive without its domain monopoly. [News.com]
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- Domain board plans public meeting - The private nonprofit board that is planning to run the domain name system has scheduled its first public meeting. [News.com]
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- Domain plan a step closer - The United States government today took an important step toward transferring its power over the Internet to the private sector. [News.com]
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- DoubleClick launches ad service - DoubleClick, the company known for creating an advertising network that plants cookies in people's browsers, today is introducing a program that allows advertisers to even further target their ads to users. [News.com]
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- Dow and Nasdaq move on up - Stocks moved higher today, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average getting a lift from strong blue chip earnings, while the Nasdaq Composite Index got a boost from gains by technology bellwether stocks. [News.com]
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- Dow climbs as Nasdaq falters - Wall Street stocks closed mixed today, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average continuing its upward momentum as a sell-off in technology stocks dragged the Nasdaq Composite Index lower. [News.com]
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- Dow's seven-day streak ends - The Dow Jones Industrial Average snapped its seven-session winning streak today as blue-chip stocks finally succumbed to profit-taking in light trading. [News.com]
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- Drugstore.com details emerge - Drugstore.com, the Kleiner Perkins-backed start-up led by former Microsoft new-media executive Peter Neupert, is quietly spilling out more details about its venture on its Web site. [News.com]
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- DSL modem standard due soon - Consumers may move a step closer toward high-speed Internet access at home, as a preliminary standard for digital subscriber line modems is expected to emerge by the end of the week. [News.com]
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- DTV commitment surprises - Broadcasters gathered in Washington today to proclaim their commitment to the rollout of digital television, saying that 41 stations from a wide range of U.S. markets are set to begin broadcasts in November. [News.com]
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- DTV: They'd rather fight than switch - As broadcasters prepare to throw the switch on digital TV broadcasts early next month, International Data Corporation says the market for DTV will slog slowly through a period of consumer confusion and technical hang-ups--but finally boom in 2007 in an unexpected way. [News.com]
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- Dyson addresses new domain plan - Now that the U.S. government has decided to create a new nonprofit corporation to govern the way the Internet is technically run from here on out, the remaining question is how the organization will tackle that Herculean task. [News.com]
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- E*Trade's loss meets expectations - Online brokerage E*Trade today reported a fourth-quarter loss roughly in line with expectations and showed strong account and transaction growth. [News.com]
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- E-commerce enthusiasm - E-commerce goes mainstream as Visa, AOL, and Microsoft heavily promote online shopping to tap into the rapidly growing Internet population. The companies are working to convince consumers that online purchases are easier and safer than a trip to the corner store. [News.com]
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- E-commerce heads for hills - A Web site designed for low-tech mountain sports enthusiasts is betting that one of high tech's hottest trends--blending content with direct sales--can help it reach profitability. But the little-known site may face an uphill climb toward that goal. [News.com]
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- E-rates by mid-November - Schools and libraries that have been eagerly waiting for billions of dollars in federal Net access discounts will have to hold tight a bit longer. [News.com]
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- EarthLink charging content sites - EarthLink has signed on some 20 Web content sites that will pay the ISP to be included on personalized start pages for EarthLink subscribers. [News.com]
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- eBay better than expected - Online auctioneer eBay, one of the few profitable Internet companies, yesterday reported better-than-expected earnings for the third quarter--its first as a public company. [News.com]
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- eBay searches for deals - eBay, the Internet auctioneer whose shares have risen fourfold since it went public last month, is looking to buy smaller auctioneers handling niche product categories. [News.com]
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- eBay shines in lackluster market - Internet IPOs took a beating last week, with Healtheon, TheGlobe.com, and Vignette all postponing or canceling their public offerings. But eBay stands out among the crowd. [News.com]
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- EchoStar boosts interactive plan - Digital satellite television provider EchoStar today announced that by next year, 1.8 million of its U.S. customers will have access to interactive services as a result of a deal today with software provider OpenTV. [News.com]
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- EDS income drops 15% - Electronic Data Systems reported third-quarter net income fell 15 percent, pressured by lower-profit service contracts from its former parent, General Motors. [News.com]
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- Efforts aimed at blind Net users - As the nation observes National Disabilities Month, two firms and a standards organization are honing in on the needs of visually impaired users. [News.com]
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- EMC earnings surpass estimates - EMC announced its third-quarter earnings jumped 51 percent as it lengthened its lead in the market for data storage products for larger computer systems. [News.com]
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- Entrust adds VPN module - Entrust Technologies today announced a new virtual private network module for its public key infrastructure software to issue digital certificates. [News.com]
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- Ericsson begins restructuring - Ericsson has announced a comprehensive corporate restructuring plan, but the changes are unlikely to spur lagging sales or get the company's stock out of the basement. [News.com]
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- EU, U.S. to meet on competition - Top EU and U.S. monopoly investigators plan to meet tomorrow to discuss competition issues on both sides of the Atlantic--including a hearing relating to software giant Microsoft. [News.com]
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- European privacy deadline nears - The European Union will not disrupt the flow of data between Europe and the United States, even though strict new privacy protections took effect in Europe yesterday, a key Commerce Department official said today. [News.com]
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- Excite trounces expectations - Excite today posted a third-quarter performance that exceeded Wall Street's expectations. [News.com]
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- Fastest Intel Xeon chip arrives - Major computer makers rolled out a series of new workstations using Intel's top-of-the-line Xeon chip and Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. [News.com]
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- FCC likely to oversee Net calls - The Federal Communications Commission is expected to decide as soon as Friday that telephone calls people make to connect their computers to Internet service providers are more like long distance calls than local calls, and therefore are subject to the agency's jurisdiction. [News.com]
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- FCC reorg eyes convergence - The Federal Communications Commission will restructure its various departments next year to better oversee converging markets like digital television and high-speed Internet access, the head of the agency said today. [News.com]
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- FCC to discuss telecom mergers - The Federal Communications Commission will hold a meeting today to discuss recent consolidation activities in the telecommunications industry. [News.com]
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- FCC: ADSL is interstate service - The Federal Communications Commission ruled that GTE's new advanced digital subscriber line (ADSL) service should be classified as a long-distance service, meaning this kind of high-speed Net access will be regulated but not taxed by Washington. [News.com]
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- Fed plans bug awareness week - Looking to boost awareness of the Year 2000 technology problem in small and medium-sized businesses, the Clinton administration is set to launch next week's National Y2K Action Week. [News.com]
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- Fed plans bug awareness week - Looking to boost awareness of the Year 2000 technology problem in small and medium-sized businesses, the Clinton administration is set to launch next week's National Y2K Action Week. [News.com]
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- Fed: Y2K recession unlikely - A top Federal Reserve official yesterday played down the possibility that computer problems at the turn of the century could push the United States into a deep recession but conceded that the problem was unlike any the nation has faced before. [News.com]
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- Fed: Y2K recession unlikely - A top Federal Reserve official yesterday played down the possibility that computer problems at the turn of the century could push the United States into a deep recession but conceded that the problem was unlike any the nation has faced before. [News.com]
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- Fidelity site traffic booming - Fidelity Investments today reported booming growth in its online account-monitoring and educational services for 401(k) participants. [News.com]
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- Firm aims to speed content delivery - Network caching firm Inktomi may be about to get a run for its money. [News.com]
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- Firm cashes in on copyrights - Online Monitoring Services, a company that ferrets out copyright infringements on the Internet, is stepping up its efforts to capitalize on the rising tide of publishers seeking to protect their copyrighted products on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Firm protests TCI-AT&T deal - A public-interest law firm filed documents with federal regulators today to block the proposed acquisition of Tele-Communications Incorporated by AT&T, citing anti-competition ramifications for Internet access via cable. [News.com]
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- Fore to disappoint Street - Fore Systems has become the latest victim of a troubled networking market, announcing that final results for its just-completed fiscal quarter will come in below estimates. [News.com]
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- Former Tivoli exec creates start-up - Just four months after his graceful exit from Tivoli Systems--a subsidiary of IBM that he helped build into a leading management software maker--Frank Moss is now back in the highly charged, competitive start-up world. [News.com]
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- Fox Sports underlines Web strategy - In its pursuit to continue merging TV programming into its Web content, Fox Sports Online unveiled a Web site built around one of Fox television's most colorful sports announcers. [News.com]
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- Free speech in court again - Issues of decency and censorship are raised immediately after President Clinton signed an omnibus spending bill that includes controversial legislation on a wide range of online issues. [News.com]
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- FrontPage 2000 beta by January - By January of next year, Web page builders will have the full beta version of Microsoft's FrontPage 2000, the company said. [News.com]
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- FTC probes Cisco talks - Cisco Systems got a double blow in Washington and on Wall Street today with news of a government antitrust inquiry and a downgrading of its stock based on concerns over growth. [News.com]
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- Gates "on the warpath" - Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates in a seething email threatened to destroy @Home, a cable venture offering high-speed Internet access, because of its "anti- Microsoft" stance, according to documents released in the Microsoft antitrust trial. [News.com]
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- Gates defends right to innovate - Microsoft plans to focus on its core software business, while defending its right to innovate, chairman and chief executive Bill Gates said today, just days before its antitrust trial is set to begin. [News.com]
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- Gates talks up NT strategy - With one operating system out the door, another undergoing tests, and a revised approach to building application software continuing to evolve, Microsoft chairman and chief executive Bill Gates didn't have a lot of new technology to show Windows developers who gathered this week for the latest-and-greatest from the software giant. [News.com]
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- Gates thinks aloud - What's on Bill Gates's mind these days? [News.com]
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- Gateway eyes AMD deal - Advanced Micro Devices is inching toward a deal with Gateway that, if consummated, would lead to the first AMD-based Gateway desktop computer, according to sources. [News.com]
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- General Instrument thwarted by SA - TV set-top box maker General Instrument said today that its third-quarter earnings will be higher than Wall Street's expectations, but the company's stock nonetheless got hit after competitor Scientific-Atlanta released a preliminary profit warning. [News.com]
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- General Magic spins off handhelds - Putting all its chips on its Portico voice-access service, General Magic is spinning off its handheld computer division as an independent company called DataRover Mobile Systems. [News.com]
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- German group stages Net strike - A German information technology group rendered a chunk of its Internet pages unreadable today to protest wages--effectively the first firm ever to stage a strike on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Germany lags in e-commerce - A report published yesterday said German companies are showing a dangerous disdain for electronic commerce and may lose out as business transacted over the Internet explodes over the next five years. [News.com]
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- Glenn to navigate cyberspace too - John Glenn will venture into cyberspace on his return to outer space next week when the Ohio senator and former astronaut takes off aboard the space shuttle Discovery. [News.com]
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- Glenn, jocks get HDTV treatment - Several companies are planning high-definition television broadcasts in November as the HDTV age takes off, including John Glenn's space journey and a National Football League game. [News.com]
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- Global One offers ATM services - Global One, the telecommunications venture owned by Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, and Sprint yesterday unveiled global high-speed ATM network services that will be offered for fast-growing multimedia transmissions. [News.com]
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- GOP chides Clinton on Net porn bill - U.S. lawmakers backing a controversial measure to limit online pornography today blasted the White House for opposing their proposal. [News.com]
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- Great expectations for Intel, Apple - This week's earnings reports speak volumes about the market as Apple is set to tout its first annual profit since 1995 and Intel and Compaq thrive. [News.com]
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- Group says cable limiting the Net - Limitations imposed by cable television operators on their new high-speed Internet services threaten to cripple diversity and competition in cyberspace, according to a coalition of consumer groups. [News.com]
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- Groups plan suit against Net bill - Free speech groups today are feverishly preparing to file a lawsuit against the government if the Child Online Protection Act is signed into law as expected. [News.com]
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- Groups work for browser peace - Two forces in the world of technology standards tomorrow will announce collaborative efforts to reduce browser war casualties on the Web. [News.com]
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- Grove touts Net to health industry - The Internet will dramatically transform routine physical check-ups and prescription orders, despite a health care industry that has been slow to utilize it, Intel chairman Andy Grove said today. [News.com]
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- GTE dumps unlimited access - GTE Internetworking will cap its flat-rate Internet access at 100 hours per month, a strategy that has been adopted by other ISPs and lamented by some users. [News.com]
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- GTE revenues up on services - GTE, the telecommunications company set to be bought by Bell Atlantic, said its third-quarter profit rose 8.7 percent as demand for telephone lines and services such as call waiting offset costs to build its data business. [News.com]
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- H&Q may leave Macs for PCs - Hambrecht & Quist, which helped take Apple Computer public in 1980, is considering a switch from Macintosh computers to Windows-based PCs. [News.com]
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- H1-B bill could get reprieve - Legislation to almost double the number of highly skilled technology workers allowed into the country each year may escape sudden death before Congress adjourns tomorrow. [News.com]
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- Hack puts AOL off limits - Internet users trying to send email to America Online users or get to the online giant's site have been plagued by problems due to a major glitch with the Internet's domain naming system. [News.com]
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- Hackers invade India army site - India said today that hackers had hijacked an army Web site set up two months ago to present New Delhi's stand on the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir. [News.com]
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- Hacking site gets hacked - Hacking and security news and information site Rootshell.com was the subject of its own coverage today after suffering an early morning hack. [News.com]
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- Harbinger to cut jobs by 10% - Software maker Harbinger today announced that it will carry out a restructuring program that includes cutting its workforce by 10 percent, or about 110 people. [News.com]
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- Hayes files for bankruptcy - It's strike two for modem-maker Hayes Corporation. Hayes and some of its domestic subsidiaries today filed for bankruptcy, the second time in three years the company has done so. [News.com]
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- Health an online moneymaker - While many businesses are looking to the Web to generate revenue, those in the health care space are particularly well-positioned to take advantage of all that the Internet has to offer, according to a study released today in conjunction with a health conference sponsored by chip giant Intel. [News.com]
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- Healtheon cancels IPO - Healtheon, the online health care company led by Netscape Communications cofounder Jim Clark, today canceled its proposed initial public offering, citing poor "market conditions." [News.com]
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- Hitachi revs LCD chipset - Hitachi said today it has developed a low power-consuming color liquid crystal driver chipset for use in handheld devices, and would start sample shipments in Japan in December. [News.com]
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- Hitachi, Toshiba suffer Asian flu - Hitachi and Toshiba unveiled bruising first-half earnings results today, hit hard by the deepening Asian recession and weak worldwide economic conditions. [News.com]
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- Home networking draws diverse crew - A cavalcade of big-league computer and electronics companies announced plans to make it easier for consumers to tie electronic equipment and appliances into home networks. [News.com]
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- Homer Simpson gets Intel gig - Homer Simpson, doughnut-eating father figure on the television show The Simpsons, will become a spokesman for Intel. [News.com]
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- Hospitals, small firms face Y2K risks - The health industry, small and medium-sized companies, and local government look especially at risk from the millennium bug, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said. [News.com]
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- Hospitals, small firms face Y2K risks - The health industry, small and medium-sized companies, and local government look especially at risk from the millennium bug, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said. [News.com]
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- HotBot is heart of Lycos deal - Lycos knows that the secret to success is reach. Because with reach, there's revenue. [News.com]
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- HotBot offers free email, page building - Two weeks after Lycos acquired Wired Digital, search directory HotBot has quietly launched free email and home page builder services. [News.com]
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- Hotmail frames raise legal ire - While security experts frequently talk about the universal tradeoff between convenience and security, Microsoft's Hotmail may find itself poised between security and legality. [News.com]
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- House clears copyright bill - The House today passed legislation to impose new safeguards for software, music, and written works on the Net, and to outlaw technologies that can crack copyright protection devices. [News.com]
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- House mulls Clinton domain plan - The House Commerce Committee opened an investigation into the Clinton administration's drive to privatize the Internet's name and address system, following complaints that reform plans were drafted behind closed doors without public input. [News.com]
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- House passes Net content bill - The House passed the Child Online Protection Act today to penalize commercial sites that give minors unfettered access to "harmful" material. [News.com]
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- House passes Y2K liability bill - Following the Senate's lead, the House of Representatives last night passed controversial legislation that will allow U.S. companies to share information for purposes of solving the Y2K bug, and President Clinton pledged to sign it into law. [News.com]
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- House passes Y2K liability bill - Following the Senate's lead, the House of Representatives last night passed controversial legislation that will allow U.S. companies to share information for purposes of solving the Y2K bug, and President Clinton pledged to sign it into law. [News.com]
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- How chummy are Apple, Microsoft? - As Apple Computer today posted its first profitable year since 1995, questions remain about its business relationship with Microsoft, a close partner that has helped fuel the PC maker's better-than-expected earnings growth. [News.com]
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- How to avoid ISP call failures - A new study suggests that Netizens frustrated with call failures and network gridlock should consider logging on during periods of a different sort of congestion--the morning commute. [News.com]
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- HP angles for No. 1 at home - Hewlett-Packard released three new consumer PCs today in its bid to overthrow Compaq as the king of the retail PC market. [News.com]
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- HP beefs up direct sales approach - In a nod toward the direct sales approach, Hewlett-Packard has added new products to its HP Shopping Village site, which until yesterday focused on refurbished computers and peripherals. [News.com]
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- HP boosts printer strategy - Hewlett-Packard today announced more than 20 new imaging products ranging from digital cameras to high-end color printers, part of a larger strategy to create a "digital workplace." [News.com]
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- HP cuts business PC prices - Hewlett-Packard cut prices on its line of business PCs up to 15 percent, providing more evidence that the low-cost PC boom cuts across all product segments, not just consumer models. [News.com]
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- HP has two-pronged chip plan - Hewlett-Packard is adopting a two-pronged strategy for the future of its processors, developing workstations and servers that can use either HP's PA-RISC chips or Intel's IA-64 "Merced" chips. [News.com]
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- HP Japan focuses on Tokyo - Hewlett-Packard Japan plans to move final assembly of its personal computers for sale in Japan from Singapore to Tokyo by 1999, according to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japan's largest business daily. [News.com]
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- HP merges to serve - Hewlett-Packard is taking a holistic approach to its corporate sales of products and services by merging its Enterprise Systems Group and Software and Services Group. [News.com]
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- HP offers combo leasing - Hewlett-Packard today announced a leasing program for small and mid-size businesses, pairing several of its laser jet printers with business PCs. [News.com]
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- HP reveals security initiatives - Hewlett-Packard rolled out a new initiative to make it easier for corporate customers to adopt security technology today and enhanced the performance of its Vectra VL desktops. [News.com]
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- HP supports Sun Java upgrades - Hewlett-Packard may be diverging from the Java standards path in some respects, but the systems giant has signed on to support Sun Microsystems' next release of the essential elements of the language that allows Java programs to run for its own Unix operating system software variant. [News.com]
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- HP to offer buyouts to 2,500 - Hewlett-Packard announced today that it is offering buyout packages to 2,500 employees in a targeted cost-cutting move, and that it will take a $150 million charge in the fourth quarter as a result. [News.com]
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- HP to sell imaging chips - Hewlett-Packard's Electronics Components group will begin selling imaging chips that could result in lower cost PC video cameras and low-end digital cameras. [News.com]
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- HP touts new Xeon workstations - Hewlett-Packard introduced two new top-end workstations today based on Intel's fastest Pentium II Xeon chip. [News.com]
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- HP tries Linux on for size - Linux has gained enough power in the commercial sphere that computing giant Hewlett-Packard is evaluating whether to fit the upstart operating system into its product plans, just as a new version of the increasingly popular software is readied. [News.com]
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- HP unveils Jornada handheld - Hewlett-Packard today formally unveiled the Jornada 820, a wide-screen handheld computer powered by the Windows CE operating system that seems destined to fill the gap in HP's product line created by the demise of the OmniBook 800. [News.com]
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- HP, NA upgrade security offerings - On the eve of a major networking trade show, Hewlett-Packard and Network Associates joined more than a dozen other vendors in announcing new security offerings. [News.com]
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- HP, Wave team on secure chip - Hewlett-Packard and Wave Systems today announced a security technology they call a "trusted client" system that builds security based on HP's VerSecure technology into a programmable chip for PCs. [News.com]
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- HP: Thin will win notebook arena - It's thin to win for Hewlett-Packard. [News.com]
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- HP: Y2K spending to hurt growth - Hewlett-Packard chief executive Lewis Platt foresees a significant slowdown in the computer hardware industry during the second half of 1999, owing to Y2K spending that will draw resources from other areas. [News.com]
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- HP: Y2K spending will hurt growth - Hewlett-Packard chief executive Lewis Platt foresees a significant slowdown in the computer hardware industry during the second half of 1999, owing to Y2K spending that will draw resources from other areas. [News.com]
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- Hubble photo gallery on the Net - A cosmic gallery of the Hubble Space Telescope's most arresting images is open for viewing on the Internet. [News.com]
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- Hughes in talks with PrimeStar - Hughes Electronics' DirecTV has held discussions regarding the possible purchase of PrimeStar, which is controlled by a group of cable companies, people familiar with the matter said, the Wall Street Journal reported today. [News.com]
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- Hyperion debuts graphical tools - Just months after it finalized its merger with the former reporting tool maker Arbor Software, Hyperion Solutions today debuted a suite of graphical tools and integration services for developing analytic applications using data from enterprise resource planning systems and other sources. [News.com]
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- Hyperion hones new analysis tool - Hyperion is stretching its analysis tool into even more corners of the corporate computing arena. [News.com]
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- I2 hangs on to supply chain niche - I2 is alive and kicking. [News.com]
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- IANA chief Jon Postel dies - Jon Postel, an Internet luminary and one of the most powerful men on the Net, has died of heart problems at the age of 55. [News.com]
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- IBM $599 PC arrives - IBM today announced a $599 consumer PC, the first top-tier PC vendor to break the $600 mark. [News.com]
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- IBM accelerates hard drives - IBM pushed the storage envelope today by releasing several new faster and bigger hard drives for video and server applications. [News.com]
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- IBM adds to data warehousing line - IBM is letting users shine some rays on their data warehouses thanks to technology acquired from Tanning Technology. [News.com]
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- IBM advances chip speeds - Cell phones and other wireless communication equipment could become more powerful but less power-hungry, thanks to a new chip technology IBM announced today. [News.com]
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- IBM brings Net to French phones - IBM and France Telecom announced plans to launch a low-cost service that uses telephones rather than personal computers to access the Internet. [News.com]
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- IBM builds fastest Blue yet - IBM and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have stepped into the supercomputer lead with a machine that can perform almost 4 trillion calculations per second. [News.com]
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- IBM buys Build-It tool - IBM continues to bolster the Web tool arsenal of its WebSphere product family. [News.com]
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- IBM chief's $20 million stock sale - IBM chief executive Louis Gerstner has filed to sell shares valued at more than $20.2 million, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission document. [News.com]
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- IBM earnings key to market - The stock market's fickle run of late--bullish one day, bearish the next--has investors watching the most recent quarter's earnings reports particularly closely. IBM hit a new 52-week high as it geared up to report third-quarter earnings that analysts say should get a boost from the company's mainframe business. But mainframes are a small sector, and how the market will react is far from certain. [News.com]
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- IBM inks Unix pact with SCO - IBM is hooking up with Intel, Santa Cruz Operation, and Sequent to develop a new Unix operating system, although analysts are skeptical of its impact. [News.com]
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- IBM plans broadband for Singapore - IBM launched a research center in Singapore today to develop applications for broadband networks. [News.com]
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- IBM powers up workstations - IBM said it will unveil today a family of computer workstations with the fastest graphics-processing in the industry on models running either its quickest PowerPC microprocessor or Intel's latest chip. [News.com]
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- IBM preps $1,499 ThinkPad - IBM is taking a second stab at the consumer market for notebooks with today's introduction of new "I" series ThinkPads, with prices starting at $1,499 for systems with high-quality, active-matrix screens. [News.com]
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- IBM profits beat estimates - Fueled by revenue growth in its server group and improvement in its PC unit, IBM yesterday posted better-than-expected third-quarter profits. [News.com]
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- IBM revs PowerPC chip - IBM announced its new PowerPC 405 chip today, a faster successor to the PowerPC 401 chip that's used in hand-held electronic devices. [News.com]
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- IBM stock buyback at $3.5 billion - International Business Machines, the world's largest computer maker, said today it would buy back an additional $3.5 billion of its common shares. [News.com]
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- IBM to meld Americas operations - IBM plans to merge its North and Latin American operations to create IBM Americas in a bid to improve customer service throughout the region, a company spokesman said yesterday. [News.com]
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- IBM to unveil $599 PC - IBM, which just last year lost ground in the consumer PC market because it was slow to launch a sub-$1,000 PC, is now poised to become the first major PC vendor to break the $600 mark. [News.com]
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- IBM touts 14.1GB notebook drive - IBM today announced three new hard drives for notebook computers, including a 14.1GB drive, the largest ever developed. [News.com]
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- IBM wins two services renewals - IBM renewed an existing contract with natural gas distributor Yankee Gas Services, the latest in a string of follow-on contracts for the leading supplier of computer services. [News.com]
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- IBM's Gerstner says PC era over - Lou Gerstner, chairman and chief executive of International Business Machines, today declared that the era of the personal computer is ending, as the world shifts to a new model of computing. [News.com]
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- iDOT.com unveils $699 PC - PC startup iDOT.com announced a new line of computers today based on AMD's newest processors that start at around $699 without monitor. [News.com]
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- IE bug could compromise security - Microsoft today acknowledged a security hole in its Internet Explorer browser that could let a malicious Web site operator penetrate IE's Internet security zones in some instances. [News.com]
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- IE bug opens users' hard drives - Microsoft is moving to patch a browser security hole that could give malicious Web site operators a peek at files on users' hard drives. [News.com]
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- IEEE to back extended Ethernet? - An effort to extend Ethernet to heavy-duty data tasks that's being spearheaded by gigabit-speed start-up Alteon Networks will be submitted to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers as soon as this fall. [News.com]
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- IFS rides component strategy - The Germans and the Dutch are getting a little competition from the Swedes for the hearts and IT dollars of corporate America. [News.com]
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- iMac hits the big time - Apple Computer's iMac is becoming a star on the small screen. [News.com]
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- IMF eyes Net as pressures rise - The words "It's on the Web" have become a mantra for beleaguered officials at the International Monetary Fund as they defend themselves against charges of obsessive secrecy and opaque lending rules. [News.com]
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- Inacom buys Vanstar - Computer management firm Inacom today said it agreed to acquire Vanstar in a deal that would create a technology services company with revenues of about $7 billion and more than 12,000 employees. [News.com]
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- Indian software firms profiting - Buoyant overseas demand for computer software services and a fall in the value of the rupee will boost earnings of Indian software firms in the first half of 1998-99. [News.com]
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- Info exchange spec based on XML - Authors of the new Information & Content Exchange protocol today released the specification for version 1.0, which they say will make it easier for Web publishers to exchange content and for companies to distribute their online catalogs broadly. [News.com]
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- Informix courting Linux users - Informix is officially courting Linux users. [News.com]
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- Informix lays brick for new unit - Informix is laying a new brick foundation for its data warehousing business. [News.com]
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- Informix posts a comeback - Hoping to prove that its comeback is for real, Informix Software today reported a larger-than-expected third-quarter profit and a 23 percent increase in revenues. [News.com]
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- Informix to buy Red Brick Systems - Database software maker Informix has signed an agreement to buy Red Brick Systems, a data warehousing provider, for about $35 million in stock. [News.com]
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- Informix to map data plans - The fierce turf battle in the database market is stretching into data warehousing territory. [News.com]
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- Infoseek filing tells Disney story - Infoseek chief executive Harry Motro today spelled out key details of the company's deal with Walt Disney in a letter addressed to shareholders, according to a filing today with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [News.com]
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- Infoseek ready to Go - A financial "D-day" looms for Infoseek. [News.com]
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- Infoseek shares plunge - Shares of Infoseek plunged today after the company yesterday reported third-quarter earnings 2 cents lower than analyst expectations, despite more than doubling revenue from the same period a year ago. [News.com]
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- Ingram jockeys for position - Computer distributor Ingram Micro yesterday reported a 35-percent boost in income and revenue of close to $6 billion for the third quarter, a sales surge that reflects a massive consolidation in the middle tier of the high-tech buying chain. [News.com]
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- Ingram, Solectron finalize PC pact - Ingram Micro and Solectron have signed a definitive pact to make and sell build-to-order and configure-to-order personal computers, servers, and other computer products. [News.com]
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- Inktomi loses less than expected - Inktomi, a maker of Internet search and traffic routing technology, today reported a fourth quarter loss that was less than forecast and said that it processed some 1.35 billion search queries during the quarter. [News.com]
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- Intel antitrust suit delayed - The Federal Trade Commission's antitrust action against Intel has been postponed until the middle of February to accommodate the schedule of the presiding judge. [News.com]
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- Intel bests earnings estimates - Intel today leapt past Wall Street estimates for its third-quarter earnings, driven by a healthy pace for worldwide PC sales. [News.com]
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- Intel details Merced - Intel provided concrete details of its 64-bit Merced processor for the first time at the Microprocessor Forum yesterday and announced a low-cost 64-bit chip architecture. [News.com]
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- Intel dips despite earnings news - Shares of Intel dipped nearly 1 percent despite the news that the chipmaker had leapt past Wall Street estimates for its third-quarter earnings yesterday, driven by a healthy pace for worldwide PC sales. [News.com]
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- Intel fixes Xeon chip - Intel has fixed a notorious bug with its Xeon processors and says that volume shipments of the high-end server chip, as well as four-processor servers based around the chip, have begun. [News.com]
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- Intel hosts Beijing speech forum - Intel will host the first International Speech Forum in Beijing on Monday, an effort to advance speech recognition technology for Chinese markets. [News.com]
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- Intel invests @Home and abroad - Intel said today that it will invest $20 million in the Dutch operations of U.S-based @Home Network's subsidiary, @Home Nederland, to provide high-speed cable Internet services. [News.com]
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- Intel lands StrongARM win with HP - Intel landed its first major customer for its StrongARM chip when Hewlett-Packard announced today that it would use the low-cost, low-powered chip in its next generation of handheld PCs. [News.com]
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- Intel makes memorable moves - The chip giant says its Micron deal is part of its strategy to support next-generation memory products. Meanwhile, the design of Intel's future Merced chip raises patent questions. [News.com]
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- Intel thrives, LSI looks to layoffs - A good news/bad news scenario will likely play itself out this week in earnings announcements from semiconductor companies. [News.com]
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- Intel to buy Shiva - Shiva has found its knight in shining armor in Intel. [News.com]
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- Intel to invest in Micron - Chipmaking giant Intel will make a $500 million equity investment in Micron Technology, the companies announced today. [News.com]
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- Intel touts India investments - Intel chief executive Craig Barrett said today that he sees great potential for venture-capital businesses in India. [News.com]
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- Intel urges China to boost software - Intel Chief Executive Officer Craig Barrett said today that chip manufacturing was a dead-end street for China, and the government needed to boost software to stay competitive in the Information Age. [News.com]
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- Intel, AMD to cut prices next week - Intel and Advanced Micro Devices will cut mainstream processor prices by roughly 20 to 30 percent next week in the latest, and perhaps last, round of price jockeying between the two companies for 1998. [News.com]
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- Intel, PBS team on 'datacast' - Intel and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) are teaming up next month on the first digital television trial that will also allow consumers to obtain Web-based content while watching TV. [News.com]
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- Interest rate cuts boost market - The Dow Jones Industrial Average today soared to its third largest gain in history after the Federal Reserve lowered short-term interest rates by a quarter percent. [News.com]
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- Intergraph farms out production - Huntsville, Alabama-based Intergraph will farm out the production of its workstations and graphics subsystems to manufacturing giant SCI, which in turn will purchasing certain Intergraph manufacturing assets, the companies announced yesterday. [News.com]
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- Intershop takes on the enterprise - E-commerce software provider Intershop is moving up the food chain. [News.com]
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- Investor confidence boosts market - Stocks pushed higher today, as investors' confidence grew following news that many of the problems facing the global economy are being addressed. [News.com]
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- Iomega names new chief - Iomega said today that Jodie Glore was named president and chief executive officer of the company, effective immediately. [News.com]
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- IPO market tests TheGlobe.com - Faced with weak demand for its initial public offering, TheGlobe.com today lowered its pricing range, raising the question of whether other pending Internet IPOs such as that of Healtheon will follow suit. [News.com]
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- IPOs make like lemmings - In lemming-like fashion, technology companies have postponed or canceled plans for public offerings, citing a roller-coaster market for their reluctance. The latest in the market's string of victims is Sprint's PCS wireless business, which had expected to raise some $600 million from its IPO. Wall Street is left to wonder: will the IPO market ever recover? [News.com]
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- IRS will be Y2K ready by 1999 - It will cost $1 billion to pull it off and "glitches" are inevitable, but the U.S. Internal Revenue Service's computers will be ready to fight the millennium bug on January 1, 1999, IRS's chief said yesterday. [News.com]
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- IRS will be Y2K ready by 1999 - It will cost $1 billion to pull it off and "glitches" are inevitable, but the U.S. Internal Revenue Service's computers will be ready to fight the millennium bug on January 1, 1999, IRS's chief said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Is a 3Com product in AT&T's future? - As AT&T forges ahead with its buyout of Tele-Communications Incorporated, 3Com's name has surfaced as a provider of a next-generation phone for the merged company, according to internal AT&T memos. [News.com]
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- Is Exchange cheaper to own? - The war of words continues. [News.com]
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- Is Microsoft putting on the spin? - How is a company supposed to post record earnings at the same time as it is trying to fend off charges of being a monopolist? [News.com]
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- Is Sacramento a tech boomtown? - The state capital--not Silicon Valley--is the fastest growing region in California's high-tech industry, which is spreading beyond San Jose and into other Northern California cities, a new study shows. [News.com]
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- ISPs as child porn watchdogs? - Though the concept of stiffening penalties for child pornographers who use the Internet is a popular one, many today are concerned that a bill on its way to the president will end up encouraging ISPs to violate their customers' privacy by requiring access providers to report all suspected activities. [News.com]
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- ISPs may face charges over child porn - As many as five Internet service providers may face serious legal charges for providing access to newsgroups used by child pornographers in cases that critics are calling election-eve politics. [News.com]
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- Israeli techs face devaluation - A weaker shekel will help raise the profits of Israel's high technology companies, but a slowing world economy will offset the gains for the electronics industry, the Mideast country's Manufacturers Association said today. [News.com]
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- ISS boosts security lineup - Internet Security Systems, attempting to boost both its professional services and product offerings, will acquire privately held March Information Systems, a British firm, in a deal valued at around $7.5 million. [News.com]
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- IXC Communications beats Street - IXC Communications beat Wall Street expectations with a narrower-than-expected loss for the third quarter, boosted by a 35-percent increase in revenue to $185.3 million. [News.com]
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- Japan firms lag in Y2K action - Hundreds of Japan's small and medium-sized companies have not taken action to address the millennium problem threatening their computers, a government survey released yesterday said. [News.com]
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- Japan firms lag in Y2K action - Hundreds of Japan's small and medium-sized companies have not taken action to address the millennium problem threatening their computers, a government survey released yesterday said. [News.com]
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- Japan's high-tech woes continue - Japan's deepening economic gloom is dimming the earnings outlook for electronics companies--but Fujitsu is an exception that is reaping handsome profits from its mainstay information services, analysts say. [News.com]
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- Japanese chipmakers suffering - Six Japanese semiconductor makers released downbeat earnings results for the first half of the year, many of them suffering from a semiconductor market malaise, according to a report in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japan's largest business daily. [News.com]
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- Japanese firms cutting shipments - Three major Japanese personal computer makers are cutting shipment plans for the first half of fiscal 1999 by about five percent because of a sharp fall in corporate demand, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported yesterday. [News.com]
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- Java chip not picking up steam - The Java chip, according to some, is toast. [News.com]
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- John Glenn's space jam - Most Web users hoping to catch a glimpse of John Glenn's historic space shuttle lift-off today learned the hard way that, despite the incredible advances in technology that streams video to the Internet, they were better off trying to find a good old-fashioned television. [News.com]
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- Judgment expected in filter suit - The fate of a key Internet filtering case could be decided in the next few weeks--and free speech advocates say it is likely to be decided in their favor, thanks to a ruling issued today by a federal judge. [News.com]
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- Kodak net earnings up 72% - Eastman Kodak today posted net earnings of $398 million in the third quarter, up 72 percent from year-ago levels, as progress from a corporate overhaul and gains in manufacturing productivity helped offset a 10 percent drop in sales. [News.com]
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- Landmark copyright law - Historic copyright legislation just signed by President Clinton will have wide impact on the Internet. While the law provides greater regulatory authority over intellectual property, it also threatens some nascent businesses, such as Internet radio. [News.com]
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- Larry Ellison hypes Oracle8i - Oracle CEO Larry Ellison today said with great confidence and fanfare that he sees his company's future squarely interwoven with the upcoming release of its Oracle8i application. [News.com]
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- Lawmakers tackle tech bills - With Congress's session coming to a close, lawmakers are scrambling to hammer out details on legislation dealing with online taxes, copyrights, and the dreaded millennium bug. [News.com]
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- LCD shortage in 2000? - A shortage of liquid crystal screens will hit in 2000, affecting both notebook makers and the burgeoning market for flat-panel displays, according to a new study. [News.com]
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- Lexis-Nexis offers Web service - Lexis-Nexis, the popular legal and news search firm today is launching an ambitious Web service aimed at the business user. [News.com]
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- Lexmark tops expectations - Lexmark reported record third-quarter revenues and profits, thanks to a 25 percent gain in revenues from its core inkjet and laser printer businesses, and beat Wall Street's expectations by 2 cents. [News.com]
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- Library filtering suit dismissed - In what the ACLU is calling a victory for free speech, a California superior court judge today threw out a lawsuit that called for mandatory filters to be installed on library computers used to surf the Internet. [News.com]
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- Linux Online outage persists - Linux Online's popular Web site, www.linux.org, has been off-line since Monday--a casualty of problems between the site's operators and the Internet service provider it was using. [News.com]
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- Lotus adds groupware tools - Continuing its efforts to provide a smooth and enticing upgrade path to its groupware suites, Lotus Development today said it will now start distributing several email and calendar migration tools built by one of its key business partners. [News.com]
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- Lotus adds to Notes, Domino suite - Lotus Development today said it is making a number of enhancements to its Lotus Notes and Domino collaboration suite that include integrating Web development tools from Microsoft and RealNetworks' latest video player product. [News.com]
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- Lotus pairs eSuite tools, Domino - Lotus Development said it plans to begin shipping its package of Java applets and tools for Web developers with its Domino Designer Pack beginning next week. [News.com]
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- LSI Logic to cut 1,200 jobs - Shares of chipmaker LSI Logic tumbled in early trading today after the firm announced it will cut approximately 1,200 jobs, or about 17 percent of its workforce. [News.com]
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- Lucent lays out network future - ATLANTA-Lucent Technologies chief Richard McGinn isn't shy about discussing where he thinks the networking industry is heading. [News.com]
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- Lucent leans on home networking - Lucent Technologies today announced a new chip family it hopes will make home networks more like their corporate siblings, allowing home users to share printers, files, and Internet access. [News.com]
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- Lucent surpasses Street estimates - Telecommunications equipment maker Lucent Technologies today reported that net income for its fourth quarter rose 49 percent because of strong demand for its products both domestically and globally, and easily exceeded Wall Street expectations. [News.com]
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- Lucent to buy Quadritek Systems - Telephone equipment maker Lucent Technologies today announced it has acquired Quadritek Systems, a privately held, start-up developer of next-generation Internet Protocol network administration software, for about $50 million in cash. [News.com]
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- Lucent to use Novell software - In an emerging battle to integrate information about a slew of network-attached devices into a central administrative software package, Novell may have scored a victory over Microsoft today with news of a directory services partnership with equipment giant Lucent Technologies. [News.com]
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- Lycos launches auction search - In the spirit of the Web content-aggregation model that has driven many portal stocks through the roof, Lycos will introduce a new service Monday aimed at helping Web auction houses increase their exposure and reach. [News.com]
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- Lycos plays hide-and-seek - Lycos today gave Netizens a peek at its home page but then quickly pulled it back into beta testing after the company discovered a number of glitches. [News.com]
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- Lycos to buy Wired Digital - Internet search engine Lycos today announced plans to acquire Wired Digital in an attempt to strengthen its position as one of the most-visited Internet sites. [News.com]
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- MAG joins mini-notebook race - MAG Portables, a unit of a company best known for its monitors, announced today that it is shipping an ultrasmall notebook with the price of one model falling below $1,000. [News.com]
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- Magaziner addresses domains - The transfer of power from the government to the private sector over administration of the Internet could begin within a few weeks, presidential Internet policy adviser Ira Magaziner said today. [News.com]
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- Mainframes to drive IBM earnings - Big Blue hits a new 52-week high as it gears up to report third-quarter earnings that analysts say should be strong. [News.com]
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- Mainframes to drive IBM earnings - IBM yesterday hit a new 52-week high as it geared up to report third-quarter earnings that analysts say should get a boost from the company's mainframe business. [News.com]
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- Major newspapers sue archivist - Two national newspapers are reviving a longstanding industry battle with a suit against a site they accuse of misappropriating their copyrighted content. [News.com]
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- Major Solaris revision this week - Sun Microsystems will take the next step in bringing high-end capabilities to its Solaris operating system this week in a bid to highlight its software efforts. [News.com]
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- Making speech key to e-commerce - A powerhouse alliance of communications, software, and financial services companies said they plan to create mass access to Internet commerce through products that allow people to speak computer commands instead of typing them on a keyboard. [News.com]
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- Man banned from Net for 5 years - A man who pleaded guilty today in an online child pornography case will be banned from the Internet for five years. [News.com]
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- Marketers aim to fight Net evils - Marketers want an industrial nations meeting in Ottawa next week to adopt a global system to protect consumers from junk email, which a top marketer calls the "cancer of electronic commerce." [News.com]
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- Marketing groups join forces - Established lobbying powerhouse the Direct Marketing Association is acquiring burgeoning Internet trade group the Association for Interactive Media in an effort to build up Net businesses' lobbying power. [News.com]
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- Markets mixed on tech push - U.S. stocks closed mixed today, with a blue chip rally sputtering and pulling the Dow Jones Industrial Average lower, while technology stocks helped push the Nasdaq Composite Index higher. [News.com]
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- Markets tumble on global worries - It was an ugly day on Wall Street today, but words from an influential international financier helped spark a late afternoon rally to help U.S. markets regain some heavy losses early on. [News.com]
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- Markets up on interest rate cut - Stocks closed higher today, carried by the Federal Reserve's surprise quarter-percent cut in interest rates yesterday, which fueled hope that the U.S. economy may not succumb to spreading global economic turmoil. [News.com]
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- MarketWatch.com files for IPO - MarketWatch.com, a provider of business news and financial data online, filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of $34.5 million in common stock. [News.com]
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- Matsushita to boost DVD output - Matsushita Electric Industrial said today it will boost production of digital video disks at home and in the United States. [News.com]
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- MCI WorldCom boosts network - MCI and WorldCom are starting to show some fruit from their recent merger with the announcement today that the combined company is marrying frame relay and Internet technologies. [News.com]
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- MCI WorldCom revenues surge - Surging revenues from voice, data and Internet services helped telecommunications giant MCI WorldCom post earnings that met Wall Street's expectations. [News.com]
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- Media moguls stand by TV - Although many technology and entertainment executives are drawn by the lure of making money from the Internet, two media icons today downplayed the Net's importance. [News.com]
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- Merger mania strikes the Net - Merger mania in the Internet industry is heating up again, underscored by two deals announced today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft backs global English - Famed for its software, Microsoft plans to publish a rather more old-fashioned product--a dictionary. [News.com]
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- Microsoft continues XML push - Programmers flipping from last night's baseball playoffs to the football game to the latest news may have been struck by an unusual sight--a presentation by a Microsoft specialist on using elements of XML shown via closed-circuit television to numerous hotels here. [News.com]
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- Microsoft denied access to tapes - A federal judge today denied Microsoft's bid to get hold of confidential taped interviews Netscape Communications executives gave to two college professors for a book. [News.com]
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- Microsoft denies Bristol claim - Microsoft denied yesterday that its treatment of a small Connecticut firm amounted to an unfair attempt to stifle competition. [News.com]
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- Microsoft details Office features - Microsoft has announced accessibility features and interoperability improvements that will be included in its Office 2000 desktop application suite, due for release in the first quarter of next year. [News.com]
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- Microsoft enters phone market - Microsoft is moving further into the consumer electronics arena, today announcing a $199 cordless phone that connects to Windows-based PCs. [News.com]
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- Microsoft inks $90 million ad deal - In what many have labeled the heftiest advertising deal ever on the Internet, Microsoft today signed on credit card lender First USA for a five-year, $90 million advertising agreement. [News.com]
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- Microsoft intros Works Suite 99 - Microsoft today introduced Microsoft Works Suite 99, its newest suite of applications for home users. [News.com]
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- Microsoft issues Cuartango patch - Microsoft today issued a patch for a security hole in its Internet Explorer Web browser that exposes users' files to hostile Web site operators and email senders. [News.com]
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- Microsoft joins eBook push - The drive to legitimize electronic books got a big boost today as Microsoft joined a slew of major publishing firms, electronics manufacturers, and others who are working to establish a set of open standards for the emerging industry. [News.com]
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- Microsoft merges the office - Integration and Microsoft may be dirty words in the halls of government, but not here. [News.com]
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- Microsoft posts stellar earnings - As it defends itself in a landmark antitrust trial in Washington, Microsoft kicked off its 1999 fiscal year yesterday by reporting better-than-expected first-quarter earnings. [News.com]
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- Microsoft preps Win98 update - Microsoft will deliver a service pack for the Windows 98 operating system early next year, the company said, confirming widespread rumors. [News.com]
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- Microsoft puts smart card on table - Microsoft has announced an extension of its Windows operating system aimed at smart cards. [News.com]
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- Microsoft readies NT 4.0 upgrade - Microsoft has finalized plans to deliver a sought-after service pack upgrade to current versions of the company's Windows NT operating system. [News.com]
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- Microsoft rebuts government case - Microsoft today provided new evidence that it says rebuts the antitrust case filed against it, releasing a detailed statement outlining why company attorneys believe the government's lawsuit is legally and factually flawed. [News.com]
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- Microsoft relaunching Sidewalk - In the latest transformation of its online properties to focus on commercial opportunities, Microsoft is relaunching its Sidewalk Internet site as a national guide to goods and services. [News.com]
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- Microsoft repaves Sidewalk--again - Today's reincarnation of Microsoft's MSN Sidewalk highlights a painful lesson that most local Web guides have learned: it's about utility, not content. [News.com]
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- Microsoft shows off Office 2000 - Microsoft is using Internet World in New York City to show off its upcoming Office 2000 desktop applications suite to the public today, with a hands on tour of the five different suite options available to users when the package ships during the first quarter of next year. [News.com]
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- Microsoft shuts site--IDs exposed - Microsoft yesterday shut down a site hosted by Softbank Services after discovering that it was revealing private identification and contact information for 108,000 Microsoft customers. [News.com]
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- Microsoft shuts site--IDs exposed - Microsoft has resurrected a software upgrade site hosted and maintained by Softbank Services. Microsoft had killed the site Friday after discovering that it was revealing private identification and contact information for 108,000 Microsoft customers. [News.com]
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- Microsoft stalls in court - Microsoft succeeded in delaying for another week the showing of chief executive Bill Gates's testimony, as it wrapped up its cross-examination of an America Online senior executive. [News.com]
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- Microsoft targeted by critics - With just days before its antitrust trial is set to start, Microsoft is finding itself the target of a stepped-up campaign by new and old critics. [News.com]
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- Microsoft to depose Java creator - U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson this morning granted a request by Microsoft to allow one of its in-house attorneys to depose Sun Microsystems' executive James Gosling in the Microsoft antitrust trial. [News.com]
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- Microsoft to ship Visual J++ 6.0 - Microsoft tomorrow will release the latest version of Visual J++, its Java development tool. [News.com]
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- Microsoft to use email in defense - Software giant Microsoft plans to use an email message from a Netscape Communications founder to try to show that the company had not strong-armed the browser software maker, according to a report. [News.com]
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- Microsoft trial delayed? - As Justice Department lawyers propose delaying the October 15 opening of the government's antitrust case against Microsoft by four days, the DOJ says it may need to take additional steps to prevent the software giant from violating antitrust laws in the future. [News.com]
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- Microsoft's "Scorpio" turns 43 - What do Bill Gates, Julia Roberts, and Charlie Daniels have in common? [News.com]
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- Microsoft's business app plan - Microsoft is buying Baan. Microsoft is buying Lawson. Microsoft is buying Joe's House of ERP. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, Bristol case continues - Bristol Technology accused Microsoft of anticompetitive acts in federal court yesterday, the same day the software giant's U.S. antitrust case opened in Washington. [News.com]
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- Microsoft, EU still in Net deal talks - Microsoft is still discussing with the European Commission the terms of contracts signed with European Internet service providers, an issue separate from a U.S. antitrust trial starting next week. [News.com]
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- Microsoft-Bristol case opens - A small Connecticut software company fired its opening shots against Microsoft today in a federal antitrust case. [News.com]
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- Microsoft: AOL, Netscape had deal - In an alliance designed to battle Microsoft, America Online and Netscape Communications agreed not to compete in certain markets, according to evidence introduced by the software giant today. [News.com]
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- Microsoft: Netscape set us up - Microsoft today claimed that new evidence unearthed in its antitrust battle with the government proves that a disputed 1995 meeting at the heart of the case was in fact a "set-up" orchestrated by Netscape Communications to persuade the Justice Department to sue the software giant. [News.com]
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- Microsoft: Trial not hurting Europe - Microsoft's antitrust battle is not harming the software giant's business in Europe, a company executive said today. [News.com]
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- Mideast PC market booming - The Middle East computer market is growing twice as fast as the world average and the booming popularity of the Internet is likely to keep it that way. [News.com]
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- Mitsubishi plans job cuts - Mitsubishi Electric of Japan today announced a restructuring that will result in layoffs. [News.com]
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- Mitsubishi to close U.S. unit - Mitsubishi Electric said today it would dissolve its holding company and chip unit in the United States. [News.com]
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- Mitsubishi unveils digital TV plan - Mitsubishi Consumer Electronics America today elaborated on a strategy to deliver digital TVs to retail stores nationwide--but these sets are really aimed at improving standard broadcast images rather than showing high-quality HDTV programming, which will be scarce until the turn of the century. [News.com]
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- Monorail readies top-speed PCs - Monorail will announce today a new line of PCs featuring the fastest chips from Intel at aggressive price points. [News.com]
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- More Windows CE support in hand - Momentum seems to be building steadily, if slowly, for the newest version of the Microsoft Windows CE operating system. [News.com]
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- Mostly sunny earnings day - Adobe says its results may beat the Steet's expectations, while Sun continues Wednesday's trend of strong numbers from bellwether companies. And Excite reports its first profit, excluding charges. [News.com]
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- Motorola sees signs of turnaround - Technology and telecommunications giant Motorola today reported third-quarter earnings of $40 million or 7 cents per share excluding charges, handily beating Wall Street estimates. [News.com]
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- Motorola, Aureal team on modem - Motorola and Aureal today announced they are working together to develop a modem with integrated audio chip. [News.com]
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- MSN launches carpet-bomb campaign - Carpet-bomb, and they will come. [News.com]
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- MSN plans portals in 24 countries - Microsoft today will announce it plans to launch local versions of MSN.com, its Web search and content aggregation service, in 24 countries worldwide. [News.com]
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- MSN portal boosts finance content - Microsoft is expected to launch a personal finance service on its MSN.com portal in answer to Web sites such as Quicken.com, according to sources close to the company. [News.com]
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- MSN.com sees password glitch - Netizens visiting MSN.com today were confronted with a curious log-in section on top of the regular features offered on the portal. [News.com]
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- Music group sues over MP3 device - Music industry trade group the Recording Industry Association of America is turning up the heat in its fight against the MP3 format by suing a multimedia firm, claiming it is promoting the illegal distribution of copyrighted music off the Internet. [News.com]
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- mySimon to launch pricing site - Entering a field virtually cleared out by acquisitions, intelligent agent firm mySimon is launching a service that allows sites to automate the process of comparing product pricing online. [News.com]
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- N2K downside leads to downgrade - Capping what already was one of the company's worst weeks financially, shares of N2K closed down more than 13 percent after an influential analyst downgraded the stock from "buy" to "neutral." [News.com]
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- N2K holders say no to CDnow - N2K shareholders sued to block the No. 2 online music retailer's acquisition by bigger rival CDnow for $111.4 million in stock, saying N2K executives could have found a more lucrative deal. [News.com]
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- National picked in chip project - A federal government agency has selected National Semiconductor as the lead company in a three-year, $18.6 million project to improve microchip yields while lowering production costs. [News.com]
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- National Semi to cut Scotland jobs - In an effort to curb excess costs, National Semiconductor said it will consolidate its wafer manufacturing operations in Greenock, Scotland, eventually resulting in cuts in the workforce there. [News.com]
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- National sets sights on low end - For a computer vendor that wants a low-end chip, Cyrix is working on the answer. [News.com]
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- Navigator still has bug problem - Navigator users who installed Netscape Communications' latest update to fix a privacy bug may find themselves doing the exact same thing in the next few weeks. [News.com]
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- Navigator update stamps out bug - Netscape Communications today posted a new version of its popular Web browser in an effort to squash a privacy bug. [News.com]
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- NCI makes the network connection - Emboldened by recent deals with foreign cable and telco providers, Network Computer Incorporated today forged ahead into the market for embedded devices, offering software for connecting office equipment, handheld computers, automotive systems, and more to the Internet. [News.com]
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- NEC chair resigns over scandal - Japanese electronics maker NEC said today that Chairman Tadahiro Sekimoto had resigned effective immediately from his post over a contract-padding scandal and will become an adviser to the company. [News.com]
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- Net ads nearly double in quarter - Internet ads for the second quarter this year almost doubled compared to the same quarter in 1997, according to figures released today by the Internet Advertising Bureau. [News.com]
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- Net advertising outside-the-box - When America Online sent a seven-story-tall balloon to the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta this week, the online giant wasn't full of hot air. Instead it was taking advantage of a prime marketing opportunity. [News.com]
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- Net brands catch on fast - A handful of young companies have become household names in the few years since the Internet caught fire, a much faster time than it took brand giants of the past, according to a study released today. [News.com]
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- Net luminary offers domain plan - One of the founders of the Internet has presented the Clinton administration with a consensus plan to privatize management of the global network's critical addressing system. [News.com]
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- Net retailers join forces - Four major Web retailers today are jointly launching a shopping network featuring all the firms' products. [News.com]
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- Net stocks continue plunge - Internet stocks today continued their double-digit declines in early trading and the Nasdaq fell to levels not seen since mid-June of last year. [News.com]
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- Net stocks looking up? - As tech companies gear up to report their third-quarter results in the coming weeks, a leading Net analyst has pegged a few such as Adobe and Amazon.com to post better financial results than Wall Street's current earnings consensus. [News.com]
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- Net stocks lukewarm on earnings - Some of the Internet's biggest hitters have reported stellar earnings this week, only to see their stock price grounded--no surprise to Wall Street analysts, who didn't expect any big jolt in share price despite those robust reports. [News.com]
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- Net Tax Act a mixed blessing? - To civil liberties advocates, the Internet Tax Freedom Act will be a mixed blessing if it passes as early as today. [News.com]
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- Net tax bill amended - The Senate today loaded up the Internet Tax Freedom Act with online privacy protections for children and requirements to put government documents on the Net, but a Senate Commerce Committee spokeswoman said a vote may not happen until Tuesday. [News.com]
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- Net tops Congress's agenda - Both houses are dealing with high-profile Net issues, including online taxes and children's privacy. A conference committee also is preparing to reconcile versions of a controversial Net copyright bill already passed in both houses. [News.com]
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- Net TVs to edge out PCs - The future of home computing does not lie in expensive multimedia computers, but more likely in some type of Internet TV, according to a new study released today. [News.com]
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- NetGrocer cuts staff, CEO - Just days after confirming that it had canceled its initial public offering, NetGrocer has cleared its shelves, cutting workers and naming a new CEO. [News.com]
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- NetGrocer pulls IPO plans - Citing market conditions, Internet supermarket Netgrocer pulls its plans for an initial public offering and will now seek a private placement. [News.com]
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- Netscape adds security module - Seeking to boost the visibility of its security offerings, Netscape Communications next week will announce that other software vendors are embedding its directory and certificate servers in their offerings. [News.com]
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- Netscape browser claims attacked - Microsoft continued to tear into the written testimony of Netscape Communications chief executive Jim Barksdale today, calling a key charge made by the CEO an "invention or imaginary concoction." [News.com]
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- Netscape in slew of content deals - Netscape Communications today announced partnerships with content providers for its Netcenter portal site, a day after announcing enhancements to its international sites. [News.com]
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- Netscape inks deal for upgrades - Netscape Communications on Monday will announce a deal with Intraware to provide Netscape's corporate customers with managed software updates. [News.com]
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- Netscape integrating IE, Netcenter - For months, Netscape Communications trumpeted the integration of its Netcenter portal and Navigator browser, but now it wants to blend that portal with Microsoft's rival Internet Explorer browser. [News.com]
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- Netscape marries business plans - Finally implementing a strategy articulated 13 months ago, Netscape Communications today announced new features for its Netcenter portal that tie into the company's enterprise software business. [News.com]
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- Netscape navigates rough waters - Netscape announced new features for its Netcenter portal that tie into the firm's enterprise software business. The move aims to integrate the various sides of Netscape's business, but does the market need this product? [News.com]
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- Netscape readies PeopleSoft app server - Six weeks after announcing a version of its Application Server for SAP, Netscape Communications will announce next week a version of its Application Server for PeopleSoft applications. [News.com]
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- Netscape ships Communicator 4.5 - In the wake of studies showing its browser market share both declining and advancing in key areas, Netscape Communications has released the shipping version of Communicator 4.5, its Internet software suite. [News.com]
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- Network security alliance forged - Bidding for a larger role in network security, Internet Security Systems today announced an alliance of 40 network infrastructure players that will create a unified way for enterprises to manage switches, routers, firewalls, antivirus software, and other security and network components. [News.com]
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- Network Solutions tops estimates - Network Solutions said today that it had posted record revenues for the third quarter, reporting earnings that surpassed Wall Street expectations. [News.com]
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- Networking firms under scrutiny - A flurry of partnerships and deals in the computer networking industry has prompted stepped-up interest from regulators. [News.com]
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- Networks coming together - The marriage of voice and data equipment gains momentum as executives from Nortel and Lucent tout convergence as the future of the networking industry. MCI WorldCom also weighs in, merging frame relay with Internet technology. [News.com]
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- New calculator for phone costs - Federal regulators have adopted a new method for calculating the cost of providing residential phone service as part of an effort to overhaul subsidies that go to remote and low-income areas. [News.com]
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- New content partners at Netcenter - Netscape Communications tomorrow will disclose partnerships with several content providers for its Netcenter portal site, a day after announcing enhancements to its international sites. [News.com]
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- New date for Microsoft trial? - Attorneys on both sides of the Microsoft antitrust case are gearing up for D-Day next Monday, the scheduled start of the trial in the historic action filed by the Justice Department and 20 states. [News.com]
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- New guidelines on child privacy - Industry group TRUSTe is creating a new child privacy program that it hopes will address issues raised by the Federal Trade Commission and the so-called Bryan bill now pending in Congress. [News.com]
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- New handheld device firm formed - Palm Computing founders and venture capitalist heavyweights Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Benchmark Capital are building up a handheld device firm and expect to begin shipping a new product late next year. [News.com]
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- New handhelds favor Clik drive - In its effort to promote its Clik drive as the ideal storage solution for anything smaller than a breadbox, Iomega today announced that the small storage units would support the upcoming wave of Jupiter-class Windows CE handheld computers. [News.com]
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- New IANA elects transition team - The private nonprofit board that is one step away from being handed the keys to run the Internet's crucial domain name system today elected the people that will lead the transition. [News.com]
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- New Mac PowerBook shipping - A new low-cost PowerBook model from Apple Computer has begun appearing at resellers. [News.com]
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- New server for e-commerce - Boston start-up Art Technology Group is set to begin shipping the next version of its customer management server for e-commerce applications. [News.com]
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- New site features hospital ratings - A new service that rates cardiac surgery and cardiology programs in hospitals around the United States using a five-star system has launched on the Web. [News.com]
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- New witnesses in Microsoft suit - Microsoft and the government each added two new witnesses today as both sides make final arrangements for the sweeping antitrust case against the software giant. [News.com]
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- Newsweek ready for the Web - After spending a considerable period hiding behind the firewall of America Online's proprietary service, Newsweek is finally ready to stake its claim on the Web. [News.com]
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- Nielsen takes stake in NetRatings - Consolidation hit the Internet ratings industry with a one-two punch this month, as a second alliance took shape between competing firms. [News.com]
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- No tax relief for adult sites - Commercial Web sites that give minors access to "harmful" material could face new taxes under a provision added to the Internet Tax Freedom Act by a 98-1 Senate vote today. [News.com]
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- Nortel execs push convergence - Nortel Networks' two top executives believe each other's core focus can help the new combined voice and data equipment giant reach the promised land: a true multipurpose network. [News.com]
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- Nortel posts expected loss - Shares of telecommunications giant Northern Telecom moved higher this morning after the company reported a deep net loss after charges for its third quarter, but still managed to beat analysts' expectations for the quarter. [News.com]
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- Novell adds antivirus to NetWare - Network software provider Novell said today that it entered a partnership with Network Associates to provide network software with integrated virus protection. [News.com]
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- Novell adds to security suite - Novell has debuted two new additions to its BorderManager family of Internet security management products based on its directory services technology. [News.com]
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- Novell advances directory services - Novell continues to make headway in its effort to establish its directory services software as an industry standard. [News.com]
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- Novell files copyright suit - Networking software company Novell today said it has filed a lawsuit against New York-based Computer Add-Ons and several other individuals for copyright infringement, false advertising, and dilution of trademarks, among other claims. [News.com]
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- Novell sees Asia opportunities - Asia's economic crisis has created unexpected opportunities for U.S. network software provider Novell, a senior executive said yesterday. [News.com]
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- Novell takes stake in NetObjects - Novell said today that it has acquired a minority stake in NetObjects, which has agreed to bundle its Fusion Web development software with Novell Netware for small business 4.2. [News.com]
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- Novell to raise India investment - Network software provider Novell said today that it will increase its investments in India to $23.5 million by 2000 from the current $14 million. [News.com]
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- Novellus has strong third quarter - Novellus Systems, a maker of semiconductor equipment, reported third quarter earnings that were better than Wall Street's expectations, fueling a 25 percent jump in its stock. [News.com]
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- NSI gets a reprieve - The firm is given two more years to head up the domain name system, though it will be more open to competition. Not surprisingly, analysts--who were bullish about the firm even before the agreement was reached--are reacting positively to the news. [News.com]
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- NT 5.0 becomes Windows 2000 - Microsoft today announced that Windows NT 5.0, its upcoming operating system for servers and business desktops, will be called Windows 2000, but the interesting aspects for consumers may be changes in performance and pricing. [News.com]
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- NT Service Pack 4.0 released - Microsoft chose the season's largest networking-oriented event to unveil the latest additions to its Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 operating system. [News.com]
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- O'Reilly addresses crypto laws - O'Reilly today posted an update of its server software to fix a crypto bug that was making more than 60,000 secure Web sites potentially inaccessible to users of new versions of Netscape Communications' Navigator. [News.com]
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- OECD takes up e-commerce - Vendors and customers alike will be watching closely next week as government ministers from 26 countries meet in Ottawa, Canada, to thrash out the future of e-commerce. [News.com]
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- OfficeMax dips on warning - OfficeMax saw its stock touch a new low after it warned that third-quarter profits will disappoint and fourth-quarter results could also miss expectations if computer and business machine sales remain limp. [News.com]
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- Online trading surge slows down - Online trading volume continued to grow in the third quarter, but the rate of growth slowed compared to previous quarters, according to a new report to be fully released next week by Credit Suisse First Boston. [News.com]
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- Open Market hit by earnings news - Shares of Open Market plummeted as much as 31 percent today after the company announced preliminary financial results for its third quarter were below expectations, due to revenue shortfalls in Asia. [News.com]
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- Open Market to trim staff by 20% - E-commerce and publishing software maker Open Market today said layoffs are imminent because of a pending corporate revamping that the company said is necessary to get its finances back on track. [News.com]
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- Oracle goes user-friendly route - Oracle thinks it knows at least one of the secrets to Microsoft's success. [News.com]
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- Oracle polishes database - Oracle continues to trickle out new functionality for its much hyped Oracle8i database. [News.com]
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- Oracle preps for front office push - Front office application vendors are about to get some more competition. [News.com]
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- Oracle rings up bank sales - Oracle said today that in the past five months, revenue from the financial services sector in the Asia Pacific region has grown more than 50 percent from a year ago to $20 million. [News.com]
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- Oracle updates Net messaging - As expected, Oracle today rolled out the latest version of its Internet messaging package for service providers and businesses. [News.com]
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- Oracle warns of pricing pressure - Oracle may need to cut prices, particularly in its mainstay database market, because of intense price competition, the No. 1 database software company disclosed today in a regulatory filing. [News.com]
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- Oracle: No change in database market - Oracle said yesterday that a Reuters report about potential price cuts was misleading and that there was no change in the market for database software. [News.com]
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- Overdrive's eBook shift - Overdrive Systems is looking to capitalize on the budding electronic book market by taking out the electronic book. [News.com]
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- Packard Bell sues CTX - Packard Bell NEC today sued CTX International, a major third-tier vendor of notebook and desktop PCs as well as monitors, for alleged patent infringement. [News.com]
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- Packard Bell to lay off 1,000 - Packard Bell NEC today said it will lay off 750 to 1,000 employees working in the company's U.S. operations by the end of the year in an effort to cut costs. [News.com]
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- Packard Bell uses AMD inside - Packard Bell NEC has begun to ship desktop and notebook computers with processors from Advanced Micro Devices. [News.com]
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- Palm cuts handheld prices - Palm Computing cut prices up to 17 percent on its PalmPilot handheld organizers today as the portable computing device market continues to heat up. [News.com]
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- PC makers up on strong earnings - The Nasdaq Composite Index moved higher today, carried by strong earnings news yesterday from bellwethers IBM and Microsoft. [News.com]
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- PC sales gain in western Europe - Personal computer sales in western Europe will continue to boom for the remainder of 1998 and into next year as consumers shrug aside economic turmoil in Asia, according to newly published market research report. [News.com]
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- PC sales part of big IBM quarter - Stronger sales of its Thinkpad portables and Aptiva home computers were a big part of IBM's profitable third quarter. [News.com]
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- Penton to buy Mecklermedia - Penton Media today announced it has moved to acquire Mecklermedia, a publisher of Internet-related magazines and news, for approximately $274 million in an all-cash deal. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft aims for integration - PeopleSoft is opening its arms to the world. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft aims to put data to use - PeopleSoft wants to put corporate data to use. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft feels market pressure - Shares of business and financial software maker PeopleSoft plunged more than 25 percent to a new 52-week low today, after two influential investment banks downgraded the company's outlook. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft in line with forecasts - PeopleSoft yesterday reported third-quarter earnings that matched analyst forecasts, though profit growth slowed at the No. 2 maker of applications software. [News.com]
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- PeopleSoft taps outsourcing help - PeopleSoft is looking for a little help from its friends for its outsourcing strategy. [News.com]
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- Philips mum on Lucent rumor - Philips Electronics said today that it had no comment on a report in the Wall Street Journal that it was on the verge of abandoning its telecoms joint venture with Lucent Technologies. [News.com]
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- Philips won't do "Jupiter" device - Philips will not release a new device to support the latest version of the Microsoft Windows CE operating system for notebook-sized handheld computers, the company said today. [News.com]
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- Phone firms seek Net call policy - Two U.S. senators wrote federal regulators asking them to decide whether major local phone companies should continue paying hundreds of millions of dollars per year to upstart carriers serving Internet access providers. [News.com]
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- Platinum aims for smaller sales - Platinum Software is getting bigger to go after smaller sales. [News.com]
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- Platinum tops Street estimates - Platinum Technology continues to wow Wall Street with earnings at or above estimates. [News.com]
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- Playboy teams with MindSpring - Playboy is joining ranks with Internet service provider MindSpring to launch a new cobranded Internet access service. [News.com]
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- PointCast adding e-commerce - PointCast will launch an e-commerce channel tomorrow as part of an overall redesign of its main home page, becoming the latest in a flurry of Web properties that are jumping onto the e-commerce bandwagon. [News.com]
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- PointCast looking for ISP partner - PointCast is looking for some big fish to catch. After canceling a public offering, the company has decided to cast a larger net in an attempt to snag an Internet service provider as an investor. [News.com]
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- PointCast reshuffles, hints at deal - PointCast realigned its management team and hinted that the changes may be part of preparations for a soon-to-be announced strategic alliance. [News.com]
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- Portal package with a twist - The Lycos plan to acquire Wired Digital is but the latest turn in an already-circuitous road for companies engaged in the portal race. [News.com]
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- Post-monopoly NSI faring well - Network Solutions is getting high marks from Wall Street analysts, one day after the publicly traded Internet domain name registrar reached an agreement with the U.S. government to open the market to competition. [News.com]
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- Preview Travel reduces loss, spins off TV - Online travel site Preview Travel reported a third-quarter loss that bettered Wall Street's expectations and also announced it will spin off its television operation, making it a pure Internet player. [News.com]
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- Privacy ad campaign to launch - Microsoft today announced it is joining a group of eight Internet portal sites--including Yahoo, Excite, Altavista, and Infoseek--which are donating $3 million in Web ad banners for a campaign to educate Internet users on privacy issues. [News.com]
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- Privacy bill passes Senate panel - Web sites that attempt to obtain personal information from children without first getting parental permission could be prosecuted under federal online privacy legislation that was pushed forward today. [News.com]
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- Profit gains lead Xerox earnings - Xerox saw its third-quarter profit rise 19 percent to $381 million, but revenue grew only 5 percent amid weaker global economic conditions that could dampen near-term growth. [News.com]
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- Qualcomm offers email via phone - Qualcomm today rolled out Eudora Email by Phone, a new service that allows users to access their email via the telephone. [News.com]
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- Quality and Net entertainment - Two of America's most powerful media moguls said today that, as the new millennium harnesses new technology and the power of the Internet, the entertainment industry should not ignore quality. [News.com]
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- Quantum profits fall by 83% - Disk drive maker Quantum's fiscal second-quarter profit plunged 83 percent, in line with analyst forecasts, as a drop in prices continued to hold back the company's bottom line. [News.com]
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- Qwest exec: Future is bandwidth - Qwest Communications continues to call for a telecommunications Wild West with a high-speed fiber network in its holster. [News.com]
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- Qwest inks dark fiber deals - Denver-based Qwest Communications inked a deal today with e.spire communications' ACSI Network Technologies to construct and install a 140-mile fiber optic network. Additionally, Qwest signed $45 million in contracts for added fiber routes along its nationwide network. Qwest said in a release that the routes will support its planned Internet Protocol network, designed specifically to support high-end commercial customers. The network will span more than 18,500 miles and serve more than 130 cities--and is scheduled to be completed by the second quarter of 1999. [News.com]
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- Qwest to appeal FCC on Baby Bells - Qwest Communications International said today that it plans to appeal against a Federal Communications Commission decision opposing its telephone long distance marketing agreements with US West and Ameritech. [News.com]
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- Race is on for Net bills - Several Net bills are in limbo today, as Congress races to approve the federal budget for next year. [News.com]
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- Rambus reports strong quarter - Rambus, developer of an up-and-coming computer memory technology, announced fourth-quarter net income of $1.75 million, or 7 cents per diluted share, compared with net income of $1.06 million, or 4 cents per share, for the same quarter a year ago. [News.com]
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- Rambus rides earnings fallout - Shares of Rambus, developer of an up-and-coming computer memory technology, jumped in early trading but then retreated after the company announced fourth-quarter earnings yesterday that were in line with Wall Street expectations. [News.com]
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- Rambus shines in Intel-Micron deal - With Intel's $500 million investment in Micron Technology, memory designer Rambus will increasingly move to center stage in the world of computer design. [News.com]
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- Rational tests e-commerce apps - E-commerce and the Internet are getting a good ration of testing tools. [News.com]
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- RealNetworks tops estimates - RealNetworks trimmed its losses from the year-ago period and beat Wall Street's expectations when it reported third-quarter earnings today. [News.com]
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- RealNetworks, Netscape ink deal - RealNetworks, marking its third major distribution deal in four weeks, will announce an agreement today to integrate its audio and video software into Netscape Communications' Internet browsers. [News.com]
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- Record investments in Net firms - Venture capital investments in Internet-related companies hit a record $887 million in 164 companies during the second quarter of 1998, according to a new survey announced today. [News.com]
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- Report: Handheld sales to boom - In 1999, the worldwide smart handheld devices market will experience robust growth, with device unit shipments reaching 10.7 million units, up 45 percent from 1998 shipments, International Data Corp. said in a report. [News.com]
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- Report: PC demand nears peak - The PC industry faces a bumpy ride over the next few years, a new report concludes, as vendors and customers try to plan for the Year 2000 bug and plummeting hardware prices. [News.com]
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- Report: Piracy hits job growth - The Business Software Alliance is aiming to draw more attention to software piracy by releasing a report that indicates software piracy has become a major impediment to job growth and a drain on government tax revenue. [News.com]
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- Rewritable DVD: A year unchanged - Recordable DVD drives could be a big hit with consumers, but a simmering standards battle is jeopardizing widespread acceptance of the technology. [News.com]
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- RIAA takes a hit in court - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) took a hit in federal court today, in an ongoing lawsuit pitting the group against a company that produces multimedia for the Net. [News.com]
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- RIAA wins first Rio battle - A federal court in California today granted the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) a restraining order to halt the sale and distribution of Diamond Multimedia's Rio PMP300 audio device, marking the opening salvo in a war between the recording industry establishment and high-tech innovation. [News.com]
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- Rockefeller: E-rate will survive - One of the chief masterminds behind federal Net access subsidies for schools and libraries today said the embattled "e-rate" won't be caught in the political crossfire of the next Congress. [News.com]
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- RSA breaks out new security tools - RSA Data Security today announced a new version of its encryption tools for building secure applications that support the S/Mime protocol. [News.com]
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- S&P cuts Baan credit rating - Standard & Poor's today placed business management software provider Baan on credit watch with "negative implications," for its double-B long-term corporate credit and single-B plus subordinated debt. The action follows Baan's poor third quarter results, S&P said. [News.com]
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- S3 reports huge loss - Graphics chipmaker S3 today reported a substantial slide in earnings during the third quarter, the fallout from a year of turmoil in the graphics market. [News.com]
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- S3 to go after Intel next? - Although S3 has primarily been known as a graphics chip vendor, the company may increasingly become associated with patent litigation. [News.com]
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- SA tips digital TV plans - Scientific-Atlanta, one of the largest suppliers of communications equipment to the cable TV industry, today laid out plans for helping cable networks bring digital television to its customers. [News.com]
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- Salon launches commerce efforts - Web magazine Salon has quietly launched a membership area and e-commerce offerings, becoming the latest content site to augment ad sales by broadening its financial strategy. [News.com]
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- Salvadoran firm to provide Net access - Salvadoran phone company Telefonica de El Salvador has started building an Internet backbone, or fiber-optic ring, that will give clients access to the information superhighway, a company executive said. [News.com]
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- SAP adapts R/3 for media firms - SAP wants to be in pictures...and publishing, and print, and on the Web. [News.com]
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- SAP adds retail with Campbell buy - The retail industry is looking mmm! mmm! good to SAP. So good that the software giant announced today that it is buying Campbell Software to supplement its current retail line. [News.com]
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- SAP earnings a reality check - SAP's growth rates are starting to come out of the clouds and down to a more earthly level. [News.com]
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- SAP's growth rate on target - SAP's growth rate is right on target for 1998. [News.com]
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- SBC buys stake in Concentric - SBC Communications, the second largest U.S. local phone company, today announced it will buy a 4 percent stake in Concentric Network as part of a deal to integrate Concentric's Internet-based business data services into SBC's portfolio of services for business customers. [News.com]
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- Scanner firm files for bankruptcy - Storm Technology filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after suffering heavy losses from the year-long price wars in the scanner industry. [News.com]
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- Schwab beats the Street - Charles Schwab, one of the leading online brokerage firms, reported better-than-expected third quarter earnings today and doubled its number of accounts online from a year ago. [News.com]
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- Scientific-Atlanta won't meet Street - Telecommunications equipment maker Scientific-Atlanta warned that its first quarter earnings will not meet expectations, attributing the shortfall to weakness in the international markets. [News.com]
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- Scientists develop atom-size chip - Danish scientists say they have created a chip where a single atom jumping back and forth could generate the binary code that is the basis of digital information used by computers. [News.com]
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- SCO falls short in 1998 - A profitable fourth quarter for Santa Cruz Operation wasn't enough to pull the company into the black for this fiscal year. [News.com]
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- Seagate profits rise before charges - Seagate Technology said its fiscal first-quarter profit before charges more than doubled, as the No. 1 computer disk-drive maker continued to cut costs, but the company reported a net loss for the period. [News.com]
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- SEC adopts Y2K rule - The Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday that it unanimously adopted a rule requiring all mutual fund companies and investment advisers to report their year 2000 preparedness plans to the commission. [News.com]
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- SEC adopts Y2K rule - The Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday that it unanimously adopted a rule requiring all mutual fund companies and investment advisers to report their year 2000 preparedness plans to the commission. [News.com]
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- SEC demands Y2K updates - The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged 37 brokerage firms for failing to report the status of their Year 2000 technology problem preparedness as required by the federal government, the commission said. [News.com]
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- SEC demands Y2K updates - The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged 37 brokerage firms for failing to report the status of their Year 2000 technology problem preparedness as required by the federal government, the commission said. [News.com]
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- SEC squashes stock schemes - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today charged 44 defendants in the agency's first widespread crackdown on Internet schemes to falsely promote small stocks and defraud investors. [News.com]
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- Second try for Office 97 update - After clearing the gremlins out its next Office 97 service release for about a month, Microsoft has re-released the update. [News.com]
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- Secure remote access heats up - A variety of players aiming to provide advanced remote access devices for corporations and service providers rolled out variations on the same theme this week: providing simple, secure access for mobile users. [News.com]
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- Security Dynamics adds NT help - Security Dynamics Technologies, which in May joined Microsoft's security alliance, tomorrow will beef up a family of security products for Windows NT networks. The announcement will flesh out earlier NT offerings from Security Dynamics to date. [News.com]
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- Sega WebTV to run Windows CE - Sega's new Dreamcast gaming console will open a new front in the lucrative home video game market with the first WebTV product running the Windows CE operating system. [News.com]
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- Senate looks at bug and business - Before the congressional committee responsible for addressing the Year 2000 technology glitch, a health care worker today recommended that insurance companies provide a one-time 90-day supply of drugs to needy patients at the end of 1999. [News.com]
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- Senate looks at bug and business - Before the congressional committee responsible for addressing the Year 2000 technology glitch, a health care worker today recommended that insurance companies provide a one-time 90-day supply of drugs to needy patients at the end of 1999. [News.com]
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- Senate passes copyright act - The Senate has passed compromise legislation to impose new safeguards for software, music, and written works on the Net, and the House is expected to clear it by tomorrow. [News.com]
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- Senate passes Net tax act - The Senate sweepingly passed the Internet Tax Freedom Act today, calling for a three-year time-out on new tariffs for online services and products. [News.com]
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- Senator comments on Microsoft - The war of words heated up just days before Microsoft is set to go to trial to defend its business practices, which critics charge are anticompetitive. [News.com]
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- Senator comments on Microsoft - The war of words heated up just days before Microsoft is set to go to trial to defend its business practices, which critics charge are anticompetitive. [News.com]
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- SeniorNet, Schwab eye older users - SeniorNet and prominent online brokerage Charles Schwab have partnered to provide investment services for older Net surfers. [News.com]
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- Sequent soups up super server - Sequent Computer Systems introduced a corporate server today that can expand to handle up to 64 Intel Pentium II Xeon processors and multiple operating systems at once. [News.com]
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- Service guards customer data - Big Blue is jumping into the direct marketing game, as a consultant not a marketer. [News.com]
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- SGI's NT workstation rollout slips - Silicon Graphics will delay shipments of its workstations based around Intel processors and Windows NT until January 1999, an embarrassing slip that once again pushes back the company's revival strategy. [News.com]
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- SGI, Real 3D in graphics tie-up - Silicon Graphics took a ten percent stake in graphics chip maker Real 3D and said the two companies would undertake cooperative marketing and technology and business development. [News.com]
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- SGI, Unisys to use Merced - Silicon Graphics and Unisys have thrown their weight behind Intel's IA-64 architecture, detailing plans today for rolling out the new 64-bit chip in high-powered machines. [News.com]
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- Shareholder lawsuit bill to clear Congress - Legislation pushed by the high-tech industry to curb frivolous shareholder lawsuits against companies with volatile stock prices is expected to pass Congress by tomorrow. [News.com]
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- Sharp, NuvoMedia in e-book deal - Japanese company Sharp said today it has linked up with U.S.-based NuvoMedia in the electronic book business. [News.com]
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- Showtime for Gates video - Netscape chief executive Jim Barksdale is expected to leave the stand today, making room for the government to begin showing videotaped testimony of Microsoft chairman and chief executive Bill Gates. [News.com]
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- Singapore minister decries tech - Lee Kuan Yew, regarded as the founding father of Singapore and a man who has frequently clashed with the press, says technology is eroding government control of the media in Asia. [News.com]
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- Site gears for Glenn's relaunch - As the first astronaut to orbit Earth, John Glenn, prepares to launch again, NASA is gearing up to deal with another kind of record--traffic on its shuttle launch Web site. [News.com]
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- Slimmer chips for common devices - Intel announced improvements to several chips designed to be embedded in electronic equipment ranging from cash registers to computer network routers to handheld computers. [News.com]
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- Slower growth for business apps - The glory days for enterprise resource planning stock are over. [News.com]
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- Snail mail giant unworried - Pitney Bowes expects to retain its big share of the U.S. corporate postage market despite the advent of technologies that could open the door to a host of entrepreneurial competitors. [News.com]
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- Softbank in deal with Ingram - Japan's Softbank said today that it has agreed with Ingram Micro on a distribution deal of personal computer-related goods. [News.com]
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- Sony announces new PCs, laptops - Sony announced new PCs and notebooks that can edit video using advanced digital interconnect technology, as well as a storage device the company hopes will replace the floppy drive. [News.com]
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- Sony deal boosts AMD - Sony has adopted the K6-2 processor from Advanced Micro Devices for a new line of consumer PCs for the Japanese market, a design win on the eve of the company's quarterly report that could presage AMD-based Sony machines in the United States. [News.com]
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- Sony sees first loss in six years - Japanese electronics giant Sony said today the yen's sudden surge against the dollar, a harsh pricing environment and a global economic downturn will zap its profits in the second half of this business year. [News.com]
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- Sony still a laggard in PCs - After more than two years in the U.S. consumer PC market, Sony is still trying to find the secret of success. [News.com]
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- Spending bill becomes law - President Clinton today signed a $500 billion spending bill for fiscal 1999 that includes several technology industry-backed provisions as well as controversial Net content regulations. [News.com]
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- SportsLine revenue up 107% - Web-based sports media publisher SportsLine USA beat Wall Street expectations by announcing today that it pulled in $7.4 million in revenue for the third quarter--a 107 percent increase over total revenue of $3.6 million reported for the same quarter in 1997. [News.com]
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- SportsLine USA expects shortfall - Web-based sports media publisher SportsLine USA today warned that revenues for its third-quarter will be below market expectations but offset the earnings warning by announcing that the company was expanding its online partnership with America Online, the world's largest Internet service provider. [News.com]
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- Spotlight on tech earnings - Bellwether high-tech companies sounded off today, with Apple's profit and strong iMac sales leading the way. [News.com]
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- Sprint delays IPO - Sprint, the nation's No. 3 long-distance phone carrier, today delayed the initial public offering of its digital wireless phone venture, citing market conditions. [News.com]
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- Sprint: TCI needs to divest - Sprint informed the Justice Department that Tele-Communications Incorporated should divest its $1.3 billion stake in Sprint's wireless venture so that it does not hurt the business as TCI combines with AT&T, sources said, according to reports. [News.com]
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- Spyglass not down for count yet - Web software developer Spyglass today announced a three-year, $20 million joint venture with General Instrument to develop Net-based cable technologies and services and saw its stock soar on the news. [News.com]
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- Spyglass, GI ink TV set-top pact - In an effort to jump-start the development of Net-based TV cable technologies and services, Web software developer Spyglass and cable equipment manufacturer General Instrument have teamed up on a three-year, $20-million joint venture, the companies said today. [News.com]
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- ST: Novell awarded $800,000 in piracy suit - Network software giant Novell announced that it has been awarded more than $800,000 in its piracy case against Galactech, a corporation based in Atlanta. Novell brought the lawsuit against Galatech in 1997, alleging that the company distributed and sold counterfeit copies of Novell's NetWare server operating system product. Novell said its antipiracy group examined the counterfeit product and then conducted an audit of Galactech's sales and purchase records to determine damages [News.com]
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- Start-ups claim more execs - Former key players at Netscape and PointCast are testing the e-commerce waters, while Palm Computing founders have a plan in hand. [News.com]
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- Stocks close high on Japan action - Wall Street stocks closed sharply higher today, following the lead of the overseas markets which soared after the Japanese government finally moved to take concrete steps to help its crippled banking system. [News.com]
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- Stocks firm in jittery early trade - U.S. stocks rose in volatile trade early today after a strong rally in Japanese shares overnight. [News.com]
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- Stocks gain on economic data - Stocks retreated from today's highs, but still posted healthy gains after strong economic news from several fronts indicated that the U.S. economy is doing much better than expected. [News.com]
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- StorMedia files for bankruptcy - Thin film disk supplier StorMedia has filed for protection under Chapter 11 bankruptcy laws, a move that comes as the media market faces oversupply and tumultuous times. [News.com]
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- Street gains to buck 2-day slide - Wall Street stocks reversed early losses today in its struggle to buck widespread expectations of further declines after two straight days of 200 point-plus slides. [News.com]
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- Street jumps on Japan action - Wall Street stocks jumped higher at the opening bell today, following the lead of the overseas markets which soared after the Japanese government finally moved to take concrete steps to help its crippled banking system. [News.com]
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- Street mixed, other markets rally - Stocks were mixed today, despite a steadier dollar and rallies in many European and Asian markets. [News.com]
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- Street, Net stocks take a beating - U.S. stocks tumbled in early trading, following a plunge in the dollar and sharp losses in the European and Asian markets. [News.com]
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- Strong Gateway tops estimates - Direct-sales PC maker Gateway today topped analysts' earnings estimates for its third quarter on the strength of record shipments. [News.com]
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- Study: Consumer Net buying doubles - The Web lured 20 million consumers to buy something in the first six months of 1998, a 100 percent increase over the same period a year ago. [News.com]
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- Study: MSN.com has best service - A study conducted by a market research firm may have injected life back into Microsoft's relatively obscure MSN Internet Access service. [News.com]
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- Study: Navigator ahead in office - Netscape Communications' Navigator has increased its lead over Microsoft's Internet Explorer as the primary browser used in North American corporations, according to a new study. [News.com]
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- Study: Net an entertainment option - As it becomes a more dominant source of consumer entertainment, the Internet is beginning to steal time away from television watching and reading, according to a survey released yesterday. [News.com]
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- Study: Price driving e-commerce - Price, not security, is the main reason Netizens are hesitant about conducting transactions online, according to a study released today. [News.com]
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- Study: Tech gender gap widening - When Anita Borg heard that a new technology gender gap is emerging in America's schools, she was not surprised. [News.com]
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- Subpoena tips Microsoft defense - In asking a federal judge to order two professors to turn over materials used in a forthcoming book about the browser war, Microsoft today tipped the hand it is likely to play in defending itself against a landmark antitrust suit that's set to begin in two weeks. [News.com]
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- Suit filed against CDA II - Free speech advocates are challenging a law just signed by President Clinton that is intended to steer children away from Net porn but that opponents say will also hinder adult access to a wide range of online content. [News.com]
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- Suit filed over Barbie sold online - A $200,000 lawsuit threatens to give a Maryland woman a bad hair day over a vintage Barbie doll she sold through an Internet site to a collector from Canada. [News.com]
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- Sun buys Canadian firm Beduin - Sun Microsystems today announced its acquisition of Canadian software developer Beduin Communications, a company that has developed a small-footprint Java-based Web browser for cellular telephones, for an undisclosed price. [News.com]
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- Sun buys security start-up - Sun Microsystems is adding a secure remote access component to its software business. [News.com]
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- Sun CEO didn't maximize bonuses - Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems' chairman and chief executive, took home $48 million in total compensation for fiscal 1998, in large part due to options he cashed in, according to a proxy filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [News.com]
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- Sun maps app server strategy - Staunch Microsoft foe Sun Microsystems is backing into Windows NT support as it completes its July 1 purchase of application server vendor NetDynamics. [News.com]
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- Sun plans event to detail Jini - Sun Microsystems is targeting December or January for a New York event that would unveil partners and plans for Jini, its Java-related technology for small networked devices. [News.com]
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- Sun tops Street's estimates - Sun Microsystems reported slightly better-than-expected first-quarter profits, besting analysts' predictions by a penny. [News.com]
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- Sun unveils embedded server - Everyone's looking for a new wrinkle to add to the market for software that runs in embedded settings. [News.com]
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- Sun, IBM team on streaming - IBM and Sun Microsystems said today that a draft of version 2.0 of the Java Media Framework will be posted on the Internet within two months, and an early access version for developers is expected to be released by year's end. [News.com]
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- Suspect in IBM probe found dead - A key suspect in a bribery investigation involving IBM and an Argentine state bank was found hanged, authorities said today. [News.com]
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- Swarming over TV set-tops - Scientific-Atlanta lays out its ambitious set-top future, while General Instuments taps Spyglass for help in next-generation devices. Meanwhile, analysts predict game machines will drive the set-top market. [News.com]
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- Sybase committed to Asia - U.S. database software company Sybase said today that it may double its investments in Asia over the next year. [News.com]
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- Sybase reports mixed results - Database software maker Sybase today reported better-than-expected third-quarter earnings, but lower revenues from one year ago and a sharp dip in database software licensing fees. [News.com]
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- Sybase ships enterprise database - As expected, Sybase today rolled out a new version of its high-end database, along with additional data access and replication technology aimed at the financial community in an effort to quash earlier rumors that it's moving away from its core enterprise database business. [News.com]
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- Symantec adds muscle to Java - Symantec today continued to shore up its Java development tools for corporate use. [News.com]
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- Symantec gets upside, Quarterdeck - PC tools and antivirus software maker Symantec today said it will acquire the struggling Quarterdeck and beat revised Wall Street estimates by 1 cent when it reported its second-quarter financial results. [News.com]
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- Symantec to trim staff - Utility software maker Symantec will lay off about 100 employees, most likely during its fiscal 1999 third quarter, as a result of sluggish summer sales, the company confirmed today. [News.com]
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- SyQuest jumps 40 percent - Shares of portable storage maker SyQuest jumped more than 40 percent this morning, but with shares trading for less than $1, that's a pretty easy feat to pull. [News.com]
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- Taiwan's exports down from '97 - Although Taiwan's export orders showed some month-on-month improvement recently, they were expected to show a deeper year-on-year decline in September due to a high year-earlier base, a Reuters poll showed. [News.com]
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- Taiwanese firm jumps into DRAM - Taiwanese chipmaker Winbond Electronics says its entrance into the depressed memory market comes at a good time, even though other companies have been pulling out. [News.com]
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- Takeover gossip rules Net expo - Online trade expo Internet World is under way in New York this week, and amid the clamor of product announcements and swapping of email addresses that typify such conferences, the main discussion topic is--who's the next takeover target? [News.com]
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- Taking the mystery out of data - Business Objects wants to make it easier for people other than heads-down users to take advantage of its analytical tools. [News.com]
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- TCI dances around access issues - Cable giant Tele-Communications Incorporated yesterday said it was willing to share its new high-speed Internet service with leading online services such as America Online, but under conditions that the other services have previously rejected. [News.com]
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- Tech bills face 11th-hour rush - Congress is attempting to keep the government funded this fiscal year and pass a handful of new Net regulations--all before the clock strikes midnight. [News.com]
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- Tech bills hang in the balance - Legislation to govern an array of Internet and technology issues must be voted on quickly, as Congress races to end its session. [News.com]
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- Tech bills in the budget - Congress is set to pass a $500 billion-plus federal spending bill that contains a handful of technology industry-backed provisions as well as controversial Net content regulations. [News.com]
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- Tech caught in budget crossfire - The White House and the Republican-led Congress have almost reached an agreement on a $500 billion-plus federal spending bill but they still are haggling over the details, including technology industry-backed provisions and controversial Net content regulations. [News.com]
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- Tech earnings satisfy the Street - Companies representing the range of industries that now make up the technology sector reported earnings today, including Microsoft, IBM, Sprint, SAP, Texas Instruments, and RealNetworks. The majority managed to deflect fears that the bull market has run out of steam by either beating or meeting Wall Street's expectations. [News.com]
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- Tech firms survive rocky quarter - Though U.S. financial markets are dropping again, PC manufacturers and a few other high-tech firms managed to post double-digit stock price gains from July to September. [News.com]
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- Tech industry reinvents the pen - British researchers striving for the ultimate in miniaturized telecommunications have created a handheld computer in the form of a pen. [News.com]
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- Tech mutual funds hold their own - Tech-based mutual funds that loaded up on bellwether stocks such as Cisco and Microsoft fared well at withstanding the third-quarter storm that hit the markets, according to data released today by mutual fund researcher Morningstar. [News.com]
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- Tech rally fizzles out - Rumors that Brazil plans to devalue its currency pushed both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite Index lower today, stalling a strong morning rally. [News.com]
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- Tech stock rallies boost market - Strong earnings news from several technology companies and a rally by key blue chip firms helped the market erase earlier losses in trading today. [News.com]
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- Tech's elite pony up - Political contributions by the technology elite are on the rise, another sign that Silicon Valley is waking up to the world of politics. [News.com]
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- Techs mixed in Motorola aftermath - Technology stocks closed mixed today, losing most of the gains received from an early boost by positive earnings news from Motorola and speculation that there could be a globally coordinated interest rate cut to deal with the growing worldwide economic crisis. [News.com]
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- Telco earnings make the mark - A spate of earnings reports from telecommunications companies showed a strong performance for the sector in the most recent quarter, as demand for data and Internet services increased. [News.com]
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- Telco suppliers can recover - The great bull run for the telecommunications equipment makers is over, right? Not so fast. In order to explain why things aren't so bad, one must look at the heavy selling that has hurt these companies recently. [News.com]
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- Telcos try to keep up with tech - When SBC Communications bought a stake in Concentric Network today, it marked another telecommunications giant reaching out for Internet expertise. [News.com]
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- Teligent offers data, phone service - Teligent, the upstart communications company led by former AT&T President Alex Mandl, is finally open for business. [News.com]
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- Testers get Win98 service pack - Microsoft released the Windows 98 service pack to beta testers over the weekend for a final tuneup before a wide-scale deployment of the collection of bug fixes and hardware support for the company's consumer OS later this year. [News.com]
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- The fruits of Apple's labor - Apple harvests the fruits of its labor, reaping bushels of iMac sales and posting profits of $106 million in its first profitable year since 1995. But can the Mac maker can sustain its revenue growth? [News.com]
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- The giant fires back - Microsoft fired back at government prosecutors here today, claiming they have used "misleading" evidence to accuse the software giant of anticompetitive acts. [News.com]
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- The Net gets a check-up - The health care industry is discovering the Internet, though Intel chairman Andy Grove says it is not moving fast enough to adopt the medium's potential as an information clearinghouse and as a stand-in health care provider. But one online health company, Healtheon, found that the side effects of the volatile tech economy can be tough to cure. [News.com]
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- The week's news: iMacs for cheap, IBMs for $599 - Apple will unveil a leasing program for its hugely popular consumer desktop next month, News.com reported, offering iMacs for $30 a month in an effort to maintain sales momentum. Meanwhile IBM introduced a $599 Internet-ready PC, becoming the first major vendor to go under this price point. [News.com]
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- The week's news: Linux comes of age - A smallish Linux developer named Red Hat won the financial backing of Intel, Netscape, and two venture capital firms, not only boosting the North Carolina firm's status but also signaling that major technology companies believe the cooperatively developed operating system is durable enough for corporate use. [News.com]
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- The week's news: New chips, new plans, new laws - For the second time in three weeks, high-tech legislation elbowed its way to the front of the line in Congress, which was otherwise racing to approve spending bills and head home for campaigning. The Senate joined the House in passing the Net Tax Freedom Act and also approved copyright legislation, while the House OK'd a controversial Net content bill. [News.com]
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- The week's news: Tech earnings ride high - Leading companies like Intel, Apple, and Excite headed a flurry of high-tech firms reporting better-than-expected earnings. Sun and Compaq squeaked past analysts' estimates, in a week that also saw a welcome interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve. [News.com]
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- The wired home of the future - Many more homes will have more than one PC or Internet TV by 2003. Connecting the devices into a home network will also play a bigger role in the digital abode. [News.com]
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- TheGlobe and Vignette backpedal - Citing market conditions, TheGlobe.com and Vignette said today that they will drop their plans for initial public offerings, marking two more tech companies to retreat from the public trough this week. [News.com]
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- TheStreet.com sues adult site - Making good on its threat, TheStreet.com has slapped WallStreetSex.com with a $5 million lawsuit claiming the adult site looks like the financial site's pornographic twin and is hurting its public image. [News.com]
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- Thomson unveils Divx player - Consumers aching to buy Divx players, the controversial alternative to DVD, now have twice as many options. [News.com]
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- TI closes memory sale to Micron - Texas Instruments said today that it has completed the sale of its memory business to Micron Technology and that it expects a pre-tax gain of about $100 million on the sale. [News.com]
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- TI earnings beat expectations - Texas Instruments today reported third-quarter earnings that surpassed Wall Street expectations and projects a stable performance in its fourth quarter, despite being affected by a weakness in the memory sector and the overall downturn in the semiconductor market. [News.com]
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- Ticketmaster venture goes public - USA Networks' Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch filed an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission for about $92 million worth of class B common stock. [News.com]
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- Time, AOL expand pact - America Online and Time Incorporated's New Media unit have expanded their strategic alliance to make the online edition of People magazine available exclusively on AOL, the companies said today. [News.com]
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- Tool fixes PC Y2K glitch - Atlanta, Georgia-based About Time Group has introduced a Year 2000 conversion tool for IBM-compatible desktops and laptops. [News.com]
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- Top execs join start-up - Former top executives from Netscape Communications and PointCast are quietly laying the groundwork for an e-commerce start-up. [News.com]
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- Toshiba debuts new flash chip - Toshiba said today it had begun selling samples of its new 256-megabit NAND EEPROM (electrically erasable programmable read-only-memory) flash memory chips. [News.com]
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- Toshiba preps brighter screens - Toshiba says it will launch two new models of the latest liquid crystal displays for portable computers later this month. [News.com]
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- Toshiba readies new notebooks - Toshiba will announce three new portable computers on Monday, refreshing its existing high-end, mainstream, and ultra-portable product lines. [News.com]
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- Trading halted on NYSE - The New York Stock Exchange halted stock trading at midday but resumed an hour later following computer problems. [News.com]
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- Trial casts doubt on Microsoft stock - Wall Street expects Microsoft to meet or beat earnings estimates when the software giant reports its fiscal 1999 first-quarter results tomorrow, but the landmark antitrust trial against the company, which began today, could cast a shadow over its stock price. [News.com]
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- Trial casts doubt on Microsoft stock - Wall Street expects Microsoft to meet or beat earnings estimates when the software giant reports its fiscal 1999 first-quarter results today, but the landmark antitrust trial against the company, which began yesterday, could cast a shadow over its stock price. [News.com]
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- Trial dominates week's news - Cross-examination of Netscape chief executive Jim Barksdale dominated the first week of a landmark antitrust suit brought by the Justice Department against Microsoft. [News.com]
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- Trustbusters put heat on Microsoft - Antitrust prosecutors today renewed their request for a court order requiring Microsoft to turn over the contents of computer vendor databases relating to operating systems. [News.com]
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- TV set-tops set to take off - Interactive TV set-top boxes are poised for enormous growth over the next five years, according to research released today, led by the unexpected popularity of online gaming machines. [News.com]
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- Two major Web usage firms merge - Media Metrix and RelevantKnowledge, the two major Internet audience measurement companies, have agreed to merge in a bid to create a Web usage ratings service that would rival the influence of television audience assessor Nielsen Media Research. [News.com]
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- Two ways to simplify Web addresses - A system of simplifying Web addresses may be on its way to widespread use thanks to a pair of recently proposed Web standards. [News.com]
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- U.K. home Net traffic surging - Britons are buying more books and CDs from their homes via the Internet, as traffic in cyberspace continues to accelerate, according to figures published today. [News.com]
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- U.S. markets tumble - Wall Street stocks plunged today amid anticipated earnings disappointments and growing gloom about the global economy. [News.com]
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- U.S. takes software piracy steps - President Clinton today ordered federal agencies to prevent the use of pirated software on government computers and directed his top trade official to urge other countries to take similar steps. [News.com]
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- U.S., EU making privacy progress - Commerce Secretary William Daley said the United States is making progress in talks with the European Union to avoid a looming showdown over protection of online privacy. [News.com]
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- Ugandan rats crash system - Thousands of Ugandan students now have no idea whether they have secured university spots because rats chewed through computer cables at the National Examination Board in Kampala and crashed the system, a newspaper reported today. [News.com]
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- Uncertainty, high price slow HDTV - Despite its dazzling picture quality, high-definition television faces a slow road to mass acceptance, according TV company executives and a new study. [News.com]
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- Unisys profit doubles - Unisys said today that third-quarter profit nearly doubled and revenues rose 10 percent as its rebirth as a computer services provider continued to gain steam. [News.com]
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- Unix systems get new flavor - IBM is hooking up with Intel, Santa Cruz Operation, and Sequent to develop a new Unix operating system, code-named Monterey, but analysts are skeptical of its impact. Meanwhile, Sun plans to update its own "flavor," Solaris. [News.com]
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- Unix users face Navigator bug - Netscape Communications today acknowledged a bug in its Navigator browser that could make users on the Unix operating system vulnerable to attack. [News.com]
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- USWeb adds service offering - On the heels of today's upbeat earnings report, professional services firm USWeb unveiled a new offering for outsourcing corporate applications. [News.com]
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- USWeb beats estimates - USWeb shares moved a bit higher today after the Internet services provider announced it had surpassed Wall Street estimates for the third quarter and rolled out a new Internet services package today. [News.com]
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- Val-Pak launches coupon site - Those thick coupon packs that you either leaf through to find the best bargains or throw out in disdain now come in both snail mail and email, as Val-Pak launches Val-Pak Coupons online. [News.com]
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- Vendors slow to jump on "Jupiter" - The new Windows CE operating system is here, but the next-generation "Jupiter" devices have been slow to arrive, and questions linger about its suitability for older handhelds. [News.com]
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- Veo Systems releases XML library - Start-up Veo Systems has released its XML-based Common Business Library to the public as a way to automate online commerce handled between computers. [News.com]
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- Verio cuts workforce by 250 - Verio, one of the fastest-growing Internet service providers, said it will cut 250 jobs to lower costs following its recent buying frenzy and take a $3.4 million charge in the current quarter. [News.com]
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- VeriSign adds key recovery - VeriSign will add an optional key recovery service, due to roll out by year's end, as part of its OnSite outsourced service for managing digital certificates for enterprises. [News.com]
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- Veritas to merge with Seagate unit - Veritas Software said today that it has agreed to acquire the Network and Storage Management Group of Seagate Software, a unit of Seagate Technology, in a deal valued at roughly $1.6 billion. [News.com]
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- Viasoft off on loss forecast, job cuts - Shares of Viasoft tumbled 28 percent today after the company surprised investors with a forecast of a loss in its first quarter. [News.com]
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- Viasoft off on warning, job cuts - Shares of Viasoft tumbled 28 percent today after the company surprised investors with a forecast of a loss in its first quarter. [News.com]
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- Vignette makes an IPO go - Vignette, maker of StoryServer Web management software, has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of its common stock. [News.com]
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- Visa pushes e-commerce growth - Visa today said it made a "significant" equity investment in CyberSource to help fuel e-commerce growth. [News.com]
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- Visa pushing for Net shopping - After watching warily from the sidelines, Visa USA is preparing a major push to convince consumers that using their Visa cards to shop on the Internet is safe. [News.com]
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- VPN maker eyes extranets - Moving out of Microsoft's way, Aventail has repositioned its virtual private network software as security software for extranets. [News.com]
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- Wal-Mart sues Amazon, others - Wal-Mart said today that it has filed a lawsuit against Amazon.com, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Drugstore.com, and others, alleging violation of an Arkansas trade secrets law. [News.com]
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- Wall Street Journal ups Web fees - Two years after pioneering the online subscription model, the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition will raise its prices by $10 per year. [News.com]
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- Wang sees larger loss for quarter - International computer networker Wang Global said today it expects a wider-than-expected net loss for the September quarter, including integration costs from its recent $390 million acquisition of Olsy, the former Olivetti SpA unit. [News.com]
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- Washington state's first spam suit - Using Washington's four-month-old antispam law, the state's attorney general today filed the first state lawsuit against a spammer. [News.com]
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- WavePhore updates push service - WavePhore is ready to wash onto Internet Explorer's shores with a new version of its content push service WaveTop. [News.com]
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- Web server technology market shrinks - The Web application server technology market is becoming the incredible shrinking market. [News.com]
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- Web White & Blue launches - A site launched today hopes to combat voter apathy with something the Net has plenty of: information. [News.com]
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- WebTV drops plans for Java support - If you have WebTV, don't count on using Java. [News.com]
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- WebTV gets Sesame Street deal - Big Bird, meet Bill Gates. [News.com]
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- When.com plans calendar launch - Internet start-up When.com is expected to launch its new calendar service next month, yet questions remain whether it will join forces with one of the portal heavy hitters. [News.com]
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- Where have all the tech IPOs gone? - The high-tech IPO market is cooling off faster than the fall temperatures. [News.com]
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- Will HotBot's ad blitz work? - Wired Digital is hoping that fans of the Drew Carey Show will also warm up to Boolean searches on HotBot. [News.com]
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- Will tech stocks spark rally? - Internet bellwether America Online and newcomer eBay post stellar results, both beating Wall Street's expectations. Strong earnings reports have fueled tech rallies on Wall Street of late, but more international jitters cut the streak short today. [News.com]
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- Windows CE 2.11 launched - Microsoft released an upgraded version of its Windows CE operating system, a few days in advance of a developers' conference that will launch a new class of handheld computers sometimes known as "companion PCs." [News.com]
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- Windows NT firewalls unveiled - Network Associates and Axent both announced new versions of their Windows NT firewalls to guard corporate networks from unauthorized intrusions. [News.com]
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- Windows NT on new horizons - An effort to tailor Microsoft's Windows NT corporate operating system for specific industry uses continues to gain momentum, with executives expounding on the benefits of a Windows-based approach to real-time settings. [News.com]
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- WinStar, Lucent in financing deal - Shares of WinStar Communications jumped 31 percent in heavy trading today after equipment maker Lucent Technologies agreed to help fund, develop, and build the upstart phone company's wireless communications network. [News.com]
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- Wireless group recruits members - More than 200 companies have joined an effort to cut the communication cords between electronic gadgets for a new wireless standard. [News.com]
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- WRQ suite offers more than Y2K - WRQ today rolled out the latest version of its Year 2000 management suite for the desktop today. [News.com]
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- WRQ suite offers more than Y2K - WRQ today rolled out the latest version of its Year 2000 management suite for the desktop today. [News.com]
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- X Architecture for IBM servers - IBM has begun an effort to increase the appeal of its Intel-based Netfinity servers, adopting technology from the company's more sophisticated computers. [News.com]
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- Xerox to double advertising budget - Xerox said today it intends to double its advertising budget to more than $200 million in 1999 and is starting a $25 million ad campaign for the remainder of 1998 to promote its digital products. [News.com]
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- Y2K bug will disrupt LME Metals - The millennium computer bug could cause volatility on the London Metal Exchange, the result of economic upheaval potentially triggered by global technology failures, Martin Squires of LME brokers Rudolf Wolff said. [News.com]
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- Y2K bug will disrupt LME Metals - The millennium computer bug could cause volatility on the London Metal Exchange, the result of economic upheaval potentially triggered by global technology failures, Martin Squires of LME brokers Rudolf Wolff said. [News.com]
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- Y2K on lawmakers' radar screen - Despite the omnipresence of impeachment proceedings, Y2K still got some play in two separate events in Washington today. [News.com]
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- Y2K on lawmakers' radar screen - Despite the omnipresence of impeachment proceedings, Y2K still got some play in two separate events in Washington today. [News.com]
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- Y2K spending 44% of '99 budgets - Company spending to avert computer breakdowns resulting from millenium bug will consume a whopping 44 percent of information technology budgets in 1999, according to a survey released today. [News.com]
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- Y2K spending 44% of '99 budgets - Company spending to avert computer breakdowns resulting from millenium bug will consume a whopping 44 percent of information technology budgets in 1999, according to a survey released today. [News.com]
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- Yahoo dips despite profit jump - Shares of Yahoo fell as much as 12 percent today as Wall Street's distaste for tech stocks overcame the Internet giant's news of robust growth, increased Web traffic and positive comments from analysts. [News.com]
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- Yahoo earnings, traffic soar - Yahoo, which yesterday posted third-quarter profits that blew past Wall Street's expectations, was today a victim of the volatile markets and saw its shares plunge nearly 15 percent in early trading. [News.com]
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- Yahoo eyes business deals - Yahoo has $450 million in cash to make acquisitions and partnership agreements, and the company is focused on cutting deals that could help it expand further into email, digital calendar programs, and e-commerce, according to co-founder Jerry Yang. [News.com]
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- Yahoo to buy Yoyodyne - Web portal Yahoo today announced it has moved to acquire Internet-based interactive direct marketer Yoyodyne Entertainment for about $29.6 million in an all-stock deal. [News.com]
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- Yahoo to report earnings - Yahoo is expected to post an increase in quarterly profits from the year-ago period when it reports results after the stock market closes today. [News.com]
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- Young entrepreneurs get VC push - In the latest Internet rags-to-riches tale, CMG Information Services announced that it has purchased a 40 percent stake in Raging Bull, a Web site devoted to stock discussions founded by three 20-somethings. [News.com]
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- Zapata reels in Net efforts - Zapata's much-touted Internet efforts have turned into a flash in the pan. [News.com]
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- Zapata zapped with lawsuit - Just weeks after Zapata announced it was backing out of plans to acquire or invest in 31 Internet companies, the fish-oil processing and food service company was slapped today by a shareholder suit charging that Zapata and its executives made false and misleading statements about implementing its Internet strategy. [News.com]
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- Ziff loss narrows despite slump - Ziff-Davis said today that its third-quarter loss narrowed on an increased tax benefit and lower interest payments on debt, though it faces a poor financial outlook because of a slump in computer publishing. [News.com]
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- Ziff-Davis to reorg, cut workforce - Ziff-Davis, a computer publisher and trade show organizer, said today that it planned a company-wide restructuring and would cut its workforce by 10 percent. [News.com]
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