Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1997 > April New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Ellison drops Apple buyout - Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has dropped his much-publicized bid to buy struggling Apple Computer, the third time that his Apple takeover plans have come to naught. [News.com]   Ellison drops bid to buy Apple - Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced today that he has dropped his much-publicized bid to buy Apple Computer. [News.com]   FTC guns for online scams - The Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on get-rich-quick schemes on the Net, and 37 online ads already have vanished. [News.com]   FTP won't meet growth target - FTP Software (FTPS) posted another loss for its first quarter and pushed off its goal of reaching 25 to 30 percent growth this year due to slower-than-expected sales of its gateway products. [News.com]   Fear drives banks to the Net - Fear, not greed, will drive banks onto the Internet, according to a new Internet banking report from Jupiter Communications. [News.com]   FedEx goal: 100 percent online - Federal Express (FDX) has set its sights on weaning all its customers from paper and voice transactions and moving them to the Internet and other electronic conduits like corporate intranets, said Steve Braun, FedEx's manager of electronic marketing commerce. [News.com]   Fighting vandals online - Don't call 'em hackers. They're vandals. [News.com]   Firms losing sleep over staff shortage - High-technology companies, plagued with rising salaries and diminishing numbers of computer programmers and engineers, are looking for new ways to find and keep their teams. [News.com]   First Cyrix 6x86 notebook ships - Direct reseller TigerDirect has begun selling the first notebook PCs based on Cyrix (CYRX) 6x86 processors. [News.com]   Fore disappoints Wall Street - Fore Systems (FORE) today missed Wall Street's fourth-quarter expectations due to increasing competition and a strong dollar. [News.com]   Free access gets another player - As a growing number of Internet service providers can attest, offering free Internet access has its costs--overwhelming customer demand and uncertain revenue potential among them. [News.com]   Free tools to boost Rhapsody - Apple (AAPL) says it will provide free software to attendees at its upcoming developers' conference, which will help programmers write applications for Apple's next-generation operating system, code-named Rhapsody. [News.com]   Full-motion video on phone lines - Start-up Objective Communications (OCOM) has developed a new technology that will allow PCs to send and receive full-motion, high-quality video and data communications over ordinary telephone lines, thereby freeing up network bandwidth. [News.com]   Gates expects margins to decline - Microsoft (MSFT) chairman Bill Gates said today that he expects margins to decline in the long term for the software giant. [News.com]   Gemplus boosts smart cards - In a big boost to the slow-moving smart card initiative, French manufacturer Gemplus says it will license chips for smart-card readers to high-volume manufacturers of keyboards, PCs, phones, vending machines, and personal digital assistants, for less than $10 per device. [News.com]   General Magic details strategy - Putting some specifics on a new strategy, General Magic (GMGC) is previewing a subscription-based service that lets mobile workers retrieve email, voice mail, and faxes using any information appliance, including a cellular phone. [News.com]   HP debuts sub-$1,000 PCs - Hewlett-Packard (HWP) will begin selling sub-$1,000 PCs for small businesses based on inexpensive K5 processors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). [News.com]   HP now an e-commerce power - Call it a one-two punch. [News.com]   HP security admits VeriFone - As an early result of this week's acquisition of VeriFone (VFI), Hewlett-Packard (HWP) will adapt VeriFone's vGate software to let credit card processors connect securely to the Internet within HP's security framework. [News.com]   Handhelds read handwriting - ParaGraph International is bringing its handwriting recognition software to Windows CE-based handheld computers, giving them the same capabilities as sophisticated "digital assitant" devices. [News.com]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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