Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1997 > December New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Fees lowered for school Net fund - Big long distance telephone carriers initially will pay lower fees than expected to fund a federal program to wire schools and libraries for the Internet, the head of the Federal Communications Commission said today. [News.com]   Fighting fire with software - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) announced it will produce a virtual reality CD-ROM to train arson investigators. [News.com]   Financier launches gay financial site - Walter Schubert is a businessman. He's the chief executive of his own company and today is launching a new Web-based company with the ambitious goal of creating a clearinghouse where gays and lesbians can go to take care of all their financial needs, from banking to mortgages. [News.com]   Firewall to block out spam - Firewall maker Trusted Information Systems (TISX) is declaring war on spam. [News.com]   Firms to help sites target ads - NetGravity and Aptex today unveiled new features in their ad-serving technologies to help Web sites target ads to visitors based on their interests. [News.com]   Flash memory cards reach market - Kingston Technology today announced high-capacity flash memory storage cards for devices such as digital cameras and handheld computers. [News.com]   Flash memory format agreed upon - Toshiba and Samsung Electronics have agreed to use the same format for new generations of their SmartMedia flash memory cards, which are used in digital cameras. [News.com]   Flat panels to near $1,000 in '98 - A Taiwanese manufacturer suggested prices for active-matrix liquid crystal display monitors will be cut in half in 1998, but the drop would not be enough to spur widespread demand for so-called flat panel monitors. [News.com]   Foreign chips in Japan growing - Foreign manufacturers' share of the Japanese semiconductor market rose to a new high in the second quarter of 1997, according to figures released by the U.S. Trade Representative's Office. [News.com]   Fox Online site gets hacked - When visitors hit Fox Online'sWeb site early today, they didn't find cute pictures of Party of Five and Beverly Hills 90210's cast members. [News.com]   France rounds up Net pedophile suspects - More than 50 people have been detained across France in a crackdown on a pedophilia ring that uses the Internet to distribute sexually explicit photos of children, police said today. [News.com]   Free Navigator in your future? - Buoyed by the Justice Department's decision to temporarily bar Microsoft from bundling Internet Explorer with Windows 95, Netscape Communications (NSCP) today announced a new marketing plan to woo IE users and left open the door to making Navigator free. [News.com]   Gambling regulator in the works - Brick-and-mortar casinos tend to generate healthy profits, but they also are heavily regulated in an effort to keep the businesses on the straight and narrow. A newly formed working group would like to do the same for Net gambling--for the same reasons. [News.com]   Gambling's future uncertain on Net - Sure, you can gamble on the Internet, but its evolution into a billion-dollar betting medium is about as predictable as a roll of the dice. A lack of knowledge about market size, consumer concern over rigged games and low payouts, and uncertainty over government regulation all have led to a slow roll for Internet gambling. [News.com]   Gates addresses MS slump in Japan - Microsoft (MSFT) chairman Bill Gates said he saw negligible growth in Japan's PC market this year, but the slump will not change the firm's strategy in one of its fastest-growing markets, slightly contradicting earlier remarks by his chief operating officer. [News.com]   Gates mum on court ruling - Microsoft (MSFT) chairman Bill Gates today refused to discuss a key U.S. antitrust action against his company but said its browser war with Netscape Communications (NSCP) would continue. [News.com]   Gates: MS banks' friend, not foe - Microsoft (MSFT), seeking to enter an industry deeply suspicious of its motives, today unveiled a series of initiatives for banks, including a framework that allows software components to connect to mainframes, WebTV systems, and other computers. [News.com]   Gateway line for home education - Gateway 2000 (GTW) announced a line of PCs that bundles audio and visual software intended for educational use in the home. [News.com]   Gay group opposes Net filtering - Filtering software and ratings systems threaten to erase the lesbian and gay community online, states a report released today by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) in conjunction with the Children's Internet Summit in Washington. [News.com]   GeoCities, Amazon team up - As the holidays approach and the online retail race heats up, the name of the game seems to be "Let's Make a Partnership Deal." [News.com]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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