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Sculley ventures into big picture - Both figuratively and literally, Live Picture chairman John Sculley is heavily invested in the big picture. [News.com]
 
Seagate and Quantum take hits - Storage makers Seagate Technology (SEG) and Quantum (QNTM) announced a round of setbacks yesterday that have since thrown their stocks into a tailspin. [News.com]
 
Search engines rev up services - Search engine companies are expanding again. [News.com]
 
Secure to unveil NT firewall - Elevating its strategic focus on Windows NT, Secure Computing (SCUR) tomorrow will announce a new version of its firewall for Windows NT. [News.com]
 
Security companies join forces - Signaling further consolidation of the firewall and network security industry, Axent Technologies (AXNT) and Raptor Systems (RAPT) announced plans to merge today in a $250 million stock deal. [News.com]
 
Security flap brews over SNMP - Lax security in a widely used Internet protocol has raised questions about whether leading security firewall software, including the top-selling FireWall-1 software from Check Point (CHKPF), opens the networks of its users to attacks from hackers. [News.com]
 
Selling corporate info on the Net - Most companies have no problem filling up vast databases of corporate info, known as data warehouses, with detailed statistics on customer habits and spending patterns. [News.com]
 
Semiconductor stock ratings cut - There was a whole lot of shaking going on in the chip sector today, as major brokerage firms took semiconductor stocks down a notch with lowered ratings. [News.com]
 
Set-top maker starts anew - NextLevel Systems (NLV) announced it was continuing its corporate restructuring today, naming a new CEO and resuming its original corporate identity, General Instrument. [News.com]
 
Silicon Graphics faces suits - Yet another law firm jumped on the class-action bandwagon against Silicon Graphics (SGI) today. [News.com]
 
Site auctioning celeb memorabilia - First Auction, an online auction site, has launched a celebrity memorabilia auction to benefit charity. [News.com]
 
Site shows graphic music video - By yanking a music video laced with graphic images, MTV Networks appeared to be sweating heated protests earlier this month against the song "Smack My Bitch Up." [News.com]
 
Sites still gather children's data - Numerous online children's sites seem to be ignoring guidelines set by the Federal Trade Commission regarding the collection of personal data from young surfers, the agency reported today. [News.com]
 
Slate to charge subscription fee - After delaying the move for a year, Microsoft's online magazine Slate will bite the bullet and start charging a subscription fee in the new year, publisher Rogers Weed said today. [News.com]
 
SmartServ sued by one of its own - The president of SmartServ Online is suing the information services company in a New York court over its handling of a $4 million investment plan. [News.com]
 
Softbank to list on Tokyo exchange - Aggressive Japanese computer software distributor and magazine publisher Softbank will list its shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) on January 16, the exchange said today. [News.com]
 
Sony sees "Netman" product - Sony (SNY) has come up with an idea for a next-generation audio-visual product called "Netman," a device similar to its popular Walkman portable stereo products, but with networking functions, a spokesman said today. [News.com]
 
Sony ships WebTV Plus too - Sony has released its version of the WebTV Plus receiver, the upgraded set-top box used to access the growing Internet service, in some markets in time for the Christmas buying rush. [News.com]
 
Spammers hit random addresses - John Brogan, chief executive of ReplyNet, thinks he has found a disturbing new trend among junk emailers: sending out mailings to lists full of random email addresses. [News.com]
 
Special master in his element - With a federal judge's designation last night of a special court officer to gather and sort through evidence in the Justice Department's antitrust case against Microsoft (MSFT), the matter is about to take an abrupt turn. [News.com]
 
 

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