Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1997 > December New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Sprint offers Net "personal trainers" - Sprint today launched a program called "Personal Internet Trainers," offering a telephone support staff that will answer questions and train its customers to be more productive on the Net for a fee of $9.95 per call. [News.com]   Sri Lanka fights rebels online - Sri Lanka today took its war against Tamil Tiger rebels to cyberspace, launching a Web site aimed at countering Tiger propaganda. [News.com]   Start-up to speed Web site access - A start-up wants to speed access to popular Web sites. [News.com]   State bill seeks to ban spam - After a year of trying various technological solutions to block out spam, legislators around the country once again will be pushing in 1998 for laws to curtail junk email, which many consider the scourge of the Net. [News.com]   State slams workers for Net porn - Two state legislative employees were suspended and had their salaries cut because they used state computers to access pornographic images on the Internet, a state official said today. [News.com]   States look into MS bundling - A growing number of states are joining forces in their antitrust investigation of Microsoft (MSFT). [News.com]   Stepping up network security - Security Dynamics (SDTI) today broadened its security offerings with its first family of products for secure single sign-on for corporate networks. [News.com]   Sterling unveils EDI software - Sterling Commerce (SE) today unveiled software to let companies initiate financial electronic data interchange (EDI) transactions with their banks over the World Wide Web, the first phase of building a suite of banking software for the Internet. [News.com]   Storage merger in store - Storage system makers Storage Dimensions (STDM) and Artecon announced plans to merge today, creating a storage company serving PC and Unix markets. [News.com]   Study cites cost of selling old PCs - In 1998, U.S. corporations will squander $3 billion when they retire outdated personal computers, according to a study by a market research firm. [News.com]   Study: 100 million online in 1998 - Similar to a baby boom, a Web boom is on its way next year with the advent of less expensive means for getting online such as set-top boxes, according to a study released today by research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). [News.com]   Study: Net reaching mass market - Though it might be a while until the Net finds its way into 98 percent of American households, where television is, it is firmly out of new-adopter territory, according to a survey released today. [News.com]   Sub-$1,000 PCs to get more power - Packard Bell NEC will throw down the price gauntlet this winter with the release of sub-$1,000 computers equipped with 200-MHz and 233-MHz Pentium MMX processors from Intel, 56-kbps modems, and other performance features. [News.com]   Sub-$1,000 market questioned - Odyssey, a San Francisco-based market research firm, today issued a report warning computer vendors and retailers that sales of sub-$1,000 PCs could hurt their profitability, though vendors such as Compaq dispute this. [News.com]   Sun confident of strategy - A senior executive of Sun Microsystems said the company is confident its products can compete against Microsoft's Windows NT operating system software and Intel's upcoming 64-bit microprocessor, code-named Merced. [News.com]   Sun offers hands-off approach - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) wants to offer users a hands-off approach to management software while sharpening its focus on Java-based software features. [News.com]   Sun on 64-bit Intel: Not so fast - The tricky part of the Sun Microsystems-Intel deal is recruitment of Intel-based hardware and software vendors to the Solaris platform, with analysts questioning how and under what terms this support will come. [News.com]   Sun software bridges Java gaps - In response to varied incompatibilities with how different Web browsers interpret the Java language, Sun Microsystems (SUNW) today announced the launch of software that will update browsers with the latest version of Java's underlying framework. [News.com]   Sun, MS: 100 percent pure slugfest - To sum up the year's headlines about Java, one need only look back at the year-end summary for 1996: "MS, Sun battle for Java." The two titans fought tooth and nail again in 1997 to direct--or deflect--the momentum behind Java, but Sun ended the year a step closer in its campaign to turn its nascent programming language-cum-platform into an international standard. [News.com]   Surfing and shopping at the mall - Mall mega-developer Simon DeBartolo Group today confirmed that it will provide Internet access to 28 million of its shoppers nationwide. [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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