Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1997 > December New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   VeriFone furthers online payments - Advancing its online payments initiatives on two fronts, VeriFone is tapping international partners to further its strategy in Internet payments and smart cards. [News.com]   Visigenic plays query cop - Visigenic Software (VSGN) today began shipping its VisiBroker Integrated Transaction Service (ITS) to beta customers. [News.com]   W3C recommends HTML 4.0 - The next generation of HTML (hypertext markup language) is a reality, as the Web's main standards body today recommended it as a specification. [News.com]   Washington Post digs into tech - The acquisition of Newsbytes News Network by the Washington Post Company yesterday is part of a broader corporate campaign that reflects a growing concern among the newspaper and its rivals about online coverage of the booming technology industry. [News.com]   WaveTop tests broadcast service - Further reinforcing the much-touted convergence between television and PCs, WaveTop, a division of WavePhore, announced today that it has begun nationwide beta testing of its new broadcast service. [News.com]   Western Digital slapped with suit - Attorneys representing investors who bought shares in Western Digital (WDC) during a year-long period said yesterday that they had filed a federal class-action lawsuit against the maker of computer hard drives. [News.com]   Western Digital ups charge figure - Western Digital (WDC) announced today that it will take larger-than-expected charges ranging from $85 million to $95 million in an attempt to "lessen its exposure to sustained oversupply and higher-than-normal pricing pressures" in the hard drive industry's distribution channel. [News.com]   Will GeoCities go to Wall Street? - Online community GeoCities may step into Wall Street's neighborhood with an initial public offering next year. [News.com]   Will Merced be Rhapsodized? - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) saw the handwriting on the wall and decided to have its operating system run on Intel's (INTC) upcoming 64-bit processor. Is Apple Computer (AAPL) next? [News.com]   Will Y2K trigger recession? - A recent prediction by a Chicago-based investment firm that failure to bring computer systems into compliance for the year 2000 could start a global recession isn't too far fetched, say other economic observers. [News.com]   Windows 98 to ship on schedule - Microsoft (MSFT) plans to ship Windows 98 on schedule next year, giving PC manufacturers the option of removing its Internet Explorer browser from the new operating system. [News.com]   Wired's founder speaks out - Defending his company's financial stability and discussing his reasons for relinquishing his role as publisher of Wired magazine today, Louis Rossetto had a few choice words to offer those following the digital revolution. [News.com]   Wiring of African nation taking time - It has a new name, logo, and slick television advertising campaign promising a better telephone service. [News.com]   WorldNet problems ongoing - AT&T WorldNet says increased email usage by its more than 1 million subscribers caused its system to choke up for most of last week. But some customers say the "brownout" was not an isolated incident and are demanding more reliable service. [News.com]   WorldNet suffers email lapse - It is still unclear what caused an AT&T WorldNet email glitch that left many of the service's 1 million subscribers without incoming email for about four hours today. [News.com]   XML close to standard - The World Wide Web Consortium today issued a recommendation that Extensible Markup Language (XML) become a standard, putting the nascent format one step closer to greater acceptance on the Web. [News.com]   Xmas sales up for Net merchants - Offline retailers were disappointed by holiday sales, but the same might not be true in the burgeoning online retail market. [News.com]   Yahoo No. 1 in November - Yahoo's Web site was the information superhighway's most popular single pit stop in November, according to a report released today by Internet research firm RelevantKnowledge. [News.com]   Yahoo recovers from scam, hack - It used to be that America Online (AOL) had the market cornered on scam artists invading its system. But with the advent of free Web-based email, rip-off artists are finding new venues. [News.com]   Yahoo suffers short hack attack - Crackers last night broke into Yahoo, the world's most popular Web site by some accounts, and threatened massive destruction of the world's computer systems if their demands were not met. [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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