Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1997 > December New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Boosts to Net broadcasting - CompuServe, as well as Concentric Network and Bloomberg, announced separate deals today that show the growing popularity of delivering radio and television content to PCs via the Net. [News.com]   Borland updates Visual dBase tool - Borland International (BORL) has updated its Visual dBase development tool to be more ActiveX friendly and easier to manage. [News.com]   Breaking ground for cable - Internet access and digital content over cable systems got quite a boost lately with cable modem services merging and vendors releasing new hardware as the industry holds its annual Western Show. Time Warner's Road Runner and US West's MediaOne joined forces to eclipse competitor @Home, while Toshiba and Hayes unveiled set-top boxes and modems for the emerging market. In addition, a strategic shift is afoot toward content in cable modem services, and Intel launched an initiative for standardizing digital TV content. [News.com]   British firm claims Pentium "bug" - A British software company says it has found a flaw that negatively impacts the performance of Pentium processors, but the alleged glitch appears to have been identified and documented years ago by Intel engineers. [News.com]   Broderbund boosted by Riven - Broderbund Software (BROD) saw a jump in first-quarter revenues and profits today, bolstered by the release of Riven, the sequel to Myst. [News.com]   Bug threatens Net software - A new bug disseminated across the Net could wreak havoc on unprotected systems that use certain software to handle communications based on IP (Internet protocol), the dominant Web protocol. [News.com]   CA buys trouble-shooting tools - Computer Associates (CA) acquired new tools today that will allow the systems management and database giant to offer more predictive analysis of potential trouble spots. [News.com]   CA to ship object database - Computer Associates (CA) thinks the time is right--and the market is ready--for its Jasmine object database software. [News.com]   CA updates Y2K tool - Computer Associates International (CA) has developed a new version of a tool for pinpointing mainframe software that is not Year 2000-compliant. [News.com]   CNN launches Spanish Net news service - Cable News Network today rolled out a Spanish-language news service called CNNenEspanol, based on its popular English-language CNN site on the World Wide Web, a spokeswoman said. [News.com]   Cable access to reach six figures - More than 110,000 customers in North America will get high-speed Net access via cable systems by year's end, a tenfold increase for the year, according to a study to be released tomorrow. [News.com]   Cable as poor man's Net? - Cable companies can bring Internet services to the television screen if they make themselves the Buicks of the information industry and offer a no-frills product for people who can't afford Cadillacs. [News.com]   Cable goods on display - Taking advantage of an Anaheim, California, gathering of cable and software representatives, companies are announcing new technologies they promise will move the cable modem and set-top box industry forward. [News.com]   Cable modem makers in alliance - A number of big-name companies got together at the cable industry's Western Show to pledge that by late 1998, they will put cable modems that work together as reliably as today's dial-up devices. [News.com]   Cable modem market buzzing - roundup Rockwell Semiconductor became the last of four diverse heavyweights to impact the cable modem market today, saying it will deliver its first chipsets for the high-speed Internet connection technology by the first quarter of 1998. The announcement is important because Rockwell chips already drive the dial-up modem market (much like Intel processors drive PC technology). Earlier, Time Warner and Cox Communications announced expansions of their plans to provide high-speed Net access via their cable systems, while Samsung said it will display a prototype of a cable modem aimed at consumers at an upcoming trade show. Samsung's offerings will eventually be pitched to a range of audiences, from home consumers to corporations. [News.com]   Cable modem services look to content - The two largest cable modem service providers--Time Warner's Road Runner and @Home--will unveil major product redesigns next week to include beefed-up content, communications, and multimedia features, signaling a strategic shift in the nascent industry. [News.com]   Cable modems to speed access - A private start-up will this week introduce cable modem chips based on an increasingly popular industry specification, jumping into a field that's expected to dramatically boost the number of high-speed Internet connections in 1998. [News.com]   Cable set-top deal wide-ranging - NextLevel Systems today announced a major deal with cable service operators that will secure the company a significant portion of the lucrative next-generation cable set-top box market. [News.com]   Cabletron beats reduced estimates - Reeling from a month-long streak of bad news, networking firm Cabletron Systems (CS) today announced results for its fiscal 1998 third quarter that only slightly beat greatly reduced estimates. [News.com]   Cabletron to lay off 600 employees - Bruised networking player Cabletron Systems (CS) announced today that it will slash 600 employees from its workforce, close two plants, and take up to a $30 million charge as it realigns the company for future growth, executives said. [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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