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SGI leads joyous profits club - Call it a grab bag of lucky tech firms. [News.com]
 
SWAT team targets hackers - Enterprise security firm Axent Technologies (AXNT) next week will unveil a public Web site designed to help security professionals thwart attacks from hackers. [News.com]
 
Schmidt sees info utilities - Internet technologies are creating an opportunity for new "information utilities," but no one yet knows what they will look like, Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive of networking firm Novell (NOVL) said in a speech this morning at Summer Internet World. [News.com]
 
School tech money may double - As part of the 1998 budget, Congress could earmark $450 million for technology-hungry K-12 schools this week for purchasing computers and software. [News.com]
 
Schools work on Internet 2 - Researchers met today to hammer out how they will exploit Internet 2, a speedy network planned to band together more than 100 universities. [News.com]
 
Seagate buys storage developer - Seagate Technology (SEG) today announced a $230 million cash acquisition of Quinta, a developer of high-capacity drive technologies. [News.com]
 
Seagate falls short of expectations - Storage maker Seagate Technology (SEG) posted weak gains across the board for the quarter as expected, but still missed expectations thanks to legal costs and restructuring charges. [News.com]
 
Search engines urged to expand business model - As search engine companies prepare to report quarterly earnings, industry analysts say they want to encourage the companies to bring in revenues from new businesses such as e-commerce and develop more strategic relationships to expand their brands. (See chart below) [News.com]
 
Second IE 4.0 beta gets channels - Microsoft (MSFT) is racing to complete the second beta version of its Internet Explorer 4.0 browser--the first to include a bevy of "channels" from Web publishers--and is expected to post it next week, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. [News.com]
 
Second beta for NT Enterprise Edition out - Microsoft (MSFT) is putting some of its crucial high-end technology into beta testing this week and is fine tuning critical development tools. [News.com]
 
Senate pulls plug on games - The Senate has agreed unanimously to pull the plug on computer games in government offices and bar the government from buying any new computers with preloaded games. [News.com]
 
Service reads email over phones - Just when you thought you had run out of technology to stay connected when you're off the network, Global Datalink has released Liquid Mail, a service that uses text-to-speech software to let subscribers access email and listen to messages over the phone. [News.com]
 
Shakeup coming in firewall market - The arrival of behemoths like Cisco Systems (CSCO) into the Internet firewall market could threaten smaller software players in that niche, a new study from International Data Corporation warns. [News.com]
 
Sharp to lower LCD pricing - Sharp will bring the prices of liquid crystal display (LCD) monitors down to more reasonable levels, making these thin, lighweight displays more attractive as an option for desktop monitors. [News.com]
 
Short-take: Rambus says Gateway is using its high-speed memory technology - Rambus announced that its high-speed memory technology is being used for the DVD drive system in Gateway 2000's Destination PC-TV. The Rambus memory architecture offers data rates of 600MB/sec. [News.com]
 
Singapore to issue digital IDs - Singapore's banks and the state-run National Computer Board will form a body to issue electronic identification certificates for Internet commerce, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said today. [News.com]
 
Slim Armadas pack CD-ROM - Compaq today announced two new Armada notebook computers with a slim profile and lower weight yet a full-size screen and a CD-ROM drive. [News.com]
 
Slower times ahead, IBM says - IBM (IBM) today handily beat analyst's expectations for the second quarter, citing continued growth in professional services sales and response to its new System 390 servers. [News.com]
 
Smart cards not smart enough - Visa, the huge credit card conglomerate driving the adoption of e-commerce, told its hardware and software partners today that multifunction smart cards, along with a generation of new devices and software applications to take advantage of them, will be necessary to bring about a card-controlled future. [News.com]
 
Smart cards wise up with Java - Java will put the smarts in chips from Siemens AG that power smart cards, devices that can serve as intelligent personal ID cards. [News.com]
 
 

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