Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1997 > May New! Submit a site   whatUseek Collection Sites (submit a site ):   Give your site great placement in this category in as little as two business days!     whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   100% pure Java watered down - Viewers of cable news network MSNBC may recently have seen a commercial for Sun Microsystems (SUNW) in which a man tells a priest that he's been thinking "pure" thoughts. When the beatific man exits the confessional, he passes a queue of anxious programmers--one wearing a Visual Basic shirt--ready to admit their sins. [News.com]   20 million love Net, 9 leave it - Although more than twenty million Americans consider the Internet "indispensable" to their daily lives, almost half that number have decided they can live without it for now, a new survey says. [News.com]   3Com chief stumps for merger - 3Com (COMS) chairman Eric Benhamou is taking his show on the road to sell 3Com's $6.6 billion merger with U.S. Robotics (USRX). [News.com]   4.4-pound PowerBook debuts - Apple Computer (AAPL) introduced a new 4.4-pound ultraportable notebook today manufactured by IBM Japan. [News.com]   56-kbps standard expected soon - U.S Robotics (USRX) expects an international standard for 56-kbps modems to be set by early next year, the company said at a press conference today. [News.com]   5GB hard disk in IBM notebooks - IBM (IBM) has developed the largest-capacity compact hard disk drive to date, allowing the storage of massive amounts of data in diminutive portable computers. [News.com]   A guide to privacy in cyberspace - Everyone from federal agencies to grassroots advocates wants to protect consumers' online privacy, but a new guide released today shows surfers how to guard their own personal data in cyberspace. [News.com]   A royal bore in Silicon Valley - His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, Duke of York and currently the fourth heir to the English throne, and California's Governor Pete Wilson kicked off a four-day conference here that aims to be an intercontinental schmoozefest for U.K. high-tech companies and their Silicon Valley counterparts. [News.com]   ABC News takes on the Net - Today ABC News officially jumps into the hotly competitive Net news fray with a news supersite that competes head-on with established players like CNN and MSNBC. [News.com]   AOL gives away messaging - America Online (AOL) is offering all Net users a service previously reserved for its 8 million members. [News.com]   AOL starting strong in Japan - America Online (AOL) is off to a strong start pitching its services in Japan, chairman Steve Case said. [News.com]   AOL to add ABC sports area - America Online (AOL) says that it will produce an ABC Sports area on its Sports Channel. [News.com]   AOL users conned for credit data - America Online (AOL) members who responded to a forged email may have inadvertently given out their credit card numbers to thieves disguised as AOL officials. [News.com]   AST to roll out Pentium II PC - When Intel announces the Pentium II processor on May 7, AST (ASTA) will announce a high-end Pentium II Bravo desktop PC. [News.com]   AT&T cancels satellite plans - AT&T (ATT) says it has withdrawn its application with the U.S. government for a license to launch a new generation of communications satellites. [News.com]   AT&T in merger talks with SBC - AT&T (T) is in merger talks with regional telephone company SBC Communications (SBC), seeking to fashion a deal that could be worth at least $50 billion, according to a published report. [News.com]   AT&T, SBC talks draw fire - Reports that AT&T (T) was in merger talks with regional Baby Bell SBC Communications (SBC) have drawn sharp criticism from telecommunications and antitrust experts. [News.com]   Acer box foreshadows NetPC - Acer America announced a new line of network-ready business PCs with Pentium processors that will sell for under $800, presaging the arrival of the NetPC. [News.com]   Acer extends Extensas - Acer continues to rapidly add to its line of notebooks, acquired earlier this year from Texas Instruments, by adding a new Extensa model today with a 150-MHz Intel Pentium processor. [News.com]   Actra launches e-commerce software - Actra Business Systems, the newest arrival on the Internet commerce scene, today debuted its first e-commerce software product after more than a year of development. [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 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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