Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1997 > May New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Set-top box challenges WebTV - Curtis Mathes (CRTM) today introduced a new television Internet access box to compete with market leader WebTV. [News.com]   Shareholder suit nixed again - In what analysts say could be a precedent-setting case, a federal judge in California dismissed for a second time a shareholder class-action case against Silicon Graphics (SGI). [News.com]   Shiva connects remote 56-kbps users - Shiva (SHVA) introduced today a new server computer that delivers 56-kbps connection speeds. Hayes Microcomputer also introduced a server capable of similar speeds. [News.com]   Sidewalk link to Ticketmaster fizzles - Microsoft Sidewalk tried to sneak its users past Ticketmaster's blocks this week, but faulty search engine links frustrated its efforts. [News.com]   Sidewalk sidesteps Ticketmaster - Ticketmaster (TKTM) found out today that Microsoft (MSFT) knows how to get its way. [News.com]   Sidewalk strategy shifts - Less than two months after its launch, Microsoft's (MSFT) Sidewalk is shifting its strategy, the company said. [News.com]   Sigma Designs deals DVD card - Sigma Designs (SIGM) has announced it will begin shipping a new DVD playback card this summer for PC users that want a DVD-capable system. [News.com]   Site leaks U.S. jobless data - Visitors to a government-sponsored Web site were able to get an advance peek Tuesday at revisions to the Labor Department's weekly jobless claims economic report. [News.com]   Small ISP sells business clients - Plagued with customer service complaints, BOSnet Communications sold off its corporate clients on Friday, but couldn't get the buyer go for an alleged sales pitch to also purchase thousands of "free Net access" dial-up customers. [News.com]   Smart-card makers join Java team - The Java train just keeps on rolling. [News.com]   Smith's in at PlanetOut - Megan Smith has raced across the Australian outback in a solar-powered car that she helped build, worked in Japan for Apple, traveled through Europe for General Magic, and addressed deforestation in South America--not necessarily in that order. [News.com]   Snail mail stamps coming online - It took the U.S. Postal Service 20 years to develop a mechanical postage meter. But at least one company expects to introduce Internet postage stamps by 1998. [News.com]   So where are the 300-MHz Macs? - Despite announcements from Apple Computer (AAPL) and Motorola Computer Group that boxes with the 300-MHz PowerPC processor 603e are supposed to be here, resellers still don't have them. [News.com]   Software piracy rife in Latin America - Nearly seven of every ten computer software programs sold in Latin America is an illegal copy of an original one, a study by the accounting firm Price Waterhouse said. [News.com]   Software puts e-commerce on trial - E-commerce software vendor SpaceWorks will unveil a program next week that sets up trial e-commerce or extranet sites for customers within 30 days for a cost of $25,000 to $50,000. [News.com]   Sony making 12GB CD-ROM - Sony said today that it has developed technology for high-capacity recordable optical discs that can hold nearly five times more information than recordable DVD-RAMs. [News.com]   Spam block for voters readied - A privately held Internet company said it is ready to announce a pact with a big sender of bulk commercial email solicitations that can enable registered voters to block junk email. [News.com]   Spammers agree to cease-fire - Phil Lawlor of AGIS wants to control spam for the Internet community. [News.com]   Spammers don't hold their fire - At least two of the five spammers that had agreed to stop sending out junk email from their backbone provider, AGIS, have continued to spam the Net. [News.com]   Speed boost for old networks - Two Net gear companies will debut new equipment this week intended to help companies migrate from legacy Token Ring technology to high-speed ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) pipes. [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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