Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1997 > October New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   FCC nominee vows low rates - President Clinton's choice to head the Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday his top priority will be to break open to competition the $100 billion local telephone business controlled by the Baby Bells. [News.com]   FCC nominees approved - The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee today approved the nominations of four key appointments to the Federal Communications Commission, including that of William Kennard as chairman. [News.com]   FCC nominees confirmed - William Kennard was confirmed as the Federal Communications Commission chairman today, with one lone Republican senator voting against the appointment. [News.com]   FCC plans PC V-chip - Parts of the Net may look and act like TV, but so far cyberspace has managed to steer clear of broadcast content regulations. But as the tube and PCs with Net connections converge, the line between the devices and the laws governing them continue to blur. [News.com]   Fall classic goes online - Baseball fans can get most of the thrills of the World Series online this year, including tickets to the games between the Florida Marlins and the Cleveland Indians. [News.com]   Fast memory to boost PC speeds - Personal computer performance is expected to speed up dramatically when memory technology from Rambus is introduced in 1999. [News.com]   Faster DRAM product announced - A South Korean firm today announced a high-speed memory chip built to take advantage of Intel's next-generation Pentium II architecture, called Deschutes. [News.com]   Fax machine works via the Net - Panasonic announced a machine that will send a fax for the price of an email. [News.com]   Fighting El Niño online - While the world braces for the onslaught of storms related to El Niño, a host of federal agencies and other organizations are using the Internet to help people get ready for what is expected to be a disastrous rainy season. [News.com]   Firefly to sell music site - Firefly Networks, which creates software to personalize Web sites, will announce tomorrow that it's selling its music Web site, Bignote, to Launch, which publishes a bimonthly music magazine on CD-ROM. [News.com]   Firms agree on DVD licensing - Six major developers of digital versatle disc (DVD) technology said today they have agreed on a joint patent licensing program for DVD. The six companies are Hitachi, Matsushita Electric, Mitsubishi Electric, Time Warner, Toshiba, and Victor of Japan. [News.com]   Firms join Japan digital TV study - Japan's Posts and Telecommunications Ministry said today representatives from Microsoft (MSFT), Intel (INTC), and Compaq (CPQ) will join the ministry's study group to set up a standard for Japanese digital satellite broadcasting. [News.com]   Flash memory capacity grows - SanDisk has completed development of what it says is one of the world's highest-capacity flash memory disks. [News.com]   Following Intel, AMD to cut prices - Despite low chip yields and recent financial losses, Advanced Micro Devices will cut prices on its K6 microprocessors by an estimated 15 to 23 percent Monday to keep pace with archrival Intel. [News.com]   Food purchasing moves online - Instill has moved its electronic purchasing system called e·store for restaurants and food distributors to the Internet. [News.com]   Fore shifts focus to ATM services - The words coming out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Fore Systems (FORE) sound a lot different from those spoken only a short time ago. [News.com]   Four11 costs Yahoo $4 million - Yahoo (YHOO) said Thursday it completed its acquisition of Four11 and expects the transition to generate an one-time charge of about $4 million in the fiscal fourth quarter. [News.com]   Freelancers sue Knight-Ridder - A group of California freelance writers is suing Knight-Ridder Information, alleging that its Web- and fax-based article delivery services violated the authors' copyrights. [News.com]   Fujitsu debuts a "mega-notebook" - Fujitsu PC and NEC Computer Systems today introduced new notebook computers with big screens and big brains. [News.com]   Future DVD products displayed - Though the first generation of DVD drives is just beginning to flood the market, next-generation devices that offer much higher data capacity and more portability are coming. [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 33 34 35 36 37 38 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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