Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1997 > October New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Software, browser for young children - Call it the World Wide Sandbox. [News.com]   Sony reports all-time profit high - Sony (SNE) said today that robust sales of electronics products, combined with box-office hits at its Hollywood film-making unit, boosted sales and profits to all-time highs in the six months ended in September. [News.com]   Sony to put Web browsing in planes - Next year, Sony will release a cure for two of the chief plagues of airline travel. Namely, old magazines and distant, ill-lit movie screens. [News.com]   Sony to sell WebTV in Japan - Sony (SNE) said today it will start selling set-top boxes in Japan for WebTV Networks, which will start TV-based Internet access service in Japan at the end of this year. [News.com]   Sony-Cisco cable modem deal - Sony has announced that it will manufacture cable modems and other equipment based on designs from Cisco. The deal that will likely build further momentum for standards in the cable modem industry. [News.com]   South Korea blocks GeoCities - The South Korean government has blocked access to the GeoCities online community because of a site that touts North Korean beliefs, a GeoCities spokesman said. [News.com]   Spammer back online, temporarily - After waging a legal battle against its Net access provider, AGIS, junk emailer Cyber Promotions was back online today but only for about two hours. [News.com]   Spammer loses backbone link - Cyber Promotions has lost the most recent battle in the war over junk email, but its president, Sanford Wallace, said he had a few tricks up his sleeve and vowed to press on. [News.com]   SportsLine debuts Michael Jordan site - Fans of the Chicago Bulls now have a double-header of sites focused on two of the team's stars. [News.com]   SportsLine to launch IPO - SportsLine USA said it wants to raise as much as $38.5 million in its initial public offering. [News.com]   Sprint guarantees Net service - Tapping cubicle dwellers' desire for the same fast Net access and tech support at home that they get at the office, Sprint (FON) announced new customer service guarantees today. [News.com]   Spyglass benefits from CDA defeat - Last month marked the first full quarter to end since the downfall of the Communications Decency Act, and today at least one company is reaping the benefits of the ruling. [News.com]   Start-up cuts Net phone costs - Banking on the future of the Internet-based telephony market, start-up Networks Telephony debuted a product today that it says will allow consumers and businesses to make PC-based international phone calls at significant savings. [News.com]   Sterling links remote sites - Next week Sterling Commerce (SE) expects to release its new Connect:Remote software which links remote locations to an enterprise network. [News.com]   StorageTek posts record revenue - StorageTek said it posted record profit and revenue in the third quarter, boosted by strong growth in new business initiatives and higher growth in its core tape-storage business. [News.com]   Strong tech earnings quell fears - Strong earnings from both IBM (IBM) and Microsoft (MSFT) have settled investors' tech jitters, at least temporarily. [News.com]   Study cites internal firewall risks - While many companies use Internet firewalls to protect their networks from outside threats such as macro viruses and hackers, they are ignoring the internal risks that intranet firewall appliances may prevent, the Gartner Group has found. [News.com]   Study talks up business chat - Businesses should consider adding chat functionality to their Web sites to allow consumers to communicate directly with them, a new study said. [News.com]   Sub-$1,000 PC sales soar - It shouldnt surprise anyone that low-cost PCs are all the rage: Close to half of all PCs sold at retail are now in the sub-$1,000 category, according to a marketing research firm report released today. [News.com]   Sub-$1,000 home PC sales strong - Strong sales in August of sub-$1,000 PCs helped Compaq (CPQ) increase its share of the U.S. retail market to 37 percent, according to market research firm PC Data. [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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