Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1997 > October New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Telcos gobbling up ISPs - ICG Communications (IGCX) isn't exactly a household name. Neither is WorldCom (WCOM). The two now have something else in common: Both have purchased Internet backbone companies. [News.com]   Telcos moving in on Net market - As Internet use for voice and fax phone calls increases, telephone companies could lose $8 billion over the next four years, according to a study released Wednesday by Action Information Services, a Virginia-based consulting firm. [News.com]   Telecom exec to head PointCast - PointCast today named former telecom executive David Dorman as its new president and chief executive officer. [News.com]   Telecommuting on the rise - Telecommuting is getting a push in the 1990s from a tight labor market. [News.com]   Texas firm fuels refurbished PC market - Where do old computers go? [News.com]   The online side of Sears - Sears, the icon of American shopping, today launched its first e-commerce site, joining the ranks of retailing giants such as Wal-Mart, Disney, Bloomingdale's, and Barnes & Noble, among others, in offering online shopping. [News.com]   The who's who of tech analysts - Wall Street analysts provide a behind-the-scenes voice and authority on companies they cover, and some even have the ability to move the market with a force approaching the influence of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. [News.com]   Thin clients not the answer - For all of Frank Moss's pessimism, you would think he was at the helm of a sinking ship, not the big cheese of fast-growing Tivoli Systems, the enterprise management software subsidiary of IBM (IBM). [News.com]   Toy seller takes to the Web - Quick: what's the next big thing that's going to hit the Net? Is it Web TVs? Cable modems? Avatars? [News.com]   Traders compensated for delays - After facing record-breaking volume earlier this week that choked some market exchanges and tied up the lines of a number of online trading firms, some full-service brokerages and online firms are shelling out compensation money to clients whose trades were executed long after they were placed. [News.com]   Truth, lies, and the Internet - People shouldn't believe everything they read--especially, it seems, on the Internet. Cyberculture runs rampant with stories about spoofs, virus scares, urban legends, and outright fraud. The fact that a message can circulate from its point of origin or a circle of people to all corners of the worldwide network is the Net's greatest and most garish feature. [News.com]   Two NY banks test smart card - New York's two biggest banks and the Visa and MasterCard groups are beginning a test today to find out how readily consumers and merchants will switch from cash and coins for smaller purchases to a wallet-size plastic card. [News.com]   U.S. firm makes LCD splash - Three-Five Systems today introduced a new high-quality, color liquid crystal display (LCD) technology for use in personal communications products. The announcement is significant because the Tempe, Arizona, firm is one of the few U.S. companies to both develop and manufacture LCDs. [News.com]   U.S. rejects Java standard - The U.S. delegation to an international standards body today cast a "no" vote on Sun Microsystems' bid to make Java an international standard and to be the official steward of the technology. [News.com]   U.S. worried about Japan computer purchases - WASHINGTON, D.C.--U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky today said she was concerned about U.S. computer industry data showing a decline in foreign share of Japan's public-sector computer market. [News.com]   U.S., Canada to connect faster - UUNet Technologies (UUNT) will launch new superfast connections from Canada to the United States later next month, the latest example of Internet providers meeting the demand for high-speed Net access in industrial markets. [News.com]   US West speeds up Net - After hitting some roadblocks, the Baby Bells finally are starting to roll out higher-speed Net access over copper wires, dubbed DSL, hoping to compete with cable modem providers. [News.com]   US West to spin off cable - US West said today that it will spin off its cable television business into a separately traded company, abandoning the once-touted strategy of combining telecommunications and cable services. [News.com]   USB coming of age? - Comdex is the place, according to organizers, "where the future of the IT industry unfolds." But when it comes to connecting new consumer peripherals to computers, this fall's event seems geared to hurrying up a future that has been slow in coming. [News.com]   USWeb pegs franchise on IPO - USWeb has filed to go public as it looks to further fund its build-out of a nationwide franchise network of Web-development shops. [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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