Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1997 > October New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Ascend faces sales slowdown - Ascend Communications (ASND) today brought closure to a rough quarter faced with product delays and a slowdown in sales. [News.com]   Asia piracy rate falling - The rate of piracy in the Asia Pacific region has fallen amid stricter government enforcement, but losses are rising as the volume of business expands, according to the Political & Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC). [News.com]   Asia turmoil troubles Matsushita - Japanese electronics giant Matsushita Electric Industrial is expected to have recorded a healthy rise in profits in the first half of the business year, but economic turmoil in Southeast Asia is clouding the company's outlook, analysts say. [News.com]   Attorneys weigh online jurisdiction - When the single-employee consulting firm Clue Computing got dragged into a legal battle with multibillion-dollar gamemaker Hasbro over use of the domain name "clue.com," the Colorado start-up argued that Hasbro lacked legal standing to bring the suit in its home state of Massachusetts, thousands of miles away. [News.com]   Axent to thwart hacker technique - Network security firm Axent Technologies (AXNT) expects to announce Monday an upgrade that will give network managers an easy way to control access to root privileges on Unix machines. "Seizing root" is a technique hackers/crackers often use to break into computer networks. [News.com]   BBC to launch news site - Watch out CNN Interactive, ABC, and MSNBC: here comes the BBC. [News.com]   BMI automates copyright vigilance - BMI's staff used to surf the Net manually to monitor the online use of copyrighted songs, a tedious practice. Today the group that protects licensed music unleashed a new robot that automatically scours the Net 24 hours a day, tracking the whereabouts of digital tunes. [News.com]   BT may prevail in MCI bid - British Telecommunications (BTY) likely will attempt to use a 20 percent stake in its U.S. partner, MCI Communications (MCI), as a key bargaining chip as formal talks with two other MCI suitors begin on Thursday. [News.com]   Baan updates business software - Baan has rolled out the latest upgrade of its business software package, the last before a planned next-generation release due early next year. [News.com]   BackOffice for small business - Having already announced plans to develop an upscale version of its BackOffice server application bundle, Microsoft (MSFT) will today turn its attention to small-business owners with the debut of a scaled-down BackOffice package. [News.com]   Banking deal may threaten MS - In a move that could isolate Microsoft (MSFT), Integrion Financial Network and CheckFree (CKFR) today announced a wide-ranging online banking agreement. [News.com]   Barksdale: Browser war a boon - When it comes to public discourse, the browser-war story is going to wallop the LDAP-is-a-great-directory story every time. [News.com]   Barnes & Noble stock stumbles - Barnes & Nobles (BKS) stock took a tumble today after the company told market analysts that its Internet business wont be profitable this year because of higher-than-expected marketing expenses and lower price margins. [News.com]   Bay makes play for big business - It's not just a network anymore. [News.com]   Bay sees record revenue - Bay Networks' renaissance as a viable industry player continued unabated today. The company released a first-quarter earnings report highlighted by record revenue, underscoring strong demand for its networking gear. [News.com]   Bay targets old networks - When networking provider Bay Networks (BAY) was in the midst of serious financial woes last year, many industry pundits pointed to the company's relative lack of presence among sellers of gear to network carriers and Internet service providers as a source of its troubles. [News.com]   BeOS beta released - Be took another step toward the final version of its operating system software with today's introduction of BeOS Preview Release 2 for PowerPC-based machines. [News.com]   Bell Labs to help users filter spam - Nearly every time you register or volunteer information on a Web site, you're risking that the site will use your email address to send you spam. [News.com]   Big Blue sees green - Big Blue is looking for lots of green in Internet commerce. [News.com]   BofA, Visa test smart cards - Bank of America and Visa will announce tomorrow that they are running the first U.S.-based test of smart cards that use two chips to combine payment functions with security applications. [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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