Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1997 > September New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   CompuServe, AOL opening virtual shops - CompuServe (CSRV) and America Online (AOL), soon to be merged, announced two separate deals today involving online shopping. [News.com]   Congress confronts copyrights - When two international treaties were adopted last year to expand copyright protection on the Internet, 157 world delegates struggled to compromise. [News.com]   Congress mulls laptops in sessions - The tapping of typists on computer keyboards is by now a familiar sound in the hallowed halls of Congress. In most cases, it comes from House and Senate staffers banging out speeches, drafts of bills, or emails to alert legislators and lobbyists of upcoming hearings. [News.com]   Congress studies domain future - Congress today is examining what role it should play in pulling the government out of the Internet domain game. [News.com]   Consortium to pursue superchip - The Department of Energy, Intel, AMD, Motorola and the premier U.S.-owned research labs have formed a company that will seek to devise a new semiconductor manufacturing process resulting in smaller, faster processors by 2002. [News.com]   Cooks in Clinton crypto kitchen - Deciphering the Clinton administration's people and policy on encryption is about as tough as understanding the technology itself. [News.com]   Copyright law revision urged - Buying Microsoft Office or the latest Rolling Stones album can cost a pretty penny in the physical world. But as Congress heard this week, the Net makes it all too easy to get copies of the same copyrighted material for free. [News.com]   Corel sees $32 million loss - Software maker Corel (COSFF) today said it will report a loss of about $32 million for the third quarter, following an accounting change. [News.com]   Corel stock takes a tumble - Corel (COSFF) stock plummeted 21.14 percent today, following the software maker's announcement that it was selling off its Computer Aided Design (CAD) division, which came one day after it reported a drop in third-quarter revenues and a widening net loss. [News.com]   Court says state can regulate Net gambling - In a case sparked by controversy over Internet gambling sites, Minnesota's Court of Appeals has ruled that the state has jurisdiction over online activity originating outside its borders. [News.com]   Cross-platform email crypto questioned - Internet postings by a well-known expert on computer security are sparking controversy over just how reliable cross-platform encryption features are in email sent via programs such as Netscape's Communicator and Microsoft's Outlook Express. [News.com]   Crypto bill SAFE out of committee - Fierce lobbying on behalf of the high-tech industry appears to have paid off in its holy war over encryption, as a key committee in the House of Representatives approved a closely watched bill that would loosen the government's control on the export of encryption products. [News.com]   Crypto bill talks deadlocked - Like many who have tried to broach a compromise on the knotty issue of regulating computer encoding technology, members of the House Commerce Committee are finding negotiation efforts futile, people involved said. [News.com]   Crypto class case at square one - Cleveland law professor Peter Junger today filed a new challenge to federal regulations that prevent him from teaching encryption technology to foreign students or posting his course on the Net. [News.com]   Cylink barges into RSA market - Cylink (CYLK) has won deals to supply security technology to both Microsoft (MSFT) and Sun Microsystems (SUNW). [News.com]   Cylink to buy Israeli security firm - Expanding its network security offerings, Cylink (CYLK) today said it will acquire Israel-based Algorithmic Research for $44 million in cash and 2.9 million shares of common stock. [News.com]   DRAM prices fall again - Toshiba and Hitachi both admitted that prices for 16-megabit DRAM chips declined again in August, and there's no turnaround on the horizon. [News.com]   DVD market roiled by competing products - Once it stood for digital versatile disc. Then it became digital video disc. [News.com]   DVD owners dis Divx - Owners of DVD players are up in arms over news that some consumer electronics companies, retailers, and movie studios will join forces to promote a digital content format that could make current DVD hardware obsolete. [News.com]   DVD products launched - Japanese manufacturers of digital versatile disc (DVD) players unveiled new products today and predicted that DVD sales, disappointing so far, would boom as more movie and music titles become available in the new format. [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 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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