Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1998 > August New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Excite localizes free email in U.K. - Leveraging the tremendous popularity of free Web-based email in the United States, Excite has introduced the service for users in the United Kingdom to further beef up its localized offerings overseas. [News.com]   Excite readies community builder - Excite is expected to launch a community builder service powered by recently acquired Throw, giving the portal an early jump on a landscape characterized by fast followers, CNET News.com has learned. [News.com]   Excite takes taste of Peapod - Online grocer Peapod said today it signed a multiyear Internet marketing alliance with Excite. [News.com]   Excite tests new communities - Excite today launched a beta version of its end-user community builder resource as expected, marking another addition of services geared toward cultivating a more consistent and loyal audience base. [News.com]   Excite, IDT in Net telephony pact - Internet company Excite said today that it has signed a two-year agreement with Net2Phone, a division of telecommunications company IDT, to bring Internet telephony to Excite customers in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Australia, Netherlands, Japan, and Sweden. [News.com]   Execs divesting in weak market - Cisco chief executive John Chambers and several Cisco directors have filed plans to sell a sizable number of their shares in the company, at a time when its stock has been flat for weeks. [News.com]   FAA ahead on Y2K fixes - WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday it had so far renovated over two thirds of its air traffic control computers to cope with the Year 2000 computer problem. [News.com]   FAA ripped for Year 2000 reports - The Federal Aviation Administration was severely criticized yesterday by members of the House Subcommittee on Technology for not telling the whole story on the status of its efforts to prepare its computer systems for the Year 2000. [News.com]   FCC aims to fix e-rate - With critics lambasting the e-rate program as too bureaucratic, the Federal Communications Commission is readying a plan to streamline the administration of the discounts for school and library Net access. [News.com]   FCC to hold hearings on e-rate - Federal Communications Commission chairman William Kennard said yesterday that public hearings would be held later this year on community access to communications. [News.com]   FCC: Bells lost billions in gear - A preliminary audit by the Federal Communications Commission has found that the regional Bell telephone companies cannot locate an estimated $5 billion worth of communications equipment that they claim on their accounting books, according to reports. [News.com]   FCC: Let Bells build networks - Striving to speed up the Net, the Federal Communications Commission today proposed lifting restrictions on Baby Bells to spur their investment in high-speed networks. [News.com]   FTC unopposed to Nortel-Bay deal - Federal Trade Commission regulators will not oppose the pending merger of Bay Networks and Nortel, the companies said today. [News.com]   FTC, GeoCities settle on privacy - In what the Federal Trade Commission is calling its first case involving Internet privacy, the agency announced today that it has agreed to settle charges with Net community GeoCities. [News.com]   Fake Viagra selling online - Fake copies of the impotence drug Viagra reportedly are being manufactured in Thailand and India and sold around the world via the Internet. [News.com]   Faster Celeron PCs due this month - A slew of new PCs will emerge on August 24 when Intel releases two new versions of the low-cost Celeron processor and a 450-MHz Pentium II. [News.com]   Faster, cheaper workstations here - Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, and Intergraph rolled out new workstations today that highlight pricing differences between Intel's growing number of Pentium II and Xeon processors. [News.com]   Fed Reserve stocks cash for Y2K - Will tense Americans want to stuff their pockets with extra cash on December 31, 1999? [News.com]   Fee voids Sun's Java suit, MS says - Court papers filed by Microsoft argue that Sun Microsystems' May 1998 acceptance of a $3.75 million licensing fee voids claims that the software giant has breached its license for Sun's Java. [News.com]   Feisty at Quark, frothy at Adobe - In a David-and-Goliath battle, desktop publishing software maker Quark said sales are way up, after disclosing its proposal to buy or invest in graphics software company Adobe. The overtures by the much-smaller Quark were rejected by Adobe, notwithstanding the latter's continuing financial turmoil. [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 39 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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