Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1998 > August New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Sweden may face frosty year 2000 - Swedes may get an unwelcome foretaste of their plan to phase out nuclear power by 2010 unless computer experts crush the millennium bug. [News.com]   Switchboard to build own brand - Shares of enterprise software maker Banyan Systems were hammered today after the company announced that the white pages directory contract between its subsidiary Switchboard.com and America Online will not be renewed at the end of its current term in November, so that Switchboard can build its own customer base and develop its brand name. [News.com]   SyQuest levels layoffs, cutbacks - Computer disk-drive maker SyQuest Technology said that it will lay off about 950 employees and end manufacturing at its Fremont, California, plant as part of restructuring designed to cut costs in half. [News.com]   Symantec adds stockholder plan - Utility software maker Symantec announced that its board of directors has a stockholder rights plan designed to protect the long-term value of the company during any unsolicited acquisition attempts. [News.com]   TCI down on earnings report - Tele-Communications Incorporated shares fell nearly 2 percent today after the company announced a decline in second-quarter earnings. [News.com]   TI claims chip manufacturing coup - Researchers at Texas Instruments claimed they have developed chip manufacturing technology that will allow them to pack as many as 400 million transistors--the basic building blocks of a processor--onto a single chip the size of a fingernail and run them at breaktaking speeds. [News.com]   TV flick on Gates, Jobs planned - Turner Network Television is planning a made-for-television movie featuring Hollywood actors playing high-tech superstars such as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, according to Variety magazine. [News.com]   Talk time for PCs - The "killer" application that could fully justify buying an expensive, powerful computer may be as plain as the nose on your face, or rather, the mouth: speech. [News.com]   Targeting urged for Net ads - Web sites must offer advertisers the ability to target users by demographic criteria or the rapid growth of Internet advertising will falter, according to a new study from Jupiter Communications. [News.com]   Tech firms' sites not up to snuff - The very companies that are helping to develop the Web seem to have forgotten to make their own sites user-friendly, a new study said. [News.com]   Tech stocks elude Russia crisis - Unlike the problems crippling Asia's economy, Russia's economic and political crisis is not likely to have an impact on U.S. technology stocks, most analysts agree. [News.com]   Teen cracks Netscape filter - Score one for young free speech advocates in their high-tech battle against protective parents. [News.com]   TelCom Semi closing plant - TelCom Semiconductor said it will restructure its manufacturing operations to become more efficient and cut costs. [News.com]   Tellabs board to weigh Ciena deal - The board of telecommunications equipment supplier Tellabs will meet today to discuss the company's proposed $7.1 billion merger with Ciena and the recent news that Ciena would not win a big AT&T contract, Tellabs said. [News.com]   Tellabs, Ciena deal may change - Tellabs adjourned a board meeting without public comment on a proposed $7.1 billion merger with Ciena, but Wall Street expects the telecommunications equipment suppliers to alter the deal. [News.com]   Telstra in talks with Microsoft, IBM - Australia's biggest telecommunications group, the former state monopology known as Telstra, admitted today it is in early talks with Microsoft and IBM about joint ventures that would use Telstra's broadband cable network. [News.com]   Terabit start-ups challenge Cisco - It is fair to say that data communications giant Cisco Systems provided the technology that built the Net as we know it. Now a new generation of high-end networking equipment start-ups want to renovate it. [News.com]   Terrorism plays into Net debate - It may never be known if Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born millionaire accused of ordering the bombing of two U.S. embassies this month, sent his alleged commands through encrypted messages or studied terrorist tactics on the Internet. [News.com]   The Java legal lock - Sun's protracted legal struggle with Microsoft is heating up again in the courtroom and in corporate offices. Newly released legal documents summarize Microsoft's position, including its "great surprise" upon learning that it was sued by Sun, which continues to complain about the software giant's business practices. [News.com]   The Net remembers Diana - One year after Princess Diana of Wales died in a car accident in Paris, online media firms still are finding news value in the story. [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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