Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1998 > August New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   U.S. prods Japan on foreign computers - U.S. trade officials, disappointed with the results of a 1992 agreement with Japan on government computer purchases, today urged Tokyo to do more to open up its public procurement process. [News.com]   U.S.-Japan economy talks planned - With anxiety growing on global financial markets, Treasury Department officials confirmed today that Secretary Robert Rubin and Japanese finance minister Kiichi Miyazawa will hold talks in San Francisco early next month. [News.com]   US West seeks labor mediator - Baby Bell US West says it wants a federal mediator to get involved in its talks with the Communications Workers of America to avert a weekend strike by 35,000 employees. [News.com]   US West tries DoubleClick Local - Internet advertising network DoubleClick and Dex, US West's online yellow pages unit, announced today they will team up to promote Web advertising to small and medium-sized businesses in US West's 14-state service region. [News.com]   Ultraportable notebook specs - ThinkPad 600, typical configuration  • estimated retail price of $3,105  • 233-MHz Pentium II processor  • 12.1-inch 800x600 resolution active matrix display  • 32MB of memory/expandable to 288MB  • 3.2GB hard disk drive  • 10/24X CD-ROM  • 56-kbps modem with x2 technology/14.4 kbps fax [News.com]   Uneasy software alliances - The now-infamous bug battle between RealNetworks and Microsoft represents a problematic part of the software industry: how competitors' products work together. Microsoft, for example, may take on Apple's popular multimedia platform QuickTime even though the software giant is an investor in the Mac maker. [News.com]   Unfriendly skies in New England - The computer system serving air traffic in New England and New York blacked out for 37 minutes on Wednesday night causing havoc from the Canadian border to Long Island, the Boston Globe is reporting. [News.com]   Union Pacific RR tackles Y2K - Union Pacific's Union Pacific Railroad said today that it would spend $46 million to fix its information systems so that they are not derailed by the Year 2000 computer problem. [News.com]   Update to Windows 98 released - As expected, Microsoft today released the first update to the Windows 98 operating system as the company continues to deny that the package of multimedia enhancements were ever positioned as a "service pack" of bug fixes. [News.com]   Upside seen for storage - Investors snapped up shares in several large storage companies today, following an analyst's report that the beleaguered disk drive sector may finally be ready to grow again. [News.com]   User profiles in privacy stir - The simmering Internet privacy controversy has been reignited by an announcement today from Engage Technology that it has garnered 30 million user profiles for targeting online advertising. [News.com]   Using the Net to search for aliens - There is good news for interstellar explorers. [News.com]   VSI-Navidec merger called off - Multimedia company VSI Holdings says its plan to merge with Internet technology company Navidec has been called off. [News.com]   Vanstar president resigns - Personal computer consultant Vanstar said today that Jay Amato was resigning as president and chief operating officer. [News.com]   Vanstar in cost-cutting mode - Vanstar, a provider of services and products designed to build and manage computer network infrastructures, said today that it will reduce its workforce and eliminate some of its facilities in the second quarter ending in October in an effort to reduce annual costs by at least $50 million. [News.com]   Vantive defends front office turf - Vantive is fighting back at bigger enterprise resource planning vendors who are slowly stretching their products into Vantive and like vendors' territories. [News.com]   Venture eyes India Net market - India's Bharti Telecom Limited and British Telecommunications Plc are close to forming a joint venture for Internet services in India, Bharti's chairman said today. [News.com]   VeriFone sees demand in S. Asia - Sliding business in Southeast Asia has not worried VeriFone which is finding a good demand for its electronic payment systems in South Asia, a top company executive said. [News.com]   Virtual networks for providers - Cisco Systems will wrap technology for creating secure tunnels for information delivery across internal corporate network links or through the Net into its Inter-networking Operating System (IOS), the "brains" for the company's wide range of network routing and switching devices. [News.com]   W3C mulls XML spec - A specification being considered by the World Wide Web Consortium today seeks to soup up XML. [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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