Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1998 > February New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Intuit challenges Microsoft study - Call it retaliation through research. [News.com]   Intuit looks to the Net - Intuit (INTU), which recently posted flat second-quarter profits and revenues, will focus on small businesses for its European market and look to the Internet for more revenues, the companys chairman said. [News.com]   Intuit offers car insurance on Web - Intuit (INTU) yesterday launched its Quicken InsureMarket online car insurance service in Alabama as the first step in a planned national rollout. [News.com]   Iomega addresses click of death - In response to customer complaints about the company's removable storage drives, Iomega (IOM) is trolling newsgroups and Web site bulletin boards to inform users of the company's customer service and technical support options. [News.com]   Iomega settles warranty suit - Iomega (IOM) confirmed today that it has agreed on the settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought by consumers frustrated with the company's technical support and service. [News.com]   Israeli site pokes fun at Iraqi crisis - Taking a tongue-in-cheek look at the jittery mood in Israel, a local Internet company has set up a "Saddam-O-Meter" on its Web site to gauge whether media reports and politicians' statements stoke or dampen fears of an Iraqi missile attack. [News.com]   Japan PC downturn all but assured - Japan's largest PC manufacturers are facing the first year-to-year decline in PC shipments in five years, an alarming situation for these companies since the average selling price of computers is decreasing, making vendors that much more dependent on volume. [News.com]   Japan drags down '97 chip market - A weak economy continued to dampen chip sales in Japan, with semiconductor sales in 1997 slipping over six percent there even as worldwide chip sales grew four percent to $137.2 billion dollars. [News.com]   Japanese firms shift chip focus - Japanese electronics firms Mitsubishi Electric and Oki Electric Industry are pinning their hopes for the computer chip business on more "value-added" chips. [News.com]   Java software for NC-like interface - Dallas, Texas-based Plenium announced Java software that offers PC users some of the capabilities of network computers--without having to actually use a network computer. [News.com]   Javagator on back burner - Netscape Communications (NSCP) acknowledged today that it is seeking outside help to develop its pure-Java Web browser for network computers. [News.com]   Jerry Yang reduces Yahoo holdings - Yahoo (YHOO) cofounder Jerry Yang has reduced his stake in the search engine company, which has seen its shares rise over the past year. [News.com]   Judge faces options after Lessig ruling - Following a ruling yesterday by a federal appeals court, the most likely response by the judge handling the antitrust dispute between the Justice Department and Microsoft will be to lay low, though that's not his only option, legal observers say. [News.com]   Judges may lean toward Microsoft - When Microsoft asked U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to reconsider his appointment of a computer law expert assigned to sift through technical evidence in the antitrust case brought by the Justice Department, the jurist flatly refused. [News.com]   Konica enters digital camera market - Another consumer electronics firm crossed into computer technology territory today, as Konica announced it will launch its version of a "megapixel" digital camera tomorrow. [News.com]   Korean group says chipmakers not dumping - A South Korean semiconductor trade group today dismissed as "unfounded" the allegation that the country's chipmakers have begun dumping in world markets in the wake of the won currency's steep depreciation. [News.com]   LCD screens drive down laptop prices - Liquid crystal displays, the thin color screens seen on portable computers, are quickly falling in price--and they're dragging notebook costs down with them. [News.com]   Lam Research to cut 700 jobs - Lam Research, a supplier of wafer processing equipment to the semiconductor industry, said it is restructuring operations and cutting as many as 700 jobs, or 14 percent of its workforce, due to falling orders and revenues driven by the deepening Asian financial crisis. [News.com]   Layoffs at AOL content units - America Online (AOL) has laid off half the staff of its four-month-old Entertainment Asylum site, as well as most of those who report to its WorldPlay interactive games unit, CNET's NEWS.COM learned today. [News.com]   Lessig appointment suspended - A federal appeals court has immediately suspended the contested appointment of a computer expert charged with collecting and weighing evidence in the antitrust case the Justice Department has brought against Microsoft. 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