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Limited tobacco papers on Web - Major tobacco companies have posted reams of once-secret industry documents on the Internet, but a cache of confidential material sought by prosecutors and lawmakers was not made available. [News.com]
Loaded 333-MHz PC for $2,199 - Attention shoppers: NEC Computer Systems is advertising a desktop PC featuring a 333-MHz Pentium II microprocessor for $2,199 with monitor, one of the lowest prices available for a machine with Intel's top-line chip. [News.com]
Local guides look to long term - Almost daily, another company launches another local city guide on the Net, jumping into an intensely competitive market. Today, Cox Interactive Media, a company using the Internet to leverage its other media brands, rolled out Access Arizona, a site geared toward users in the Grand Canyon state. [News.com]
Lotus may move mail to Notes - Lotus Development is considering plans to nudge its huge installed base of cc:Mail users to the company's Notes software and away from competitors' products. [News.com]
Lotus, Avantgo target handhelds - Lotus Development and Avantgo are each rolling out their own mobile computing software products this week for extending enterprise applications to handheld computers. [News.com]
Low-cost Pentium II called "kludgey" - While "Covington" will be the first processor from Intel specifically designed for low-cost PCs, don't expect it to be around long. [News.com]
Low-cost battle down to business - IBM (IBM) and Hewlett-Packard (HWP) are crossing swords again, as both companies announce new systems and price cuts that portend a new, potentially ominous, battleground for the business market: sub-$1,000 PCs. [News.com]
Lucent forms venture capital fund - Lucent Technologies (LU), the manufacturing company spun off in 1996 by AT&T (T), has formed a venture capital fund to invest in new technologies, and the company's chairman will step down to head the unit, the company said today. [News.com]
Lucent to buy HP wireless unit - Lucent Technologies (LU) said today that it will acquire Hewlett-Packard's (HWP) fixed wireless equipment unit and announced plans to launch its own business based on the microwave communications technology. [News.com]
Lycos buys Tripod service - Lycos (LCOS) said today that it agreed to buy Tripod for $58 million in stock, adding an online community to its Internet directory. [News.com]
Lycos may do deal with Tripod - Lycos is planning to make a "major announcement" tomorrow, and sources are speculating that it may include an investment in or buyout of Tripod, the privately held online community. [News.com]
Lycos: Tripod traffic equals ads - Lycos (LCOS) plans to leverage the traffic from Tripod, which it recently acquired, to bolster targeted ad sales, a company executive said today. [News.com]
MSN cancels shows, gets practical - The Microsoft Network is lowering the final curtain on its shows, ending its rocky foray into the world of entertainment production. [News.com]
Macromedia launching content site - Macromedia (MACR) tomorrow will launch ShockRave, a free online entertainment site that features the company's technology and content from the likes of United Media, Sony's Columbia TriStar Interactive, TheDJ.com, and SegaSoft, among others. [News.com]
Macromedia plans showbiz site - Macromedia quietly is planning to wade into the consumer entertainment market with a new Web site dubbed Shockrave, which will include material from Sony Pictures, Disney, and United Media, among others. [News.com]
Many could bank online, but don't - The number of potential users of online banking and investing has risen to nearly one quarter of U.S. households, but the actual use remains much lower, according to a study released today by SRI Consulting. [News.com]
Market gets bullish on Oracle - Oracle (ORCL) shares continued their upward momentum today, after the database software company's shares jumped 13 percent last Friday when executives reiterated their view that sales likely will improve in the coming quarter. [News.com]
Mattel, Intel to make toys - Toy giant Mattel and Intel, the world's largest semiconductor maker, announced an agreement to jointly develop PC-enhanced toys, to be designed with current and future PC-based technologies. [News.com]
McNealy: Netscape rumors a joke - With rumors circulating that Sun Microsystems (SUNW) may be interested in acquiring Netscape Communications (NSCP), Sun's top dog touched on the issue here at a speaking engagement last night at a Churchill Club dinner in Silicon Valley. [News.com]
Memory market still likely to drop - Late last month at an investor's conference, a cheer went up when it was announced that spot prices for 16-megabit memory chips had inched up from rock-bottom lows to $3.80. But now it appears that even this tenuous euphoria may have been short-lived. [News.com]
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