Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1998 > February New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Texas Microsoft suit thrown out - A Texas judge dismissed a suit today in which the state's attorney general accused Microsoft of illegally interfering with an ongoing investigation into the software giant's business practices, according to the company. [News.com]   The battle for digital images - Two wealthy men are headed for a showdown in the emerging market for digital images, an industry being transformed by technology from one dealing in small, privately held photos or videos to one in which digital images are available on demand online. [News.com]   The fastest chips in the world - Digital Equipment jumped the gun on a San Francisco technology conference scheduled to begin tomorrow by announcing it plans to produce a 1,000-MHz Alpha chip. IBM went one step further, today introducing a PowerPC prototype of the so-called gigahertz chip. At the conference, Big Blue will describe its own 1,000-MHz architecture as well as the first concrete plans for a copper-based chip--a shift in technology that many believe will keep the industry on track to achieve ever-greater leaps in performance. Also, Intel will outline the details of its highly secret "Slot 2" architecture used in its fastest Pentium II chips, expected to reach 450 MHz by year's end. [News.com]   Thin is in at Demo conference - Thin is in, but not just at the health spas and tanning salons in this tony desert resort community. [News.com]   Times Mirror auction site growing - Newspapers are getting into the online auction business, the latest example of the industry's shift onto the Web to make money and protect their advertising turf. [News.com]   Tivoli readies enterprise software - IBM (IBM) management software subsidiary Tivoli Systems next week will add new capabilities to make it easier for large networks to manage the distribution of information, such as widely disseminated reports. [News.com]   Tobacco firms to post papers - Four tobacco companies said today they will post "tens of millions" of pages of documents on the Net related to the industry's proposed global legal settlement negotiated last spring, but they will not include material such as "highly sensitive" trade secret information. [News.com]   Tools to ease software installation - Business applications maker J.D. Edwards (JDEC) today rolled out a suite of business process modeling and implementation tools intended to make installing the company's software an easier task. [News.com]   Top Netscape execs reduce stakes - Watching their shares fall over the past year, Netscape Communications (NSCP) chief executive James Barksdale and chairman James Clark are cutting their losses and cutting their respective stakes in the troubled Internet company that once dominated Web software. [News.com]   Top e-commerce exec resigns - The executive who has led MasterCard's charge into e-commerce has left the company at a crucial stage in the development of its key technology for secure transactions. [News.com]   Toshiba discounts digital camera - Toshiba America slashed the price of its entry-level digital camera to $249, as the new-fangled devices continue to become more affordable. [News.com]   Toshiba fights to stay on top - A humbled Toshiba, lately losing momentum in the notebook market, is now trying to change its business practices in order to reassert itself. [News.com]   Toshiba memory plant set to go - Toshiba will spend about 10 billion yen to build a memory chip factory in Mie Prefecture in western Japan. [News.com]   Tough times for Cyrix? - Despite the news of a patent settlement with rival Intel, Cyrix's day in the sun may be over: Its competitors are catching up in the low-cost computer chip market, a business Cyrix and Compaq Computer virtually invented a year ago. [News.com]   Triple play for Net phones - Internet telephony won a triple play this week as companies targeting consumers, businesses, and phone carriers announced potentially groundbreaking Net telephony products and services. [News.com]   U.S. acts on Paraguay piracy - The U.S. accused Paraguay of failing to provide adequate protection against copyright piracy and said it had launched an investigation that could lead to trade sanctions. [News.com]   U.S. chip firms to help Korea - Some U.S. semiconductor and semiconductor equipment companies are looking at ways to bail out Korean chip makers, which may risk missing an entire technology cycle because of Korea's economic crisis. [News.com]   U.S. one of few restricting crypto - The United States is one of only a handful of countries that have restricted or want to restrict the use of encrypted software and communications within its borders, according to a survey released today. [News.com]   U.S. seeks accord on Net trade - The United States has formally proposed that all countries in the World Trade Organization (WTO) agree to keep commerce in goods and services on the Internet duty free, diplomats said today. [News.com]   U.S. tech firms seek foreigners - U.S. computer companies are using recruiting scouts, big salaries, and signing bonuses to lure scarce information technology (IT) workers, high tech executives told Congress today. 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