Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1998 > February New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   U.S. tightens computer exports - The Commerce Department today issued new rules to tighten export controls on high-performance computers. [News.com]   U.S. wins networking tariff case - The World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled in the United States' favor in its case against the European Union (EU), Ireland, and Britain over tariff hikes on computer equipment reclassified as communications technology, officials said today. [News.com]   U.S. wins support for Net free trade - The United States won support from rich powers and emerging economies for a proposal to start discussion in the World Trade Organization (WTO) on rules for the rapidly growing trade across cyberspace. [News.com]   US West to distribute software - US West announced a partnership today with six computer companies to distribute software over the Baby Bell's high-speed, fiber-optic network. [News.com]   Unix holdout signs on to Windows - One of the last bastions of rarefied Unix-only computing has fallen, as Synopsys, a high-end vendor of semiconductor design software for Unix workstations, announced that it will put its products on the Windows-Intel platform. [News.com]   VC investments set record - Technology companies and Silicon Valley bellied up to the venture capital trough in 1997, hogging the bulk of U.S. investments. [News.com]   VLSI stock nose-dives - Shares of VLSI Technology (VLSI) today plummeted 22 percent after the company said it would fall far short of Wall Street's expectations for its first quarter. [News.com]   Voice firms seek data traffic niche - Two multibillion-dollar telecommunications powerhouses are zeroing in on territory currently occupied by the likes of Cisco Systems and Bay Networks. [News.com]   W3C issues accessibility draft - The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today issued a working draft of guidelines for making sites accessible to people with aural or visual disabilities. [News.com]   W3C makes XML a standard - The standards-setting body World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), as expected, today made XML a standard. [News.com]   Washington meets Valley - Long the stepchildren on Capitol Hill, Netrepreneurs have finally secured a place on the A-lists inside the Beltway. Taking on issues ranging from Internet taxes to online access in America's classrooms, the White House is paying close attention to the needs of the high-tech industry. [News.com]   Wayfarer pushes on - Wayfarer Communications is set to release a new version of its push system software next week. [News.com]   Web advertising grows up - Ad network DoubleClick's (DCLK) wildly successful IPO today gives investors an opportunity to take a stake in a company that is 100 percent involved in Internet advertising. But the company is not the only Internet ad firm pursuing profits from the considerable unsold advertising inventory of Web publishers. [News.com]   Web hosting firms to merge - Web hosting firms Best Internet and Hiway Technologies will merge into one company with some 80,000 customers, Hiway executives said today. [News.com]   Web takes on TV in Olympics - Like the athletes assembled in Nagano, Olympics Web sites believe that they have an edge on the television competition. [News.com]   Webcast wedding draws a crowd - With relatives spread out from Oklahoma to Spain, Brad Nickel and Olga San Martin knew that not everyone would be able to attend their Valentine's Day wedding in Florida. [News.com]   White House in porn domain dispute - The X-rated "whitehouse.com" Web site has drawn the ire of the real White House, which has sent a letter challenging the owner's right to use the president and the first lady as a "marketing device." [News.com]   Who will be the winners and losers? - There is one thing certain about the graphics chip industry in 1998. There will be a lot of losers. [News.com]   Windows 98 release due in Europe - Microsoft (MSFT) doesn't expect anti-trust questions to arise when it releases its Windows 98 operating system in Europe this spring. [News.com]   Windows 98 release on track - Like a train conductor trying to keep to a tight schedule, Microsoft (MSFT) insists that it is on track for shipping its Windows 98, but a top executive acknowledged today that questions remain about scheduling of Windows NT's latest version. [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 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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