Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1998 > February New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Windows 98 to preview in theaters - Windows 98 is coming to a theater near you on April 4. [News.com]   Windows NT on mainframes - Hitachi and Digital Equipment (DEC ) today announced that they are cooperating on software technology that will move the Windows NT operating system onto mainframe-class computers, another sign that Microsoft's most powerful operating system is set to move deep into high-end computing territory. [News.com]   World unprepared for Y2K bug - Phone lines will crash, credit cards will read as expired, insurance policies will get lost, checks will bounce, and wages will be delayed--these are just some of the millennium bug disaster scenarios. [News.com]   WorldCom builds a powerhouse - The Internet. Long distance and local telephone service. International expansion. WorldCom (WCOM) is putting together all these pieces in an effort to build a worldwide communications powerhouse. [News.com]   WorldCom has competitors on the run - Although WorldCom's (WCOM) acquisition of CompuServe closed over the weekend, competitors started to bolster their defense shortly after the deal was announced last September. [News.com]   WorldCom reports, warns of charge - WorldCom (WCOM) said today that it will take a $429 million charge related to its CompuServe merger in the first quarter of 1998. [News.com]   WorldCom, CompuServe merge - WorldCom (WCOM) said today that it has completed its merger with CompuServe (CSRV). [News.com]   XML decision due next week - The standards-setting body World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will make an announcement as early as Tuesday on what many consider the great leap forward for Web-based content. [News.com]   Y2K suits likely to keep coming - For months, legal analysts have predicted that a computer glitch created by the approaching year 2000 will be to litigation what El Niño has been to the weather. Now, some of them are saying that two class-action suits filed over the problem in as many months amount to the first signs of precipitation. [News.com]   Yahoo adds comics to content - Yahoo (YHOO), known for providing its users with information such as stocks, weather, and classified advertising, is living up to the jocularity of its name with its latest partnership: a comics syndicate. [News.com]   Yahoo, Time team on chat site - Yahoo (YHOO) and Time New Media today announced an alliance that includes a new online chat service. [News.com]   Ziff-Davis plans NYSE listing - Acquisitive Japanese computer software firm Softbank said today that its U.S. computer publishing and exhibition unit, Ziff-Davis, plans to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange in April. [News.com]   Zip drives replace floppies - Iomega Japan said Zip storage drives will become a standard feature in new IBM Aptiva PCs for the Japanese market, adding to a growing trend away from archaic floppy drives. [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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