Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1998 > January New! Submit a site   whatUseek Collection Sites (submit a site ):   Give your site great placement in this category in as little as two business days!     whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   "Click of death" strikes Iomega - Users of Iomega's Zip drives are reporting serious malfunctions in their drives and disks in a problem that has come to be known as the "click of death." [News.com]   "DSL lite" provider in the spotlight - Aware (AWRE), a small DSL provider in Bedford, Massachusetts, enjoyed the spoils of Internet stardom today as its stock leapt more than 27 percent and its Web site was jammed for hours with onlookers eager to find out about the company that has captured the attention of industry behemoths Microsoft, Intel, and Compaq. [News.com]   "Virtual lovers" rival virtual pets - In the wake of the "virtual pet" on a key ring, make way for the "virtual lover." The Japanese electronic pet toys that took the world by storm in 1997 face rivalry from "My Lover," which went on display at the Hong Kong Toys and Games Fair this week. [News.com]   10 technologies to watch in 1998 - The Gartner Group's Business Technology Journal today named ten emerging technologies to watch in 1998. [News.com]   1998 could be year of SET - As many as 10,000 Internet merchants could be accepting online credit card transactions under the Secure Electronic Transactions protocol by year's end, MasterCard's top executive for Internet commerce predicted today. [News.com]   3Com CEO pushes deregulation - 3Com (COMS) CEO Eric Benhamou said he would meet yesterday with Federal Communications Commission chairman William Kennard to discuss regulatory issues holding up the development of high-tech networks. [News.com]   3Com ready to tackle '98 - 3Com (COMS) executives downplayed the company's recent troubles and rolled out a detailed road map for the next few months at a Wall Street analyst briefing yesterday. [News.com]   3Com's more than low-end gear - 3Com (COMS) is placing a variety of bets in key markets to expand its role in corporate networking. [News.com]   500,000 CE devices shipped - More than 500,000 handheld personal computers based on the Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows CE operating system have been shipped since the software was launched in October 1996, a company executive said today. [News.com]   56-kbps camps join hands - Lucent Technologies and 3Com announced they will join forces on 56-kbps modem standards, quelling--at the least temporarily--a long-standing feud between the two modem camps. [News.com]   @Home ties in Bloomberg content - In a move underscoring the effort of Net access providers to combine higher speeds with content, cable provider @Home (ATHM) announced today that financial news service Bloomberg will become the principal financial information source for its "Finance Channel." [News.com]   @Home, U.K. cable firms in talks - U.K. cable television operators Telewest, Cable and Wireless, and NTL are reportedly in talks with @Home Network (ATHM) on provision of a high-speed Internet service in the United Kingdom. [News.com]   A French Internet alliance - America Online, Germany's Bertelsmann AG, French Canal Plus, and Cie Generale des Eaux unit Cegetel are forging a French Internet alliance, the French partners said today. [News.com]   A self-help fix for Year 2000 bug - A small Australian computer software company said today that it had developed an easy, cheap, do-it-yourself solution to the millennium bug problem. [News.com]   ACLU threat reverses filter policy - Facing a lawsuit threat from the American Civil Liberties Union, a large Southern California county has reversed its policy of filtering Net access at public libraries. [News.com]   ACLU threatens suit on Net filters - The American Civil Liberties Union has given a Southern California library system ten days to remove Net filtering software from its computers or risk being slammed with a lawsuit. [News.com]   AGIS, Qwest make connection - Qwest Communications International (QWST) said today that it would provide high-capacity fiber optic services to AGIS, the fourth largest Internet backbone provider. [News.com]   AMD evicts Intel, Cyrix at Compaq - Today may go down in Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) history as one of its most glorious days, as the chipmaker readies itself for what may be a banner year. [News.com]   AMD meets goals, narrows losses - Advanced Micro Devices met its goal of shipping approximately 1.5 million K6 microprocessors during the fourth quarter, and narrowed its losses to boot--giving Wall Street a much better performance than expected. [News.com]   AMD reacts to Intel, cuts prices - Advanced Micro Devices this week reduced chip prices in reaction to price cuts from market leader Intel. [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 32 33 34 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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