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Motorola, Microsoft go wireless
- Motorola and Microsoft have announced an agreement that will let Microsoft Windows-based devices receive information sent using Motorola's technology for wireless paging. [News.com]
Motorola: Digital usage booming
- A Motorola (MOT) executive today said that the Internet is driving up digital usage to the point where it is now on a par with analog. [News.com]
N.Y. Times tries pop-up ads
- The New York Times on the Web has been giving its users a little surprise: windows that pop up on their computer screens and display ads. [News.com]
NBC stakes Mining Company
- NBC has announced that it is taking a minority stake in the parent of the Mining Company, as well as striking content partnerships with the Mining Company. [News.com]
NEC cuts domestic PC shipment forecast
- Japan's NEC Corporation today said that it lowered its forecast for domestic PC shipments in fiscal year 1997-98, ending on March 31, to 3.25 million units from an earlier projection of 3.7 million units. [News.com]
NEC supercomputer challenges U.S.
- Japanese and U.S. supercomputer makers are locked in a race to deploy new generations of the world's fastest computers, as Japan's NEC announced yesterday that it is developing Japan's fastest supercomputer yet. [News.com]
NEC undecided on chip spending
- NEC Corporation today said it is still in the process of drawing up capital outlay plans for its semiconductor operations for the business year beginning in April. [News.com]
NEC working on Java portable
- NEC is developing a portable touch-screen device for using the Internet that is based on the Java programming language, a product that could greatly change how and where users get online. [News.com]
Nasdaq falls despite Apple surge
- The Nasdaq Composite Index closed lower today as weakness in semiconductor equipment makers dragged down high-technology stocks--despite a late surge by Apple Computer (AAPL). [News.com]
National making first Cyrix chips
- The first Cyrix-brand microprocessors have started to roll out of plants owned by parent company National Semiconductor, signaling a shift in manufacturing operations that could lead to faster, better chip designs and more competition for Advanced Micro Devices and Intel, Cyrix's chief rivals. [News.com]
Navy barred from ousting sailor
- A federal judge today issued a ruling permanently barring the United States Navy from discharging a sailor for allegedly admitting he was gay on America Online. [News.com]
Navy sailor gets reprieve
- A U.S. District Court judge in Washington today issued a preliminary injunction against the U.S. Navy, preventing it from discharging Senior Chief Timothy McVeigh under provisions of the "don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue" policy. [News.com]
Navy: AOL probe unnecessary
- A Navy spokesman said today that the Navy had enough evidence to discharge a sailor for violating the military's policy on homosexuality--even if an investigator had never spoken with an America Online employee. [News.com]
Net Society slams Thai rules
- The Internet Society has sent a letter to its 600 members in Thailand urging them to uphold the organization's "guiding principles" that oppose government restriction of the Internet. [News.com]
Net addiction a campus problem?
- Long heralded as a boon and increasingly as a necessity to university education, the Internet is now being linked to academic failure. [News.com]
Net adoption growing overseas
- The United States has many more people using the Internet than do other countries, with more than 54 percent of the total, but the American share is dropping as other nations adopt Net technology, according to the Internet Industry Almanac, an annual reference book about the online industry. [News.com]
Net complicates French poll ban
- France has reaffirmed its traditional ban on the publication of voter surveys just before elections, despite widespread violations during last year's National Assembly elections. [News.com]
Net confab showcases bandwidth
- While industry titans talk about increasing Internet bandwidth, Internet companies today showed off technologies to help with a present problem: coping with crowded networks on the Net or on office networks. [News.com]
Net copyright rules stir firms
- Proposed regulations designed to bring copyright law into line with the computer age are creating a stir among Internet broadcasters and network service providers who warn the rules would stop the budding market for Internet multimedia in its tracks. [News.com]
Net elated over Netscape giveaway
- Browser users and Internet software developers alike cheered today's decision by Netscape Communications (NSCP) to offer its Navigator browser free of charge and to make available the source code for the next generation of Communicator. [News.com]
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