Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1998 > January New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Watchdog warns Sony on pricing - Japan's anti-monopoly watchdog ordered Sony Computer Entertainment, a unit of Sony Corporation, to stop controlling the retail price of software for its hugely popular PlayStation game console. [News.com]   Web caching system launches - Intel (INTC) today announced technology dubbed "Quick Web," which speeds the delivery of Web pages to users' desktops. [News.com]   Web site alarms boost security - Moving beyond firewalls, intrusion detection tools that monitor corporate networks for hacker attacks are emerging as a hot new category in the Internet security market. [News.com]   What the big guys want from DSL - Intel (INTC), Microsoft (MSFT), and Compaq (CPQ) have reportedly agreed to promote digital subscriber line (DSL) technology, but the specific roles the companies are likely to play will be key for advancing the high-speed Net access scheme. [News.com]   What will happen to Windows 98? - On the heels of Microsoft's agreement to offer a version of Windows that does not carry the Internet Explorer icon, attention once again is turning to the open-ended and high-stakes question of what the Justice Department's enforcement action against the software giant will mean for its much-anticipated release of Windows 98. [News.com]   What's Dell to do? - Compaq's acquisition of Digital creates a "big three" of computer companies, leaving Dell out in the cold and leading some to wonder how it will fare in this brave new computing world. [News.com]   Whitewater "micro-acres" for sale - While the latest allegations of sexual impropriety buffet the White House, an older and less lurid Clinton scandal is offering an Internet entrepreneur an opportunity to make a buck in real estate. [News.com]   Will CDs follow Amazon's lead? - In the perennial battle to gain market share, Net retailers have tried everything from innovative alliances to advertising on other media. But nothing seems to speak to Netizens like a good old-fashioned price cut. [News.com]   Will Microsoft bid on BT? - British Telecommunications (BTY) today declined to comment on market speculation that U.S. software giant Microsoft (MSFT) might bid to acquire the company. [News.com]   Win 98 marketing cranks up - Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows 98 marketing machine is shifting into full gear after months of uncertainty, with customers now starting to see promotions of the new operating system on the Internet and in retail stores. [News.com]   Windows 3.1, NT get new Explorer - Microsoft will release the final version of Internet Explorer 4.0 and Outlook Express email client today for Windows 3.1 and NT 3.51. [News.com]   Windows NT seeks new markets - Microsoft (MSFT) is expected to discuss its plans for moving its Windows NT technology into more mainstream markets at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Florida in March. [News.com]   Windows NT server market grows - Microsoft NT server broke away from the rest of the server operating environment pack in 1997 with an 80 percent growth in unit sales over the previous year. [News.com]   Wintel wins in Compaq deal - Two of the background winners in Compaq's acquisition of Digital will be Microsoft and Intel. [News.com]   Wired CEO upbeat on profitability - Wired Ventures chief executive officer Louis Rossetto painted an optimistic picture of the publishing company's future, touting new products and claiming that profitability is around the corner. [News.com]   Workstations go mobile - RDI Computer Corporation today announced it is rolling out the first portable workstation based on Hewlett-Packard's RISC chip architecture. [News.com]   WorldCom exec banks on MCI deal - Effectively showing his hand, a top WorldCom (WCOM) executive today said he is confident that his company's acquisition of MCI (MCIC) will pass regulatory muster and that the deal will double its Internet business. [News.com]   WorldCom eyes Japan market - Telecom giant WorldCom said today it is planning a major push into Japan's telecommunications market, in a move likely to heat up competition and spark mergers in an already unsettled sector. [News.com]   Y2K labor shortage looms large - A dearth of workers available to tackle the Year 2000 computer glitch will push costs for fixing the problem higher as the clock ticks toward the new millennium, experts say. [News.com]   Y2K, Euro boost India tech industry - The birth pangs of the European currency unit and the death throes of the millennium bug spell boom time for India's software programmers. [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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