Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1998 > July 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:   $499 PCs coming to market - The low-cost phenomenon shows no signs of letting up, as a little-known vendor will try to make its mark on the PC market with systems costing less than $500. [News.com]   "Special master" to aid Java suit - A federal judge said today that he wants to appoint a "special master" to help determine which documents should be unsealed in the ongoing lawsuit filed by Sun Microsystems against Microsoft over Java. [News.com]   "Virtual University" gets boost - Fattened up with a total of 1,600 courses, the California Virtual University (CVU) relaunched its online catalog today, and announced a $75,000 infusion from Oracle. [News.com]   1GB memory due in early 1999 - Early next year, Hitachi Semiconductor plans to begin offering chip technology that would allow a personal computer's main memory to store as much as one gigabyte of data--an amount rivaling the size of many hard drives in use today. [News.com]   2000 census to address Net use - In a definitive sign of the times, the year 2000 U.S. Census may start tracking computer and Net usage. [News.com]   3Com inks China deal - 3Com, the world's second-largest maker of computer network equipment, inked an agreement today to invest as much as $100 million in China and said it plans to start selling its Palm Pilot handheld computer in Asia. [News.com]   3Com names president and COO - 3Com today named Bruce Claflin, former senior vice president of sales and marketing at Digital, its president and chief operating officer, effective August 10. [News.com]   3DO posts loss - Video game developer 3DO reported a slightly narrower-than-expected loss for its first quarter and said revenues rose on the strength of its Might and Magic VI and Army Men games. [News.com]   3Dlabs cuts 15 percent of staff - Graphics chip vendor 3Dlabs said it cut its workforce by 15 percent, or about 20 staffers, as it reported a wider-than-expected operating loss for its second quarter. [News.com]   400-MHz system falls to $1,999 - The low-price wars that started in early 1997 are taking their toll on the market's high end too, as one of the price-cutting leaders brings out a system with Intel's fastest Pentium II chip below the $2,000 mark. [News.com]   450-MHz chip spurs price cuts - A new round of price cuts arrived from Intel, while a 450-MHz chip--the fastest Pentium II yet--should hit the streets next month. [News.com]   700-MHz, integrated Pentium IIs for 1999 - In 1999, Intel will boost the speed of its Xeon chips to 700 MHz, desktop Pentium IIs to 600 MHz, and mobile chips to 366 MHz, according to sources, while the company will also release its first Pentium II with high-speed "cache" memory integrated directly onto the processor. [News.com]   7th Level animation goes mainstream - 7th Level announced today that its animation software can be used to create talking characters on the pages of all major personal computer software programs and link them to the Internet. [News.com]   @Home to go to more homes - @Home, which provides high-speed Internet access using cable modems, said today it signed ten new distribution agreements with North American and international cable operators representing more than 10 million new homes. [News.com]   A big week for tech earnings - This is a week of reckoning for the high-tech sector, as companies across the board--from giant chipmakers to Internet start-ups--post quarterly earnings. [News.com]   A look at the FTC - From an overall market perspective, the railroad, sugar, oil, and computer industries don't appear to have much in common--except for the Federal Trade Commission's scrutiny of them all. [News.com]   A new kind of palm reading - A Boston-based publishing concern is betting that 3Com PalmPilot users, famously loyal to free applications developed for the handheld platform, will pay to read books on the increasingly popular devices. [News.com]   A new look for AOL.com - Charging ahead with its portal push, America Online today quietly launched the long-awaited redesign of AOL.com. [News.com]   A peek at Disney Blast for Mac - After more than a year of exclusive Windows software deals, Walt Disney announced today that its Blast Online service for children is available to Macintosh users in a beta version. [News.com]   A spam-free email address? - A Washington state-based nonprofit group is introducing an email service that uses the state's month-old antispam law to create what it hopes will become a spam-free email address. [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 35 36 37 38 39 40 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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