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Home networking set to take off - Current efforts aimed at making it easy to network multiple PCs and devices within homes will reap a $4 billion market reward by the year 2002, according to a new study by a West Coast securities firm. [News.com]
 
Hong Kong fiasco for Intel cargo - Intel logistics have suffered a "significant impact" from the cargo fiasco at the newly opened Hong Kong airport, prompting a partial shutdown at two plants, an executive said here last week. [News.com]
 
Hotmail log-out leads to Start - Microsoft took a significant step in promoting its Start portal site today when it began automatically redirecting users of the company's Hotmail service to Start. [News.com]
 
House OKs investor lawsuit bill - The House overwhelmingly approved a bill today that would require most shareholder lawsuits against public companies to be filed in federal court, a shift that would place limits on such actions. [News.com]
 
How will Y2K hit hospitals? - The Senate subcommittee responsible for addressing the year 2000's impact on computer systems today said the health care industry is not yet ready for the end of the century. [News.com]
 
Hubble star pictures on Net - Massive baby stars, nestled in a cloud of glowing gases and shining as bright as 300,000 suns, are at the center of a galactic "family portrait" snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope and released over the Internet. [News.com]
 
Hughes examines satellite glitches - Hughes Electronics is investigating computer failures on two orbiting satellites identical to the one whose malfunction temporarily devastated pager communications nationwide in May, according to reports. [News.com]
 
IBM copper chip due for Macs - IBM's chance for chip greatness will come later this summer with the release of its first copper-based PowerPC microprocessors, intended for Apple Computer's Macintosh systems. [News.com]
 
IBM cuts Latin America projects - IBM, linked to bribe and fraud scandals in Argentina and Mexico, said it will only sign state-sector contracts for integrated projects in Latin America that result from public tenders. [News.com]
 
IBM execs cleared of fraud - A Mexican judge cleared three executives of IBM of fraud charges yesterday over a multimillion-dollar computer system sold to city officials that failed to work. [News.com]
 
IBM flat panel goes below $1,000 too - IBM is slashing prices on flat-panel desktop displays, bringing its lowest-priced product under the $1,000 price point for the first time. [News.com]
 
IBM gains new consumer head - IBM named the returned Mike Braun to head its recently restructured consumer unit, replacing James Firestone, who left to become president of a Xerox division. [News.com]
 
IBM guilty in supercomputer case - An IBM subsidiary has agreed to plead guilty to unlawfully exporting computers to a Russian nuclear weapons laboratory, U.S. government officials said today. [News.com]
 
IBM has resellers build PCs - IBM said yesterday that distributors have begun assembling all key components of its commercial personal computers, a major shift aimed at slashing the buildup of excess inventory. [News.com]
 
IBM lends Sun Java help - More than a year after it promised to back a key Internet protocol, Sun Microsystems said yesterday that it will work with IBM to develop a way for Sun's protocol for Java components to communicate across a network to work on the Net. [News.com]
 
IBM mainframe tops speed mark - IBM said that its upcoming line of mainframe computers has smashed industry performance records, giving the company at least a one-year lead over rival mainframe makers. [News.com]
 
IBM now takes CyberCash - IBM is linking up with CyberCash to boost Big Blue's Internet payment offerings by adding the most popular form of Internet payments today: credit or debit cards using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. [News.com]
 
IBM peaks on bullish run - IBM stock hit a lifetime intraday high today amid a strengthening outlook for the rest of 1998 and a belief by some analysts that the stock deserves a higher earnings multiple. [News.com]
 
IBM posts profit, flat revenues - IBM shares jumped nearly 6.5 percent in early trading this morning after the company yesterday reported a small rise in quarterly profits. [News.com]
 
IBM profit to show tepid growth - IBM is expected to show tepid year-to-year growth in its second-quarter results amid the economic slowdown in Asia, sales declines at its troubled personal computer business, and a transition for its mainframe business. [News.com]
 
 

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