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Macromedia players on Win 98 - Furthering its quest for ubiquity, multimedia software company Macromedia made a formal announcement today that its Shockwave and Flash players are preinstalled in Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system. [News.com]
 
Macworld to return to Boston - IDG Expo Management said today that the East Coast venue for Macworld will return next year to Boston, where it has been held every year except this year since the inaugural event in 1984. [News.com]
 
Magaziner hopeful for domain deal - President Clinton's Internet adviser said today industry leaders and policy makers were close to a deal on a U.S. plan to reform the Net's domain name system and make it more competitive. [News.com]
 
Magaziner: Help fix domains - Senior White House adviser Ira Magaziner today urged companies doing business on the Internet to reach a consensus soon with other online groups over how the U.S. government should phase out its management of the vast global network. [News.com]
 
Management, e-commerce in one - IMI and IBM want to give a little electronic zap to order management software. [News.com]
 
Mark-up language wins praise - XML appears to be a long way from widespread use on the Internet. [News.com]
 
Marketers get new way to query - Marketing departments will soon be able to get one step closer to their companies' customers. [News.com]
 
Markets mixed on Japan news - Blue-chip stocks ticked lower today as Wall Street mulled the impact of the Japanese prime minister's resignation on the country's troubled economy, while the Nasdaq romped to yet another record high on the prospect of better earnings for some technology companies. [News.com]
 
Markets mixed, Egghead plunges - Stocks were mixed today as investors sorted through the latest data, which showed the economy is still cruising in high gear while inflation is holding in neutral. [News.com]
 
Markets shake off early losses - Stocks shook off a sell-off to end higher today, but the market still was hounded by memories of last week's headlong drop in the blue chips and renewed doubts that Japan will do the right thing to get its economy back on its feet. [News.com]
 
Markets soar to record highs - Stocks surged to record highs today as investors put aside their earnings worries and looked forward to an economic recovery in ailing Japan and Asia. [News.com]
 
Markets surge on inflation news - Stocks powered ahead today as the market toasted the good news that labor costs are still not sparking any serious inflation in the economy. [News.com]
 
MasterCard in Net credit pilot - MasterCard is teaming with several vendors for an experimental SET (Secure Electronic Transactions) Internet credit card pilot that uses smart card and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). [News.com]
 
Matsushita, Microsoft agree on PC-TVs - Matsushita Electric Industrial and Microsoft have signed an agreement to formalize their cooperation in developing products that combine audio-visual and personal computer technologies. [News.com]
 
Maxtor gives public trading a shot - Maxtor waded into the public market today, despite an industry-wide slump in the storage sector. [News.com]
 
Media Vision execs sued by SEC - Capping a four-year investigation, the Securities and Exchange Commission today filed suit against four former top officers of Media Vision Technologies, accusing them of fraud and insider trading. [News.com]
 
Media mergers to double this year - Merger and acquisition activity in the media and communications industries this year should double the number of transactions in 1997, according to an investment bank survey. [News.com]
 
Media, tech firms think digital - Some of the most influential media and technology companies are collaborating to create the technological underpinnings for a coming wave of TVs that will combine standard programming with Internet content, and Microsoft appears to be just one of many small fish in a big pond. [News.com]
 
Memory making a comeback? - The memory chip industry may be making a comeback, fueled by plant cutbacks, the proliferation of high-performance technology, improved manufacturing, and most of all a substantial increase in the amount of memory PC makers are putting into their systems. [News.com]
 
Mexico City, IBM settle snafu - The Mexican unit of IBM has agreed to pay $37.57 million to Mexico City prosecutors to compensate for a failed computer system that nearly landed three IBM executives in jail, officials said yesterday. [News.com]
 
 

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