Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1998 > May New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Plans for new Amiga emerge - Amiga, once one of the hottest PC companies in the world, spelled out how it intends to reinvent itself with a new operating system strategy, but may have ended up raising yet more questions. [News.com]   PointCast files for public offering - PointCast, a pioneer in so-called push technology, filed to go public today, becoming the latest Internet company to jump on the IPO bandwagon. [News.com]   PointCast planning IPO - PointCast is planning to file for an initial public offering later this month, jumping on the bandwagon for Internet IPOs, sources said today. [News.com]   Porn case shows need for global talks - The European Commission said today that the pornography conviction of a former CompuServe manager in Germany was surprising and highlighted the need for global cooperation on how to regulate the Internet. [News.com]   Portal fight intensifies - The battle to be the gateway site for Netizens rages on, with new players entering the game and already-established portals trying every trick to appeal to the broadest-possible audience. Offline businesses also are turning to the portals for deals when they want to get the word out on the Net. [News.com]   Prison time for email threats - The first Net user found guilty of an online hate crime--where death threats were sent by email to 59 Asian university students--was sentenced to one year in prison today, time that already has been served. [News.com]   Problems delay Merced chip - Merced, the 64-bit processor from Intel, will be delayed about six months, a major blow to workstation and server makers such as Hewlett-Packard that are betting heavily on the chip. [News.com]   Processor prices plunging for summer - Processor prices will plunge 15 to 20 percent in July as Intel and rival Advanced Micro Devices make deep cuts, part of an ongoing market share battle that will lead to more powerful and less expensive PCs. [News.com]   Programmer faces crypto probe - A Silicon Valley programmer on Tuesday is slated to respond to a subpoena by an arm of the Commerce Department investigating whether a security plug-in that can be downloaded from his Web site violates U.S. laws barring the export of strong encryption. [News.com]   Protecting benefit plans from Y2K - Congress is considering a bill that would help protect pension investments from the Year 2000 bug and give the federal government unprecedented regulatory powers to prevent interruption of many services due to the problem. [News.com]   Quicken for Mac after all - Intuit said it will make a new version of Quicken for Macintosh available in 1999, after saying just last month that it was halting development of the popular financial planning software. [News.com]   Qwest: Bell deal means revenue - Qwest Communications International said it expects its pact with US West Communications to add about $100 million to $200 million to its 1999 revenues. [News.com]   RCA's consumer NCs recalled - RCA has sent recall notices to customers of its TV set-top network computers (NCs) which use Network Computer Incorporated (NCI) software. [News.com]   RSA sues Network Associates - RSA Data Security is seeking to bar Network Associates from shipping any Trusted Information Systems software that uses RSA encryption technology. [News.com]   Rational ships NT analysis tool - Rational Software is shipping a tool to let software developers pinpoint gaps in the testing of new software. [News.com]   Reaction split on Microsoft - Reaction to parallel antitrust lawsuits filed against Microsoft has been swift on both sides. [News.com]   Remarketer sells Compaq PC for $299 - Recompute took another step toward its goal of offering corporate-caliber desktops at garage sale prices, selling 100-MHz Compaq Pentium-based desktop for $299. [News.com]   Report of glut hurts chipmakers - Shares of semiconductor giant Intel and other chipmakers fell after a Merrill Lynch analyst said he sees a pronounced oversupply of microprocessors, pointing out that Intel now has the capacity to make more processors than the market needs. [News.com]   Report: DOD's Y2K efforts lacking - The Department of Defense's efforts to fix its computer systems for the year 2000 are moving at a snail's pace, making failure of "at least some mission-critical systems and the operations they support almost certain," according to a government report released yesterday. [News.com]   Report: Groupware market doubles - Driven by broad market support for Internet standards and increasing business reliance on groupware products, the worldwide market for collaborative systems doubled in 1997, according to a report by the International Data Corporation. [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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