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Walker rolls out business apps
- Walker Interactive has rolled out its latest suite of analytic applications for enterprise resource planning and financial applications. [News.com]
Wall Street takes a hit
- Asian economic fears hit Wall Street--take two. [News.com]
Wang patent claims dismissed
- Netscape Communications said today that a federal judge has dismissed all patent claims raised by Wang Global against Netscape and America Online. [News.com]
Washington focuses on tech, Net
- This week marked the Senate's "High-Tech Week," but the rest of Congress and the White House are focusing more intensely on hard-hitting Internet and technology issues such as taxes, privacy, spam, encryption, and gender representation. Lobbyists, special interest groups, and civil liberties organizations also are weighing in as several bills move forward. [News.com]
WatchGuard targets ISPs
- WatchGuard Technologies is targeting ISPs that want to manage security on customers' networks with WatchGuard's new Firebox II security appliance. [News.com]
Web server flavors abound
- Only two years ago, Web servers came in one flavor: plain old HTTP servers that faithfully dished up Web pages to browser clients. [News.com]
Web-based calendaring service
- Software and service start-up WebCal today launched a free Web-based calendaring and event information service that allows anyone with Internet access and a browser to set up a personal calendar and browse a public events database. [News.com]
WebTV does Windows on new box
- Microsoft and General Instrument will demonstrate the WebTV service on GI's next-generation digital set-top boxes at the National Cable Television Association trade show, a harbinger of new WebTV technology coming from Microsoft as it tries to muscle into the digital TV set-top box business. [News.com]
Western Digital lays off over 400
- Western Digital said on Thursday it was laying off 439 employees at its hard disk drive manufacturing operation in Singapore. [News.com]
Western Europe emerging as hot PC market
- PC vendors have traditionally viewed the United States and Asia as their strongest growth markets, but favorable economic conditions in Western Europe are increasingly causing manufacturers to look at the Old World as a focal point for sales. [News.com]
Whirlwind for Windows 98
- Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and his colleagues in the PC sector may have been plugging Windows 98 today in the Big Apple, but analysts and observers say delaying the operating system upgrade will be far from devastating to the industry. [News.com]
White House sets children's summit
- Young surfers are the focus of yet another White House summit convening next month. [News.com]
Why only one satellite?
- When close to 90 percent of all U.S. pagers stopped beeping and vibrating this week, consumers from teens to doctors may have wondered for the first time how the little box they so depend upon actually works and what made it suddenly stop. [News.com]
Wild ride for Netscape
- It's been a week full of ups and downs for Netscape Communications, with search deals beginning and ending, the browser war taking a turn, and the firm's software getting a boost from Citibank. The financial outlook for Netscape will show itself next week, when the firm reports its earnings. [News.com]
Will Dell be next victim of price wars?
- Although Dell has thus far managed to sidestep the PC price wars that have gouged the profits of other major computer makers, analysts say it is only a matter of time until the Austin, Texas-based manufacturer has to cut its prices to remain competitive. [News.com]
Win 98 not subject to injunction
- A federal appeals court has ruled that a lower court's order requiring Microsoft to offer its Internet Explorer browser separately from its Windows operating system does not apply to Windows 98, which will be shipped to computer vendors on Friday. [News.com]
Win 98 sales to lag behind Win 95
- Microsoft and its partners have predicted severe economic consequences should the launch of Windows 98 be delayed by the Justice Department, but a new study says that initial sales of the upgraded operating system will be significantly lower than sales of its predecessor, Windows 95, especially among large companies. [News.com]
Windows 98 marketing gathers steam
- Vacation offers, free software, rebates, widespread retailer advertising, T-shirts, and massive exposure from the constant drumbeat of news on the Justice Department's investigation of Microsoft have touched off an explosion of publicity for Windows 98. [News.com]
Windows 98 may be early
- Windows 98 may be available on computers in retail stores up to a full week or more before the official launch date of June 25, retailers said today. [News.com]
Windows 98 ships today
- Microsoft said today that it has shipped Windows 98 to personal computer makers, as the Justice Department and 20 states filed parallel antitrust lawsuits against the software giant. [News.com]
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