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Will strike ground e-commerce? - E-commerce companies are girding for the possibility that Federal Express pilots may go on strike just in time for the Christmas season. [News.com]
 
Williams to offer shares in telecom unit - Williams Companies said it plans to sell shares worth $500 million to $750 million of its Williams Communications Group in an initial public offering designed to help investors evaluate the unit's value. [News.com]
 
Windows 95 patch for K6-2 chips now free - A patch that corrects an obscure glitch that occurs when Windows 95 is run on AMD K6-2 processors running at 350-MHz or faster is now free. [News.com]
 
Windows 98 pirates on the loose - Counterfeit copies of Microsoft's Windows 98 Operating System have surfaced in several American cities, after having been spotted in Australia two weeks ago. [News.com]
 
Windows CE finds home in retail - Microsoft executives in Japan announced that an embedded version of Windows CE will be used in retailer terminals from NTT Data, a major step forward for the operating system's adoption in non-PC business applications. [News.com]
 
Witness says IE bundling not an improvement - Bundling Microsoft's Internet Explorer with Windows provides "few real-world benefits and several significant real-world costs and risks" for corporate customers that do not standardize on the browser, according to testimony released today by a government witness in the software giant's ongoing antitrust trial. [News.com]
 
World fiber network faces steep hurdles - An ambitious project to drape the globe in $10 billion worth of fiber optic cable could simultaneously bring half the world into the high-speed future and change the way bandwidth is sold worldwide. [News.com]
 
WorldNet, iVillage team on women's service - Candice Carpenter, chief executive of iVillage, wants the increasing number of women heading online to feel at home there--especially at her site. [News.com]
 
X-ceed gives exec pretty package - X-ceed paid cash and options exceeding its earnings for the first nine months of 1997 to recruit co-chairman and chief strategic officer Scott Mednick in July, according to a registration statement. [News.com]
 
XML grows up with intro of XQL - XML took a basic but crucial step toward maturity today with the World Wide Web Consortium's introduction of XQL, a querying language for XML documents. [News.com]
 
Xybernaut boosts wearable PC - The last barrier to total ergonomic nirvana has been lifted this week, with the arrival of a body-mounted flat-panel display. [News.com]
 
Y2K may cost Sears $143 million - Sears Roebuck, the second-largest U.S. retailer, said it has spent $67 million so far to get its computers ready for the Year 2000 changeover, but the cost could reach $143 million. [News.com]
 
Y2K may cost Sears $143 million - Sears Roebuck, the second-largest U.S. retailer, said it has spent $67 million so far to get its computers ready for the Year 2000 changeover, but the cost could reach $143 million. [News.com]
 
Y2K to affect U.S. economic growth - According to a survey of more than 30 leading economists, the Year 2000 technology problem will have a minimal effect on the economy over the next couple of years, spurring growth in 1999 and then contraction in 2000. [News.com]
 
Y2K war: Less time, more money - The Year 2000 bug is hitting corporate budgets hard on a global scale, according to a new study. [News.com]
 
Y2K war: Less time, more money - The Year 2000 bug is hitting corporate budgets hard on a global scale, according to a new study. [News.com]
 
Y2K will bring lower lending rates - The Federal Reserve will steadily cut U.S. interest rates through 1999 to ease borrowing costs for businesses trying to solve their millennium bug problems, an investment strategist said Friday. [News.com]
 
Y2K will bring lower lending rates - The Federal Reserve will steadily cut U.S. interest rates through 1999 to ease borrowing costs for businesses trying to solve their millennium bug problems, an investment strategist said Friday. [News.com]
 
Y2K, euro could hurt high tech in '99 - The Year 2000 problem, unforeseen delays in Microsoft's next operating system, the conversion to the euro, and further turmoil in the worldwide economy could send the PC market into a trough next year. [News.com]
 
Y2K, euro could hurt high-tech in '99 - The Year 2000 problem, unforeseen delays in Microsoft's next operating system, the conversion to the euro, and further turmoil in the worldwide economy could send the PC market into a trough next year. . [News.com]
 
 

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