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House passes Y2K liability bill - Following the Senate's lead, the House of Representatives last night passed controversial legislation that will allow U.S. companies to share information for purposes of solving the Y2K bug, and President Clinton pledged to sign it into law. [News.com]
 
How chummy are Apple, Microsoft? - As Apple Computer today posted its first profitable year since 1995, questions remain about its business relationship with Microsoft, a close partner that has helped fuel the PC maker's better-than-expected earnings growth. [News.com]
 
How to avoid ISP call failures - A new study suggests that Netizens frustrated with call failures and network gridlock should consider logging on during periods of a different sort of congestion--the morning commute. [News.com]
 
Hubble photo gallery on the Net - A cosmic gallery of the Hubble Space Telescope's most arresting images is open for viewing on the Internet. [News.com]
 
Hughes in talks with PrimeStar - Hughes Electronics' DirecTV has held discussions regarding the possible purchase of PrimeStar, which is controlled by a group of cable companies, people familiar with the matter said, the Wall Street Journal reported today. [News.com]
 
Hyperion debuts graphical tools - Just months after it finalized its merger with the former reporting tool maker Arbor Software, Hyperion Solutions today debuted a suite of graphical tools and integration services for developing analytic applications using data from enterprise resource planning systems and other sources. [News.com]
 
Hyperion hones new analysis tool - Hyperion is stretching its analysis tool into even more corners of the corporate computing arena. [News.com]
 
I2 hangs on to supply chain niche - I2 is alive and kicking. [News.com]
 
IANA chief Jon Postel dies - Jon Postel, an Internet luminary and one of the most powerful men on the Net, has died of heart problems at the age of 55. [News.com]
 
IBM $599 PC arrives - IBM today announced a $599 consumer PC, the first top-tier PC vendor to break the $600 mark. [News.com]
 
IBM accelerates hard drives - IBM pushed the storage envelope today by releasing several new faster and bigger hard drives for video and server applications. [News.com]
 
IBM adds to data warehousing line - IBM is letting users shine some rays on their data warehouses thanks to technology acquired from Tanning Technology. [News.com]
 
IBM advances chip speeds - Cell phones and other wireless communication equipment could become more powerful but less power-hungry, thanks to a new chip technology IBM announced today. [News.com]
 
IBM brings Net to French phones - IBM and France Telecom announced plans to launch a low-cost service that uses telephones rather than personal computers to access the Internet. [News.com]
 
IBM builds fastest Blue yet - IBM and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have stepped into the supercomputer lead with a machine that can perform almost 4 trillion calculations per second. [News.com]
 
IBM buys Build-It tool - IBM continues to bolster the Web tool arsenal of its WebSphere product family. [News.com]
 
IBM chief's $20 million stock sale - IBM chief executive Louis Gerstner has filed to sell shares valued at more than $20.2 million, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission document. [News.com]
 
IBM earnings key to market - The stock market's fickle run of late--bullish one day, bearish the next--has investors watching the most recent quarter's earnings reports particularly closely. IBM hit a new 52-week high as it geared up to report third-quarter earnings that analysts say should get a boost from the company's mainframe business. But mainframes are a small sector, and how the market will react is far from certain. [News.com]
 
IBM inks Unix pact with SCO - IBM is hooking up with Intel, Santa Cruz Operation, and Sequent to develop a new Unix operating system, although analysts are skeptical of its impact. [News.com]
 
IBM plans broadband for Singapore - IBM launched a research center in Singapore today to develop applications for broadband networks. [News.com]
 
 

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