Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1998 > October New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Bertelsmann takes Barnes stake - In a surprise move, Barnes & Noble today announced that it would postpone IPO plans for its online book retailing site and allow German publishing giant Bertelsmann to take a 50 percent stake in it instead. [News.com]   Big Blue continues freeware push - Big Blue continues to embrace the freeware world. [News.com]   Big banks back digital certificates - Aiming to boost large transactions over the Internet, eight banking giants said today that they will issue digital certificates worldwide that vouch for the identity of companies involved in business-to-business Net commerce. [News.com]   Big future for Fibre Channel - Fibre Channel, an interconnection technology that's been waiting in the wings for several years, is poised to become widely used in the next few years as customers are increasingly clamoring for fast, reliable, and centralized storage systems. [News.com]   Bill echoing CDA sent to Clinton - Those caught using the Net to sexually solicit minors or knowingly send "obscene" material to a person under 16 could face stiffer criminal penalties, under a bill Congress sent to the White House today. [News.com]   Bristol gets ally in Microsoft suit - Bristol Technology gained an important ally in its private antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, as Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal filed a "friend of the court" brief in the dispute. [News.com]   Bristol suit cites Microsoft papers - Bristol Technology today became the latest company to use internal Microsoft documents to argue that the software giant has engaged in predatory behavior. [News.com]   Britain firms at risk from Y2K bug - Around 40 percent of Britain's medium-sized companies are running the risk of collapse if they do not take action to combat the threat of the millennium bug, the government-appointed Action 2000 group said yesterday. [News.com]   Britain firms at risk from Y2K bug - Around 40 percent of Britain's medium-sized companies are running the risk of collapse if they do not take action to combat the threat of the millennium bug, the government-appointed Action 2000 group said yesterday. [News.com]   British teens surf Net freely - British parents are largely unaware of what their preteen and teenage children are doing when they access the Internet, but the children themselves are enjoying the risks of the unregulated medium, new market research shows. [News.com]   Broadcast.com beats estimates - Webcast company Broadcast.com posted a better-than-expected third quarter loss today and its shares got a boost after the company announced a credit card deal with First USA. [News.com]   Broadcom gets SA set-top deal - Broadcom has announced a deal with Scientific-Atlanta to supply communications chips through the year 2000 in SA's next-generation digital TV set-top boxes. [News.com]   Broadcom to make new offering - Computer chipmaker Broadcom, which earlier had one of the year's most successful initial public offerings, announced that it has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a follow-on offering of 3 million shares of its class A common stock. [News.com]   Bug compromises Navigator - Netscape Communications today confirmed a problem with Navigator 4.5 that could make the browser less secure for users on shared computers. [News.com]   Bugs in Mac OS 8.5? - Apple is investigating reports of bugs in its most recent upgrade to the Macintosh operating system, including one that could delete data in some instances. [News.com]   Building Netscape around portal - After being introduced at his keynote address at Fall Internet World as a general, rather than a captain, in the Internet industry, Netscape Communications chief executive James Barksdale pointed out that a General Barksdale had led a charge during the Civil War, but died during the offensive. [News.com]   Business app firms lean on services - Enterprise resource planning firms are handing out service with a smile, a smile because it's one of the few revenue streams for the software vendors that isn't plummeting. [News.com]   Business portal targets Netscape - On the heels of a year-long acquisition binge that's swallowed up Internet security and desktop utility firms, fast-growing Network Associates now wants to get into the Internet portal business. [News.com]   Busy day for tech earnings - Like many component makers hurt by the falling cost of desktop computers, disk drive company Western Digital saw its revenue and earnings drop drastically from the year-ago period for the first quarter ended September 26. [News.com]   C&W network gets snagged - West Coast Net surfers experienced some slowdowns yesterday and today when portions of Cable & Wireless's West Coast network experienced a glitch, according to the company. [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 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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