Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > CNET News.com > 1998 > April New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Partners ride high on AOL coattails - Love it or not, the economic "trickle-down" effect of Microsoft's success to its business partners is well-documented. The same is holding true for companies affiliated with America Online, the once-struggling online service that now bills itself as the first $2 billion new media company. [News.com]   Paul Allen to buy Marcus Cable - Billionaire Paul Allen today announced a deal to buy all the limited partnership interests of Marcus Cable, the nation's tenth-largest cable operator, for $2.775 billion--joining fellow Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates in making a cable television investment. [News.com]   Pentium II lacks killer software - Complex, data-heavy Web sites and business applications that only the fastest desktop computers can process are scarce, but these are exactly what Intel needs to drive sales of its Pentium II chip. [News.com]   Pentium II licenses weaken FTC case - With the basic rights to Intel's Pentium II technology beginning to snake their way to competitors, it may become more difficult for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to bring charges against the chip maker even though questions about its business practices still loom large. [News.com]   Pentium II notebooks arrive - Most of the industry's top notebook PC manufacturers showcased the first mobile computers using Intel's (INTC) Pentium II processor today, at historically low price levels for systems with the latest and greatest technology. [News.com]   Playboy plays up stock quotes - Users who say they don't go to the Playboy Web site for the pictures have another excuse: stock quotes. [News.com]   Playboy suit hits roadblock - Lodging a roadblock in Playboy Enterprises' $5 million trademark lawsuit against a former centerfold, a federal judge secured Terri Welles's right to use the word "Playmate" on her digital resume and to drive traffic to her Web site. [News.com]   Playboy wins Net copyright suit - To deter the misuse of its digital images, Playboy Enterprises is using an age-old tactic: big-dollar lawsuits. [News.com]   Playboy wins piracy suit - Playboy Enterprises is on a roll. The company today won its latest Net trademark lawsuit, reaping an award of $3 million. [News.com]   Players team for high-speed games - As previously reported, @Home Network and SegaSoft Networks will announce plans today to provide multiplayer gaming via high-speed cable networks--providing the fastest online game playing yet, they say. [News.com]   Plus 98 due with Windows upgrade - Microsoft today announced that Microsoft Plus 98, a utilities package for Windows 98, will be available on June 25, the same day the operating system upgrade is expected to hit the stores. [News.com]   Police seek author of threat site - An Internet site, seen by many as a prank, that listed the names of high school students and how they should die has been taken down and law enforcement authorities are tracking its author, officials said. [News.com]   Political mailings criticized as spam - Last year San Francisco political consultant Robert Barnes sent out mass email as a test. Now he's ready to go full bore with his "experiment," which he calls "revolutionary." [News.com]   Press barred at Apple meeting - Apple Computer's shareholder meeting next week is for investors only, the company says, and reporters and analysts who are not stockholders will not be allowed to attend. [News.com]   Press tangled in child porn sting - When veteran journalist Larry Matthews set out to expose the booming child pornography market on the Net, his attorneys admit he used a risky tactic to get the story: Matthews infiltrated and engaged the digital underworld where sexually explicit images of minors are traded or sold. [News.com]   Preview Travel floats more shares - At a time when Internet stocks are surging, Preview Travel (PTVL) today said the number of shares being floated out in its upcoming secondary offering has increased. [News.com]   Preview Travel to sell shares - Less than five months after Preview Travel (PTVL) launched its IPO, the company has filed to sell another 3 million shares of its stock. [News.com]   Prices augur more memory in PCs - Prices for the latest generation of memory chips have dropped down close to $10 in certain markets, and their continuing plunge will probably lead to the introduction of high-capacity memory into standard PCs toward the latter part of the year. [News.com]   Prince goes after Net pirates - Prince and his company Paisley Park Enterprises are cracking down on illegal uses of his music and other copyrighted materials on the Internet, and have sent out more than 30 cease-and-desist letters to people they believe are violating the musician's trademark properties. [News.com]   Pure Java now for Beans - Sun Microsystems has extended its "100 percent pure Java" program to cover JavaBean components--pieces of reusable code that programmers can plug into their Java applications under development. 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