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Sun to light Viacom sites - Media giant Viacom will use Sun Microsystems' hardware and the Solaris operating system to run its interactive services division, the companies said. [News.com]
 
Sun to ship Java Plug-in - Sun Microsystems' JavaSoft unit will ship Java Plug-in, which automatically updates Web browsers so they run the latest version of a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), on April 30. [News.com]
 
Sun, IBM team on Java software - IBM and Sun have embarked on a plan to develop a single Java-based operating system for business machines in an effort to standardize the software side of network computing. [News.com]
 
Survey warns of spam in U.K. - Junk email is fast becoming the scourge of business in the United Kingdom and could severely curtail the Internet's progress as the business medium of the next century, according to a survey commissioned by Novell. [News.com]
 
Survey: Hands off Microsoft - The government should keep its hands off Microsoft, a survey of Business Week readers has concluded. [News.com]
 
Suspected NASA hacker nabbed - A 22-year-old Canadian man suspected of breaking into a NASA Web site and causing tens of thousands of dollars in damage has been arrested by Canadian Mounties. [News.com]
 
Sybase misses by a mile - Troubles at Sybase were not taken lightly by Wall Street today, as the stock fell nearly 20 percent after the database software maker missed expectations by a wide margin yesterday. [News.com]
 
Sybase offers database to go - Sybase (SYBS) is shrinking its already diminutive Adaptive Server Anywhere database down to palmtop size. [News.com]
 
Sybase sees services as savior - Facing weaker than expected demand for its database software and development tools, Sybase is now under the gun to find a profitable niche. [News.com]
 
Symantec's income triples - Symantec said yesterday that its fiscal fourth quarter net income surged, exceeding Wall Street's expectations, on strong sales of antivirus and computer-management software for Windows NT personal computers. [News.com]
 
System software firms to merge - Two system software companies, Phoenix Technologies and Award Software, today announced they are merging. [News.com]
 
TCI keeping Microsoft at arm's length - True to earlier promises to limit Microsoft's clout in the emerging market for next-generation TV set-top cable boxes, Tele-Communications Incorporated is expected to use operating system software from Sun Microsystems and possibly Sony. [News.com]
 
TI revenues drop - Texas Instruments today announced that revenues were down from the first quarter a year ago, due to the decline in prices of dynamic random access memory chips. [News.com]
 
TV surfing: Risky business - Still considered a nascent market, the business of Internet access through boxes that sit atop TV sets is already undergoing a shakeout. From hardware and software to the monthly service rates, competition is getting brutal. [News.com]
 
Taiwan battles Year 2000 crisis - Taiwan's government is pressing its various branches and the private sector to work toward Year 2000 compliance to prevent the millennium bug from paralyzing the nation's data systems. [News.com]
 
Taiwan fights piracy in chip raid - Taiwan, under new threat of U.S. sanctions for intellectual property theft, said today that it had seized nearly 1,000 counterfeit Intel Pentium chips worth "tens of millions" of Taiwan dollars. [News.com]
 
Taiwan invests big in chips - Taiwan's microchip makers will invest $79.2 billion in wafer facilities in the next 13 years, a move likely to secure Taiwan's status as a leading international chip supplier. [News.com]
 
Taiwan unfazed by dumping taxes - Taiwan's government today expressed regret over a U.S. decision to impose antidumping duties on SRAM (static random access memory) chips produced on the Asian island but said the move would not hurt semiconductor exports. [News.com]
 
Talk of buys boosts Amazon - Wall Street rallied shares of Amazon.com in early trading after the company posted a much smaller loss than expected and said it would acquire three Internet companies to help it expand into new markets. [News.com]
 
Teaming for Net payment - Bundling to chill Big Blue, VeriFone and VeriSign will market their Internet payment technologies jointly to financial institutions and Web merchants. Their combined offering matches the technologies offered by IBM, which, like VeriFone, is making a big push into Internet payments. [News.com]
 
 

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