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PointCast Heads to Oval Office - Barely in the door at the push-media company, new CEO David Dorman has been appointed to a presidential advisory board on high-tech issues. Also: CNET snuggles up to Borders. [Wired News]
 
PointCast Primes for Premium Channels - The push-technology pacesetter plans to add subscription-only channels for things like up-to-the-minute financial news. [Wired News]
 
PointCast Seeks New CEO, Maybe an IPO - The push pioneer used the launch of its software upgrade to talk about its broader plans, including a new chief executive. [Wired News]
 
PointCast Set to Unveil New Asian Service - Hong Kong-based China Internet Corp. will join PointCast in establishing PointCast Asia, with content tailored for the Chinese and Southeast Asian markets. [Wired News]
 
PointCast Widens Its Pipes - The push company announces that all Web publishers, large or small, will be able to broadcast on the PointCast Network. [Wired News]
 
PointCast is Turning Japanese - The push-media pioneer is launching a Japanese version of its service by mid-year. Versions for Korea and Hong Kong will follow soon after. [Wired News]
 
PointCast, Counter PointCast - Ned Brainard wonders who the rumor monger driving the Pointcast - News Corp. stories could be, and how they managed to dupe iWorld anaylst Steve Harmon, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. [Wired News]
 
PointCast, DirecTV Focus on Japan - By offering new services in the Japanese market, the two companies are aiming to establish a toehold for other Asian endeavors. [Wired News]
 
Poll: Many Fear, Few Fall Prey to Online Privacy Attacks - A new survey finds that although 1 in 20 Net users says they have had their privacy violated online, half fear it will be. [Wired News]
 
Power Computing Rank and File Grow Restless - In the wake of president Joel Kocher's resignation and amid a battle over Apple's clone licensing, some 300 Power Computing employees came to work in 'full fatigues.' [Wired News]
 
Power Computing Sued by Supplier - The former Mac clonemaker is hit with a $42 million suit by the Taiwan firm that made its casings and internal power supplies. Also: Possible Xpedite, Premiere Technologies merger; while Unisys sucks up to Microsoft. [Wired News]
 
Power Computing Unveils Fastest Mac - The upstart clonemaker is beating Apple to market with new, faster machines. [Wired News]
 
Power Computing Will Go PC, But Not Public - What once was a cause for celebration - the Mac clone-maker's debut of a snazzy PC notebook - is overshadowed by bad news from Apple and the end of its IPO dream. [Wired News]
 
Power Computing: A Cause Without Rebels - The company's MacWorld marketing campaign screams it wants a revolution. We all want to see the plan. [Wired News]
 
PowerPC Chipmaker Shuts Plant, Lays Off 40 - Exponential Technologies will now look to the Windows platform from its remaining base in Texas. [Wired News]
 
Print Execs, Citizen Gates Squabble at Confab - Newspapers publishers, threatened by Microsoft vying for ad dollars and reporters, don't all buy the CEO's appeasing remarks. [Wired News]
 
Print Pubs Prepare for Sidewalk - As the first Microsoft city-guide site launches, some weeklies are posed to collaborate, but others flatly refuse. [Wired News]
 
Prodigy Abandons Network Business - The online service hopes to save millions of dollars by hiring a Texas-based network operator to look after its connections and give members speedier connections. [Wired News]
 
Programming Dream Job: Bring AI to Gaming - Fujitsu Interactive has the AI technology - now they need a serious gamer to help them create a product. [Wired News]
 
Project Tries for Trusty Mark in E-Commerce - TRUSTe, a project originally begun by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to establish a "trustmark" for online commerce, is ready to debut. [Wired News]
 
 

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