| - IBM
Claims Optical Chip Breakthrough
- After
hack, Microsoft mistakes linger
- PSINet
Assailed As Spam Contract Surfaces
- Anti-Mobile
Virus on the Move
- Appeals Court Sides
With Microsoft, Restricts Briefs
- China
Broadband's Joint Venture To Enable On-Line Education
- Big
blue delivers big blow to Transmeta
- Intel's
Barrett moves focus forward
- CMGI May
Soon Exit Struggling Investments
- DoubleClick,
24/7 Media, L90 Settle Patent Suits
- MP3.com
Whacked with New Lawsuit
- Dot-Com
Death by Degrees
- Comdex: A Wired News
Special Report
- EBay vs. Lawsuits
- Tech
Companies Undervalued By Traditional Accounting
- Intel,
Broadcom Settle Suits, Countersuits
- AT&T
To Hire COO?
- Brick-And-Mortars Pulling
in Reins on Dot-Coms
- Plans for Playboy.com
IPO Withdrawn
- Will Microsoft Save
MarchFirst?
- DOJ gives green light
to WorldCom's buy of Intermedia
- Hammer
Keeps Pounding Nasdaq
IBM Claims
Optical Chip Breakthrough
IBM Corp. said it developed a breakthrough chip-making
technology it said can be used to build smaller optical chips used to build high-speed
communications networks. After
hack, Microsoft mistakes linger
Security experts say enterprises can learn
a lot from the recent Microsoft hacking saga: First, if you get hacked, don't
do what Microsoft did. PSINet
Assailed As Spam Contract Surfaces
Troubled Internet service provider
PSINet acknowledged providing access to a sender of bulk unsolicited commercial
email, bolstering critics' claims that some of the world's largest ISPs knowingly
do business with spammers in violation of stated anti-spam policies. Anti-Mobile
Virus on the Move
A computer virus capable of interfering with new generation
mobile phones is likely to be already in development, the country's top Internet
security body has warned..." Appeals
Court Sides With Microsoft, Restricts Briefs
A federal appeals court granted
Microsoft Corp.'s wish last week, barring a quartet of Microsoft opponents from
filing separate "friend-of-the-court" briefs in the software giant's pending appeal
of its antitrust case. China
Broadband's Joint Venture To Enable On-Line Education
China Broadband
Corp. announced that its first cooperative joint venture to provide cable Internet
access in Shekou, Shenzhen, has entered into an agreement with local high schools
to provide on-line education Big
blue delivers big blow to Transmeta
IBM cancels a project to create a
ThinkPad mininotebook with the low-power Crusoe processor. Intel's
Barrett moves focus forward
Special report: It's not all smooth sailing
for Intel's CEO as he navigates the world's largest chip maker into new territory
away from its core processor business. CMGI
May Soon Exit Struggling Investments
Internet investor CMGI Inc., which
owns or has stakes in more than 70 online companies, may announce plans to exit
some struggling ventures DoubleClick,
24/7 Media, L90 Settle Patent Suits
Three online advertising giants, DoubleClick,
24/7 Media and L90 settled a complicated assortment of patent lawsuits that stood
to complicate the protection of ad-serving technology for the industry.
MP3.com
Whacked with New Lawsuit
Just two days after announcing that its legal
woes were over, online music service MP3.com is being sued yet again for copyright
infringement, this time in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles... Dot-Com
Death by Degrees
The headlines are daunting. Every day seems to bring
at least one dot-com failure to the fore. Comdex:
A Wired News Special Report
Thousands of techies hit Vegas for the "next
big thing." We cover what will and won't constitute the future of Net applications
and hardware wizardry. EBay
vs. Lawsuits
How many lawyers does it take to defend an Internet firm
from a mountain of lawsuits? Tech
Companies Undervalued By Traditional Accounting
The failure of traditional
financial reporting practices to convey truly useful information about high-tech
firms is contributing to both the growing discrepancy between the market value
and book value of companies as well as to market volatility, Intel,
Broadcom Settle Suits, Countersuits
Intel Corporation and Broadcom Corp.
said in a joint announcement that they have settled all claims against each other
brought under Intel's trade secret lawsuit against Broadcom, which was filed in
California Superior Court in March. AT&T
To Hire COO?
Telecom giant may put new executive in place to manage spin-offs
- report Brick-And-Mortars
Pulling in Reins on Dot-Coms
At the height of the dot-com craze, dozens
of Main Street brick-and-mortar companies poured cash into Web ventures in the
hope riches were around the corner. With dot-coms closing almost daily, the Internet
mania is coming back to haunt them. Plans
for Playboy.com IPO Withdrawn
Playboy Enterprises Inc. said that it has
withdrawn its plans for an initial public offering of its online business because
of unfavorable market condition Will
Microsoft Save MarchFirst?
MarchFirst has taken some big-time hits of
late, but the company's partners--most notably IBM, Microsoft and Novell-- aren't
ready to bolt just yet. All three vendors say they'll stand by MarchFirst during
its current financial crisis. In fact, Microsoft has given MarchFirst an interest-free
$12 million loan. DOJ
gives green light to WorldCom's buy of Intermedia
The giant long-distance
telephone carrier wins conditional approval from the U.S. Justice Department to
acquire Intermedia and control of Web-hosting firm Digex. Hammer
Keeps Pounding Nasdaq
The Nasdaq falls well under the 2,800 mark as investors
continue to be nervous about growth and profits in the tech sector. And then there's
that election thing.
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