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Article | 28/12/2000 Nintendo, Sega Strongly Deny Merger Talks
Video game manufacturers Nintendo and Sega today vehemently denied a New York Times report that the companies are in talks to merge.
Article | 27/12/2000 Report: OECD to OK Net Taxes on Music, Software
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is likely to approve a tax on cross-border Internet-based music and software sales wh...
Article | 27/12/2000 Palm Launches MyPalm Portal
Palm Inc. on Monday announced the availability of a trial version of its MyPalm portal, where users can download various online services from Palm, su...
Article | 26/12/2000 Study: World DRAM Market Expansion to Slow in 2001
Worldwide demand for DRAM (dynamic random access memory) will increase by 50 percent to 370 petabits in 2001, down on the 65 percent jump estimated fo...
Article | 26/12/2000 Sony, DoCoMo, Others to Launch E-Money System
Sony Corp., NTT DoCoMo Inc. and nine other companies announced plans Monday for a full-scale launch within the year of an electronic money system. The...
Article | 26/12/2000 Study: Digital Camera Shipments Soared in 2000
Worldwide shipments of digital still cameras will hit 10.8 million units in 2000 and are poised to rise higher still in 2001, according to an estimate...
Article | 22/12/2000 Too much beer causes hangover
An email-based competition offering a pallet of beer for Christmas can either be spam or a recipe for disaster.
Article | 22/12/2000 Kriz virus waiting for holiday strike
A damaging virus that has been in the wild since 1999, called Kriz, has been patiently lurking in networks for more than a year, waiting for its big d...
Article | 22/12/2000 Running late? Online cards speed the season's greetings
Want to send someone a Christmas card? Sorry, but it won't arrive on time. Or maybe, regardless of the season, you just want to dash off something fun...
Article | 22/12/2000 Infineon, Toshiba to develop new memory technology
Integrated circuit maker Infineon is teaming with Toshiba to develop a new type of memory technology, the companies said Thursday.
Article | 22/12/2000 Microsoft to acquire Great Plains Software
Microsoft announced Thursday it will acquire mid-range ERP (enterprise resource planning) and accounting software company Great Plains Software for $U...
Article | 21/12/2000 AuDA to manage .au domain
AuDA was formally endorsed by the Federal Government this week as administrator-in-waiting for .au, the national top level domain. Now all it has to d...
Article | 21/12/2000 CeBIT's little bit of Oz
The Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) today announced the 22-strong delegation that will be travelling to Germany next year to participate in the...
Article | 21/12/2000 Beenz.com announces layoffs, restructure
Incentive-based rewards company Beenz.com announced Tuesday that it has laid off 43 people from its UK and US offices and decided to move its focus aw...
Article | 21/12/2000 Britney Spears tops Lycos 2000 search terms list
Teen pop music idol Britney Spears finished the year number one on the list of most searched for people, places or things among users of the Lycos Web...
Article | 20/12/2000 Does shopping online cause pollution?
Clearly, Harry Potter is influencing a generation of young readers, but the fictional, English wizard-in-training has also inspired researchers at Car...
Article | 20/12/2000 Bertelsmann addresses Napster Nazi charges
Just weeks after forming an alliance with Napster, German media giant Bertelsmann on Tuesday found itself answering charges from German law-enforcemen...
Article | 20/12/2000 Aimster may end IM interoperability debate
Providers of instant-messaging services have argued for years that America Online has stalled movement toward a single standard for interoperability. ...
Article | 20/12/2000 EMusic sues MP3.com, alleges copyright violation
Online music provider EMusic.com said Tuesday that it has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against MP3.com and its My.MP3.com streaming media se...
Article | 19/12/2000 New master for blue dog
Gas and electricity specialist, AGL has acquired retail telecommunications company, dingo blue in a deal worth $22 million.

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