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Article | 9/01/2001 RealNetworks, Texas Instruments ink alliance
Texas Instruments and RealNetworks hope to make Internet radio and streaming video portable following a strategic alliance to integrate their technolo...
Article | 9/01/2001 Digital Music Streams Beyond the PC
From MP3s to Internet radio, the Web is full of new sources of music, but who wants to boogie down in front of a PC?
Article | 9/01/2001 Consumer Electronics Show highlights smart gadgets
Convergence is the continuing theme of the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicking off here this weekend. Vendors are welding PC smarts to cons...
Article | 9/01/2001 Panasonic's 'post-PC' wares do double duty
Panasonic is pushing consumers past the PC with the introduction of a host of new audio players, DVD players, and digital Web televisions here at the ...
Article | 5/01/2001 Two sentenced in major e-mail spam scam
Two Russian emigres will serve more than two years in jail for their part in an e-mail spam scam that clogged US ISPs (Internet service providers) wit...
Article | 5/01/2001 Yahoo Nazi ban gets mixed Reactions
In the battle between US Web portal Yahoo and French courts banning Nazi gear, the Americans have quit the field.
Article | 5/01/2001 MP3.com debuts next generation My.MP3
Online music site MP3.com Thursday presented developers and music-industry decision makers with tools for connecting retailers, labels and music playi...
Article | 4/01/2001 Napster signs deal with another major music label
Napster Tuesday announced a tie-up with Germany's edel Music -- one of the world's largest independent music labels -- that will give the music swappi...
Article | 4/01/2001 Mitsubishi Electric, Rambus ink licensing pact
Japan's Mitsubishi Electric has become the seventh memory chip maker to agree to pay royalties to Rambus for some of the most commonly used computer m...
Article | 4/01/2001 Linux OS upgrade beta ships to developers, testers
Linus Torvalds failed to make good on his latest promise to deliver the much-anticipated Linux 2.4 operating systems kernel by year's end, but did shi...
Article | 4/01/2001 Microsoft, Starbucks team on wireless Net services
Internet and caffeine addicts unite. Microsoft and coffee monolith Starbucks Coffee have agreed to jointly offer high speed Internet connections in St...
Article | 4/01/2001 Intel releases improved Celeron
New Celeron processors joined Intel's lineup Wednesday, featuring speeds of 800 MHz and a faster system bus, now at 100 MHz (previous Celerons used a ...
Article | 4/01/2001 IBM offers 'smart' diagnostic tool
IBM announced Wednesday that new IBM ThinkPad notebooks, NetVista desktops, IntelliStation professional workstations and eServer series computers will...
Article | 3/01/2001 Intel gets funky with introduction of MP3 player
Intel wants to be more than just the world's biggest CPU maker. The company has announced its latest consumer hardware device: an MP3 player with an F...
Article | 3/01/2001 IDC: Internet stocks to face more scrutiny in 2001
The tech stock madness which hit stock markets last year is not predicted to stage a comeback in 2001, according to IDC.
Article | 3/01/2001 HP eyes PICO system to reduce design time
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has begun tests of a new system that dramatically cuts the design time, cost and power consumption of devices such as Internet ap...
Article | 3/01/2001 In 2001, watch for faster, cheaper, and smaller PCs
Faster, cheaper, roomier -- been there, done that. When it comes to PC predictions, forecasts of greater speed, lower prices, and more storage and mem...
Article | 3/01/2001 2000: A year in review
The year started with a Y2K bug that didn't bite and closed with dot-coms falling like flies.
Article | 28/12/2000 Intruder Defaces Nasdaq-100 Index Web Page
A hacker that goes by the name "prime suspectz" cracked into a Nasdaq Stock Market Web server Saturday and replaced the contents of the Nasdaq-100 Ind...
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.

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