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Article | 2/11/2000 IBM cancels Crusoe laptop
With minimal comment, IBM canceled the release of a Transmeta-powered laptop Tuesday. The news comes as Transmeta plans its IPO on the NASDAQ stock ex...
Article | 1/11/2000 Feel secure? Don't be sure -- even MS got hacked
Hackers have been laying low, but a low profile may mask planning for an end-of-year splash.
Article | 1/11/2000 Gateway settles pricing dispute with US Government
Gateway has agreed to pay the US government $US9 million to settle charges that it overcharged the government for computer systems over a three-year p...
Article | 1/11/2000 Intel takes the axe to PC chip prices
Intel has slashed prices on its desktop Pentium III and Celeron processors by as much as one third, as the giant chip maker prepares to launch its new...
Article | 1/11/2000 Intel: we are Rambus RDRAM 'advocates'
Officials for Intel have said in the past that Rambus memory technology "is the recipe for performance" for the company's high-end processors, and a c...
Article | 1/11/2000 Bertelsmann forms alliance with Napster
Once enemies, Bertelsmann BMG and Napster will now form an alliance to develop a peer-to-peer file sharing service, the German company announced Tuesd...
Article | 31/10/2000 Privacy concerns holding back e-commerce
Almost half of Australia's top websites are collecting personal information without users actively providing the information, a survey of Australia's ...
Article | 31/10/2000 Nortel to inject $US350M into India's Internet
Nortel Networks is planning a $US350 million investment in India that will include Internet infrastructure expansion, research and development initiat...
Article | 31/10/2000 Was hack attack Microsoft's own fault?
The hacker attacks that Microsoft confirmed Friday may be much worse than the company publicly acknowledges, and they possibly expose security holes t...
Article | 31/10/2000 Report: Microsoft talking investment in News Corp
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is in talks with Microsoft over a deal that could result in the software giant investing about $US1 billion in Global Netwo...
Article | 31/10/2000 Judging Napster
Few legal battles are as technical as that of controversial music-swapping service Napster, which the recording industry sued last year saying the com...
Article | 30/10/2000 Barrett says Intel still a Rambus believer
Intel remains committed to introducing its forthcoming Pentium 4 processor with Rambus's high-speed memory interface technology, which Intel believes ...
Article | 30/10/2000 Compaq recalls Armada battery packs
Compaq Computer is recalling some 55,000 battery packs from Armada E500 and V300 notebook computers sold globally because the packs can short circuit ...
Article | 30/10/2000 Mobile phone users: big brother is tracking you
Jaan Jagomägi sends a brief SMS (short message service) on his mobile phone. A few seconds later, a map appears on the phone's display. It pinpoints h...
Article | 30/10/2000 AMD puts Athlon pedal to the metal
Understanding that the best way to maximize the speed of its Athlon processors is to crank up the performance of the surrounding platform, Advanced Mi...
Article | 30/10/2000 PlayStation 2 madness hits US
Believe it or not, you can buy a PlayStation 2 in the US -- if you're willing to pay as much as $US1500. That was the highest bid Thursday on EBay, wh...
Article | 30/10/2000 Microsoft hacked but downplays impact
The figurative klaxon alarms wailing in Redmond have died down to a low chime as investigators narrow their focus on what a hacker might have compromi...
Article | 27/10/2000 The dark side of the domain game
First a group of ISPs blocked customer access to Domain Names Authority of Australia for sending "misleading" letters. Now at least two more organisat...
Article | 27/10/2000 Broadband access restricted by Govt: Gartner
Bill Gates was right, according to Gartner Group: we are behind in terms of access to broadband services -- and Government policy is to blame, the res...
Article | 27/10/2000 Study says employees abuse the Internet
Research company Vault.com released a study Wednesday that shows what many managers probably already suspect: employees surfing the Web at work aren't...

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