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Article | 7/02/2000 Antitrust trial briefs pile in
In a series of court papers filed last week by friends and foes of Microsoft, antitrust trial Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson got volumes of advice for ...
Article | 7/02/2000 ANZ stakes Free Net claim
ANZ Bank's move to acquire a 25 per cent equity stake in free Internet service provider Free Net is more related to e-commerce than banking, an indust...
Article | 6/02/2000 AMD to launch new breed of processors
Advanced Micro Devices on Monday will launch a family of 12 new souped-up Athlon processors, according to company officials.
Article | 4/02/2000 Corel's WordPerfect Office for Linux out in April
If you're a Linux user, and StarOffice, Applixware Office, or Koffice aren't cutting it for you, there is now another option. Corel announced that the...
Article | 4/02/2000 Calling all PCs -- voice over Net
Although real-time chat and instant messaging are hugely popular, voice over the Internet remains an obscure diversion.
Article | 4/02/2000 E-LOAN gets big yawn from big banks
Online financing has received a blow with two of the country's largest lending banks refusing to join a new Internet loan broker.
Article | 4/02/2000 Kodak, HP announce digital imaging venture
Kodak and Hewlett-Packard (HP) have formed a global joint venture to develop a system offering digital imaging capabilities for both traditional film ...
Article | 3/02/2000 SkyNetGlobal escalates wireless access via Acer
Wireless network provider SkyNetGlobal has signed a worldwide agreement with Acer to bundle wireless network access with its notebooks later this year...
Article | 3/02/2000 Let a thousand Linuxes blossom
Is Linux about to fall into the pit of a zillion different flavours, all at odds with each other? Not according to Linux Torvalds, creator of the open...
Article | 3/02/2000 Track Friends by Phone
It's 10pm. Do you know where your teen's cell phone is? Swedish company CellPoint Systems this week introduced a new application that allows you to tr...
Article | 3/02/2000 Microsoft files rebuttal
Microsoft on Tuesday filed its rebuttal of the US government's most recent court filing in the ongoing antitrust trial, the last stage in the case bef...
Article | 3/02/2000 Hackers object to ham-fisted movie business
A hackers' magazine has called for a worldwide protest outside movie theatres tomorrow against the Motion Picture Association of America's aggressive ...
Article | 3/02/2000 AOL hit with $US8b class-action lawsuit
ISP giant America Online (AOL) took a potentially damaging hit Monday as it was handed a class-action lawsuit demanding at least $US8 billion in damag...
Article | 2/02/2000 Mining company forges into interactive TV
Software giant Oracle has joined with Perth-based mining company Burdekin to form a startup to bring interactive TV to the local market.
Article | 2/02/2000 Judge reinstates Java ruling against Microsoft
A California district court last week reinstated a preliminary injunction against Microsoft in its long-standing legal battle with Sun Microsystems, l...
Article | 2/02/2000 Aust Post trials online bill payments
Australia Post is investing more than $20 million in a new Internet billing service set to go live later this year. A six-month trial of Internet Bill...
Article | 2/02/2000 Online Christmas a disaster as e-Santa goes missing
More than a month after Christmas, Australian retailers are yet to deliver up to one fifth of presents ordered online, according to a Boston Consultin...
Article | 2/02/2000 Sony opens first major e-commerce site
Sony has formed a new subsidiary to market the company's consumer electronics products online. Called Sony Style.com Japan, the new company is Sony's ...
Article | 2/02/2000 The Sony Emotion Engine: we're talking Gigaflops
Experts say Sony's upcoming PlayStation 2, and the Emotion Engine processor that will run it, could provide a challenge to cheap PCs as the entry-leve...
Article | 1/02/2000 McAfee to introduce personal firewall
A 1980s folk song said, "It's dangerous out there." But with hackers and crackers increasingly using sophisticated tools to probe PCs and plant Trojan...

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