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Hatch hearings: Now what?
News [04 Mar 1998]
Samsung ships 'quiet' 32x CD-ROM in UK
News Samsung Electronics UK claims it has reduced the noise and vibration levels of high-speed CD-ROM's with its newly launched 32x unit. [03 Mar 1998]
McNealy: MS must be scrutinised
News [03 Mar 1998]
Gates says Net too vast to be controlled
News [03 Mar 1998]
ARIS buys UK training firm Barefoot
News UK company Barefoot Computer Training has been bought for $7.8m by acquisitive US services company ARIS. [03 Mar 1998]
HP secures crypto export
News Hewlett-Packard Co. today added its name to the roll of companies that have received permission to export strong encryption. [02 Mar 1998]
AMD, Cyrix want IBM to cook more chips
News AMD and National Semiconductor are talking to IBM about sharing chip manufacturing facilities, according to reports from the US. [27 Feb 1998]
Dell denies Data General buyout rumours
News Dell today played down rumours that it is to mimic Compaq's purchase of Digital by buying Data General or another enterprise computing vendor. [26 Feb 1998]
56-bit encryption cracked in 40 days
News RSA Data Security said a group of computer programmers known as distributed.net has cracked the company's 56-bit key DES encryption code in the latest of a series of contests. [26 Feb 1998]
Netscape's Java browser in doubt
News Netscape Communications Corp. , still refining its client strategies, has put development of its Pure Java browser - dubbed Javagator - "on hold." [26 Feb 1998]
Sybase aims to be slimmer but smarter
News Sybase will tonight formally announce it is slimming down to fit its take on the new landscape in database computing. [26 Feb 1998]
Tech stocks hit all-time high
News Technology stocks on Wednesday carried the Dow Jones industrial average and NASDAQ composite to all-time highs in heavy trading. The Dow soared up 87.68 points to 8457.78 while the NASDAQ picked up 27.76 points to close at 1766.47. [26 Feb 1998]
MS plans March 9 ship for Office SME 2.0
News Microsoft said today it has no plans to release the next version of its full Office application suite to PC vendor OEMs. [25 Feb 1998]
Intel sees huge market in home networks
News PC chip giant Intel Corp. (INTC) believes it has the answer to home users' needs and the key to opening up what it estimates will become a $1 billion market in five years: [25 Feb 1998]
Merced makes early advances
News Merced is more than a year down the road, but Intel Corp. and its partners are ramping up their preparations for the 64-bit processor's arrival. [23 Feb 1998]
DOJ v MS: AOL, MCI called in
News As the chess match between the U.S. Department of Justice and Microsoft enters its latest stage, some analysts say the federal government is taking a page out of the other Big Story du jour in Washington. [23 Feb 1998]
Iomega shares take a dive
News Iomega, one of highest-flying stocks of 1997, is fast losing altitude. [23 Feb 1998]
A Year Ago: Borland cuts 30 per cent of staff
News Borland CEO Delbert Yocam is to lay off 30 per cent of staff and move more advertising to the Web in an effort to stem losses. 300 of Borland's current 1,000 employees will be laid off this quarter as part of a $60m restructuring plan. [23 Feb 1998]
IBM invests $20m in MR head plant
News [20 Feb 1998]
Intel to support Quantum Ultra ATA/66
News [20 Feb 1998]
European e-commerce user group launched
News A European e-commerce user group was launched in London today claiming it will attempt to "remove current technical and psychological barriers to e-commerce". [20 Feb 1998]
IBM to sell PCs via the Web
News IBM plans to sell PCs over the Web in a move designed to put it on a par with Dell Computer. [20 Feb 1998]
Intel to buy stake in Samsung chip business
News Intel is currently in negotiations with Samsung Electronics to take a stake in its semiconductor business. [20 Feb 1998]
Shinho trouble signals monitor market storm
News The monitor market is nursing its latest consolidation casualty today as South Korean monitor builder Shinho Electronics went into Chapter 11. [19 Feb 1998]
IBM and Intel team-up for Alert on LAN
News IBM and Intel have joined forces to develop a technology that will alert IT managers to a problem in a PC, even if it is turned off. [19 Feb 1998]
