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Return of Sugar may mean buying for Viglen
News [12 Feb 1998]
Sun focus may lead Tadpole into calmer waters
News [11 Feb 1998]
MS expects no legal hassles on Win 98
News Microsoft said today it expects no problems from regulatory bodies when it releases Windows 98 in the April-June quarter this year. [11 Feb 1998]
XML on its way to Web approval
News A key advance in the Internet was heralded yesterday as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the XML 1.0 (Extensible Markup Language) specification for recommendation. [11 Feb 1998]
AltaVista to add free e-mail
News AltaVista became the latest big Web site to offer free e-mail, announcing on Tuesday an agreement to license the e-mail service from iName, a division of privately-held GlobeComm Inc. [11 Feb 1998]
Caldera still pursuing MS case
News [11 Feb 1998]
A Year Ago: UK firms don't believe intranet hype
News UK companies aren't buying the intranet hype, according to research by a City of London-based investment firm. [11 Feb 1998]
Fujitsu takes on HP in network scanning
News Fujitsu is going up against Hewlett-Packard (HP) in the network scanner space. [10 Feb 1998]
Samsung has rights to future, unique Alpha chips
News [10 Feb 1998]
Samsung to make Alpha chips
News Digital will allow Korean giant Samsung to build and market Alpha processors in a move that kicks new life into the chip architecture. [09 Feb 1998]
Hayes, Cisco, Ascend pledge 56K modem interoperability
News Ascend, Cisco Systems and Hayes are getting together to ensure V.pcm modems really work. [09 Feb 1998]
Centerprise opens £3m Basingstoke plant
News UK build-to-order PC manufacturer Centerprise International today opened a new £3 million plant. [09 Feb 1998]
Martin Veitch's Diary
News Monday
AST redux; they're laying off half their UK staff and will now focus only on notebook PCs. [07 Feb 1998]
The Return of The Luncher
News "It's just like déjà vu all over again," noted The Luncher enigmatically. [07 Feb 1998]
Pie attack suggests Gates needs shepherding
News This time it was a custard pie in the face. Could it just have easily been a bullet in the gut? [06 Feb 1998]
MS could deal with UK pay TV firm on WebTV
News UK pay TV firm Flextech may join up with Microsoft on a project designed to inject some life into the nascent market for interactive television. [06 Feb 1998]
Analysis: Who will buy my Netscape?
News M&A fever seems to be in the air again and this time the matchmakers are citing Netscape with, well… take your pick. [05 Feb 1998]
Gates hit by Belgian phantom flanners
News Bill Gates got more than a taste of Belgium's reputation for haute cuisine last night when he was attacked by a custard pie thrower in Brussels. [05 Feb 1998]
MS, Micro Focus team to shine COBOL apps
News Microsoft and UK tools maker Micro Focus are teaming up to give those old COBOL apps a more modern look and feel. [05 Feb 1998]
Clinton advisor defends Net privatisation
News [05 Feb 1998]
SPA Europe boss defends anti-monopoly document
News [04 Feb 1998]
SPA anti-monopoly paper angers MS
News The Software Publishers Association's largest dues-paying member, Microsoft Corp., is none too pleased about the trade group's list of principles for assuring competition in the software industry, released Tuesday. [04 Feb 1998]
Lycos to buy personal home page firm Tripod
News Lycos Inc. (LCOS), in a bid to boost traffic for its Web-based navigation service, said today it acquired personal home page publisher Tripod Inc. in a stock deal valued at $58 million. [03 Feb 1998]
Amdahl sees end-to-end computing as key need
News [03 Feb 1998]
HP ships 333MHz PII workstation, cuts prices
News Hewlett-Packard followed up its crowning as number one in NT workstations yesterday by releasing a 333MHz Pentium II model and cutting prices through its Kayak range. [03 Feb 1998]
