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PC Mag awards reward the hard-hit
News Some hard-hit PC-related companies got some joy at today's PC Magazine Technical Innovation Awards (TInAs) 1997. [27 Nov 1997]
Netscape claims 67 per cent of browsers
News Netscape Communications Corp. said more than 25 million people are using its Communicator browser, giving it 67 percent of the browser market, according to statistics from some of the most-visited Web sites. [27 Nov 1997]
Novell UK sees good times
News Novell UK today claimed a portion of the credit for the firm's surprise return to warmer fiscal climes. [27 Nov 1997]
Novell sees daylight in Q4
News Novell Inc. beat analysts' estimates by a whisker this afternoon, pulling in $7 million, or 2 cents per share, for the fourth quarter. [27 Nov 1997]
IBM cuts PC server prices, says share is up
News IBM Personal Systems Group yesterday said it was cutting prices by up to 27 per cent across its PC Server 330 and 740 ranges. [27 Nov 1997]
IBM will offer Pilot clone in UK
News IBM UK plans to release a clone of the US Robotics (USR) Pilot handheld at some point in the "next few months", the firm said today. [26 Nov 1997]
IBM plans to pioneer the sub-£1K PII PC
News Look out for the sub-£1,000 Pentium II PC. Systems based on Intel's fastest chips will be available early next year at around the £999 mark - and not just from the cheapest cloners. [26 Nov 1997]
CEO says Digital's done dealing
News [26 Nov 1997]
UK VP leaves Dell
News Two weeks ago, Dell had a VP for the UK and Ireland: Mike Newton. Today, it has no UK boss and headhunters are trying to find a replacement for Newton, who is at home. [25 Nov 1997]
IBM ships Java NC with Lotus applets
News [25 Nov 1997]
MS to back Net instant messaging standard proposal
News [25 Nov 1997]
End in sight for OS/2
News IBM's decision to move a number of former OS/2 managers and developers into a newly created network computing division is the final death knell for OS/2 on the desktop, according to developers and partners close to IBM. [25 Nov 1997]
UK to get Compaq CE 2.0 handheld in spring
News The UK will get access to Compaq's first Windows CE handheld PC in the spring of 1998. The number one PC vendor said today it will ship its C-Series handheld in the January-March quarter of next year. [24 Nov 1997]
Quotes of the Week, November 17-21
News [24 Nov 1997]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News Monday
Everybody is in Las Vegas for Comdex. I'm in London, struggling with PC Mag's 'Trends' column. It is lunch time in London, but nobody in Nevada has got out of bed yet, and the production team is showing signs of rattiness. [22 Nov 1997]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Monday [22 Nov 1997]
Martin Veitch's Weekend Comdex Analysis
News The mothership of computing trade shows came to earth this Friday, less with a bang than a whimper. [22 Nov 1997]
Comdex: Top 10 Wackiest New Products (6-10)
News Continues from previous story. [20 Nov 1997]
Comdex: Top 10 Wackiest New Products (1-5)
News [20 Nov 1997]
Comdex: Mitsubishi portables look strong for '98
News Mitsubishi looks like it could be a real contender in 1998 portable computing judging by the Japanese giant's booth at Comdex in Las Vegas this week. [20 Nov 1997]
Is Bill Gates throwing off the mantle of geekiness?
News [19 Nov 1997]
Comdex Fall: '98 touted as Year of Speech - again
News Cynics might argue it's not for the first time, but a slew of Comdex observers were once again ready to offer that next year may be 'The Year of Speech Recognition'. [19 Nov 1997]
Comdex Fall: HP system 'TRAKs' down missing kids
News A new system of spreading the word and high quality pictures of missing children has already scored significant successes in returning missing kids to their parents. [19 Nov 1997]
Comdex Fall: Dell prizes URL over phone number
News [19 Nov 1997]
MS delays NT 5.0, details Exchange Server 5.5
News At a press conference here yesterday, Microsoft Corp. Chairman and CEO Bill Gates presided over the official rollout of Exchange Server 5.5 and announced the first beta of its Windows-based Terminal Server, code-named Hydra. [19 Nov 1997]
