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Computer Tools for your business (7/25/00) (CNet.com)
Red Hat stock surge creates billionaires (09/08/99)
Red Hat Software, a driving force behind the commercial proliferation of the freely available Linux operating system, has made three of its investors paper billionaires in less than a month. (CNet/News.com)
On the Net, there is such a thing as free labor (09/07/99)
A growing number of Internet companies, including Netscape, Lycos, and Deja.com, are using volunteers instead of salaried staff to build their content directories. (CNet/News.com)
| Outlook on a Cell Phone The Intraprise Mobile Organizer is a mobile phone from the Swedish company LINQ Systems that you can use to send and receive Outlook e-mail, as well as do other Outlook tasks like group scheduling of appointments. You can even receive and forward attachments, according to the company, but not open most of them. You can, however, open and edit Microsoft Word documents. A printing feature lets you "print out" e-mails and documents on any fax machine. The catch? You need Microsoft Exchange Server, which could presumably be provided by a cell phone vendor. The phone should be available in Europe later this year. The company has not yet announced plans to sell the phone in the United States. (WinMag.com) |
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Apple, Intel unveil super-fast chips (9/01/99)
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple chairman Steve Jobs unveiled a computer chip Tuesday that he claims will "toast" the fastest chip made by competitors. The G4 processor, developed in partnership with Motorola and IBM, is the heart of what Apple says is the world's first desktop supercomputer. The new computers cost between $1,600 and $3,500 and mark Apple's continuing efforts to sell to business users such as architects, publishers and graphic designers. Rival chipmaker Intel didn't let the thrown gauntlet go unchallenged. CEO Craig Barrett announced Tuesday that the ''Coppermine'' Pentium III processor will be released in October. It will operate at a speed of at least 700 Mhz - more powerful, but not necessarily faster, than Apple's 500 MHz G4. Heartened investors pushed shares of Apple up 5 percent, to $65.25, a six-year high.
Windows CE Wireless Streaming Video (8/20/99)
Socket Communications and PacketVideo Corp. announced a partnership to support wireless streaming video apps for Windows CE-based pocket computers. The applications will be usable with Socket's Digital Phone Card and a digital cell phone, along with PacketVideo's software. Meanwhile, Israel-based Geo Interactive Media Group is rumored to be working on a Windows CE-based cell phone that supports streaming video. (WinMagazine.com)
New Computer Is Size of an Aspirin (8/14/99)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The latest from the cyberworld: an aspirin-size computer that, embedded in household appliances, could let people on the road or at the office use the Internet to cool their homes, heat coffee and tape TV shows. (Associated Press)
DSL modem standard gets final approval (6/25/99)
The International Telecommunications Union today gave final approval to a long-awaited digital subscriber line standard that could hasten consumer use of high-speed Net connections.
G.lite, often called "ADSL light" because it is a slower-speed version of asymmetric digital subscriber lines (ADSL), has maximum data download capabilities of 1.5 mbps (megabits per second). Other versions of DSL, however, offer much faster speeds. (CNet/News.com)
Cutting the Cord. New devices allow continuous connectivity (4/30/99)
It’s the new model: cyborg chic. We’re taking bits and pieces of the
network with us – in our hands, on our belts, in our jacket pockets. The
Industry Standard.
Fast Net access is here (4/20/99)
How fast you want to surf the Web is really up to you (and your pocket).
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