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AOL, Inktomi, Adero team up in race for Net speed

Author: JT Smith

America Online, Inktomi and closely held Adero said they formed an
alliance to help Internet surfers get information faster, reports Reuters.

General availability of LI18NUX2000 Globalization Specification

Author: JT Smith

The Linux Internationalization Initiative
announced today the general availability of the LI18NUX2000, Globalization Specification at http://www.li18nux.net, reports Business Wire.

Disney to dig into AOL-Time Warner documents

Author: JT Smith

Reuters reports, Walt Disney has asked Time Warner and America Online, which are seeking to merge, to provide copies of confidential documents filed with regulators to verify promises the companies will not discriminate against competitors.

Category:

  • Open Source

Cable ISPs Race Heats Up

Author: JT Smith

InternetNews reports, the race between cable Internet service providers Road Runner and Excite@Home got a little more interesting on Wednesday with both companies touting their milestone achievements.

USB 2.0 vendors push for early lead

Author: JT Smith

TechWeb News reports, Cypress, Philips, Lucent and others plan to flex their USB 2.0 muscles by demonstrating new controllers and transceiver chips for PC-to-peripheral interfaces running 40 times faster than the existing USB 1.1 standard.

Category:

  • Unix

Novell Sketches In Two-Year Netware Blueprint

Author: JT Smith

Novell, as expected, unveiled a two-year blueprint for NetWare, featuring plans to deliver a new version of its flagship product with much-needed applications server capabilities, by mid-2001, reports Techweb News.

Clinton allows Japan’s NTT to purchase Verio

Author: JT Smith

President Clinton will allow Japan’s NTT Communications to buy U.S. Internet service provider Verio Inc., a U.S. official said Wednesday, a decision suggesting he sees no espionage threat from the deal, reports the Associated Press.

HK poised for secure WAP commerce

Author: JT Smith

Hong Kong probably will be the first launch pad for an emerging WAP technology that could open up mobile commerce to major consumer purchases, reports IDG News.

Sprint lauches wireless Web effort for businesses

Author: JT Smith

IDG News reports, Sprint on Wednesday introduced Sprint PCS Wireless Web for Business that offers access to applications, corporate e-mail, intranets and corporate directories.

SuSE security announcement for netscape

Author: JT Smith

Linux Weekly News reports, two security problems exist in the netscape package as shipped with SuSE Linux distributions.

Category:

  • Linux