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Today’s top stories • IBM Offers To Make Web Services Mobile • Expedia Faces Second Lawsuit Over Hotel Data • Oracle Launches NC2 With Linux And StarOffice Tuesday, November 16: • Governor Proposes Tax On E-Commerce • Fashionable Fingerprints • Scale Through Software • Novell Finds An IT Foothold • Blame It On Rio: AOL Starts Brazilian Operations • Wireless RX: Prescriptions From The Palmtop • Tivoli Unveils Database Management • HP Unwraps Capacity-On-Demand Features • Nasdaq Down For 20 Minutes • Broadcom Looks To Raise Bar In Home-Networking • Mix And Match: Microsoft's Interoperability • Alibre Liberating Mechanical Design • Intel Launches Telephony Blitz For Dialog • Cisco, HotOffice Team On Intranet Solution • Intel Invests In Linux Software Company • Tech Stocks Soar Despite Rate Hike • Cisco CEO Sees Obstacles To U.S. E-commerce • IBM Unveils Payment Server • E-Vendors Grow Through Acquisitions • Corbis Offers Picture Of The Future • Start-up Rolls Out MPEG Encoding Software • Schlumberger Smart Cards Act On A WIM • Clarent, Siemens Unveil VoIP Router • Cable VoIP Trial Progressing • HP Chairman To Head Wine Maker • BroadWing Takes Flight • Microsoft Launches Website For Palm PCs • Active Voice Upgrades Unified Messaging • CacheFlow IPO Banks On Demand For Faster Web • SGI Unveils Linux Supercomputer • Microsoft Previews Project 2000 At Comdex • Vodafone Profits Boost Acquisition Stakes • Intel Launches Delayed 820 Chip Set • Torvalds Promotes Open Source At Comdex • Microsoft Launches Windows 2000 RC 3 Monday, November 15: • Unisys Makes ASP Play • The Appliance Buzz • NT Servers: Fast, Cheap, And Out Of Control • Corel Aims Linux At Desktops • A Better Remedy • Going Mobile; Siemens And NEC Join Forces • Lycos 1Q Earnings Meet Expectations • Pre-Meeting Jitters Send Stocks Sliding • E-Business Goes Bulletproof • China Steps Closer To WTO • Lining up for Linux • Gates Discusses Possible Microsoft Break-Up • RSW Software Improves Web-Monitoring Tool • Oracle Showcases Oracle8i Release 2 • Lucent Upgrades Sonet Chips • G.Lite Not Mass Market Delight • AMD Rolls Out Sleek, Stylish PC • Loose SCSI Standards Breed Incompatibility • Foundry Intros New High-End Switches • Qwest Sued For Alleged Slamming • IBM Plans Web Design Centers • Compaq Readies New Storage Capabilities • Compaq, Proxim Team On Wireless Networking • Merisel To Launch Auction Corner • Acer Buys Pivotal Networking • Net Drives VC Funding To New Highs • E-Book Market Moving Toward Corporate Use • Oracle Program Offers Rapid E-Biz Deployment • Comdex Rushes In Monitor Interfaces • Hutchison, Global Crossing In Joint Venture • Vendors Tag Team On XML Integration • Judge Halts Disney's Use Of Go.Com Logo • Online Brokerages To Form Online Bank • Citibank To Launch Foreign Trading Via Net • Red Hat To Buy Cygnus Solutions For Stock • Mannesmann Turns Down $106B Vodafone Bid • Gates Gets Personal With Web Devices Friday, November 12: • Mixed Reaction To Allegations Against Future • Don't Touch This; IT Groups Fear E-commerce Regulations • HP Scales Back Thin Client Efforts • Intel Prepping Release Of i820 Chipset • Bindview To Improve Upon Active Directory • Comdex To Showcase Win 2000, Wireless Wares • Market Rallies On Economic News • Tomorrow's Internet Is Today's Challenge • Japanese Propose System-Level Lingua Franca • NEC, Enhanced Memory Settle DRAM Patent Suit • Citigroup Sees Growth In Wireless Banking • Lexra Countersues MIPS • IBM, Oracle Join In Unix Standardization • Vodafone Weighs Mannesmann Options • Users Give 3Com E-Biz Strategy Thumbs-Up • Niku Intros Services Management Suite • Data Center Redundancy Keeps Benefits Online • SOC Market Opportunities Favor Fewer Players • CA To Launch Database Management Tool • Packeteer Helps ASPs Offer SLAs To Users • Intel Falls With Merrill Lynch Downgrade • Communications To Drive Growth At Cypress • Metricom Service Assists Mobile Data Users • Will Microsoft Become 'The Baby Bills'? Thursday, November 11: • IBM and EXE Partner To Bolster Supply-Chain Offering • Intel Software Spots Overclocked Processors • Earnings Improvement For Entex • Cisco To Acquire Cable Networking Firm • Frequent Viruses Spark Vaccines • Sunny Forecast for AMD's 4Q Earnings • Dell Meets 3Q Forecasts • Stocks Are A Net CEO's Best Friend • BSA Captures Pirates, Lawsuit Filed • Interest Fears Weigh On Stocks • Sony, Sun Team On Home-Gateway Software • Online Shoppers Don't Fear Y2K • Microsoft Shacks Up With RadioShack • IETF Votes Down Wiretap Proposal • IRE Adds Compression To VPN Devices • Toshiba 6.3-in. Display Offers Print Quality • Taiwan's Via Challenges Intel's Chip Dominance • Regulators OK Intel, DSP Deal • Internet Fuels Trade In Middle East • ASPs: To Partner Or Not To Partner • Analysts Are Bullish On Cisco's Future • U S West-Qwest Merger On Fast Track • U.S. Firm Eyes Internet On Chinese TVs • BT Shares Surge As 2Q Beats Forecasts • Microsoft, Gigamedia Hammer Out Broadband Deal • U.S. Charges Future Defrauded Top Chip Makers • Chase Ramps Up E-business Plans Wednesday, November 10: • IBM Preps High-Res LCD For Production In 2000 • MVP: Cisco Systems Most Valuable in Valley • Benchmark Battle Brews Between DDR, Rambus • Bucks for Beans; BEA Makes Strategic Purchase • Vendors Ready Option For Client Net Access • Experts: Government May Seek To Block Win 2000 • Organic LEDs Poised For Take-Off • Sun Paid $73.5 Million For Star • Market Rebounds After Profit Taking • Sun Launches Program To Sell To Dot-Coms • Lotus To Integrate IM Into Notes Client • Microsoft Shareholders Remain Loyal • Sun Scientist Says Rein In The Monopolist • Zircon Chip Guards Against Server Failures • Site To Spend $300,000 A Day 'Till Christmas • Vote For Net Wiretap Protocols Scheduled • Sun Brews Up New Java Tools • IBM Updates SMB Suite For Windows NT • DigiLens Eyeing Holographic Microdisplay • Compaq Introduces iPaq Internet Device • Lucent Beefs Up CRM Program • Epicor Rolls Out Data-Analysis Tools • e-Freedom Calls For No Net Taxes • Public School Software Learns To Share • Bigger Is Better At Being Y2K-OK • Microsoft Execs Reassure Shareholders • HP Envisions Apps Built On The Fly • Napalm Chip Burns 3dfx • AT&T Readies Promised Service Bundles • LSI Splits, Expands Communications Unit • Oracle Offers Support For Apple Media • Government Looks At Splitting Up Microsoft • Heavy Hitters To Team On E-business Centers

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