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• Bush Web Site Outperforms Super Tuesday Rivals'

  Among the presidential hopefuls in this week's Super Tuesday primaries, Republican front-runner Texas Gov. George W. Bush was the winner, at least in terms of Web site performance.

  Written by SAMI LAIS • 09 March 00 12:01

• Cisco, Compaq, MS to Launch Euro ASP Center

  Cisco Systems, Compaq Computer and Microsoft will together launch an ASP (Application Service Provider) Competence Center in France next month, the companies announced today.

  Written by Laura Rohde • 09 March 00 12:01

• EU Needs Pan-European Venture Capital

  Europe's lead over the U.S. in mobile telecommunications and digital television provide it with the opportunity to take the lead in electronic commerce, Erkki Liikanen, European Information Society Commissioner, said during a press conference today.

  Written by Elizabeth de Bony • 09 March 00 12:01

• Metcalfe's column: From the Ether

  Growing numbers of us "meterists" are building what I call the Pay-As-We-Go Internet.

  Written by Bob Metcalfe • 09 March 00 12:01

• Apollo Slashes Printer Prices

  Hewlett-Packard Co. subsidiary Apollo Consumer Products Inc. is marking a year of selling stylish, sub-$100 color ink jet printers by taking prices to a new low; with rebates, one new model sells for $19.

  Written by Tom Mainelli • 09 March 00 12:01

• Pinnz to Enter IP Telephony Market

  Pinnz Solutions International, specializing in Internet Protocol (IP) telephony infrastructure and applications, is looking to make good here with Singapore's telecommunications market due to be liberalized next month.

  Written by Eileen Yu • 09 March 00 12:01

• Iridium Quits South Africa

  Persistent problems in acquiring a license have pushed Iridium Africa Corp. to pack its bags and leave the South African satellite-based telephone services market, the company announced recently.

  Written by Gideon F. For-Mukwai • 09 March 00 12:01

• NetVision Bridges Gap Between NDS, Active Dir.

  With IT executives caught in the Us vs. Them directory crossfire between Microsoft and Novell, NetVision is hoping to offer coexistence by providing real-time synchronization of user data between Novell Inc. Directory Services (NDS) and Microsoft Corp.'s Active Directory.

  Written by John Fontana • 09 March 00 12:01

• Microsoft Registers Xbox Domain Name

  Two days ahead of a widely rumored announcement by Microsoft Corp. that it is getting into the computer game console market, the software giant has registered a domain name corresponding to that of the reported new console.

  Written by Martyn Williams • 09 March 00 12:01

• Chips Could Fuel High-Speed Net Access Expansion

  A new pair of communications chips could speed up the adoption of high-speed Internet access for business and home users.

  Written by Cynthia Morgan • 09 March 00 12:01

• UPDATE - IBM Strikes Biz-to-Biz Deal with i2, Ariba

  IBM, i2 Technologies and Ariba today announced a broad alliance that will include integration of some of their business-to-business technology, joint marketing and sales, and an equity investment from IBM in both e-commerce companies.

  Written by Rebecca Sykes • 09 March 00 12:01

• Sony Denies PS2 Memory Card Recall Reports

  Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) today denied reports, spreading fast across the Internet, that the company has issued a recall of memory cards for its recently launched PlayStation 2 console.

  Written by Martyn Williams • 09 March 00 12:01

• CMGI Beats Wall Street Estimates

  Internet business owner CMGI Inc. posted smaller-than-expected losses for the second fiscal quarter and saw revenues increase nearly three times from the same quarter last year.

  Written by Jack McCarthy • 09 March 00 12:01

• Disk Industry on Track for 100G Per Square Inch

  The hard disk drive industry is on track to achieve areal storage densities of 100G bits per square inch (bsi) of disk surface area -- the storage equivalent of the processor developers' 1GHz chip -- within two years, industry executives said here today at the Diskcon Asia-Pacific conference.

  Written by David Legard • 08 March 00 12:01

• Lucent Announces Interactive Communications Suite

  Lucent Technologies Inc. at the Computer Telephony Expo here yesterday unveiled a suite of communications-based applications that use technologies such as IP telephony, speech recognition, and wireless to deepen the level of interaction between users.

  Written by Cathleen Moore • 08 March 00 12:01

• Integrators chase services trail

  Network management centres may seem like the logical step to increase services revenue, but integrators and analysts warn of the planning and investment involved. Philip Pickering, director of services at network integrator Memorex Telex, said a great deal of training and software was involved in setting up a network management centre environment.

  Written by Vivienne Fisher • 08 March 00 12:01

• E-mail Me the Money

  In a move aimed at helping people send and receive money faster, Bank One Corp. today introduced eMoneyMail, a person-to-person e-mail payment system.

  Written by Kathleen Ohlson • 08 March 00 12:01

• Sun Pumps $300 Million into New Dot-Com Initiative

  Sun Microsystems Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Scott McNealy will announce an initiative today called iForce, which the company describes as a far-reaching program to help businesses of all sizes move to the Internet.

  Written by James Niccolai • 08 March 00 12:01

• Run Web-Based Apps Sans Web

  Web-based application suites are a good idea--when you have Web access. But when you're offline, you're off your applications. What then?

  Written by Liane Gouthro • 08 March 00 12:01

• Intel Lays Claim to Fastest PC Chip with 1GHz PIII

  As expected, Intel Corp. today announced that its 1GHz Pentium III is available -- two days after rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) said that it is shipping its 1GHz Athlon processor.

  Written by Nancy Weil • 08 March 00 12:01