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• IBM Demonstrates Voice Recognition on Palm PDAs

  As mobility moves the market for processing cycles off the desktop and into the palm, IBM Corp. today took a major step in offering a useable interface for devices with limited keyboards. The company announced an embedded version of its ViaVoice speech engine for handhelds and other nontraditional form factors.

  Written by Ephraim Schwartz • 07 March 00 12:01

• More ads than you can poke a click at

  US ad-serving company DoubleClick is, on average, serving 50 per cent more advertisements per day than during the fourth quarter of 1999, according to local managing director Rod Bryan.

  Written by David Smedley • 07 March 00 12:01

• EU IT Skills Gap Requires Urgent Remedies

  A consortium of major corporations led by Microsoft Corp. today issued a "call to action" urging European governments to act rapidly to correct the gap in IT (information technology) skills that currently plagues European Union (EU) industry.

  Written by Elizabeth de Bony • 07 March 00 12:01

• Awards Show Trips on the Red Carpet

  Last night, while TV fans were giving a nod to their small-screen faves at the TV Guide Awards in Los Angeles, Web audiences were being treated to another angle: the madness that is backstage. "I wanted people to feel they were allowed to eavesdrop in places they wouldn't normally be," Don Mischer said Sunday night.

  Written by Laura Rich • 07 March 00 12:01

• GraphOn Forms China JV for Server-Based Computing

  GraphOn Corp., a Silicon Valley maker of software for server-based computing, has formed a joint venture with Chinese conglomerate Tianjin Development Holdings Ltd. to bring the software to China's companies, schools, and government agencies, the companies announced this week.

  Written by Stephen Lawson • 07 March 00 12:01

• Web Surfers for Hire

  Search engines got you lost? Automated phone services got your goat? INetNow puts human intelligence to work for wireless Web surfers wary of help without the human touch.

  Written by Tom Spring • 07 March 00 12:01

• MS Prepares Reams of Info for European Inquiry

  The European Commission will receive reams of information when Microsoft Corp. replies to its February request for information related to an antitrust inquiry, a senior Microsoft executive said today.

  Written by Elizabeth de Bony • 07 March 00 12:01

• E-businesses Vie for Technology Ownership

  ADDING TO THE competitive climate in the cramped e-commerce space, some e-businesses are duking it out in the courtroom. Patents, once meant to foster and protect innovations, have become another means for companies to garner market share via public courtroom brawls.

  Written by Geneva Sapp • 07 March 00 12:01

• LaserComm Optical Tests Could Cut Bandwidth Costs

  LaserComm Inc. has completed testing of broadband technology that could lead to reduce bandwidth through use of optical network links.

  Written by Jennifer Jones • 07 March 00 12:01

• Study: IT to Help Kill 15,000 U.K. Insurance Jobs

  The U.K. insurance industry will experience the loss of up to 15,000 additional jobs within the next 12 months, on top of the 4,000 lay-offs already announced, due in part to the industry's need to hire new workers highly skilled in technology, according to a recent report published by Deloitte Consulting LLC.

  Written by Laura Rohde • 07 March 00 12:01

• Gizmoz - Nee Zapa - Gets Cash

  Zapa Digital Arts announced today that it has received $14 million in financing. In addition, it has changed its name to Gizmoz to reflect its core streaming-media product. Chase Equity Associates and Polaris Venture Capital led the investment in the viral marketing company, while America Online, Giza GE Venture Fund and 1-800-Flowers.com also took stakes.

  Written by Ben Hammer • 07 March 00 12:01

• Boutons les Anglais hors de France!

  Boutons les Anglais hors de France! (Boot the English out of France!)

  Written by Peter Sayer • 07 March 00 12:01

• Oracle Releases E-business E-valuator

  Oracle Corp. on Monday announced availability of an online interactive tool called Oracle e-valuator, which consolidates the company's consulting processes into a software program designed to assess where e-businesses are in their maturity level and to determine needs and opportunities.

  Written by Geneva Sapp • 07 March 00 12:01

• PeopleSoft Details ASP Plans

  As expected, PeopleSoft Inc. today announced the details of a plan to offer application hosting services to users of its business software.

  Written by Craig Stedman • 07 March 00 12:01

• Study: Y2K-Related Projects Linger

  Year 2000-related projects and repairs are still going on for large technology companies, according to a study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

  Written by Kathleen Ohlson • 07 March 00 12:01

• Valley trip up for grabs

  The deadline for the second round of Austrade's "Silicon Valley eBusiness Mission Competition" is less than a month away.

  Written by David Smedley • 07 March 00 12:01

• LiveMotion: Adobe's Flash Killer?

  Long known for its print graphics software, Adobe Systems Inc. is leaping into cyberspace with LiveMotion, a Web animation tool Adobe likens to Macromedia Flash.

  Written by Cameron Crouch • 07 March 00 12:01

• MusicMatch Updates Jukebox

  The MusicMatch Jukebox helps you organize your digital music collection and find out more about the music you like (or might).

  Written by Cameron Crouch • 07 March 00 12:01

• UPDATE: MS, News Corp.'s NDS in Digital TV JV

  Microsoft Corp. and News Corp. company NDS Group PLC have formed an alliance to develop software supporting digital television, hoping to accelerate adoption of digital TV by luring viewers with more features.

  Written by Laura Rohde and Margret Johnston • 07 March 00 12:01

• Philips Offers Technology for Tiny Video Cameras

  Philips Semiconductors NV, an affiliate of Royal Philips Electronics NV, today announced the development of a new chip technology that makes it possible to manufacture video cameras and mobile phones the size of sugar cubes.

  Written by Pia Landergren • 07 March 00 12:01