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Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday the creation of the Classroom Teacher Network (CTN), a free, online service that will provide teachers with access to professional development tools, including software tutorials, links to Web resources and online seminars. Bob Herbold , executive vice president and chief operating officer for Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft, said the company plans to commit $26.6 ...
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- Microsoft, CTN, Web, Net, network, Web
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/30/ctn.idg/index.html
Microsoft has made yet another foray into the territory of the largest online consumer-service provider, America Online, by announcing the availability of a beta site that provides free hosting of Web communities.
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- Web communities, MSN, Microsoft, America Online, beta site, free Web hosting
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/05/msn.commune.idg/index.html
Microsoft is begging crackers to give it their best shot. Yesterday, Microsoft connected a computer running the beta version of its Windows 2000 operating system to the Internet, and Microsoft is actually asking people to breach security on the site.
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- Microsoft, windows 2000, hacking, security
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/06/crack.idg/index.html
Microsoft is dragging its feet on integrating IPv6 - an upgrade to the standard Internet communications protocol - into future versions of Windows, prompting Internet leaders to launch a behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign directed at Bill Gates.
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- IPv6, Internet protocol, Microsoft, Windows, Vint Cerf, Bill Gates, IETF
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/31/micro.stall.idg/index.html
Microsoft has officially moved into the embedded systems market with the release of Windows NT Embedded 4.0, which the company is aiming at retail sales, telecommunications, manufacturing, Internet appliances, and other vertical markets.
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- telecommunications, manufacturing, Internet appliances, Microsoft, Embedded NT, Windows, NT, Embedded, 4.0
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/11/msembed.idg/index.html
Microsoft will debut its new online role-playing game
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- Microsoft, Asheron's Call, Internet gaming, GenCon, game, RPG, role-playing, MSN Gaming Zone
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/06/asheron.idg/index.html
Minor league baseball's Carolina Mud Cats have boosted attendance this year by 40\%, thanks in part to a new fan-loyalty database.
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- database, Affinity, Minor league baseball, Carolina Mud Cats
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/03/mudcats.idg/index.html
NEC has developed a device that can bring high-quality video to next-generation cellular phones.
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- NEC, MPEG4, codec, video, cellular phones
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/03/nec.idg/index.html
The musical approach to social activism, the concert for a cause, combined with the worldwide reach of the Internet, is taking a huge global leap in what organizers ambitiously hope will lead to the end of 'extreme poverty' for millions.
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- poverty, concert, for, a, cause, social activism, music online, online concerts
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/16/netaid.idg/index.html
Critics say established ways of doing business are granted protection in cyberspace.
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- patents, Internet legislation, patent law, copyright, trademark, U.S., Patent, and, Trademark, Office, Internet, Web, e-commerce, e-business
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/24/patents.idg/index.html
There's never been a question that online shopping steals purchases from offline retailers. The debate has been how many. Now, a new report finds that some 94 percent of Web shopping comes at the expense of offline retailing. Jupiter Communications, a New York Internet research company estimates that, of the $11.9 billion consumers are projected to spend online during 1999, well under a billion, o...
- Keywords:
- Net, Internet, e-commerce
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/06/netsteal.idg/index.html
Net Talk hopes that users are ready to move on from text-based chat services.
- Keywords:
- chat, Net Talk, voice chat, software, text-based chat, services, Internet, online communities, chat rooms
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/27/net.talk.idg/index.html
After nearly a year on the market, Novell Inc.'s NetWare 5.0 has customers saying it could fulfill the long-held promise of single-console management for an array of corporate information technology components.
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- NetWare 5.0, network management, network operating system, network OS, Novell, network administration, enterprise
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/03/netware.ent.idg/index.html
A new industry group, of wireless LAN vendors, is taking a novel approach to the market. It's admitting there's a problem that blocks corporate acceptance of wireless nets.
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- LAN, local area network, wireless, WECA, Ethernet, IEEE, testing
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/23/langroup.idg/index.html
New Jersey's Technology Transfer and Commercialization Program (TTCP) will provide matching loans to 23 high-tech companies in the state that are poised to supply advanced technology products to the marketplace. The program is administered by the state's Commission on Science and Technology, a branch of the New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission.
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- IT, New Jersey, TTCP, high-tech, loans
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/20/jersey.loans.idg/index.html
IBM, Corel, and SuSE are among the horde of IT firms expected to use LinuxWorld Expo to launch or demonstrate new products based on the popular open-source operating system, including new servers and Linux releases.
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- Linux, new releases, LinuxWorld Expo, servers, operating system, open source, OS, IBM, Corel, SuSE
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/09/linux.expo.idg/index.html
A newspaper CIO helps an embattled industry survive and thrive into the 21st century.
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- newspaper, CIO, Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Steve Hannah, industry, digital, printed word
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/20/newspapers.ent.idg/index.html
Centennial Pro Lite, OnMark 2000 Assess test Y2K compliance for less than $50.
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- Centennial Pro Lite, OnMark 2000 Assess, Y2K, year 2000 problem, y2k, Y2K solutions, Y2K PC solution, Y2K-compliant, compliance, millennium bug, Y2K problem
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/23/toolkits.y2k.idg/index.html
Nike's intranet helps employees speed product information around the world.
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- Nike, information sharing, knowledge management, enterprise, intranet, Internet, product information, sales, data
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/05/nike.ent.idg/index.html
Free service lets you manage finances from a choice of portals.
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- Internet, bills, payments, online, e-commerce, home banking, portals, privacy, security, VerticalOne, one-stop shopping
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/03/onestopbills.idg/index.html
Dr. Edward Yardeni gets the doomsayer label because most other economists pooh-pooh the idea of any Y2K recession at all.
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- Edward Yardeni, Y2K, year 2000, year-2000 problem, millennium bug, Frank Hayes, Y2K recession, recession
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/27/411.y2k.idg/index.html
Or, if someone wants to link to your Web site, do you have the right to try to stop him or her? Ticketmaster thinks you do. They're back in court trying to stop Tickets.com.
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- Ticketmaster, lawsuit, deep linking, Tickets.com, links, Web sites
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/31/link.suits.idg/index.html
Stop the insanity. I'm drowning in a sea of 'e's. E-commerce was an understandable, pronounceable abbreviation for electronic commerce, but then people started adding the 'e' prefix to one damn thing after another.
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- E, e-commerce, language, abbreviations, opinion, Dylan Tweney, Net Prophet, acronyms
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/23/e.nough.ent.idg/index.html
This is the week of LinuxWorld Expo, in San Jose, Calif. And I'm looking for a number of events that must occur in the Linux arena before Linux can fully supplant Windows as the leader in enterprise computing platforms.
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- Linux, LinuxWorld Expo, enterprise computing platforms, Windows
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/10/linux.promise.ent.idg/index.html
Ramon (not his real name) waited two weeks for support from Red Hat before rewriting his BIOS to solve the problem. Who do you think helped Ramon in the end? Find out as you read this diary of a call to Red Hat support.
- Keywords:
- Linux, support, Red Hat
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/05/linux.support.idg/index.html
Too few of us are outraged when we experience a crash or a glitch. We believe that it is simply impossible to produce bug-free code, so we take for granted that all software is more or less buggy.
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- software, code, bugs, complaints, gripes, Nicholas Petreley, silence is deadly
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/17/stinks.idg/index.html
Looking for a straight answer on the Web? Accurate, intelligible information remains hard to get.
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- Internet, information, Net, Web, online, Web sites, Information Age, opinion, Stephen Manes
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/17/almost.info.idg/index.html
Prior to the Internet's existence, there were only three ways to make direct, interactive contact with another: face to face, by mail or over the telephone. Now we have a fourth way. And how we use it will make all the difference.
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- Internet, usage, communication, manners, e-commerce, strategy, marketing, sales, customer service
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/03/channel4.idg/index.html
Bob Metcalfe says always-on is new territory for the masses, and probably even you at home. There will be many new applications and many surprises, and it's about time we started to deal with them.
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- always-on, Internet access, costs, ISP, Internet service provider, cable, DSL, high-speed, residential, home networks
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/06/alwayson.idg/index.html
Even if your PC runs an antivirus program, the risk of a data-destroying infection is real.
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- virus, antivirus, antivirus tips, tricks, how-to
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/11/wilyvirus.idg/index.html
For those who break out in a cold sweat at the thought of not being able to keep up with e-mail at all times, relief comes with word that GoAmerica Communications is now offering access to all POP3 mail service via two-way pagers.
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- GoAmerica Communications, pagers, e-mail, access, two-way pagers, POP3, mail services
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/18/pagers.ptech.idg/index.html
3Com has released a special
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- 3Com, Palm Computing, personal digital assistants, PDAs, Palm IIIe, university students, college, colors, clear case
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/05/colorpalm.idg/index.html
CheckOut.com is cruising the produce aisles for new customers. The newly launched entertainment site is hoping its ties to giant grocery chain Ralph's will pay off in far-reaching promotional advantages, giving it an edge over established competitors like CDnow (CDNW) and Reel.com. Los Angeles-based CheckOut.com is the first Net venture of Artists Management Group head Michael Ovitz and Ron Burkle...
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- entertainment sites, Net, Internet, checkout, Web
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/09/groceries.idg/index.html
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- PC vendors, PC, of, the, future, future PC, redesign, USB, universal serial bus, floppy drive, ISA, PCI, parallel printer port, serial port, IDE, SCSI, IEEE 1394, FireWire, VGA, smart card, wireless Net, WAP, ATM, Ethernet
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/20/futurepc.idg/index.html
The Pennsylvania Securities Commission Tuesday unveiled an Internet fraud unit to protect the state's investors from the growing problem of online securities scams. The Internet Fraud unit is made up of seven staff members, including attorneys, investigators and examiners. The group has been scouring the Internet looking for securities irregularities for about two years. Commissioners decided to m...
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- Internet, Net, Web, fraud, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/19/fraudpolice.idg/index.html
Pilots with Australias national airline Qantas Airways will deliberately report in sick over the New Year period rather than fly international routes covered by potentially noncompliant air traffic control (ATC) operations, a senior Qantas captain said.
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- Y2K, year 2000, airlines, Qantas, Australia, flights, Asia, noncompliance, Air Traffic Control, ATC
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/27/pilots.y2k.idg/index.html
Police and other authorized personnel speed up access to 911 calls and cut down on false burglar alarms with Pittsburgh's Street Smarts database program.
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- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 911, Street Smarts, database access, police, information sharing, knowledge management
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/10/street.smarts.idg/index.html
Looking for something different than hack-and-slash RPGs and First Person Shooters? Well then, how about a dose of old-fashioned adventure in the same mold as Riven and Myst? Amerzone is just that, albeit with a decidedly French flavor.
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- computer game, Amerzone, adventure
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/18/amerzone.idg/index.html
Liquid Audio, a provider of secure music downloads from the Net, today announced its new Liquid System 5.0, which includes support for the popular MP3 format.
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- Liquid Audio, MP3 support, Liquid System 5.0, digital music, downloads, music, online, Internet, AAC, Advanced Audio Compression, SDMI, Secure, Digital, Music, Initiative
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/26/liquid.mp3.idg/index.html
If you've grown tired of Tomb Raider's constant cave dwelling and animal bashing, but enjoyed the third-person perspective and style of gameplay, Urban Chaos might be just the dark twist you're looking for.
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- computer game, Urban Chaos, Eidos Interactive
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/03/urbanchaos.idg/index.html
Psion Enterprise Computing, a unit of Britain's Psion PLC, this fall plans to release the netBook handheld PC, running the Epoc operating system.
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- Psion, enterprise, handheld, Epoc, netBook, Java, MQSeries
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/16/psion.idg/index.html
New Macromedia site offers a wider array of interactive entertainment for use with two new user control tools, Shockwave Remote and Shockmachine.
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- Shockwave.com, Macromedia, Web sites, multimedia, entertainment, games, online gaming
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/04/shockwave.idg/index.html
CAMPnet, billed as the largest civilian open-air Internet network ever created, sprang to life last weekend when 1,800 European and American hackers gathered at the Chaos Computer Camp outside Berlin.
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- hacker, Chaos Computer Camp, holiday, recreation, Germany, computer security, encryption
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/11/hacker.hols.idg/index.html
Descent was totally unique. It took the innovations of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom and turned their action style on its head. Now Outrage and Interplay brilliantly resurrect the series.
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- Descent 3, computer game, Outrage, Interplay
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/05/descent.idg/index.html
A graphical adventure based on Wagner's four-opera cycle, The Ring? Even opera fans need their computer games.
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- Ring, computer game, Wagner, opera, adventure
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/23/ring.idg/index.html
Federal procurement policy makers are drafting new acquisition rules that will require agencies to buy information technology that can be used by employees with disabilities. The rules, expected to take effect a year from now, would carry out a provision of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, known as Section 508, that says disabled employees must have the same access to information and data as ...
- Keywords:
- Year 2000, Y2K, computer, procurement, contract, award, CBD, policy, IT, CIO, information technology, IRM, buying guide, integrator, federal, government, news, product testing, DOD, Federal Computer Week, Government Best Buys, Federal Integrator Online, Bosnia, Power Players, Bureaucratus, search, agency, congress, legislation, security, management, market, web, 2000, FTS 2000, networks, events, ...
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/06/disabled.idg/index.html
Sanyo Electric became the latest Japanese consumer electronics maker to hop on the Internet music bandwagon with the announcement that the company will begin selling a Net music player early next year.
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- Sanyo, Internet, music, download, device, player, SP3
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/26/sanyo.idg/index.html
I'm siding with the critics. Hughes Network Systems' DirecPC satellite Internet access service is expensive, not always reliable, and sometimes slower than my old 9600-baud modem. But Hughes Network Systems will sell loads of its DirecPC service. I know, because I've been testing the service for the past three months. And in that time I've been shunned by customer support, seen access speeds reduc...
- Keywords:
- satellite, Internet
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/03/sataccess.idg/index.html
It was like an episode of Outrageous Police Chase Videos. Under my PC's hood, deep in a Windows folder, dozens of DLL files were wildly pursuing one another, careening out of control and smashing into my hard drive. After each collision, my system would shudder and crash. And I'd end up staring at a lovely blue screen with an ugly Windows error message. I'll bet you've had the same problem. Unexpe...
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/02/nocrash.idg/index.html
The Web is so large that using a search engine to find that little tidbit of information is like using a phone book with most of the pages torn out, a 1999 study from New Jersey-based NEC Research Institute concludes. Since no search engine indexes more than about a third of the
- Keywords:
- Web, Internet, search, search engine, exicite, FAST, ditto.com, bighub.com
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/06/searchtools.idg/index.html
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