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Battle of the titans: Digital sues Intel for allegedly infringing on Digital patents when Intel designed the Pentium processor.
Not playing games: Nintendo's profits fell as competition heated up in the home video game market, the Japanese game-maker announced.
A hybrid modem that can be used on conventional phone lines and on ADSL lines is expected to be announced today by U.S. Robotics and Texas Instruments.
Fixing what's broken: Microsoft has patched a hole in the Windows NT and Win95 operating systems that could allow malicious hackers to crash users' computers over the Internet.
Notebook news: Gateway comes up with a laptop with a 13.3 inch screen display (and lots of other goodies) and IBM launches what it calls an all-in-one ThinkPad.
Handheld computer shipments are up 29 percent in 1996 and are expected to rise another 23 percent this year.
Unlimited domain-name registries? You and I can predict the confusion that would result. But apparently that's the idea floating around in response to criticism of the accord signed last month.
Search engine Lycos is in a $10 million deal with giant German media firm Bertelsmann AG that could make Lycos the leading provider of Internet search services in Europe.
Chip revenues are now expected to grow by only 4.6 percent to $138 billion in 1997, according to a new forecast released Monday by the Semiconductor Industry Association.
Need a raise? Probably not, not if you're a technology company CEO. Computer Reseller News reports of 141 chief executives reviewed, the average salary and bonus during fiscal 1996 was $906,147, and companies awarded the average chief executive stock options valued at $3.5 million if their stocks grow in value at 7.5 percent by the time it vests. So, who's buying lunch?
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It's one thing to sue your competitor. But suing your
vendor -- especially when you're in a critical situation like Digital is -- is taking a lot of risk, at least on its face.
-- Goldman Sachs analyst Rajiv Chaudhri
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Net group takes on Microsoft
X-rays enter the digital age
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