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BUSINESS BRIEFS.(TO THE POINT)
TECHNOLOGY
Cisco buys two firms for $258 mil
Cisco will buy Hammerhead Networks for $173 mil in stock and Navarro Networks for $85 mil in stock. Hammerhead makes software that helps carry billing and security services. Navarro makes Ethernet switching chips. Cisco will take a 2-cent charge, writing off $145 mil right away. It's the first buys in a while for the once-acquisitive Cisco.
Oracle falls as Lehman cuts views
The business software firm slid 6%, falling intraday to its lowest since Sept. '99. Lehman Bros. expects Oracle's Q4 EPS to fall 27% to 11 cents as sales slip 21% to $2.57 bil in sales. The consensus view is 13 cents. Lehman cited price pressures, continued employee departures and a tough market environment.
Professor takes Microsoft's side
MIT professor Stuart Madnick testified he doubts a modular Windows could be made that would let computer firms remove certain features, as nine states have proposed. It would have unintended consequences, as the files are interdependent, he said. But he could name no other firm that links the Web ...
- MICROSOFT CHALLENGED ON WEB BROWSER.(Business)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) December 12, 1998 700+ words
Microsoft Corp.'s argument that its Internet Explorer Web browser cannot be removed from Windows 98 was challenged by a computer...filter that automatically places its greeting cards into a junk-mail folder designed for immediate discard. Until recently...
- Cyberscope.(video games; Comdex conference; Web browser)(Industry Trend or...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek November 27, 2000 700+ words
...com) is to manipulate little blips into a "cup," a task that becomes increasingly complicated on upper levels as "space junk" appears that can seriously screw up the trajectory of your blips. A cool techno soundtrack alerts fellow workers to your new...
- e-business: Beware the spy that lurks in your web browser.(Business)
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) May 14, 2002 700+ words
...companies build user profiles for statistical data or they sell it to third parties to do target advertising. Have you ever got a junk e-mail selling a fancy hair restoring product and wondered how they knew you were bald? Often, attractive free software packages...
- The Blue Wolf Network Announces the Release of Blackbook(TM), a Virtual Private...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 16, 1998 700+ words
...hottest hot-button of all hot-buttons!" The Blue Wolf Network is the developer of Em'ly (talking email); Deadletter (junk email filtering); SOL (a melting pot of ethnic personalities allowing AOL subscribers to culturally diverge their on-line...
- PalmSource Releases PalmSource Web Browser 3.0.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 28, 2004 700+ words
New Web Browser Offers Enhanced Performance and Ease...announced the release of PalmSource Web Browser 3.0, providing Palm Powered(TM...navigation capability. The PalmSource Web Browser 3.0 is specifically optimized for...
- PalmSource releases PalmSource Web Browser 3.0; New web browser offers enhanced...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire September 28, 2004 700+ words
...PalmSource: PalmSource releases PalmSource Web Browser 3.0; New web browser offers enhanced performance and ease-of...today announced the release of PalmSource Web Browser 3.0, providing Palm Powered smart mobile...
- 8x8 Adds Web Browser to Videophone Line.
- Press release article from: Business Wire September 23, 1997 700+ words
...a full-color motion videophone, web browser, and e-mail capability in a single...make the ViaTV Modular Videophone with Web Browser (model VC55) and ViaTV Set-Top Videophone with Web Browser (model VC115) the first true visual...
- Nokia Releases 'Web Browser for S60' Engine Code to Open Source Community.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 24, 2006 700+ words
...the engine for its leading-edge Web Browser for S60, marking a turning point in...of smartphone users worldwide. The web browser source code released by Nokia comes...today. "Nokia's open source based Web Browser for S60 leads the way for Internet browsing...