News Burst: Microsoft 'beat up' Compaq over QuickTime
News Compaq officials were too afraid of Microsoft to bundle Apple's QuickTime multimedia software with their products, according to emails presented in the Microsoft antitrust trial this morning.
Update: UUnet outage in Atlantic
News UUnet has confirmed that it experienced a "brown-out" on its network yesterday, but pointed out that the cause of the failure came from a customer.
News Burst: Clinton Internet adviser to step down
News Ira Magaziner, who has served as President Clinton's senior policy advisor on Internet issues for the past six years, has informed White House officials he will resign shortly, a spokesman for...
AOL booted off chat network
News America Online's 13 million members have been kicked off EFNet, the oldest and largest Internet relay chat network, due to operational disagreements between AOL and EFNet administrators.
Tripod brings gratis model to Europe
News Lycos is to bring its Tripod free Internet service to Europe with every hope that it will create a new portal site to rival Yahoo or America Online.
Pentagon hackers banished from cyberspace
News A federal court has handed out a banishment sentence to the two teenagers who hacked their way into Pentagon computers last month.
Liquid Audio and Adaptec plough ahead with online music
News Downloaded music could soon form an integral part of our CD collections as Adaptec and Liquid Audio join forces to make music from the Internet accessible to writeable CDs.
US Report: Is WebTV a puppet in Microsoft standards war?
News Is Microsoft trying to shut competing technologies out of WebTV? That's the question on the lips of observers who note that Microsoft's set-top box service has grown very quiet about supporting...
'Halloween' - was it faked?
News For Microsoft critics, the posting to the web of two 'confidential' Microsoft memos suggesting ways to combat the open source and Linux movements was cause for celebration.
Too many flavours of Java, say those caught in the middle
News Someday, if the high-tech faithful are to be believed, you will be able to start cooking dinner before you leave work by sending a command from your office computer to the microwave in your kitchen.
US Report: Taxman says he never wanted to tax Internet
News About once a year for the past three years, word has spread that the US Federal Communications Commission was about to regulate or tax the Internet, triggering a deluge of protests by people all...
Events diary
News NOVEMBER
AYear Ago: E-commerce suffers setback
News First published: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 14:41:05 GMT

