Big numbers predicted for E-Commerce
News Purchasing goods and services online will account for 17 billion transactions per year by 2005 - that's roughly equivalent to half of all current credit card transactions.
The Rio has landed... hasn't it?
News The Rio MP3 player from Diamond Multimedia is in the shops according to a company spokesman, but ask him which shops and the words "mail order" and "soon" prevail.
US Report: Kidneys for sale on the Web
News On Web auction sites, you can buy just about anything for sale. Fax machines, football tickets -- and even those hard-to-find Furbys.
Music industry in panic - emergency meeting called
News Later today the US music industry is calling an urgent meeting to discuss ways of protecting itself from cyber piracy, estimated to be costing the record giants around $300m (£183m) each year.
Leader: AOL on the box? Erm... don't think so.
News AOL on TV has had a long gestation but precedent doesn't suggest that the gogglebox is going to replace the PC monitor in Web users' affections anytime soon.
3Dfx deal means no Voodoo 3 for Creative or Diamond
News Following yesterday's announcement that graphics vendor 3Dfx Interactive Inc. is to buy STB Systems Inc., some of the company's former allies are downright upset at the prospect...
Sun and Oracle go Windows bashing... again.
News Sun and Oracle bosses team up on yet another anti-Microsoft campaign, this time using Solaris as an invisible assassin...
News Burst: European online child porn ring cracked
News New Zealand's government announced Sunday that the discovery of child pornography on computers in that nation led an international team of investigators to crack a child porn ring centered in Europe.
A Year Ago: California Graphics plans New Year Voodoo 2 card
News First published: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 15:46:05 GMT

