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1999 - year of DVD?
News "The big surprise for us this Christmas was DVD," said Julie Wainwright, CEO and founder of online video seller Reel.com. The share of movie sales in the DVD format jumped from 10 percent in September to 36 percent so far this month.
[January 4, 1999, 8:47]
1999: The year in technology
News For your reading enjoyment, ZDNet over the new year has published a series of reports on some of the top technology issues of the year, the century and the millennium. An era of high-tech toys Fri, 24 Dec 1999 -- Looking back on a century of nifty...
[December 23, 1999, 6:37]
Psion profits up but warns on 1999
News The company made a pre-tax profit of £23.3m up from £11.4m for 1997 with sales up 13% to £159.9m from £142.m last year. The company warned, however, that 1999 won't be so easy. David Potter chairman of Psion said: "The shift to embedded modems is...
[March 3, 1999, 14:53]
A Year Ago: 1999 - The year in technology
News ZDNet News looks at the year - and the millennium - that was, including the rise of Linux, the coolest gadgets of the last 1000 years and why British hackers have been ignored For your reading enjoyment, ZDNet over the new year has published a...
[December 23, 2000, 6:03]
A Year Ago: Intel details 1999 Merced release
News Pre-empting next week's Microprocessor Forum, Intel Corp.today gave a more definitive timetable for the release of its first IA-64 microprocessor, code-named Merced. The Santa Clara, Calif.company said it will deliver Merced sometime in 1999 and...
[October 9, 1998, 6:33]
Compliance: The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999
White Papers The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, was enacted in part to protect consumers' private financial information. It allows consumers to control the use of their private information and to...
[October 9, 2009, 1:51]
Veitch Speaks: Let's stay together in 1999
News If there is a single word that will define 1999 in IT it will be convergence - and this time it will be more than jargon. Convergence is one of those God-awful words that people who call themselves other God-awful things like futurologists and...
[January 9, 1999, 5:27]
Intel details 1999 Merced release
News The Santa Clara, Calif.company said it will deliver Merced sometime in 1999 and that it will be built on a .18-micron process. Previously, Intel officials would say only that Merced would be available by the turn of the century.
[October 10, 1997, 9:27]
Jack Nicklaus 1999 Online Golf Championship game client
Downloads Jack Nicklaus has won more major tournaments than any golfer--and now here's your chance to win golf's first online major, the 1999 Jack Nicklaus Online Golf Championship. The game is open to everyone, with free registration, free...
[November 8, 1999, 23:57]
UK sees 1999 DVD sales explode
News The first full year figures for DVD sales released by the British Video Association (BVA) saw the UK dramatically outstrip the US, with phenomenal growth rates. More than 4.1 million DVD films were sold in 1999, compared to just 180,000 the...
[January 6, 2000, 14:11]
Leader: 1999 - an interesting year ahead for Intel
News For the first time since the days of the 386, 1998 was the year that Intel finally found itself under pressure from its rivals. That pressure -- mostly concentrated in retail and low-cost PC markets -- is clearly a target Intel aims to address...
[December 21, 1998, 12:20]
E-business hit the big time in 1999
News It was a banner year for e-business in the UK, as the high-tech industry grew by leaps and bounds. Established businesses such as telecommunications and Internet service providers grew and consolidated, and, perhaps most notably, Britain began to...
[December 29, 1999, 6:10]
New Economy jargon: Sooo 1999
News Signalling just how out of vogue New Economy buzzwords have become, technology research and consulting company The Yankee Group renamed a number of its business units this week, sans jargon. The Yankee Group's BtoB Commerce & Applications Research...
[March 2, 2002, 6:31]
US Report: Win 98 service pack to arrive in 1999
News The service pack will contain fixes to the bugs that have surfaced in the program, including the so-called cross-frame glitch in Internet Explorer and some security problems in the messaging software.
[October 6, 1998, 7:09]
ZDNet Events Diary -- Key Dates in 1999
News JANUARY MacWorld Expo: Moscone Centre, San Fransisco, USA. Telephone 001 781 9800 Developing Java Servers: Valtech, Corinthian House, 279 Tottenham Court Rd. Telephone: 0171 307 2300 Comdex Canada West '99: Vancouver, Canada.
[January 4, 1999, 5:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 8/11/1999 Watching Marks and Spencer reach the end of its natural life is a sad yet salutary experience. Its combination of dogmatic paternalism, barely post-Imperialist ideas about British being ipso facto best, and resolute indifference to...
[November 14, 1999, 18:44]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 25/10/1999 Excited by digital TV yet? I ignored it for a while until I saw a Sky setup at a pal's house: the combination of EPG (electronic programme guide -- sort of super Teletext system) and RGB straight to the TV make it a lot more...
[October 29, 1999, 19:16]
2000: The year of the chip
News The chip market is heading for boom times according to research from Dataquest, published Thursday -- but while US growth has the Internet to thank, in Europe the growth is driven largely by telecommunications.
[January 7, 2000, 10:10]
Nasdaq's retreat: Breather? Yes. Correction? Maybe.
News After jumping an unprecedented 86 percent in 1999, the Nasdaq composite is off to a rocky start in the first week of 2000. Down more than 400 points and counting, some market watchers are already calling this early slide the beginning of a correction.
[January 7, 2000, 9:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 19/7/1999 Laydeez and Gennlemen! In the red corner, the Hammer of Hemel Hempstead, Freeserve! Aaaaand in the blue corner, the Yankee Warrior itself, AOL! Ten rounds, no gouging of the punters, no hits below a million a month, and a good...
[July 23, 1999, 17:12]
