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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Microsoft Golf 1999 Edition demo
Downloads Microsoft Golf 1999 lets you experience the ancient game of ball and club on your PC. Realistic graphics bring the golfing ambiance to life, from the motion of the swing to the design of the course. In fact, many holes were created by famous golf...
[November 17, 1998, 5:21]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Presentation: 10 things you should know about the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
White Papers This informative PowerPoint presentation outlines 10 things that IT professionals should know about the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. In 1999, the US Congress passed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, formally known as the Financial Modernization Act of 1999.
[May 25, 2006, 3:17]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Monday 14/6/1999 In the immortal words of the Bay City Rollers, "bye bye eBay, eBay bye. It's one thing to have an Internet company that loses money now, tomorrow and forever. That's OK. It's also quite alright to have a company selling something...
[June 18, 1999, 17:23]
E-tailers face new rules, but same holiday rush
News Online retailers partied like it was 1999 last holiday season, blowing wads of cash on splashy television ads and major media campaigns, and offering freebies to consumers to get them to log on and shop.
[July 10, 2000, 14:32]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Monday 7/6/1999 Aha! Interesting email from a distant correspondent reveals that they were slipped a BT internal briefing on a new service to be launched on Tuesday. As you'll know if you've read our news service (though quite possibly not if you...
[June 11, 1999, 18:39]
