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Yahoo! News - US News
Downloads Yahoo News - US News is a gadget that will show on your desktop or Vista Sidebar the latest US News provided by Yahoo.com. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
[December 13, 2007, 10:47]
News Burst: US Snoops On European Encryption
News Details of a statement from Desmond Perkins, a senior official for the commission's cipher unit, were revealed in the French news paper Liberation Friday. Find out who's spying on you and how in our Echelon news special.
[March 5, 2001, 11:56]
Apple Hot News US
Downloads Modified for Apple's Hot News and Press Info RSS in the US. Features include pulls Apple's Hot News RSS and Press Information, scrolling headlines, and tooltip descriptions. Based on Rob Hawley's Engadget's RSS feeds widget.
[June 26, 2007, 11:31]
Online News Visitors Double In Week Of US Attacks
News The British-based BBC.co.uk and Guardian.co.uk news services experienced a significant growth in traffic that week, as well as the US newswires CNN.com, ABCNews.com, MSNBC.com and Time.com. The number of Americans visiting online news sites almost...
[September 24, 2001, 15:32]
US News Burst: Attorneys General Say Microsoft Action 'likely'
News "The decision on our action is imminent, and in my opinion some action is likely," Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal told the Times. I think it will be in the next couple of weeks. Several of the state officials told the paper they...
[April 30, 1998, 13:53]
US News Burst: Intel Announces Xeon Brand For Servers
News Intel will introduce the processors at mid-year with system products to follow shortly thereafter, the company said in a statement. This is another step in the evolution of our Intel Inside branding strategy," Dennis Carter, vice president, Intel...
[April 20, 1998, 15:26]
US News Burst: Compaq Income In Dramatic Fall
News Compaq today reported a 96 percent drop in net income for the first quarter, posting a profit of only $16m (£9.52m), compared to $414m (£246.43m) the year before. Sales for the quarter were up from a year ago to $5.687bn (£3.391).
[April 15, 1998, 16:13]
US News Burst: RSA Proposes New Crypto Standard
News RSA Data Security delivered to the U.S.government Wednesday a proposal for replacing the data-scrambling algorithm used in existing Data Encryption Standard (DES) encryption, now more than 20 years old, with a new algorithm designed by MIT...
[April 16, 1998, 7:00]
US Report: Online News Is Booming
News The percentage of Americans getting their news from the Internet - at least once a week - has tripled since 1995, from 11 million to 36 million, the survey says. That increase, however, isn't a threat to traditional news outlets: there's no data to...
[June 9, 1998, 6:49]
News Burst: Mandelson Welcomes US Lead On E-commerce
News The report is the first to come out of the US working group on electronic commerce and highlights five key issues vital to the successful development of e-commerce. These are infrastructure, consumer protection, developing country access to the...
[December 9, 1998, 12:22]
US News Burst: Europe Approves US Domain Plan
News The European Commission has approved a US plan for domain name administration, the Associated Press reported. US contracts regarding current Net management expire Sept. The plan calls for the creation of a non-profit entity that will manage most of...
[July 31, 1998, 7:00]
US News Burst: IBM Out Of Top Five
News Analysts say anaemic growth, combined with inventory issues, took a toll on the company. Full story to follow.
[August 5, 1998, 7:13]
US News: Intel Delay Xeon To Fix Bug
News The 450NX chip set was originally expected to be released next week, along with the Pentium II Xeon processor line. Intel began notifying OEMs of the errata, or bug, late last week, sources said. The 450NX, designed for use in PC servers, will...
[June 23, 1998, 15:13]
US News Burst: Toshiba Starts British Lab
News Toshiba said Thursday that it would set up a telecommunications lab in Bristol. The Telecommunications Research Lab will research digital cellular and wireless access technologies. It will have a research and development budget of about $16m...
[July 31, 1998, 7:03]
US News Burst: IBM In Speech Tech Pact
News The systems would allow people to retrieve information or conduct transactions over the phone without an operator or touch-tone menu. Financial terms were not released.
[July 27, 1998, 15:53]
US News Burst: Intel Shares Drop
News Shares in Intel Corp.are trading at 68 3/4, down 2 11/16, or 3.76 percent, in early-morning trading today. The company announced Friday that its next generation "Merced" microprocessor will be delayed six months.
[June 1, 1998, 15:44]
US News Burst: Toshiba Starts British Lab
News Toshiba said Thursday that it would set up a telecommunications lab in Bristol. The Telecommunications Research Lab will research digital cellular and wireless access technologies. It will have a research and development budget of about $16m...
[July 30, 1998, 7:03]
US News Burst: RealNetworks Shares In Free Fall
News RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser went before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week to whine about the unfair business practices of Microsoft, and coincidentally or not, the stock went into a free fall. It closed at 45 last Tuesday, down from 48 1/2...
[July 28, 1998, 11:14]
News Burst: The Net Will Make Us Kinder - BT
News Showing a previously hidden cuddly side, BT also believes the Net will make us kinder. The Internet will enable us to move from the information age to the caring age," said BT futurologist Ian Pearson.
[November 17, 1999, 15:24]
