Microsoft and Intuit, former rivals in the field of Internet banking, today announced plans with CheckFree to promote a single specification for online banking and financial transactions.
Called Open Financial Exchange, the standard will create a common platform and ground rules for conducting ... [read more]
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PowerQuest has released a patch for a flaw in PartitionMagic 3.0, the recently released version of its popular utility that re-partitions and maximizes hard drive space. The bug NT users who want to create or resize an NT partition.
Partition Magic 3.0 mistakenly detects FAT32 support in Wi ... [read more]
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Legislation recently proposed by Rep. Bruce Vento, D-Minn., would prevent Internet service providers from selling subscriber information to third parties without prior permission, but privacy experts say that although the bill is a good start, it won’t protect consumers nearly enough.
It ... [read more]
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Last year was a tough year for some PC vendors. Just ask Austin Computer. The mid-sized PC maker, based in Austin, Texas, and owned by Singapore-based IPC Technologies, has laid off over half its staff over the last six months. And the 12-year-old company has had three CEOs in the past year alon ... [read more]
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Ever have one of those days? America Online is having one of those weeks.
In the midst of scrambling to respond to a class-action suit filed by five California users this week, AOL experienced a system outage yesterday that shut out many users for about four hours. AOL traced the outage to a f ... [read more]
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Intel yesterday announced financial results for the fourth quarter of 1996, shocking Wall Street with record revenues, earnings, and unit sales. Behind the red-hot results: Strong sales of Intel’s Pentium processors, and growing demand for Pentium Pro CPUs as businesses move to the Windows ... [read more]
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With competition from Windows CE models heating up the palmtop market, Sharp has announced a new version of its popular Zaurus PDA, the ZR-3500X, for $499. The new Zaurus includes a built-in 9.6/14.4-kbps fax-modem, a PC link cable, and Microsoft-compatible word processing and spreadsheet softwar ... [read more]
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Internet telephony will spur the growth of collaborative multimedia applications over the Web, such as document sharing or videoconferencing, according to a new report by research firms International Data Corporation and Link Resources.
Internet telephony is itself an interesting application, ... [read more]
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