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RSS warEuropean firms to get data protection standard
News If they are approved by the EC, they will help ease pressure on an EU vs US trade war," Glynn Morgan, partner at law firm Taylor Johnson Garrett, told Silicon.com. Sample legal contracts that will stand up to strong data... [25 Sep 1998]
In brief: Netscape breathes life into browser war
News Netscape has released the latest beta version of its Communicator 4.5 Internet suite. Called Preview Release 2 (PR2), the software enables users to select Netscape Navigator as their default Internet browser, and resets their home Web... [16 Sep 1998]
MSN UK gets revamp
News Gillian Kent, MSN's marketing manager, said MSN will win the portal war "on the strength of our content partners, the superior Microsoft technology and directory infrastructure". Microsoft's UK portal site, MSN, will... [09 Sep 1998]
BT close to Korean investment
News The sale of BT's 20 per cent stake in MCI to WorldCom looks set to give the telco a $7bn war chest for further purchases, and the company's international alliance with AT&T could hasten acquisitions in the Asia-Pacific... [01 Sep 1998]
Will Netscape lose the Web server war?
Comment Netscape is currently waging war in the Web server market. Web servers are a cornerstone technology for ecommerce - the buzzword that's on everyone's lips. Netscape's mission is to be the vendor of choice. [25 Aug 1998]
In brief: German telcos threaten price war
News Germany looks set to enter a telephony pricing war as two Deutsche Telekom competitors promise huge cuts for fixed line residential customers. Germany's o.tel.o will unveil price cuts at the beginning of September for... [24 Aug 1998]
Open systems vendor throws weight behind XML
News She argued that "XML will make the Corba/COM war obsolete. The search for an open interface standard has so far been concentrated in three camps: Corba, COM/D-COM and Java. But this week an object database vendor is... [13 Aug 1998]
In brief: BT continues Asian invasion
News Following BT's sale of its 20 per cent stake in MCI to WorldCom - and given that its ground-breaking alliance with AT&T should not prove too costly - the UK telco still has a war chest of over $5bn to pursue... [28 Jul 1998]
In brief: Telcos gear up for mobile satellite service price war
News The first telecommunications firms to offer satellite mobile phones are on the verge of a price war as they battle to provide the cheapest rates. ICO Global Communications has said it will offer rates at half the cost of... [14 Jul 1998]
In brief: Microsoft browser overtakes Netscape rival
News Zona Research's annual report on the browser war reveals that 55 per cent of the 250 IT professionals surveyed had a policy that specified Internet Explorer as the browser of choice. Microsoft's Internet Explorer has... [14 Jul 1998]
