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News The infrastructure there is more like the US," he said. German consumers have adopted ecommerce faster than shoppers in any other country, according to a report released yesterday by Jupiter Communications. [31 Jul 1998]
Scottish clan redesigns tartan online
News Relative hunting has become a very popular use for the Web in the US. An ancient Scottish clan is taking to the Web in order to update its tartan. Some members of the Moncrieff clan are unhappy with the current red and... [31 Jul 1998]
Microsoft ordered to reveal Windows 95 code
News A US federal judge has forced Microsoft to reveal the secret code behind Windows 95. Microsoft has five days to comply with the court order. Utah-based software company, Caldera, is suing Microsoft for alleged unfair... [30 Jul 1998]
Visa puts weight behind smartcard firm
News Proton sells its smartcards to Western Europe, the US, Australia and Brazil. Visa yesterday gave its backing to a Belgian smartcard technology - Proton - with a view to making it the global standard for electronic purse... [30 Jul 1998]
In brief: Open Market announces latest Transact customers
News Ecommerce software specialist, Open Market, has announced contracts with Acer America, the US Consumer's Association, RealNetworks and SBC Communications. All four have signed deals to use Open Market's Transact product... [30 Jul 1998]
In brief: US sets up Net fraud taskforce
News The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has set up a special taskforce to combat Internet fraud. The SEC receives approximately 120 complaints each day referring to deceptions on the Web. Thirty cases of Internet... [30 Jul 1998]
Energis signs up European telcos
News Energis already has a number of similar agreements where it connects traffic to the fibre networks' of other operators in countries including the Netherlands and the US. Our customers expect us to be... [30 Jul 1998]
Email bug hides viruses from firewalls
News A group of Finnish computer researchers has discovered a bug in some email programmes which US reports are claiming to be one of the most serious ever discovered. But one security consultant has dismissed the reports as... [30 Jul 1998]
Web portals: here today, gone tomorrow?
Comment Normally, the providers pay us for being their host, but if a service leverages other content, we are prepared to pay for it," said Yahoo UK's senior producer, Ralph Everbach. Web publishing is well known as an industry... [29 Jul 1998]
Microsoft bites back
News Microsoft has filed a countersuit against the 20 US states whose charges of anti-competitive practices are currently occupying the software giant's legal team. US government allegations that Microsoft... [29 Jul 1998]
Computacenter may lose National Power contract
News Richard Kirby, senior buyer at National Power, said: "Obviously Computacenter can be in the running again but we are looking for a much bigger service and it will have to be competitively priced for us to look at it. [29 Jul 1998]
European Net chiefs reach domain name consensus
News The board will take over the role of Iana, the US-based organisation that currently controls most domain name registration. Global business leaders and heads of government gathered in Geneva last week to discuss the... [29 Jul 1998]
Bell Atlantic and GTE tie the knot
News The corporate marriage - which was leaked to the press over the weekend, around the time AT&T and BT were also tying the knot - will create the second largest carrier in the US after AT&T, assuming the deal is approved... [29 Jul 1998]
UK law firms turn to Elite
News Elite already has over half the market share among US law firms. Two UK law firms have agreed to standardise their systems on a set of groupware applications from legal software specialist, Elite Information Systems. [29 Jul 1998]
Net gambling issue opens transatlantic rift
News A rift between the US and European approaches to the Internet has opened up over the issue of Internet gambling. Late last week, the US Senate agreed to extend laws prohibiting gambling over the... [29 Jul 1998]
