Trade Exchange Closes Virtual Doors
After less than six months in business, digital marketplace M-xchange.com Inc. closed its doors this week, citing a dearth of funding options and downward pressures in transaction fee-based business models.
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MS developers voice .Net scepticism
Microsoft dazzles but struggles to convert
Microsoft to unveil C#, Java's competitor
Microsoft this week plans to unveil a graphical programming language, called C#, that's intended to make it easier for Windows operating systems to interoperate with other platforms through web services.
Lotus Cedes Desktop to Microsoft Office
Lotus Development Corp. is trying to more directly position its Domino server as a back-end messaging and collaboration alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s forthcoming Exchange 2000.
Study: the Cost of Love Bug Could Reach $10 Billion
Computer Economics Inc., a market research firm in Carlsbad, California, today said the "I Love You" virus that swept around the world yesterday could cause damages of at least $2.6 billion to companies and other organizations that were hit.
Zip Compression Inventor Dies
Computer compression software inventor Phillip W. Katz, 37, has died from complications of an illness.
Lotus CEO Resigns
With almost 50 million e-mail messaging seats credited to his tenure at Lotus Development Corp., the company's president and CEO, Jeffrey P. Papows, surprised observers last week and announced his intention to resign effective Feb. 1. Papows remained vague on his postdeparture plans.
GM steers drivers onto the Internet
Web system will integrate with GM's cellular and GPS technology