8th January 2000 Archive

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• RealNetworks cuts big deals as market share shrinks

  And its legal case against Streambox is set back

  RealNetworks has, for now, failed to gain a permanent injunction against Streambox, whose Ripper software converts RealNetworks' proprietary RealAudio format into MP3 files. The temporary set-back followed hot on the heels of a mixed week for RealNetworks. On the positive side, it signed deals technology and digital music …

  Business 8 Jan 2000, 19:15

• Apple Palm-based PDA release real soon now

  Device in early production stages as Jobs confirms Apple/Palm partnership

  The results of Apple's co-development partnership with Palm Computing look set to emerge in the very near future, now that early samples of an Apple-branded PalmOS-based device have already started coming off Taiwanese production lines. Apple CEO Steve Jobs himself confirmed the two companies' close ties this week, during his …

  Business 8 Jan 2000, 19:19

• Clinton's Big Plan against cyberterror

  Gigolo-in-chief seeks 'serious money' from Congress

  US President Bill Clinton yesterday vowed to seek US $91 million from Congress to develop new tricks and tips to identify and defeat cyberterrorists bent on bringing civilisation to its knees. Clinton said that "there has never been a time like this, in which we have the power to create knowledge and the power to create havoc, …

  Business 8 Jan 2000, 21:13

• No Y2K cyberterror threats after all – FBI

  Damn, how much did we spend preparing?

  The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) reports no unusual cyberterror activity under cover of the Y2K rollover, despite months of sensational warnings and apocalyptic predictions involving doomsday religious cults, white supremacists, conspiracy paranoiacs and hostile foreign powers. The level of physical …

  Business 8 Jan 2000, 21:35