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Cows unmoooved by signals

The things European cows have to worry about these days. As if mad cow disease weren't enough,...

EU postpones decision on on-line taxation

European Union finance ministers shelved plans to introduce value added tax on on-line transactions, setting themselves a deadline of the end of June next year by which to reach a decision. The stumbling block in front of an agreement is the question of how to charge the VAT on transactions between buyers of goods and services on-line inside the EU and sellers from outside.

Excite@Home not thrilled with glitch

Excite@Home Inc. recently suffered a server problem that kept a large part of its content and e-mail...

Government-funded incubators are a bad idea

I am writing in regard to a column in ComputerWorld Canada, dated Nov. 3, 2000. ("The...

IBM keeps up WebSphere standards push

Trying to bolster its recent Web-based standards initiatives, including its Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI), IBM...

Meet the hacker who’ll help steer the

Europe has sent an unlikely representative to join the board of ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). German hacker Andy M

Start-up claims breakthrough in optical switching

Start-up Lynx Photonic Networks Inc. says it has an optical-to-optical switching technology that's needed by optical backbones...

The overload is all-too real

As per the Nov. 3, 2000 issue of ComputerWorld Canada, I sincerely look forward to the...

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