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Nancy Weil
Digital Government
Candidate: Stall Internet taxes
The government should hold off on taxing Internet commerce for the next two to five years, Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman says
- By Nancy Weil
People
Congress approves H1-B visa bill
The hightech industry hails the vote to increase the number of H1B visas issued over the next three years by nearly 300,000
- By Nancy Weil and Sam Costello
Digital Government
Judge stops Virginia Net content law
Similar legislation has been struck down as an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment right to free speech in Michigan, New York and New Mexico
- By Nancy Weil
Digital Government
IBM to preload servers with Linux
IBM Corp.'s Netfinity servers will come preloaded with the Linux operating system, and users will be able to choose from three flavors of the increasingly popular opensource software
- By Nancy Weil
Digital Government
Minor Web security threat surfaces
Microsoft has acknowledged a minor threat posed by a 'backdoor' password in server software that could be exploited to gain access to Web pages
- By Nancy Weil
Digital Government
Red Hat debuts more scalable Linux
ERDAS Inc. has had its ERDAS IMAGINE 8.4 geographic information system certified to run on Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows 2000 operating system.
- By Nancy Weil and John x_Zyskowski