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Coppola inks Deal With MGM

``Godfather'' director Francis Ford Coppola has struck a deal to make his once-bankrupt production company, American Zoetrope, a major supplier for MGM_s newly revamped art-house distributor, United Artists, studio sources said on Tuesday. more »

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Attack Ad Star Defends Role

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AMD Beats Intel in Unveiling 1st Gigahertz Chip

Computer chip maker Advanced Micro Devices on Monday unveiled the first PC Processor running at a so-called ``clock speed'' of one gigahertz, beating its far larger rival Intel Corp. in achieving a long-sought milestone in the PC industry. more »

WebTV yanks email ads

Customer complaints have prompted Microsoft to halt a new WebTV practice of inserting banner ads into the email messages of subscribers of the TV-based Web service. more »

Romania Eyes Eurocopter Talks On IAR Selloff

Romania_s main privatization agency said on Friday it hoped to start negotiations next week on the selloff of a majority stake in local airplane maker IAR with European helicopter consortium Eurocopter, the only bidder. more »

Israel Cabinet OKs Lebanon Pullback

Israel_s Cabinet voted unanimously Sunday to withdraw troops from southern Lebanon by July, a pullback that would end an 18-year occupation. more »

Albright Faces Questions Over Czech Presidential Plans

US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright returns to the land of her birth Sunday to honor one of its founding fathers -- but not, she insists, to plan her return as Czech president. more »

CRIME TIME

About one-fifth of Latvia_s residents, 20.9 percent, say that they have been victims of a crime in the past 12 months such as robbery or assault, according to a poll conducted by the public opinion study center SKDS. more »

Deutsche Telekom, Global Crossing mull merger

Deutsche Telekom, which has said it_s looking to make an acquisition in the United States, held talks to buy Global Crossing. more »

ICANN Vote Plan Draws Criticism

Permitting at-large members to vote could allow fraud, study finds. more »

Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline Talks in Progress

Azerbaijan_s delegation to the latest round of talks in Turkey on the Baku Ceyhan oil pipeline project returned to Baku Wednesday evening. more »

Military Reform in Ukraine

Ukraine and NATO opened two days of talks on Wednesday with the tricky issue of military reform in the former Soviet state high on the agenda. more »

House bill would create 45,000 more visas for tech workers

A visa program for foreigners with prized technical skills would be increased by 45,000 this year under legislation introduced Wednesday by the chairman of the House immigration subcommittee. more »

Tele Danmark Buys Czech Internet Firm

Danish telecommunications group Tele Danmark said on Wednesday said its half-owned Contactel unit had acquired Czech Internet provider CESNET for an undisclosed sum. more »

Videoconferencing Coming to a Phone Near to You?

Orange, one of the UK's digital mobile phone networks, is already working on mobile videoconferencing. more »

CeBIT 2000: Digital Cameras Link Up To PDAs

Both Kodak and Casio are announcing digital cameras with pocket computer applications firmly in mind. more »

Venture Secures Downloads

Digital World Services (DWS) has unveiled new solutions and services for the digital distribution of music, videos, pictures and texts. more »

CeBIT 2000: e-brokerage software

WAP Banking Package on Show. more »

Wireless Access is a Breeze

While much of the wireless focus has been on LANs and data interchange between handheld devices, BreezeCOM has introduced a product to provide ISPs and public operators with a complete range of wireless broadband and wideband IP access services. more »