News Releases

HomePC Online, which can now be reached at its new URL, http://www.homepc.com/ (and on America Online at Keyword: HomePC), has reported a 66 percent increase in traffic during the past three...

CMP Media's LifeOnline Radio launched VivoActive Player version 2.0 today, allowing listeners to hear the show any time on the LifeOnline Radio web site. LifeOnline Radio...

CMP Media's First-TV is beta testing the newest version of the VivoActive streaming audio and video on its Internet-only TV/video network. CMP's First-TV and LifeOnline Radio...

Apple Computer Inc. (Nasdaq-NNM: AAPL) is considering raising the licensing fees for Macintosh clone makers, a development that some sources claim could make it prohibitively expensive for some...

Computer users wary of filing their taxes electronically since the news of a bug in a popular tax preparation software package hit the headlines, take note: From now through April 15, HomePC...

Network/IS professionals trying to cope with the explosion of the Internet into enterprise-wide systems now have a place to turn for help -- Internet Rx, a new question and answer feature...

Microsoft Corp. officials have informed a core group of developers that Windows NT 5.0 will not ship until the first quarter of 1998, according to a report by Mary Jo Foley and Stuart Glascock...

Robin Abrams, senior vice president of Apple Americas and the acting executive vice president of worldwide sales, is expected to resign from the company in the latest reorganization, said sources...

CMP Media Inc.'s Network Computing, a twice-monthly solutions magazine serving network and IS professionals, led the seven-title networking category in ad page growth for 1996, according to...

Award-winning, stand-up comedienne Margaret Cho, who stars in the upcoming blockbuster movie Face Off with John Travolta and Nicholas Cage, and is best known for her hit ABC sitcom All American...

Richard O'Hare, National Sales Manager for CMP Media Inc.'s HomePC magazine, has been promoted to Associate Publisher of the monthly magazine targeting the home computing market. The announcement...

Intel's much-anticipated Pentium Chip with MMX Technology has arrived, and consumers considering buying one should take a look at this month's issue of HomePC. In his cover story, MMX Power! The...

The Wolfpack clustering software Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) once promised for the first quarter of the year -- and then the first half -- is being delayed again, according to an exclusive...

In response to the burgeoning home computer game market, HomePC announced that it has launched Game Zone, a new section that is debuting in the March issue. Each Game Zone in-depth review rates...

Denny Matteucci, President of CompuServe Online Services, said the online service's new marketing strategy is alienating consumer users. "We have turned away some of the non-...

Noneducational charities are out of luck when it comes to getting discounted software from Microsoft Corp.'s Authorized Educational Resellers, according to a story posted on the Computer Reseller...

Intel's MMX technology may have taken hold in retail stores, but for the most part consumers are unaware of the technology. Only 9 percent of 300 consumers surveyed by the California- based Verity...

CMP's TechWeb® (http://www.techweb.com/) today launched the 10th Web site in the super site's collection of technology news and information resources: File Mine™. The site, at...

The commonwealth of Massachusetts confirmed that it has been contacted by the Texas attorney general's office and it is considering joining that state's probe of Microsoft's alleged...

CMP's InformationWeek, the newsweekly for business and technology managers, will launch an advertiser- supported daily e-mail news service early next month. InformationWeek Daily will provide...

As it marks its tenth anniversary, CMP's VARBusiness -- a leading source of information for more than 95,000 value added resellers (VARs), systems integrators, software developers and consultants...

CMP Media's Computer Reseller News delivered more ad pages in 1996 than any other trade or consumer high-tech publication tracked in the United States by the Computer Publishing and Advertising...

CMP Media Inc.'s NetGuide Magazine has acquired Online Access, the computer industry's first Internet publication. NetGuide will incorporate Online Access' paid subscriber base into its own...

CMP Media Inc. has acquired South Beach, Fla.-based All4One Search Machine, a metasearch Internet site that facilitates Net-based searches by allowing users seeking information to employ four...

Microsoft (Nasdaq-NNM: MSFT) is the subject of a recently-launched antitrust investigation by the state of Texas over the software giant's possible anticompetitive Internet and online commerce...