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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Stocks: An Investment Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: IVAN1 who wrote (7847)	11/16/1997 2:42:00 PM
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Again, an avalanche of new Y2k Press Clippings: year2000.com Here is a partial list: December 1997: Mutual Funds Magazine: Year 2000 November 17, 1997: U.S. News & World Report: Latest software nightmare: The currency change in Europe could cost U.S. firms billions Information Week: Racing To 2000 -- April 2, 1997 Information Week: Let's Dance Information Week: IT Confidential Computer Reseller News: The Year in Review -- April 1997 November 16, 1997: The Sunday Times (London): Stores sell PCs with the millennium bug The Sunday Times (London): Millennium bug must be swatted November 15, 1997: Deseret News: Agencies seek funds to avert year 2000 computer glitches VAR Business: Integrator Opportunities -- Routers Could Spoil Year 2000 Plan The Times (London): The 00 generation arrives Computerworld New Zealand: Government departments face Y2K audit November 14, 1997: American Banker: Fed Vows Crackdown on Year-2000 Snafus Bloomberg News: Year 2000 Companies Hit a Rough Patch PA News: Insurers "Cannot and will not" pay over Y2K The Boston Globe: Investors grow wary of year 2000 firms The Independent (London): Businesses warned insurers will not cover IT timebomb Daily Herald (Arlington Hts. IL): On Jan. 1, 2000, forget airplanes - and walk November 13, 1997: USA Today: Year 2000 bug sparks panic CNNfn: No millennium insurance: British insurers will not cover damage caused by the year 2000 bug Reuters: UK insurers say companies must bear 2000 risk Computerworld: Insurance firms say year 2000 bug is top tech woe ComputerWeekly: Date change fears come home to Blair ComputerWeekly: Bomb has insurers diving for cover ComputerWeekly: Rival year 2000 testing bodies fall out over PCs ComputerWeekly: Tax system changes to go ahead despite millennium ComputerWeekly: New body to put rail network on track for date compliance ComputerWeekly: Reuters gives users news on millennium compliance Wisconsin State Journal: Techno Treat or Hardware Headache? At This Exposition, It Depends on Your Geek Factor PA News: Government to issue plans on internet Reuters: SEC chief urges advisers to prepare for year 2000 November 12, 1997: CNNfn: A recession in 2000? Economist warns of severe slump unless deadline for fixing bug is met Reuters: BankAmerica hedging bets on future of Internet Orlando Sentinel: Home alert: The Millennium Bug cometh New York Times: Real Estate: For Building Operators, a Taste Of The Year 2000 In '99? (registration free in the US) Computerworld: KLM may cancel flights as year 2000 precaution Financial Times: Britain: Ministries miss own computer 'bomb' deadline (requires free registration) Juneau Empire: A century of headaches (requires paid registration) November 11, 1997: Deseret News: Proposed bill forces businesses to fix year-2000 computer glitch Lancaster (PA) New Era: City tackles year-2000 computer bug: Negotiating contract with firm to fix glitch The Salt Lake Tribune: Bennett's Year 2000 Act May Need Some Tuning; Computer Act Might Need Some Tuning TechWeb: Year 2000 Glitch May Ground KLM Flights News.com/Reuters: Senator pushes for Y2K disclosure Computerworld: Bill requires more Y2K disclosure November 10, 1997: Deseret News: Supermodel poses super question: What about Y2K? InfoWorld: Year-2000 desktop infrastructure: Debacle on the desktop International Herald Tribune: Novell's CEO Dares Europe to Take Some Risks The New York Times: Foreign Banks Are Behind in Repairing 2000 Bug (registration free in the US) Triangle Business Journal: Look for Year 2000 issue to fill courts InformationWeek: Look Beyond Year 2000 -- Immersion in millennium work can save the day but kill a career. Find time to keep your team up to date on technology InformationWeek: Year 2000:No Small Job -- Small and midsize companies struggle to get their code ready for the new century InformationWeek: Banks Bracing For Year 2000 InternetWeek: Year 2000 Quirks Will Hit Us Slowly InternetWeek: House Gets Year 2000 Earful InternetWeek: Is Network Gear Y2K Vulnerable? You Bet --Devices built before 1996 pose greatest threat; integrator aims to help users quantify problem InternetWeek: NCR, AT&T Do Y2K Computer Reseller News: Les Alberthal -- EDS Computer Reseller News: Take time and review facts Fortune: The Spirit is Willing NZ InfoTech Weekly: Year 2000 books published ComputerWorld: Swatting the Y2K bug Los Angeles Times: Year 2000's Computer Problem Chicago Tribune/Reuters: SEC Chief Prods Firms On Year 2000 Problem Computerworld New Zealand: We're ready for year 2000, say Kiwi managers The Business Journal of Milwaukee: Local banks bank on year 2000 Austin American-Statesman: Industry springs up around firms offering to exterminate 'millennium bug' Austin American-Statesman: The year 2000 glitch: Much ado about digits BBC News: Insurers take steps to avoid 'millennium bug' payouts The State (Columbia SC): Bill would force businesses to disclose Year 2000 problems The Virginian-Pilot: The ''Year 2000'' problem nears for computers that can't handle a new century San Diego Daily Transcript: Tech Firm Going Public To Prepare For Year 2000 By Heaven, square eaters. More meat, I say. --Beau. & Fl. Bounced Czech (FBN - Bon app‚tit!)