BUSINESS NOTES NAPSTER TO BLOCK 135,000 SONGS.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. - The recording industry said late Friday that it planned to send a list of 135,000 copyright songs to Napster Inc., giving the file-swapping company until Wednesday to block their free exchange on the online service. The Recording Industry Association of America planned to send the list to Napster electronically sometime Friday night, said spokeswoman Amy Weiss. Napster then would have three business days to block the songs, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. an injunction published earlier this week by U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel Judge Marilyn Hall Patel (b. 1938) is an active judge presiding in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. She was Chief District Judge of that jurisdiction from 1997 until 2004, and heard several notable cases during that time. . - Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Sitestar growth credited to DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary ENCINO - Sitestar.net Inc, the Martinsville, Va.-based subsidiary of local firm Sitestar Corp., reported a 35 percent increase in high-speed Internet See broadband. subscribers last quarter. Sitestar's president and chief executive officer, Clinton J. Sallee, attributed this to rapid growth of DSL. - Daily News USAR USAR abbr. United States Army Reserve will wear Semtech brand NEWBURY PARK - Semiconductor manufacturer Semtech Corp. integrated its subsidiary USAR Systems into the main company, renaming it Semtech's Human Interface Device and System Management division. Semtech acquired USAR in December of 1999 and decided to rename it to strengthen brand name recognition. The newly renamed division develops interfaces for notebook, hand-held and other information devices. - Daily News Survey: Health the best benefit A study funded by Thousand Oaks-based health insurer WellPoint shows an overwhelming majority of women business owners Many online and offline organizations have been created to collect information about businesses around the world owned and operated by women. Many other organizations have been created to assist the women that own and operate those businesses. in California picked health insurance as the most important company benefit. Commissioned by the National Association of Women Business Owners-Los Angeles, the study surveyed 300 women owners, 74.7 percent of whom cited health care above other perks such as retirement (10.7 percent), vacation (8.3 percent), flex time (2.7 percent) and profit sharing profit sharing, arrangement by which employees receive, in addition to their wages, a share of the net profits of a business. The purpose is to give them an incentive to increase their output through enhanced morale, less wasteful use of materials, better care of (2 percent). In the event that health insurance became too expensive for the owners surveyed, 31.7 percent would cut other benefits to accommodate the increased cost; 25 percent would drop health as a benefit, 19 percent would decrease their own salary and 6 percent would resort to layoffs. - Daily News Diodes earning less than hoped WESTLAKE VILLAGE - Semiconductor manufacturer Diodes Inc. announced Friday that 2001's first-quarter earnings will not meet expectations following weakened demand. The company expects earnings of between $24 million and $26 million, down from $26.1 million in 2000. Income is also expected to sharply drop, coming in at between $500,000 and $700,000, considerably less than its $2.8 million in the previous quarter. - Daily News Intel shares fall as earnings dip SAN JOSE - Shares of Intel Corp. fell more than 11 percent Friday after the computer chip giant said revenues will be 25 percent below its fourth-quarter results and that it would cut its work force by 6 percent, or 5,000 jobs, mainly through attrition. Intel executives blamed the bad news on the current economic slowdown, saying it continues to affect demand for personal computers and has spread to other sectors, including networking, communications and servers. - Associated Press |
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