Last updated:Monday, March 10, 1997, 8:30 a.m.
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Did you get a good look at the Comet Hale-Bopp this morning? I kept rubbing my eyes, believing my fuzzy eyesight was matching my fuzzy consciousness upon the return to the morning shift.

U.S. Robotics is going the cable access route, according to this late-breaking story.

No chip dumping, the European Union says, as it reimposes minimum price levels on DRAM chips from Japan and South Korea.

Hackers break into the NCAA web site and write racist slurs, anti-commercialization messages and an alternative sports idea.

Getting more like TV every day... Now comes CNN, which is going to start live video on its financial news web site. And Brandon Tartikoff, the once-head of NBC's entertainment division , joins AOL.

Three for one bug fixes for Microsoft Explorer are available at Microsoft's IE security site.

So many code names: Netscape plans a third generation version of its software, focusing on extranets. Let's see, there's the browser code-named Constellation, now there's going to be Mercury (no relation to Mercury Center, although our parent company does have investments in Netscape), and there's another product coming up code-named Compass... and that's what we'll all need if these codes go on much longer.

Toshiba enters the business PC market with the sale of its Equium series, which come loaded with high-performance networking technology, high-end 3D video chips, fast CD-ROM drives, new Intel "Cumberland" motherboards, and MMX Pentium processors or Pentium Pro processors.

Don't push, it's not polite: Except on the web, of course. The problem is, nobody, including the people who run some content services, seems to know what push is.

C|Net is going to start charging for some of its content, following the ESPN SportsZone model.

Success in business doesn't always translate to the public sector. Lots of new officeholders have learned that lesson. But India greeted one highly successful businessman as a head of state upon his arrival in India, according to the Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald.

You can't ignore 'em: A Java-based Microsoft Office is in the works up in Redmond, despite the competing technology that the mothership is developing.

Nothing provokes Net users faster than e-mail glitches. Microsoft and IBM e-mail users suffered delays during the first week in March for different reasons, but folks used to the instant transmission of most simple e-mail didn't take kindly to the days-long delays.

Nine-to-five? We don't do no nine-to-five here, mister. We don't do ties, either.