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Intel is investing in a European satellite service which will send multimedia content to PCs.

Japanese telecomm competition rages on, as Japan Telecom announces its intentions to buy International Telecom Japan Inc. to create a rival to NTT, the world's biggest telephone company.

Wireless services just got a big go-ahead signal from the FCC, as the federal regulators cleared the way for local multipoint distribution service.

Spyglass, Illinois-based maker of Internet-related software, has closed its original office and is changing its focus to embedded software.

The Net fosters government accountability, at least in Finland, where the prime minister answered 300 questions from all comers, and concluded: "This is fun."

Those Microsoft IE patches are not total solutions. C|Net reports that "instead of completely deleting suspicious files, the patch leaves an opportunity for users to download malicious code by hiding a link to that code in the browser's cache." The current patches also don't cover MS IE 2.0 nor international versions.

On the other side of the Great Divide in computing, Apple has begun to refine what will be on its hit list come Friday.

Amazing numbers: Despite all the domain-name lawsuits, only about half of the names are paid for, InterNIC reports. There are now a million domain names out there.

Author William Gibson never imagined some of the current manifestations of the Net, according to an interview in the New York Times (free registration required) today.

Bastardized HTML? (Um, please don't eyeball our code after you read this.) Stylesheets should help, columnist Simson Garfinkel opines.

AOL e-mail users know this already, but they were offline for more than 24 hours, again.

Be there first, be the best: Winning in the tech game is all about branding, says a Yahoo! exec. (BTW, you can't read it on the web, but Harper's magazine has a hilarious item in this month's issue about hits returned in a search of Yahoo! news items.)

Don't neglect the fine technology stories on Mercury Center, either. There are a passel of 'em today. Our very earliest morning edition of GMSV, First Light, gives a capsule summary each day at 1 a.m.