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Advanced Micro Devices gets a loan to build a German chip plant.

An early look at Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.0 will be available by the end of March, a company executive told the Seattle Times.

If you bought a Packard Bell-NEC PC in January, and surfed over to America Online, you'd better check your checking account. "Several thousand" of those PCs were programmed incorrectly at the factory, and users are being connected to AOL's $2-per-hour telephone lines, rather than to local (i.e. free) access numbers.

Internet use doubled in the past 18 months, a Nielsen survey reports, with women now making up 42 percent of the online populace. Almost one in four Americans over the age of 16 are online, the survey says.

Software is not all games and office suites: New earthquake damage assessment software lets emergency officials evaluate shaking, deaths and injuries minutes after a temblor strikes. The Early Post-Earthquake Damage Assessment Tool, can pinpoint damage down to census tracts and identify hardest-hit areas down to the zip code.

A misquote on the stock price of a New Mexico software firm caused panicked investors to trade down the stock, the company claims, in a lawsuit against AOL. AOL said the error came from S&P Comstock, and it has fixed the mistake.

Sounds like a search engine: Speaking of AOL, the company has added a new search service to its web site and proprietary service.

IBM with Intel inside: Big Blue will replace its own PowerPC chips with Intel chips in several new high-powered workstations. The PowerPC is still a "very strong platform," IBM execs insist.

Want to be a broadcaster but you say you don't look like Tom Brokaw? PointCast opens up its broadcast channels to anyone who runs a web site.

Repetitive stress injury cases have declined, but nobody really knows why; both government and business were caught off-guard by the statistics.

Digital's CEO had only good things to say about the Internet, at one of the opening speeches at Internet World, predicting the Net will be a boon to companies that provide network infrastructure and high-speed servers.

You've read up on Gil Amelio's address to Mac developers at Internet World, so try a few other Mercury Center tech offerings:

Tech execs get into education issues.
No rush to regulate Net, White House adviser advises.
Hewlett-Packard joins Dow average.
Cisco, Microsoft and Intel agree on multimedia standards.
Don't bet on it: Thinking of putting an online wager down on those Montana Grizzlies?