Last updated:Thurssday, March 20, 1997, 8:30 a.m.
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The company that mailed you those thousands of free AOL floppies and CDs over the past few years is going out of business, and they say it's because AOL won't pay the $2.2 million it owes. AOL says it won't pay a company that admits it falsified postal records.

MCI wants to be the savior of small-town America by bringing competitive local phone services, Internet and entertainment services to northern Iowa.

Bring your own modem: Or else you'll wind up paying $10 an hour for Net connections in the Hilton lobby.

Compuserve decides it can live without Time, but Time feels dissed when the faltering online service exercises an option to drop the newsmagazine's content in mid-contract.

A hacker cracked into The Well, stole passwords, deleted files and left Trojan horses in his/her wake.

Flame: The editorial director at ZDNet's Anchordesk flames Sun for being hypocritical as it promises to make Java an open standard, but keeps Java proprietary.

Stephen Hawking gets an upgrade, courtesy of Intel, whose employees discovered that the genius physicist was using outdated hardware and software. Now Hawking may be one of the most wired people in the universe.

Felons on e-mail? A fellow wanted in connection with bank robberies in the Silicon Valley has sent taunting e-mail to the police. The cops are tracking him.

Webmasters are learning that technical skills are only part of the job. Managing managers is as important as learning code languages.

Taking in the big view: A court has laid down the law on the AltaVista trademark case; ATI can't put up web pages that lead casual visitors to believe they've run into Digital Equipment Corp.'s AltaVista search engine.

Feeling smug, you Silicon Valley denizens who are pulling down great pay and stock options? We hate to burst your bubble, but the highest tech paychecks are in (gulp) Washington state. (Where it rains a lot. Of course, tech types work indoors...)

From Mercury Center:

Supreme Court justices ask "sophisticated" questions on CDA
"Internet" is copyrighted by ATM company
Hewlett Packard gets Windows NT religion
Digital cell phone security cracked
Push technology shoves columnist around
IBM buys into NetObjects