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Motorola is getting into the smart card business, which the company believes is going to change the way we all carry spare change.

Fox in chicken coop: Where do standards come from? By reflex, you might say the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). OK, where do the IETF members come from? The answer's changed in the past couple of years, from research and education, to commercial vendors. And isn't that like having special interest groups writing the laws?

Microsoft's new OS, known as Memphis or Windows 97, has been delayed, possibly until 1998.

WebTV plans to upgrade its software, and educate retailers about its product, in response to soft sales.

Badly designed computers annoy the mouse out of Michael L. Dertouzos, the director of MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science. He has some ideas on what designers can do to make the hardware fit humans, rather than the reverse.

Sony, NEC and Nichimen Corp. have invested in the Japanese unit of RSA Data Security, the encryption firm.

From Mercury Center:

Novell, Netscape form server software venture
Technology gives visually impaired people a chance