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IBM likes the odds, so it's mulling an entry into the Mac OS laptop market, with plans for a Big Blue machine running a 240 megahertz chip, and the Mac operating system.

Dell wants to double or triple the growth rate in the Japanese PC market in the next few years. Right now it has two percent of the market.

Netcom, which just said over the weekend that its Canadian experiment to knock online gluttons who tie up modem lines all day was being closely watched, decided to scrap the all-you-can-eat pricing for new customers. It's going to refocus on the high end market.

AOL goes to Japan with the same initial pricing structure that boosted AOL in the U.S.; 980 yen for three hours a month, and 480 yen for each additional hour. Those charges showed up on your credit card, didn't they?

The Great Web Shakeout: Out.com is out, and PoliticsNow is past. But there are still plenty of places to find news online.

Amazon.com has filed for an initial public offering today, trying to raise nearly $34 million.

Austrian police raided an ISP and confiscated its computer equipment in search of evidence in a year-old case, newspapers are reporting today. So the ISPs are going to shut down for two hours in protest.

The beauty of HTML is its simplicity, and hopes are high that dynamic HTML, which adds interactivity to heretofore static pages, will remain clean and elegant. But first, a battle between (guess who?) Microsoft and Netscape on the programming language.

A FOURTH bug in MS IE 3.0: It's a lack of security in the Document Object container technology. When a Word or Excel file is loaded into Explorer, other pages can use those DocObjects to access Excel's or Word's advanced Visual Basic Applications scripting engines, rather than the "sandboxed" or security-enhanced engine of VBScript, a source told Infoworld. Such a technique -- essentially creating macros on the fly from the VBScript page -- could be used to create or delete files, run applications, or set up and call .DLL functions Microsoft says it will be fixed by Explorer 3.02.

A class-action suit against 3Com alleges that company officials manipulated 3Com stock to an all-time high, and then sold their respective shares prior to the stock's nosedive in Feburary. Plaintiffs are seeking $59 million.

From Mercury Center:

Intel moves further into multi-media
Netcom to focus on high-end users
Lam to acquire Ontrak