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Douglas Engelbart, progenitor of the mouse, e-mail and the Net, won the largest U.S. cash prize for inventors. The 72-year-old worked at the Stanford Research Institute when mainframes filled rooms, but he dared to think of the future where every desk would have a computer.

Another Apple rumor: This one says Apple may sell Newton to Sun. No comment from either company.

Top Taiwanese chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp is going to invest $14.5 billion in a new industrial plant where it will make chips and wafers.

Japanese and U.S. users of NTT Data Corp. and MCI Communications Corp. ISPs will be able to use a dial-roaming service that will let people hook up to the Net without calling their own ISPs.

Two Canadian cable TV systems are signing up with @Home to offer the cable Internet access to their customers. The systems, Rogers Cable Systems and Shaw Communications, also bought a 5 percent stake in @Home.

AOL says it's all fixed up now and it's time to advertise -- again. But look here: an "unusual" spike in sent mail delayed delivery to AOL users Monday.

Cell phones that can log into the Net and display text and graphics on a tiny screen were one of the featured attractions at the Washington Software and Digital Media Alliance conference.

Cisco opens an Israeli office to develop high-end switching and routing technology.

Social Security, bowing to the wishes of elected leaders, is removing personal data from its web site.

The rush to IPOs has slowed for Internet firms; only one so far this year, as compared to five at the same time last year.

Compaq buys modem maker Microcom for $280 million.

A pair of New York Times stories: You decide whether you want to register (free in U.S.; costly overseas) or not. They're about all the legal advice on the Net, and new mouse devices (Well, not all that new; they've been available for months. After all, this is the old gray lady we're pointing you toward and she's reliable, but not exactly cutting-edge).

Is push a bandwidth hog? So says a new study that indicates almost a fifth of corporate network traffic stems from push technologies. This is disproportionately high considering that push technology is only used by 12 percent of users, the study says.

Hitachi and Toshiba team up to provide high-speed networking products for the Internet and intranets.

Yahoo goes wahoo: Surprising lots of folks, those yahooligans at Yahoo had a profitable first quarter and a 50 percent increase in traffic in the last three months.

Need a chuckle? (Don't we all?) Check out a true confession from a web cult member.

Speaking of cults, maybe Heavens Gate (remember the movie?) wasn't so far off. Have you seen that scientists are speculating that there may be life on one of Jupiter's moons?

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