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Bob Metcalfe did indeed eat his words at the Sixth International World Wide Web Conference. He had predicted a "catastrophic collapse" of the Net in 1996. Not yet, Bob.

But web designer David Siegel 'fesses up in "The Web is ruined and I ruined it".

Chip makers are much in the news lately, and a consortium of semiconductor CEOs from three continents will meet in Hawaii this weekend to discuss how to further open the Japanese market.

You've got mail! (But you can't read it) We underestimated the AOL mail problem yesterday; it seems the mail wasn't delivered for three days, not one day, this week.

Have you seen those big Apple ads in any of the 16 major newspapers (including the mother ship, the San Jose Mercury News) this week? It's an eight-page pullout touting Apple's new fast Macs. You can see them at Apple's site.

Talks? What talks? Micron says it's not considering a buyout offer from Compaq because Compaq hasn't made one. A director with a loose lip may have made some comments, but no negotiations are going on, the company says.

The spirit of the Net: The AFL-CIO is using the new media to make an old but cogent point, that CEOs are overpaid when compared to workers.

Netscape is getting ready to announce Constellation's content. Constellation is a feature of Netscape's Communicator software that will "push" content to users. Sidebar: Who are the pushiest players in this technology? PointCast, BackWeb, Marimba, Microsoft...

The Well, the venerable online community out of Sausalito, California, may be sold to company president Maria Wilhelm.

Yikes! Tax time! And it's worse than ever, if you live in California and used TurboTax to file. The New York Times reports there's a calculation error in the software which means you're overpaying if you had income from more than one source, and you need to re-file. There's an TurboTax update available online.

Data smog: You know the symptoms: mouse hand, reflexive thoughts of searching the C drive when you can't find your car keys. It's information overload and you need to down-tech. Here are five tips how, and why.

Better pay attention to those tips now, because the heaviest Net users will increase usage fivefold in the next two years, one study postulates.

We were joking a few weeks ago when we labeled Windows 97 "Win98" because of all the delays. Looks like inadvertent prescience. Microsoft's executive vice president and chief operating officer Robert Herbold says early 1998 is a safe bet for the release date.

Looking for a bargain: Intel is going to cut Pentium prices later this year; whether that will be enough to keep customers from edging over to AMD's cheaper K6 chip, or Cyrix's chip, is a gamble.

The global market for databases is expected to double in the next four years, Dataquest reports, to a $10 billion.

Software that tracks web usage in real time is something that a lot of webmasters will be pleased to hear about.

From Mercury Center:

Power Computing plans to sell fastest Macs as clones for less
The Minister of Information asks a favor