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P7 2B L8: The Intel-HP 64-bit chip has been delayed until 1999, a year later than originally expected.

Microsoft launches a new slate but not a new Slate, if you know what we mean. It's weeding time in Redmond, Washington, as Microsoft Network yanks the losers and plants some new programs.

Shelf space is incredibly important to retailers and wholesalers, and it appears that Apple Computer is being pushed aside at some of the computer chain stores.

Singing the blues: The Blue Note is a test case for ownership of domain names -- and if nightclubs with the same name 1,000 miles away can use their own names on the Net.

Shhh! You think, perhaps, somebody's snooping? VeriSign can now encrypt your mail sent from the Netscape or Microsoft browsers.

Artists and designers who use Adobe's Illustrator will find it easier to publish on the Web with a new version of Illustrator due out in May. The new iteration will support the RGB color palette, as well as other features.

Uncrackable: Crack our Mac server and win $15,000. That was the come-on from a Swedish systems consulting firm. One hundred thousand tried but none succeeded. This is a New York Times subscription-required story; if you don't want to register, go straight to the Crack A Mac page.

IBM wants to save you money: Well, if you're a corporate intranet client, it does. It will announce today a major initiative aimed at lowering the cost of owning, maintaining and upgrading personal computers for its corporate customers.

High-end gigabit- and terabit-speed routers may help solve the bottleneck woes for public wide-area networks.

Ready? Are we ready??? Twenty percent of U.S. homes are ready for high-speed Net access, a new study says. And we'll pay up to $40 a month for the speed. Here's a quote from the story: "Whilst over 17 million US households are on-line today, fewer than 150,000 homes will subscribe to high-speed services by the end of 1997." Whilst we wait, the world spins on.

You want your voice to be heard, you want your opinions to count. So join the Seventh Annual WWW User Survey at Georgia Institute of Technology. Don't sue over this, but we believe it's the longest-running survey on the web.

Struggling with JavaScript? Netscape has a new toolkit that ought to help you out.

They've got a drug for that, you know: Backbone congestion may be alleviated with a new server from Inktomi that lets network administrators locally store Internet traffic.

From Mercury Center:

The Silicon Valley 150: Profits lose muscle
Developers play a sour note for Apple's Rhapsody
Dan Gillmor: Online Pulitzers
Microsoft -- when will the other shoe drop?