Last updated:Tuesday, April 15, 1997, 8:30 a.m.
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IMHO, the best stories today can be found on Mercury Center:

Criminal charges filed against Avant! executives
Intel earnings double
Netscape moving up its browser release
No flat rate for AOL's Japanese customers
3Com president to leave post

Samsung buys AST: Once among the top six PC makers, AST has stumbled; and now minority stockholder Samsung buys the remaining AST shares.

Take it with a grain of salt: It's a buyout rumor, but it's a good one-- Compaq eyeballs Gateway 2000.

Virus infections triple in the past year, in corporate settings, a survey sponsored by (ahem) antivirus software makers says. (Still, it wouldn't hurt to run that protection software sitting on your hard drive.)

Why do you do it? You know that it's buggy. You know it's going to crash your computer at least once. But ya gotta be on the bleeding edge, don't you? Here too.

On the day that Japan goes online with AOL, others are looking to Europe, where online access is expected to grow tenfold in the next four years.

Time's on her side: Kim Polese is one of Time's 25 Most Influential Americans.

Monthly statistics are out for Mercury Center. We can't share them here, but we welcome all folks from near and far, especially the single visitors from Nepal, New Caledonia and Tonga who've been dropping in for the past few months.

Wake up and smell the coffee: It's tax time in the U.S. The IRS web site is swamped; earlier, it would show only its text-only page. You're really going to need the second cup of coffee; besides, it's healthy. Just don't spill it on that 1040.