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Big deal: Hewlett-Packard is going to dish out $1.18 billion to acquire VeriFone Inc., the electronic commerce company.

Big screen PC-TV: Compaq is going to compete with Gateway 2000 on this new field; an optional DVD player may be included.

Pointcast has signed up more than 1,000 companies to broadcast information via its "push" technology.

Free e-mail providers Juno and HotMail are celebrating, respectively, a first birthday and a three million subscriber mark, but what's the catch? Ads, of course; unreliability, some users say; and lack of local dialup access in certain areas.

Free speech versus tough parent: Brock Meeks, one of the plaintiffs in the challenge to the Communications Decency Act and a free-speecher from way back, confronts his parental instinct when he finds out his sons have been downloading soft porn from AOL.

Price cuts are standard on PC hardware, but it's a new thing for Mac-lovers. Here's the latest: Umax cuts a PowerPC with a 180 MHz 603e chip to $1,200. Getting pretty close to the low prices of the NCs that Larry Ellison is talking about, isn't it?

It's quiet... too quiet out there today, boys and girls -- Microsoft updates its chat software and CU-SeeMe has a beta update available, but little news. We'll just quietly check out...

Domain-name accord fizzling
A student regent's hassles over official web page