Last updated:Wednesday, April 30, 1997, 8:30 a.m.
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Now if someone would just answer: Qualcomm announces it's selling $300 million worth of digital phones to China.

Keep your wrists straight: Digital Equipment Corporation got mixed verdicts from the courts on injuries that some people said came from using their computer keyboards. A judge threw out one $5.3 million jury verdict but upheld another award of $274,000 for someone who said he got repetitive stress injury.

Boeing buys in to Teledisc Corp., which plans to spend $9 billion to launch 288 satellites by 2002. Boeing will build 'em. The system would be capable of high-speed data transmission, allowing Internet users to point a plate-size antenna at the sky and surf the Net -- even downloading video -- at breakneck speeds.

We have evidence: You've been dropping your paycheck at CompUSA, haven't you? You and a million others -- the superstore reports record earnings, based in part on $1.27 billion in sales last quarter.

Didn't we see this on "The Jetsons"? Utah is going to be getting some mighty smart roads as they rebuild portions of the interstates and state roads in the Salt Lake Valley over the next few years. Fiber optic cables, video monitors, traffic control centers... hmm, sounds like Silicon Valley-style traffic jams in the wide-open West.

Just call him boss: AST Research gets a new CEO, third one in less than two years.

Betting on his company: Netscape's Jim Barksdale will draw a salary of $1 in 1997, counting on his stock to provide walking-around money. He has the option to buy eight million shares of Netscape stock at about a nickel a share; it's now selling for about $26 per share.

Bug in the Java: Don't swallow! A Princeton team of scientists have found a new security flaw in Java that could let a hacker gain unauthorized access to a computer by impersonating a "trusted" software publisher.

Linking is good: That's our philosophy at GMSV; but Ticketmaster disagrees. It's suing Microsoft for engaging in "electronic piracy" by linking viewers of Microsoft's Seattle Sidewalk arts-and-entertainment site to Ticketmaster's site, bypassing advertisements and other content contained on Ticketmaster's home page. Question: Wouldn't it be cheaper for Ticketmaster just to put the ads on the pages that are getting linked?

Redecorating: Compuserve just cleaned up the house, so to speak, unveiling a new interface today. It's going to offer a subscriber-based web site soon, too.

Wireless Net access at 500 Kbps: That's right -- four times faster than ISDN, 20 times faster than good ol' 28.8 modems. It's going to be available in New York City by CellularVision. They're going to use the waves at the height of the newly licensed radio spectrum.

Spammers clogged Netcom's ISP Monday, affecting about 5,000 customers.

Multilingual in computer languages? Here's a new one to master: Tcl/Tk from Sun.

Buyer beware: No-name Pentium motherboards may cause you no end of headaches, especially if they skimp on the number and quality of capacitors that are required to smooth out voltage spikes around the CPU.

More sad Macs: For the first time, Apple has slipped off the list of top five computer makers, MacWeek says.

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