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Students helping students: Seventeen MIT students are going to travel to China this summer to link five high schools to the Net and teach students how to run their own websites.

European PC sales are still growing, but more slowly this quarter. Sales are up 9.9 percent over last year's figures for this quarter.

A staged bank holdup like the ones you see in Western tourist towns helped a small software maker in Albuquerque land a huge contract with Chase Manhattan Bank. It just goes to show that imagination, as well as flexibility and quality, goes a long way in this tech business.

Back when Big Blue was a big bruiser in the computer business, a federal order was issued to keep IBM from monopolizing the marketplace. A federal judge must have looked into a computer retail store; he has decided it's time to lift the 1956 restrictions and "treat IBM like other computer manufacturers," the judge says.

Not really a surprise, but AT&T withdrew its application for a license to launch a new generation of communications satellites.

Buying times: Egghead buys Surplus Software in a deal valued at $31.5 million.

We knew AOL, Compuserve et al were big, but they connect 70 percent of U.S. surfers to the Net, a report by the Software Publishers Association says.

Consumer protection for users of those online services is finally starting to shape up. AOL, Compuserve and Prodigy settled with the FTC over complaints of abusive billing and marketing practices stemming from their heavily promoted free trial offers.

Does it add up? That's the question you should ask if you're using Lotus 1-2-3 because the latest version of the spreadsheet program will occasionally yield wrong answers, the company says.

High-tech theft alarms high-tech companies enough to put aside their competitive streaks and try to find a solution.

Even a billionaire has bosses: Did Larry Ellison back off his rhetoric about buying Apple because Oracle shareholders thought he was taking his eyes off the prize?

Streaming video is "like trying to shove an elephant through a keyhole" an industry exec says, but that isn't stopping anyone from trying to push the concept forward.

Foreign chipmakers are making bigger inroads into the Japanese market, the U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association reports.

Are you tempted? We are looking over the checkbook and scheming about avoiding the landlord for a month in order to buy one of those $2,000 Apple PowerBook 1400s now that they come with a free 33.6 modem card; then again, those Richochet wireless modems are pretty cool, too, and we could save a bundle on the laptop, and besides, the World Wide Wireless Web is starting to get much closer...

If you caught Katie Hafner's cover story on The Well in the latest issue of Wired, you might want to catch her chat with John McChesney. It's about a half-hour long and tailored for 14.4 or 28.8 modems via streaming audio.

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