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Start translating: Microsoft releases Office 97 in Chinese. Can you say "juggernaut" in Mandarin?

What's this online news business? ABC has just dipped a toe the crowded waters of online news sites. It's also going to America Online, just to hedge its Net bets. Forbes has also discovered this new Net thing.

A real bug report: Worried about computer viruses and bugs? Better worry about computer-eating ants. Seriously -- they're in Brazil, and a biologist says they're a worldwide species.

We're all gambling on the Net with differing odds, of course, but Internet casinos are waging legal battles for life in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, and soon the Coeur d'Alene tribe is expected to place its ``U.S. Lottery'' game on line.

Toshiba plans a home PC that can be used with a television screen for watching DVDs and surfing the Net. It weighs only 8.6 pounds and is claimed to be the world's smallest and lightest home PC.

IPO plans are afoot for CMP Media, C|Net reports.

Microsoft and Citrix will provide a Windows-based terminal support for Windows NT server OS.

It's a bugaboo that's plagued Apple, and now it's bugging Microsoft: backwards compatibility for MS Office 97. You've noticed the problem if you're working in Microsoft Word 6.0 for example, and you're trying to open a Word 7.0 document someone saved in RTF (rich text format) and sent to you. You can't.

Danger for small ISPs: UUNet says get off my backbone unless you're willing to pay (more).

No two ways about it: Intel rules, the Economist of London observes.

You've heard of the year 2000 problem, but what about 2010? Well, what about it? Stanley Williams, principal laboratory scientist of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, thinks that's when Moore's Law ends.

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