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90 percent of the software available in Lebanon is pirated, Microsoft says. The software company vows not to invest in the country until there's some protection of its copyrights.

More details are coming out about UUNet's new pricing plan which will charge as much as $6,000 a month to mid-size providers that once hooked up the vast UUNet system for free.

Another followup on the battle of Barnes and Noble v. Amazon.com, as Amazon prepares to go public and Barnes and Noble debuts its web site.

Oracle invades Philippines: If you think that's a little overheated, consider this: The highly successful networking company is going to build a Philippine computing infastructure based on the NC, and the deal is supposed to be signed Thursday, when the president of the island nation visits Silicon Valley.

Government reconsidered: A new Clinton administration policy on Internet regulation is in the works, senior policy advisor Ira Magaziner told PC Week.

Compuserve re-marketed: A new marketing campaign aimed at positioning Compuserve for high-end users has begun with 2.5 million disks snail-mailed out to users.

Sales jobs open: Compaq is going to hire 2,000 salespersons, 1,000 in the U.S. and 1,000 overseas, to improve its customer contact.

Is push technology a scam or the next best thing?

HDML? It's the Handheld Device Markup Language and version 2.0 is now out. You can get specs from the W3C or Unwired Planet.

No more Net virgins, declares a columnist in Salon|21st and boy, do we agree. While we're at it, let's ban all those tedious "cool places to surf" columns, too, OK?

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