Last updated:Monday, May 19, 1997, 8:30 a.m.
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We told you this on Friday, but in case you wanted the official word, Oracle's buying Netscape's Navio. (Take a look at that list on the right side of this page.)

Day of announcements:

LSI Logic will show off its cheap chip for digital cameras. Minolta is expected to agree today to use the chip.

Novell will announce new networking software and discuss its plans to "embrace the Internet" today.

Cuddle up with the mouse: NetChannel joins the other electronics makers in the Internet access via television market today.

Faster, faster: Bell Atlantic will announce plans for residential DSL (digital subscriber line) technology today. It's been tested in Virginia for the past year at $60 per month; DSL sends data over copper phone wires at least 70 times faster than a 28.8 kilobit modem. DSL also cuts traffic jams on the Internet by routing data traffic away from voice networks. You can use your phone and your new $250 modem at the same time and you won't need another phone line.

Aiming at UNIX: Microsoft unveils a slew of new products on "scalability day," a day aimed at convincing businesses to abandon UNIX and use the Windows NT instead. (The longer, New York Times version is also available for those of you who have registered.)

Block that spam: Aristotle, a privately owned Net company, has a deal with Cyber Promotions -- anyone who registers with Aristotle and requests it won't get unwanted e-mail from Cyber Promotions. Suspicious? You're not alone, but an Aristotle spokesman says it's a way to extend that company's database and Cyber Promotions customers are not interested in annoying people who don't want their mail.

All the cell phones in Japan and the nation's growing Net craze are expected to boost profits for NTT.

Sending checks by e-mail: Electronic checks containing address and phone number, driver's license, bank account and bank routing numbers, and sent via encrypted file to a shopkeeper is being touted as another online shopping option. But there's no user authentication.

Hewlett-Packard is cutting some business notebook prices by 13 percent.

Sun Microsystems is expected to avoid a U.S. ban on selling its encryption technology overseas by licensing former Soviet rocket scientists to do it for them, the Wall Street Journal reports this morning.

Java security bug found: We've given lots of bytes to Microsoft's ActiveX security problems, but it's not alone, although its problems remain the most serious; University of Washington researchers have found a Java bug that could cause crashes.

IPO hopes: Concentric and @Home have both filed for IPOs in the past few days.

Return address: The Court: An Australian court has used e-mail to issue a court order because the person under the order could not be easily found via traditional methods.

Software tax break: Not for you, software buyers. It's for the makers. It looks the the ducks are in a row for a credit that permits companies shipping products overseas to exempt from taxation about 15 percent of their foreign export income.

Not a bad graduation gift: Imagen, which makes image retrieval technologies, won the MIT Entrepreneurship Prize. It's worth $30,000 to the students who created it.

Who's got the money: In the greater scheme of things, it's not the consumer market. Netscape knows this, as does Microsoft, although it took both companies a bit of awhile to learn it.

Who's got the control: Can corporations control the playing field on the Net? And what is the nature of democracy online?

Always the bridesmaid: Why did the Compaq-Gateway merger go nowhere? The same thing that trips up most marriages -- financial disagreements and control issues.

Aptiva buyers, hold on: Here's a tip -- prices will drop Wednesday. No need to thank us for saving you money. It's just part of the service here.

You can't trust the press and thank God for that. It seems an enterprising scribe hired to cover the Kasparov-Deep Blue match did a little too much reporting and IBM couldn't take it; all this according to the writer himself.

Dan Gillmor: No sale on Ticketmaster
Mike Cassidy: Kim Polese, superstar
Centaur Technology's new chip
Chris Nolan: Jobs can't buy a park
Venture capital survey
Sorting through software update hypes
Mike Langberg: Cell phones get competition, price cuts
David Plotnikoff: Readers speak up
Cheryl Shavers: Intangibles sway promotion choices
The unwired planet
Jobs speaks, Apple listens
S.F. plans tech learning center
Oracle to take over Navio