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Smaller is smaller: Toshiba has introduced a business card-sized digital camera, part of its new line of tiny electronic devices.

Taking the stage: NetPCs are front-and-center at PC Expo in New York this week.

UNIX, Windows or Mac? IBM plans to introduce a new series of data storage devices. The products will allow computers using different operating-system software to have access to data from a single source.

Another one bites the dust: Netguide magazine folds.

Singing the blues: The recording industry filed three lawsuits against Net sites last week for publishing copyrighted material.

Not-so-smart technology: Nothing's wrong with the technology, really, but the market has never accepted the five-year-old Radio Data Systems which created a "smart" radio that could be programmed to tune stations by format rather than frequency and interrupt a cassette or compact disk -- or regular programming -- when they had something important to transmit about the weather or the traffic. But broadcasters didn't want to give the audience a reason to tune away.

Inside baseball: A latecomer to the web (OK, we admit a little competitive spirit here) asks the musical question: Can newspapers find a niche on the web? (Attention LA Times editors: Not without hyperlinks embedded in the story.) Let's talk about this amongst ourselves.

Caveat emptor: A state court judge has ruled that America Online is not liable for customers who use the service to peddle pornography.

More AOL news: Foreigners -- if there is such a concept in cyberspace -- are flocking to America Online, despite the off-putting name of the service.

Crawling into the past: WebCrawler has been around a long time, and Excite decided it's time for a makeover. Maybe it's just me, but WebCrawler now looks like Lycos, doesn't it?

Power to the people? Five corporations control about 80 percent of the Internet's infrastructure. As the oligopoly grows the result could be an end to cheap, unlimited, flat-rate access.

First look: Take a peek at the new Mac OS8 over at MacUser magazine.

Want to know what information a web site is selling about you? Don't ask the big commercial sites; they prefer to keep your information private.

Gossip alert: Joseph Marengi, late of Novell, has landed at Dell.

ISDN believers will want to explore the Always On/Dynamic ISDN that several Baby Bells are showing off this week. AO/DI makes use of the ISDN D channel--which handles the signaling between a subscriber and the telephone company's central office, and is thus 'always on'--to transmit low-bandwidth data such as E-mail, stock quote updates and credit-card transactions.

I'm back from a terrific vacation and all I have to say about the Great Outdoors is this: Aren't hot showers wonderful?

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