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Bay Networks buys Rapid City Communications, which is working on next-generation gigabit ethernet technology.

Going strong: Motorola, with several satellite construction deals in the works, expects to add 2,500 jobs in Chandler, Arizona as it expands.

Uh-oh: Steve Jobs has registered to sell all but one of the 1.5 million shares of Apple he got when he sold Next to the Mac-maker in December. Jobs said it's a routine matter and he hasn't sold the shares yet.

Gadflies gotta buzz: Investment gadfly Herbert Denton wants Digital Equipment shareholders to force a revamping of the DEC board and management and seek merger partners.

Bummer: Compuserve reports a fourth-quarter loss due to special charges and a decline in subscribers.

Pardonez-moi? Quebec, where 83 percent of the population is French-speaking, is taking a cue from the motherland and demanding web sites in French.

Call it a gender thing: Female-owned Net companies are still in the minority. Have you figured out why yet?

Online banking: Are you downloading your checking account balances yet? Don't fall behind the curve. The corporations are starting to move toward Net-based banking.

Rock 'n roll mystery: And it's not just how Mick Jagger got those lips. MGM is going to produce a rock murder mystery for the Microsoft Network. Working title: "Paul is Dead." (But if you play it backwards, it still sounds like gibberish.)

The Net's downside: Politicians who use it to announce their candidacy. (Let's talk bandwidth wasters.)

No go: It won't be "anything goes" for the Internet in Indonesia, the minister of information said, even though the country acknowledges a basic human right to have access to information.

Gotta be free: China's first underground e-zine is publishing and its cyberspace publishers say the publication is aimed at smashing the official stranglehold on freedom of expression.

We're vulnerable and we're scared: That's the message sent by the head of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection. The government lacks the tools to fight a sophisticated assault on the information infrastructure and is slow to address that weakness, he says.

The biggest: AT&T claims it's the biggest ISP outside of proprietary online services, with 900,000 subscribers.

Why go to New York when you can skim PC Expo from the comfort of your own cubicle?

150 fixes! The story says Microsoft will post "more than 150 fixes and enhancements" for its Exchange 5.0 groupware server by the end of the week.

It's not just bugs: More viruses than ever are infecting our computing environment, a National Computer Security Association survey indicates.

The big picture: Multi-disciplinary thinkers are in demand as technology moves on from its bit-by-bit thinking into "big science."

I see the future and it's -- dark: Nathan Myhrvold, chief technology officer for Microsoft, sees a limited future for visionaries.

Desktop or webtop? How will we interact with our PC in the future? That was the question posed at the Web Innovation Conference Wednesday.

Slowdown ahead: Micron warns that PC sales growth has slowed and may remain below previous growth rates for awhile yet. But chip equipment orders are surging.

Admit it: It's a cult, just as much as that crowd that waited for the spaceship behind the comet. We're talking about the cult of Dilbert and you know you're in it if you have ever had even one of Scott Adams' cartoons taped to your door or wall.

Fight the fight: Netscape chairman Jim Clark urges Europeans to rise up against Microsoft and prevent the takeover of the Net by a single company.

Let freedom ring: Happy Juneteenth.

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