Last updated:Monday, June 23, 1997, 8:30 a.m.
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Compaq buys Tandem: The world's biggest builder of PCs is buying Tandem for about $3 billion in stock. The combined company will be the world's biggest supplier of servers.

The Supremes: The U.S. Supreme Court is pretty darned busy today, but don't expect the Net to sit around waiting for the guys and gals in black robes to weigh in on the Internet decency case.

Hype impacts sales: All the bits and bytes spent on digital TV, HDTV and related boob tube news appears to have had an impact on TV sales -- they're down as consumers are apparently waiting for the new, improved gizmos to appear.

C|Net aims at AOL: The computer, download and TV network plans to launch an online service in September.

Reduce, reuse, recycle: We can't just keep throwing things away because there is no "away." Fifty-five million computers will be junked by 2005, and where's all that silicon trash going?

You talking hip, or hip surgery: The wired world includes over-50 surfers -- about 7.6 million in North America alone. "Third Agers crave media that reflect their active reality," a marketer says.

Knock it off: Whether they are really HotMail customers or simply clever marketers disguising their domain name, no one really knows. But netizens say they're getting flooded with porn spam from senders with return addresses of "@hotmail.com".

Telecommunications deregulation: Australia's telephone services will be thrown open to competition July 1, joining the wild ride where consumer try to figure out if a dime a minute is cheaper than one rate, all the time.

Starched coast to Left coast: Ziff-Davis moves its online staff to San Francisco, which means about 200 jobs will be leaving Cambridge, Massachusetts. An insider says the move was made partly to confront C|Net.

Micro-slow: Microsoft's web site has been slow or down in the past week as software problems and updates have tangled things up. There was also the small matter of a hack attack. It's reportedly back in action now.

You want news: So do we. Consumers "want information, not eye candy," Price Waterhouse concluded from the poll of 1,010 U.S. consumers. We can do that.

This comes a few days late (sorry, it's hard for us to keep up, too) but the Electronic Frontier Foundation benefit raised $100,000 for the organization's efforts.

Who has time to work? "Sorry, I'm behind on my e-mail," has become such a common response that some of us are thinking of picking up the phone again.

A top IT site: If you want to see what government can do on the web, wander over to Oregon's Department of Consumer and Business Services, where the state's already saving money.

I feel free -- do you? The Net will empower the press, especially those from developing countries who are frustrated with the First World's spin on news that they know better than we do.

Underpriced chips: AMD has decided to cut prices 25 percent, in a clear competitive move against Intel. Its chips are already cheaper; watch to see if buyers bite.

You knew it was coming: Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.0 is going to challenge Java with its own version of a programming language. But there's a lot more to this than just J/Direct.

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