Last updated:Tuesday, June 24, 1997, 8:30 a.m.
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Snoop on yourself: Lexis-Nexis will let consumers examine the data it has gathered on them through its controversial P-Trak service, which includes details such as name, current and former addresses, telephone number, month and year of birth and, in the event of a name change, the individual's maiden name and alias.

Gates does good: Bill and Melinda Gates announce a $200 million donation to wire about half the libraries in the U.S. to the Net. Microsoft will contribute another $200 million.

Beware financial advice from working stiffs: Video game software company stocks are set to soar, say analysts who spent the last few days at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.

Short-term gains: Cisco and Alcatel are going to develop Net-phone hardware together. Cisco President John Chambers predicts this partnership will reap an extra $500 million for the networking company in the next three years.

Hey ma: A marketing campaign to promote Oracle's new database software, Oracle8, starts today. It's part of the drive to popularize network computing.

Watching Washington: The encryption export bill is likely to come up for a vote in a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee today, after a setback in the Senate last week.

Communications overkill: Feeling crushed by the weight of faxes, phone calls, e-mail and memos? You're not alone. Seventy-one percent of the 972 executives, managers and administrative staff at the nation's largest companies polled by Gallup and San Jose State University feel overwhelmed.

Hide your cookies, monster: We don't pitch products here, but letting you know about some freeware that blocks cookies strikes us as useful information for the heavy Net users who read GMSV. Luckman Interactive says its Anonymous Cookie offers an 'anonymizer' mode that instantly disables all cookies in your cookie directory or cookie file. It's in Windows-only format now; a Mac version is coming.

Webmaster's pay increase: If you're in charge of managing Web sites or corporate intranets, you should be making $60,100 or more. Job satisfaction is pretty high, and most are motivated by the challenge of the work itself and the exposure to new technologies, a new study finds.

School's out but you still need reference materials. There's a new index that categorizes and reviews over 15,000 educational and reference Web sites StudyWeb reportedly adds 500 new sites each week.

Here's one for Mac lovers: Apple and Mac clone makers are resuming negotiations over licensing the Mac OS 8.0.

He's not a futurist but he plays one at tech conferences: We just saw Paul Saffo scare the bejesus out of some great, but unwired, journalists over the weekend. Catch up with the thoughts of this technology forecaster before he dives back into his office at the Institute for the, um, Future.

Top entrepreneurs: Are you one of the top entrepreneurs of 1997? Why not? Couldn't you at least be the anti-entrepreneur of the year?

Cisco shops: Cisco is buying Ardent and Global Internet Software, giving it firewall and LAN products.

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