Last updated:Thursday, June 26, 1997, 8:30 a.m.
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We're going to be short and sweet today, readers, because we're concentrating on the Supreme Court's decision.

Everybody's on the web, even Michael Jordan. We kid you not.

Some folks don't trust Microsoft: No news, right? How about if some of those are other folks at Microsoft. It seems there's been some swiping of temp workers amongst the cubicles.

We're used to it in Silicon Valley, but apparently a plethora of startups are filling up the Seattle area.

PointCast is launching a Japanese-language service in September.

Just imagine it: Log into the Internet, click on a Web page, type in a security code and a couple of telephone numbers and your second phone line rings seconds later. Sprint, the telephone company, is pioneering a new Internet conferencing center that would allow you to do just that, and more.

Gambling on the Net: That's the subject, not an imperative. Attorneys general meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming say that gambling on its way to Net-connected computers everywhere.

Billing and metering sounds more like a utility company's business than an Internet startup's game, but Imark thinks it can make its mark helping Net publishers get paid for their work.

India's cell phone users will have another vendor to choose. AT&T is targeting a million subscribers in the richest regions of that nation.

Apple's ad agency is out after Apple told BBDO West that the company wanted to look into its advertising options at other agencies.

It's a soap opera, it's a showdown: What is it? Cadence v. Avant, of course.

OPS, not oops: The open profiling standard is really not about privacy; it's about standardizing how consumers share their personal information, whether they want to or not.

A 15-year-old says that he's hacked Netcom's voice mail and claims that he's been inside for two years.

The biggest hack of his life is what Eugene Kashpureff, founder of AlterNIC, says he's accomplished. It allows 90 percent of the Net to access his alternative namespace without reconfiguration. And perhaps without you even knowing it.

Crash: The ETrade site crashed yesterday, during a really busy time on the markets. Isn't that always the way?

Top Internet backbone: That would be CompuServe, according to a new survey by KeyNote systems and Boardwatch magazine.

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