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Gates eyes CBS: Bill Gates, the world's richest man, is considering buying CBS, reports say this morning.
Lower supply, heighten demand: That's the theory behind the news that three Korean DRAM chipmakers will suspend production for a week this summer.
Got a policy: President Clinton's Internet policy is getting strong, if not universal, praise. It's going to be formally unveiled later today but we had a sneak peek for readers over the weekend.
Supercomputers can't travel: Congress may be ready to reimpose export restrictions on supercomputers, but the way they're writing the law could have impacts on technology far removed from supercomputing, industry leaders warn.
Phones wanna be free: U.S. telecommunications firms are angry at European efforts to ban Net telephony.
An Apple in the classroom: Microsoft's Bill Gates acknowledged that Apple's computers hold a strong lead in the schools, and will probably hang on to that lead for quite a long time.
Howdy, senators: Three western senators have asked the FTC to investigate Microsoft, and take control of the Justice Department's long-running investigation. The basic charges are not new, and it looks like Netscape and Gateway 2000 may be behind this.
Sub-$1,000 Presarios: Compaq breaks the grand barrier with eight desktop and two laptop models that sell for less than a grand. The specs aren't all that bad, either, for home or school systems -- the cheapest one has a 180 MHz Media GX processor.
Where technology and society meet: British physicians are casting a wary eye on the telemedicine coming out of the States. For one thing, patient confidentiality is easily abridged. For another, it risks domination by companies bent only on profits.
The lure of the market: Power Computing, the Mac clone maker from Round Rock, Texas, has filed for an IPO, hoping to raise $30 million and port itself over into the Wintel side of the business.
Shed a tear for the final chapter of The Spot, the web's soap opera. It all ends today.
HotWired rewires: It's a design change, which isn't all that much news in the online world, but the New York Times certainly made a deal out of it. See it for yourself (and without the registration the NYT requires). While you're there, check out Jon Katz's column on the rise of the geek.
We've good news and we've got bad news: Those banner ads we love to hate are going to disappear. The bad news is we're going to see ads interrupt page loads and a blurring of ad and editorial content. What? You like banner ads?
Rating your future: The Supreme Court last week seemed to say that we can try self regulation on the Net. A group in Europe is meeting next week to work on global net ratings.
Microsoft weathers another attack on its server Monday, after an attempt two weeks ago briefly crashed its corporate web site.
Motorola is getting out of the DRAM business and it will shift its share of DRAM production to other products, such as fast static RAMs and logic chips with integrated memory.
Old-fashioned surfing: Here are some sites you can do without. Yes, we're trying to be a full-service news service here.
By Patricia Sullivan, Online Editor
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