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Drive on: Seagate is going to buy up the rest of Quinta Corp. -- the part it doesn't already own -- for at least $230 million.

Comes now from cattle country the news that Gateway 2000 is free to acquire Advance Logic Research for the previously announced $194 million.

Compaq split: Compaq's board approved a 5-for-2 stock split. The company tends to split whenever its stock price rises over $100 per share.

Tandy accused: The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has charged Tandy with racial bias by hand-picking a white for the job of marketing director without notifying others of the vacancy, then firing a black employee who complained.

That's called theft: U.S. officials say that China improperly diverted a Sun supercomputer from its intended destination at a scientific research institute to a military installation. Protests are flying.

Schools paying attention: It appears that society and schools are agreeing with the idea that schoolkids need to learn computers. There were 6.3 million computers available to students in 1996-97, a 23.5 percent increase for the year and a 186 percent jump over the 2.2 million machines in 1991-92. But the job's not done, especially at poor schools and in terms of training.

Online outlined: AOL signs up CBS Sportline for its proprietary service for money and promotions on the air.

Get 'em while they're hot: The PC market will grow 19 percent this year, with shipments surpassing 84.3 million units, market research firm Dataquest forecasts.

Uh-oh: Two Arizona software resellers are most likely on the phone to their lawyers after learning that Microsoft is suing them in a crackdown on piracy of its server-based software.

Good citizenship part II: Microsoft wants to be the first to implement the W3C's privacy standards and is aiming to integrate it into the next beta version of Internet Explorer 4.0.

We are family; I got all my software with me: Pardon us for being just a tad skeptical, but the rush to build community on the web reeks of marketing more than meaning. The New York Times (registration required) asks some good questions. Anyone have any answers? Is Cliff Figallo out there?

The end of a beautiful friendship? Apple and Power Computing, the largest Mac clone-maker, are more than drifting apart; there's a rift, to judge from an SEC filing. And, yikes, did you see that Apple's stock price hit a 10-year-low yesterday?

Rule the world: The early report yesterday that Bill Gates wanted to buy CBS was erroneous, Microsoft and CBS said, but the trend is clear to a Philadelphia Daily News writer: Gates wants to rule the world.

Everybody wants you to filter but if you use Solid Oak's Cybersitter, there's a chance it's spying on your hard drive, Wired says.

Intranets to the interested: MicroTest wants small workgroups within a company to have access to intranets, working on the same principle as shared printers.

Confess: Have you upgraded your home box to a Pentium or Win95? If the answer is no, you're not alone; Nearly 60 percent of home computers run on pre-Pentium chips, mostly X86s, a survey says.

By Patricia Sullivan, Online Editor
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