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Don't get uppity, Left Coasters: Just because more Californians are on the Net does not mean they're smarter about using it. Washington and Pennsylvania users scored higher on a recent test; and our favorite finding -- women over 60 years outscored 17-year-old boys. (Take the test yourself, if you have the time.)
Leaving Utah: iMALL, the Net commerce firm, is moving its headquarters to the Los Angeles area from Provo, Utah, partly because that's where the new CEO is. Hmmm...
He could have telecommuted: Telecommuting is starting to grow, although it's still devilishly hard to get reliable figures on how many are doing it. Workers love it but managers don't.
Digital copyrights are notoriously hard to enforce, but the U.S. hopes to soon have a bill ready that would implement two international treaties that update laws to the digital age.
Sharpening up: Competition between Japanese digital camera makers is coming into focus (sorry) as it looks like this will be a hot consumer item for the unwired as well as the tech-savvy.
Go where the customers are: Compaq is planning a big effort in Japan where it's been struggling against NEC and Fujitsu.
An expensive lesson in the City of Brotherly Love: Philadelphia is going to have to pay $121,610 to settle charges that a couple of City Hall employees illegally copied -- more than 200 times -- about a dozen programs, including spreadsheet, word-processing and database software made by Microsoft, Lotus and Adobe.
A day after Bill Gates compliments Apple on its educational market, it appears that both Microsoft and Dell are trying to wrest some sales from the schools, too. But there are signs that schools aren't really ready for all this attention.
Everyone wants on the web: Even wireless phone companies, which are scrambling to weave mobile phone users more tightly into e-mail, fax and web access.
It's a small world: Why is so it so hard for old-time computing whizzes to adapt to the new world? It's because the web changed all the rules, opines the founder of Wallop Software. Related note: A labor shortage is going to plague information technology for years, it appears.
Get personal: Sun Microsystems has released the specs for PersonalJava for a two-month review. PersonalJava is supposed to help developers write applets that can run on set-top boxes, game consoles, handheld computers and smart phones.
Not all fun and games: Gamers are not sitting still for those new AOL charges and really, would you want to alienate a group of people who engage daily in the most horrific kinds of virtual destruction?
Finally, food for thought: What are the intangible benefits of technology?
Reminder: Tomorrow is Independence Day, so GMSV will be taking a breather. Enjoy the holiday; we'll see you back here on Monday.
By Patricia Sullivan, online editor
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