Last updated:Monday, July 7, 1997, 8:30 a.m.
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Show them the money: Last we heard, AOL wanted Compuserve. Now, the latest report is that an investment house wants to buy out H&R Block's 80 percent share in the online service.

Cheese it, it's the feds: The U.S. Department of Justice is looking into whether the assignment of Net addresses violates U.S. antitrust laws.

Contracts 101: What is a contract and is it applicable in cyberspace?

Hands off the mouse, buster: Israel is making great strides in Internet technology. One of the specialties is network security, and if their software is as secure as the gate check at El Al Airlines, worries about losing your credit card number on the Net should subside.

Buying and selling: An Internet commerce conference convenes in Bonn today with about 40 economics, trade and technology ministers from the European Union, the United States, Russia, Japan and Canada.

Flying through windows: The U.S. Air Force may announce today a decision to use Windows NT server software, which is potentially a big breakthrough for the Microsoft product.

Now for the hard part of free speech: Should Net filters allow you to block information "presented in an impartial, informative manner"? How about gay, lesbian and transgender topics? The case of PlanetWeb's filter raises questions we'll see more of in the coming months.

Buy-sell part II: Consumer-oriented web sites are growing so fast that they'll soon dominate the e-commerce market, a new study by ActivMedia says.

You can't ignore them: Where does Microsoft want to go today? With $9 billion in walking-around money, you've got to pay attention to the decisions this software giant makes. And it looks like convergence.

Information counts: What's the difference between a zine and a newsletter? Well, folks are willing to pay for one of them, and the Net seems to have provided a solution for good, but poor, newsletters. (New York Times story; registration required).

'Fessing up: A refreshing admission of a wrong judgment has turned into a pretty good article at The Economist. Last fall, the London paper predicted Netscape's demise by this month. Now comes the story Why Netscape isn't dead. The journalists over there figure Netscape still has 60 to 70 percent of the browser market.

Win or lose: Big PC makers are going to stop shipping the Win 3.11 OS in new computers by the end of the year.

Will you buy it? The new Mac OS 8.0 comes out July 26 with a much heavier emphasis on retail sales than Apple has had in the past. New customers, not just the already ordained true believers, are sought.

Plug in another pot: Java, the hot property of Sun Microsystems, is creating tension between units at the mothership. It seems that SunSoft and JavaSoft are battling for control of the corporation's strategy.

Take a peek inside Intel's new Merced chip via a patent filing and analysts' reports.

Softbank to invest in startups it couldn't afford before
Steve Jobs' privacy hits neighborhood snag
Dan Gillmor: Busman's holiday
Chris Nolan: Mom as a headhunter


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