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Korean chipmakers, just like their Japanese colleagues, are cutting output for a bit while prices for 16 megabit DRAM chips fall. But look here: Chip sales are breaking out of their slump, reports indicate.

How do you tell a customer (or worse, a client) that he e-mailed a virus? Lesson one: Don't flame.

There's a small war being waged over the Internet Society's governance plans for bringing order to the Net. Some major media players feel left out, and charge the society is undemocratic.

Yahoo is going to link you to Amazon.com every time you use a Yahoo search. Amazon is also making deals with America Online and Excite, and with 800-FLOWERS in what looks like a major expansion.

Apple's Powerbook 1400 laptops will get faster chips, Apple is supposed to announce next week, and prices on the older, slower models will drop.

Electric Minds, the online community established by Howard Rheingold, may have found a buyer in Durand Communications, which runs CommunityWare, a Net messaging and communications site. But it's going to depend on what the virtual community thinks.

If you've ever had a moment's difficulty in figuring out what's news and what's an ad on the web (and readers sometimes have that problem in print, where standards are stricter), a group of editors want to make the distinction more clear.

Is this really the greatest hacker story ever told or is this just hype to sell books? It's about the "phantom dialer," an anonymous cracker who supposedly broke into corporations, banks, government agencies, universities, military facilities, and nuclear weapons research facilities.

And if that scared you, learn how to protect your network and site from the current security threats.

HTML: An experiment that escaped the lab: So what's the solution for most people? It's called XML or extensible markup language.

3Com's merger with U.S. Robotics will mean that about 800 employees will lose their jobs, 3Com said yesterday. That's in line with earlier predictions of a layoff of about 5 percent.

IBM will broaden its Ethernet support by adding new hardware and software products that will upgrade its switches.

Hewlett-Packard's new high-end graphics workstation will debut next week, in a direct challenge to SGI.

It's always interesting to notice who's turning up online. This one is a former CIA spy now working for AOL as vice president of integry assurance.

More secure e-mail may be on its way with new specs that include signed receipts, the ability to send encrypted mail to lists and labels that identify the sensitivity of the message.

Tech exec fired amid embezzlement charges
Movie research leaned on Silicon Valley
Mars mission finds a huge fan club