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Last updated:Thursday, July 17, 1997, 8:30 a.m.
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A lot of change: Lucent Technologies is buying Octel for $1.8 billion. Octel, a leader in voice, fax and electronic messaging technologies, will boost Lucent's own messaging unit.
Seeking regulation: The cell phone industry wants the FCC to intervene and set technical standards for wiretapping digital calls.
Lower prices: Intel will slash prices by as much as 50 percent on its Pentium II and Pentium MMX processors. Only Pentium Pro chips will not be discounted. Also dropping the price tag -- IBM's ThinkPad laptops.
Your e-mail is not private: A program that spies on your e-mail is in beta testing; securities managers want to use the artificial intelligence agent to assure compliance with federal regulations, but privacy advocates are aghast at the implications of it.
Spamming and you: The 900,000 users of AT&T's Worldnet e-mail service should see improved performance now that a spammer who was clogging the pipe has been caught.
ISPs alive: Despite forecasts of doom, many more Internet Service Providers are in business now than last year -- about 4,340 in the U.S. and Canada, up from 2,266 last summer.
Are you shy? If so, you're not alone among the digiterati. New technology and an impersonal business world, coupled with a decline in social networks, have meant a loss of social skills, said professor Philip Zimbardo at a worldwide shyness conference. (But who can stop blushing long enough to attend?)
We'd like to buy the world an upgrade: Microsoft is now the world's second-most-valuable company, pushing past Coca-Cola. That's measured in terms of market capitalization. But you know, it's not all that big, when you look at revenue and employment base. (BTW, if you're looking for a job, Redmond's hiring.
Oops... InterNIC accidentally deleted Webcom's domain, and that put the three-year-old ISP out of business for about 12 hours Tuesday.
Thanks, folks: A quick thanks to all the anonymous code warriors who fought errors byte by byte and get little recognition. Hats off today to Professor Irving Reed, and the late Gustave Solomon.
Attention: McAfee wins a contract with the U.S. Defense Department for anti-virus software. It's worth about $2 million.
To BeOS or not to BeOS: The MacOS 8.0 is just about ready to be released (our computing page will have a preview of it Sunday), but the software left at the altar (that's Be) is going public with its first beta release.
By Patricia Sullivan, online editor
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With more virtual reality overtaking real reality, ordinary skills and situations are becoming more awkward.
-- Philip Zimbardo, founder of the Shyness Institute
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FTC's ground rules to protect wired kids
Apple's loss less than expected
Chris Nolan: Charity auction bid war
Mike Cassidy: Waiting for bubble to burst
RCA's network computers readied
Cllinton's cybersmut strategy
Japanese women urged to go online
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