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You'll see other explanations, but the real reason that web convulsed yesterday? We've got a full moon.

Firing Transfer Protocol: FTP Software of Andover, Mass. has laid off 300 of its 800 employees because of continuing losses.

Deep pockets: Microsoft's profits rose 89 percent in the past quarter, and company spokesmen are already trying to lower expectations for the future.

Bio-tech warriors: A new class of antibiotics has been created by researchers at Stanford University and Kosan Biosciences. They genetically altered the popular antibiotic erythromycin to arrive at the discovery.

Ban phone tag, too: The U.S. Senate has decided no more computer games for government employees.

Feel like a trip? Microsoft is thinking about overseas expansion, particularly in Dublin, Ireland, or India. The high-tech labor pool is growing shallow around Redmond (or in the U.S., for that matter), which is making Microsoft think global.

No-meddle zone: A Philadelphia city council member asked a Congressional subcommittee to let the locals tax the Net if they so desire. Also, a motion picture mogul wants more copyright protection for creative works on the Net.

Pushing is hard: Netscape pushes hard for its Netcaster software to beat out Microsoft's IE. There's another beta version available now and the actual release is set for next month. (BTW, there's a bug fix for Communicator that's also available now, too.)

Filmstrips of the '90s: For an alternative view of computers in schools, the Atlantic Monthly casts a skeptical eye on the rush to wire our schools -- especially at the expense of art, music and physical education.

Cue the scary music: Sybase's Mitchell Kurtzman takes dead aim at Oracle with the best quote of the morning: "You know in those horror movies, where there's always a scene when people think someone is dead, and then that person comes back to life and scares the hell out of everybody? I think we're going to scare the hell out of Oracle. They better watch out." (Another interview with Kurtzman popped up recently in Steve Gillmor's column.)

Living in the future: The only sure thing about how the technology world will look in the next five years is that it will be nothing like the present. Networking of homes is just a start.

Re-engineering surfing: A new development from a guy who invented WAIS and was the lead engineer on he Thinking Machines parallel-processing supercomputer project: Why not suggest like sites for people via a browser companion application?

Snafu sets off Net chaos
Wired's co-founder leaves
Lucent snaps up Octel




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