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More free e-mail: This time, it's from Excite and will be supported by advertising. Excite is doing this in partnership with Whowhere. (By the way, did you see that weekend story about the turf war between Excite and Yahoo?)

Methinks we've already reported that Intel has settled a class action suit over its reputed overstatement of clock speed of some of its chips, but just in case you want more details... Here's another Intel story, albeit a New York Times registration-required one; how Intel's slot processor may have boosted Cyrix and AMD sales.

Spring, Fall and now Summer Internet World: Don't you wish you thought of it first? The convention, focusing on online retail, kicks off this week in Chicago.

What goes around: AOL is apparently closing its Web Diner area, one of a large number of content providers to leave the commercial online service since it went to flat-rate pricing. AOL used to pay certain (ahem) prestigious content providers for their information; now some are offering to pay AOL for access to its 8 million subscribers.

Chain letters: That's what those annoying e-mail spams are; Slate traces the evolution of these critters.

Appliance sale: Hewlett-Packard this week offers a device that operates independently of operating systems and hardware, but transmits data (text or images) without needing to know the configuration of the receiver, whether it's a printer, a fax machine, scanner or other output device.

RAMming it in: New PCs will have much more RAM, due to prices that continue to fall. Here's an interesting stat: The average price to PC makers for 1 megabyte (MB) of memory has dropped from $24.96 in 1995 to $8.76 in 1996 to $4.28 this year, somebody from International Data Corp. says, and he expects it to dip to $3.04 next year and $2.53 in 1999.

Laptop glut: Remember last year, when you were desperate to get your hands on a notebook computer? Now, Compaq and IBM Pentium notebooks are piled up in warehouses as distributors try to move 'em out.

A new chip is in the works that could extend battery life by 500 percent, and not incidentally, use one-fifth as much power as power as a conventional processor.

More mobile phone dangers: Let's see, there was the brain cancer scare, the increased risk of vehicle accidents, and now, mobile phones are suspect in the case of the missing racing pigeons. That's it! We've had enough! We're going back to tin cans and string.

Internet addresses running out
Dan Gillmor: What happened to competition?
Chris Nolan: Tired at Wired
Apple's Ellen Hancock looks back
Digital sticker photos
Java -- fact or fable
The boom that everybody hears
Yahoo versus Excite -- Turf war
Mike Cassidy: Mourning in motion
Mac OS8: A small step
Mike Langberg: New mini-notebook for aliens
David Plotnikoff: Unravel the traffic maze



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