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Feeling nostalgic? The Computer Museum of America in southern California shows people that "we didn't just wake up and have Nintendo 64," the curator says.
Those cards and letters worked: Bowing to public pressure, America Online won't sell its members phone numbers to outside telemarketers. But its own employees may interrupt your dinner with their commercial pitches.
Big Blue and the bank: IBM is expected to announce Sept. 9 that a new payment server will let web merchants accept a variety of electronic payments at their web sites, whether Secure Electronic Transactions, Cybercash or electronic fund transfers.
Fast and mobile: High-speed wireless modem access is coming to Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and Portland, Oregon by year's end. Hybrid Networks expects to sell at least 6,000 of the modems which range in speed from 256 kbps to 10 mbps, bridging the gap between ISDN and costlier T1 lines.
Hands off the keyboard, mister: Does the Net need a sheriff? Intellectualcapital.com thinks so; but at least it asks your opinion, too. (And if we do get a sheriff, will he wear mirrored sunglasses and speak with a drawl?)
Laughing all the way to the bank: Web ad revenues are up to $217.3 million in the first six months of this year, up 256 percent from the first six months of 1996, according to a study released Thursday. And web commerce is expected to grow from $2.6 billion last year to more than $220 billion in 2001, an IDC study says.
Semiconductor equipment companies' earnings are strong after a bunch of reports were just issued. The recovery in the worldwide semiconductor market has continued to result in improved orders for semiconductor equipment," the CEO of Electroglas said.
Silicon Graphics reports that it's reached $1 billion in sales in its fourth quarter. So, how many SGI workstations can you buy for that money?
Compuserve plans to carve out an adults-only area for newsgroups that might set off some of those kid-protection filters.
Just in case you missed it, there are some good pieces over in GMSV's Tech Ticker (that's available in the evening, in case you can't wait for the news).
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It's unbelievable really, that AOL would be cashing in for profit by selling the personal privacy of their users. It just boggles the mind that they would do it quite this boldly.
-- U.S. Rep. Bruce Vento, D-Minn. in the New York Times
In Mercury Center today:
Court backs Microsoft's freelancers
FCC's new chief on deck
Flat-rate users hog Net
The latest stock and market information in Mercury Center's stock page.
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