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Defections on DVD-RAM: NEC joins the trio of Sony, Hewlett-Packard and Philips, which has split from the international consortium in order to develop their own version of the rewriteable DVD-RAM.
Everything's connected: The UPS strike has an impact on the mail-order computer industry as direct-mail merchants are taking more time (and spending more money) shipping the latest hardware.
Electronic reproduction lawsuit: Publishers who've been buying free-lancers' work once and reusing it electronically many times won a victory in an important lawsuit out of New York.
Once upon a time: The online writing contest going on over at Amazon.com is shaking some authorian curmudgeons to their quills. But novelist John Updike is beginning to see the light as he awaits his turn to finish the tale that's being spun (at this address).
Why choose? Running Windows programs on Macs is best done with emulation software, such as SoftWindows. A competitive product, Virtual PC, is now going to be bundled in Mac clones.
Too much honesty? ISP Earthlink filed a required Securities and Exchange Commission report that was a bit harsh in its assessment of the financial dangers it faces. So harsh, in fact, that Nasdaq halted trading in the stock until Earthlink files a revised statement.
Ads, ads and more ads: Online advertising spending is expected to reach $7.7 billion by 2002, a new study of Jupiter Communications says. And for those who see the web as an alternative media, well, you won't find comfort at the online advertising conference.
Don't get U.S.-centric: In Australia, for example, there are 460 ISPs, 790,000 commercial users, 600,000 academic and educational users and less than 10 percent have unlimited access.
Call them librarians: Does the world need another search engine, even if it does hunt through more than 1,800 books, magazines, journals, news wires and databases that aren't generally available via the Web, according to its own marketing? Does it really need a search engine that charges?
Net addicts officially pathological: We're serious. The newly identified mental disorder will be presented in a paper at the American Psychological Association convention in Chicago today. So, doc, I've taken the quiz and I have an awful lot of "yes" answers, but really, I can stop anytime I want...
By Patricia Sullivan, online editor
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