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It's old, but it's fast: IBM is going to give its business computers the ability to run Windows NT. It's also boosting the performance of the AS400 servers, making it five times as fast as previous previous models; IBM has a big print ad campaign going on about it, which points to www.as400.ibm.com/cybercast/ for more details.

Do-almost-everything machine: Xerox is going to launch its first consumer-oriented product today, a combination color scanner, printer and copier that sells for around $500.

Compaq, NEC and H-P unveil new servers using the new Pentium Pro chip. Those chips come with twice as much cache memory as the current chips.

You saw that story, didn't you, that said Netscape is going to separate its browser from the big Communicator package? Do you want the Windows 95 version? It's available now on Netscape's FTP site.

Why AOL needs a clue: Seidman's Online Insider, an e-mail newsletter, has separated from CMP Media and is now only available by subscription so we can only quote what this veteran AOL watcher says about the world's largest online service provider: Its internal e-mail is quick, its outgoing e-mail to the Internet is snappy, but AOL customers waiting for mail from the Net often have a long wait -- it took 36 hours for a message that Seidman sent and copied to himself to reach his mailbox.

More news from newsletters: What's wrong with publishers' web sites is the thread in a series of columns by another e-mail newsletter, this one by Dana Blankenhorn. His latest one isn't posted on the web site yet (it goes up sometime today) but it's the latest in a series of columns about who's going to rule the web for news in the future.

So what's AOL up to? Maybe news.

Hand me a handkerchief, I've got a virus: Hey, McAfee! We know you're doing well with all that anti-virus software (and alerting the Net to the latest bugs out there, as long as you have a fix for them), so why don't you call your next product Flu Medicine? Or Sneeze Suppressor? Or Exterminator, or ... OK, now you know why we're not in marketing and advertising.

Looking everywhere for a leader: You may have seen this report last week in GMSV's Tech Ticker, but Apple is looking to Iceland for a new CEO.

Developer alert: A new addition to Microsoft's component architecture is coming, and it may affect the way Windows apps are built.

Marimba is collecting the cash (about $12 million worth) from a new round of financing and with all that dough on hand, it needs a chief financial officer.

Buyout rumors are boiling over about Compuserve, which just lost another executive.

Smaller and smaller: Forget the Newton, the PalmPilot; the hottest new thing is Philipe Kahn's REX PX Companion, a credit-card-sized, 1.4-ounce electronic organizer.

Web site redesigns happen all the time, but a few (Wired, and now MSNBC) are worth looking at simply to see the latest iteration. Busy, busy, busy. Does anyone else out there think it looks too much like Pathfinder?

Computer graphics software within reach
Online in the fast lane
Chris Nolan: Computer museum on circuitous path
Dan Gillmor: Curbs on tweaking made Intel strong
In defense of encryption limits
Robot wars draw rowdy crowd
Venture capital survey
The Martian Chronicles
Tech startups draw lawyers to Palo Alto
Mike Cassidy: Where we stand in history
Copiers come home
David Plotnikoff: Look twice at electronic eyes
Mike Langberg: Investor software not a great return
Credit reports on Net yanked
Netscape changes course



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