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Dumping penalty expected: The U.S. is expected to penalize NEC for dumping supercomputers on the U.S. market and an NEC executive said the fine may be so steep that it will force the Japanese electronics maker to withdraw from the American market.

Deal: Fujitsu will install Oracle software in the high-performance small servers it sells in Asia.

Hello, operator? Or tech support? Japanese consumers will be the beneficiaries of a government decision to allow ISPs to offer international phone services.

Calling all telecommuters: A second phone is a necessity if you're working out of your home and dependent upon wired communications. It's not so rare anymore, and by 2001, one in three homes in the U.S. will probably have a dedicated digital line.

The year 2001 should be quite a time. By then, 268 million PCs should be online.

It's a wired world: GMSV readers, who are all over the globe, intuitively knew this, but here's explicit proof: The economic benefits of the high-tech industry reach far outside Silicon Valley, a Pennsylvania consultant finds.

Mainframes bulk up: EMC, the nation's largest maker of mainframe disk hardware, plans to double its manufacturing with the construction of a new plant in Massachusetts and expansion of a plant in Ireland.

Laptop prices slim down: Compaq cuts prices on its Armada 7700 notebook PCs, and on its LTE 5000 notebooks.

Banking on quality: Compuserve is going to a flat-rate monthly price of $24.95 Oct. 1, and it's hoping that its reliability and reputation for speed will be worth the extra $5 over the standard ISP flat-rate pricing. (Compuserve lost $4.1 million in its last quarter).

Just don't try to answer in Farsi: You love getting e-mail on your cell phone, but you hate trying to tap out a reply, right? A Seattle-based software company has come up with a solution that they say is 99 percent accurate -- and you can answer messages in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Swedish, Finnish, German and Korean.

Profit from profundities: Our bosses never say anything dumb. But your bosses are another matter. Make some money off those utterances that leave you shaking your head; there's a contest that will award a month's pay, and other geegaws, to the winner.

Fight back for ... Joel? That resignation of Power Computing president Joel Kocher stirred up the troops, including 300 who came to work at the Texas Mac clone maker's offices in full battle fatigues, as a show of support for the combative leader.

Fixing a fix: Microsoft pulled a service release from its web site after it learned of a new problem; the Office 97 fix had included a Word 6.0/95 Binary Converter, which saves Word 97 documents in a true binary file format with a .doc extension. Word 97 had saved documents in rich text format, which previous versions of Word could not read.

Disc maker Komag cuts 350 jobs
Mike Cassidy: Burglaries in the digital age





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