Last updated: Wednessday, August 27, 1997, 8:30 a.m.
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Let it all hang out: It's a tense world out there; you have to have a way to shed your tension. Some say the simplest way is to strip off their clothes with the workaday worries.

Networking: It's a human need as well as a computing term, and female computer CEOs are sharing their resources as they sail the fast-moving waters of Silicon Valley.

We need options: The way to hang on to talented programmers is stock options, Compuware executives just realized, so 4 million shares of the software company has been made available to the 7,200 employees.

Hot rumor: Did you hear yesterday's hot rumor, that Novell was on the selling block, and IBM was in pursuit? It pushed up Novell's stock price for a time.

Chips ahoy: The Federal Trade Commission is looking into the Intel-Chips and Technologies deal, possibly looking into whether the purchase of the smaller company would give Intel control of one of the few chips markets it doesn't already dominate.

Train, then what: Almost everyone in the technology field feels the need for more training, but some IS managers are starting to wonder if the expensive programs are really doing any good.

The secret chips: So what's up with the Merced chip, the New York Times asks (registration required). H-P and Intel are not talking, but lots of others folks, not just chip-heads, are.

Pretty Good bug: If you've done the sign-on thing with the Times, you may as well also check out its story on the PGP bug, which warns of how some can extract a password from the public key in the encryption package. It only affects Windows users and there's a bug fix available, PGP says.

Civil liberties warning: The proposal for rating online content threatens free speech, the ACLU warns in a white paper.

Ready or not: Java's ready for big business, an IBM exec asserts, but is big business ready for Java?

The Net looked like passing fad: Given how often and quickly new demands arise on networks, IS managers would do well to build for peaks, not averages, LAN Times advises.

Everyone competes, everyone partners: Online directories are suddenly finding themselves in the same market as online services, and there are no rules.

Make those buttons dance: Netscape plans an all-Java Navigator browser.

But will it frizz in the rain? A "friendly" web language with a gentle learning slope called Curl is under development at MIT, with a "pre-beta" version to be made available soon.

Grading the gurus: Let's hold some of these so-called tech visionaries accountable, and find out who's right in the long run.

Reed Hundt calls for new data network
Sun: Java will improve, fast
Animal cloning pioneer savors fame



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