Last updated: Tuesday, September 2, 1997, 8:30 a.m.
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No time for chitchat this morning: Apple Computer buys Power Computing, the big Texas clone maker. Want to talk about it?

Trading house rumors: Softbank, the Japanese software company and publisher, saw its stock price revive after published rumors that it plans to move to another section of the Tokyo stock market.

Net politics: The Internet Engineering Task Force has asked RSA Data Security to surrender patents on data scrambling technology in exchange for certifying the technology as an Internet standard for e-mail encryption.

XML to W3C: We know that Microsoft doesn't like Java. Now comes news that the company plans to propose an XML style-sheet language to the World Wide Web Consortium. The language, if approved, would let developers build browser-based data base forms, and would supposedly be vendor-neutral.

Java wins one: Hewlett-Packard has chosen Java for its hand-held appliances rather than Windows CE.

Teraflops: The world's fastest supercomputer isn't much to look at, but oh, does Janus rock -- it can do a trillion mathematical operations per second (New York Times story; registration required).

What goes around comes around: Mike Markkula, the recently deposed Apple board member, speaks out in an interview with the Times. (He says he meant to leave two years ago; and he's "not unfriendly" with Steve Jobs.)

Lift that chip, tote that keyboard: What do tech workers have in common with package delivery people? Many are part-time, work on contract and are non-unionized, but the AFL-CIO is seeking to change that.

Obscenity charges: An online obscenity case has entered Japanese courts, as a Yokohama man stands accused of linking to a site that unscrambles nude images.

Is hacking an invasion of privacy? It could be, if a site in New Zealand is hacked.

A new worry: Insurers suggest that your web site may need insurance to protect you against copyright and trademark infringement, defamation of character and libel lawsuits.

Read our (sales) slips: Not only did Massachusetts abolish its Net sales tax, it's going to refund taxes paid since 1990.

New job: There's a new president over at Disney' internet businesses. We hear that shrug. The reason we're mentioning it is -- well, take a look at the size of some of Disney's sites.

Correction: In Friday's Morning report, we erroneously said a number of telecommunications companies had invested $40 million in Jupiter -- in fact, it was Juniper Networks, as the story made clear.

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