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Joshua R. Poulson wrote in to tell us the Digital has a 1,000 Mhz Alpha coming in the wings. Guess Compaq has made a pretty nice investment if they decide to keep the Alpha alive.

kossico told us that in the aftermath of Netscape's big news, News.com has a special feature about Free Software. Features RealAudio for RMS and more juicy Netscape tidbits.

this link was sent to us by Mike T. Apparently a senetorial judiciary committee is investigating Bill & Co. The fun never stops.

Mike T sent us another funny article that A British government health watchdog issued a warning on Wednesday about the dangers of buying human sperm on the Internet.

In a flurry of news about MS, Brian Baggett sent an email saying that- Gates says Windows 98 is still on track, despite the DOJ decision. However, Bill Gates said Tuesday the Department of Justice was seeking to have the software company "cripple" its products, sent to us by Mike T, who also sent us on interesting article about another effort to broaden technology access for seniors, Microsoft Corp. has donated $150,000 worth of new software and hardware to senior centers across the nation. This donation will supplement a Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) program announced in September 1997, through which more than 500 computers were loaned to senior centers across the country to provide access to important health-care and Medicare information via the Internet.

Whew-busy day for Microsoft.

Wow did I ever call it. Netscape announced this morning that they are going to GPL communicator 5. Check out this link and this one for more information on one of the biggest events in recent software history. Now let's hope the Free Software folks can prove that this is the future of software! Thanks to Phaedrus and James Baker for sending in the first of many links on the subject.

Here with another exciting almost Star Trek quality news bit, we have Mike T sending us This one where you can read about Austrian Scientists who think teleportation may be possible... can they get me to the LinuxExpo cheap?

Ilya Gaysinskiy sent us this story at yahoo where you can read about a phone survey that Fortune magazine did, and the interesting statistics that random people think about computing issues. Percentages revealed on things like the Microsoft Monopoly, and which browser is better. Interesting to get the pulse of the people.

Evelyn Mitchell sent us this story where you can read about slowdowns in Client OS sales. According to the article, Microsoft still controls 87% of the operating systems sold last year. The gem though is the comments about IS managers evaluating free OS's like Linux. Could 98 really be the year Linux breaks into the main stream corporate world in a big way?

It was only a matter of time, but Microsoft has slipped into our cars. Read this article sent in by Kartik Narayan. Speech to text is built in for composing email and documents. There are going to be some amazing car wrecks in the future.

Yahoo, the most visited site on the Internet, has announced a 1.35 million investment in AudioNet, a Dallas-based Internet broadcaster. Yahoo! has been trying to find ways to diversify from its' original function, as a sort of universal bookmark file, with offerings like free email, and now trying to buy minority shares in some other up-and-coming companies.

cashman73 writes "Most Slashdot readers are probably familiar with Google's book scanning project, a collaboration with several major universities to digitize works of literature, science, and art. Google may have been beat to the punch this time -- about a decade ago, Carnegie Mellon University embarked on a project to scan books into digital format, to be made available online. Today, according to new reports, they now have a collection of 1.5 million books, the equivalent of a typical university library, available online."