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...deal, which comes just weeks after the $17 billion-merger announcement of Pacific Telesis and SBC Communications (ne Southwestern Bell), confirms that the Baby Bells have hit their Terrible Teens. Now, 12 years after the Federal Government broke up Ma Bell, deregulation and the digital era have transformed the info-delivery business. Cable companies will offer phone service, the Bells will pump Stallone flicks down your phone lines and satellite moguls will do battle from...
Judging from the thousands of messages that have been plastered across Usenet, the vast bulletin-board system of the Internet, something more than silliness is going on here. "He wasn't your average murderer," writes a typical fan on alt.fan.unabomber. (For Unabomber info on the Web, go to: http://pathfinder.com/ pathfinder/features/unabomber/index.html). In fact, spiritual strands link antigovernment cyberpunks and the outlaw...
...System Info Atlas may be gigantic (it's a quarter of the size of Windows 95), but it has been engineered to run faster. Test drives last week were speedy but also very crash prone--par for most alpha tests. HYPEMETER Silicon Valley's "search engine" companies are about to become the latest winners in the giddy Wall Street sweepstakes known as the high-tech I.P.O. Granted, companies like Yahoo and Excite, which use typed-in key words to guide users through the Web's sprawl, perform an important editorial service. But with minuscule profits and an uncertain future, market...
...know which is best," she said. "I only know I have info on one option and only one option...
Four years ago, Bill Clinton got a big boost when a group of Silicon Valley's captains announced their support for him over George Bush. Now, however, cyberexecutives are considering any campaign drive for Clinton to be, well, a virtual goner. Dismissing Clinton's info-superhighway pep talks as showboating, the industry is focusing on a menu of grievances, including increased corporate taxes, burdensome accounting-reform proposals and, most of all, Clinton's failed veto of a law making it easier for companies to prevail in securities-fraud lawsuits. Silicon Valley successfully pressed for a congressional override, maintaining that...