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<FONT SIZE=+2 COLOR="#990088"><B><I>Internet</I></B></FONT>
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DOES ENGLISH DOMINATE THE INTERNET?
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At the Francophonie summit in West Africa, French President Jacques Chirac
contended the info-highway imperils the French language and culture and
warned that the English threat on the Internet applies to Arab nations,
Russia, India, China and Japan. Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien
countered, however, that the French language "must make its own way or be
left by the wayside." Microsoft CEO Bill Gates dismissed fears that the
Internet will be dominated by English, emphasizing that pluralism is
guaranteed by the nature of computer-information networks.
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<FONT SIZE=+2 COLOR="#008833"><B><I>Advertising Age</I></B></FONT>
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LSI LOGIC'S "INTERNET ON A CHIP"
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LSI Logic has developed a new computer chip it's calling "Internet on a
chip," which combines a Silicon Graphics microprocessor with electronic
circuitry for digital signal processing, high-speed communications modems,
video and audio transmission and 3-D graphics. The company hopes its new
$50 chip will be used as the brains for the so-called "$500 Internet device"
that's recently been touted by Oracle and Sun Microsystems. "I think
companies will be rolling out boxes in the third quarter, and they will be
the Cabbage Patch Doll sensation of Christmas 1996," says LSI's executive
VP for product strategy.
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<FONT SIZE=+2 COLOR="#0000dd"><B><I>WEB Week</I></B></FONT>
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NRC CALLS FOR NEW BUDGETING PROCESS FOR R&D
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The National Research Council released a report Nov. 29 calling for a single
budget that combines all sources of federal funding for science and
technology projects, saying such a change is necessary if the U.S. is to
remain the world leader in R&D. "Such a process would allow trade-offs to
be made across agencies, programs, and research institutions, freeing funds
for new initiatives by reducing or ending projects that have become a lower
priority or for which there are better alternatives," says the report. For
starters, NRC calles for changes in accounting procedures: "Almost half (of
the annual federal R&D budget) is spent on activities -- such as
establishing production lines and developing operational systems for new
aircraft and weapons systems -- that do not involve the creation of new
knowledge or technologies." Eliminating funding for these activities would
free up $35- to $40-billion a year for R&D.
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<FONT SIZE=+2 COLOR="#dd0000"><B><I>NewMedia</I></B></FONT>
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INTUIT TO OFFER BANKING SERVICES OVER THE INTERNET
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Financial software company Intuit, maker of Quicken, will offer banking over
the Internet -- a shift from its previous strategy of using private networks
to facilitate customer transactions with their banks. Microsoft is expected
to announce a competing Internet banking strategy.
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<FONT SIZE=+2 COLOR="#00ff00"><B><I>Forester</I></B></FONT>
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U.S. STUDIES MICROSOFT ACTIONS
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Justice Department investigators are asking whether Microsoft deliberately
designed Windows 95 in a way that discourage users from connecting to online
service providers other than Microsoft Network. A Microsoft spokesman
dismissed as "absolute nonsense" a CompuServe attorney's suggestion that
Windows 95 was designed to hobble rival programs.
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<FONT SIZE=+2 COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Computer World</I></B></FONT>
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UNGAME SOFTWARE
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Irvine, Calif.-based DVD Software Inc. has a new product that takes the fun
out of playing PC games at work. Called UnGame, the software finds and
eliminates games on network servers and hard drives. It can identify 3,100
kinds of games, even when their file names have been disguised. DVD's
president estimates game-playing at work costs the U.S. some $50 billion a
year in lost productivity, assuming 40 million users spend 30 minutes a week
playing games, at an average cost of $50 an hour.
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<FONT SIZE=+2 COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Computer World</I></B></FONT>
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TOKYO EXCHANGE SAYS INTERNET'S TOO FAST
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Because of "insider trading" restrictions that ban company officials and
media representatives from dealing in securities for 12 hours after they
learn earnings results, the Tokyo Stock Exchange wants companies to stop
sending such results over the Internet right after they're announced in news
conferences.
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