Tuesday, January 26

Russ Dienert grabbed my skull and politely crooked my neck in the direction of the Shark Multimedia web site, where I found USB modem number five.

Cable modem provider At Home intends to buy search engine Excite for US$6.7 billion in stock.

DirecTV, sister company to DirecPC, bought rival PrimeStar for US$1.32 billion in cash and stock.

Dana Bagget found a new Apple technote for troubleshooting "Modem Not Responding" problems on the iMac.

The February Computer Shopper surveys current 56K and ISDN options.

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Friday, January 29

022.com pays you to send them links. That's where I found Hondo's amazing web card trick: a web page that can guess the card you picked! Can you figure out how it knows? If not, come back Tuesday for the the rilly amazing sekrit.

The Netcomm Roadster II 56 USB is USB modem number 6.

Wired reports on the FCC ruling that cable companies do not have to provide equal access to other companies that would use the cable network to provide Internet service.

Yahoo has agreed to buy GeoCities for US$3.6 billion in stock.

Global Village announced a 56K internal modem for the blue G3 Power Macs.

Responding to customer complaints to law-enforcement officials, eBay has agreed to work with the government to stamp out fraudulent sellers on its service.

Results for this month's survey

For a discussion of your options for handling personal email, see the archived news story.

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Where is your main email address for personal email?
Email address at ISP or online service (example: AOL) 59.9% Email address at free, web-based service (example: Hotmail or RocketMail) 11.3% Email address at a domain you own 10.1% Email alias for a forwarded email address (example: usa.net or Bigfoot) 8.5% Email address at work 7.9% Email address at school 2.1%
Expired: Sat Jan 16 18:45:51 EST 1999 Total Votes: 948

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