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WEDNESDAY SOMETIME IN 1997. WHAT? YOU WANT A PROPER DATE IN A DEMO? OKAY THEN... THIS NEWS IS FROM THE 12TH OF JUNE 1997. SATISFIED? Daily news from Computing, PC Week, Personal Computer World, Computer Retail News and the Newsbytes news service. WEEK IN REVIEW

Latest AOL client software emerges from beta test Carrier commits $60m to improving Internet service Sony develops camera no bigger than thumbnail Video on disk to get copy protection Apple to sell NT servers in Australia Kurzweil ex treasurer sentenced for fraud TV stations plug in to electronic ad delivery Israel primed for Internet explosion Key Apple employees defect to Microsoft US broadcasters get thumbs-up for data transmission Germans moot cyberspace regulations Report charts development of "information skyway" Quake aims to replace Doom as greatest game General Magic turns new trick on the Internet