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20-26 JUNE


A cumulative index of the news from the past week for anyone who missed it first time round. Do try to keep up.

A little word about dates
THURSDAY 20 JUNE
Sony intros "PC TVs" with MPEG, 3-D graphics
Capital Cities/ABC and AOL launch style channel
Lotus unveils Domino, releases components
Sharp previews wide-screen notebook PC
UK mobile phone dealers protest over goverment impositions
Bigfoot offers permanent e-mail
UK company claims major video codec breakthrough

FRIDAY 21 JUNE
Washington Post now on the Web
Web's biggest crawler stands to net $1m
Futureshock awaits tomorrow's criminal
Airmail is an Email first
News Corp and Softbank team up in Japan
How to have fun with e-mail
Sports mags race for Olympic coverage
Toshiba breaks with notebook-only tradition
US scientists misappropriate protectionism
Still rolling but no longer stone free
Intel teams up with C/NET for content
Fuji prints on photographic paper

MONDAY 24 JUNE
Oracle teams with Compuserve for intranet
Matsushita optical disk gets nod from standards setters
Guide explains how to stay legal online
Australian artists demand Net royalties
Gopher it! More on mail resources online
"I'll be back-up", Powderhorn tells Arnie
Merlin to get voice-controlled e-mail
MCI aids modernisation of US libraries
EC says "non" to English-only Internet
Unisys plans computers that know what you mean
Microsoft adds Java support
Prodigy content now on the Web
AT&T offers big discounts to home phone users
Paperless office arrives - now hit "print"
We have seen the future and it's, er, round

TUESDAY 25 JUNE
Service for investors debuts on the Net
AOL answers malpractice charges
More options open up for Internet phone users
Calling all comedians . . .
Another strange site on the Web
Chocolate, beer and now multimedia
Mercury One-2-One offers data over GSM
Pilot PDA flies in from US Robotics
Sega Channel opens in London
Jaguar to offer free ISDN connections
Manufacturer claims fax boards faster than modems
British hackers breach US defence network
Next generation Nintendo looks like a big hit
Internet software update
Microsoft signs deal with Japanese credit card company
PC makers get aboard serial bus initiative
3Com ups the ante for ISDN modems
Yahoo says local guides are the way forward
Wyse first with $500 Internet client
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WEDNESDAY 26 JUNE
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