Top Stories Updated June 11 1997 CST 17:02

Internet Update
TOKYO, JAPAN, 1997 JUN 11 (NB) -- By Martyn Williams. This is a roundup of new and updated resources and services on the global Internet including: Internet live - how to pick a hot stock; Internet live - Blue Note Jazz live; natural language search engine launched; AppleMasters debuts online; sorting out the mass of movies; Excite upgrades search engine; from 17m light years away to your desktop; news and current affairs from the Philippines; new Request For Comments issued.

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E-Mail Bag - PointCast Review
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, U.S.A., 1997 JUN 11 (NB) -- By Bob Woods. In this week's E-Mail Bag: letters - both positive and negative - about our PointCast review from last Friday.

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Australia's Sausage Shares Hit New Low
MELBOURNE , AUSTRALIA, 1997 JUN 11 (NB) -- By Graeme Kemlo and David Frith, Computer Daily News. Australian Stock exchange-listed Sausage Software's share price dropped to its lowest point after a critical front-page story in The Age daily newspaper yesterday.

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Murdoch In US Satellite Market With Primestar Restructuring
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, U.S.A., 1997 JUN 11 (NB) -- By Bob Woods. Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. [NYSE:NWS ] finally has a foothold in the US satellite market, as News Corp.'s and MCI Communications' [NASDAQ:MCIC ] American Sky Broadcasting (ASkyB) satellite service is folded into Primestar as a part of a restructuring of Primestar into a publicly traded company. Primestar is currently a partnership among TCI Satellite Entertainment [NASDAQ:TSATA ] (TSAT), Time Warner [NYSE:TWX ]/Newhouse, Cox Communications [NYSE:COX], Comcast Corp. [NASDAQ:CMCSA ], US West Media Group's [NYSE:UMG ] Media One broadband services arm, and General Electric [NYSE:GE ] subsidiary GE American Communications (GE Americom).

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Iomega Zip Drive Tops Six Million
TAIPEI, TAIWAN, 1997 JUN 11 (NB) -- By Robert Clark. Iomega's [NYSE:IOM] high capacity Zip drive has topped six million in sales, confirming it as one of the fastest selling consumer items in history.

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Microsoft Joins Netscape In Online Privacy Standard
WASHINGTON, DC, U.S.A., 1997 JUN 11 (NB) -- By Bill Pietrucha. Microsoft [NASDAQ:MSFT ] is burying the hatchet with Netscape Communications [NASDAQ:NSCP ], at least when it comes to privacy standards on the Internet. Microsoft said today it would join the Open Profiling Standard (OPS), which would allow personalized Internet services while also protecting user privacy.

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Web Consortium Unveils Platform For Privacy Project
WASHINGTON, DC, U.S.A., 1997 JUN 11 (NB) -- By Bill Pietrucha. Online privacy, tailor-made for both Web sites and visitors, is on its way, courtesy of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The W3C unveiled its new Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3) project at the US Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Public Workshop on Consumer Online Privacy being held in Washington, DC, this week.

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Semiconductor Industry Starts Job Search
AUSTIN, TEXAS, U.S.A., 1997 JUN 11 (NB) -- By Patrick McKenna. Two semiconductor industry consortiums, Sematech and Semi/Sematech, announced a national campaign to promote semiconductor industry career opportunities. Both industry groups predict 40,000 technical positions in the semiconductor business will open in the next five years.

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Agriculture Database Shut Down After Tampering
WASHINGTON, DC, U.S.A., 1997 JUN 11 (NB) -- By Bill Pietrucha. The US Agriculture Department's Foreign Agricultural Service World Wide Web site is back up and running, one day after the site was compromised by unknown hackers.

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3Com, US Robotics Shareholders Approve Merger
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1997 JUN 11 (NB) -- By Bob Woods. At separate corporate meetings Wednesday, 3Com [NASDAQ:COMS ] and US Robotics [NASDAQ:USRX ] shareholders voted to approve the merger between the two companies. The new company, to be called 3Com, was undergoing the process of incorporating in Delaware Wednesday afternoon.

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Cisco Proposes 'Thin Servers' To Support Thin Clients
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1997 JUN 11 (NB) -- By Grant Buckler. One concern raised repeatedly about the idea of the network computer or thin client is that a machine that relies on the network for the applications it runs will put a heavy load on network bandwidth. Cisco Systems, Inc. [NASDAQ:CSCO ] is proposing a solution, in the form of what the networking equipment vendor calls a thin server.

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BREAKING NEWS - Intuit Invests $40 Million in Excite
REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1997 JUN 11 (NB) -- by Linda Dailey Paulson. Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU ) and Excite (NASDAQ:XCIT ) announced today plans for Intuit to invest $40 million in Excite. The agreement includes a seven-year agreement in which the companies will "program, promote and distribute" a new online personal finance service.

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