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Excite to offer free email - Excite (XCIT) today announced that it is getting into the free email business, taking on established players such as Juno, HotMail, and NetAddress. [News.com]
 
Execs learn political realities - Throughout the debate over the Communications Decency Act, the high-tech industry's stance was simple: Let technology and the industry take care of it, and everything will be fine. But as Internet leaders descended on Washington this week, some began to realize that politics may not be as easy as they'd thought. [News.com]
 
Execs: End wasteful tech funding - A group of prominent Silicon Valley executives, led by outspoken Cypress Semiconductor Chief Executive T.J. Rodgers, has repeated its call for an end to U.S. funding for technology programs it considers wasteful. [News.com]
 
Experts say existing laws work on Net - About 180 lawyers meeting in San Francisco earlier this week to discuss evolving legal ramifications of the Internet concluded that cyberspace was virtually no different from "terra firma" when it comes to the applicability of the law. [News.com]
 
Explorer beta ready to channel - Microsoft (MSFT) launched a full-scale beta of Internet Explorer 4.0 today, with support for more than 30 "push" channel partners shipping with the browser. [News.com]
 
FBI wants domestic crypto keys - After months on the fence, Federal Bureau of Investigation director Louis Freeh is making it clear that controlling the domestic use of encryption software is a greater priority than limiting its export. [News.com]
 
FCC eyes Baby Bell merger - The Federal Communications Commission is carefully eyeing the Bell Atlantic-Nynex merger in what critics said was a rebuke of the Justice Department's decision to give the combination unconditional approval. [News.com]
 
FTC addresses children's privacy - Responding to mounting pressure from children's advocates, the Federal Trade Commission set guidelines today for the collection of personal data from young surfers. [News.com]
 
FTC backs industry on privacy - The Federal Trade Commission today told Congress how it plans on better protecting Net surfers' privacy: by mainly relying on industry self-regulation. [News.com]
 
FTC commissioner returns to law - The Federal Trade Commission's Internet guru, Christine Varney, will resign from her post in August, she said today. [News.com]
 
FTC won't probe Microsoft - The Federal Trade Commission has officially rejected three senators' request to reopen an investigation of Microsoft's alleged antitrust practices, according to a letter sent to the congressmen by the FTC chairman. [News.com]
 
Falling prices mean more memory - There's nothing like low prices to push technological change. [News.com]
 
False alarm: The Net's not falling - It was scene worthy of the Hollywood blockbuster Independence Day: While fireworks light up the sky on July 4, the global Internet goes black. But, like the movie, this story was fiction. [News.com]
 
Fast modems target business - Hayes Microcomputer today announced a new line of 56-kbps modems specifically targeted at business users. [News.com]
 
Fax it to my PC - A new application from Mitek Systems lets small businesses with heavy fax traffic route faxes directly to desktops. [News.com]
 
FileNet reports second-quarter loss - Citing one-time restructuring charges, FileNet (FILE) today reported a net loss for its second quarter. [News.com]
 
FileNet sees second-quarter loss - Document management company FileNet (FILE) said today it expects to report a second-quarter net loss of about $3.8 million or 25 cents per share, including restructuring and other charges of $6 million, on revenue of about $62.5 million. [News.com]
 
Final Netcaster due next month - Who will make the final push? Netscape Communications (NSCP) has set its sights on an August final release of its Netcaster "push" client software, the company said. [News.com]
 
FireWire lights storage devices - Lucent Technologies has announced a new chip that will make it easier for manufacturers of storage devices such as disk drives and CD-ROM drives to adapt current products to the upcoming high-speed FireWire standard, also known as "1394." [News.com]
 
Firewalls double Check Point earnings - Beating analysts' expectations, Check Point Software Technologies (CHKPF) today reported earnings that more than doubled last year's results, citing strong demand for security and firewall products. [News.com]
 
 

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