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King of spam meets its maker - Sanford Wallace is laughing today. [News.com]
 
LCD screens to be in short supply - Liquid crystal display screens used in notebooks and desktop monitors will be in short supply until early 1999, continuing to affect the availability of laptops, according to a market research firm. [News.com]
 
LSI profits flat on slow chip sales - LSI Logic (LSI) reported slightly weaker-than-expected second-quarter earnings amid slow sales of its computer chips. [News.com]
 
Libraries reject blocking software - Riding the coattails of the Supreme Court's historic rejection of the Communications Decency Act, the American Library Association has adopted a resolution against the use of filtering software in libraries. [News.com]
 
Link to explicit poem deemed OK - Police in the United Kingdom have decided not to bring charges against the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement, whose Web site provided a link to a controversial poem. [News.com]
 
Live Picture buys Olivr - Live Picture today announced that it has acquired the Olivr Corporation in a stock exchange deal. [News.com]
 
Logo program to boost SET - Seeking to turn an obscure payment protocol into a real business, Visa and MasterCard today kicked off a campaign to convince consumers that they can soon make credit card purchases safely over the Internet. [News.com]
 
Looking out browser windows for weather - Before getting battered by high winds this summer, some hurricane watchers are logging on to the Net to check out the latest in weather forecasts. [News.com]
 
Lotus IE deal pressures Netscape - Lotus Development's pledge to cozy up to Microsoft (MSFT) and its Internet Explorer 4.0 Web browser may be intended to persuade Netscape Communications (NSCP) to unbundle its Navigator Web browser from its Communicator package, analysts say. [News.com]
 
Lotus gives go-ahead to Web firms - Lotus, a unit of IBM (IBM), will release two new Web servers in its Lotus Go family next month, designed as starter products for companies eager to get on the Web. [News.com]
 
Low tech, high payoff on Mars - The Pathfinder mission to Mars is one of the most technologically advanced in space exploration history, but some of the components used to create its lander and microrover are surprisingly down to Earth. [News.com]
 
Lucent sues Acer over patents - Lucent Technologies (LU) has sued Acer, claiming the Taiwan-based PC maker has infringed Lucent patents. [News.com]
 
Lucent to buy Octel for $1.8 billion - Lucent Technologies (LU) said yesterday it agreed to buy Octel Communications (OCTL) for $1.8 billion in a bid to beef up its voice mail, fax and messaging business in the United States and abroad. [News.com]
 
Lucent triples earnings - Lucent Technologies says its earnings tripled in the third quarter, blowing past Wall Street's expectations, as demand soared for the former AT&T subsidiary's telecommunications equipment. [News.com]
 
MCI mimics White House on e-commerce - Internet companies, hoping to stave off government legislation, are scrambling to create self-regulatory mechanisms on a broad range of Net policy issues. [News.com]
 
MS late to service Office 97 - Microsoft (MSFT) is scheduled to ship a set of fixes for its Office 97 software suite in August, missing its original goal by a month. [News.com]
 
MS posts GetAdmin fix for NT - Microsoft (MSFT) has posted a fix to combat a new tool that allows any user with access rights to a local Windows NT machine to gain administrative privileges for that machine. [News.com]
 
MS pushes IE 4 to the Mac - Continuing its browser rollout, on Wednesday Microsoft (MSFT) will post the first public beta of Internet Explorer 4.0 for the Macintosh. [News.com]
 
MS: Windows 98 no blockbuster - Central to Microsofts sober expectations for the coming fiscal year is the companys attitude toward Windows 98--that it'll be a block that builds on its operating system, but not a source of blockbuster sales. [News.com]
 
MSN changing channels - When the new Microsoft Network launched last October, it had a look and feel similar to television. Nine months later, it's not so clear that's what Netizens want. [News.com]
 
 

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