Battle lines drawn over directories. Vendors form the Directory Interoperability Forum to boost application development. Microsoft is a no-show. Tune-up for Wintel workstations. Intel and Microsoft join forces to beef up workstation performance.
Angry users win fight over intellectual property rights of their home pages.
Investors can say Yahoo. Web portal beat street estimates by a healthy 3 cents a share in Q2. Should give other Net stocks a boost. Net population explodes. The Internet will add 35 million new users this year, pushing total past 130 million.