A table of Beanie Babies is right next to an heiress' personal jewelry collection. A first edition of The Scarlet Letter is there alongside Blade Runner comic books. Microsoft Corp. is raising the possibility of additional delays in the government's antitrust case. U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson this week pushed back the trial, which had been scheduled to begin next week, to Oct. 15. The federal government Wednesday relaxed its controversial regulations strictly limiting the export of strong data-scrambling technologies.
Critics say the decision is long overdue.
Youngsters around the country are getting their kicks using hand-held laser pointers to flash bright red dots on movie screens, people at shopping malls and pro athletes in action. One company serious about data security has bought an abandoned nuclear bunker in southern England, where it is offering to store important corporate data on secure servers 300 feet underground. Inc is apparently in search of an Internet service partner, after MCI Communications' merger with WorldCom Inc. thwarted its earlier deal to have MCI as its official Internet connection. The U.S. entertainment and communications industries should grow at nearly twice the rate of the economy as a whole over the next nine years as cutting-edge digital technologies feed the American appetite for new products, an industry trade group said. He found one just by tapping out two words.