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Information includes air-quality monitoring and groundwater quality data reports for all of Austria.
As reported in Newsbytes, Netscape plans to add numerous specific language versions of its browser. The New York Times News Service reports that three separate groups of researchers have succeeded for the first time in transmitting information at a rate of 1 trillion bits a second through an optical fiber. The achievement is the equivalent of transmitting the contents of 300 years' worth of daily newspapers in a single second. The data communications bureau will install the network and information servers from US Sprint in the province's 11 major cities. When the project is completed in April, the province will have more Internet users than any other province in the country, according to He Youfu, deputy director of the bureau.