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MailPush, a company from Israel, introduces MailPush Express, a service that
can tell your home computer when a new mail arrives at your ISP  by alerting
an icon on your desktop even when your modem is not connected.

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The rest of the issue covers the following:

1 Cisco, Lucent, Nortel Compete In $650B Data Network Race

Everything, be it voice or video, is fast becoming data. Whoever can put all
these three in a most flexible & pliable multi-optional data network wins the
race. In the running are Telecom giants like Lucent, Nortel, Alactel and a
data networking major like Cisco.

2.Toll-Free Phone Scheme Cheated of $9 Million A California man has pleaded
guilty of using a toll-free number scheme to cheat Net access providers and
long distance heavyweights out of nearly $9 million.

3. $1.1M Slapped On Texas Company For Slamming
A small Texas company was fined $1.1 million by the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) for slamming. ( changing a consumer's long distance provider
without authorization)

4. Service Providers to Save $180M From Electronic Billing
A study by the Killen and Associates forecasts that US telecommunications
service providers, including AT&T, Ameritech, BellSouth, GTE, Sprint and
Worldcom will save $180 million by switching to Electronic Bill Payment and
Presentment(EBPP)in the year 2000.

5. Euro Conversion Option To Lead to Billing Chaos
The three year transition period for optional conversion to Euro from January
1999 through 2002 threatens to lead to chaos in billing.

6. Detailed Rules For Truth-in-Billing "Too Costly" - Industry
The FCC has been told by various telecom industry players that detailed rules
to reform billing practices would be costly and unnecessary.

7. Action sought on peak rate phone bills
Federal regulators urged to crackdown on long distance companies charging
highest rate for direct dial calls.

8. Data Speed Adjusting In Multimedia Phone Lines
A small telecom group is developing a technique to load a variable mix of
voice, image and documents on a 6 mega-bit per second track running over a
single twisted copper line.

9. Email Alert Without A Modem

MailPush, a company from Israel, introduces MailPush Express, a service that
can tell your home computer when a new mail arrives at your ISP  by alerting
an icon on your desktop even when your modem is not connected.

10. Big-Time Hackers Face World's Tiniest Lock In an attempt to thwart
computer hackers and spies from stealing secrets, scientists from the Sandia
National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have built the world's
smallest 'PHYSICAL' lock.

11. E2 - Promise Of  Faster And Secure Encryption
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone has come out  with E2, a faster and
more secure encryption algorithm to protect program code from spies
and hackers.

12.Microsoft Turns the Heat On Software Pirates Microsoft  has sued a
Computer Renaissance franchise and three other resellers in Charollete, N.C.
for allegedly selling unlicensed copies of its Office 95/97 and Windows 95
software.

13. Ebill: Telecom billing solution from Infozech.

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