MCI is promising full Internet services in 1/95, at $20/month for the first 7 hour. WWW services will use Netscape's browser and secure credit transactions. Small businesses are being recruited for MCI's online mall, at $2,000/month. [David Bank, SJM, 11/22/94, 1F.]

2Market Inc. is a shopping venture from Apple and AOL, via CD ROM, eWorld, or AOL. [Tampa Tribune 11/22/94 B&F7. EDUPAGE.] (The 1.0 CD ROM came free in the mail, and my kids fought over who could use it first. I got seasick watching the tour guide's head move with each phrase, but it's fun selecting from the 2,000 presentations by product name, category, or gift-recipient characteristics. Or browsing the 27 vendors for clothes, jewelry, kitchenware, music, etc. There are even video clips for Maxis' Widget Workshop and Sim Town (but not the new Sim Tower, or Voyager's P.A.W.S. simulation of a dog's life). Don't expect many items under $30. Customers must pay $20/year for quarterly updates, and this CD ROM didn't hold enough to justify the cost. Besides, you need a Mac or fast PC with 3MB of free RAM. The online version (2MARKET on AOL) should be much better, once hundreds or thousands of stores participate. Having one database engine spanning all vendors is a real win. 1-800-622-6600.)

Online Computer Market, Inc. is building tools for computer product/service vendors and buyers. Online Pages and PC Advisor are open on http://www.ocm.com, with Power Buyer and Online Expo services due in 12/94 and 1/95. [Bob Kelley (kelley@ocm.ultranet.com), net-hap, 11/28/94.]

A source of discount CD ROMs is the UNIROM Electronic CD-ROM Catalog, a self-running DOS program. FTP from directory unirom on marketplace.com, or access http://marketplace.com via WWW or Gopher. support@unirom.com, 1-916-477-8392, 1-916-477-8390 Fax; 1-800-862-2457 for orders. [comp.publish.cdrom.software, 11/28/94.]

Legal problems faced by Internet entrepreneurs are discussed in the 12/94 issue of Scientific American. [Robert Laprade (laprade@netcom.com), 12/5/94.]

A couple has been convicted of transmitting obscene images (including bestiality) via interstate telephone lines, by a federal judge in Memphis, TN. The couple wanted the case tried in their home state, CA. [Tampa Tribune, 12/3/94, A16. EDUPAGE.]