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Connect! is a commercial newsletter covering the computer industry. Nano-connect! is an abridged version on http://www.io.org/~jwsmith. Comments to Jason Smith (jwsmith@io.org). [John Higgins (higgins@dorsai.dorsai.org), Net-Letter Guide, 10/15/94.]

Legal Bytes is a lengthy quarterly computer law review by George, Donaldson & Ford (Austin). Contact gdf@well.sf.ca.us. [John Higgins (higgins@dorsai.dorsai.org), Net-Letter Guide, 10/15/94.]

"Standpoints: the Electronic Journal of Information Contexts" is a planned refereed e-journal for the library and information sciences. Topics include multiculturalism, feminism, methodology (e.g., ethnography), and other changes and non-traditional perspectives in LIS. Edited by Kathleen Burnett (kburnett@gandalf.rutgers.edu) and Hur-Li Lee (hurlee@eden.rutgers.edu). [Rebecca Pressman (rebeccap@eden.rutgers.edu), PACS-L, 10/13/94. NewJour-L.]

Mac*Chat is an e-newsletter for Macintosh graphics professionals. Send a "subscribe macchat your name" message to listserv@vm.temple.edu. [Sriram NCV (shrim @astro.ocis.temple.edu), New-List, 10/18/94. CARR-L. Annamaria T Profit.]

"Computational Intelligence: An International Journal" from Blackwell Publishers has a Web page at http://calypso.cs.uregina.ca. Comments to ci@cs.uregina.ca. [IDSS Mailing List Newsletter, 10/13/94. Bill Park.] (Abbreviated CI, not to be confused with Computists International.)

Neural Processing Letters has begun publication, in 9/94. For info, see http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/neural-nets/NPL/NPL.html or FTP from /pub/neural-nets/NPL on ftp.dice.ucl.ac.be. + 32 2 245 43 63, + 32 2 245 46 94 Fax. [esann@dice.ucl.ac.be, connectionists, 10/14/94.]

Speech Recognition Update is a monthly professional/business newsletter. Sample issues and possibly 3-month free trials are available from TMA Associates (72162.3175@compuserve.com). [William Meisel (meisel@aol.com), comp.speech, 10/11/94.]

SEARCH ONLINE is a new electronic newsletter in German. "Mit SEARCH ONLINE werden Sie sicherlich nicht das gesamte Informationsspektrum rund um den Information-Highway beziehen." You can get a free subscription by sending a "BEZUG SEARCH ONLINE" message to Michael Klems (michael.klems@dm.rs.ch, m.klems@link- gl.cl.sub.de, or 100023.572@compuserve.com), 02204-23504, 02204-63469 Fax. [Michael Moebius (au007@rs1.rrz.uni-koeln.de). NewJour-L, 10/20/94.] (Not "InfoBahn"?)

INDIVIDUAL, Inc. (Cambridge, MA) is introducing a "First for Mosaic" customized news feed in HTML format. 100 stories/day to a company with 100 readers would cost about $50K/year. No multimedia yet, as it's not provided by the service's 350 news sources. [Ellis Booker, CW, 10/24/94, p. 64.] (INDIVIDUAL is also offering HeadsUp fax and email services. Their AI topic carries about 2-5 articles or patents per day. Other good topics are OCR, statistical/math software, object-oriented technology, commercial software distribution, educational software, and intellectual property. Retrieval by email is easy and almost instantaneous.)

PowerNeWS is a new Internet/Newton morning news service. $29.95 start-up plus $6.95/month for two topics (national, business, stock reports, Newsbytes computer news, sports, health/science, or entertainment) and $3/month for each additional topic; first month free. PenTekk Software Technologies, Inc. (Norcross, GA), powernews1@eworld.com, (404) 564-0977. [10/10/94. Charles L. Morefield.]

HPCwire is offering free daily coverage of SUPERCOMPUTING '94. Sign up with a message to live-dc@hpcwire.tgc.com. [10/27/94.]