Recipe for an action film: 1) Secure the rights to one of the hottest video game properties of the last few years, perhaps best described as Indiana Jones with breasts. 2) Sign Angelina Jolie as the lead and push the movie to be your studio’s top entry in the summer box-office sweepstakes. 3) Leave your star’s name off the movie poster?

Is Netscape ready to leave the browser world? Netscape is now part of the AOL-Time-Warner megacorporation, and if comments by company officials are any indication, we may see an end to Netscape being an active participant as a browser supplier.

The deal between Napster and MusicNet pits three major record labels against two in the race to develop an Internet music system consumers will pay for.

Real estate on your computer desktop is about to become a lot more valuable. “They [Microsoft] want to try to force consumers to use their stuff instead of AOL’s, EarthLink’s or anybody else’s stuff,” says Barry Schuler, chief executive of the America Online unit of AOL Time Warner Inc. “It makes it harder for consumers to find things that they want. We think they are going to hate it.”

Slowdown? What slowdown? Despite the massive layoffs and many high-profile bankruptcies, high-tech employment actually increased 4.6 percent in 2000, with manufacturing adding 18,000 jobs and computer software and services adding 145,900 new jobs, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Electronics Association.