CYBER VENDING MACHINE

CASH ON THE INTERNET MAKES ITS DEBUT THIS WEEK. WILL IT TURN THE WEB INTO A MONEY TREE?

It is a truth universally acknowledged that an infant media-distribution network in possession of a large audience must be in want of a way to cash in on it. Case in point: the World Wide Web, the interconnected computer universe that teems with affluent consumers whose only means of spending money online is to surrender their credit card to insecure networks--hardly a recipe for success.

This week CyberCash, based in Reston, Virginia, launches a product that could change all that, and turn the Web into one giant vending machine. The company's CyberCoin system will allow online "microtransactions" of as little as...

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