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The good news? Microsoft will settle. The bad news? Microsoft will settle.
NC News - In this opinionated column James Felton offers his views
on the outcome of the current anti-trust case against Microsoft.
Feel
THE POWER!
NC News - We decided to try using VMWare to install
Solaris 2.6 on hardware that it absolutely WOULD NOT install on previously
- a 3 year old "generic" Pentium 100.
Sony
taps Linux for PlayStation development
NEWS.COM - Sony has tapped the Linux operating
system for use in a simulation that will help developers come up with games
for its next-generation PlayStation more quickly.
Making the play for Linux in the home
Linux World - Nick Petreley gives the Linux community the cheats they need to win the home computing game in this edition of
The Penguin Brief.
The
hottest computing product we've EVER seen!
NC News - On March 15, 1999 a small start-up company quietly launched THE killer app. What is it? It is a product called VMWare.
Sony out
front in living room race?
MSNBC - Sony's next-generation PlayStation machine will redefine home entertainment. A new chip enables PlayStation to connect with standard PC accessories such as a keyboard, mouse, digital camera and the all-important modem for Internet connections. It even gets along
with standard household appliances such as the VCR.
On-demand services headed to set-tops
NEWS.COM - Intertainer and General Instrument, the largest U.S. supplier of cable set-top boxes, are working to bring Java-based video and music "on-demand" services to digital set-top boxes
due to appear later this year.
Ellison:
Digital appliances in Apple's future
NEWS.COM - On the eve of Apple's annual shareholder
meeting, board member Larry Ellison said the personal computer pioneer
is poised to become no less than "the great provider of digital appliances."
CEBIT:
Linux, Wireless Devices Talk of the Show
IDG News Service - Handheld devices for accessing
the Internet on the road and Linux, the popular open source operating system
software, stole the limelight here at the seven-day CeBIT show.
Top
Tech Firms Plan Home Appliances Link
Excite News - A global alliance of 13 major computer,
phone and electric utility companies Monday will unveil plans to forge
a common software method for linking consumer and small business appliances
to the Internet.
Microsoft
Socked with Two Class Action Suits
ZDTV - A suit in California filed late Thursday,
February 18, seeks damages on behalf of all people in the state who paid
monopoly prices to buy the Windows operating system, Word and Excel.
Compaq
warns of weaker demand as PCs sales fall below forecasts
MSNBC - Compaq Computer Corp. warned of lower-than-expected
demand for its personal computers, compounding concerns by some analysts
that growth in the $174 billion world-wide PC market may be nearing an
end.
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