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...first glance, the higher courts seem considerably more sympathetic to Microsoft than was Judge Jackson. In 1998 the Court of Appeals dealt the Department of Justice a body blow by reversing Jackson's injunction ordering Microsoft to quit tying its Web browser to Windows. That decision has since been glorified by Microsoft attorneys, who see it as their salvation. But as Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein points out, "The court said it was writing without the benefit of a factual record." Now they've got 78 days' worth of testimony, much of it arguing that Microsoft's motivation was more...
...thing that did bother me, however, was that Real.com which installed its popular streaming video software as part of the setup, had the temerity to crawl into my browser and change the settings. The program replaced my home page (which I had designated as google.com the search engine) with the address of its own site. Bad, Real.com bad! I fired off an e-mail to someone at LogiTech, who said other people had complained about this too. LogiTech says Real is going to quit...
...HANDHELD $499, plus $40 a month Newcomer RIM takes on the handheld market with this compact organizer. A Web browser is coming this fall...
...killer" some were expecting. There's also a joint venture of the software firm Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Japan's Matsushita and Motorola called Symbian that was designed to keep Microsoft at bay. Although there have been some cracks in the alliance--Ericsson has said it will put a Microsoft browser in its phones--Symbian will probably remain a counterweight to Gates & Co. Also crimping Microsoft's plans: AOL, whose newly released Netscape 6.0 browser may be adapted for wireless handhelds...
...Internet will accelerate the phenomenon. The browser page and the LCD screen on your cell phone or your PalmPilot are still contested territories, allowing new relationships among the different kinds of content that appear there. The Pampers website provides parenting information and advice--and, presumably, not the kind that the Pampers people wouldn't want you to see. In a less obvious kind of relationship, marketing execs can enter chat rooms under assumed names and praise their company's product, service or stock: that's just advertising masquerading as conversation. And more directly, consumers are excited about an emerging technology...