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...with the processing handled by Intuit. The Microsoft-Visa plan would allow people to pay bills directly from their bank accounts using the rival program Microsoft Money, which now commands a scant 10 percent market share. "They're trying to strengthen their existing product," says TIME's Philip Elmer DeWitt. "But there's a lot of action in online transactions now. It's best not to be tied to any commercial product, any operating system or any bank card...
...corporate behavior. It is taking a closer look at the software giant's purchase last month of the internet software producer Vermeer Technologies to check for possible anti-trust considerations. Microsoft spokesman Greg Shaw defended the acquisition, calling it "pro-competitive" and "pro-consumer". According to Philip Elmer-Dewitt, TIME's Science Editor, the Justice action stems from the anti-trust issues which surrounded Microsoft last summer at the release of Windows 95. "The vigilance now is all fallout from last summer when Judge Sporkin called the Microsoft settlement into question and embarrased the Justice Department. Now, the Justice Department...
WASHINGTON: "This was the canonical 'look and feel' lawsuit," says TIME's Philip Elmer-DeWitt of Tuesday's Supreme Court ruling that denied copyright protection to the "menu command" portion of Lotus' 1-2-3 spreadsheet software. Voting without Justice John Paul Stevens, who earlier excused himself for undisclosed reasons, the court on a divided 4-4 vote upheld without comment a lower court ruling that Borland did not violate copyright laws when it incorporated an almost identical menu command bar into its own Quattro spreadsheet programs because the menu is a "method of operation" which does not qualify...
...means that the company's four million subscribers will not be able to access some 200 different "newsgroups" on a portion of the Internet called Usenet. "This shows that if you pull the plug in one country, you pull the plug on all countries," says TIME's Philip Elmer DeWitt. "But anyone who wants to regulate the Internet has to come to terms with the fact that it has no boundaries. I have a feeling it won't hold, since CompuServe will likely find a way, probably at a substantial cost, to allow access on a selective basis. The Internet...
...Philip Elmer-DeWitt...