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...fair to Boies et al, the DOJ still has plenty of juicy material to feed on. Its latest witness, economist Frederick Warren-Boulton, brought out one tasty tidbit Tuesday: Microsoft, he said, had an "astonishing" 38.5 percent profit margin -- more than any other high-tech firm in the Fortune 500. How, then, can this company claim that it doesn't derive benefits from its monopoly position? After all, there's one thing the AOL deal hasn't changed: 89 percent of those Netscape browsers are going to be viewed on a Microsoft-operated machine. Windows, too, is a beast that...
Getting those two PCs talking to each other is already possible with RF (infrared) attachments. But analysts are betting that a home network based on connections through your phone lines will be the standard with staying power. HomePNA, a consortium of high-tech companies including Intel and Lucent, hopes to have the technology, called 1 Mbit/s, in stores early next year...
Driven by the glamorous high-tech economy and its entrepreneurs, the rock stars of the '90s, business culture has become about as quicksilver as molten silicon. In growing numbers, the corporate employees of yesteryear are going out on their own and becoming small-business owners. In fact, 7 million Americans are running small businesses now, up from 4.8 million just four years...
...Students] are starting to see high-tech as a career even if you're not a techie," he says...
...Which explains why NASA and its peers in the private sector are rotating their high-tech machinery away from the storm, powering down, and wishing on a star that they won't be the unlucky one. "The chance of any one satellite getting smacked by a particle is probably less than one in one thousand," said Don Yeomans of NASA's JPL labs. "But on the other hand, some of these satellites are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, so you do take whatever precautions you can." Even a single direct hit could cause a communications disaster: Remember the malfunction...