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...revolution is something no major tech company wants to miss. There are face-offs at every level. Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson are duking it out over smart phones. Microsoft's Pocket PC is squaring off against Palm, which has nearly 70% of the handheld market. AT&T, SPRINT PCS, MCI and the Baby Bells want to provide the connections. CNN, ESPN and everyone else want to provide the "news nuggets" and other customized content...
Rootin', tootin', acquisition-mad MCI Worldcom chief Bernard Ebbers may have finally met his match: the antitrust boys at the Justice Department. Ebbers' proposed $130 billion hookup with Sprint - the latest in a spectacular string of acquisitions by the southern-fried CEO - would be one of the largest corporate mergers ever, a joining of the No. 2 and No. 3 long-distance carriers that posed a serious threat to leader AT&T. But now Justice staffers have formally recommended to head trustbuster Joel Klein that the merger be blocked, on the grounds that a company with one third...
...Klein has invited lawyers for both of the betrothed to come to his office and defend the marriage, but MCI Worldcom isn't wasting any time making the deal look more palatable. The company reiterated that it is willing to sell all or part of its Internet "backbone" - the switching-provider part of the deal, which also worries European regulators - to help soothe antitrust regulators. A spokesman said Thursday that the company currently is in the process of defining exactly what business units are a part of that backbone and spinning them off into a separate division. Meeting the feds...
...were told that we would only be able to bring in half as many people as we had in the past, due to "safety" concerns of the new deputy superintendent. Left with many more tutors than places for them to tutor, we looked to expand to other facilities. MCI-Framingham, an all-women's prison, turned us down outright. MCI-Concord, a facility that had no teachers when we went to speak with them, strung us along for over four months, only to eventually reject us outright as well. No reasons were given. I am at a loss to explain...
Sports Illustrated: Michael Jordan says wear Nikes. Michael Jordan says switch to MCI. Michael Jordan says vote for Bill Bradley...