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SETTLED. AOL TIME WARNER'S LAWSUIT AGAINST MICROSOFT, with a cooperation agreement that ends a bitter rivalry between the companies. Microsoft will pay AOL $750 million to settle the antitrust suit brought by its Netscape unit and will grant AOL a seven-year license for use of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser...
...More often than not, the data are worth more than that--especially to the 70% of DriveSavers customers that are corporations. The company has long-term contracts with the likes of AT&T, Apple and IBM. (Rival CBL Data Recovery Technologies, based in Toronto, has a similar deal with Microsoft.) The forensics lab at Deloitte & Touche uses DriveSavers for its most sensitive cases, such as the one last winter when a defendant in a court case who had been caught on security-camera footage threw the drive on which it was stored into an ice-covered lake. The drive...
...even with the general economic malaise and private sector hesitancy to hire, some bright spots still existed. For instance Wright-Swadel notes Microsoft ramped up its recruiting efforts this year, hoping to take advantage of the decline in demand for the most talented students...
After two years of dating, the two became engaged. They will live apart for a year after graduation while Barr will work in Seattle for Microsoft and Lovett studies neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin. “We’re not looking forward to being apart, but it makes the most sense for both of our careers,” Barr says, adding that he will most likely purchase several plane tickets next year. The couple will marry next August, before Barr joins Lovett at the University of Wisconsin, where he will attend law school...
...Best Of Friends Microsoft and AOL Time Warner agreed to settle their feud over Netscape, with Bill Gates' company paying $750 million to AOL, which will, in turn, use Microsoft's browser. Also: cats and dogs are said to be near a historic accord...