Word: microsoft
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...million stock buyback plan. That will still leave $1.5 billion in the bank, effectively buying time for the company to figure out how to make more money on its own. Certainly Silicon Valley is rooting for Yahoo to stay independent in a world increasingly dominated by the AOL-Microsoft rivalry. "They do have a certain cachet, being the last Switzerland standing," says Sinnreich. Not that cachet alone pleases Wall Street anymore. If Yahoo is going to be Swiss, it had better find some good cheese and chocolate to sell...
...stores up to 30 hours' worth of TV on its internal hard drive. TiVo delighted me with its ease of use and uncanny intelligence (smart enough to recommend shows it knows I'll like). I was sure I'd found a lasting relationship. So when a friend mentioned that Microsoft was working on a rival box called Ultimate TV that could do everything TiVo did plus record two channels at the same time, my heart sank. Was it dumping time again, so soon...
...only available with DirecTV, which means you have to commit to satellite to use it (score one for TiVo, which works with cable too). Ultimate TV combines receiver and recorder in one box--which should, in theory, be better. But for some reason (possibly all the extra circuitry Microsoft had to pack into it) my Ultimate TV buzzed and hummed like a mini-fridge, even when powered down. I had to unplug it to get any sleep. So much for all those shows I wanted to record overnight...
...that's about as far as Ultimate TV's user friendliness goes. Want to mark a show for recording without browsing through the listings? Ultimate TV makes you enter names on an infrared keyboard, which is even clunkier than the remote. This is part of the package because Microsoft is also trying to sell you Web TV, which still ranks as one of the most painful Internet experiences I've ever...
THOMAS PENFIELD JACKSON Appeals court pans his Microsoft ruling and chats with the media. Gates may yet get last laugh...