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...Miners have asked Bush to halt Clinton's aggressive use of an 1872 mining law that the industry says makes it too easy to block development. Business groups want to overturn a rule that bars companies from federal contracts if they have been accused of violating a federal law. Microsoft hopes that Bush's body language from the campaign means his Justice Department will drop, or at least tone down, the government's case against the software giant. Tobacco companies are counting on Bush to give up the 1999 federal racketeering suit against them. And in his final month...
Fortunately somebody is working on it. A handful of companies, notably twin goliaths Microsoft and Yahoo, have formed a coalition called IMUnified to attack the problem. Unfortunately AOL, which between ICQ and AIM controls 80% of the market, isn't part of the gang. That's what has the FCC's regulatory knickers in a knot...
CYBERSEAT One more reason never to get up. Oblivious to the dotcom downturn, La-Z-Boy is moving impetuously into the Internet space with the Explorer ($1,049), a new reclining chair that comes with a built-in wireless keyboard from Sony and a Microsoft WebTV receiver that accesses the Internet through your TV. If only the Explorer came with a business plan and venture capital, it would be perfect...
Shanghai has made the most of its location at the edge of the country's most prosperous provinces, Guangdong and Fujian, as well as its role in its own province, Jiangsu. It also has a growing pool of inexpensive skilled workers--one of the reasons Microsoft chose to set up its Asian Regional Engineering Center there three years ago. William Overholt, head of strategy and economics at Nomura International (HK) Ltd., calls Shanghai the "most successful reforming city today...
BRAND X Bill Gates wants you to hold off buying that PlayStation2. Microsoft's Xbox game console won't arrive for 10 months, but developers are already promising their popular game franchises, including Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Oddworld and WWF Raw Is War. The demos look great, but the high-tech hardware still doesn't fit into the cool case that debuted last week at CES in Las Vegas...