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...poster child for Internet depression. A high-tech AT&T spinoff that, as CEO Henry Schacht went around saying this winter, tried too hard to be a high-speed, high-growth dot-com, Lucent has gone from highly regarded - mentioned in the same bellwether breath as Cisco, Intel and Microsoft - to highly suspect...
...majority-owned by new Hughes shareholders (currently, the company is merely a tracking stock) but controlled by News Corp. by virtue of its largest-shareholder 36 percent stake, giving Murdoch control over the day-to-day operations. (There are some other potential machinations, including a $4 billion investment by Microsoft, but with the deal weeks away from even glimpsing the finish line, there's really no point in getting into them here...
...trusty pocket computer. It comes with 16 MB of memory, so it can store and run several of the 12,000-plus software programs and games available for the Palm platform. The Treo syncs readily with computers via standard USB connections. You can carry your complete contact list, either Microsoft Outlook or Palm Desktop address books, wherever...
...Ironically, perhaps, given the feverish nature of civil rights and abortion rights protests surrounding Ashcroft's nomination, there's very little on the foreseeable horizon at Justice involving any of those hot-button issues. Instead, the department faces a docket heavy with antitrust issues, including the ongoing Microsoft case and various pending airline mergers. In the coming months, Ashcroft will also get to weigh in on a few pieces of tobacco legislation...
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...