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Organizers recruited over 350 companies and organizations, including Microsoft, ABC News, the League of Women Voters and Yahoo!, to provide links to the new site from their own Web pages...
Surprisingly, many seminal events in American popular culture this year have emanated from a single corporation, and no, it's not Microsoft. It's Disney. Most people recognize that The Lion King, a huge artistic and commercial success on Broadway, is a Disney product, But fewer are aware that the upcoming film version of Beloved, Toni Morrison's celebrated novel, was financed with Disney money, or that Tina Brown, late of The New Yorker, recently made a development deal with Miramax, which is owned by--you guessed it--Disney...
Professor of Law L. Lawrence Lessig is the special master in the anti-trust litigation against Microsoft. In January, Microsoft tried to have Lessig removed from the case, arguing that the professor had demonstrated bias against Microsoft in e-mail messages to Netscape executives...
...digging through junk mail to get to your bills? Net surfers will soon be able to enjoy electronic bill presentment, which "sends" digital copies of bills to websites for easy payment. Users of Quicken or Money, and customers at banks like Wells Fargo or Citibank (which just invested in Microsoft's online-billing venture) can get billed by utilities and telephone companies without any paper cuts...
Intel chairman Andy Grove, co-developer with Microsoft's BILL GATES of the industry standard "Wintel" PC, has seen the future of computing and it is...a Macintosh. Grove told TIME last week that he believes the extraordinary growth of the Internet is leading the industry into what he calls "the Valley of Death," a chaotic, destructive period of turmoil in which "the players will change, the technology will change and the devices will change." The PCs that sit on most people's desktops today are essentially general-purpose computers to which networking has been added as an afterthought. Future...