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...deal does set up an oversight committee of three tech experts chosen jointly by Microsoft and Justice. But the trio is pretty toothless: it can't even collect evidence for potential future court cases. University of Chicago law professor Randall Picker, who describes the deal as "within the realm of reasonableness," also predicts it will trigger a whole new set of lawsuits. "I fear Microsoft's corporate culture hasn't changed," says Ohio's Montgomery, "but I'm willing to give it a chance...
...ANITA HAMILTON usually writes about the latest websites and tech gadgets, but for the past few months she's been looking into the year's best inventions, from state-of-the-art artificial hearts to a potato-mashing machine. See the results of her research in this week's magazine and chat with her on Wednesday...
About that plot: it is simple and clichéd, but intentionally so. Two internet start-ups compete in a game-show-like competition sponsored by a venture capitalist. The company with the most website hits at the end of the month wins a fat check. Veg-E-Tech, the creation of the play’s clumsy but affable hero Evan Fuzzy (played by Keshet), must triumph over rival Cold Hard Machinations or else face downsizing or, even worse, bankruptcy. To round out the self-mockingly predictable plot, a sappy romance is tossed in. Evan falls for Jennifer...
...world-class storage solutions?" (Just to irk the company responsible, I won't provide the answer). Another stall, decked out in palm trees, featured an Indiana Jones-style adventurer with fake chest muscles hacking through fake undergrowth while screaming into a microphone: "It's a jungle in today's tech world!" Even the keynotes have lost all philosophical pretensions and are little more than cheerleading rallies - or in the case of Oracle's Larry Ellison, the world's second-richest man, a chance to vent his relentless, Nixon-like obsession with the Microsoft enemy. "Did you hear? They're bundling...
...allies have an array of satellites and sophisticated intelligence-gathering systems. We in the media report their every official explanation and comment. Yet for public perceptions of how the war is unfolding, the Taliban are once again showing how low tech can challenge high tech...