30th May 2000 Archive
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Windows sliced and diced by Labour Day?
MS on Trial 'Embrace and Extend' could meet a sticky end
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has conceded Microsoft another 60 days to comply with its proposed behavioural remedies. The remedies alone are enough to oblige Microsoft to sell multiple versions of each Windows OS, sans "middleware". Since the DoJ handily defines middleware to encompass not only the browser and streaming …
Business 30 May 2000, 09:48
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MS, DoJ, States, Jackson: the arguments in full
MS on Trial Blockbuster from Graham on Wednesday's court hearing
With tape recorders being forbidden, and shorthand-writing becoming as rare as Algol coding, it's not easy to analyse the significance of what happened in Judge Jackson's courtroom on Wednesday without the transcript. With more than the usual number of errors in some wire service and newspaper reports circulating Thursday, it's …
Business 30 May 2000, 09:48
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MS ‘due process’ denial claim called hogwash
MS on Trial Only O J Simpson had as much
When Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson demanded that Microsoft reply to the revised DoJ break-up proposal within a matter of days, the company Dream Team began putting it about that this amounted to a denial of due process. They had heaps more evidence to present explaining why a break-up would spell catastrophe for Western …
Business 30 May 2000, 09:48
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DoJ sticks to its guns, MS sentence looms
MS on Trial All over bar the shooting? And the appeals...
The DoJ has stuck to its proposal to break Microsoft into two - an OS and an apps company - and to impose tough conduct remedies pending the breakup. The only changes in its Revised Proposed Final Judgement are a couple of relaxations and a few phrasing improvements. The filing follows closely the mood of Judge Jackson in court …
Business 30 May 2000, 09:48
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Gates rails at ‘proprietary Symbian’, looks for the insanity defence
MS on Trial Gates - We shall fight them with patents: OFFICIAL
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. And when you're Bill Gates, it seems, every competitor is using proprietary protocols against you. That - and much more - emerges from two more extraordinary Microsoft memos unsealed by the US Department of Justice (DoJ). The memos were written less than …
Business 30 May 2000, 09:48
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Mobile networks to double per user revenue with 3G – Nokia
Read on to find why they don't think your bills will double, then further on to find why they will
Despite the stratospheric cost of third generation (3G) licence auctions in Europe, operators will achieve payback within five years of kicking off the services, says Nokia. Unsurprisingly Nokia is coy when asked what the payback period would have been if the auctions hadn't wound up raising $30 billion-plus a pop (Two weeks? …
Business 30 May 2000, 09:51
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E-buy.com owner rejects 4.7m offer for domain name
Is he mad?
A Surrey businessman has rebuffed an offer of 4.7 million, half of it in cash, for the domain name e-buy.com. What is the failed bidder, US firm Ebuy, inc. to make of its rejection? "Of course [the offer] was tempting," Peter Littke told the FT. "There is no point denying that. It’s enough money to live on for the rest of your …
Business 30 May 2000, 09:59
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Cyberchump trader buys $90bn in Sony stock by mistake
There goes the annual bonus...
Sony's share price rose 6.7 per cent for three minutes because of an unfortunate blooper by an unnamed trader on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, according to a Bloomberg report. Finger trouble apparently caused someone to buy 900 million shares in the company, sending Sony surging upwards until the error was discovered. The numbers …
Business 30 May 2000, 11:22
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Pokemon death threat auction terror
And it's got nothing to do eBay
A Pokemon fan received a death threat by email after she bought a card in an Internet auction. Oona Saunders, 30, from Nottingham, was told that she would be killed if she outbid the sender again, Metro reports. Saunders paid 17 for the Charizard dragon card on the auction site Collecting Nation, topping the next bidder by 30p …
Business 30 May 2000, 12:04
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GPRS broadband wireless not so fast after all, says Nokia
Press shouldn't have believed claims of 100kbps made by the likes of... er... Nokia
European operators are scheduled to introduce broadband wireless data services towards the end of this year, but it's beginning to look as if it's not all it's cracked up to be, and that they'll be going rapidly into reverse on the expectation management front. For starters, GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) is going to be a …
Business 30 May 2000, 12:23
