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News "Wasn't it Scott Fitzgerald who said 'the rich are not like us'?" asked The Luncher to nobody in particular one sunny autumn morning shortly after opening time in a Soho pub. [29 Oct 1997]
US votes 'no' on Sun's ISO Java bid
News Sun Microsystems Inc.'s bid to become the formal standard holder of Java suffered a blow today when the US ISO technical advisory group voted down the request. [29 Oct 1997]
World market plunge sends tech stocks reeling
News The party officially came to an end Monday for technology investors as the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the NASDAQ Composite Index both suffered their worst one-day point loss in history. [28 Oct 1997]
Overview: MS, Sun Java tussle
News [28 Oct 1997]
Now Microsoft countersues Sun
News [27 Oct 1997]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Monday [25 Oct 1997]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News Monday [25 Oct 1997]
Notebook vendors gawp at AJP 15.1-inch TFT claim
News Leading notebook vendors Toshiba and Dell have been stunned by UK notebook vendor AJP's claim that it will launch a 15.1-inch TFT screen notebook next month. [24 Oct 1997]
High price is right for Borland
News Borland is back, thanks to fat sales of premium-priced products. [23 Oct 1997]
Microsoft forced hand of PC makers - DOJ papers
News Details are emerging about how Microsoft Corp. forced OEMs to bundle its Internet Explorer browser with Windows 95. [23 Oct 1997]
15.1-inch TFT laptops are coming soon
News With every new generation of LCD screen sizes on notebooks, most pundits say the upper limit has been reached. [22 Oct 1997]
New Labour sweet on Alan Sugar
News UK computer industry icon Alan Sugar is the latest figurehead being used to demonstrate New Labour's love of IT. [22 Oct 1997]
Borland makes another profit
News After two consecutive quarters in the black, Borland International Inc.'s chief executive is not ready to declare his troubled company out of the woods just yet—but he's getting close. [22 Oct 1997]
Gates attacks DOJ action
News [22 Oct 1997]
IBM to offer sub-£1K ThinkPad, cheaper desktops
News IBM has announced UK price cuts of up to 24 per cent on its ThinkPad range to offer a sub-£1,000 notebook for the first time. [21 Oct 1997]
IBM resellers will assemble PCs to order
News [21 Oct 1997]
Microsoft responds to US DOJ penalty
News Microsoft has issued its defence against the US Justice Department's allegations that its behaviour in distributing Internet Explorer 4.0 with Windows 95 was anti-competitive. [21 Oct 1997]
Netscape applauds disciplining of Microsoft
News There was a predictable 'they had it coming' attitude over Microsoft's punishment by the US Justice Department today. [21 Oct 1997]
IBM quarter passes expectations
News IBM surprised analysts today with better-than-expected results in its third quarter, returning a profit of $1.4 billion, or $1.38 per share, on revenues of $18.6 billion. [21 Oct 1997]
Microsoft posts $3b quarter
News In a day of shocks for Microsoft Corp., it handed investors one, beating expectations for the first fiscal quarter and topping $3 billion in sales. [21 Oct 1997]
DOJ asks for $1m a day fine on Microsoft
News Microsoft Corp. is in violation of its 1995 consent decree. [21 Oct 1997]
MS patches IE hole, FrontPage still gaping
News Microsoft has patched another security hole in Internet Explorer 4.0 but is still wrestling with a gap in FrontPage's armour. [21 Oct 1997]
McAfee name may live on after merger
News The McAfee Associates name may live on despite the $1.4 billion merger with network management and security firm Network General. [20 Oct 1997]
Yell puts 30,000 businesses on the Web
News Yellow Pages Web site Yell will this week roll out 30,000 free sites as the first stage of its plan to give one-page sites to directory-listed companies. [20 Oct 1997]
Beta testers pan NT 5.0 bugs
News Beta testers of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT 5.0 Workstation and Server said early versions of the next-generation operating system are rife with bugs that crash systems, freeze networks and impede installations. [20 Oct 1997]
