Word: auctioneers
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...huge oil companies, Pennzoil and Texaco. This year his efforts have had direct, determinative impact on the antitrust case against Microsoft, in which he represented the U.S. government; the half-billion-dollar settlement of a suit by his art-buyer clients against the world's two leading art-auction companies, Sotheby's and Christie's; the essential meaning of copyright on the Internet, which he is trying to establish on behalf of the music website Napster; and, supremely, the Tallahassee passion play. Back at the time of the Pennzoil-Texaco match, cbs general counsel George Vradenburg, who a few years...
...interests of their corporate clients. Firms like Boies, Schiller & Flexner, new enough to be free from such conflicts, do not. From last year's settlement of a case involving price fixing in the vitamin market, Boies, Schiller stands to collect a fee of $40 million; from this year's auction-house case, the firm could take in $25 million. And as you might imagine, all partners at Boies' firm are not created equal...
...auction of Maria Callas' personal effects, all of the soprano's underwear was bought by a former singer, who vowed to burn the items "to save the dignity and honor" of the opera legend...
Infamous hacker KEVIN MITNICK is forbidden by the terms of his prison release to use a computer or the Internet. But those hackers are a wily sort. Using his father as an agent, Mitnick has been conducting an online celebrity auction (if you consider a techno-felon a celebrity), selling off his cell phone for $355 and getting $510 for his TRS-80 computer. Geek love ran wild when Mitnick's prison ID card went up for sale; that's when eBay decided there might be some legal issues here. After the site stopped the auction and Yahoo and Amazon...
...market with a Web-enabled digital camera, the competition is coming on strong. Two California software companies, FlashPoint and ActiveShare, are working to make Web-coding capabilities standard features on the internal operating systems of digital cameras. The companies have begun testing wireless solutions with insurance companies and Web auction houses. By next year, Internet-ready SprintPCS phones will be able to hook up to a Kodak DC290 digital camera and send pictures to a Sprint website. Polaroid is developing a $350 digital camera with a built-in modem for release next spring. The first version will require a regular...