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...long as you're stuck living in the present (and your kids watch too much TV anyway), the gift for 1998 might be a new PC, even two. This year's top models (like the Compaq Presario 5665, seen here) roar--and still seem to have last year's price tags attached. Just as intriguing at the other end of the spectrum, the $499 eTower has arrived. Forrester Research analyst Bruce Kasrel notes that while 43% of America's 100 million homes have at least one PC, only 12% have more than one. Though the maturing U.S. PC market grew...
Barksdale's testimony was intended to back up the government's claim that Microsoft engaged in a pattern of "predatory acts" involving many key technology players, including America Online and Compaq. Justice says Microsoft used improper coercion to get these companies to help it crush Netscape. In the case of America Online, the government says, Microsoft refused to put AOL's icon on the Windows desktop unless AOL abandoned Netscape in favor of Internet Explorer. With Compaq, the government says, Microsoft threatened to terminate the company's license for Windows after it dropped Explorer in favor of Navigator...
...Compaq Grand Slam Cup, FSNE...
When I heard that Compaq recently paid one fellow an astonishing $3.3 million to buy the Internet domain name altavista.com I panicked. How much longer could I wait to register quittner.com True, my family name is not (yet) a primary destination on the Web. But neither was altavista.com when Jack Marshall, a San Jose, Calif., electrical engineer registered it in January 1994. Happily for Marshall, Digital Computer Corp. (later bought by Compaq) launched a popular search engine in 1995 called AltaVista. By this year, some 500,000 people a day were typing altavista.com into their browsers--and going directly...
James J. Cramer writes for thestreet.com an investment website. He holds investments in AOL, Compaq, Dell, IBM and Maytag. Nothing in this column should be construed as advice on whether to buy or sell stocks...