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...about America Online? You use it constantly and love it, and it's down 12 points in the last 10 minutes. It just reported a great quarter. What's your excuse there?" Knowing she would persist, I grabbed 10,000 shares at 99. Then, emboldened, I bought some Compaq and IBM and Dell, all of which were similarly headed south...
Talk about expensive addresses: According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Compaq Computer Corp., owners of the Alta Vista search engine, paid a San Jose, Calif., business owner $3.35 million for the rights to the domain name www.altavista.com...
Fingerprint recognition has long been used in high-security places like FBI headquarters, but only now is it finding a place in the mainstream. In August, Compaq will offer a fingerprint-recognition system to its corporate customers. Its $99 Fingerprint Identification Technology requires users to place a fingertip on a miniature scanner attached to their monitor. Once the image has been verified with a master print on file, users can access the company network without having to remember an ever-changing password...
...summer. A source close to the project told TIME how, under guarantees of anonymity lest Gates learn of their betrayal, Microsoft's rivals (and some of its partners) led Justice to specific documents and officials at one firm after another. "We knew whom to direct Justice to at IBM, Compaq and Gateway, because we'd all shared beers at computer conferences together," says an informant. "After a long day, we'd sit around and complain about Microsoft...
...problems inherent in the wording of the consent decree became painfully apparent when Klein finally went after Gates last fall. For Klein, the intent of Microsoft's harsh licensing deals--its strong-arming of Compaq, for instance--was clearly to drive up the market share of Microsoft's Explorer at the expense of front runner Navigator's. Thus, he felt, those deals constituted tying. No, they don't, Gates shot back; Explorer is as much an integrated part of the operating system as type fonts or file-system managers. Months later, the battle is still being waged in appeals court...