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...LIES Look out, Lava Lamp. The Truth.Seeker ($149, Sharper Image) may steal the prize for the most far-out, or farfetched, desktop sculpture. Digital circuitry detects stress in a supplicant's voice, flashing red for prevarication, green for honesty...
...service communications programs. Netscape, for instance, whose Communicator browser retains a large market lead over Explorer, has steadily upgraded Communicator with new applications--E-mail, groupware, newsreaders--just as Microsoft does with Explorer. Browsers, Klein says, "could erode Microsoft's operating-system monopoly, because browsers take computing beyond the desktop, where Microsoft rules, and into the world of the Internet, where no one is dominant...
...Microsoft Network opened its virtual doors in August 1995, most people assumed that the new online service would swamp all comers. MSN put the Internet just a mouse click away on Microsoft's ubiquitous Windows 95 operating system, which seemed to guarantee that the company whose software dominated the desktop would soon dominate the Net as well. How on earth, or in cyberspace, could anyone compete...
Claiming that Microsoft violated a 1995 consent decree, Attorney General Janet Reno stunned the software industry Monday afternoon by asking a federal court to hold the company in contempt for forcing PC makers to license it's browser, Internet Explorer, along with its desktop software, Windows '95. Reno also asked that Microsoft pay a fine of $1 million a day until the company changed its distribution practices. "Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and extend that monopoly," Reno told reporters...
...Justice Department considers those "new features" to be a browser by any other name, a separate product from the Windows desktop, and thus subject to anti-trust law. It's now up to the courts; but the early betting on Wall Street was that there's very little that the boys from Redmond can't buy/bully their way out of. A pleasant earnings reports at day's end left Microsoft stock up 1/4 at 132 1/2. Rival browser-pusher Netscape was up 4 5/16 after a early $6 rise...