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Novell, under its new president and CEO, Robert J Frankenberg, is embarking on a significant strategic shift, marking a departure from its previous confrontational approach towards Microsoft. Frankenberg envisions a future where Novell focuses on connecting people to people and to information, rather than just computers to computers. This approach,
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A US appeals court has dealt a significant setback to Apple's 1988 copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, dismissing the case on grounds that most of the screen display was covered by a 1985 licencing agreement. The court ruled that the display's visual symbols and generic
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The O.J. Simpson trial has turned into a goldmine for merchandisers, with everything from trading cards to T-shirts, and from books to video games. The public's fascination with the case has led to a surge in demand for products bearing Simpson's image or related to
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Paul Green Jr., an esteemed researcher and manager of IBM's Advanced Optical Networking Group, is driving innovation in the field of all-optical networking. His team, consisting of seven researchers, aims to enhance the efficiency and speed of information transfer through fiber. Green's outstanding contributions to data
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The emergence of OpenDoc, a software development standard backed by most large software companies, poses a significant challenge to Microsoft's dominance in the PC industry. OpenDoc promises to deliver true interoperability among different brands of software, addressing the current limitations of compound documents that often require cumbersome workarounds.
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A significant agreement has been reached between Microsoft, the US Department of Justice, and European Union officials, aimed at addressing the company's competitive methods in the personal computer industry. The pact, welcomed by IBM and Lotus Development Corp., will not dethrone Microsoft as the king of personal computer
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The first notebooks featuring Intel's high-performance Pentium processor will soon hit the market, offering buyers a powerful mobile PC experience. Toshiba and IBM have announced plans to release Pentium-powered notebook computers, which are expected to be available in Australia by the final quarter of the year. These notebooks
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As the trend of moving employees into virtual offices, also known as "mobile offices" or "home offices," continues to gain momentum in the US, people problems are surfacing. Many companies, including those like General Electric, Xerox, and Compaq Computer, are forcing hundreds of thousands of workers
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Australia's leading PC vendors are set to converge on the Melbourne Personal Computer Show this year, marking a significant shift from their earlier indifference to the event. Major companies including Apple, IBM, Compaq, Intel, and Microsoft will exhibit their latest products and technologies, drawing corporate attention to the
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Taligent Inc.'s founding partners, Apple Computer Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., and IBM, have announced plans to ship the open, portable Taligent Application Environment (TAE) to key platforms in 1995. The TAE is expected to become the industry standard application system for the enterprise, thanks to the combined market leverage
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Under threat of legal action by the US Justice Department, Microsoft has agreed to change the way it licenses its operating system, which runs more than 120 million computers worldwide. The settlement, to be drawn up in association with the Justice Department, effectively ends Microsoft's monopolistic licensing practices.
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The US Justice Department announced yesterday that Microsoft Corp has agreed to end marketing practices that "choked off competition and preserved its monopoly position." This settlement marks the end of the most significant antitrust investigation of the past decade and is expected to increase competition and spur innovation
