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Today at the Internet & Electronic Commerce
Conference & Exposition (iEC) 2000, Microsoft Corp. announced
broad channel support for e-business, citing recent partner
commitments and the launch of Windows 2000; further strengthening
the already wide range of comprehensive e-business solutions based
on the Microsoft® Windows® DNA platform for
customers. Microsoft's best-of-breed software and services, combined
with relationships across a broad continuum of partners, provide
dotcom businesses with complete, integrated e-business solutions
that help them get online faster and easier as well as meet a wide
range of customer needs. Using the enhanced reliability and scalable
features offered by the Windows 2000 operating system, the
foundation for the Windows DNA 2000 platform, partners will be able
to develop innovative, mission-critical e-business applications.
Microsoft Corp. today announced it has reached an
agreement to acquire Israel-based Peach Networks Ltd., a leading
provider of technology for enhanced TV services for digital
television. This agreement extends the Microsoft® TV
platform to now include a solution for basic digital set-top boxes (STBs),
like the Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2000 and Motorola DCT 2000
currently being deployed by cable operators. This alliance will help
expand the overall availability of enhanced TV services worldwide.
With the inclusion of Peach's technology, Microsoft can offer the
most scalable enhanced TV platform solution in the industry. The
acquisition underscores Microsoft's commitment to support a breadth
of new enhanced TV services such as information on demand, e-mail,
communications, Internet, shopping and entertainment applications to
all digital television network operators and their customers.
Last week I complained that Microsoft was totally
losing its way as it set out to design its next Web interface. The
pieces of the so-called "Mars"
interface that I had seen were too colorful, too cluttered, too
derivative, and not nearly daring enough to take us into the 21st
Now you can judge for yourself. Let me show you
two of the screens I've been looking at and tell you why I think
they're so awful. (One brief side note: the log-on screen I've seen
opens with five accounts. I assume that Microsoft is going to follow
AOL's lead and use multiple screen names for a single home account.
The magic number appears to be five.)
Today at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC)
Spring 2000, Microsoft Corp. introduced its new DirectX®
Platform Adaptation Kit (DXPAK) for the Windows® CE
operating system. This new DXPAK enables OEMs to create Windows
CE-based devices that take advantage of the latest multimedia
capabilities, including accelerated graphics, and streaming audio
and video with full playback capabilities, delivered via the Web to
applications ranging from game consoles and set-top terminals to
factory-floor HMI devices.
Microsoft Corp. today announced the immediate
availability of the Microsoft® Windows MediaÔ
Player for Palm-size PCs, which gives owners of Palm-size PC devices
from Compaq, Casio and Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. the ability to play
CD-quality digital music. Owners of Palm-size PCs will now be able
to enjoy hundreds of thousands of digital music tracks and the
hottest new music in the Windows Media format. This release
continues the unprecedented support for the Windows Media format
from the top consumer electronics manufacturers.
The biggest product launch of the millennium—so
far, anyway—is history, and if all goes according to plan, hordes
of computer users will rush out to buy Windows 2000, the best
software product that Microsoft has ever produced.
Or so the marketers would have us believe. We
can't blame them for doing their job, but the reality is vastly
different. We'll all be better off if we can separate Windows 2000
myth from fact.
Customize your new Windows Media Player for
Palm-Size PC with a new interface skin to match your personality or
your music. Skins are the custom interface created for the Windows
Media Player. A skin is a collection of bitmap files (files with the
*.bmp extension) and a text file (called a .skn file) that organizes
the images. You have complete control of what buttons you want, how
they look, and where they are on screen. All this information is
stored in the .skn file.
enjoying your music wherever you go today. The Microsoft®
Windows® Media™ Player for Palm-size PC is free
software from Microsoft that pumps high quality stereo music through
the Palm-sized PC you already own -- without any additional
Take your music with you on the road or to work,
and leave your CDs at home. Download the latest music by hot new
artists from the Web in Windows Media format or even MP3.
Personalize your player with your own photos, graphics and
creativity. Easy and flexible, the Windows Media Player for
Palm-size PC could quickly become your favorite feature on your
Casio, Hewlett-Packard or Compaq Palm-size PC.
Microsoft-owned online magazine Slate has been getting
into a pretty scrappy war with rival Salon over the past few
months, but one of the former's current big stories is scarcely
likely to help it. A report on America's top 60 charitable donations
of 1999?
Naturally the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation tops the poll by
a mile, clocking-up $2.4 billion worth of giving over the year. The
number two giver, Jim Clark, only managed $150 million, and another
famous giver, Ted Turner, contributed $100 million. Ted is of course
engaged in a yen year programme to give a billion, but the annual
spend this results in still makes him look cheap.
has posted his review of Pinnacle Systems TitleDeko. Here is a
snippet from the review:
the high spread of the processors' performance increase, many
users are mounting their family or professional videos on their
computers with high end and powerful software/hardware tools. What
are the advantages, you'll ask? Well, you can easily capture and
create a real customized video like pros with just a few mouse
clicks. Changing sounds, adding titles, resizing videos, changing
videos pictures, making special effects, animated added pictures in
your videos. The computer video solutions are more powerful and easy
to use than the traditional high end VCR or camcorders.
The MSN™ CarPoint™ online automotive service (http://www.carpoint.com/)
brought the 2000 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) to
life "virtually," doubling the show's traffic by
attracting online visitors from around the world.
The online success of the official and exclusive NAIAS coverage
from CarPoint contributed to a spike in visitor traffic in January,
with more than 6 million unique visitors, according to Media Metrix.
CarPoint continues to be the most-visited online car-buying site on
the Web.
Today at CTIA WIRELESS 2000, the largest wireless technology
conference in the country, Microsoft Corp. announced it has teamed
up with leading wireless carriers to make MSN™ services and
content more broadly available, any time, anywhere and from any
device. Nextel Communications Inc. and AirTouch Cellular plan to
offer MSN Mobile 2.0, the two-way customizable wireless information
service from MSN, as part of their services beginning in April.
WebLink Wireless Inc. and Totally Free Paging.com Inc. will offer an
enhanced one-way version of MSN Mobile notifications. MSN Mobile 2.0
will be available from Web-enabled mobile phones and handheld
devices such as Pocket PCs and Palm handheld computers.
at CTIA WIRELESS 2000, Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software
Architect Bill Gates announced an agreement with Nextel
Communications Inc. and AirTouch Cellular to offer MSNÔ
Mobile 2.0, as well as agreements with WebLink Wireless Inc. and
Totally Free Paging Inc. to offer an enhanced one-way version of MSN
Mobile notifications. The announcements came as Gates launched MSN
Mobile 2.0, which extends to wireless customers such services as the
MSN HotmailÒ Web-based e-mail service,
the MSN MoneyCentralÔ online personal
finance service, the MSNBC.com news service and Expedia.com™, the
most popular online travel service. MSN Mobile 2.0 offers the
easiest and most complete wireless solution and provides access from
an unparalleled range of handheld devices, including Web-enabled
mobile phones, Pocket PCs and Palm handheld computers.
announced today that fans of their upcoming games will be able to
attend Gamestock events online again this year. Gamestock, a private
event held every year to introduce press from around the world to
the company's new lineup of games, will be opened up to the public
via the Internet. Gamestock 2000 takes place on February 29 and
March 1, and fans are invited to an inside look at the big show with
several unique online events.
Included in the 2000 lineup are: MechWarrior 4, Crimson Skies,
Loose Cannon, Motocross Madness 2, Dungeon Seige and nearly a dozen
other titles. Online Gamestock events open to the public include:
* Gamestock Cup Sweepstakes http://www.microsoft.com/games/gamestock2000/sweepstakes/
Starts today! Fans can test their computer and arcade gaming
knowledge with ten trivia questions, and become eligible to win some
fantastic prizes in the second annual Gamestock Cup Sweepstakes. In
the Sweepstakes, fans can enter to win a Microsoft Intellimouse
Explorer Mouse, Microsoft Games, and automatic entry into several
upcoming Microsoft Games beta programs -- including Starlancer,
Motocross Madness 2, Crimson Skies and more.
* Official Gamestock 2000 Web Site http://www.microsoft.com/games/gamestock2000/
On March 1, the official Gamestock 2000 Web site will go live.
Complete with screenshots, game introductions, and feature lists,
this site will give gamers the scoop on all of Microsoft's upcoming
game titles.
Microsoft® Windows® 2000 was designed from the
ground up to provide for the networking needs of today's businesses.
And combined with third-party products and
services, Windows 2000 offers even more networking power. Microsoft
and 3Com Corp. have worked together on a new network interface card
(NIC) designed for server applications that require both high
performance and security, such as e-commerce, banking and health
care. And Nortel Networks has demonstrated a Windows 2000-based
quality of service network for converged voice, video and data.
Microsoft has several ambitious goals for the next
version of Office, its desktop applications suite: enhance user
collaborative options, leverage rich-voice technology, and further
the company's foray into the application-hosting arena. Its
code-name, Office 10, could point to a Mac release soon after Apple
starts shipping Mac OS X (pronounced 'ten').
Office 10 is scheduled to go into beta testing
this summer and to ship sometime in 2000, according to sources. When
Microsoft released Office 98 for the Mac, it stated that new
versions would ship first on alternate platforms. That said, many of
the technologies reported are Windows-based, rather than aimed at
the Macintosh.
Microsoft is releasing at the Wireless 2000 show
here an update of the software that brings timely information in its
MSN portal to your Web-enabled phone.
The company is unveiling MSN Mobile 2.0 at the
Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association show this week. The
new version offers real-time, on-demand information such as flight
schedules, weather conditions, and sports scores. The initial
release let you request only static Web-based information from your
mobile phone.
Microsoft expects its wireless carrier partners to
roll out MSN Mobile 2.0 in April. So far only Nextel, which largely
services business users, has signed on.
Despite Intel
Corp.'s (Nasdaq: INTC)
lobbying efforts and the more than $1 billion it has invested in
memory chip makers to spur adoption of Rambus technology, the memory
architecture remains a minor player in the PC marketplace.
America Online's wireless strategy is coming into
The Internet juggernaut today announced deals with
Motorola, BellSouth, Sprint PCS, Nokia, Research in Motion and Arch
Communications to extend its Internet products to cellular telephone
and pager services. AOL also unveiled "AOL Mobile
Messenger," a wireless version of its popular email and AOL
Instant Messenger products.
In addition, AOL said it has joined the WAP Forum,
a wireless standards organization in which Excite@Home also recently
AOL joins several Internet players--including
Yahoo, Amazon.com, Microsoft and Excite@Home--that are aggressively developing
wireless services. According to market research firm The Yankee
Group, there will be more than 1 billion mobile phone users by 2003,
with about 60 percent capable of accessing the Internet.
"Star Trek" star Patrick Stewart
probably won't be on hand at this launch, but Intel Corp. is
planning for the next generation of Celeron chips in March.
The new chips, running at clock speeds of up to
600MHz, will give low-cost, or value PCs, a performance bump, but
without raising prices. Consumers will be able to buy a 600MHz value
PC for about $1,000 without a monitor following the launch.
In a move that company detractors said is another
sign of its infamous "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish"
strategy, Microsoft has used an open Internet security standard in
its Windows 2000 operating system and made modifications without
openly documenting its changes.
(Nasdaq: MSFT)
has incorporated open standard Kerberos security, which keeps user
passwords from being sent over a network where they can be sniffed
and stolen, into Windows 2000, making its marquee operating system
(OS) more competitive with Unix.
Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOM)
will work with Microsoft
Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT)
to develop wireless multimedia devices using Code Division Multiple
Access digital wireless technology. The companies will focus on
creating hardware reference designs for mobile devices including
smart phones based on the Microsoft Mobile Explorer, and wireless
Pocket PCs using Qualcomm iMSM4100 Internet Mobile Station Modem
chip set and system software.
The New York Times'
John Markoff reports the sad failure of a Sun plot to unleash a pest
extermination company on Microsoft to coincide with the big Windows
2000 launch on 17th February. Bizarrely, it all seems to have
miscarried because the company hired, Western Exterminator, was
worried Bill Gates might buy it and close it in retaliation.
Microsoft Corp. today announced a donation of more
than $70,000 in software that will benefit students in Thurston
County and the Seattle school district. The donation of 1,030 copies
of MicrosoftÒ EncartaÒ
Africana 2000 will be distributed to school libraries and classrooms
through the Alliance for Education and the African American Alliance
of Thurston County. Together, Thurston County schools and the
Seattle school district serve approximately 81,000 students.
Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has been
named the most responsive technology company by more than 81 percent
of U.S. colleges and universities in a new study by International
Data Corp. (IDC), the Framingham, Mass., market research firm. The
survey, part of IDC's "State of Technology Usage in Higher
Education Institutions, 1999," examined the attitudes of
technology decision-makers nationwide. The high rating of Microsoft
is in keeping with the company's long-standing commitment, not only
to developing the technology tools schools need to enhance teaching,
learning and communication on campus, but also to offering
innovative programs and resources that help the higher-education
community effectively use technology for teaching and learning.
Sega Enterprises Ltd warned on Monday of steep
losses this business year from poor Japan sales of its Dreamcast
game machine, casting doubt over its chances of survival as home
video games enter the Internet age.
The news came even before a full-blown game
machine war kicks off on March 4 with the launch of rival Sony
Corp's PlayStation2, successor to the world's most popular game
system with 70 million units sold in the past five years.
Sega's latest woes added credence to expectations
that PlayStation2, with its capacity to play digital video discs (DVDs)
and potentially tap the Internet, will cement Sony's number-one
position in the industry.
It's no surprise that Bill Gates, Steve Case and
Jeff Bezos would be the headline speakers at an Internet industry
But this week the top executives of Microsoft ,
America Online and Amazon.com will steal the limelight at the U.S.
wireless telephone industry's annual gathering in New Orleans,
overshadowing many of the cellular world's own executives.
This is a sign that the arrival of a long-awaited
wireless Internet market may be at hand, an event carriers have for
several years predicted would boost their bottom lines.
"Data has always been the next thing, just
around the corner," said Dennis Patrick, president of AOL's
newly created wireless division. "Now it's really true and the
killer app is turning out to be the Internet."
The new Sony PlayStation 2, which goes on sale
March 4 in Japan, is not only a quantum leap in game technology, but
because of its Internet compatibility, it's Sony's bid to compete
with AOL-Time Warner and Microsoft on the Web. In an exclusive look
at the new machine, Newsweek reports in the current issue's cover
story that the game console can play movie DVDs, audio CDs and can
hook into the Internet. ``You can communicate to a new cybercity,''
Ken Kutaragi, the visionary behind the PlayStation, tells Newsweek.
``This will be the ideal home server. Did you see the movie 'The
Matrix'? Same interface. Same concept. Starting from next year, you
can jack into 'The Matrix'!''
Hall Nine at CeBIT is the noisiest place in
Hannover, and also the most crowded, with firms like 3dfx
demonstrating their wares at ear-numbing decibels. Right at the
front of the show, there is a large area devoted to smaller
companies from Taiwan, with many showing the elements that make up a
PC (such as cases and power supplies), and others demonstrating
peripherals from the island.
Economists and attorneys on both sides of the
Microsoft antitrust trial agreed Friday that there should be some
remedy, but just what that remedy should be runs the gamut from
business-contract changes to breaking up the software giant into
several companies.
Whatever the remedy, it must be good for both
competitors and consumers, said the trial experts at a panel
sponsored by the Progress and Freedom Foundation in Washington, D.C.
Break-up plans reflect a fantasy world, said Stan
Liebowitz, economist at the University of Texas, who has supported
Microsoft. "They're not going to work that way in the real
world. It won't be clean, it won't be easy, and it won't be good for
consumers," he said. Liebowitz favors some type of behavior
Sun and Microsoft, well known as fierce rivals in
the marketplace and the courtroom, separately announced that they
have each made an equity investment of $25 million in the same
start-up company.
The start-up, BroadBand Office, was set up in July
of last year by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield &
Byers and other backers. The company is in the process of rolling
out a range of communications and applications services to
businesses in the U.S., including local and long-distance calling,
dedicated Internet access and Web hosting.
Microsoft is confident that the
soon-to-be-released Pocket PC software package will allow the
software giant to gain on its competitors in the handheld device
The first Pocket PC devices, which will be
launched through several hardware vendors in the first half of this
year, will be competitive with similar products running Palm
Computing's Palm OS and applications, says Brian Shafer, marketing
manager for Microsoft's mobile device division.
Computer hackers may quietly be infecting
thousands of Windows PCs in preparation for another wave of
denial-of-service attacks of the type that brought high-profile Web
sites like Yahoo and eBay to their knees two weeks ago, security
experts today warned.
James Madison University discovered last week that
16 Windows PCs on its student network had been infected with what
looked like a variant of "Trinoo," one of a handful of
viruses that hackers have been using to launch denial-of-service
attacks. The university has sent a sample of the virus, which it has
dubbed "Wintrinoo," to the Computer Emergency Response
Team (CERT) for analysis, the university says on its Web site.
The race to build a faster and more versatile
Internet is heating up a specialized corner of the microprocessor
Three firms--Motorola, Lucent Technologies and
Conexant--recently acquired start-up chipmakers to help them create
a new type
of networking processor that could offer a huge improvement in Net
bandwidth and increase the variety of services offered online.
The new breed of fast and programmable networking
chips serve as the engine powering new networking equipment from
companies like Cisco Systems, Lucent and Nortel Networks. That new
equipment, in turn, will allow Internet service providers and
telecommunications carriers to increase Net bandwidth and offer
better security, and new services such as Internet telephony.
The FBI said today that electronic vandals shut
down its Web site for hours last week in the same type of attack
that disrupted some of the Internet's major commercial sites.
The bureau's Web
site remained inaccessible for more than three hours Feb. 18
because vandals overwhelmed it by transmitting spurious signals.
"The FBI has made comments they're going to
find who's responsible for the latest attacks, so it's a bit of war
between the hackers and the bureau," said James Williams, a
Chicago lawyer and former FBI agent who specialized in investigating
computer crimes.
E-mail and electronic documents have become a
normal part of today's business. Unfortunately, signing those
documents using digital signatures is still relatively rare.
Why should everyone sign e-mail and other forms of
electronic communication?
The problem is that forging messages is
ridiculously easy in today's technical environment. Take
word-processing documents, for example. The properties sheet can be
filled out any way you want; it is simple to enter somebody else's
name or somebody else's company in the appropriate fields. Send such
a document to a recipient who assumes that the identification of the
author must be correct, and you can have a real problem.
Corp. will be about two months late shipping server and high-end
workstation components to its customers due to problems the company
is experiencing with the memory hubs used with its 820 and 840 chip
The memory hubs generate errors when either chip
set is used with synchronous dynamic RAM, which utilize Error
Checking and Correcting (ECC) circuitry.
Microsoft has
several ambitious goals for the next version of Office, its desktop
applications suite: enhance user collaborative options, leverage
rich voice technology, and further the company's foray into the
application-hosting arena.
Office 10, the code name for the next version, is
scheduled to go into beta testing this summer and to ship sometime
in 2000, according to sources.
Microsoft wants to reshape Office to better
accommodate workgroup and collaborative applications, according to
analysts familiar with the company's plans. One contentious issue
has been which back-end platform can best anchor the product.
Although SQL Server and Site Server are among the choices, Exchange
seems to be the leading candidate, sources said.
A group of
security companies and organizations are expected to announce an
initiative next week that will provide universities with free
software to help guard themselves against being turned into
"zombies" used to launch a distributed (DoS) denial of
service attack.
SSH Communications Security, the SANS
Institute, RSA Security, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), and MindBright Technologies will detail plans on Monday to
equip more than 130 colleges and universities in the United States
with free encryption software via SSHs (Secure Shells).
America Online has been slapped with another class
action lawsuit claiming that version 5.0 of its Internet access
software renders operating systems unstable and, in some cases,
inoperable. The suit also claims that the software effectively
blocks computer users from being able to connect to competing
Internet service provider networks.
The most recent suit was filed Thursday in King
County Superior Court in Washington State and contends that AOL
released version 5.0 knowing that it could alter a computer
operating system, according to a written statement released by
Hagens Berman, the law firm handling the lawsuit.
AOL 5.0 has left users "drowning in software
problems," says the statement.
Like prime-time game shows, digital camera pixels
continue to proliferate. The latest examples of the megapixel trend
come from Ricoh, which this week announced two digicams promising
high resolution.
Ricoh's RDC-6000 is aimed at consumers, while the
RDC-7 is designed for professionals and others who want more
multimedia functions. Ricoh will announce pricing upon release this
summer of the Windows- and Macintosh-compatible digicams.
The RDC-6000 has a 2.14-megapixel CCD that lets
you capture still shots in resolutions ranging from 640 by 480
pixels to 1600 by 1200 pixels. Interpolation, the process of
inserting "synthetic" pixels between existing ones, boosts
the camera's resolution up to 2000 by 1500 pixels, according to the
company. The camera stores pictures as JPEGs on SmartMedia cards (an
8MB card is included).
In the past week, Microsoft security teams have
found themselves facing a sudden flurry of security problems. Since
February 16 -- the day before Microsoft officially launched Windows
2000 -- Microsoft
(Nasdaq: MSFT)
has issued five separate official security bulletins, with
independent analysts delivering several more. To top the week off,
anti-virus vendors announced the discovery of the first confirmed
Windows-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) tool.
In anticipation of the launch of Allegiance in April, Microsoft
today announced exclusive pre-order programs with Electronic
Boutique (http://www.ebworld.com/)
and Babbages & Software Etc. (http://www.gamestop.com/).
By pre-ordering Allegiance at store locations, or online at EB
World or Gamestop, gamers will receive an additional month of free
Allegiance Zone membership ($9.95 value), plus either a Limited
Edition Strategy Guide (for pre-orders from Electronic Boutique) or
16 Microsoft Allegiance Collector Cards (for pre-orders from
Babbages & Software Etc.). Combine this offer with the one month
of free Allegiance Zone membership already available with the retail
purchase of the game, and players receive two free months of
larger-scale games, special events, persistent scoring and rankings,
and exclusive new content. Microsoft encourages gamers to place
their pre-orders early, as all offers are based on limited
The game is currently in open beta, and players are welcome to
download the game and joins thousands of other combatants in
interstellar war. For details visit:
Less than a week after releasing Windows 2000,
Microsoft is already working on a patch for Active Directory that
addresses problems with the directory's user administration
While Microsoft was engaged in another directory
tit-for-tat last week with Novell, company officials acknowledged
that at least one fix for Active Directory will be in the first Win
2000 service pack. No date has been set for the shipment of the
service pack.
The possibility of a trial in the long-standing
Sun vs. Microsoft Java technology dispute moved closer to reality
yesterday as the judge rejected a key Microsoft motion. U.S.
District Judge Ronald Whyte rejected Microsoft's request for summary
judgement regarding the independent development of Java, Microsoft
said. Whyte also dismissed a Sun counter motion.
To go with the earlier news about the Matrox
drivers for Windows 2000, Matrox have today released the Windows 9*
updated drivers:
Notes and known issues:
- Please read the release
notes before downloading this driver.
- Please uninstall your current driver using this
procedure before installing the above driver. To uninstall 5.xx
drivers you need our uninstaller
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to see that as of yesterday Microsoft owns the xbox.com domain. Is
this now the basic confirmation that they are working on the X-Box?
(The worst kept secret in the console world)
Microsoft Corporation (XBOX4-DOM)
One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 US
This one slipped by us last night. Matrox has
released a final Windows 2000 driver for their G*** range of cards:
Notes and known issues:
- Please read the release
notes before downloading this driver.
- This is a Windows 2000 driver for G400, G200 and G100 products
(excluding Marvel and MMS products). Drivers for older Matrox
products are contained within the latest build of Windows 2000.
it right here
Microsoft® Windows Media™ is helping to make
streaming media a mainstream enterprise communications tool. Major
corporations such as Aetna Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., J.D. Edwards
& Co., SAS Institute Inc., Creative Artists Agency and Charles
Schwab are realizing significant benefits from their use of Windows
Media for corporate communications. And the new Windows® 2000
Server gives enterprises more reasons to employ digital media.
Windows Media Services built into Windows 2000 Server and Windows
2000 Advanced Server is designed to offer an easy-to-deploy,
high-quality, cost-effective streaming solution for enterprises.
"As the use of digital media continues to
explode in corporations and on the Internet, customers demand four
key factors: outstanding quality, rock-solid reliability, easy
deployment and the ability to scale quickly," said Jim Allchin,
group vice president of the Platforms Group at Microsoft.
"Customers moving to Windows 2000 are now discovering that
Windows Media Services offers the best platform for enterprise
Computer hackers may quietly be infecting
thousands of Windows PCs in preparation for another wave of DoS
(denial of service) attacks of the type that brought high-profile
Web sites like Yahoo and eBay to their knees two weeks ago, security
experts warned Thursday.
James Madison University discovered last week that
16 Windows PCs on its student network had been infected with what
looked like a variant of "Trinoo," one of a handful of
viruses that hackers have been using to launch DoS attacks. The
university has sent a sample of the virus, which it has dubbed
"Wintrinoo," to the Computer Emergency Response Team
(CERT) for analysis, the university said on its Web site Thursday.
As Microsoft developers were diligently developing
code for Windows 2000, so too were developers from the dark
side--virus writers--busily preparing the first batch of their
infectious code.
Windows 2000 made its public debut only last week.
Already, the first native virus has surfaced for the
brand-spanking-new operating system. The virus is dubbed
W2K.Infis.4608, according to a report from Symantec, the maker of
Norton AntiVirus. Luckily, or unluckily, this virus only spreads if
you're online and logged on with administrator privileges, says
Charles Rennert, director of research at Symantec's AntiVirus
Research Center.
Is the stand-alone PDA dead? With the unveiling of
the Symbian
consortium's Quartz
devices at the CeBIT computer show in Germany this week, analysts
say current handheld devices, such as the Palm, face competition
from a new breed of integrated handheld device that packs telephony,
streaming multimedia, Web browsing and Palm-like computing.
By Christmas, European cell-phone subscribers
should be able to upgrade this year's digital handset to a Quartz
"communicator," giving them the full functionality of a
Palm organizer or handheld Windows CE device at no extra cost.
The United States will let a computer scientist
put instructions for writing a powerful computer data-scrambling
program on his Web site, but his high-profile lawsuit challenging
U.S. export restrictions on encryption may continue, his lawyer said
President Clinton in January dramatically liberalized
once-strict U.S. export limits on encryption programs, which
scramble information and render it unreadable without a password or
software "key." The changes recognized that encryption,
used in everything from Web browsing software to cellular
telephones, has become essential for securing e-commerce and global
The Anti-Defamation League is accusing Net
heavyweight Yahoo of violating its own rules by allowing
anti-Semitic and racist Web communities to proliferate on its
The ADL, an organization devoted to fighting
anti-Semitism and bigotry, said it asked Yahoo in a letter last
month to shut down communities on its Yahoo
Clubs service belonging to members who support prominent hate
groups, including the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the National
Association for the Advancement of White People, and the World
Church of the Creator.
Today, the ADL said it isn't satisfied with
Yahoo's performance.
Shares of networking equipment firm 3Com climbed
6.9 percent to a record amid rising enthusiasm for next week's
initial public offering of shares in its Palm unit. 3Com
rose $5.38 to $83, surpassing a previous high of $80.13 on Dec. 9,
1996. Earlier, shares hit a new high of $83.38. The stock traded as
low as $20 in April 1999. Shares of Santa Clara, Calif.-based 3Com
have tripled since it unveiled plans for the Palm IPO and spin-off
in September.
CeBIT today Microsoft Corp. previewed Microsoft®
Internet Explorer for the Pocket PC, the most full-functioning Web
browser software available for handheld devices to date. Pocket
Internet Explorer creates the foundation for a rich Internet
experience on Pocket PCs, enabling customers to easily access any
Web site any time, anywhere - whether they are connected to the
Internet or viewing content offline. Pocket PCs were first previewed
by Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates at the
Consumer Electronics Show in January and are expected to ship in the
first half of this year from hardware manufacturers that include
Casio Computer Company Ltd., Compaq Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard
Co., Siemens Communications Devices, and Symbol Technologies Inc.
Version 2.1 is a minor service release which
includes the following changes:
it here
Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig, whose views
carry weight with the federal judge hearing the Microsoft
Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT)
antitrust trial, is skeptical about proposals to break up the
software giant, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT)
has made an equity investment in MyPlant.com, a division of
Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON)
that acts as a hub for manufacturing businesses. MyPlant will use
Microsoft software and services, including Windows DNA, a
distributed application development platform. Microsoft services
such as MSN will also be linked to MyPlant. Specific financial
details of the deal were not released.
Electronic Arts today said it will acquire
DreamWorks Interactive from Microsoft and DreamWorks SKG. Under the
deal, DreamWorks Interactive will become a wholly owned subsidiary
of Redwood City, Calif.-based Electronic Arts, a video game
developer and publisher, the companies said in a statement.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
In the latest security breach affecting the
popular ICQ instant messaging service, a Web consultant says his
account was held hostage this week by a hacker who took over his
user number and tried to pry a ransom out of the deal.
America Online, which purchased ICQ last year,
confirmed that an unauthorized person this week made off with a
long-time customer's password and user identification number (UIN).
The company returned the UIN to the original owner today.
"I stood to lose four years' worth of
business contacts," said Dale Ficken, a Webcasting consultant,
who was locked out of his account for two days.
We have added a page for the newly released help
files for the Microsoft Windows 2000 Platform. You can download
English versions of the help files (as they are on the Installation
CD) for Windows 2000 Professional, Server, or Advanced Server. These
files are big: 7.8 MB, 19.4 MB, and 20.3 MB, respectively.
We have updated Microsoft's Windows 2000 Hardware
Compatibility List, this is list is essential information for what
will - and won't work in their newest operating system! Please note
this text file is about 2 MB.
We have updated various pages throughout the
Windows 2000 site - some we didn't put separate posts about; Windows
2000 Patches,
Windows 2000 Utilities, and our Windows
2000 Links Page. Be sure to check them out!
have updated our Windows 2000 FAQ to include some new released
important information on Dual Booting, Dynamic Disks, File Manager
and more! Be sure to check it out!
have posted our 18 page review of Windows 2000 Professional Edition.
Here is a snippet from the review:
During the past few
months Activewin has been a leader in presenting our readers with
the most up to date features and improvements that Windows 2000 has
to offer. We are proud to present you all with our full and complete
review on the just released Windows 2000 Professional Operating
Some may believe
Windows 2000 is the successor of Windows 98SE. The fact is that
Windows 2000 is the replacement for Microsoft's Windows NT business
and network platform. Windows 2000 is a full operating system based
on a full NT 32 bit engine that allows high end multi tasking, high
security levels, and advanced networking features while still
supporting DirectX and all the latest hardware.
Microsoft Corp. and Sony-Digital Telecommunication
Europe today announced that Sony's CMD-Z5 GSM mobile phone,
presented this week at CeBIT 2000, will be powered by Microsoft®
Mobile ExplorerÔ , Microsoft's modular
software platform for Internet-enabled mobile phones.
Sony is one of the first companies to demonstrate
the Microsoft Mobile Explorer wireless communication platform, which
includes a dual-mode (WAP and HTML), operating system-independent
microbrowser to give users unparalleled access to both WAP and HTML
Web sites via their mobile phone. Microsoft Mobile Explorer is an
extensible and flexible platform that is a key component of
Microsoft's end-to-end wireless strategy to provide mobile Internet
solutions that utilize technologies such as Microsoft Exchange
Server, the BackOffice® Server and MSN™ Mobile
in time for tax season, consumers will be able to use Excel on their
PocketPCs. Microsoft
Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT)
is preparing an April launch of, and a new suite of applications
for, its PocketPC. The Redmond, Wash., software maker hopes that
consumers will find PocketPC's user interface and application
software, code-named Rapier, an easier-to-use successor to its
Palm-size PC.
Microsoft.com has beaten off a hacker attack, the
company claimed yesterday, possibly somewhat rashly, considering the
number of people out there who fancy a challenge.
The attack, which the company says took place on
Tuesday, is claimed to have only caused a short slowdown in page
viewing of 3-7 per cent, and was unable to melt the scads of
hardware Microsoft has ready and waiting for bright-eyed and
bushy-tailed users downloading vast Windows Update files.
has begun development on next-generation Internet software,
code-named 'Mars', for its MSN online service. Secretly in the works
for months, Microsoft refused to acknowledge the existence of Mars
until ZDNet's John C. Dvorak announced the software in a recent
column. BetaNews and
ActiveWin have combined efforts to give you an inside look at the
new software.
Microsoft has released a patch that eliminates a
security vulnerability in Microsoft(r) Windows Media Services. The
vulnerability could allow denial of service attacks against a
streaming media server.
The handshake sequence between a Windows Media
server and a Windows Media Player is asynchronous, because certain
resource requests are dependent on the successful completion of
previous ones. If the client-side handshake packets are sent in a
particular misordered sequence, with certain timing constraints, the
server will attempt to use a resource before it has been initialized
and will fail catastrophically, causing the Windows Media Unicast
Service to crash.
As Microsoft readies for Thursday's launch of
Windows 2000 in Germany, the software maker is already fending off
questions about whether the new operating system violates European
antitrust law.
The European Union's director general for
competition, Mario Monti, is examining whether Microsoft bundled Windows
2000 with its own server software and middleware products to
deny competitors access to the new operating system.
his would potentially allow Microsoft to
"leverage its dominance ... onto other markets [that] include
server operating systems and ultimately e-commerce," Monti said
at a press conference.
Networks Corp. (NYSE: NT),
Safeco (Nasdaq: SAFC),
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT
) and Concur
Technologies (TRADES: CNQR
) have teamed up to create a trading network for small
businesses. Nortel and Safeco will make a $35 million investment in
Concur, and Microsoft will provide marketing and technical
The new Concur Business advantage network will
allow small business to buy products and services through an
electronic network from suppliers such as Compaq Computer Corp.,
Manpower, and Software Spectrum.
Microsoft today announced that the official Web site for Crimson
Skies, the highly anticipated action flight game developed by
Microsoft and Zipper Interactive, is now live at http://www.microsoft.com/games/crimsonskies/.
Shipping in the summer of 2000, Crimson Skies plunges gamers into a
world of aerial piracy and daredevil adventures set during the
golden age of aviation.
The official Crimson Skies site offers gamers a
wealth of information, including a detailed features list, story
background, a multitude of screen shots, and concept art. The site
also offers downloadable audio clips and AVIs from the game, as well
as a behind the scenes interview with John Howard, the lead designer
for Crimson Skies.
To view the official Web site for Crimson Skies,
go to:
Microsoft today announced the release of the first update for
Fighter Ace II, the MSN Gaming Zone's (http://www.zone.com/)
massively multiplayer WWII air combat game. Fighter Ace II allows
more than 300 pilots to fight in a single air combat arena from the
cockpit of any one of more than 40 World War II vintage fighters and
The update adds five new airplanes to the deadly Fighter Ace II
arsenal. Featuring the tank-busting Ki-84 Hayate (Japan), the IL-2
Sturmovik (Russia), and the Ju-87G Stuka (Germany), the update
greatly enhances Territorial Combat game play. Both the IL-2
Sturmovik and Ju-87G Stuka will be featured in the Zone's next
large-scale historical scenario, the Battle of Kursk, which was the
largest tank battle in history. Details on this event will be
announced in the coming weeks. The Fighter Ace II update also offers
new 3D cockpits, improved tank functionality, squad tags, and more.
Registered players of Fighter Ace II must download this update in
order to continue play. For more information on the Fighter Ace II
update, visit:
"I'm one of those stubborn perfectionists who
feel it necessary to keep clocks set to the correct time. Now,
I admit, this does little to get me places on time, nor does it help
me meet deadlines. I'm also one of those people that believe ideas
are far more important than schedules, appointments, phone calls or
other interruptions to my daily dreams. I don't let artificial
time limits stop me from thinking through a new idea any more
than I count on the clock to start me thinking about
one. Clocks may be an obsession, but they usually don't give
me ideas! Except possibly in the case of this article.
Maybe this is the exception that proves the rule!..."
"About a decade ago, international atomic
energy researchers around the word were frustrated in their efforts
to exchange research papers. The Internet provided a useful
transport medium, but the act of downloading the data and formatting
it for reading was pure tedium.The whole process was frustrated by
incompatible text and graphic file formats, often vendor proprietary
corporate secrets, and further complicated by the arcane command
language and awkward protocols used in exploring file directories on
remote computers via the Internet. A young researcher at the
European Center for Energy Research (CERN) had an insight: Why
couldn't exploring the Internet be as easy as exploring the "help"
files on a Microsoft Windows PC or an Apple Macintosh?..."
I have added some step by step guides to the Windows
2000 section. It is half way done, but there is a lot of
information there at the moment and I will be adding to it later on
today and probably during the week. The step by step guides range
from Management Services to Active Directory.
technologies announces a new set of tools for Windows 95, 98, 2000,
and NT. System Mechanic 3.2 is a complete suite of twelve utilities,
providing the essential preventative maintenance today's PC's
System Mechanic delivers the tools necessary to
search for, diagnose, and solve the modern problems with today's
computers. As well as reacting to existing issues, System Mechanic
allows the user to conveniently and preemptively maintain their
computer in order to prevent problems from reoccurring, increase
speed, and ensure reliability.
You can download a trial version here.
Review have whipped up a rather large review of SuSE 6.3. Here
is a snippet of the review:
I liked the lists of supported
SCSI / RAID / Parallel / Video devices, and I was particularly
impressed with the list of unsupported video cards - that was
definitely a nice touch.
The back of the box showed a nice
KDE screen shot, a positive quote from Linux Journal, and that SuSE
was voted the "Best System Software" at the March '99
LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose. The new YaST2 installation tool is
(justifiably) touted as a major new feature, as is the revised
manual and installation support. Mention is made of hardware 3D
accelerated support for 3dfx, Matrox and nVidia.
A new WinZIP
8.0 Beta 2 is available today. You can view the major changes
from the last build here.
WinZIP is the popular compression and zip utility with version 8.0
adding significant improvements to e-mailing zip programs.
WinZIP 8.0 Beta 2 Build 3046 (1.19MB).
Microsoft Corporation on
Tuesday announced a new member of the Exchange Server family,
Exchange 2000 Conferencing Server, which was first revealed in
WinInfo on February 12th. Additionally, Exchange 2000 hit a
milestone this week, with the availability of Release Candidate 1
If you're interested in
evaluating Exchange Server 2000 RC1, please visit the Microsoft
Web site. Currently, Beta 3 is available, but look for RC1 soon.
A new Netscape
Communicator 4.72 has been released. As of Netscape Communicator
4.72, Enterprise Calendar is no longer included with your download.
Netscape will no longer bundle Netscape Calendar as part of the
Communicator download package, but those who have the calendar can
continue to use it. Netscape 4.72 is structured so that its
installation will not remove or disrupt the existing Calendar client
or its data. However, you must follow the instructions on this page
to keep the calendar.
Netscape Communicator 4.72 (18MB) for Windows or for Mac.
Want to hedge your bets on taking the plunge to
Windows 2000? Consider installing a $309 utility that lets a single
PC run several operating systems simultaneously.
You can download a 3MB beta version of VMware 2.0
for a 30-day trial. With it, you can run two operating systems--and
many applications--simultaneously.
Most multi-OS utilities require you to reboot each
time you switch operating systems, says Reza Malekzadeh, a VMware
spokesperson. Powerquest's BootMagic (sold separately or bundled
with PartitionMagic) and the free Linux Loader take that approach.
VMware 2.0 lets you boot each OS once and leave
it, plus applications, running.
The success of the recent distributed denial of
service (DDoS) attacks against leading Web sites was largely caused
by the poor design of the systems architecture supporting those
sites, according to Alan Lloyd, manager of strategic development for
Computer Associates International's (CA's) OpenDirectory group.
Systems that are set up to have a single point of
entry have no chance of fending off coordinated attacks like those
that disabled Web sites belonging to Amazon.com, eBay and others,
Lloyd said at a press conference here yesterday.
Local press reports that the Customs Department
seized publicly-available, pirated copies of Microsoft's Windows
2000 shortly after its debut last week may be misleading.
Computerworld Hong Kong's search of the market suggests that few,
if any, of the illegal copies currently in the market are copies of
the final version of the new OS. Rather, the pirated copies
were made from the beta or RC (release-to-candidate) versions, which
have been available for months.
Computerworld Hong Kong found that while some
pirated copies of Windows 2000 available in local computer malls
state on the cover that they are a beta or RC version, most do not.
(The RC version is the release immediately preceding the final
Concerns over the stability of Windows 2000 are
preventing many small and medium enterprises from implementing the
operating system.
This distrust of the OS's reliability, founded on
the notorious instability of previous versions of Windows NT, will
see a lot of corporates waiting until they're sure all the bugs are
ironed out before installing the upgrade.
Now that you can buy Windows 2000, you may find
that the price involves more than the software. New customers of
Windows 2000 will pay a total of $14 billion for migration services,
according to the Gartner Group. And there are plenty to choose from.
The debut of Windows 2000 this month was
accompanied by a bevy of tools and services designed to help
everyone from small offices to extra-large enterprises migrate
fearlessly to the successor to Windows NT, Microsoft's business and
server operating system.
Intel today previewed here at CeBIT systems
running powerful forthcoming processors, including a Willamette
prototype chip running slightly faster than 1.5GHz.
In a presentation focused on electronic business
concepts, interspersed with technology demonstrations of systems
powered by yet-to-be-released processors, Intel executives showed
off an 800MHz version of the 64-bit Itanium chip and a 1GHz Pentium
Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has filed
software piracy lawsuits against two companies in Alabama and three
in Mississippi. The lawsuits, alleging copyright violations and
trademark infringements, were filed against businesses in both
states for allegedly distributing counterfeit and/or infringing
Microsoft® software. The lawsuits aim to protect
customers and legitimate distributors from the effects of software
"With Mississippi having a high software
piracy rate, honest businesses like mine are finding it difficult to
compete, often losing bids to resellers who sell counterfeit
software at unreasonably low prices," said Mike Treat,
president of American Computer Services Inc. "My company is
committed to following the rules and is grateful to all software
companies that make a concerted effort to stop those who distribute
illegal software."
Microsoft Corp. today announced a strategic
relationship with BroadBand Office Inc., a leading national provider
of next-generation communications services, to integrate advanced
applications solutions for BroadBand Office customers across the
The agreement, which follows a $25 million equity
investment from Microsoft in BroadBand Office, will provide
BroadBand Office customers with the most advanced applications
technology and services by leveraging BroadBand Office's existing
broadband network and core Microsoft® technologies. The
solutions, which will be developed on the Microsoft platform, will
focus on messaging, e-commerce, Web- and application-hosting, and
media services. BroadBand Office will use the funds from the equity
investment to develop these Microsoft-based application solutions
and expand its nationwide build-out.
Microsoft Corp. today announced that, effective
Feb. 17, all Visio® products and volume licensing
agreements are now available through existing Microsoft sales
channels, having been acquired with Microsoft's purchase of Visio
Corp. earlier this year. The products will be retailed as standalone
applications and will be known as Microsoft® Visio 2000
Standard, Technical, Professional and Enterprise editions.
"One of our primary goals for this merger was
to capitalize on Microsoft's sales and marketing expertise to make
it easier for customers to license Visio products. This announcement
marks our first step toward achieving that goal," said Morris
Beton, director of marketing in the Visio Division of Microsoft.
"As with any merger, rapid integration of products, people and
systems is key and our plan is continue at this increased pace to
reach more customers both in the United States and
Microsoft says it will fix its ActiveX
installation program after a Spanish Web developer discovered that
it modifies users' computers without asking for their permission.
The problem affects Windows users running Internet
Explorer versions 4 and 5. Juan Cuartango found the problem on 16
February and immediately worried that data on his computer could be
exposed by Microsoft's Active Setup without his knowledge.
"The basic security issue is that Microsoft
has the power to freely run code in our systems," Cuartango
said in an email to Wired News on Tuesday. "If I configure my
Internet Explorer to warn me whenever a signed component is offered
to me, I want to be warned. Microsoft software will bypass this
security configuration setting."
The beleaguered, software-enslaved masses and the
unscathed also-rans are cheering -- if not sculpting statues -- for
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Wednesday, following his latest right
uppercut to Microsoft-and-getting-softer's chin.
Macintosh diehards are singing Kumbaya, just like
the old days. Linux geeks (hey, let's throw out that two-word phrase
now, lest there be an anti-redundancy trial on the road ahead) are
doing the lambada in the Ramada. Scott McNealy's beaming. Larry
Ellison is ... well, let's not imagine right now what Larry Ellison
is doing.
It's all over but for the waiting. Microsoft and
the Justice Department mopped up their final arguments on Tuesday,
and U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson is expected to rule
in four to six weeks, attorneys said.
"Antitrust is about a simple but critical
notion for the American economy, and that is, we want competition on
the merits," said assistant attorney general for Antitrust Joel
Klein on the courthouse steps at the close of the case.
Microsoft spent millions to develop what they
admit was a no-revenue product, Klein said. "Would anyone in a
competitive environment be able to do that? Only a monopolist who
can tie and bolt and exclude can do that. Those were antitrust
violations in 1890. They are violations today," Klein said.
Microsoft has released a patch that eliminates a
security vulnerability in an installation routine associated with
Microsoft® Systems Management Server (SMS). If particular features
have been enabled, the vulnerability could allow a user to gain
elevated privileges on the local machine.
Microsoft has proven it can help businesses keep
up with the increasing demands of e-commerce.
Microsoft last week announced a world-record
result on a key database benchmark that shows the power of
Microsoft® technologies for e-commerce solutions.
Windows® 2000 Advanced Server and SQL Server™ 2000
Enterprise Edition set the fastest-ever Transaction Processing
Performance Council (TPC) TPC-C
benchmark result for any hardware, operating system or database.
Running on 12 Compaq 8-way ProLiant servers, the platform was more
than one and a half times as fast as the nearest competitor, at a
price much lower for the performance than the previous record
holder. Together with the scalability features in the upcoming SQL
Server 2000, the TPC-C benchmark results indicate that
customers will soon enjoy unprecedented Internet scalability on the
Windows 2000 platform.
E-commerce sites need scalability to serve growing
And with Microsoft® technologies and Compaq
ProLiant servers, Web sites can serve more customers without adding
more servers—reducing their total cost of ownership. Separate
tests conducted by Compaq and Microsoft show that Microsoft Site
Server 3.0 Commerce Edition gains a significant performance boost
when running on Microsoft Windows® 2000.
"Compaq's and Microsoft's findings show that
Windows 2000 will enable Microsoft Site Server Commerce Edition
customers to accommodate a larger number of concurrent shoppers on a
given configuration," said Rebekkah Kumar, lead product manager
for Site Server Commerce Edition at Microsoft. "The ability to
deliver more capacity with fewer servers offers valuable benefits to
a business in terms of total cost of ownership."
Microsoft® Windows® 2000 is now widely
And so are Microsoft Press® publications that can
help IT pros make the most of the new operating system.
Microsoft Press is offering titles designed to
help people use, deploy, support and develop for Windows 2000.
The offerings range from hands-on tutorials for end users to
in-depth technical references for IT pros. The titles can be
purchased in bookstores and software stores throughout the United
States and Canada, or online via the Microsoft
Press Web site. Customers can also order toll-free at (800)
MSPRESS (677-7377) in the United States and (800) 667-1115 in
Canada. Information on Windows 2000 products is available at
the Microsoft
Press site.
Microsoft® Windows® 2000 became available in
stores yesterday, and it's already a hit with many customers.
Companies such as General Motors, Wells Fargo Bank
and Merrill Lynch have committed to installing the new operating
system on nearly 2 million PCs and servers. And more than 250
corporations worldwide have already deployed the operating system in
a variety of mission-critical environments. These early adopters are
experiencing benefits such as better reliability, manageability and
scalability and lower total cost of ownership. They also expect a
return on their investment in less than one year.
Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD)
Tuesday boosted its K6-2 processor lineup with the introduction of a
550MHz K6-2 chip. The processor accelerates the chip's clock speed
over AMD's own 533MHz K6-2 chip as well as Intel
Corp.'s (Nasdaq: INTC)
533MHz Celeron. The chip will cost $189 each in 1,000 unit
quantities, AMD officials said.
Microsoft Corp. started off its final day in court
in the ongoing U.S. Department of Justice antitrust case against the
company Tuesday by emphasizing that a settlement is still not
outside the realm of possibility.
But by the end of the day, after representatives
for the 19 states and the U.S. government presented their case
before U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, and Microsoft
attorneys presented theirs, the two parties seemed as far apart as
The judge in Microsoft
Corp.'s (Nasdaq: MSFT)
antitrust trial on Tuesday likened the software giant to the
sweeping Standard Oil monopoly, which was broken up by government
trust busters nearly 90 years ago. In a further blow to Microsoft,
U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson said he saw little
difference between the Windows operating system used on most
personal computers and the 19th-century oil monopoly of tycoon John
D. Rockefeller.
America Online Inc. continued to dominate Internet
traffic during January, accounting for 38 percent of the total time
U.S. residents spent online. Survey firm Media Metrix said Tuesday
that Americans spent 57.5 billion minutes online last month, an
average of 13.2 hours per person.
This is the first time the company has measured
the amount of time spent online.
Instruments (NYSE: TXN),
the world's largest supplier of semiconductor chips used in mobile
phones, introduced two new chips designed to enable high-speed
Internet access for homes and for use in the next generation of
Web-based wireless gadgetry. The two digital signal processors
(DSPs) the C64x and the C55x, are at the center of TI's efforts to
maintain and increase its dominance of the DSP market, which is one
of the fastest growing segments of the semiconductor industry.
Analysts said that for TI the move is crucial as it seeks to remain
well ahead of the pack in the mobile-phone chip business.
While 3Com Corp.'s Palm Computing division
launched its much anticipated color Palm IIIc on Tuesday, Microsoft
Corp. was preparing to show off another piece of its rival Palm-size
platform, now called PocketPC.
At the giant CeBIT tech-industry trade show in
Germany this week, Microsoft
(Nasdaq: MSFT)
will show a new Internet Explorer, called Pocket Explorer, for
PocketPC products. The browser will allow users to view sites
offline, automatically reformatting sites for better viewing on its
small screen.
The federal antitrust trial with Microsoft has
waged for months, and the case now could be boiling down to a
question of "plausible benefit" for consumers.
Plausible benefit has emerged as one of the key
issues, and most commonly uttered phrases, in the final oral
arguments of the trial, taking place today in front of a relatively
uncrowded courtroom here. The trial is taking place while settlement
talks continue in Chicago.
The phrase refers to what occurs when companies
with monopoly power combine, or tie, products together. One of the
major claims in the case is that Microsoft combined its Internet
Explorer Web browser to its Windows operating system in an effort to
dominate the browser market.
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates may disclose his
company's plans to participate in the game console market soon, but
analysts cautioned that any statements are likely to be long on
promise and short on details.
Gates may unveil plans for the X-box, a
game-console project based around PC technologies, when he delivers
a keynote speech at the Game Developer's Forum in San Jose, Calif.,
on March 10, according to various published reports. This event
happens a few days after the Tokyo debut of Sony's anticipated
PlayStation2 console. The X-box announcement could also come at
Seattle's coming GameStock convention, other sources have said.
Microsoft has been meeting
with hardware makers and game publishers since at least last October
to drum up support for the X-box project.
Partnership could advance mobile Net, but where is
British handheld computer maker Psion said on
Tuesday it had set up an alliance to establish a lingua franca for
all computers to exchange data, but Microsoft is missing from its
list of partners.
If it works, it could banish the irritation for
consumers of trying to keep neat and updated all their files, e-mail
messages, or address lists spread across a growing number of
computers--at work, at home, on a laptop, or on a mobile phone.
Analysts say it could be a key advance of the
mobile Internet, unlocking networked data for all wireless devices.
A handful of advisors, vendors are ready with
migration tools to help you move to Microsoft's new OS.
Now that you can buy Windows 2000, you may find
that the price involves more than the software. New customers of
Windows 2000 will pay a total of $14 billion for migration services,
according to the Gartner Group. And there are plenty to choose from.
Microsoft Corp. started off its final day in court
in the ongoing U.S. Department of Justice antitrust case Tuesday by
emphasizing that a settlement is still not outside the realm of
But as representatives for the 19 states and the
U.S. government presented their case before U.S. District Judge
Thomas Penfield Jackson, and Microsoft attorneys presented theirs,
the two parties seemed as far apart as ever.
Following Tuesday's court appearance, Jackson is
expected to issue a ruling in the case. If Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT
) is found to be in violation of antitrust laws, appropriate
remedies, if any, will be suggested.
The judge in Microsoft's antitrust trial Tuesday
likened the firm's control of its Windows software to John D.
Rockefeller's sweeping Standard Oil monopoly of the 19th century,
casting doubt on a company defense.
"Mr. Rockefeller had fee simple [absolute]
control over his oil," District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson
told Microsoft lawyer, John Warden.
"I don't really see a distinction," the
judge said of the comparision with the Windows operating system used
on most personal computers.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will
convey the opening address at the Game Developers Conference in San
Jose, Calif. on March 10. The address will focus on Microsoft's
ongoing commitment to the entertainment market, thus the
"X-Box" is now almost certain to be mentioned. A complete
list of the sessions and lecturers is available here.
Microsoft Corp. announced that starting today
millions of Yahoo! users can effortlessly save Microsoft®
Office 2000 documents to their personal home pages on Yahoo!
GeoCities (http://geocities.yahoo.com/),
Yahoo!'s personal publishing area. Yahoo! GeoCities users can now
publish their Office documents, including Microsoft Word 2000
documents, Excel 2000 spreadsheets, PowerPoint® 2000
presentations and FrontPage®2000-created Web pages, to
the Internet quickly and easily using Office 2000, which makes Web
publishing as simple as saving an Office document to a hard drive.
In a move that further substantiates its
commitment to customer satisfaction in the host database and
application integration industries, Microsoft Corp. today announced
availability of the beta 1 version of Host Integration Server 2000.
Traditionally, integration technologies have provided users with
only a single technology to solve myriad host integration scenarios.
With Microsoft® Host Integration Server 2000, formerly
code-named "Babylon," Microsoft provides developers with
the breadth of flexible integration technologies needed to solve
host integration challenges.
Microsoft Corp. today announced Microsoft®
Exchange 2000 Conferencing Server, the newest member of the Exchange
2000 product line, as well as the first release candidate of
Exchange 2000. Exchange 2000 Conferencing Server enables knowledge
workers to collaborate with anyone, anywhere by providing data,
video and voice conferencing across intranets and the Internet. It
also provides integrated scheduling and management services to help
maximize network bandwidth and availability. The Exchange 2000
product line is the reliable, scalable and easy-to-manage platform
for messaging and collaboration that brings knowledge workers and
information together. A cost-effective platform for "meetings
without walls," Exchange 2000 Conferencing Server reduces
travel costs, improves productivity and enables any time, anywhere
collaboration for knowledge workers.
The MSN™ HomeAdvisor™ online real
estate service, the award-winning guide to finding homes and loans
on the Web, today announced record-breaking traffic numbers for the
month of January, according to Media Metrix Inc. HomeAdvisor
received more unique visitors in January than in any other month
since the site launched in summer 1998, with traffic up 37.5 percent
from December 1999 and more than 160 percent from January 1999,
making it the nation's fastest-growing real estate site.
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq "MSFT") and
MediaBay Inc. (Nasdaq "MBAY") today announced that
MediaBay has chosen Microsoft® Windows Media™ as the
digital media technology for an innovative affiliate program that
will allow participating Web sites to offer high-quality audio
streams from such classic radio shows as "The Jack Benny
Program," "The Abbott and Costello Show," "War
of the Worlds" and "Suspense." MediaBay chose Windows
Media because of clear customer preference. On MediaBay sites where
streaming content is offered in both Real and Windows Media formats,
customers are choosing Windows Media streams more than two-thirds of
the time.
Michael Webster from Activision
was nice enough to send me a couple of screenshots from their
upcoming 3D shooter based on the Star Trek universe, Voyager: Elite
Force. In this game you join the crew of Federation starship USS
Voyager, which is lost in the Delta Quadrant. Voyager: Elite Force
uses id Software's Quake 3 engine which has been modified to fit the
needs. The game is being developed by Raven
Software. I don't know if all of these shots have been seen
before but I thought I would post them anyway.
Microsoft and the government today face off for
the last time as the landmark antitrust case goes before the judge
for a final ruling. Legal experts expect little from final oral
arguments that will affect the case's outcome. The larger drama may
be ongoing settlement talks, which are simultaneously on the verge
of breakdown and breakthrough.
Microsoft has signed a deal to help it flog
Windows 2000 to British schools. The software giant today hooked up
with outsourcing company Capita Group to offer a range of online
services through an education portal. As part of the deal, Microsoft
and Capita will jointly develop a site for the education market –
called education.uk.com, according to the FT - due to launch later
this year.
The parties in the Microsoft trial meet again in
Judge Jackson's court again today after a failure to reach a
settlement during Judge Posner's mediation. Although a settlement is
still possible, it is clear that the DoJ has stayed resolute and
that the plaintiff states have not weakened.
The deliberate leaks so far, despite Judge
Posner's warnings to the sides not to brief the media, suggest that
Gates and Ballmer have drawn the line at the splitting of Microsoft,
but that most other things are negotiable. For its part, the DoJ
evidently does not think that a conduct remedy would work, in view
of Microsoft's previous behavior concerning timely disclosure,
amongst other things.
Upstart graphics firm Gigapixel has beaten off S3,
Nvidia, ATI and other big-name rivals to win the contract to design
the graphics chipset for Microsoft's X-Box. And it in turn has
awarded the contract to build the chipset to AMD.
An AMD Athlon CPU, a hard drive, DVD ROM and a
modified version of Windows will form the other major components of
the X-Box, according to sources cited by the IT
Network. The Gigapixel
graphics chipset in combination with the Athlon CPU will,
apparently, provide the X-Box with enough power to exceed the
performance of the Sony PlayStation 2 by six to eight times.
Moreover, the Microsoft console will be less expensive and likely to
be compatible with existing Windows applications.
Microsoft has lost an attempt to get a 1980 Korean
trademark for "Window" overturned in the Patent Court
after the Supreme Court ordered a re-trial last May. The trademark
is held by diary and stationery producer Yangji Total Stationery Co
of Seoul. The company has a turnover of $36 million, is the
country's largest diary producer, and has the Window diary
concession for 2002 World Cup merchandise.
Microsoft challenged the trademark in 1993, and
offered a paltry $1,000 for it in 1996, but to no avail. Microsoft
may now find itself faced with a damages suit, and may have to stop
using the name Windows in South Korea. It has been a long slog for
Kim Yong Se, the president of Yangji, who has a trademark for Window
in both English and Korean script.
have posted my review of the Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred
Voice Recognition Program. Here is a snippet of the review:
As I am always on the look out for
another time saving program I was very excited in receiving and
reviewing the new Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred voice
recognition program. We would like to thank the people over at
Dragon Systems, Inc.
for providing us with this program to evaluate and review.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking lets you
talk to almost any Windows program instead of typing. As you speak,
your words are transcribed onto your screen and into your document.
You can dictate into Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect, e-mail
programs, personal information organizers, and virtually any other
program in which you normally type. You can also use your voice to
start programs, open menus, and click buttons. If you use Internet
Explorer to browse the Web, you can use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to
follow links and go to favorite sites by voice.
Also as an added challenge, all
text entries in this review will be entered using the Dragon
NaturallySpeaking program.
Combatants in the Microsoft antitrust trial see
little chance of a settlement before Tuesday's closing arguments,
though analysts say a deal in coming weeks is still possible.
The two sides set Tuesday as an unofficial
deadline because the case would then be back in the hands of Judge
Thomas Penfield Jackson. Microsoft and government lawyers have made
little progress in talks mediated by Judge Richard Posner.
Representatives of the Justice Department and 19
states have proposed a breakup of the company; Microsoft has
suggested limited conduct restrictions, say people familiar with the
matter. Still, a pact could be struck in the weeks before Jackson
hands down a ruling on whether the company violated antitrust laws.
Microsoft has replied to criticism that it
exploits temporary workers by employing them for years -- making
them virtual permanent workers -- while denying them the benefits
associated with a permanent position. This so-called 'permatemp'
status saves the obscenely wealthy software giant millions in
fringe-benefit costs each year.
By last August, when Compaq unveiled its eight-way
ProLiant 8800 and 8500 systems for the burgeoning e-business market,
the company had already achieved remarkable performance results from
a single machine running SQL Server -- proving that customers could
rely on this low-cost solution for high-performance e-business
Microsoft Corp. will use the opportunity of
Marketechnics 2000 to showcase the advantages that the Windows®
2000 operating system offers retailers. In addition, the event will
highlight Microsoft's efforts to promote retail integration and
standardization through industry alliances, resulting in
best-of-breed customer solutions.
The combination of MicrosoftÒ
Windows 2000 and Windows DNA represents a winning platform for
customers in the grocery industry. Working in tandem, these
technologies offer companies multiple benefits, including reduced
development and training costs, increased business adaptability, and
overall ease of implementation.
The Allegiance
Zone has posted up a page with all of the specific
ship/weapon/shield data information in Microsoft's massively
multiplayer space combat sim, Allegiance. There is also a new
mini-guide over at Allegiance Zone with advice for lag/lockup.
In a competitively strategic
move aimed at casting a pall on the launch Windows 2000, Novell
published a report outlining a security hole in Microsoft's flagship
operating system. While few people would argue that the timing of
this report entitled "Windows
2000 Security Issue: Problems with Limiting Administrative
Access" was accidental, the report does raise some serious
issues with Windows 2000's Active Directory. This week, BugNet's
testing verified Novell's findings. Microsoft vehemently denies that
this is a security bug, stating "After assessment, Microsoft
has determined that the issue raised on Friday [February 11, 2000]
by Novell is not a security vulnerability. Instead, it appears to be
a misunderstanding of the NT security model."
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Markets Hub: U.S. Economy Losing Its Cushion
The manufacturing sector was supposed to be one of the economy's stronger segments, but a weak ISM manufacturing report suggests that the U.S. economy is still fragile, WSJ's Jon Hilsenrath reports. (Photo: AP Photo.)
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... I ... would bring in John Wheeler John mildew and ninety eight with the story the paper today about the economy and about the ability of the economy ... needs bloated been taking ... John what exactly is going on with the U S economy ... while you know we start on in Friday's GDP number we start again in today's the ISN report ... you know what we have is an economy to shock absorbers are are broken ... this is mostly in the consumer sector households euro still have a heavy debt loads are still in a ... motive ... picking increasing their savings try to work down there that ... are not in a position to tap their home equity loans or credit card loans was from shock ... as happened in the first quarter with higher oil prices hit the economy so they retrench ... I think that's what happen in the first appetit or what's a little troubling that today's ... ISN report is that ... the manufacturing sector was one of the sectors of the economy ... those helping to drive growth ... and that was helping to come ... pushes through ... this soft patch that was on the first half of the year with the household sector ... and now we're seeing that they might be ... suffering that goes over to his result of that ... selling Ariad the star wonder what what are they can be engines of growth going forward ... John Ensign of the city to the obvious question given that ... the ... government spending is a nice day one of those deals with the support ... now it opened up two point one billion dollars in cuts coming off the table ... and it's a bit of a very uncertain what ... how does this feed into it ... well you know that the government sector not only federal state local are certainly they've been a drag on the economy see that every time ... you know you look at the jobs numbers are seeing a dragon ... out of the government sector ... as giving continue to be the case here the numbers that I've seen ... for twenty twelve is that ... governments ... state local and Chris and federal law altogether maybe pull one and a half percentage points ... out of growth now an economy that was barely growing at that rate ... in the first half of the year ... you know you wonder what CryoLife this economy is that ... John ... you start Existing home on Monday ... the use of really been ... very volatile times the U S economy ... much of what were seen keeping represents actually a sea change in the economy with the economy becoming something completely different to what it used to be ... yet America has been a sea change in the economy right economists use it are ... before the Great Recession of two dozen eight about a great moderation ... they talked about how stable the economy has been and how that ... cable was ... of of that feedback from shocked its resilience you know we had ... Hurricane Katrina terror attacks ... wars in Iraq and Afghanistan attacks dot bust ... all kinds of events hitting the economy the economy sailed right through it ... I think ... the period we're in right now ... as the economy works off all this debt that we've built up during the Great moderation period ... is an economy that's more volatile it's more susceptible to shocks ... and we're going see that the financial markets do I suspect more volatility ... and here I think today what we're seeing in the markets is common emblematic of that ... the volatility is that in the stock market was warning about Treasury yields and ... other unit in a shootout or shoot down ... it's really been reflected ... in in in stock prices right now um ... look is the real risk ... the real rest of the arm and has been the case so long ... dinner is to grow this matter is not a risk to the fall ... I don't think many people seriously thought the government was can allow itself to the fall ... but doubt one where another growth is is is Address pronounced even yes my task each and we think the prospects of the Fed will have to take some new action in a new bar for that for anything like a Kiwi three is pretty high something extraordinary ... we came close to that point ... well I mean they're certainly to be worried about this that that that the last couple sets of data ... the problem is they did their best your problem what is that the or have good options not ... get a very reluctant to do another round of ... asset purchases of bond purchases ... perhaps they will if things get worse ... I knew they could promise to keep rates low for really really really long time but it's not clear how much ... benefit target for making promises like that ... but the other constraint they have is that inflation has picked up and out in the same inflation ... it's situation that there were a year ago so it's not even clear then that they should act right now ... for fear of letting Prices get about two percent level so you know they they betrayed us for them or worse today than there were a year ago when they did that the bond market purchases ... but that debate inside the Fed is certainly shifting ... from do we do more and how it will ... to ... do we do more and how ... from you no question of when we get AG's it how long can the patients didn't ... isn't strategies a crucial ... stop ... was in John I just got talking that exit strategy because riders who win every time you the economy goes into effect for John thanks alot Mike thanks alot

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June 04, 2012 07:30 ET
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - June 4, 2012) - Merus Labs International Inc. ("Merus" or the "Company") (TSX:MSL)(NASDAQ:MSLI) is pleased to announce today that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire the rights to manufacture, market, and sell a branded prescription medicine product mainly for the European market and Canada. The product is being divested by a large multinational pharmaceutical company. In the calendar year 2011, the product had net sales of approximately US$23 million in the applicable territories.
"We are pleased to sign this letter of intent as we believe that the addition of this product will broaden the Company's existing product portfolio, expand our geographic focus, and bring scale to our business. Merus' management will continue to work closely with our legal, regulatory and financial advisors towards the successful completion of this transaction," said Elie Farah, President and CEO-elect of Merus Labs International Inc.
The letter of intent is non-binding except that, in conjunction with its execution the Company has paid US$2 million as an exclusivity payment. Subject to the approval of the board of directors of both companies, the transaction is expected to close on or before July 19, 2012.
About Merus Labs International Inc.
Merus is a specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in the acquisition and licensing of pharmaceutical products. The Company utilizes its expertise in pharmaceutical markets and its access to capital to acquire and license niche branded products. Merus further enhances the sale and distribution of these products by introduction of a focused marketing and promotion plan.
Certain statements contained in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 21E (i) (1) of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and include such statements as: the acquisition of the product broadening the Company's existing product portfolio; expanding its geographic focus; bringing scale to its business; completing the transaction; and expecting to close on or before July 19, 2012. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause Merus' actual results to be materially different from any future results expressed or implied by these statements. Such factors include the following: general economic and business conditions, changes in demand for Merus' products, changes in competition, the ability of Merus to integrate acquisitions or complete future acquisitions, interest rate fluctuations, currency exchange rate fluctuations, dependence upon and availability of qualified personnel and changes in government regulation. In light of these and other uncertainties, the forward-looking statements included in this press release should not be regarded as a representation by Merus that Merus' plans and objectives will be achieved. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise the statements.
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Rep. John Kline's (R., MN) H.R. 5, the Student Success Act, is on the verge of passing the House. However the Obama Administration has come out against the measure, noting that the bill would be vetoed if presented to the President. The statement says the measure "represents a significant step backwards in the efforts to help all of the Nation's children and their families prepare for their futures."
Surveying the acronyms, slogans and victim names that serve as titles for measures introduced in Congress and other legislative bodies, some of which may graduate to the U.S. Code and other statute books.
New to the art form? This Wall Street Journal article will get you orientated. Also, for more information on how some of these titles mislead lawmakers and the citizenry, find some academic commentary from Brian Christopher Jones here: https://works.bepress.com/brian_jones/.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Student Success or Educational Divestment?
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Hexagonal Straight Straps are a perfect hybrid exercise, combining the benefits of genuflexions with those of straightails. Use this method that lasts 10 weeks to increase your overall muscle mass.
Black chocolate is already recognized for the benefits it has on the cardiovascular system, and now a new study has shown that black chocolate can also increase sports performance at fitness enthusiasts.
Anabolic steroids are trendy. And many wonder if their side effects are so serious, or if there are steroids that have less side effects. Find out the answer here.
SP Stanoject is an anabolic steroid. Penetrating into the cell nucleus and activates the genetic apparatus of the cell, which leads to an increase in the synthesis of DNA, RNA and structural proteins, enzyme activation circuit tissue respiration and increased cell respiration, the oxidative phosphorylation, ATP synthesis and accumulation macroergs intracellularly.
Stimulates the anabolic and catabolic processes suppresses caused by glucocorticoids. Leads to increased muscle mass, decreased fat deposition, improving trophism and tissue promotes the deposition of calcium in the bones, the body retains nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, potassium, sodium and water. Hematopoietic effects associated with increased synthesis of erythropoietin.
Anti-allergic effect due to higher concentrations of C1 fraction of complement. Androgenic activity (low) may contribute to the development of secondary sexual characteristics of male type.
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Today there are many preservation projects underway across the country, and yet many more await the funding and manpower to be undertaken.
Following in the footsteps of notable successes such as Wavertree and Elissa, and with a long history of involvement in many worthwhile projects, NMHS currently supports preservation efforts for the following three ships:
Also published in each edition of Sea History magazine is a feature we call "Historic Ships on a Lee Shore." National Maritime Historical Society believes in rallying around these preservation efforts and attempts to bring national attention to the plight of ships of every variety.
Browse these titles for a past article that might interest you.
Baltimore (steam tug): "Steam Tug Baltimore" by Stephen Heaver. SH 110:35.
SS Catalina (steamship): "SS Catalina, Mayday Call" by Deirdre O'Regan. SH 106:19.
Cutty Sark: "Cutty Sark in Flames" SH 120:12-14.
Duwamish (fireboat): "Fireboat Duwamish" by John M. Rose. SH 109:31.
Ernestina (schooner): "Schooner Ernestina ex-Effie M. Morrissey" by Deirdre O'Regan. SH 106:15-17.
Falls of Clyde: "Holding Out Hope for the Falls of Clyde" SH 124:40-43.
USS Hornet (aircraft carrier): "USS Hornet" by Ralph Johnson. SH 109:30.
SS Meteor (whaleback): "A Better Approach for the 21st Century" SH 111:32.
USS New Jersey (battleship): "Battleship New Jersey" by Jack Willard. SH 107:12.
New York Central No. 16 (tug): "New York Central No. 16" by Thomas Flagg. SH 116:36.
SS Nobska (coastal steamship): "SS Nobska" by Deirde O'Regan and Tom Carroll. SH 108:32.
Quinnipiac oyster barge: "Saving the Last New York City Oyster Barge in Fair Haven, Connecticut" by James B. Kirk and John M. Kochiss. SH:107:13.
USS Slater (DE-766): "USS Slater (DE-766)" SH 115:18.
SS United States (ocean liner): "SS United States" by Robert H. Westover. SH 108:33.
USCGC Tamaroa, ex-USS Zuni: "Tamaroa Slugs Her Way Through History" SH 122:34-37.
Wapama: "Toward an American Ship Trust" by Peter Stanford. SH 117:28-29.
Wavertree: "Why Save Historic Ships?" by Peter Stanford. SH 110:32-34.
Wawona: "Schooner Wawona" by Joe Follansbee. SH 108:18.


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Worship Song Video Blog
Here, we learn worship songs and some tips and tricks for making them sound decent on an acoustic guitar. Each episode is normally just 3-5 minutes long and is a video that you can watch or get as a vlog entry (through RSS). The songs are ones that are usually not covered in other online forums or by other worship leaders or artists. Since they cover all their material, most of the songs here are for songs done in the past 15 years, with lots from the 90's.
If you would rather view these via iTunes / iPod / iPad and other Apple products you can load the entire collection of videos (or one at a time), by accessing the Worship Song Video Podcast by Kim Gentes on iTunes itself at this location: Kim Gentes on iTunes.
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"Rise" - Worship Song Video Blog: Session 15 (with Kim Gentes)
This is Session 15 of the Worship Song Video Blog includes an example of playing the song "Rise" (written by Shawn McDonald). This is a video blog of guitar tips and ideas for playing worship songs.
This song edition includes a video demonstrating the song arrangement on guitar and a downloadable PDF chord chart with the lyrics and chords (courtesy of WorshipTeam.com).
CHORD CHART PDF: download here.
Video Demonstration: See below.
This video became very popular and people have been asking a number of questions (all of which are explained or demonstrated in the video). But to give some written information here will help.
Guitar Tuning- This song is done with D-tuned guitar strings. This means that instead of the standard EADGBE tuning of the strings, the guitars low E string is tuned to D, not E. This means the tuning becomes DADGBE. UPDATE: Actually, the original version of the song by Shawn McDonald is done in the DADGAD tuning. I am not sure how I missed that, but it it certainly would make the song pitch to D much more "dronelike". Try it with both tunings and pick the one you like- but the original should be DADGAD, not the D-tune that I have noted in the video.
Tempo/meter - I play this demonstration around 70bpm, although the original song is done around 74-76 by Shawn McDonald.
Strumming Pattern - The strumming pattern on this song is demonstrated on the video, but some folks wanted it written out. Here is a staff measure that shows the pattern. The notes are just chord strums (I couldn't figure out how to get Finale to do it any other way). Anyways, for each note is a strum. The letters indicate which direction the strum is. D for down, U for up.
For churches using WorshipTeam.com, the song, chord chart, lyrics and audio are already available and pre-loaded for you in the WorshipTeam.com system song database. If you are not part of WorshipTeam.com and want to listen to audio samples or purchase the album directly yourself, see the Amazon link below.
Amazon Link: http://amzn.to/15fleeY
hope that helps
Kim Gentes
"Rise" - Worship Song Video Blog: Session 15 (with Kim Gentes)


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Also friends, I've started a new position at Apartment Therapy, as their photo editor. As part of this work, I teach the contributors to become better photographers, talk about imagery and edit images. I've started a photo tip site, the SUPER PHOTO MAGIC SCHOOL, where you can perhaps follow along with photo teacher Lee . . . This is a real passion of mine, empowering others with a few tools to take better pictures, so I'm very excited. Unveiling the magic and making photography more accessible, what could be better?
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17550 Bernardo Oaks Drive San Diego 92128 USA
Location This luxury hotel enjoys a beautiful location in the hills to the north of San Diego. The Temecula wine region can be found in the near vicinity of the hotel, and the nearest airport is some 30 minutes' drive away. Facilities The hotel offers travellers a total of 287 rooms. These are distributed across one main building and 8 adjacent buildings. In the air-conditioned establishment, guests are welcomed at the reception area with 24-hour reception and a 24-hour check-in/check-out service. Amenities include a cloakroom. Wireless internet access is available to travellers. Various gastronomic options are available, including a restaurant, a dining area and a bar. Shopping facilities are also available. Those arriving in their own vehicles can leave them in the car park of the accommodation for a fee. Additional services include translation services, room service and a laundry service. Rooms The hotel features rooms with air conditioning, central heating and a bathroom. The basic features of most rooms include a balcony. The carpeted rooms feature a double bed or a king-size bed. A safe and a minibar are also available. A mini fridge and a tea/coffee station ensure a comfortable stay. An ironing set is also available for guests' convenience. Internet access, a telephone, a TV, a radio and WiFi add to the comfort of the holiday. The bathrooms are fitted with a shower and a bathtub. A hairdryer can also be found in each of the bathrooms. The establishment offers non-smoking rooms. Sports/Entertainment The accommodation features various options for cooling off on hot days, including a pool and an outdoor pool. The hot tub is the perfect place to relax. Leisure options at the hotel include tennis, golf, a gym and a spa. For a fee, a sauna and massage treatments are also available. An entertainment programme is offered for children. Meals Travellers can choose options including breakfast, lunch and dinner. Payment The following credit cards are accepted at the establishment: American Express, Diners Club and MasterCard.


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St. Michael's Mount
St. Michael's Mount is a little island off the shore of Penzance.
To get there you have to wait until the tide goes down
Then a secret pathway that is hidden under the water appears and you can walk straight across.
The Castle at the top of the island.
It was a beautiful clear morning when we arrived so we were able to get a good view of the island. Then fog came in again. It was so thick you couldn't even see back to shore.
No matter where we go we make it a point to get a great
jumping picture.
Ahhhh! Another tour another castle its all blurring together!
Pretty sure that's what I was thinking at that moment.
This is the sail boat I drew for my sketch book that day.
St. Michael's Mount was very beautiful it made me want to move to a little beach town and live on a small island away from the busy life of the city. It was so peaceful you couldn't help but to fall in love with it.
Salisbury Cathedral
We arrived to Salisbury after it was dark but we were still supposed to make our way down to the Cathedral so we could get a glimpses of it.
After dinner we wandered the streets trying to find it.
Unlike Bath which felt totally safe walking around at night. Salisbury was creepy & sketchy to the max.
Then to walk up to this monstrous gothic cathedral in the dark we were all on our toes.
Didn't help that there were life size human statues placed all over the grounds for a show.
We started to make our way closer to the building and then weird people were walking around and then out of no where the organ starts playing from inside the creepiest music.
We were gone. Sprinting away screaming and we didn't look back.
It was a beautiful Cathedral though.
I'm sure I would have liked it lots more in the day.
I hate being scared. But it's a funny story to look back on now.