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The Microsoft Courtroom Fight is Page One Worldwide

A federal judge’s verbal thrashing of Microsoft in the epic antitrust trial isn’t just big news in the United States. Pictured here are the front pages of three papers I picked up in Hong Kong and Taipei the day after Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson declared Microsoft to be what everyone knew it was: a monopoly.


Asia Teaches the U.S. a Mobile Lesson

Sunday, Nov. 7 —

Americans, in our provincial way, tend to think we’re world leaders in every technological field. Wrong.

The U.S. is miserably behind Europe and Asia when it comes to wireless and especially wireless data. I’ve been learning this first-hand, and explain what I mean in my Sunday column.


With Reality Like This, Who Needs Special Effects?

The View at Takeoff

Sunday, Nov. 7 —

Cathay Pacific, the airline I flew a few hours ago from Hong Kong to Taipei, has video screens at every coach seat on its Boeing 777s. One of the channels shows the view from a camera mounted on the bottom of the fuselage, just back of the forward wheels.

The camera stays on from pushback at the originating gate until the plane pulls up to its arrival gate. The view is pretty boring when you’re flying over the South China Sea, but it’s a lot of fun to watch the takeoff and landing. I snapped this picture of the screen just after takeoff.


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