Monthly Archives: November 1999

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Jean-Louis on Microsoft

Jean-Louis Gassee, founder of Be Inc., isn’t just a software guy. He also wields a mean pen. Gassee regularly writes essays for his company’s online newsletter. His latest column is particularly strong — a personal take on the Microsoft trial … Continue reading

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Straddling the Pacific

Sunday, Nov. 14 — In 1997, just before the onset of the Asian financial crisis, Hanson Cheah and James Yao co-founded AsiaTech Ventures Ltd. Their timing, in retrospect, was perfect. Cheah and Yao are among a new, young breed of … Continue reading

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A Principled Stand

Friday, Nov. 12 — The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has told governments worldwide that it won’t do the bidding of spy and law-enforcement agencies as it writes new standards for moving data around the Net. But don’t assume this … Continue reading

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A Shift

Thursday, Nov. 11 — It’s no secret that Silicon Valley’s center of business gravity has shifted toward the networked world. Venture capital is flowing toward Internet and networking companies, not older-line businesses based on personal computers — and not solely … Continue reading

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Why I Will Switch Banks Soon

Wednesday, Nov. 10 — The financial-services legislation that will soon become law is a disaster in the making. Among other bad impacts, it creates huge new risks in the technology-driven financial system. It will let commercial banks, insurance companies, investment … Continue reading

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The Antitrust Express is Leaving the Station

Expect a raft of new antitrust cases — including some that are utterly without merit, as public-relations people are trained to say — against Microsoft now that a federal judge has declared the company to be a monopoly. That judicial … Continue reading

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Top of the News

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 … Continue reading

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Facts

Saturday, Nov. 6 — Something important happened yesterday. A federal judge, appointed by the president most opposed to the enforcement of antitrust laws in recent times, said what is obvious to anyone with an ounce of common sense: Microsoft has … Continue reading

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Time Warp

Thursday, Nov. 4 — The Internet is beginning to bloom in a big way here, but everything is relative. Hong Kong reminds me of New York and San Francisco three or four years ago, when it was obvious the Net … Continue reading

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