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AT&T appeared to be defeated after its monopoly was broken up in the 1980s, but after acquiring cable company TCI, Ma Bell is becoming a force in the telecommunications industry. C. Michael Armstrong, AT&T's new chairman, announced a joint venture with Time Warner that would allow his firm to use the coaxial cables in 12 million homes for telephone service.

Discusses the possibility of an out-of-court settlement in the United States Department of Justice's antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. The role of Seventh Circuit Appeals Judge Richard Posner as mediator of the settlement; Speculation about the details of the settlement proposal submitted by Microsoft; Concern over the government's ability to enforce the settlement terms. INSET: HOW BILL GETS OUT OF TIGHT SPOTS.

Discusses security problems on the Internet in light of a denial-of-service (DOS) attack by computer hackers. Infrastructure that can allow a threat to the `root name servers'; Weaknesses in software; Privacy violation on the Web; Lack of talented people to keep Internet systems innoculated. INSETS: Inside the Secret Cyberwar, by Gregory Vistica;Why the Market Will Rule, by Allan Sloan.

Focuses on Steve Case, chairman of America Online, which is merging with Time Warner. Biographical and career-related information; His personality; His focus on America Online and Time Warner and plans for the future. INSETS: A Vital New Role for an Old General, by Daniel McGinn;Everybody's Favorite Young Turk, by D.M.;Ted Just Wants to Have Fun, by D.M.;The Man Who Keeps the Peace, by Thomas Hayden

Discusses the ruling of the United States Department of Justice's (DOJ) anti-trust suit against Microsoft Corp. Details of the decision by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson; Time frame for the actual ruling of law; Issues such as Microsoft's monopoly, research and development spending and policy toward competitors; Reaction of Bill Gates; Outlook. INSET: The Heart of the Case Against Microsoft.

Predicts the development of information appliances that will take over the tasks performed by personal computers (PCs), as of 1999, and the incorporation of microprocessors in home appliances that connect to the Internet. Necessary infrastructure; Role of communication standards in the interchange of information; Description of a so-called smart house and how appliances could be connected; Aspects of a post-PC world.

Discusses America Online's (AOL) merger with Netscape Communications and alliance with Sun Microsystems. What the purchase of Netscape provides for AOL; What the deal will mean for United States consumers; AOL chairman Steve Case's view of the role of his company in US consumers' lives; His goals for electronic commerce; Overview of the development of Internet companies. INSETS: Pocketing the Web;The Ups and Downs of Two High-Tech High-Fliers.

Discusses electronic commerce in late 1998. The ease with which people can begin selling products over the Internet; Security issues which have held electronic commerce back; Con artists on the Internet; Why most Internet industry analysts feel the Internet is safe for electronic commerce in December of 1998; Types of products which sell well online; The control that consumers have on the Internet; Sites to visit for computer products, travel, automobiles, books and online brokerages.

John Montz is happiest when his world is in total disrepair. The 47-year-old 'building operating-system specialist' at Western Wyoming Community College is a fixer by trade--and by nature. He lovingly [...]

Just when you thought you might get a breather from the hostilities between Microsoft and the Justice Department, tensions flared up again last week. In a flurry of legal filings, [...]

It was a bleak winter day in early 1998, and Microsoft's lawyers had come from Redmond to appear before Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in the other Washington. In a legal [...]

Microsoft's past and its future were on a collision course. This week a federal judge in Washington appears ready to give the go-ahead to the government's plan to break up [...]

As you schlep to work every day, contemplating your boss's weaknesses (better his than yours), it's easy to drift into the latest American Daydream. We're all doing it, aren't we? [...]

Take cover. After getting pummeled by the government's breakup proposal, Microsoft unloaded legal filings last week that predict a devastating future for more than just the software giant if Bill [...]

The methods for protecting yourself against viruses are as old as the first mail-borne pathogen, the IBM Christmas virus, which only displayed an animated Christmas tree but clogged the company's [...]

Photography for amateurs is about playing the odds. We shoot a roll, schlep to the photo developer, misplace the claim checks, find them, pay a fortune for the snapshots and [...]

Following each day of Microsoft's antitrust trial last year, a group of 'softies back in Redmond, Wash., would convene in the office of Paul Maritz, a top company exec. The [...]

If being a loan officer in Milwaukee weren't enough to make a man seek a new line of work, Ed Shull found fresh inspiration in his young cousin. The teenager [...]

IBM stunned the world two years ago when its computer named Deep Blue beat the best chess player, Garry Kasparov, in a symbolic defeat of mankind that many thought unthinkable. [...]

Even as Matt Drudge became a 1990s celebrity, he never forgot his roots. After Fox News signed him up to a rich TV deal last year--to the horror of the [...]

In the latest twist in the government's epic antitrust trial against Microsoft, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson surprised both sides last week by naming one of the nation's most respected jurists [...]

It's as awkward as a failed workplace romance. For months, one Microsoft partner after another took the stand at the antitrust trial to reveal dirty secrets. In the end, their [...]

During a break in the Microsoft trial this summer, Thomas Penfield Jackson, the judge presiding over the case, found himself forced to share a cab with three reporters after a [...]

After leasing two high-end sport utility vehicles in just two days last spring, Kenneth Morse was finally stopped by a third dealership on the third day. Noting Morris's suspicious SUV-buying [...]

Slouched in the last row of the press section at the Microsoft antitrust trial in Washington, D.C., Bill Joy, the technology pooh-bah of Sun Microsystems, watches a government attorney cross-examine [...]

Focuses on Microsoft Corporation in light of United States District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's November 1999 findings of fact in the US antitrust case against the company. Annual meeting and stock price; Possibility of a settlement; Possible remedies, including breakup of the company; Response of the US computer industry; Speculation about an appeal. INSET: The Trial's Uneasy Fallout, by Jared Sandberg.

Reports on the deal made between AT&T Corp., MediaOne, and Microsoft Corp. in 1999. How AT&T will acquire MediaOne for $60 billion; Reasons why Microsoft Corp. bought a portion of AT&T; Effect that the deal could have on telephone service and Internet service in the United States.

Reports on the antitrust lawsuit against Intel by the United States Federal Trade Commission. The patent disputes with customers Digital Equipment Corp., Compaq, and Intergraph; Charges against Intel for abuse of monopoly power as specifications were withheld from the customer companies; Intel's defense argument on using its intellectual property; How Intel's case is different from that of Microsoft Corp. INSET: Wintel in the Cross Hairs.

Discusses the United States Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation as of October 1998. The Justice Department's attacks on Microsoft chairman Bill Gates' credibility and efforts to portray him as a dishonest and ruthless mastermind; Opposing views within US high-technology industries of Microsoft's impact on competition and innovation; The company's defense strategy.