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To: Gus who wrote (5896)	6/28/2000 7:09:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

<By the way, why can't you address the fact that QCOM's total lack of relevant TDMA/GSM IPRs will inevitably dilute its claims over WCDMA? That's simple common sense.> Still pushing that IDC angle, eh! lol.

To: Gus who wrote (5896)	6/28/2000 8:39:00 PM
From: r.edwards	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

I thought Qcom addressed that several weeks ago,........ QUALCOMM will aggressively enforce its patent rights around the world and unlicensed companies that supply products for 3G CDMA systems, such as WCDMA, as well as companies that use such products from an unlicensed supplier will be infringing QUALCOMM's patents. QUALCOMM expects to charge the same royalty rates for all third-generation products as it does for 2G (IS-95A), 2.5G (IS-95B) and 3G CDMA 1x, but, because terms and conditions may change over time, QUALCOMM has reserved the right to adjust its license terms and conditions, including increasing its royalties, for those companies that delay in entering into a license with QUALCOMM. QUALCOMM welcomes the worldwide resources that are being devoted to roll out third-generation CDMA technology, including Multi-Carrier (cdma2000(TM) 1xMC and HDR in 1.25 MHz bandwidth, and 3xMC in 5 MHz bandwidth) and Direct Spread (WCDMA in 5 MHz bandwidth). QUALCOMM owns a substantial portfolio of CDMA patents, including many ``essential'' patents that are necessary for the deployment of any proposed 3G CDMA system, such as Multi-Carrier, Direct Spread, and another system referred to as TD-SCDMA. QUALCOMM has now granted royalty bearing licenses to more than 75 manufacturers for CDMA and, as part of these licenses, has transferred technology and know-how in assisting these companies to develop and deploy CDMA products. A significant number of these companies' licenses cover third-generation applications, including WCDMA, 1x and High Data Rate (HDR). Under terms of QUALCOMM's existing 3G licensing agreements, a licensee will pay the same royalty to QUALCOMM for 3G systems, including WCDMA, TD-SCDMA and 1x, as that licensee pays QUALCOMM for today's CDMA infrastructure, phones and test equipment. biz.yahoo.com

To: Gus who wrote (5896)	6/28/2000 11:18:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

<OT> Oracle spied on Microsoft's allies By Duncan Martell, Reuters 28 June 2000 Oracle Corp., the world's second-biggest software company, acknowledged that it hired a private detective agency to investigate allies and groups that support Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software firm. Oracle said that it hired Investigation Group International to look into the activities of the Independent Institute and the National Taxpayers Union, seeking to uncover links between Microsoft and the groups during Microsoft's antitrust trial, Oracle said in a statement. Microsoft was found to be a monopoly which broke U.S. antitrust laws. "Oracle discovered that both the Independent Institute and the National Taxpayers Union were misrepresenting themselves as independent advocacy groups, when in fact their work was funded by Microsoft for the express purpose of influencing public opinion in favour of Microsoft during its antitrust trial," Oracle said in a statement obtained by Reuters. The move by Oracle, which said in its statement that it "insisted" that IGI's tactics be legal, highlights the acrimonious and long-standing rivalry between Oracle, the world's biggest maker of database software, and Microsoft , whose Windows operating system powers more than 80 percent of the world's personal computers. Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison has long been a bitter critic of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Microsoft's competitive tactics in the marketplace. Oracle added that it retained the firm to show that Microsoft supported these trade groups and other groups financially and to show that these groups were disseminating purportedly independent surveys and studies that supported Microsoft's position during its historic antitrust trial. Microsoft condemned Oracle's involvement in hiring IGI. "This is dramatic proof that Microsoft's competitors have been funding and orchestrating a massive PR and lobbying campaign in an effort to tarnish Microsoft's image and invite government intervention in an industry that has been very competitive and serving consumers very well," Microsoft spokesman Mark Murray told Reuters. "We think it's a very sad day and a huge embarrassment for Oracle and all its employees." The financial ties between Microsoft and these organisations, including the Association of Competitive Technology, were previously reported by the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Oracle has, in the past 18 months, curried favour among analysts and investors as a credible threat to Microsoft as the world moves more and more to computing power and software applications residing on powerful computer servers and accessed through a simple Internet browser. "Left undisclosed, these Microsoft front groups could have improperly influenced the outcome of one of the most important antitrust cases in U.S. history," Oracle said in its statement. Oracle confirmed its retention of IGI after newspaper reports said that the detective agency attempted to bribe janitors to buy trash from the Washington-based Association for Competitive Technology. IGI was unsuccessful in trying to pay two janitors $1,200 for the trash, media reports have said. Ellison, with the surge in Oracle's stock price in the last year and a half, has recently challenged Gates for the moniker of the world's richest man. While Oracle admitted it hired IGI to investigate the conduct of the Independent Institute and the National Taxpayers Union, it did not admit to an investigation of the Association for Competitive Technology. Oracle, when it hired IGI, did not "specify how IGI should go about gathering information," the Oracle statement said. "We did however insist that whatever methods IGI employed, those methods must be legal." See our poll on Microsoft's .NET strategy at Total Telecom Poll: Microsoft's .NET strategy