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To: Moonray who wrote (18097)	1/6/1999 10:15:00 PM
From: drmorgan	Respond to of 22053

Analysts: Cabletron may be bought out: The New York Post today reported that Cabletron has hired investment bank Merrill Lynch to find the company a buyer. Rochester, New Hampshire-based Cabletron, which has posted losses in three of its last four quarters, aims to raise as much as $2.5 billion in a sale, according to the report, which cited an anonymous source close to the situation. Financial analysts say it's possible Cabletron is seeking a suitor as the company struggles to recapture its prominence in a market now dominated by Cisco and 3Com. news.com

To: Moonray who wrote (18097)	1/7/1999 10:03:00 AM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

[OOPS one more year please] Arthur C. Clarke Upset Over 2000 ''millennium'' COLOMBO (Reuters) - Arthur C. Clarke, author of ''2001: A Space Odyssey,'' feels so strongly about people calling next year a new millennium that he issued a public statement this week to correct them. ''Because the Western calendar starts with Year 1, and not Year 0, the 21st Century and the Third Millennium do not begin until January 1, 2001,'' Clarke said in a statement received by Reuters Thursday. ''Though some people have great difficulty in grasping this, there's a very simple analogy which should appeal to everyone. If the scale on your grocer's weighing machine began at 1 instead of 0, would you be happy when he claimed he'd sold you 10 kg of tea?'' Clarke questioned. ''And it's exactly the same with time. We'll have had only 99 years of this century by January 1, 2000: we'll have to wait until December 31 for the full hundred.'' Clarke's view has long been held by people who doubt that anyone else can count. Australian Prime Minister John Howard, for example, made the same point in 1997 -- only to be called the party pooper of the century in newspapers. Clarke said the psychological effect of the three zeros and the Y2K bug that will affect computers was much too powerful to be ignored. ''So everyone will start celebrating at midnight December 31, 1999,'' Clarke said, adding that 2000 should be called the Centennial Year and 2001 the Millennial Year. British-born Clarke, who has lived in Colombo for more than 30 years, is the author of scores of novels and science-fiction books and the creator of several documentaries. In the last half century, many of Clarke's predictions have come true, including his then-controversial 1945 outline of a network of geo-stationary communication satellites.

To: Moonray who wrote (18097)	1/8/1999 12:48:00 AM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

[Bandwidth Wars:] SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 1999--The High Speed Access Coalition (HiSAC) announced its disappointment with today's decision by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to prevent competitors of Pacific Bell from sharing residential phone lines to provide affordable high-speed Internet access. ''The High Speed Access Coalition is disappointed that the CPUC has declined at this time to give consumers affordable high-speed Internet access services from Pacific Bell's competitors,'' said David M. Wilson, executive director of HiSAC. ''At the same time, HiSAC is encouraged by the Public Utility Commission's appreciation for new line-sharing technology and by its promise to revisit the issue of line sharing in the near future.'' Wilson also said HiSAC strongly disagrees with Pacific Bell's implication that competitors want to share the local phone lines ''for free.'' ''The only company getting a free ride right now is Pacific Bell,'' said Wilson. ''California consumers are already paying for the phone line and all of its capacity. If residents want to use their phone lines to send and receive data through competing high-speed access providers, they should have the right to do so without having to pay twice for the same phone line.'' The applicant involved in the CPUC decision was PDO Communications, Inc., a San Jose-based high-speed access provider that proposes to provide high-speed Internet access to the home market for less than $50 a month. HiSAC says that PDO has repeatedly stated that it would pay any additional costs of line sharing that are required by the 1996 Federal Telecommunications Act. ''Pacific Bell overlooks the fact that neither Pacific Bell nor PDO owns the local phone line,'' said Wilson. ''Pacific Bell's objection against line sharing forces consumers to either use Pacific Bell's own high-priced DSL service or to pay for another phone line if they use a competing service, despite the fact that a separate line is not necessary for providing DSL on existing phone lines.'' Wilson said HiSAC would support the CPUC if the Commission wanted to allocate the costs of the shared line between data and voice services. ''We believe that competing providers should pay for their use of the phone line, provided that Pacific Bell's own ADSL division pays the same fee as well.'' The High Speed Access Coalition (HiSAC) was founded by companies and individuals interested in ensuring that American households benefit from the same competition and choice of service that large corporations have with high-speed Internet connections. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: HiSAC David Wilson, 415/291-1970 dmw@bizlaw.com or Simon/McGarry Public Relations Michael Adler, 650/596-5877 Madler@shandwick.com biz.yahoo.com