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To: Aitch who wrote (55290)	3/31/1999 8:13:00 AM
From: Kenya AA	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 97611

THREAD: I was just coming in the room and I caught Maria saying, "..PAQ Computer. And that's what Merrill has to say about the PC stocks." That's all I caught. Did anyone hear what was said?? Did ML up/downgrade CPQ??? HELP! K

To: Aitch who wrote (55290)	3/31/1999 8:13:00 AM
From: rupert1	Respond to of 97611

Good Morning Aitch: The post I made yesterday about the SUN newspaper offering free internet access to everyone is taken up by The Register. It appears that it is in reaction to a rival newspaper group - the Mirror - which is doing something similar and it involves COMPAQ and MICROSOFT. __________________________________ Posted 31/03/99 12:16pm by Linda Harrison UK tabloid papers launch Web access for the masses CurrantBun.com may sound like a Web site for bakers, but it is the latest attempt by the UK's leading tabloid to offer free Internet access. Cockney rhyming slang for The Sun, CurrantBun was launched yesterday along with The Mirror's announcement that it will launch its own portal site on 30 April. The Mirror's site will be called ic24.co.uk – as in "I see 24 hours a day" – but as yet this URL appears to be dead. Britain's two biggest Red Tops could bring the Internet into mainstream culture while trying to cash in on the on-line boom. The Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News International (which also owns The Times and the New York Post), aims to bridge the gap between geeks and glamour girls. Yesterday it was offering special deals on new PCs and software, help with "netiquette" and "geek speak" and even listed stars' email addresses. Editor of The Sun David Yelland labelled the venture "the people's portal", saying: "CurrantBun will complement the paper in many ways and will offer opportunities and content that are not in the paper and vice versa." The Mirror has teamed up with Cable & Wireless, Microsoft and Compaq to become Britain's leading Internet portal with a four-year deal and £50 million investment. ®

To: Aitch who wrote (55290)	3/31/1999 8:18:00 AM
From: rupert1	Respond to of 97611

More input into the YK2 PC readiness issue - a leading British Newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, says that Japan facing first test tomorrow and it is not as compliant as it should be. Hopefully, this will boost COMPAQ sales in Japan. ____________________________________ Posted 31/03/99 12:21pm by Linda Harrison Y2K bug to take bite out of Japan tomorrow The millennium bug could hit Japan tomorrow because most Japanese companies start their financial year on 1 April. While the rest of us have nine-months' breathing space, many older PCs in Japan may read 1 April 2000 as the year 1900. Tomorrow's deadline may see the collapse of many computer systems, Professor Shumpei Kumon of the International University of Japan, has warned in today's Financial Times. A Gartner Group report last month said Japan had underestimated the year 2000 problem. The study ranked Japan alongside Armenia, Guatemala and North Korea. This insult prompted the Japanese government to show data proving the nation's readiness. An updated report from Gartner has since moved them into line with other industrialised economies. However, analysts remained sceptical about the validity of the Japanese government's figures. Data was filtered by industry agencies and few companies in Japan have disclosed efforts or spending on the problem, according to today's article.

To: Aitch who wrote (55290)	3/31/1999 8:55:00 AM
From: hlpinout	Respond to of 97611

Thanks Aitch, Because you are so forgiving, from Thompson's Investor Network:3/30 CPQ - Personal Computers - Technology 11:42 AM Shares of Compaq are benefiting from a recent corporate announcement that it is expanding its products/services aimed at the fast growing small and medium sized business segment of the computer market. The stock last traded up $1 1/8 to $32 5/8, off slightly from its intra-day high of $32 3/4. A review of CPQ's I-Watch chart shows that CPQ's strong rise has attracted offers to sell stock from several institutional brokers which suggest the stock's rise may level off and potentially pull-back slightly in the near-term. A review of Compaq's trading data showed that over 65% of its total trading volume is attributable to block trades which suggests institutional buying is behind today's rise. Given the strength in the broader markets today and the earlier aggressiveness in the buying in CPQ, we would be on the lookout for the re-emergence of buyers in the pre-trade I-Watch market (blue triangles) on a pullback in the stock.