The company is being unveiled today after months of speculation -- perhaps the most high-stakes technology start-up since the industry crashed in mid-2000.

Good Technology will offer a wireless corporate e-mail system to compete against the beloved BlackBerry. Good will, for the first time, deliver Microsoft Outlook to handheld devices. It is backed by $60 million from two of tech's premier venture

Kept the biggest secret in Silicon Valley -- Microsoft Outlook

It's interesting that one of the seminal events in the history of Sun Microsystems isn't included in its official corporate history. But without question, Sun would not be the company it is today had it not purchased--for pocket change--the Unix server business of Cray Computer in the summer of 1996.

At the time, Sun (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) was a $7 billion company not even in the high-end server business. It had mainly stuck to its knitting as a leading seller of Unix workstations. But when workstation rival Silicon Graphics bought Cray, it created a problem for SGI. That's because Cray was a licensee of Sun's SPARC processors and Solaris software and sold high-end servers based on that technology. If SGI held onto that part of Cray, it would be lining the pockets of one of its biggest competitors. It needed to sell the unit--and Sun was only too happy to buy it.

Sun's Purchase Of Cray's Unix Server Business

Skepticism has never been so profitable -- nor so chic. But even in this topsy-turvy world in which corporate accounting seems sexy and telecom couldn't be less cool, David Tice still finds himself a Cassandra among optimists.

Dow 3,000 or below, and the Nasdaq below 500. People think it can't happen, but it can.

update SAN JOSE, Calif.--While delivering an elegy for Mac OS 9, Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs promised Monday that Apple would ship the next major upgrade to OS X--including handwriting recognition--by the end of the summer.
The new version, code-named Jaguar, will feature a handwriting technology, dubbed Inkwell, that lets Mac users enter text using a pen in any program that accepts text.

Jobs quipped that Apple got something out of the millions of dollars it invested in the ill-fated Newton handheld.

Jobs: Mac OS 9, rest in peace

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2002-- Covad Communications (OTCBB:COVD - news), the leading national broadband services provider utilizing DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) technology, applauded Senator Ernest Hollings on his introduction of the "Broadband Telecommunications Act of 2002."

The bill addresses the challenges of rural broadband deployment, which has been one of the most controversial issues facing the industry. Instead of allowing the phone companies to regain their monopoly status as proposed by other prominent broadband bills, Chairman Hollings' proposal would spur rural deployment in a way that would encourage fair competition among broadband providers and ensure choice for consumers. The bill would make federal loans available to fund deployment of broadband-enabled remote terminals in rural and under served areas and ensure that those remote terminals would be available to all competitive broadband providers.

Covad Commends Senator Hollings

“We’re going to have something in the way of a major nuclear event in this country,” said Buffett, the firm’s chief operating officer. “It will happen. Whether it will happen in 10 years or 10 minutes, or 50 years ... it’s virtually a certainty.”

Warren Buffett predicts nuclear attack

"---KMFDM CALENDAR---"

2 words.... FUCK YEAH!
Official Tour dates for the recently reunited and relativly unscathed KMFDM!

Atlanta GA .Masq .Jue13-2002

Ill be there, will you ?

WHAT'S NEW

Cable TV provider to restate 1999, 2000 results, says delay in 2001 numbers may force a default.

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Adelphia Communications said Thursday that it expects to restate its financial results for three years to reflect $1.6 billion in off-the-books debt, and that it continues to review its accounting methods.

Adelphia revamping books

"I'm not trying to be evasive," Stuart E. Madnick, a computer and software expert and professor at MIT, said at one point during Wednesday's testimony. "I'm just trying to be precise."

Hodges hammered away at Madnick throughout the day, leaving the weary academic floundering at times.

Asked to evaluate language in the proposed settlements, Madnick studied the documents, then shook his head and said, "I somehow think there's something I'm missing, but I can't spot it at the moment."

MIT professor fumbles answers as states attorney grills him on proposed settlement.

ARRINGTON COMMUNITY — Note to all damsels in distress: Knights in shining armor arrive this weekend.

The Tennessee Renaissance Festival opens Saturday and will cast its 16th-century spell every weekend during the month of May.

An enchanted forest surrounding the Castle Gwynn in Arrington — called Covington Glen — is the setting for ye olde festival. In this Tudor realm, visitors can expect to find magicians, musicians, manpowered rides, a variety of crafts, balladeers, falconers, jugglers and (gasp!) jousting by mounted knights in full combat armor.

Fairy sprites make merry by surprising revelers as they walk along woodland paths, and fortune tellers with tarot cards are on hand to make remarkable predictions about what life will be like in, say, the upcoming 17th century.

This weekend is ''Maidens and Masters — Children's Weekend'' at the festival. Kids ages 12 and younger will be admitted free with a paid adult. (Limit of two.) Next weekend is ''Mistress of the House — M'Lady's Days'' in honor of Mother's Day. The first 500 medieval moms will receive festival souvenirs.

May 18-19 is ''Making Merry for Many'' weekend. Each visitor who brings a sack of canned goods for the Second Harvest Food Bank will receive a festival souvenir and a coupon good for $2 off any purchase at the information booth.

And the final weekend of the festival is Celtic Music Weekend, in which several local Celtic and other period bands and musicians will share the sounds of centuries past.

Castle Gwynn opens this weekend for jousting, merriment