Caron Carlson

In a ruling that consumer advocates say will prevent a rise in telecommunications services prices, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said that the century-old Bell Operating Companies must abide by a federal pricing scheme when leasing elements of their local networks to rivals. The pricing scheme, developed by the Federal Communications Commission following the […]

Eight weeks of witness accounts in the case for strict antitrust remedies against Microsoft Corp. concluded Friday with a bit of a whimper, rather than a bang, in a room filled with very tired-looking lawyers and a smattering of public viewers occasionally dozing off. Each side in the battle–Microsoft and the nine states plus the […]

In a day filled with courtroom twists, Microsoft Corp. today indicated that it planned to prolong its already-protracted anti-trust remedy case by several weeks because of evidence delivered this morning by the plaintiff states, only to have the states later withdraw the witness responsible for creating the mound of evidence. The rare courtroom drama in […]

WASHINGTON — An economist called by Microsoft Corp. to court today to defend the company against stringent anti-trust remedies said that consumer interest might be best served if the government were to take no actions at all against the convicted monopolist to improve software interoperability, but added he did not know for sure. Kenneth Elzinga, […]

WASHINGTON — Microsoft Corp. has already identified at least one protocol and two APIs that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under a security exemption in the federal antitrust settlement proposal agreed to in November, according to Jim Allchin, Microsofts group vice president for Platforms, who testified in the antitrust case in court Tuesday. […]

WASHINGTON — Jim Allchin, the final Microsoft Corp. executive lined up to defend the Redmond, Wash., software maker against tough antitrust penalties, took the stand today. Allchins testimony highlighted the security problems he foresees resulting from technical information disclosure requirements sought by nine states and the District of Columbia. Like Bill Gates before him, in […]

Eager to make it easier for enterprises to turn over to the government private communications that run over corporate networks, Congress is poised to begin tweaking long-pending legislation that would exempt such communications from public scrutiny under the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA. A House bill, the Cyber Security Information Act, which gives enterprise […]

The Bells vow to expand their data infrastructures in exchange for restricting rivals access to their networks is getting much attention in Congress, which is grappling for ways to bolster the lagging telecommunications sector and expand Internet connectivity in underserved areas. Adding a twist to the debate last week, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., floated a […]

WASHINGTON — In the eighth week of the trial to determine what penalties should be imposed against Microsoft Corp. for its anti-competitive behavior, the Redmond, Wash., company continued its counter-attack against allegations made by rival software developer RealNetworks Inc. Will Poole, a Microsoft vice president who began his court testimony late last week,, said that […]

Eager to make it easier for enterprises to hand the government private communications that run over corporate networks, Congress is poised to begin tweaking long-pending legislation that would exempt such communications from public scrutiny under the Freedom of Information Act. A House bill that gives enterprise data of a cyber-security nature a FOIA carve-out was […]