Microsoft Lawsuit

According to NEWS.COM, several states will meet with the U.S. Justice Department next week to discuss coordinating their lawsuits against Microsoft.

From Mike Weinstein, "The Daily Mac has posted a special report compiling problems that people have had with several different UMAX Astra scanners, mainly focusing on the Astra 610s. I decided to do this special report after many people have e-mailed me with problems with many Umax Scanners."

For some reason, the Iomega server requires an FTP client like Fetch or Anarchie to get the new Zip/Jaz drivers v5.5.1 noted Tuesday. This info was posted by The Macintosh Resource Page yesterday. [Thanks Dana Baggett]

More interesting reading from Dana Baggett:

• According to Interactive Week Online 3Com and Rockwell have adopted compatible 56K modem standards to update everyone's firmware, whether Kflex or x2.

• Tales from the Mac Side discusses how to read Apple news the right way.

• DSL and Cable Modems may not speed things up as much as some folks think until the internet is "fixed."