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Level3 finally buys Global Crossing for $3B including assuming $1.1B in GC debt.Read the rest of Peter's article for his thoughts.This is a merger that the industry has expected for some time. Honestly, I don't see how it works, because it's about synergies. My favorite word, because it means we will fire a lot of people with overlapping job titles, but not overlapping knowledge. The combined revenue will be $6.6B while the debt will be $7.8B. The L3 CFO is a magician! How he is able to wave his wand to hold back Wall Street, do an acquisition, and pay off interest is utterly amazing. (Although the press release does say that this transaction improves the credit report.) L3 also had to do some dancing to maintain its NOL's (Net Operating Losses). These are the same tokens that Carl Icahn fought so hard for at XO. (BTW, XO's CEO, Carl Grivner Resigned today too.)
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It's about scale. (Says so in the press release and every analyst report.) Rob Powell thinks this integration will be "easy". One exec at Level3 called this merger "exciting" this morning. Does he realize the axe will have to fall a lot to reach those synergies? And morale is already taking a hit with channel personnel losses from Craig Schlagbaum and Scott Mull.
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Long-running case against Canada's i4i which led to halt on sales of Word and Office comes to highest American court for decision on Monday afternoon
A software patent case in which Microsoft was accused of wilfully infringing a patent on XML - and forced to suspend sales of Word and Office - reaches the US Supreme Court on Monday afternoon UK time and could have a wide-ranging effect on future litigation.
Microsoft has brought the case to the US Supreme Court, where it is asking the court to lower the standard of proof required for challenges to the validity of a properly issued patent. At present, the company looking to overturn a patent has to be able to show "clear and convincing" evidence; Microsoft wants to shift that in favour of the overturning complainant, to a "preponderance" of evidence.
If Microsoft wins, it could weaken the use of software patents in a number of cases. Loudon Owen, the chairman of i4i, says it is "patent law at a crossroads" and that "the implications affect every consumer in every business at every level".
Microsoft contends that it is too hard to overturn a software patent granted in error by the US Patent Office. "Innovation is one of the great drivers, one of the bright spots of our economy," said Andy Culbert, associate general counsel for Microsoft. "If you have a really bad patent that shouldn't have been issued, what happens? It stops innovation."
i4i however says that weakening the standard of proof to overturn patents would deter companies and inventors from being innovative. Presently, about half of patent lawsuits end with the patent being ruled invalid. If Microsoft (which itself owns a large number of patents, including software patents) prevails, that proportion will rise.
At i4i, Owen argues: "What it really means for consumers is there's going to be a lot less investment in pharmaceuticals, in biotechnology, in green tech ? because without patents, there is no certainty and the system won't function."
Speaking to the Seattle PI blog, Henry Sneath, a Pittsburgh-based patent lawyer, wondered why and when Microsoft had become so keen on the "preponderance" rather than the "clear and convincing" standard for proof:
"I've never heard of any great cry for changing the standard and I don't remember anything written about it," said Sneath, who spoke as an officer of DRI, the nation's largest organization of civil litigation lawyers. "So you have to wonder why it's suddenly a big deal. Now that Microsoft has made a stink about it? It's almost like they manufactured the issue."
The dispute between Microsoft and i4i is a long-running one. i4i is a Canadian software company which told the Guardian in 2010 that its aim is to become "the [database company] Oracle of unstructured data", and rebuffed claims that it was engaged in "patent trolling" - enforcing patents that it happens to hold but doesn't otherwise use - in suing Microsoft.
In March 2007, i4i sued Microsoft for willful infringement of its patent on the use of XML (Extensible Markup Language, a superset of markup languages such as the Web's HTML) in Word for custom applications. That led to a ban on the sale in the US of Word 2003, the version of Microsoft's program judged to be directly infringing. (Later versions did not.)
The key element of the i4i XML product is that it takes large amounts of unstructured data, and then wraps it in XML to make it more usable and useful. Among its users are the US Patent Office, US Air Force and number of pharmaceutical companies, including Bayer and Novo Nordisk.
i4i accused Microsoft of "wilfully" infringing the patent, after the two companies had had talks in 2000-2001 about XML and custom XML. ""We had extensive dealings with Microsoft over the course of several years about the possibility of working together," Owen told me in January 2010. Soon after, Microsoft began talking about XML schemas in forthcoming versions of Word, which then shipped in Word 2003 - adversely affecting i4i's business, the company said.
On 20 May 2009, a jury found i4i's patent to have been willfully infringed, and Microsoft was instructed to pay damages to i4i. On 11 August 2009, a final judgment against Microsoft was issued that included an award of more than $290m of damages to i4i (including enhanced damages, interest and post-verdict damages), and a permanent injunction, which took effect on January 11, 2010.
Microsoft unsuccessfully appealed to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in late 2009, and also unsuccessfully sought a rehearing in early 2010. This was the largest patent infringement judgment ever upheld by the Federal Circuit.
The chief justice of the US Supreme Court has withdrawn from the case, which will be heard only by eight judges, meaning that Microsoft has to get 5 of the 8 to back its case, rather than 5 of 9.
A total of 24 amicus briefs - supporting the position - have been filed for i4i, including one by the US government.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/apr/18/microsoft-i4i-software-patent-us-supreme-court
You can find the book’s introduction in this previous post.
In today’s post, please enjoy an excerpt from Chapter 8, “Managing Your Calendar.” Outlook for Mac has a number of features that make managing your calendar easy. For example, it enables you to view your calendar a number of ways—by day, work week, calendar week, or month—so you can see your schedule in a way that’s most meaningful to you. You can even use the My Day window to focus on the calendar items and tasks you need to do today. If you use the category feature of Outlook, you can fine-tune the display of events to include only those categories you need to see when you need to see them. If you have a Microsoft Exchange account, your Exchange calendar is visible to your coworkers and theirs are visible to you. This makes it easier to schedule meetings at times when all invitees are available.
? Set calendar options. ? Work with calendar views. ? Work with multiple calendars. ? Share calendar information. ? Print calendars.
As you add events to your calendar to plan the days and weeks ahead, you may ?nd your calendar ?lling up with the appointments and meetings that make up your business and personal life. Life is complicated—and busy!—these days and using the calendar features of Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 is a good way to keep on top of things.
Outlook for Mac has a number of features that make managing your calendar easier. For example, it enables you to view your calendar a number of ways—by day, work week, calendar week, or month—so you can see your schedule in a way that’s most meaningful to you. You can even use the My Day window to focus on the calendar items and tasks you need to do today.
If you use the category feature of Outlook, you can ?ne-tune the display of events to include only those categories you need to see when you need to see them. And if you’re juggling more than one set of events—for example, the events of your work and family life—you can separate them by creating multiple calendars. This is especially useful if your work calendar is shared via a Microsoft Exchange Server.
If you have a Microsoft Exchange account, your Exchange calendar is visible to your coworkers and theirs are visible to you. This makes it easier to schedule meetings at times when all invitees are available.
In this chapter, you’ll start by learning about Outlook Calendar preferences, which you might want to change to customize the way calendar features work for you. Then you’ll
learn how to work with calendar views, including the My Day window, and manage multiple calendars within Outlook. Finally, you’ll learn how to share your calendar with other Exchange users and how to print it for reference when you’re away from your computer.
Practice Files --No practice ?les are needed for this chapter. You can complete exercises with items on your calendar as well as items created for this and other chapters. For more information about practice ?le requirements, see “Using the Practice Files” at the beginning of this book.
Outlook Calendar preferences include a number of options that you might want to change to ?ne-tune the way Outlook works for you. To access these settings, open the Outlook Preferences window and then click the Calendar icon.
Options are broken down into three major areas:
? Work Schedule These options control the appearance of the day, work week, week, and month views. You can set four different work schedule options:
? First day of week This is the ?rst day of the week as you want it to appear on your calendar. By default, this option is set to Sunday, but it can be set to any day of the week. Note that this will dramatically change the appearance of your calendar in Work Week, Week, and Month views.
When you’re ?nished checking or changing options, click the window’s close button to dismiss it. Your settings are automatically saved.
In this exercise, you’ll explore the Calendar preferences within Outlook and make changes to better meet your needs.
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You can modify the overall view of your calendar to best meet your needs. In addition to switching between Day, Work Week, Week, and Month view, you can:
If you use the category feature extensively to color-code calendar events and other Outlook items based on topic or project, you can ?ne-tune the display of calendar items by indicating which categories should be displayed. In the navigation pane, select or clear check boxes beside the categories. If you have multiple calendars, you’ll need to do this individually for each calendar.
See Also You can learn more about assigning categories to calendar items in the section titled “Setting Event Options” in Chapter 7, “Scheduling Appointments and Meetings,” and about working with categories in the section titled “Managing Categories” in Chapter 14, “Using Shared Features.”
If a category check box is selected, items with that category assigned will appear on the calendar. If a category check box is cleared, items with that category assigned will not appear on the calendar. If a calendar item has more than one category assigned and at least one of those categories is selected, the item will appear on the category.
If you’re displaying your calendar in Day, Work Week, or Week view, you can change the scale of the window’s grid to display more or fewer hours of the day within the window. On the Organize tab, drag the Scale slider to the left or right. Dragging to the left shows fewer hours in the window; dragging to the right shows more hours in the window. By dragging this slider, you can view from 4 to 24 hours in the window.
No matter which calendar view you’re in, you can switch from the default grid view to a list view by clicking the List button on the Organize tab. List view shows calendar items in a list, with multiple columns of information. You can sort this list by clicking a column heading: one click sorts in ascending order and a second click on the same heading sorts in descending order.
To switch back to grid view, click the Grid button on the Organize tab.
In this exercise, you’ll explore options to change the view of your calendar by using the navigation bar and Organize tab.
SET UP To see these features in action, it’s best to have several calendar items with a variety of different categories applied. You can use existing calendar items or create new ones following the instructions in Chapter 7. Then, in the view switcher, click Calendar and, on the Organize tab, click Month. You’re now ready to follow these instructions.
Tip-- If you clear the check box for a calendar, all of that calendar’s events are hidden.
3. On the Organize tab, click the Week button to switch to Week view.
Each hour box gets smaller so more hours ?t in the window.
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Outlook supports multiple calendars or calendar folders. In fact, if you have an Exchange account and another type of e-mail account, Outlook has probably already created two calendars for you. These are considered primary calendars because they’re created automatically by Outlook as part of your e-mail account setup.
All of your calendars are listed in the navigation pane. If you have only one calendar, its name is simply Calendar. If you have multiple calendars, they’re listed in the navigation pane under the My Calendars heading; you can click a disclosure triangle, if necessary, to see them. When you have multiple calendars created by Outlook, they’re named based on your Exchange account name or On My Computer.
See Also You can set options in the Categories preferences pane to specify which categories appear in the navigation pane. Consult the section titled “Managing Categories” in Chapter 14 to learn how.
If, for some reason, you want to create a new calendar, you can do so by adding a new folder to the navigation bar in Calendar view. If you have one calendar, select the Calendar heading and choose Folder from the New button on the Home tab. If you have multiple calendars, select the On My Computer heading and choose Folder from the New button on the Home tab. A new Untitled Folder appears.
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