Business Week and Court TV Join Forces to Cover Microsoft Antitrust Trial.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--October 8, 1998-- "Microsoft on Trial" debuts on Court TV on October 15; Daily Web coverage planned Business Week and Court TV will work together to cover the landmark Microsoft antitrust trial, scheduled to begin next week. "Microsoft on Trial," a weekly, 30-minute, television show co-produced by Court TV and Business Week will debut on Thursday, October 15, the day the trial begins in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. The two organizations will also jointly produce daily trial coverage on the World Wide Web, in addition to Business Week's regular coverage and frequent updates on Court TV. The joint effort unites Business Week, the world's most widely read business publication, with Court TV, the country's only 24-hour legal network. "Business Week has been out in front of other news organizations in its coverage of this case," said Sheilagh D'Arcy McGee Thomas D'Arcy McGee, PC, (April 13, 1825 – April 7, 1868) was a Canadian journalist and Father of Confederation. Profile Widely known as D'Arcy McGee, he was born on April 13, 1825 in Carlingford, Ireland and raised as a Roman Catholic. , vice president of programming for Court TV. "They're ideally suited to explain the complex business and technological issues, while Court TV adds its in-depth analysis the legal issues involved in this ground-breaking case." A quartet of Business Week technology and legal affairs reporters will lead the coverage effort: Susan Garland, who covers the Justice Department; legal affairs editor Mike France; computer industry editor Amy Cortese; and Steve Hamm, who covers Microsoft from the magazine's Silicon Valley bureau. They will provide daily trial coverage on the joint Business Week/Court TV Web site and will appear regularly on "Microsoft on Trial," in addition to their coverage in Business Week. They will also keep Court TV viewers updated on key developments in the trial for the length of the proceedings. "Microsoft on Trial," a co-production of Court TV and Business Week, and hosted by Court TV anchor Raymond Brown Ray or Raymond Brown is the name of:
Ray Brown was a practicing attorney at the New Jersey firm Brown & Brown, where he remains a partner. The past president of the New Jersey Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Mr. Brown is a member of the Board of Directors of NACDL NACDL National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers , a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers The American College of Trial Lawyers is a professional trial organization composed of trial lawyers from the United States and Canada. Founded in 1950, the College is dedicated to maintaining and improving the standards of trial practice, the administration of justice and the and a certified criminal trial lawyer in the state of New Jersey. He participated in the trial of former Labor Secretary Raymond J. Donovan and has tried a wide variety of criminal cases, including alleged white collar crimes white collar crime n. a generic term for crimes involving commercial fraud, cheating consumers, swindles, insider trading on the stock market, embezzlement and other forms of dishonest business schemes. and misconduct and homicide cases. Mr. Brown has served as a Court TV guest commentator for numerous cases, including California v. Powell (the "Rodney King Rodney Glen King (born April 9, 1965 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an African-American taxicab driver who was beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers (Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind, Theodore Briseno and Sargent Stacey Koon) after being chased for speeding. trial"), California v. Simpson and Zion v. New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Hospital. "Combining our business and technology coverage with Court TV's expertise in covering the legal arena makes perfect sense for this story," says Stephen B. Shepard, Editor-in-Chief, Business Week. The trial is set to begin October 15 in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Dubbed "the best legal show in town" in the current issue of Business Week, the trial will test the Justice Department's charge that Microsoft violated antitrust laws antitrust laws n. acts adopted by Congress to outlaw or restrict business practices considered to be monopolistic or which restrain interstate commerce. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 declared illegal "every contract, combination.... by using a monopoly in operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. software for personal computers to compete unfairly in the market for Internet Web browsers. Justice alleges that the Redmond, Washington, software giant entered into a series of anti-competitive agreements with personal computer makers to crush competition to its Windows operating system. The suit alleges that Microsoft feared that Netscape Communications' Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. and Sun Microsystems Inc.'s (SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ) Java programming language threatened Windows. Microsoft denies the charges, arguing that its agreements with PC makers and others are common in the software industry. |
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