HotNews for Friday, June 9, 1995

Top of the HotNews

• Microsoft may soon face another antitrust suit, now over bundling the planned Microsoft Network with Windows 95. Information subpoenas from the Justice Department were received this week by several rivals in the industry, with an unusually short four-day June 9 response requirement. --Dow Jones

The Marketplace

• A new Hewlett-Packard Vectra VE PC, with a DX2/50 486 processor, PCI capability, a 420MB hard drive, and 4MB of RAM costs just $791 to resellers, undercutting the company's previous bottom price of $869 for a similar model. H-P says it still sees high demand for 486 systems. --Newsbytes

The Industry

• IBM's bid for Lotus is based largely on the company's Notes groupware software, but some analysts say that the World Wide Web can duplicate many of the document identification and sharing features which make Notes so powerful, plus the WWW is global, free, and open for developers. --Knight-Ridder

• Minitel, which has been providing videotex services for France since 1980, will now add access through the Internet. Users need a Minitel account for per-minute charges, and standard terminal software, which France Telecom will provide for the Mac, PC, and Unix platforms at no cost. --Newsbytes

HotNews Financials

• Rumors that SyQuest may be readying a competitor to the popular new Iomega 100MB removable media Zip drive pushed SyQuest stock up 30 percent to close at 15 3/4 on Thursday. The unannounced SyQuest EZ135, featuring 135MB removable media and costing less than a Zip drive, could ship this month. --Dow Jones

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