June 16, 2003

Microsoft Settles Another One Microsoft-Watch.com - This time, Microsoft's putting to rest a class-action antitrust suit in North Carolina.  Part of the terms involves setting up an $89 million fund to reimburse customers and buy technology for underprivileged schools. Wonder if Apple, which garners about a fifth of its revenues from the education market, will go after Microsoft on the school giveaway — the way it did in California. 10:15:13 AM

Nasa gives go-ahead for nuclear mission to outer planets Independent - An ambitious and controversial mission to explore the other planets of the solar system using nuclear-powered spacecraft has come a step closer after Nasa gave a giant aerospace company the go-ahead to develop revolutionary new engines. 8:10:44 AM

Intellectuals urge Khamenei to accept he is not God's envoy and democratic reform San Francisco Chronicle - More than 250 university lecturers and writers have called on Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to abandon the principle of being God's representative on earth and to accept he is accountable to the people. 8:02:39 AM