Spencer F. Katt

Whether youre Bill Clinton or the head of a large corporation like Enron, it seems the best defense in any legal matter is to act like you just arrived on the planet. In a recent deposition of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for the ongoing antitrust action between the Redmondians and the litigating states that refused […]

Lets get ready to rumbllllllle,” shouted the Pugilistic Puss as he pondered recent indications that the gentlemens agreement between IBM and Microsoft to not publicly criticize or attack each other may not be quite so gentlemanly in the future. Recent rumblings indicate that Armonk may be putting on the boxing gloves to fight Redmond for […]

Spencer got a warm, fuzzy feeling as he watched Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, the Canadian figure skating duo, receive their well-deserved gold medals a week ago, following a week of turmoil in the skating world. But it was just another example, he mused, of why “judged” competition has no place in the Olympics. “The […]

The Olympic Village in Salt Lake City may not be the only place in Utah where people are making newsworthy leaps. El Gato has heard rumblings that a few of the top players at Novell, in Provo, might be planning some big jumps, too. Over the last year, the Kitty has fielded and dismissed similar […]

The sports-minded mouser last week noted Super Bowl marketing hype may have backfired a bit for AT&T Wireless mLife site. According to Jupiter Media Metrix, the site received 681,000 unique visitors on Super Bowl Sunday—a big leap from the measly 34,000 visitors the day before. The surge was apparently more than the site could handle. […]

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The buzz at Linuxworld in New York last week was security—or, rather, the conspicuous lack thereof. But, alas, it wasnt the usual gripes about Microsofts numerous security issues that one would expect to hear in a crowd full of Linux lovers. The security that attendees were buzzing about concerned the doors to the Javits Center […]

Cant we all just get along,” laughed the Lynx as he watched the public battles being waged almost everywhere he looked last week. Although none were as ugly as Mike Tysons psychotic episode at a New York press conference (cant someone get this guy some meds?), they were ugly just the same. El Gato nearly […]

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The Puss was pontificating to a pal recently that Epiq Systems seems to be in the catbird seat. After all, being a company that specializes in bankruptcy management software—given the current economy—cant be a bad thing. The Kansas City, Kan., financial software company landed at No. 69 on the Forbes 200 Best Small Companies in […]

In his Dec. 10 column, El Gato cited a Gartner study that stated that about 25 million users are enrolled in Microsofts Passport system. The part that amused His Hirsuteness most was the studys claim that only about 7 million of those users actually realized theyre using it and that about 1 million have actually […]