<P>Microsoft has begun its defense in the government's antitrust trial against it with written testimony from Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor Richard Schmalansee.
<P>The Year 2000 bug shouldn't affect the North American power grid, according to a report released by the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC).
<P>IBM was awarded a record 2,658 U.S. patents in 1998, the sixth consecutive year the company received the most patents.