This will later be bundled with the next version of Apple's operating system. Microsoft is also offering its Outlook Express e-mail product with Apple's new OSX when it comes into the market in the second half of 2000, Microsoft said. There will also be an OSX version of its Office package including Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Cisco is expected to align with Sun Microsystems to use Java programming applications to set standards for home networking, and with Whirlpool to develop appliances that link to the Internet. The product, which will be announced soon, is called Cisco Internet Home Gateway.
Cisco intends to sell it to service providers, such as phone and cable companies.
The device routes both phone calls, data and video traffic over standard telephone wiring and jacks in homes. Daewoo's advisors have sent out invitations for the meetings. The company apparently does not want to meet the creditors as a group. The suit, which seeks class action status, alleges that the release of The Complete National Geographic in CD-ROM and DVD format infringes copyright on the works of over 1,000 authors whose work has been published in National Geographic magazine over the past 100 years. The Alliance formed by Sun Microsystems and America Online's Netscape to develop corporate Internet software and e-commerce tools, will market more than double the number of products in its iPlanet line of software to IBM's Aix Unix users.