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Thursday, March 11, 2004

CODEC FAQ WHAT IS CODEC?

CODEC stands for COnsortium for Distance Education from CALI. CODEC is a CALI project to create a marketplace that facilitates the coordination of distance legal education between law schools that are CODEC members. In addition, CALI will sponsor regional workshops around the U.S. to train law professors on how to create distance learning courses. CODEC will also perform surveys and sponsor or write articles that relate to the issues surrounding distance legal education.

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3:13:27 PM

Business Week: MS Did Ask BayStar If They'd Like to Invest in SCO. Today, Business Week has confirmed that Microsoft indeed did call BayStar to ask if they'd invest in SCO. It wasn't Bill Gates personally, but did you think it would be or needed to be? Here's the scoop: "BW Online has learned that Microsoft (MSFT ) did not put up the money, but did play matchmaker for SCO Group (SCOX ) and BayStar Capital, a San Francisco hedge fund which made a $50 million investment in SCO last October. "Lawrence Goldfarb, managing partner of BayStar, says that senior executives at the software giant had telephoned him about two months before the investment. Would he be interested in investing in SCO, they asked? Goldfarb wouldn't identify the executives, but says neither Chairman William Gates nor CEO Steve Ballmer were among them. He says Microsoft didn't put any money into BayStar or the SCO investment. A Microsoft spokesman says that the company has no 'direct or indirect' financial relations with BayStar, but declined to comment when asked whether execs called BayStar to suggest investing in SCO." So, that's that. Except there will be more digging, much more. [GrokLaw]
10:17:22 AM

Microsoft Raises Threat Level of Outlook Hole. The company, a day after issuing a fix for an Outlook 2002 vulnerability, warns that another attack scenario makes the risk to users "critical." [eWEEK Technology News]
10:09:28 AM

Microsoft Releases New Patches; Fixes IE Hole. Microsoft on Tuesday released its monthly batch of patches, including a fix for a gaping flaw in Outlook. [eWEEK Technology News]
10:06:08 AM