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Another three bite the dust. Three former executives from real
estate dot-com Homestore have agreed to plead guilty to criminal
charges and repay $4.6 million in stock gains. What's more
interesting is that they'll cooperate with an investigation into
AOL's role in the dubious dealing. This is the most real estate
drama you'll get this week without renting "Glengarry Glen
Ross."
Homestore's former COO was charged with wire fraud and
conspiracy to commit securities fraud (up to 10 years in jail),
the former CFO with just the conspiracy charge (up to five
years), and an ex-VP with insider trading (less time, but
unknown). The big accusation here is "round tripping," in which
Homestore would buy goods from a company as long as the company
then spent most of the money on AOL ads. Then AOL would
supposedly spend the same amount of money at Homestore, "thus
allowing Homestore effectively to 'buy' revenue using its own
cash," explained the Wall Street Journal.
Homestore has become a cause celebre for Attorney General John
Ashcroft, who held a press conference to emphasize that the Bush
administration really means it about this corporate clean-up
thing. Neither Ashcroft, the Justice Department, nor the SEC
named names, referring only to Homestore's relationship with "a
major media company." Nice try for anonymity, but AOL Time
Warner was the only major media company Homestore dealt with,
observed the New York Times. Now the heat's on AOL while
investigators try and figure out how much of AOL's revenue was
inflated like a Thanksgiving Day Parade float.
The L.A. Times' sources said AOL execs pointed the finger at
former company dealmaker Eric Keller. The Journal led with, and
expanded on, this info. It seems two of the three busted
Homestore execs are expected to say Keller helped Homestore do
its round-tripping, and that some AOL ad revenue that looked
legit on paper really came from Homestore. Keller has already
been pink-slipped for shady deals with Homestore and another
company; his boss got booted last month for possible
book-cooking.
So where's the perp walk? The umbrella stand? The theatrics that
make the corporate crime beat great? We're kidding (mostly), but
that could be why overseas outlets barely noticed this
comparatively tame example of American excess. The Journal had
one amusing tidbit, though: After Keller got fired, AOL vice
chairman Ted Leonsis hired him as a consultant for the hockey
team the Washington Capitals, of which Leonsis is the majority
owner. Leonsis said he let Keller go after finding out why he
lost his AOL job, but Keller still picked up his Capitals phone
as of Wednesday. As outrageous severance packages go, it's no
Jack Welsh/GE $9 million annual pension, but it'll have to do. -
Jen Muehlbauer
Homestore Executives Agree to Guilty Pleas

Homestore, AOL Ad Deals Yield Guilty Pleas (USA Today)

U.S. Focuses on Executive at Homestore

Homestore's Ex-Execs to Aid Investigators

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What does Vivendi want to be when it grows up? The media can't
figure it out. Can CEO Jean-Rene Fourtou? His fuzziness at
yesterday's board meeting got reporters to wondering. If he
can't explain his vision, does that mean he's lacking the 20/20
clarity that observers on two continents were banking on? For
Fourtou, worse than the Monsieur Magoo accusations are the
comparisons, starting to bubble through media accounts, that he
resembles -- wait, we're rubbing our eyes -- the vilified
Jean-Marie Messier.
Media watchers can rate reporters' confusion over Fourtou's
latest pronouncements by tallying the amount of space outlets
devoted to their coverage of the mess. The New York Times ran 24
paragraphs on the board meeting -- and then filed another 19 in
an analysis that sought to examine what the latest moves meant.
The Financial Times posted two articles on the meeting and still
had more to say, lambasting Fourtou in Lex, the peach paper's
influential column. Lex called the exec's update "more like a
rambling fireside chat ... than a strategy presentation."
There's little that's clear about what's ahead for Vivendi. The
company now says that it will dispose of 12 billion euros worth
of assets over the next 18 months. Here's how reporters
examining the tea leaves read the current plan: Out are Telepiu,
an Italian pay-TV operation, and Canal Plus Technologies, a
maker of set-top boxes. On the way out are Vivendi's publishing
properties, which include Houghton Mifflin, and a minority stake
in a PC gamemaker. That leaves Vivendi's stake in telecom, via
its Cegetel investment, and its Universal entertainment
properties, and -- hey, wait a minute, wasn't that Messier's
plan, the New York Times wondered by way of an analyst's quote.
To confuse matters further, News Corp., the alleged partner in
the done deal for Telepiu, says no deal is in place, according
to the Financial Times. As for Cegetel, Fourtou said he'd
consider selling Vivendi's 44% stake; then again, maybe he'll
increase it. And that was all in one post-meeting telephone
conference.
The only decision by Vivendi in which Fourtou seemed sure was
his claim that the company won't pay any severance to Messier.
"He enjoyed making deals too much and overpaid," the Guardian
quoted Fourtou as saying, and then adding, "This all went to his
head."
With heads other than Messier's now in question, is Vivendi's
viability again in doubt? Outlets today report that Enron's
logo, the oversize capital "E" that stood outside its
headquarters, sold at auction for $44,000. How many euros might
a V bring? - Deborah Asbrand
Vivendi Will Move Quickly to Sell Many Assets

What's New at Vivendi? Depends Who's Talking

Vivendi in Move to Sell Raft of Assets (Financial Times)

Vivendi Board to Deny Messier Severance Pay (Financial Times)

Lex: Vivendi Universal (Financial Times)

News Corp Counters Report of Telepiu Sale (Financial Times)

Vivendi Aims to Realise Eu12bn from Asset Sales (Daily
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Messier 'won't get a penny'

Vivendi Shakes Up Board, Denies Messier's Severance

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Tyco Rewarded an Executive During a Grand Jury Inquiry

Bell Labs Researcher Falsified Experiments (AP)

Germany's Neuer Markt to close

Resources Dry Up As Joblessness Drags On (USA Today)

Merrill Aide to Plead Guilty (Wall Street Journal)

Enron Ex-CFO Clears His Throat For Feds

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Remember when Nasdaq 2500 seemed impossibly low? Welcome back to
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market bottom, financial reporters outdo each other with dire
assessments of how bad things are and how much worse they can
get. Maybe Morrissey should do a concert on Wall Street; the
self-pity can't get much worse.
The markets' closing numbers were the same in every city, but
you wouldn't know it from the headlines. It was the Dow's worst
monthly performance in four years, said MSNBC. "3rd quarter
worst for stocks since '87," read the Denver Post, repeating a
popular figure reached by tallying the Dow and S&P's percentage
losses. The New York Daily News counted percentage losses for
the month only and declared it the worst September since 1937.
Everyone predicted a lousy September 2002, so the phrase
"self-fulfilling prophecy" does spring to mind.
So does the phrase "gloom and doom." "Every day for the last
three months, the market has erased $73 of wealth, including
Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, for every person living in the
United States," said the San Jose Mercury News. "Countless
investors are starting to wonder if stocks will ever go up
again," wrote USA Today. In a more plausible statement,
TheStreet.com's Aaron Task said recent declines "demonstrated
once again the folly of investors' repeated attempts to pinpoint
a bottom" and "disabuse(d) them of the idea that the best time
to buy is when things look worst, if only because recent history
has shown stocks can go from terrible to awful and beyond."
OK, breathe. Go read the comics or something. Feeling better?
Good, because there's more.
The New York Post, in small enough words for everyone to
understand, made the public service announcement "Beware!
October Is A Very Bad Month For The Stock Market." And you
shouldn't take candy from strangers, either. The Post's John
Crudele, a market curmudgeon before it was in style, warned,
"This market is very dangerous, even if things look like they
couldn't get any worse." Detroit Free Press columnist Susan
Tompor agreed that "the next round of statements could indeed
look pretty nasty."
We have to agree: the stock market is bad. The economy is bad.
It's going to get worse before it gets better, and that may take
a while. The "bottom" is, technically, zero. Be cautious, yes,
but don't let the media's bipolar disorder ruin your day. Just
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Market's September is worst since 1937

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Former Global Crossing chairman Gary Winnick will appear before
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Winnick to testify.
Impetus for all the coverage was yesterday's release by the
House Energy and Commerce Committee of memos indicating that
Winnick was in the thick of the company's suspect dealmaking. A
committee spokesman said, "If he tries to portray himself as an
out-of-the-loop ceremonial chairman, we intend to remind him
that he is under oath."
The memo that got most of the attention was one from then-CEO
Leo Hindery to Winnick in June 2001. Hindery warned in colorful
language that the company was heading for a fall. The Financial
Times, Washington Post, and New York Times all ran a quote from
the memo comparing telcos to salmon. Hindery urged Winnick to
unload the company -- "without looking like we are shaking our
bootie all over the world," quoted the two Timeses -- and
resigned shortly thereafter.
One little detail from the memos is guaranteed to make Winnick's
time under the television lights even more uncomfortable. Among
the companies he used his influence with, to help close deals,
was Enron. All the reports mentioned Enron, but the New York
Times seemed to be alone in noting that Global Crossing never
completed a deal with the fallen energy giant.
The Wall Street Journal looked beyond the obviously embarrassing
details of the memos to point out that, despite such evidence,
the gun might not be smoking yet. "Prosecutors would still need
to prove that he knew the transactions were improper and used
them mainly as a way of enriching himself by boosting the
company's stock price artificially," the Journal reporters
wrote. The AP noted that all of the memos were dated after
Winnick's last sale of Global Crossing stock, $123 million in
May 2001.
Despite his $734 million in stock profits, Gary Winnick was not
among the five telco executives being sued by New York attorney
general Eliot Spitzer to return their ill-gotten gains. Is
Spitzer betting, with the Journal, that Winnick might walk away
clean? - Keith Dawson
Global Crossing: What Did Winnick Know?

Winnick Was Told Of Telecom Risks

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Moore: Speech recognition next hurdle
Speech recognition will be the next transforming technology, but that transformation
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the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Moore took time to talk about the slowing down of
his well-known law, the economy, philanthropic priorities, and more.
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Computer security is becoming an increasingly critical part of President Bush's
proposal for a homeland defense department. When Bush formally proposed the department
last month, he never mentioned the Internet or cybersecurity. But as Capitol Hill
scrutinizes the proposal, politicians are fretting about tech-savvy terrorists--and
insisting any new agency must shield the U.S. from electronic attacks as well.
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identities of employees, partners, and customers. Novell, a leading Web services
company? It just may pull it off, says Tech Update's Eric Knorr. Are you
looking for solutions to your identity crisis? Do you think Novell can
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can write a check to the CFO after three months."
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Everybody's talking about Palladium, Microsoft's new "trustworthy computing"
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sketchy. My colleague, Anchordesk's David Coursey, has been putting the pieces
together--and here's what he knows so far.
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DECK
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CAPTAIN FTP
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IN HOME AND EDUCATION:
AQUILACALENDAR
Version: 1.19
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License: Free to try; $20.00 to buy
Minimum Requirements: Mac OS X
One of the most frustrating things about off-the-shelf
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TEX-EDIT PLUS
Version: 4.1.3
File size: 1.17MB
License: Free to try; $15.00 to buy
Minimum Requirements: System 7.x
Before you spend the big bucks on a HTML editor, make sure
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BOOM
Version: 1.3
File size: 2.3MB
License: Free to try, $15 to buy
Minimum Requirements: Mac OS 8.x/OS 9.x/OS X
Remember the classic arcade game Bomberman? Even if you
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Sharp's Linux-based, business-oriented Zaurus handheld suffers from security holes that could let hackers grab private data off a corporate network, according to researchers at Syracuse University.
In an advisory posted Wednesday to a Syracuse University computer-science Web site, researchers said they had found vulnerabilities in Sharp's Zaurus SL-5500 and Zaurus SL-5000D handhelds. The flaws let attackers take control of the device's file system, giving them the power to overwrite files or lock the device so no data can be input through the keypad or touch screen.
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A widely used plug-in for Microsoft's Outlook e-mail client that lets users encrypt and digitally sign messages has inadvertently weakened security and left the mail program open to attack.
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