Dave Smith Motors of Kellogg, Idaho, was attracting customers from around the Northwest and taking substantial sales from

This is a powerful club Intel wields because it is a monopolist, ... These customers have no other alternative (than) the Intel microprocessors they use in their leading-edge systems.

(Intel) withdrew the how-to manual from three of its customers in a very selective, targeted fashion, simply to retaliate against these three companies because they refused to license their patents for rival technologies to Intel,

Sales look fine, but otherwise the numbers are rather disappointing, also due to higher expenses.

Especially the sales performance in Europe was stronger than expected. The impact of alleged product problems did not really hurt sales in Europe.

If MCI can take its brand, which is still substantial, and gain more customers, it would be more attractive to a larger telecom,