The famous "fatigue Fridays" at PowerComputing are no longer. Rather than rallying the troops to "fight back" for the customer as it once did in company-wide Friday morning meetings at which employees were required to wear black and white combat fatigues, the former Macintosh clonemaker - which until recently gave Apple Computer a run for its money - is selling off its office supplies.
The Round Rock, Texas, company, which sold its Mac assets (essentially the clone licensing agreement), for US$100 million in Apple stock last year, is going out of business, according to a report in the New York Times. The clonemaker had promised to become a player in the Wintel PC market, but has apparently decided instead to liquidate and divvy up the company's assets between its founders and investors.
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AOL cutting into CompuServe support? America Online is considering laying off more than 300 CompuServe customer support personnel, or more than 20 percent of the company's work force, the Wall Street Journal said Friday in its electronic edition. Citing executives familiar with the discussions, the newspaper said the proposal is part of AOL's effort to reduce costs once the two operations are combined.
