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"Technology is still a male arena that women are entering because they need the things. Technology marketers are not getting women's attention and earning a woman's loyalty to a brand."

- Faith Popcorn, a consumer trend-spotter speaking at an Advertising Women of New York conference.

"They seemed to be saying to us they wanted us to knife the baby."

- Avadis Tevanian, of Apple, alleging in evidence at the anti-trust trial that Microsoft tried to pressurise Apple into dropping its QuickTime software.

"The facts show that Apple had put a $1.2 billion patent threat on the table against Microsoft . . . If anyone was wielding a club in these negotiations, it was Apple, not Microsoft."

- Microsoft spokesman Mark Murray, rejecting this allegation.