Gossip that AT&T might be making a play for troubled Nixdorf Computer AG was dismissed as rubbish by AT&T president Rich McGinn in a conversation with our sister paper Unigram.X: there have been meetings between the two companies, he said, but they’ve been about how each will develop and distinguish the systems they’re building out of kit from Pyramid Technologies Inc, which supplies its systems OEM to both companies, and also had representatives at the meetings.