Monthly Archives: January 2001
The January Effect
January is supposed to be the month in which investors get their Christmas gifts, especially investors who like small cap stocks.Academic studies have confirmed...
Confidence Is Key To Fragile Economy
The success of the Federal Reserve Boards dramatic half-point reduction in interest rates last week will depend on how much it shores up deteriorating...
Got Bad News?
Theres nothing like the holidays for sharing bad news. I can still hear my dearly departed grandma telling me about her latest medical "condition"...
Escape from the Dark Ages
Hard hit by a combination punch of depressed stocks and poor earnings, the Web-integrator sector is ripe for consolidation. But dont expect any miracles...
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
The worst thing about laying communications cables under the sea isnt the ships food, nor the choppy waves. Its not the days when you...
Techs Soft Landing In Rough Economy
A year ago people, were nervous about planes falling out of the sky, money disappearing from bank accounts and entire countries going dark from...
Putting It In Perspective
Just when you think the bear market in tech stocks has hit the floor, you find theres a trap door.Surely the first year of...
Instant Messengers Look For Differences
Instant messaging vendors are fighting to differentiate their products to avoid seeing them turn into commodities that all look and feel the same.While rivals...
Kingsnake.com Is Classic Small-to-Small E-commerce
The most popular pet-related Web site during the week of Dec. 14 was not Petco or PetsMart, according to the traffic trackers at 100hot.com....
Private Matters
The world of digital snoops and spooks is a pretty dark space, but Richard M. Smith has illuminated some of its darker corners. It...