Monthly Archives: February 2001
Sticking to Customers
A new company launched last week introduced tools that companies can use to enhance collaboration between employees and business partners.Flypaper Inc. announced a hosted...
Flying Solo
C. Michael Armstrongs dream of selling local phone service through a national cable partnership has quietly died, leaving the AT&T chairman with a patchwork...
Upstarts Success No Optical Illusion
The optical industry is pondering whether recent stumbles by giants Lucent Technologies and Nortel Networks signal a permanent tilt in favor of younger vendors...
Back to Work
Dave House, the man who coined the term "Intel Inside," is jumping back into the game after a 15-month car-racing-and-helicopter-skiing sabbatical. San Jose-based start-up...
Wireless Threatening ILECS
Like their monopolistic counterparts in the Regional Bell Operating Companies, local exchange carriers are concerned about encroaching services from wireless carriers and other telecom...
Press the Mute Key
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) wants to take a second look at the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. "I have been troubled by the possible practical...
Appeals Court Grills Microsoft, DOJ
The first day of oral arguments in the Microsoft antitrust case, being heard by the full bench of the U.S. Court of Appeals here,...
All Eyes on Microsoft as It Heads Back to Court
As Microsoft Corp. and the Department of Justice prepare to present oral arguments to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington next week, legal...
Riding Out the Storm
Its not news that venture capitalists are watching their checkbooks like a mother guarding her firstborn. Yet, while some executives recognize the dangers of...
Skys the Limit
A humble cotter pin launched a space-based communications revolution at oil- and gas-drilling contractor Helmerich & Payne (H&P). What the heck is a cotter...