Monthly Archives: February 2001
Hilary Rosen
Hilary Rosen, head of the Powerful Trade Organization for the $15 billion recording industry, is full of contrasts: She can be funny and charming,...
Big Leaps, Not Baby Steps
Im suspicious of incremental strategies. they remind me of the visionary man-ape in "2001: A Space Odyssey," whose plan for reaching the moon began...
Dot-com Deaths Are Not Over
It has become a daily ritual in Silicon Valley to listen for news of the power crisis. Those of us who live here are...
Andreas Schmidt
At 39, Andreas Schmidt seems young to be a powerful media executive, but perhaps its his youth that enabled him to see opportunity in...
Ron Sommer
Maybe it is his mathematical logic. Maybe its his $100 billion acquisition war chest: Deutsche Telekoms Ron Sommer is irresistible to the U.S. Internet...
Shouting At The Net
Since browsing the wireless web is complicated at best, wireless providers have been looking to voice portals to provide a friendlier face.According to voice...
On a Mission
Care for a cell phone with that Big Gulp? 7-Eleven workers across the country might be making that offer if a new type of...
Spectrum Sale Leads to Controversy
Bidding for the largest radio spectrum auction in U.S. history ended last week with the final net revenues totaling more than $16.8 billion. But...
25 Movers & Shakers
If President George W. Bush knows anything about technology,we hope its this is not his fathers internet. Since his father left office, the Net...
E-Procurement App Takes to Airwaves
Wireless-equipped traders and brokers step aside— e-procurement managers may be joining you on the airwaves. Elcom International Inc. last week announced that its e-procurement...