Monthly Archives: April 2001
Downward Spiral
Its true that a market downturn can have positive effects, weeding out the weak companies or those with bogus business plans. But its a...
Its Not All Doom and Gloom for Techs
I was with a group of consumer and tech journalists having dinner last week at The Globe restaurant in San Francisco. The Globe is...
Tripping on Light Fantastic
The part of your brain that craves pleasure is easily bored. When people get alternating teaspoons of Kool-Aid and water, their brains go into...
Broadband Literacy Goes Global
"All politics is local."—Former U.S. House Speaker Tip ONeill"All development is local."— World Bank Vice President Mohamed MuhsinIn the poverty-ridden province of Ningxia, the...
How to Read the Road Map to E-Payoff
The carnage of dot-coms across the Internet landscape, combined with the gloomy economic forecast, has many corporate executives scrambling to quantify what the true...
New Entrust Chief Looks Forward
When PKI vendor Entrust Technologies Inc. went looking for a new CEO this spring, it didnt have to look far to find F. William...
Corporate Paranoia
Office workers in San Francisco have another reason to stay alert. Consumer groups are protesting against PG&E, Californias largest provider of electricity, and that...
ASPects: April 30, 2001
People Using PeopleSoftThe PeopleSoft 8 application package is an ASP winner, AMR Research says, and the software vendor is managing its ASP partners well....
Geekspeak: April 30, 2001
California Institute of Technology researchers are teaching computers to notice and recognize human faces in scenes, not just in mug-shot poses but in arbitrary...
When ASPs Go Sour
If anyone is entitled to harbor a sour-grapes attitude about ASPs dying on the vine, its Michael Osborn. After all, the founder of online...