Monthly Archives: April 2001
High-Tech Barometers
As the blue-green algae of the telecom food chain, chipmakers get rocked by bigger waves than do systems vendors, service providers or carriers —...
Can We All Just Slow Down?
I dont make a habit of clicking through the links on my default home page, MSN.com (which Im too lazy to change), but every...
Pass the Sushi and Business Cards
Its 3:30 p.m. Thursday at a Marriott in Northern Virginia, and IBM business partners are exchanging cards amid the sushi and vegetable platters.Among the...
Ex-i2 Exec Surfaces at WorldChain
Supply chain software developer WorldChain Inc., of Fremont, Calif., last week appointed Robert Evans as chairman of its board.Evans, who is currently a venture...
Warrants Draw SEC Fire
The Securities and Exchange Commissions campaign to clamp down on how companies recognize revenue in the free-wheeling Internet world is beginning to cause pain.FreeMarkets...
Peets Is Perking
Peets Coffee & Tea may not be among the technology elite, but it has managed to do something most optical component wizards, consultants and...
Microsoft Inside
When Microsoft rescued USinternetworking with a $50 million equity investment last November, the software vendor wasnt just shopping for an underpriced asset. Instead, Microsoft...
Commerce One Teaming for B2B Apps
Commerce One Inc. last week rolled out products that it jointly developed with big-name partners Microsoft Corp., SAPMarkets Inc. and Citibank in an effort...
Off the Wall
The stock market evokes the image of a child who has eaten too much chocolate and is running around blowing bubbles, and then smashing...
Data Offsets Long-Distance Revenue Dips
The tunnel keeps growing darker for the big three long-distance carriers, but there is a light at the end of it.While long-distance telephone revenue...