Monthly Archives: May 2001
Operator No. 9: May 14, 2001
Broadband LamentPardon me while I wipe away a tear of sympathy for big tech company chieftains who cant get broadband service at home. It...
Internet Wings Clipped
Interest in the once-hot market for Internet access on airplanes is losing altitude.Rockwell Collins has ceased investing in In-Flight Network, its airplane Internet access...
EBay: Den of Thieves?
Crooks looking to unload stolen goods are increasingly turning to eBay to find buyers and reap some quick cash.In the past few years, police...
Fast Facts Infrastructure: May 14, 2001
Cash DealCisco Systems will sell more than 500 high-speed routers to China Telecom that will be used to build out the companys national Internet...
Lessons From Luxury
The rich are different. So are Web sites that sell to the rich. Just ask Bob Paquin, who, as chief operating officer of Blue...
Film Sites Spin Elaborate Webs
The Blair Witch Project may not have been a masterpiece of cinematography, but its Web sites success at generating a tidal wave of excitement...
A Free Spirit Provides a Firm Foundation for Growth.
In my last column, I promised to tell you about Yuval Davidor, the scholar and computer scientist whose algorithms solve intractable problems. Davidors company,...
Why Im the Last of the PDA Holdouts
I will probably be the last person in North America to acquire a personal digital assistant. But Im clearly bucking the trend. Many people...
Swan Song?
Attending the recent conference sponsored by the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium, which supports the Time Division Multiple Access technology used by operators such as...
Keeping Net Gear in Sync With Economy
"Turn down your AC from high to medium, or rolling blackouts start in 10 minutes." That seems the type of message that would be...