Monthly Archives: May 2001
Deals Will Add Hosted Apps to i2 Lineup
As companies like i2 Technologies Inc. step up partnering efforts to bolster their supply chain software, some IT managers are looking, instead, to their...
Infighting May Delay Fed Reverse Auctions
The U.S. government could soon operate a plethora of new reverse auction e-marketplaces — if internal turf issues can be resolved within the General...
Its Time to Start Looking for New Growth Areas That Can Be Leveraged
Call it service economics. When the stock market gyrates up and down with the kind of sudden jolts that weve been tracking for the...
Writers Win Net Pay
Studios have cleared one of the many hurdles involved in distributing movies over the Net by agreeing to a payment structure for writers in...
Slump Worsens in PC Sector
What PC makers had hoped would be a temporary drought is turning into a drawn-out famine.PCs are just not selling as well as they...
Stopping Diversity From Walking Away
There was the time when a former boss encouraged Ruey-Feng Li not to come back to work after the birth of her second child...
Compaq Computer Corp.: Stepping Out of the Box
The writing is on the wall at Compaqs Global Services unit, but there are questions about what language its written in. The crown jewel...
Metricoms Ricochet: The Laptop RF Answer
We remember hearing about Metricom in 1993 when it was out near Stanford University. Here were these little pole-top radios, placed along El Camino...
Rap Sheet
COMPANY: Compaq Computer Corp.SYMBOL: CPQWEB: www.compaq.comSPECIALTY: Consulting, design, maintenanceSTRENGTHS: Compaq brand is widely known, and the overall company picked up some strong engineering talent...
Vegas Still a Good Bet for Getting News
The sunny, 80-degree weather of the city of lost wages was a nice break for the freezing Frisky One, who bailed the late spring...