Monthly Archives: May 2001
Private B2B Exchanges Finding Favor
Large public marketplaces, once the domain of online business-to-business transactions, are being supplanted by smaller, private exchanges that put single businesses at the hub...
The French Connection
Pascal LeTiec, a longtime integration executive in France, had a notion that the application service provider (ASP) model would be the next big thing.So...
Fast Facts Infrastructure: May 28, 2001
DSL Use UpThe number of DSL customers quadrupled in 2000, but growth in the segment halted in the first quarter, as many of the...
Hotwire a Hot Ticket
Orbitz may be the biggest Internet move by a consortium of airline heavyweights, but its not the first.Last September, at a time when dot-com...
Hotel Broadband Fizzles
Millions of hotel rooms are being left without the broadband connections their owners planned, as service providers close shop or ask hotels to split...
Treaty Proposes World Judgments
Discussions will begin anew next week at The Hague on an international legal treaty that could make U.S. Web sites and Internet service providers...
Brick-And-Mortars Deliver E-Profitability
To see the new face of online retailing, look at Office Depot, which launched its Web site in 1994 and company officials say was...
Go Team, Go!
I usually root for the underdog. And when it comes to wireless data networks, history shows that the underdogs typically need the support.Anyone remember...
WhISPers: May 28, 2001
Please, Let It EndCable & Wireless remains in an acquisition mode, even after agreeing to pay $3.40 per share and assume $49 million in...
Dont Read Too Much Into It
Cisco executives held a press conference basically to say they hope to boost the companys share of wireless LAN markets from 30 percent to...