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One morning, shortly before the launch of PeopleSoft 8 CRM, company CEO Craig Conway was getting ready for a day filled with meetings. Carefully following the contours of his face with his razor, he heard two phrases from the hotel room TV that were enough to make a man in his position nick himself from […]

Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City, Calif., has teamed with NameZero.com to offer “tech-savvy” parents the option to give newborns an e-mail address and personalized domain name as part of a “Welcome to the World” package. The package also includes “online tips and resources for child care and parenting,” NameZero said in a statement. (We can […]

No matter which company wins the bidding war for DirecTV, the outcome will produce a powerful new player in interactive global communications. In the hands of media baron Rupert Murdochs Sky Global Networks, DirecTV would complete a true global satellite broadcasting system, stretching from Europe to Asia and Latin America. Already in control of content-rich […]

BROADBAND City folk seek out fast Web access The number of u.s. homes with broadband Internet access jumped 134 percent in the past year, to 16 million, according to a recent report by Nielsen/NetRatings Inc., of Milpitas, Calif. The report also indicated that nearly one-third of the homes with high-speed access were in five major […]

No Internet service provider is more deserving of a top spot in the ISP category than EarthLink. A combination of two hard-working providers, EarthLink and MindSpring, No. 1 fights hard to become a real alternative to America Online. EarthLink has built its business on being a service company as flexible as the Net itself, and […]

Last year, Verio was a radiant beauty wooed by a wealthy suitor. This year, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone is having second thoughts. Verio, with 2000 revenue of $350 million, is suffering from dot-bomb fallout. Small and midsize businesses account for about 90 percent of Verios shared hosting revenue, and 50 percent of its colocation and […]

Hopes once were high for fixed broadband wireless, technology that uses antennas instead of wires to deliver high-speed services, until the segment was ravaged by the market carnage that has devastated competitive telecom providers. IDC had predicted 65 percent annual growth in domestic fixed broadband revenue, rising from $800 million in 1999 to $7.4 billion […]

Since July 1995, Lands End, a quiet Wisconsin catalog retailer, has been selling clothes on the Internet and making money at it. “If you are a catalog company and you are not profitable online, then youre doing something wrong,” says Bill Bass, Lands Ends senior vice president of e-commerce. Last year, LandsEnd.com racked up $220 […]

Comcast and some of its competitors have seen a stock bounce this year, causing analysts to see basic cable service as recessionproof. Thats good news for a company expecting to post $50 million in losses this year, as it expands its flagship station, QVC, and develops its new business-to-business division. Under the leadership of CEO […]

Theres the Nucentrix Broadband Networks of today, and then theres the Nucentrix Broadband Networks of the future. “We are basically two companies, new and old,” says Carroll D. McHenry, chairman and CEO. “Old” is Heartland Cable Television, which provides subscription wireless TV to 58 small and midsize markets in the central U.S. The “new” Nucentrix […]

If measured strictly by the number of Internet service provider connections, WorldCom remains the leading backbone provider, followed by Sprint and Cable & Wireless. But ISPs are rapidly being supplanted by businesses of every stripe — from dot-coms to dentists — that are signing up for pipes big and small and are rapidly becoming the […]

Brilliance — and Beer Every few months, I get an e-mail pointing me to one of the many pages claiming to be the “last page of the Internet.” If youve never been to one, I wont spoil the surprise. Go to www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm and see for yourself. A Google search reveals there are dozens of “last […]