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I dont know about you, but if I missed deadlines and other work-related performance targets, I would certainly be on probation and possibly out of a job. That doesnt seem to be the case for many major New Economy CEOs. This elite group seems to float above the fray, getting big raises and bonuses even […]

Suddenly, AT&T is blessed with wiggle room. After months of feeling cornered by federal regulators, rival operators, investors and its own employees, the worlds largest cable company can actually take a breath and study its options on several critical issues. Having won a major court victory that lifted federal limits on cable ownership, AT&T may […]

Face it, authentication and security are degrading. They degrade system performance and the user. Friends, on the other hand, recognize your face and just let you in. Thinking it should be the same with computers, IdentAlink has created a product called FaceMail that will decrypt a file or e-mail only if it recognizes the face […]

When computing scribe John Dvorak took the mike to introduce the keynote speaker at ISPCON Spring 2001, he drew nervous laughter by noting two ads for the show depicting people about to, or actually, jumping off cliffs. The show booklet included this pithy quote: “With special thanks to the stock market, we managed to eliminate […]

Jumping Ship Independent from WorldCom as it may be, the inevitable post-acquisition brain drain has hit Digex in a big way. Nancy Faigen, president of the sales and service delivery group, has jumped ship to run Voxeo, a Silicon Valley start-up that voice-enables Web apps. The Ear also hears Brian Gernert, senior vice president of […]

Not even an 800-pound gorilla like KPMG Consulting Inc. can escape the current slide in the e-services consulting sector. As the first of the Big Five consultancies to go public, KPMG is not having an easy time. Shares of its stock, which debuted on Feb. 8 at more than $2 above the $18 offering price, […]

Fans Would Pick DSL Over Coffee If forced to choose, DSL diehards would opt for their slick Internet connections over their coffee (63 percent), newspaper (78 percent), radio (74 percent) and cable TV (59 percent), according to a recent survey conducted by digital subscriber line provider SBC Communications Inc., of San Antonio, Texas. Those broadband […]

Melbourne, Australia — The U.S.-sanctioned Internet Domain Name Management body is still struggling to bring the worlds top-level domains under its fold. About 250 operators handle the registration for the Nets country-code top-level domain names, known as ccTLDs, which are the domain names assigned to countries and territories around the world. Its a diverse and […]

Accent on the S The ultimate test of an ASP is the user experience. “Customers are holding ASPs to a higher expectation level than they would their own IT departments,” says Amy Mizoras, an analyst at IDC. Service providers are rolling out new products to make the ASP experience better and more convenient for both […]

One look at Napster, and its easy to see how new Internet technologies can stir up major conflict. But a looming controversy on the Net might center on a piece of Internet plumbing thats now 7 years old — ancient in Web terms. The Robot Exclusion Standard is arcane enough that probably only hard-core site […]

NBA Nets the Internet Last Friday, NBA fans were set to get the chance to do what no other sports fans have ever done: watch a live broadcast of a professional game on their computers. The game between the Dallas Mavericks and the Sacramento Kings was scheduled to be aired over the Internet, with announcers […]

Royal Enfield, the venerable British motorcycle manufacturer, went out of business about 40 years ago, succumbing—as did Norton, BSA, and other makers of cool but finnicky bikes—to the tide of cheap and reliable Japanese cycles. But before it died, the company set up a factory in India. To this day, the plant continues to churn […]