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Thilo Koslowski saved $5,000 buying his 2000 Audi TT Roadster using online car buying service Cars.com. “It was a great experience,” says Koslowski, a senior automotive analyst at Gartner Group. J.D. Power and Associates and Gomez estimate online car sales could account for as much as 10 percent of automobile purchases by 2005, as both […]

In the ever-evolving world of the internet and the economic imperatives that drive it, the essential truths still apply: The more things change, the more the past becomes the future. In the mind of visionary Vinton Cerf, the future of Internet access is less likely to be ruled by the panoply of gadgets that require […]

Deanne Landress says she serves an awesome cup of coffee. As for the piping hot plate of bandwidth she also likes to serve, Landress may be out of luck, since a now-bankrupt DSL provider hooked her business to the Internet. Landress owns the NetNomads Café, which she dubs a “suburban cybercafé,” in Maplewood, N.J. The […]

It wasnt so long ago that information technology managers were slamming the door on employees asking for mobile access to corporate-based information. The IT folks had just gotten through the headaches of enabling remote dial-up, and that was a hassle. With its security implications and countless standards, mobile access is an even bigger headache. If […]

Traditional brick-and-mortar middlemen are successfully persuading state and federal lawmakers to prevent Internet-based competitors from selling everything from contact lenses to autos directly to consumers. To block e-commerce efforts, car dealers have helped get laws passed in 49 states to prevent auto manufacturers from selling cars online. Wine wholesalers have lobbied Congress and the states […]

Staples.com IPO Gets Deep-Sixed As the economy goes, so goes even the No. 1 company on eWeek?s 2000 FastTrack list of the top 500 e-business leaders, Staples Inc. The Framingham, Mass., office supply retailer, which suffered flat retail sales growth in its recently announced fourth-quarter results and disappointing fiscal-year 2000 results, last month ditched plans […]

Stepping Down When AT&T Wireless becomes independent, four members of the parent companys board are expected to depart. In Securities and Exchange Commission filings, the company said that AT&T Wireless Chairman John Zeglis will step down, along with retired Springs Industries Chairman Walter Elisha, former Caterpillar Chairman Donald Fites and NTT DoCoMo USA CEO Masaki […]

Well, Apple Computer Inc. has done it again. The companys recently released Power Book G4 redefines how a notebook computer should look and feel, just as its iMac and G4 Cube led the way for new desktop computer designs. Although it wont attract die-hard PC users, Apples first G4-based portable, encased in a tough, sleek […]

Those expecting the much-awaited appointments of the Bush administrations technology policy team were disappointed after a press conference last week at the White House. At the meeting, President George W. Bush did announce that Silicon Valley venture capitalist Floyd Kvamme, who during the 1999-to-2000 election cycle sprinkled nearly $200,000 on Republican candidates and causes, will […]

A few years back, e-books looked as though they would take the market by storm. The grand promise was that the low cost of publishing and distributing books electronically would transform publishing forever. But so far, e-books have enjoyed only modest success, mainly in such niche areas as textbooks. It seems consumers dont want to […]

Cisco Systems is hoping for a little luck during this weeks Partner Summit in Las Vegas. The company is used to holding a winning hand, but CEO John Chambers has concerns about the economy and has halted Ciscos acquisition strategy for the foreseeable future. Cisco isnt the only networking company down on its luck. Nortel […]

If you believe the savvy marketing at Yipes Communications Inc., the public switched telephone network and its ATM to SONET backbone are in serious trouble. IP over Gigabit Ethernet is being deployed at a record clip. And the 10G Ethernet standard is right around the corner, which will make chop suey of ATMs 622Mbps. ATMs […]