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Weeks before Super Bowl XXXV, as John Stiening and his team huddled to plan strategy, they made a cold-sweat-inducing discovery: They would get sacked. Stiening and his engineers at eCreative Search Inc. weren?t diagramming Xs and Os—rather, they were trying to get a grip on capacity planning for the explosion of site visitors the big […]

When a company integrates more than 30 new acquisitions into its product line in just two years, it can be quite a challenge to keep 40,000 channel partners current on the latest product mixes, systems-engineering skills and never-ending software revisions. Ciscos Kevin MacRitchie lives for the challenge. “Its all about making sure customers are satisfied,” […]

Has anyone noticed that the letter “X” is getting downright annoying. X-Files, X-Men, X-this and X-that. And if the best things about the XFL are the cheerleaders, what possible benefit is gained by slapping an X in front of another acronym? Thats what the Solution Provider Institute did. The ASP Channel Conference in San Francisco […]

Some of us maintain that stock exchanges belong in Las Vegas. Now Sweden-based VersusMarket (www.vsmarket.com) has stripped the pretense of rationality from the investment game. With VS, you dont buy; you bet on selected stocks to outperform others on a given trading day. The odds are not good. You have to pick seven of nine […]

Mark Twain may not have lived to see the Internet, but long ago he picked up on something that many e-business executives are unwilling to acknowledge today: Taxes are as certain as death. And that applies online as well as off. Since passage three years ago of the 1998 Freedom Tax Act, which placed a […]

Seven semiconductor companies recently lowered revenue forecasts, providing a clear sign that the downturn in the economy has spread to every nook of the technology industry. Semiconductors are the guts and brains of cell phones, handheld devices, personal computers, servers and the equipment that powers cross-country networks. The lowered forecasts came from companies that produce […]

Gateway Inc. chairman Ted Waitt, who last month reclaimed the title of CEO following Jeffrey Weitzens departure, has warned that the struggling PC makers revenue outlook is even more dour than previously projected. Hard hit by an industrywide slump in PC sales that spurred the company to cut 12 percent of its work force last […]

Malcontents intent on bashing companies on electronic bulletin boards may want to think twice before hitting the send key. Since the dot-com bubble burst, Internet law experts have seen a steep increase in the number of “John Doe” suits filed by companies seeking to unmask and stop electronic critics. Often, they are successful in finding […]

The fate of a multibillion-dollar government-inspired jackpot for information technology companies sits in limbo as Tommy Thompson, the new secretary of Health and Human Services, revisits medical privacy rules formulated under the Clinton administration. Thompson recently put on hold some regulations that are part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), a sweeping […]

Tier-one vendors seem to be taking partnering more seriously than ever before. In fact, theyre in the process of building databases to link together business partners with different skill sets and in different geographies. That idea is not new. Matchmaking services have been talked about since 1997, and private groups like License Online and PartnerAxis […]

Do you really want to know which companies are raking in the cash these days and who among them is bluffing? Try looking at the executive compensation packages, which show up in sometimes really fine print on filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Arguably one of the highest fliers these days is IBM, which […]

Pamela Samuelson is a dauntingly bright woman who knows much more about intellectual property law in the real world and in cyberspace than is probably healthy. This is a good thing for Netizens who cherish an open Net, a cyberspace as free of corporate and government control as possible — for cyberspace aficionados and online […]