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Misery Loves Company Two struggling Internet consulting firms have decided to try to jointly battle their way out of the tech downturn. Scient, based in New York City, has agreed to merge with iXL Enterprises of Atlanta to form a new company, based in New York, that will operate under the Scient name. The companies […]

Intel Corp. last week unveiled five mobile processors, marking the beginning of Intels transition to a manufacturing process that will provide faster chips and cut the companys costs per chip. Intels move to the manufacturing process will result in chips that run 20 percent faster and consume up to 40 percent less energy than those […]

Its the bare shadow of a trend, but a new generation of service-creation switches may convince enterprises to lease equipment from providers, rather than own their own networks. Control and trust are the watchwords. New software and hardware technology is the driving force. I-managers wouldnt dream of giving third parties power over security, billing, traffic […]

Shifting gears Having decided to license the basic blueprints of its cell phones to anyone who wants them, Motorola Corp. is banking on the idea that it can still differentiate itself in the handset business by adding features that competitors may not yet have. Timeport 270c In that vein, the Schaumburg, Ill., company has started […]

On a recent visit to Japan, an American consultant met with a group of Japanese business managers. In the midst of the proceedings, a participants cell phone alerted him to some important news: He had been playing a wireless virtual fishing game called Dwango Kamone and had just landed a big catch — information he […]

E-mail traffic can cause as much congestion as anything on the roads. BoldFish Inc. has released its BoldFish Express Router to alleviate network congestion caused by high-volume e-mail marketing campaigns. The BoldFish Express Router works in combination with customer relationship management applications. It redirects messages sent from such systems to the BoldFish Express Network, the […]

The pressures on. A major competitor has just launched an online service, and your customers are calling and e-mailing by the hundreds, asking when they can expect to see your companys response. The sad truth, however, is that youve been caught flat-footed. You have to cook up a strategy and business plan; develop and test […]

While there is little doubt the quality of streaming media has made significant gains in recent years, the current chill in the economy has led to mixed opinions about whether the downturn will hurt or hasten adoption of the technology. Some within the industry say belt-tightening will work in streaming medias favor, offering enterprises the […]

According to the Markle Foundations report on its yearlong study of thousands of U.S. users, titled “Toward a Framework for Internet Accountability” (available at www.markle.org), “the leading metaphor for the Internet, in the publics mind, is not a shopping mall or banking and investment office but, rather, a library.” Perception is reality, of course, and […]

After ousting Gateway Inc.s management team in January amid slumping sales, founder Ted Waitt retook the helm of his troubled PC company and vowed to steer it back to profitability. Six months later, his efforts have yet to stop the hemorrhaging, with the nations fifth-largest PC company reporting earnings this month well below Wall Streets […]