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They had the midas touch—and suddenly lost it. For what seemed to be a whirlwind minute, Internet Capital Group built a dot-com kingdom that stretched across dozens of companies. Investors and top managers from Microsoft and Tech Data joined ICGs crusade. The incubators stock soared during the height of dot-com madness. But a confluence of […]

How many ways can esteemed journalists suck up to a serial killer? If the criminal is Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, the skys the limit. When Katie Couric, Barbara Walters, Larry King, Dan Rather and others want the big “get” — an interview with a worldwide celebrity, notorious or otherwise — they and their minions […]

Microsoft proved last week just how strong a stomach it has for coping with the vagaries of high-tech life, announcing a new president and a new version of its Windows operating system while at the same time confirming it is cooperating with a new federal antitrust investigation into its business practices. Chairman Bill Gates kicked […]

After gaining what they viewed as acceptable changes to European Union legislation extending copyright protection to the Internet, copyright holders in Europe said they expect more of their works will become available on the Net. The European Parliament approved the copyright directive on Feb. 14 with a few minor changes. The measure is expected to […]

The winner of a Java programming contest sponsored by Espial.com will rise high and fast—up to 82,000 feet at Mach 2.5, in a Russian MiG-25 Foxbat fighter. Second place takes a zero-gravity simulation flight. The second annual Smart Device Application Contest seeks the best Java apps for mobile Internet devices such as Web phones, PDAs […]

Sometimes its not the numbers that count but the way you count them that makes the difference. Take PeopleSoft. The company had good news in late January when it reviewed its fourth-quarter earnings for analysts. Sales were $498 million, up 34 percent from the year before. Software sales, valued more than training or consulting fees, […]

Call it Lucent Start-Up, or Lucent Launchpad, where the new motto might be “Keep it going and keep it flowing.” Here in the Merrimack Valley north of Boston, in the plant where the old AT&T used to make bobbins and tool sheet metal, lies the future of troubled network equipment giant Lucent Technologies. Its here […]

Apparently, 50 million people on the Internet can be wrong. Napster fought the law, but the law won — big time. The federal appeals court ruling last week, which upheld the majority of a lower courts ruling that Napster violated copyright laws, has broad implications for anyone distributing copyrighted digital content over the Internet. The […]

Jordan ritter, co-founder of Napster Inc., the popular music file sharing company, is at another startup venture, this time in the financial software services arena. Although Ritter left Napster last November to join Round1, a financial automation system developer, he remains passionate about his former company, especially in these, the companys trying times. eWeek Editor […]

Its a matter of when, not if. Sooner or later, one of your customers is going to face a disaster—not a botched project or a PR gaffe, but the kind of event that normally involves firefighters, ambulances and/ or law enforcement. It could be anything from an earthquake to a power outage to employee sabotage; […]