Scot Petersen

Cisco Systems posted record earnings last week, but the revenue wasnt enough to keep Ciscos shares from falling to an 11-month low. Net sales for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004 were $5.9 billion, compared with $4.7 billion for the same quarter last year, an increase of 26 percent. Net income in the most recent […]

For all its rah-rah speeches and in-your-face partisanship, subtle ironies stuck out for me last month at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Heres one: There were about three media members for every one delegate present—15,000 versus 5,600 were the numbers DNC officials were throwing around—yet few of those so-called newspeople found much to say […]

BOSTON—Much ink, both real and electronic, has been spilled over the presence of credentialed media bloggers at this weeks Democratic National Convention. They have received almost as much attention as Michael Moore and other celebrities in attendance at the Fleet Center. Perhaps the most useful part of the bloggers presence at the DNC is the […]

A lot of things have changed in the past four years. In 2000, the new millennium was dawning, and the economy was at the apex of the dot-com boom. The country was in the middle of what would become a tumultuous election season. The future seemed bright, and at the Democratic National Convention in Los […]

At ages 5 and a half and almost 8, my children are already computer geeks in training. The younger one is a whiz at online games. He can download and install them and change desktop settings, while the older one types in URLs he finds on TV and on cereal boxes. Am I worried about […]

As the sports adage goes, sometimes the best trade is the one you dont make. Baseball history, for instance, is full of deals that were so lopsided that some teams wish they could have taken them back, such as the Red Sox selling Babe Ruth to the Yankees or the Cubs trading Lou Brock to […]

Rats. I finally get around to buying a handheld computer, and I start seeing headlines like “Is the PDA dead?” I should have seen this coming. We covered the news this month that Sony is halting production of its Clié line of handhelds for the rest of the year—and maybe for good. The announcement came […]

Blogging is the hottest thing on the Internet since, well, the Web browser. This is not news, as just about everybody who spends time online is maintaining a blog, regularly reading and contributing to a blog, or knows someone who is maintaining or regularly reading and contributing to a blog. And blogs are everywhere. The […]

Its almost Memorial Day, and that means the summer movie season is here. If youre not sure what to see, heres a breakdown of the biggest blockbusters coming to a theater near you: “Shrek 2”: The lovable ogre is back again in this heartwarming adventure. Shrek and Donkey, tired of living as computer-generated animations, infiltrate […]

Its good to be king—at least for a quarter. Dell reclaimed the top spot from Hewlett-Packard last month for the lead in PC sales worldwide, according to figures from IDC (7.7 million units versus 6.4 million) and Gartner (7.5 million versus 6.3 million). The Dell resurgence followed a quarter in which HP took the lead. […]

Many of us are just now coming to grips with the most serious implication of the April 2 settlement between Sun and Microsoft: Scott McNealys keynote speeches just got a lot duller. The Sun CEO has made a career of his stand-up routine over the years, entertaining thousands with such classic zingers as calling Windows […]

Remember attending a rock concert and “flicking your Bic”? The sea of flames was a sight to see. Today, however, no one is flicking—theyre clicking. As I saw at two concerts at the recent CTIA Wireless conference, the flash of Bics has been replaced by the glow of the Sanyo VM4500, the Motorola V400 or […]