HIRING EX-MOTOROLA EXEC CONSIDERED KEY FOR AMD
For the third time in as many years, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. appears poised for breathtaking success; now the question is whether Hector Ruiz is the man to make that...
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TOWN’S NAME CHANGE FULLY EMBRACES NET
When a small Oregon town renamed itself after an Internet company a couple of weeks ago, most of America saw it for what it was: a publicity stunt to promote...
CELL PHONES COULD ACT AS `TRAFFIC REPORTERS’
Your blood may boil when you see a driver with one hand on the wheel and the other holding a cell phone, but a California company hopes to convert all...
E-TAIL TROUBLES CLOUD FUTURE OF CONSUMER DATA
Its stock has been hammered by investors. It cast out key managers, including the chairman of the board. And then Value America slashed its workforce by almost half. So what's...
NEW E-TAILERS TRYING TO GRAB THE `LAST MILE’
SAN JOSE, Calif.--An older generation remembers the milkman, who like clockwork at 6 a.m. deposited bottles on the back stoop. Those simpler days are long gone. But in the age...
FALTERING BEYOND.COM SCALES BACK REACH
When Beyond.com's stock was trading in the $30 range--up sharply from its $9 initial offering price--the company's employees naturally were ecstatic. "This is a democracy of dollars," Brian Sroub, then...
TRANSMETA CHIPS MAY FACE DIFFICULT SELL
Transmeta Corp. last week finally took the wraps off a widely anticipated line of microprocessors it hopes will boost mobile computing by dramatically extending battery life and which could ultimately...
LOSING PASSWORDS IS AUTOMATIC `OPEN SESAME’ TO TERROR
There's no doubt that the Internet experience is more stable and reliable than it has ever been. From the moment we log on, we are surrounded by an invisible phalanx...
ONE ANSWER TO PROBLEM CALLED SPAM
The people who brought you junk mail and telemarketing are offering a free service to block the latest form of direct marketing--spam. Anyone can now sign up not to receive...
APPLE STILL FACES HURDLES TO KEEP UP NEW APPEAL WITH USERS, MARKET
At this month's Macworld Expo in San Francisco, a confident Apple previewed the look and feel of its future operating software, unveiled an Internet strategy aimed at building an on-line...