HP, CISCO PLAN TO MAKE TRADITIONAL PHONE COMPANIES ADAPT
Soon enough, time will no longer be money, at least as far as telephone service carriers are concerned. The 100-year-old method of calculating charges based on time and distance is...
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ON-LINE SHOPPING EXPLOSION SEEN IN PEAK RETAIL SEASON
Once barely a blip on the retail radar screen, on-line shopping is expanding so dramatically that analysts say it's on the verge of changing how Americans shop for everything from...
THE DRECK STICKS, WHILE GOOD STUFF SIMPLY VANISHES
It is the nature of cyberspace that vast resources appear and disappear without warning. The good stuff does not stick around for long. Alexa Internet, a San Francisco firm that...
IPOS OFTEN ARE LITTLE MORE THAN PROMISE, STUDY FINDS
What's wrong with the market for initial public offerings is a lot like the problems with the system that exploits young basketball players: Most never make it to the big...
COMPANY DEVELOPS UNIVERSAL ACCOUNT FOR INTERNET SERVICES
The Internet is a world of nearly infinite possibilities--and seemingly every one of them demands a separate user ID and password. Now a Milpitas, Calif., company is promoting a way...
SUMMON HELP FROM ANYWHERE ON EARTH
You don't often come upon personal technology items that can be life-saving, but the GSC 100 hand-held satellite communicator from Magellan Corp. falls into this rare category. The 32-ounce battery-powered...
EUROPE PRIVACY RULES MAY LIMIT U.S.
Most Americans seem resigned to the fact that businesses are collecting all sorts of information about their personal lives--from the brand of shampoo they prefer to which magazines they buy...
DIVERSIFICATION HELPS SILICON VALLEY MACHINE SHOPS SURVIVE
When Doug Hill and Doug Brobst founded True-Tech Corp. four years ago, they had a survival strategy in mind. Merging their two machine shops--one that served the semiconductor manufacturing equipment...
ONCE A MARKET LEADER, DISK-DRIVER FIRM BURIED IN PROBLEMS
SyQuest Technology Inc., once the leader in removable memory storage devices for personal computers, said last week it has suspended operations and may file for bankruptcy. Analysts blamed the Fremont,...
FOR MANY, WEB’S THE WAY TO A GOOD DEAL
Last week a neighbor who'd always struck me as being utterly indifferent to all things Internet called with some very pressing and specific questions about high-speed Net access. I ran...