Monthly Archives: April 2000

Nortel is one of the world’s biggest suppliers of telecommunications gear. In the past several years it’s moved full-speed toward the Internet, pulled by CEO John Roth. I recently visited Roth at his suburban-Toronto office. Read about what he said … Continue reading →

I don’t think we’re in the early stages of a stock-market crash, at least not one along the lines of what happened in 1929. Rather, it feels more like a long-needed move toward rationality. The market meltdown of the past … Continue reading →

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Century Strategies, the public relations and lobbying firm run by Ralph Reed, the former executive director of the Christian Coalition, now says it won’t urge influential people (AP) to personally lobby George W. Bush on Microsoft’s behalf. Now that’s progress. … Continue reading →

Three giant auto companies and two Silicon Valley technology companies have linked up in what is possibly the biggest-ever online project — a bazaar for auto components and other supplies. I stopped by the headquarters of the newly formed alliance, … Continue reading →

You’ll need to ponder that question if you take up one of the world’s major marketing giants on an offer being announced today, in which Virgin Entertainment will “give” you an Internet appliance in return for your privacy. Your data … Continue reading →

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is pulled and tugged by many forces. But the holder of that job is an enormously powerful person these days, in a world where telecommunications is becoming the epicenter of so much of … Continue reading →

When a well-informed California panel looked at the question of voting online, the members went into the project with great enthusiasm. When the finished, they said, “Whoa, let’s take this very, very slowly.” David Jefferson, a Compaq Computer researcher who … Continue reading →

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