Monthly Archives: May 2003

The Register: Gates justifies stronger chains for hardware makers. Microsoft is now far more powerful than it has ever been, and is setting the hardware standards for the PCs you will have to buy far more overtly than it ever … Continue reading →

Chicago Tribune (registration required): Sweeping SBC rate law signed. A sweeping measure giving telecom titan SBC Communications Inc. greater control over the local phone market powered past consumer concerns and into law Friday, clearing the General Assembly and winning Gov. … Continue reading →

I’m heading to Asia today. Don’t look for very many posts for a day or so. Comments

Eric Norlin says “amen” to the truly perverse idea that victims of Wall Street con artists have only themselves to blame. By that standard, no kind of fraud should be punished. After all, we all know that there are crooks … Continue reading →

I’m amazed by the Visual Thesaurus, but not totally sure I want to run it. This may be a case where the visual metaphor is less efficient than the old-fashioned, plain-text method of looking up words. Sure is fun, though… … Continue reading →

NYT: S.E.C. Chastises Morgan Stanley’s Chief for Comments. Morgan Stanley’s efforts to play down its role in the Wall Street research scandal appeared to backfire yesterday, as the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission released a blistering letter addressed … Continue reading →

T.J. Rodgers: T.J. Rodgers: Frank Quattrone is honest and ethical; Credit Suisse is just cowardly. Quattrone’s real crime is that he violated the “Bill Gates law” — his competence made him too much money too fast. Big, new money creates … Continue reading →

Boston Globe: Working to tame the giants. Still, a group of activists — operating with relatively small budgets, very loud voices, and an inexhaustible supply of energy — wage a lonely battle against consolidation in the name of what they … Continue reading →