Electronic Business articles from April 2000

Electronic Business archives from April 2000

Built to last?(dot-com companies versus those planned for the long term)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2000... Our Best Small Electronics Companies story, page 74, raises a very important issue: What has happened to the pride of building an organization that will last and create long-term value? In this age of dot-com mania, too many entrepreneurs...

Letters.(standards)(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 2000... THE STANDARDS GAME I read [Stanley H. Brown's] column on "standards" in the February issue of Electronic Business ("Why do we need standards anyway?" page 114), and having been involved in standards under ANSI, IEC, IEEE, etc. for many...

CORRECTION.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... In our March feature, "Holding the bag," page 104, we mispelled a name. John Shamaly is the correct spelling of the president of the lithography group for Silicon Valley Group. We regret the error.

Wanted: Cheap, low-capacity hard-disk drives.(Technology Information)
April 1, 2000... Although microprocessors garner much of the attention, hard disks have played an equally important role in the evolution of computing. For every PC microprocessor shipped, at least one hard disk is shipped--and each disk is a complex,...

Employer Costs Moved Marginally Higher During 1999.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 2000... Wage inflation The U.S. unemployment rate is at a three-decade low, but we're still looking for definitive evidence that tight labor markets are pushing wages significantly higher. Putting aside the anecdotal evidence of wage inflation in...

Managing in the era of free agency.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 2000... On your way to work one morning, you ponder the myriad of things that need to be fixed, changed or improved to keep your company on the leading-edge. Once you get to your office you are greeted at the door by one of your best and brightest....

'Brother can you spare a few million?'.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 2000... VCs dole out money hand over fist If you're a dot-com that couldn't get funding last year, you must have been trying to market snowballs in hell. That's about the only way you could avoid catching at least a piece of the avalanche of...

Valuing what?(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 2000... EDA companies would like to get some respect from Wall Street Last year, Internet companies topped the Wall Street Journal's fifth annual shareholder's scoreboard list. Dot-com madness on Wall Street, however, can be maddening for other...

Spring optimism blooms.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 2000... As we head into spring, many electronics executives believe their businesses are facing a sunny outlook. Half of our purchasing managers say that overall business conditions will improve over the next 60 days. Many are stating that other...

Here comes the world wireless Web?(Technology Information)
April 1, 2000... Flurry of announcements promise improved 'Net access on mobile phones We may be witnessing the birth this year of the mobile Internet. Then again, if the availability of Web-enabled mobile phones and services doesn't sync up, the doctor...

Previously owned.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 2000... Used chip-making equipment is a growing market Sometimes you can't give away used equipment. Other times people beat a path to your door for it. The latter appears to be the current state affairs for used semiconductor manufacturing...

IPCMOS could shake up chip world.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2000... IBM demonstrates asynchronous chip design From the company that led the development of copper chips and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers comes a new attempt to change the way integrated circuits are designed. IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, has...

Intel touts itself as an 'e-corporation'.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2000... Goal is to go all e-commerce within two years Intel Corp. last year did more than $10 billion worth of business online, and aims to make that 100% soon. "In the first year of doing this, we've grown to No. 1 in e-business, and we are...

Move over PCs.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 2000... Study says info appliances will dominate the home front Electronic devices are getting smaller, and the Internet is getting larger. The result is the consumer market for information appliances is expected to overtake the consumer PC market....

Talking to Wall Street.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 2000... What analysts and investors really want to know Does Wall Street devalue your company's stock for no apparent reason? Before you go searching for some other culprit, take a look in the mirror. When it comes to communicating to...

Embracing the electronic economy.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 2000... With the emergence of the electronic economy and new ways of competing, the market is rewarding those organizations that are effectively incorporating new business models. But what exactly drives success in this new order? Here are five new...

A CHIP off the old BLOCK?(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2000... SOMETIME THIS YEAR, perhaps as early as this summer, U.S. scientists will finish mapping the entire human genome, handing researchers a Rosetta Stone for human biology. When that happens, biotech enthusiasts will no doubt pop open a bottle of...

WHITE HOT.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2000... If the World War II Allies had settled for a series of commando raids on the beaches of France instead of a full-scale landing, they might never have planted their stake on the continent. They had to throw land, sea and air forces at five...

SIGNALS OF OPPORTUNITY.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 2000... Old and new players engage fierce competition in the DSP market Digital signal processors (DSPs) have become one of the semiconductor industry's hottest segments. Sales of DSP chips are growing at nearly twice the rate of sales of all...

TAKING STOCK in TRADING EXCHANGES.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 2000... Imagine trying to build a stock market. First, you have to convince companies that selling their shares on your market will make them money. Then you've got to truck in plenty of buyers who are willing to purchase the shares. Once you've...

Gimme FOCUS.(distributors)(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 2000... As their larger brethern are swallowed up, smaller distributors are succeeding by specializing JOEL GIRSKY worked for a small New York electronics distributor in the early 1960s, when the owners--fearing the industry would soon be...

THE ASSET PARADOX.(OEMs offload their manufacturing operations)(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 2000... AS THE TOP MANUFACTURING EXECUTIVE for Santa Clara-based 3Com Corp., Randy Heffner knew he was in a bind. Each quarter 3Com was scrapping up to $20 million worth of goods and the company wasn't turning its inventories as rapidly as competitors...

Ford's plan to cultivate computer literacy.(Company Operations)(Column)
April 1, 2000... I happened to be in Michigan on February 3 when Ford Motor Co. announced that it was going to give all of its 350,000 employees Hewlett-Packard Co. computers, printers and ISP links for $5 a month, all bundled by the fledgling PeoplePC Inc. The...

Fair angels.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2000... Group starts investment club for women Tapping the wealth of the other half of the population, a handful of Washington, DC-area investment managers have launched WomenAngels.net. The group claims it is the first structured angel...