Electronic Business articles from February 2001

Electronic Business archives from February 2001

Making corporate marriages work.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Book offers counseling to avoid dysfunctional mergers THE MORNING AFTER Stephen J. Wall Shannon Rye Wall Perseus Publishing November 2000 Price: $25,256 pages Mergers and acquisitions have become an important...

The art of espionage.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Spies and spying in corporate America SPOOKED: ESPIONAGE IN CORPORATE AMERICA Adam Penenberg Marc Barry Perseus Publishing December 2000 Price: $26,188 pages Ever wonder what happened to all of those intelligence...

Coming soon: Used PC lots?(Industry Trend or Event)
February 1, 2001... The recent leveling off of PC sales sent the securities markets into a swoon. Without venturing a forecast, the industry could finally be maturing after an almost uninterrupted two decades of soaring sales. The reality, of course, is that...

CORRECTION.(Correction Notice)
February 1, 2001... In our December 2000 Market Outlook feature story, "Chip cycle forecasting," page 128, the Dataquest Inc. data referenced in the article was incorrect. The semiconductor 2000 market growth data by region (from Dataquest's October 2000 report)...

SHIFTING GEARS.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 1, 2001... Auto makers remain tough customers, but electronics companies are gaining an edge BREAKING INTO THE AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY is the business equivalent of military boot camp. If you're willing to be chewed up, spit out, adjust your...

BRAVE, NEW NON-SILICON WORLD.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 1, 2001... Semiconductor makers are working with a bunch of non-traditional materials to reach generation-after-next performance goals Like religious zealots who periodically claim that the end of the world is near, the pundits who have predicted that...

HIGH-TECH CEOS OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?(People)
February 1, 2001... EB revisits three profiled CEOs--Michael Saylor of MicroStrategy Inc., Kevin Kalkhoven of JDS Uniphase Inc., Henry Nicholas III of Broadcom Corp.--to see how they've fared after two years IN JANUARY 1999, ELECTRONIC BUSINESS published a...

NO FEAR.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 1, 2001... Juniper Networks is grabbing market share in Internet routers from networking giant Cisco, even as CEO Scott Kriens tries hard to downplay the fight SCOTT KRIENS wants us to believe his company is misunderstood. Kriens, the 43-year-old CEO...

RETENTION DEFICIT SYNDROME.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 1, 2001... In the TALENT WAR, most troops desert because of CRUMMY CULTURE, BAD MANAGERS and LOUSY OPPORTUNITIES FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA. The words evoke images of windswept great plains. Snow drifts measured in yards, not feet. Wind chills gauged in...

The high cost of hired help.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 1, 2001... Outsourced IT sees rise in litigation More often than not, corporations are involved in some kind of litigation every day. But with their IT departments? The new economy and the digital age are changing the way corporations are doing...

Let's get physical.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 1, 2001... New EDA tools ease chip design process A year ago, chip engineers were fretting about the "timing closure" problem. Even brilliant chip designers were becoming mired in an endless loop in the chip design process. They would design a...

Europe gives Mother Nature a break.(Government Activity)
February 1, 2001... Foreign proposals are moving toward becoming laws Heads up, U.S. companies: A couple of foreign directives are about to affect your business. Two proposals--both aimed at managing electrical and electronics waste in Europe--have been...

The 24/7 classroom.(Company Operations)
February 1, 2001... Cisco uses the Internet for employee training anytime, anywhere Cisco Systems Inc., San Jose, CA, understands as well as any electronics company how important continuous employee training is to corporate success. However, as Cisco has grown...

The name game.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 1, 2001... What's in a name? In the high-tech market, just about everything. Name-brand recognition can give companies a huge market advantage, and if you're around long enough you might even reduce your cumbersome corporate name to three universally...

Building a better memory.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 1, 2001... Non-volatile MRAM technology, if it lives up to its hype, could be a hot, new competitor in the memory market When Stuart Parkin started developing a new type of solid-state non-volatile magnetic random access memory (MRAM) four years ago...

Gap? What gap?(Technology Information)
February 1, 2001... In consumer electronics, men and women (mostly) want the same thing Even if you set out to debunk stereotypes, you might find a few still hold true. Take men, women and consumer electronics (CE), for example. A couple of years ago, the...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2001... HDTV PROS AND CONS Just finished reading your article in ELECTRONIC BUSINESS on HDTV ["HDTV: A disaster by definition," December 2000, page 80]. It's the best I've seen yet on the subject--well researched and presented. By the way, I was...

Socially acceptable computing.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
February 1, 2001... The social consequences of owning and using personal electronic devices are crucial to the success of these products. Yet, these consequences are rarely anticipated by those who design and market such devices. Hardly anyone fully understood how...

U.S. patents to be more narrowly interpreted.(Government Activity)
February 1, 2001... Many years ago, significant differences between patents and products accused of infringing patents often went unnoticed by juries because they couldn't understand the technologies. As a consequence, avoiding a charge of infringement was...

Seven keys to marketing success.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 1, 2001... The profits of any business are totally dependent on marketing. Otherwise few, if any, sales will be generated. Yet businesses often neglect to analyze this important aspect of their operations. What does it take to do effective marketing?...

Consumer confidence was slipping at year's end.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 1, 2001... A wobbly stock market, slower gains in employment and income and a presidential election that went into triple overtime combined to depress the spirits of American consumers during the final months of last year. The Conference Board's...

How low can they go?(Industry Trend or Event)
February 1, 2001... Returns on venture investments hit a new low last year Private equity investors looking to reap some big bucks from their venture fund investments should hunker down for a long, cold winter. By the middle of the year 2000--the latest...

That was then, this is now.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 1, 2001... EDA company market caps rebound, while dot-com valuations crumble Back in February of 2000, ELECTRONIC BUSINESS compared market valuations for two very different market segments: publicly traded EDA companies and some popular dot-coms. At...

Optimism and uncertainty ahead.(Industry Trend or Event)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2001... This month's polling of purchasing managers shows that half still believe that overall business conditions will improve over the next 60 days. Many are hoping for a revival in high-tech stocks and a stable economy. The goal for tech companies...

Data deluge.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 1, 2001... Don't drown, sell more lifeboats If you didn't get the lifeboat concession for the great Biblical flood, here's the 21st century equivalent. Pay attention: Business opportunities like these only come around every few millennia. ...

Ease of use is no laughing matter.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 1, 2001... Slowing PC sales have been the topic of many hushed conversations about sales growth for hardware makers and the chip industry this year. Nearly everyone, with the exception of those putting up a brave front, is trying to decide whether this...