Electronic Business articles from January 2000

Electronic Business archives from January 2000

Y2K: Our silver anniversary!
January 1, 2000... It's the year 2,000 and celebrations are taking place across the planet. Here at Electronic Business we have another reason to celebrate the new millennium. This year our magazine turns 25 years old. It's a milestone few publications read and...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2000... STOCK TRADING FROM CUBES I wanted to let you know that I enjoyed reading "Stock trading from cubes" ("Editor's Note", September 1999, page 4). It is definitely something to seriously think about. I am a periodic reader of Electronics...

CORRECTION.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2000... A table on desktop PC semiconductor revenue on page 40 of the September issue of Electronic Business contained three incorrect numbers. The compound annual growth rates for the $800-$999 and $1,000-$1,499 categories should have been 17% and...

The computing millennium.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2000... The dawn of the new millennium provides an unbeatable excuse to step back from the day-to-day issues of computing and take a look at where we are today; where computing has been successful; where it has fallen short; and what the future may...

Electronics shipments growth 1999, 2000.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2000... Now that we have almost a full year's worth of data available for 1999, it's worthwhile to review last year's growth tends for various electronics end-markets, and to take a stab at predicting what lies ahead for 2000. We do this sort of...

A mountain of money.(venture capital investments)(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2000... 1999 venture capital funding could reach $30 billion The floodgates of venture capital funding opened wide in 1999, according to figures from PricewaterhouseCoopers Money Tree venture capital survey. In the third quarter of 1999, VC...

Mid-Atlantic draws increasing venture capital.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2000... The Washington, D.C., area continued its venture capital boom in the third quarter of 1999, coming in fourth in PricewaterhouseCoopers' Money Tree venture capital survey. At $638 million, investment in the region was nearly double what it was...

A prosperous New Year.(industry forecasts)(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2000... Almost half of our purchasing managers expect business conditions to improve over the next 60 days, the most optimistic forecast in more than six months. Finally, the long anticipation of the arrival of the millennium is over and businesses are...

Internet patents: A virtual land grab.
January 1, 2000... About 100 years ago, pioneers raced to claim homesteads during the Oklahoma Land Rush. Today, pioneers of new business models on the Internet are scrambling to stake out patent claims. No patent lawyer will guarantee success--either at the...

Will digital TV ever make it to market success?(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2000... Tune in tomorrow to see what happens next! The saga of digital TV resembles nothing more than a daytime television soap opera. It's constantly landing back in the hospital, otherwise known as the Federal Communications Commission, with one...

Internet leaders launch think tank.
January 1, 2000... A group of high-technology business leaders and academics have founded a new research organization in Washington, D.C., to provide objective research and hard data on the Internet and its effects on society. The Internet Policy Institute,...

Bluetooth to make the connection.
January 1, 2000... That cell phone isn't wireless anymore when you slap a hands-free headset on it. That's where Bluetooth technology comes in. The technology, which is vying to become a standard, uses a short-range radio frequency, operating on the 2.4-GHz...

Cognex sues the mighty patent king.(Lemelson Foundation)(Company Business and Marketing)
January 1, 2000... Company's legal efforts are aimed at protecting its customers The tables have been turned on the Lemelson Foundation Partnership, Incline Village, NV. The foundation is famous, or infamous rather, for suing 115 hightech companies for patent...

NumeriTech redraws lithography.(Product Information)
January 1, 2000... Phase shifting offers solution to sub-wavelength gap Imagine trying to paint a portrait on canvass when the only tool you have is a house-painting brush. Without a finer brush it would be tough, if not impossible, to paint eyes, eyebrows...

Chatting about chips.(HP, Lucent Technologies and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing form standards alliance)(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2000... Lucent and HP team up with Chartered Semiconductor to create an open standard of communication Back in September, Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ, and Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, along with Singapore based Chartered...

Executive pay snafu.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 1, 2000... Computer Associates case holds some important lessons for CEOs There are at least two lessons CEOs can learn from the recent legal troubles of Computer Associates International Inc., Islandia, NY, over its executive compensation plan. The...

Automating channel management.
January 1, 2000... Over the last few years there has been an e-business buzz surrounding both back office (i.e., ERP) and front office software automation. Interestingly though, little if any attention has been paid to automating the piece in the middle, namely...

The Best Kind of LEVERAGE.
January 1, 2000... IN THE MIDST OF THE AT&T CORP. divestiture in 1996, hardly anyone noted that a leveraged-buyout corn pany--Texas Pacific Group--quietly spent $175 million for a neglected subsidiary of Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ, called AT&T...

EB's Top 50 M&As.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2000... The most striking thing about this year's Electronic Business top 50 mergers and acquisitions is how communications companies (or in Intel Corp.'s case, communications-wannabes)dominate the list. Well over half of the acquisitions on our list...

The birth of a NEW processor.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2000... IT WAS AN AUSPICIOUS BEGINNING. Perhaps suspicious is a better word. Flashback to 1993. Both Hewlett-Packard Co. and Intel Corp. are looking for a way into the 64-bit chip market. HP wants to make its servers run faster and better compete with...

THE MUDDLE OF INVENTION.(national patent systems)(Government Activity)
January 1, 2000... The years-long effort to harmonize different national patent systems hasn't invented much progress DUAL FREQUENCY wafer-etching technology is the crown jewel in the intellectual property (IP) portfolio of Tegal Corp., a Petaluma, CA-based...

EHit or eFlop?
January 1, 2000... Back in September 1998, eMachines Inc., Irvine, CA, made a media splash when it announced it would sell PCs in chain stores at $599. Back then analysts criticized eMachines by saying that no PC maker in its right mind would have anything to do...

IBM "INSIDE:".(license and technologies)(Company Business and Marketing)
January 1, 2000... How James Vanderslice turned IBM's R&D into revenue In the spring of 1998, the idea bordered on heresy. James Vanderslice, then the general manager of IBM's storage systems division (SSD) in San Jose, wanted to throw open a door long marked...

We've come a long way.(1975 cover story)(Cover Story)
January 1, 2000... Back in our debut issue, Oct. 24, 1975, we were struggling to find our voice in covering the business of electronics. We occasionally ran stories that looked an awful lot like massaged specification sheets. Both the technology industry and tech...

Patents for profits and power.(Rembrandts in the Attic)(Review)
January 1, 2000... REMBRANDTS IN THE ATTIC: UNLOCKING THE HIDDEN VALUE OF PATENTS By Kevin G. Rivette and David Kline Harvard Business School Press January 2000 $27.50, 220 pages What is sure to be the first of many books on the topic, Rembrandts in the...

The source of ambition.(The Arc of Ambition)(Review)
January 1, 2000... THE ARC OF AMBITION, DEFINING THE LEADERSHIP JOURNEY By James Champy and Nitin Nohria Perseus Books February 2000 $26, 255 pages Over the centuries, people have studied and tried to understand the source of ambition. In The Arc of...

The great capital sponge.(chip fabricating plants)(Technology Information)
January 1, 2000... Some people on Wall Street are beginning to understand our industry." The speaker is an executive in the semiconductor equipment business. He was talking about the mounting capital requirements of chip fabricating plants and the structural...

Automating channel management.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2000... Over the last few years there has been an e-business buzz surrounding both back office (i.e., ERP) and front office software automation. Interestingly though, little if any attention has been paid to automating the piece in the middle, namely...