Electronic Business articles from July 2001

Electronic Business archives from July 2001

Crime does indeed pay.(Avant! Corp. pays out for court settlement)(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... That seems to be the sad lesson for unscrupulous technology entrepreneurs out of the recent legal settlement by Avant! (pronounced "ah-van-tee") Corp. At the end of May, CEO Gerald Hsu and six of his top lieutenants pled "no contest" to a...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2001... GREEN SAVINGS? I read with interest your May article "The greening of technology" [page 96]. Some of the examples you provided were impressive. I am writing, however, because not all such efforts are of equal value, and so far there does...

Where, oh where should my home server go?(Industry Trend or Event)(Editorial)
July 1, 2001... Last month, I explained the limited market for Web tablets--handheld, pen-operated computers such as Microsoft Corp.'s forthcoming Tablet PC. Next, I'd like to explain the problems I see with another popular product concept: the home server....

Consultant's IP rights not automatically transferred.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2001... Technology developed by a consultant usually contains intellectual property rights. Surprisingly, these rights are not transferred to the employer simply because the employer pays for the consultant's time. Patents are a common problem. The...

'Innovate--or die'.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2001... The biggest threat to the U.S. economy is lack of creativity. When the market slump began last year, politicians and investors were too quick to blame speculators and other scapegoats. The reality is that any lasting market downturn is a signal...

Indicators suggest long road back.(Industry Trend or Event)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... The Conference Board's latest summary of leading economic indicators (the LEI report) suggests that the U.S. economy isn't likely to get much weaker--but it's going to be a long road back to a period of solid growth such as that experienced...

VC free fall: disaster, or return to normalcy?(Industry Trend or Event)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... Some see plunge as a window for profitable business plans It certainly looks like a bad time to seek venture funding: Equity investments just posted the worst quarter-to-quarter drop in history. But entrepreneurs and venture capitalists can...

Hey, shareholders: Don't sell us short!(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2001... Companies plead with investors to help combat short selling Given the lousy economy, your stock price is already way down. Now, short sellers are targeting your company, creating pressure for your stock to totally tank. Short sellers...

Buyers expect summer uptick.(Industry Trend or Event)(Polling Data)
July 1, 2001... This month's polling of purchasing managers shows many hold out hope for a recovery. Almost half state that overall business conditions will improve in the next 30 days. Many believe as summer goes by, businesses will begin to see increasing...

Cloudy future.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... After its criminal plea, Avant! risks loss of cash, customers and cachet The perfunctory section entitled "Risk Factors" in Avant! Corp.'s annual 10-K report to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in March proved to be an eerie...

MEMS the word.(Intel Corp. reveals Micro-electromagnetic systems investments.)(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... Industry enthusiastic over Intel's activities in electromechanical systems Longtime backers of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) are understandably excited over Intel Corp.'s investments and research into MEMS, details of which the...

Falling fortunes.(Rambus Inc, Patent fraud case.)(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... Finding of fraud puts Rambus patent revenue at risk Rambus Inc.'s campaign to wring royalties out of its SDRAM and DDR SDRAM patents from dynamic-RAM manufacturers received a serious setback in May, when a federal district court jury in...

Laying off job cuts.(High technology industry)(Industry Trend or Event)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... Many companies are slashing staff, but a few seek other options Last year, technology companies scrambled desperately to hire more employees. This year, many can't seem to get rid of them fast enough. U.S. high-tech companies laid off about...

Have we hit bottom?(Forecasts for the semiconductor industry)(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2001... Not yet, say semiconductor market watchers Some analysts are calling it "the perfect storm." Although the semiconductor industry has weathered the turbulence of previous downturns, the current slowdown has some forecasters predicting a...

Customers count.(Agilent Technologies Inc.)(Company Operations)
July 1, 2001... Agilent blitzes end users before developing new logic analyzers If a new family of debugging tools for hardware design engineers fails to win significant market share, it won't be for lack of customer research. The manufacturer; Agilent...

TIGHT LIPS SINK STOCK TIPS.
July 1, 2001... Has Regulation FD had a chilling effect on the flow of information from public companies? AS THE MARKETS awaited earnings reports from the troubled tech sector this spring, chip stocks seemed unusually volatile. After falling nearly 25% in...

A POX UPON YOU.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2001... Although Gordon Judd is a man of God, many CEOs consider him a pest of corporations. The Roman Catholic priest is director of corporate responsibility for Trinity Health, a large nonprofit Catholic health system based in Farmington Hills, MI....

BIOINFORMATICS grows LEGS.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2001... When two competing groups "tied" in their race to map the human genome a year ago last month, the one clear winner was the rapidly growing field of bioinformatics. It was, after all, the use of supercomputers and ingenious new software...

'NOTHING BUT UPSIDE'.(Globespan Inc.)(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... The DSL chipset market is slumping, customers and competitors are dropping like flies, and GlobeSpan's Armando Geday is cheerfully planning for the coming boom Armando Geday, the 39-year-old CEO of GlobeSpan Inc. seems strangely unaffected...

Restarting the venture economy.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2001... Soon--perhaps by the end of the year--venture capital firms will resume funding start-ups. Successful entrepreneurs should prepare for permanent changes in the landscape. The next ventures will come from new places and assume new dimensions....