Electronic Business articles from June 2000

Electronic Business archives from June 2000

Knowing when you don't know it all.(Industry Trend or Event)(Editorial)
June 1, 2000... Silicon Valley is high tech's Mecca. Here we worship silicon and the entrepreneurial spirit. Valleyites pride themselves on being leaders, not followers, in all things. Still, at times our entrepreneurs behave like children intent on doing...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2000... DOMAINS FOR DOLLARS I recently read Marc E. Brown's column (March 2000, page 30) entitled "Don't pay off a cybersquatter!." Of course, there should be some recourse for trademark owners if their property is stolen and held for ransom....

CORRECTION.(Correction Notice)
June 1, 2000... In the April 2000 ELECTRONIC BUSINESS, Business Trends article "Move over PC's" on page 50, the line chart legend does not correctly identify the graphic plot. PC shipments should be purple and information appliance tan.

Info appliances: Proliferate or integrate?(Technology Information)(Column)
June 1, 2000... As the computing world evolves toward a diversity of information appliances, one of the central questions is just how many different kinds of appliances make sense. There is an inherent conflict between creating focused, optimized,...

Economic Outlook.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... ANALYSIS AND FORECASTS OF ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRY TRENDS ANALYSIS U.S. economic growth still strong in early 2000 U.S. economic growth continued strong--undoubtedly too strong for the Fed's liking--during the first quarter of this...

Branding and product development, strange bedfellows no more.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... Apple Computer Inc. gets it. Just look at everything the Cupertino, CA-based company has done in the past two years. It has carefully orchestrated each and every way that it touches its customer. Like a symphony, it's all seamlessly connected...

SAB 101 not just about software.(Government Activity)
June 1, 2000... Could a MicroStrategy be waiting to happen in the capital equipment industry? When the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission first issued its Staff Accounting Bulletin 101 (SAB 101) on revenue recognition in December, many expected it to...

Texas Pacific Group continues high-tech investing spree.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Leveraged buyout firm has already spent more than $740 million on technology acquisitions this year Texas Pacific Group has let no moss grow under its feet since ELECTRONIC BUSINESS brought the leveraged--buyout firm's high-tech activity...

Steady as she goes.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Our monthly polling of purchasing managers shows that many are hoping that overall business conditions will stay the same during the summer months. Many believe that the volatility in the stock market will end, and business will remain steady....

Let there be light.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... A severe lack of fiber optic components leaves lots of fiber in the dark The boom in optical telecommunications has a dark side. While component companies are riding run-away demand all the way to the bank, their major customers are...

Cash in a flash.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... Global sales of flash memory to double this year The wireless communications industry's seemingly endless hunger for flash memory is driving the flash market sky high. Last year's worldwide sales of flash memory increased an impressive...

At the front of the line.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Start-ups aim to integrate design processes Welcome to "B2D," the next e-commerce frontier. A rash of "business-to-designer" portals has sprung up of late, magnifying interest in the supply chain's front end. While printed circuit...

Foundries in high gear.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... Capacity outlook good, but caution prevails among fabless chip makers The semiconductor business is hot. The silicon foundry business is even hotter. So why are executives of fabless chip companies worried? Much of it is the fear...

DRAM market ends free fall.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... Demand to exceed supply by mid-year After three years of market pressure topped off by a natural disaster last September, any good news out of the DRAM market is welcome. The already sluggish worldwide market for DRAMs dropped sharply in...

Charges dismissed, case not closed.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... Avant! wins latest round in trade secrets dispute with Cadence Probably one of the longest-running high-tech legal battles ever, the case between Avant! Corp., Fremont, CA, and Cadence Design Systems Inc., San Jose, CA, may be approaching...

Good vibrations.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... Portable MP3 players spur audio chip sales I want my MP3. Consumers are falling in love with digital music, downloaded (often for free) over the Internet in the form of an MP3 file. MP3--literally, motion picture experts group, layer 3...

Sow's ear to silk purse.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... Turning inventory into a competitive advantage As the high-tech industry's inventory begins to develop the same shelf life as fresh cod fillets, the pressure to consume the stuff before its spoils has become intense. This...

Tricking the light fantastic.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2000... Back in 1897, when rumors of Mark Twain's death began to circulate, the enduring Twain fired off a pithy telegram to The Associated Press that read simply: "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." He lived on for 13 more years, and...

MINIDING THE STORE.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... Investors want boards to become more active in corporate governance OUTSIDERS RARELY HEAR ABOUT differences between CEOs and directors, and that's not surprising. In the past, CEOs selected most board members, often their cronies or...

BEAMING BUSINESS ABROAD.(Government Activity)
June 1, 2000... A CLAMP-DOWN ON EXPORT licensing for U.S. satellites is costing U.S. satellite makers business, and has some component vendors worried that their sales could be restricted as well. Not to use an indelicate term in the satellite industry, but,...

Playing Catch-up.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... EDA vendors struggle to keep up with IC fabrication advances with new tools and Internet-based design frameworks EDA (electronic design automation) tools typically are serviceable for only two generations of integrated circuit (IC)...

Cyber Supply.(RosettaNet works on supply chain management standard)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... The RosettaNet supply-chain-efficiency initiative has begun to deliver on its promises POP QUIZ! Which probrather have: 1) a warehouse full of parts that won't be needed for months or 2) running out of parts for something in production?...

HOW HOT IS Magma.(Company Operations)
June 1, 2000... Magma Design Automation has become a hot EDA property by clearing design "TRAFFIC JAMS." Now it has competitor traffic FEW START-UPS in the electronic design automation (EDA) industry become formidable enough to compete with heavyweights...

FOOT-IN-MOUTH DISEASE.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... When a crisis hits, companies can be their own worst enemies. Here's some advice from top communicators in high tech on how to handle big trouble FOR INTEL CORP., SANTA CLARA, CA, it was a major crisis. And its repercussions rattled high...

THE MONK AND THE RIDDLE.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Advising entrepreneurs to embrace a whole life plan THE MONK AND THE RIDDLE By Randy Komisar with Kent Lineback Harvard Business School Press May 1, 2000 $22.50, 192 pages In The Monk and the Riddle Randy Komisar...

TRUST ON TRIAL: HOW THE MICROSOFT CASE IS REFRAMING THE RULES OF COMPETITION.(Review)
June 1, 2000... McKenzie takes on antitrust law in favor of Microsoft TRUST ON TRIAL: HOW THE MICROSOFT CASE IS REFRAMING THE RULES OF COMPETITION By Richard B. McKenzie Perseus Publishing May 1, 2000 $25, 228 pages Author Richard...

Don't hide out in the lab.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2000... A group of scientists and entrepreneurs this past March established a company called Molecular Electronics Corp. It is developing molecules to function as successors to silicon chips in computers. They hope to solve the mounting crowding...