Electronic Business articles from March 2000

Electronic Business archives from March 2000

Auditor integrity.
March 1, 2000... The moniker "auditor" used to conjure up images of a bookish, respectable professional who holds individuals and corporations to the highest standards of fiscal responsibility. The only thing that keeps investing in common stock from being a...

E-nough already!
March 1, 2000... The public relations woman on the other end of the phone was just doing her job, trying to get ink for an online cattle-auction company. But her incredulity was testing my patience. I'd spent 10 minutes explaining it to her, but she simply...

Growth continues, but inflation threatens.
March 1, 2000... Economic growth U.S. economic growth continued at a sizzling pace through the final quarter of last year. In fact, many interested observers--particularly economic policy makers at the Federal Reserve Board--consider the economy in serious...

Web at a crossroads.(Technology Information)
March 1, 2000... The blossoming of the Web has been based on the use of PCs (whether Windows or Mac) as the access devices. These multipurpose systems are beginning to be complemented by a vast array of access devices, including cell phones, screen phones, TV...

Checking up on the auditors.
March 1, 2000... SEC clamps down on committees and outside audit firms In the last several months, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has fired several shots across the bow of corporate auditors, both those inside a company and outside. In...

Heard off The Street.
March 1, 2000... SEC bites down on selective disclosure practices Proposals for new rules to end selective disclosure of information on public companies are currently under consideration by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In an announcement in...

Optimism prevails; lead times lengthen.(in electronics industry)(Industry Trend or Event)
March 1, 2000... This month's query of purchasing managers shows that the optimism in the electronics industry is still holding firm. For the first time in four years, no one believes that business conditions will worsen in the next 60 days. A positive outlook,...

Don't pay off a cybersquatter!(laws against it)(Government Activity)
March 1, 2000... Imagine a car parking in front of your driveway and demanding $10,000 to move. You'd call the police and the car would be towed in a few hours! Yet the anything-goes atmosphere of cyberspace had made the comparable act of mass...

'Netting the brightest minds.
March 1, 2000... HelloBrain.com tries to establish a trading exchange for technology and expertise Can intelligence be traded over the Web? Not exactly. But a 'Net startup is seeking to do the next best thing. HelloBrain.com, launched in December, aims...

The AEA's 2000 policy agenda.
March 1, 2000... In January, the American Electronics Association held a press conference in Washington, D.C. to present its public policy agenda for 2000. Here are the top items the AEA intends to actively campaign for this year with lawmakers: Entry into...

The new processor crop.(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2000... AMD and Transmeta come after Intel's high-margin businesses There's no full scale assault on fortress Intel Corp., but the mightiest microprocessor maker in the world is fighting skirmishes on its flanks, especially the high-end desktop and...

Digital radio makes waves.(Technology Information)
March 1, 2000... A standards battle slows down the U.S. digital terrestrial audio market Much excitement for terrestrial digital broadcast radio (DAB) was generated at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, held in Las Vegas in January. But this market...

The INS could use a few good H1B candidates.
March 1, 2000... Computer glitch causes agency to lose track of technical visas granted It's a good guess that the U.S. government will reach the 115,000 limit on H1B visas for fiscal year 2000 sometime this spring, probably as early as this month. But as...

The private war against Microsoft is growing.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2000... Once U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued his findings of fact in the Microsoft Corp. antitrust trial back in November, adversaries of the software titan saw their opportunity. Plaintiffs are coming out of the woodwork and heading...

About face.(Government Activity)
March 1, 2000... Telecommuting policies highlighted in federal brouhaha A young professional signed her company's telecommuter agreement, which said the employer had the right to inspect her home workplace to make sure it complied with safety regulations....

E-commerce creates channel opportunities.
March 1, 2000... The brave new world of electronic commerce presents vast opportunity for forward-looking companies that will thrive despite the challenges of global competition, accelerating innovation and decreasing profit margins. With shrinking product...

MEET THE NEW Qualcomm.(Company Financial Information)
March 1, 2000... Transforming its business from making cell phones to DESIGNING CHIPSETS is paying off for Qualcomm WHEN QUALCOMM INC: CEO IRWIN JACOBS strode the flower-festooned podium at the La Jolla Marriott Hotel in late December to announce the sale...

CORRALLING NEW BACKERS.(for Sematech)(Industry Trend or Event)
March 1, 2000... In 1987, the United States sent a soldier--in the form of a government-backed consortium called Sematech--off to war to win back the semiconductor and equipment business from the Japanese. By the mid-1990s, he came home victorious. But after...

DIGITAL CAMERAS FOR THE MASSES.(Technology Information)
March 1, 2000... CMOS finally delivers low-cost technology for affordable, reasonable quality digital photography Tiny Xirlink Inc., San Jose, CA, expects 2000 to be a breakthrough year for the digital cameras it designs, manufactures and markets through...

REDESIGNING THE SOC design process.
March 1, 2000... Back in 1995, Mentor Graphics Corp. started getting ready for the system-on-a-chip (SOC) era, a nirvana in which an entire electronic system consists of a single sliver of silicon integrating the components of all different kinds of chips. The...

HOLDING THE BAG.
March 1, 2000... Some of Silicon Valley Group's biggest customers walked out on contracts for orders worth more than $50 million. Technology is not the hardest part of the game, managing the risk of a transition to a new technology is IT COSTS A BUNDLE to...

Employees for sale?("Future Wealth" by Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer)(Review)
March 1, 2000... The human stock exchange FUTURE WEALTH By Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer Harvard Business School Press April 17, 2000 $27.50, 224 pages Whether you're a senior manager at an Internet start-up or an executive with a...

Will B2B links mean profits for online retailers?
March 1, 2000... The dazzling future of Internet retail shopping (excuse me: e-tailing) and its enormous boon to electronic business through sales of servers and all kinds of network, inventory control and customer service software seems assured. But you have...