Electronic Business articles from September 2000

Electronic Business archives from September 2000

Be lean, mean...and green.(Industry Trend or Event)(Editorial)
September 1, 2000... High tech has enjoyed a reputation over much of the past 30 years as an environmentally friendly industry. Even after chemical leaks from holding tanks extensively contaminated soil and ground water in the Silicon Valley back in the late '70s...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2000... AN ISSUE OF FAIRNESS It was refreshing to see your comments about Internet sales taxation [Editor's Note, July 2000, page 6, "Internet Taxation: The emperor has no clothes"]. This is an issue that has been brewing for quite some time, and...

CORRECTION.(Correction Notice)
September 1, 2000... On the table of contents of ELECTRONIC BUSINESS, June 2000, we incorrectly specified the author of the feature story "Foot in mouth disease." It was penned by freelance writer Jerry Lazar. The byline on the opening page of the story, page 118,...

Where do your data live?(Industry Trend or Event)
September 1, 2000... The ongoing proliferation of personal electronics has an inconvenient corollary--a proliferation of places where information is created and stored. Having a variety of ways to create data is good, but being obliged to keep track of data in many...

New patent laws.(Government Activity)
September 1, 2000... Legislation at the end of last year--somewhat disingenuously named "The American Inventor's Protection Act of 1999"--will usher in some significant changes to U.S. patent law this fall. Submarines to the surface Secrecy has long been a...

Corporate spending keeps GDP growth high.(Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 2000... Although the Federal Reserve Board has tried to slow the fast-charging U.S. economy by raising short-term interest rates by almost two percentage points over the past year, the good numbers just keep on coming. By this point in time, policy...

Mining a company's greatest asset.
September 1, 2000... America's largest corporations have invested billions of dollars in knowledge management (KM) software that has produced endless amounts of data, but little insight into how to better manage their businesses. Companies made these...

Land grab.(Industry Trend or Event)
September 1, 2000... Chip M&A activity is busier than ever Semiconductor merger and acquisition (M&A) activity has never been more rampant. Chip M&As in 2000 are on pace to more than quadruple the value of those last year (see bar chart). Analysts point to...

Everyone out of the pool.(Industry Trend or Event)(Editorial)
September 1, 2000... Many believe the end of the pooling accounting method is a bad idea, but some analysts disagree Will the end of pooling be the end of the world as we know it? Not according to a recent study by the Washington, DC-based office of McKinsey &...

Autumn brings brisk business.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... As summer fades into fall, we look for business to pick-up. More than half of purchasing managers believe that business conditions will improve as we move into the last quarter. Many companies are reporting an increase in orders and new product...

Future shock?(Industry Trend or Event)
September 1, 2000... Salomon analysts stir bitter debate by predicting early chip-cycle downturn Talk about a party-pooper. Just as the chip industry thought prospects were sunny until at least 2002, somebody came along and rained on the parade. Both chip...

Interpol: Cybercrime fighters?(Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 2000... A Silicon Valley start-up is trying to convince Interpol--the international police organization--to help it foster a public-private partnership to combat cyberattacks. Atomic Tangerine, Menlo Park, CA, an Internet and network security...

Duel to the death?(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Congressional hearing shows how U.S. digital TV is sinking in a quagmire of controversy An engineering and statistics battle fought during a July congressional hearing served only to frustrate congressmen, who are trying to figure out how...

The high cost of optical networking talent.(Industry Trend or Event)
September 1, 2000... Companies pay big bucks for special engineering skill-set Potential acquisition targets used to be valued by their earnings, or in some cases their revenue or technology. Now, especially in the optical field, its human capital companies are...

Old technology ideal for hot new markets.(Industry Trend or Event)
September 1, 2000... GaAs ICs are making a comeback in fiber-optic networks and wireless handsets You can't teach an old dog new tricks, or can you? Gallium arsenide (GaAs) technology is definitely not new, but has recently exploded on the semiconductor scene....

Qualcomm spin-off could be merger bait.(Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 2000... Fabless giant dominates CDMA chipsets, but may attract a larger buyer When Qualcomm Inc. Chairman and CEO Irwin Jacobs told ELECTRONIC BUSINESS in January that his San Diego based wireless communications company wasn't interested in...

Online exchanges grow up.(Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 2000... Electronics heavyweights launch parallel efforts to create huge supply-chain exchanges The potential payoff of sourcing components, parts and services on the Internet has finally drawn OEMs, contract manufacturers and suppliers into...

Euro-growth.(Industry Trend or Event)
September 1, 2000... Outsourcing expected to be one of the fastest growing markets in Europe Technology growth in Europe is catching up with OEMs and is driving the exponential growth of the contract manufacturing (CM) industry there. Contract electronics...

Federal securities litigation cases drop in 1999.(Government Activity)
September 1, 2000... Suits take a different tack, going after GAAP violations The number of classaction securities litigation cases filed in federal courts decreased last year for the first time since 1996, according to a study by accounting firm...

The sticky dilemma of moving sales to the Web.(Industry Trend or Event)
September 1, 2000... To succeed in Web sales, companies must gain the allegiance of their sales forces It's the kind of dilemma that would make a philosopher's eyes dance. Without the backing of its sales force, a company's e-commerce initiative is likely to...

Information appliances demand cooperative design.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
September 1, 2000... If we are to realize the promise of e-commerce--delivering information wherever and whenever needed--companies must redesign consumer electronics appliances to make them smart, connected and adaptable to world markets. However, such a...

ENVIRONMENTAL Evangelist.(Company Operations)
September 1, 2000... For Pasquale Pistorio, the chips he's playing are green WHEN WE GO TO WORK, what values do we take with us? On what principles are we willing to stake our reputations? Few CEOs, focused on next quarter's results, encourage employees--or...

Memory, THE RAMBUS WAY.(Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 2000... IF YOU WON'T GO ALONG QUIETLY, THIS LITTLE COMPANY WILL RAM ITS MEMORY DOWN YOUR THROAT They tried asking nicely, at first. Gently cajolling. Politely persuading. Even enthusiastically investing. Rambus Inc., along with Intel Corp., which...

DESIGNING FOR DOLLARS.(Industry Trend or Event)
September 1, 2000... Contract manufacturers expand service offerings, courting tighter customer relationships. But issues of liability and IP protection should be closely studied When Motorola Inc.'s Personal Communications Sector (PCS) signed a $30-billion...

VIRGIN TERRITORY.(Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 2000... The infant Internet appliance industry turns chip marketing on its head GARY SAUNDERS will never forget the first time he touted National Semiconductor Corp.'s new Geode processor for Internet appliances (IAs) to executives at a large...

Sizzling gizmos.(Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 2000... Some new technologies to make your life work when you're not at work Although ELECTRONIC BUSINESS focuses on management issues and technologies for business, there's more to life than work. So, for those times when you've put the personal...

LEADING THE REVOLUTION.(Review)
September 1, 2000... New book offers insight and advice for today's ever-changing markets LEADING THE REVOLUTION By Gary Hamel Harvard Business September 2000 $29.95, 333 pages When it comes to a business revolution, if you're not out in...

Sizing Up a Start-Up.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Tedious writing, a lack of reporting weighs down book that attempts to provide advice on evaluating a job at a start-up SIZING UP A START-UP By Daniel S. Rippy Perseus Publishing August 2000 $16, 265 pages The goal...

The advantages of 'neophilia'.(Technology Information)
September 1, 2000... The MIT economist Paul Krugman, in a recent column in the New York Times, used the word "neophilia," love of the new. He was referring to a tendency of many investors to prefer companies, as he put it, "without a past." But I think the term can...