Information Freeway Report articles from November 2000

Information Freeway Report archives from November 2000

America's Network.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.americasnetwork.com This is the online version of the biweekly magazine America's Network that reports on technologies and strategies in the telecommunications industry. You can search by keyword for an article or browse by date....

European Companies.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.business-mag.com Business Magazine profiles European companies, their products and services, and marketing strategies. The online magazine covers multiple industries, such as automotive, chemicals, building services, electronics,...

Far Eastern Economic Review.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.feer.com The Far Eastern Economic Review reports on business, economics, technology and social issues throughout Asia. The online version of this weekly publication offers selected articles from the print edition. There are also...

Canada/America Trade.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... http://canamtrade.badm.sc.edu This is a site sponsored by Canadian American organizations throughout the southeast United States to bring together businesses that are involved in trade between the US and Canada. The Canadian American...

From the Editor.
November 1, 2000... Many thanks to all of you who have completed our survey from the October issue. It is most helpful as we tailor our newsletter to your needs. And if you haven't responded, we'd still like to hear from you. Our big news this month is that...

ASTM Directories.(American Society for Testing and Materials)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.astm.org The American Society for Testing and Materials has two searchable databases online for finding information. The Directory of Testing Laboratories lists services and locations of testing labs, including types of tests performed...

Business Information.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/ Knowledge@Wharton is a bi-weekly resource to the latest business insights, information and research for a number of sources. You'll find business trends, interviews with corporate leaders, book reviews,...

Silver Institute.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.silverinstitute.org The Silver Institute is an international organization of miners, refiners, fabricators and wholesalers of silver and silver products. Its web site provides information on the worldwide supply and demand, the top...

Airline Industry.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.landings.com This is a good site for finding multiple resources on the airline industry. There's worldwide headline news about airports and aircrafts, links to databases that cover aircraft performance and specifications, NTSB accident...

WorldOpinion.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.worldopinion.com This is a site to keep you up-to-date on news and information on the market research industry. There's a directory of researchers that lists over 8,500 research locations in 99 countries. You can search by company...

Intellasia.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.intellasia.com This site contains two fee-based online publications: Vietnam Media Reports and Vietnam Trade Briefs. Media Reports provides coverage of financial and legal issues in Vietnam, such as banking regulations, investments,...

Utility Report.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... http://www.federallabs.org/ The Utility Locating Technologies is a project conducted by the State and Local Government Committee of the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for Technology Transfer with assistance from the National...

State Agriculture Departments.(information services)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Agriculture Departments at the state level are frequently overlooked as a source of company and industry information. They are falsely perceived as only dealing with farms. While the functions will vary from state-to-state, and even...

California Department of Food and Agriculture.(www.cdfa.ca.gov)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.cdfa.ca.gov This is a colorful site that provides a great deal of information, although only a limited amount is relevant for business researchers. The News section includes agriculture production, pest and disease updates and current...

Georgia Department of Agriculture.(www.agr.state.ga.us)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.agr.state.ga.us To find the reports and statistical information on the Georgia site, you need to choose the Agency Directory. From there you can link to market news reports on commodities such as grain, hay, livestock, meat, and...

Indiana Office of Agriculture.(www.ai.org.oca)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.ai.org.oca The link to Agri-Net has a good list of state and county resources, such as agencies, educational institutions, associations, magazines and newspapers on the agricultural industry in Indiana. There's also information on the...

Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry.(www.ldaf.state.la.us)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.ldaf.state.la.us On the surface, the Louisiana department's home page looks like it just has information on the various divisions and contacts. But choose one of the links, such as Forestry, and you'll find reports such as the Timber...

Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture.(www.massdfa.org)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.massdfa.org The meaty information about Massachusetts is found by linking to MassGrown, also directly on the web at www.massgrown.org. You can sign up for an e-mail notification of new publications or events, read the Farm and Market...

Nebraska Department of Agriculture.(www.agr.state.ne.us)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.agr.state.ne.us Nebraska's in an easy site to navigate. From Publications, you can find a resource guide for cooperatives, a list of cattle feeders in the state, and a trade directory with agricultural products produced and processed...

Oregon Department of Agriculture.(www.oda.state.or.us)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.oda.state.or.us A nice feature at Oregon's home page is the Experts link where you can e-mail a question to an expert in your area of interest. The department's databases are available online, including the Oregon Products Database,...

Washington Department of Agriculture.(www.wa.gov/agr)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.wa.gov/agr Here you can find information on the department's programs with links to them, the Fertilizer Database that includes registered fertilizers used in the state, and information on commodity inspections.

Banking Newsletters.(Lafferty Group's websites)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.lafferty.com The Lafferty Group provides business intelligence in the financial services, accountancy and consulting industry. They publish several newsletters, which are fee-based and available online. Retail Banking, published every...

Conferences.(www.seminarplanet.com)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.seminarplanet.com Here's another way to find a conference or seminar worldwide. Seminar Planet covers a wide range of topics. Brief details of each event are provided, as well as a link to a web page. You can browse the listings by the...

The Value Chain.
November 1, 2000... http://www.iwvaluechain.com/ The Value Chain is an online publication from Industry Week that provides current information, articles, and resources on value chain management (VCM), a theory of management that considers every step of...

Connecting Industry.(www.connectingindustry.com/)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.connectingindustry.com/ This site for the manufacturing industry in the UK serves seven industrial markets, including automation, electronics, factory equipment, and process and control. You'll find industry news for each market,...

Translations.(www.babelfish.altavista.com)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.babelfish.altavista.com When following news in a foreign country, one of the biggest problems is frequently finding a news site that is in English. We've found a web site that solves that problem. Babel Fish will convert a web site to...

Government and the Internet.(www.insidepolitics.org)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.insidepolitics.org This site maintained by a Brown University professor contains a report prepared at the University on the quality and effectiveness of e-government. You can read the full text of Assessing E-Government: The Internet,...

Skate Blue Chips.(www.skatefn.com)(financial and corporate information)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.skatefn.com The Skate Blue Chips is a handbook of financial and corporate information on companies in Central Eastern Europe and Russia. The online company database covers hundreds of top ranking publicly traded companies, offering...

Drug Stores.
November 1, 2000... www.chaindrugreview.com This is the web site for the print edition of Chain Drug Review, which reports on the chain drug store industry. You'll find headline news as well as industry facts, such as the top 100 chains by dollar volume and...

Economic Data.(www.econdata.net)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.econdata.net Use this site to find a wealth of economic data that is available on the web. There are more than 400 links to sources, including federal, state and local governments and private sources. You can choose to link by subject...

Business Case Studies.(www.businesscases.org)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.businesscases.org We frequently recommend Harvard Business School Case Studies as a potential source for information on a company. Here's a site for finding case studies done in Europe. Business Cases is arranged by topics, such as...

Management Research.(www.managementfirst.com/)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.managementfirst.com/ ManagementFirst is a collection of current research, summaries and guides on business management, electronic commerce, marketing research, time management, and strategic management. Under each of the seven expert...

New Energy Site.(www.energy.gov)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.energy.gov The Department of Energy has changed its web address. The new home page begins with a featured site, a tip of the week, and headlines. The left side provides links to energy information, such as data and prices, efficiency,...

Online Media.(www.mediaonline.cc)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.mediaonline.cc Use this site to find media in all countries -- newspapers, news agencies, magazines, radio and television stations. It's arranged by regions: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, North America, Central America,...

California PATH Database.(bibliographic data on Intelligent Transportation Systems)
November 1, 2000... www4.nationalacademies.org/trb/tris.nsf/web/path The California PATH Database provides access to one of the largest collections of bibliographic information on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). The database contains over 20,000...

Science/Technology.(Science and Technology Policy Institute publications)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.rand.org.centers/stpi Back in 1991, Congress created the Critical Technologies Institute (CTI) to conduct research and analysis to help decision-makers understand how US science and technology policy contributes to enhanced economic...

Street now Free.(www.thestreet.com)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.thestreet.com The Street.com Network, which provides financial news and analysis, now offers free access to its news and information on market trends, specific stocks and mutual funds as well as its commentaries on the market. There...

Manufacturing Magazine.(web site notes recent research and products)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.advancedmanufacturing.com/ Advanced Manufacturing Magazine reports on the best ideas coming out of research laboratories and factories for manufacturing professionals. You can search the web site for articles from the print edition or...

Thanksgiving Help.(www.theholidayspot.com)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.theholidayspot.com/thanksgiving Here's everything you could possibly need for your celebration. There's a collection of music files, crafts to make with the family, screen savers, reports on the original Thanksgiving, some turkey...

Home Improvement Help.(web site to help locate local professionals)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... www.improvenet.com Finding someone to do repairs or improvements in your home can be a real pain in the neck. Here's a site to make it easier. ImproveNet's Find a Contractor matching service will connect you with someone who is licensed,...