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Re: The End of An Era?

At 10:58 AM 04/04/00 -0700, you wrote: >The biggest slaughter I spotted in the US (not an exhaustive search) among >well-known companies was Exodus, who dropped to $96/share from $180 a >couple of weeks ago. Yikes! Wow! Exodus went on a WILD ride today. Whereas last...

The End of An Era?

Technology stocks in Canada and the US are being absolutely hammered. The NASDAQ has dipped below 4000 this morning. My Sierra Wireless shares, which peaked at $232 earlier this year, are trading at $70 (I bought at $22). Everybody’s talking about a cascade...

In The Bay Area..

OK.. at last the shroud is revealed. After spending the last six months Snowboarding, doing sporadic consulting work, and generally goofing off I’m back in the limelight of Silicon Valley. I have joined a company called eVoice in Menlo Park as their Director of...

The Free Ride Is Over For FedEx..

Arguably, the two companies benefiting the most from the .com ecommerce revolution are FedEx and UPS. These two giants have seen their infrastructure strained and their wallets fattened as the use of the web for buying products has grown. As Amazon well knows, the...

11th Hour for Iridium

Iridium now toast? C’mon… maybe it’s too early for satellite-based voice, but how about lots of little low bitrate applications like paging? I can think of a thousand uses for a roving satellite signaling network that require very little bandwidth...

BC You Later – One of Our Own in Ink

http://www.amcity.com/seattle/stories/2000/03/13/story2.html B.C. you later Net entrepreneurs are heading to U.S. Steve Ernst Staff Writer Speeding tickets are no longer a worry for Dimitri Sirota. Until a few months ago, the 29-year-old entrepreneur was driving 300...

Speaking of mania..

Ummm.. what should we critique here first? o Lack of successful penetration of all video conferencing products over the last 25 years. o Lack of any credible plan to deliver sufficient bandwidth to sup- port video to mobile phones. o Lack of sufficiently miniaturized...

PCs still Bottlenecking Web Growth..

Check it out MSIE 5.0 has thoroughly kicked Netscape’s ass! http://www.thestandard.com/research/metrics/display/0,2799,12809,00.html March 13, 2000 The Right Tools For The Job Web site developers face the dilemma of balancing the most appealing online content...

$99 PC, Anyone?

Prediction: This is going to make NetPliance’s IPO huge. It has all of the buzzwords, ie. “Slashdot”, “Linux”, “Sub-$200 PC”, etc. http://www.linux-hacker.net/iopener/ A little history: * Some dude figures out how to add a...

Statistics for Your PowerPoint Slides..

http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/poll/technology/index.html Survey Shows Widespread Enthusiasm for High Technology Americans Love Their Computers and the Internet; ‘Digital Divide’ Still Exists, but There Is Good News, Too […] Virtually all...