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Google trumps Microsoft in UK power elite
News In general, the IT industry fared badly in this year's rankings, perhaps a sign that technology isn't playing the major role in the media world that had been predicted during the dot-com boom. The ever-lengthening shadow of Google has now fallen...
[July 12, 2004, 13:45]
Newspapers hit back at online jobs sites
News That's about 20 percent more than the $25m a year Monster is paying AOL for exclusivity -- a deal struck in 1999 during the height of the dot-com boom that will expire at the end of the year. But the message sent by the joint venture of newspaper...
[August 8, 2003, 12:35]
Freeserve defiant after Dixons chooses AOL
News Dixons helped create Freeserve during the dot-com boom, and the ISP quickly became the UK's largest dial-up provider due to its pioneering subscription-free business model. Electrical retailer Dixons Group said on Monday it had abandoned its long...
[September 1, 2003, 9:40]
MP3.com artists to be given a new home
News At the peak of the Internet boom several sites, including MP3.com, Riffage.com and Garageband.com, offered huge, free database and distribution services for musicians who wanted to make their music available online.
[November 27, 2003, 11:50]
Autonomy to power Olympic surveillance
News Autonomy was one of the UK darlings of the dot-com boom, with its software that finds links between seemingly unconnected pieces of information held within unstructured data. Technology that was originally developed to help companies to organise...
[April 23, 2004, 15:20]
Women and Information Technology review
Reviews The expectation that, particularly in the dot-com boom, programmers and software engineers will work long hours throughout their careers leads women to think of computer science as a career that will give them insufficient control over their lives.
[July 5, 2006, 14:35]
Windows 98 lifeline 'prompted by Linux threat'
News Governor also pointed out that unlike the dot-com boom years, companies simply can't afford to invest in new hardware in order to upgrade their operating system: "Given the terrible state that budgets have been in over the past few years and...
[January 13, 2004, 14:10]
Flooz.com collapse linked to massive credit card fraud
News Both firms, during the heady days of the Internet boom, had hoped to dominate the new economy landscape, but it seems that credit card payment will prevail on the Internet, in the short term at least.
[August 28, 2001, 14:24]
Price wars give Amazon an edge
News Peek blamed the stagnation on the expiration of a number of high-margin advertising deals that were signed in 1999, during the dot-com boom. Amazon.com saw its net loss drop steeply while its revenue soared in the third quarter, the company...
[October 25, 2002, 9:10]
Emerging handsets mimic iPods
News A few wireless companies, including Sprint, began moving down this path at the peak of the dot-com boom, although that first generation of phones and services had little effect on the market. Jingles on cellphones are going beyond ring tones...
[July 2, 2004, 15:40]
Apple starts charging for formerly free software
News Apple is clearly not alone in shifting from free to paid services, a move that was precipitated for many companies by the collapse of the dot-com boom. Apple's decision to stop offering free downloads of iMovie and iPhoto is part of a clear shift...
[January 9, 2004, 8:00]
Ballmer: We'll meet antitrust guidelines
News The antitrust case and uncertainty over how to proceed in the wake of the dot-com boom took a toll on Microsoft, which struggled in 2000 and much of 2001 to formulate a coherent product strategy. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said on...
[November 13, 2002, 7:53]
Study: Linux sales down, but not out
News During the dot-com boom, Linux was one of the hot trends that captured investor attention. Linux sales lost some ground to Windows last year, but are expected to climb in coming years as distributors of the alternative operating system create new...
[August 7, 2002, 8:08]
2004: The year of desktop Linux?
Talkback The hype around desktop Linux mirrored the dot-com boom in the late 1990s, and tailed off about as quickly. The initial excitement about Linux as an alternative to Windows on the desktop has long since cooled.
[December 27, 2003, 22:51]
Google makes move into banner ads
News The move puts Google more firmly into the camp of Internet advertising network providers such as DoubleClick, a company that came to define intrusive Web advertising during the dot-com boom. Search engine giant Google plans for the first time to...
[May 13, 2004, 8:55]
CeBIT 2006: IT industry turns to Europe
News But a range of factors, from the rise of Google and Web-based applications to the broadband boom and the growing popularity of open source, mean even the largest companies can't be sure of the future — no-one can afford to waste the opportunity to...
[March 6, 2006, 12:40]
Outsourcing conference draws protests
News Many US companies began turning to India and other countries in search of computer programmers for their Y2K projects and again during the dot-com boom, when workers with computer skills in this country were a scarce resource.
[September 17, 2003, 9:25]
IT's role in the clean-energy debate
News It's not definitive, but the data we've assembled suggest that investors have been able to achieve venture-grade returns consistent with the overall venture capital average returns over the past decade, taking into account the dot-com boom.
[November 10, 2004, 10:43]
Sun looks for Java pay-off
News Sun led the server market at the height of the Internet boom but has since lost ground to IBM and other rivals. In addition to restoring corporate pride, Sun is seeking to reclaim Java from a financial perspective to counter the devastating effects...
[March 25, 2002, 13:57]
MTV to make Napster - the movie
News A spokeswoman for MTV said the movie would focus on Fanning's personal saga as he transformed from an obscure college student into a symbol of the freewheeling Internet boom. Meanwhile, Fanning, wearing his signature baseball cap, became an icon of...
[October 4, 2002, 8:44]
