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Craft.com Another Dot-com Dud?
News Eliminating loyalty programmes can backfire on dot-coms, even though it can save them money, Jupiter Communications analyst Ken Cassar said. The past few months have seen a slew of dot-coms go bankrupt, lay off workers or struggle to find new...
[June 20, 2000, 9:33]
Broadband Tipped To Relight Dot-com Dreams
News In 2000, when the dot-com industry hit trouble, almost all home Internet users -- and many small businesses -- only had a narrowband connection. Many of the failed dot-com ideas could soon get another chance, thanks to broadband.
[March 3, 2004, 14:50]
2000 Roundup: The Dot-com Bubble Pops
News 2000 will be remembered as the year the dot-com bubble finally burst. By autumn dot-coms were closing at a rate of about one a day. Freeserve, Britain's largest Internet service provider, started off the year with strong growth but ran into trouble...
[January 1, 2001, 6:16]
EBay Posts Big Jump In Fourth-quarter Sales
News EBay's strong earnings statement comes despite the economic downturn and the prevailing trend among its dot-com peers. While hundreds of other dot-com businesses have closed shop or posted declining revenue, eBay has continued to post profits...
[January 16, 2002, 12:02]
Dressing For IT Success
News By the end of the nineties the dot-com boom legitimised old jeans, sneakers, Birkenstocks or sandals, long unkempt hair, dishevelled beards, all manner of piercings, tie dyed t-shirts (it hides the stains), shorts, and the odd pair of hiking boots...
[February 6, 2003, 14:24]
Cliff Stanford: The Maverick Internet Pioneer
News That sale was one of the first of the Internet boom of the late 1990s, and made Stanford an early dot-com millionaire. Their dispute centred on the fact that Stanford, true to form, wanted to expand the colocation and Internet hosting company's...
[September 16, 2005, 13:20]
Microsoft: Don't Sell PCs Without Operating Systems
Talkback Just email me: zolar1 at hot mail dot com Other problems is that Linux has trouble working with RAID configurations (haven't found one that properly recognized my array yet, except Ubuntu - which sees each of the drives independently).
[April 9, 2006, 4:21]
The Day Ahead: Dot-coms Latest Survival Tactic Is Relocation
News It's a well-known fact that dot-coms are pinching pennies to survive, but now there's a sure-fire way to boost a company's financial standing. Here are dot-coms' favorite survival tricks: The dot-coms have already cut back on their costly branding...
[August 31, 2000, 11:46]
Intel To Cut 1,000 Manager Jobs
News After bulking up with several acquisitions in the dot-com era, the company subsequently whacked divisions and sold off other groups. Still, Intel has had trouble overcoming institutional inertia. In early 2004, ZDNet UK’s sister site, CNET News.com...
[July 14, 2006, 8:35]
Publishers Pull Pop-ups
News As old as the commercial Web itself, the ad format only truly came into vogue when Web publishers got pressed for cash in the dot-com crunch. What's bad for the advertising is when it's overly irritating; that's where pop-ups ran into trouble.
[August 2, 2002, 12:20]
Microsoft Co-founder Hits Investment Slump
News Granted, Vulcan Ventures' ability to fund sustainable businesses isn't necessarily any worse than those of many Silicon Valley venture firms, whose dot-com disasters range from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers-backed Excite@Home to Hummer Winblad...
[May 13, 2002, 15:48]
Server Sales Hit The Skids
News But this time, most computer makers can't rely on PC sales or other revenue sources to compensate, and the withering dot-com revolution has undermined hopes that the Internet would spur huge server growth.
[June 12, 2001, 14:11]
Mandriva Aims For The Enterprise
News Mandriva has been no stranger to trouble since the dot-com crash of 2001. Like many, the company went from crisis to crisis and Mandriva — then MandrakeSoft — filed for bankruptcy protection in early 2004.
[September 20, 2006, 14:00]
Building A New Yahoo! Is On The Cards
News In hindsight, analysts fault the company for becoming overly dependent on advertising -- a weakness that became all too apparent when the bottom dropped out of the dot-com economy, wiping out many of its biggest customers.
[April 9, 2001, 12:00]
What Lies Ahead For OpenSolaris?
News Solaris remains a popular version of Unix, and its widespread use in the dot-com boom helped Sun fend off an assault by Microsoft's Windows. If Red Hat is having trouble developing any kind of community around their distribution, what opportunity...
[January 25, 2005, 14:10]
Apple Pitches Mac OS X To Linux Fans
News With the switch to OS X a couple of years ago, however, Apple began to tap into the community of developers who use Unix and its open-source clone, Linux, which became the poster child of the software world during the dot-com boom.
[October 10, 2002, 16:01]
Venture Capitalists To Tech Bigwigs: Mea Culpa
News But with an endless parade of grim news from Wall Street amid disclosures of yet more dot-bombs, guess who some venture capitalists are blaming for the souring fortunes of the Internet sector? The trouble we find ourselves in is the fact that a lot...
[October 13, 2000, 9:36]
Meta Founder Advises Detox For 'hungover' Companies
News And as for all those analysts who predicted trillion dollar markets back in the days of the dot-com boom, did they feed the IT spending frenzy? Managing IT well in a downturn is all about managing supplier relationships well.
[October 25, 2002, 8:28]
Microsoft Posters Don't Stick In NYC
News The fine for the related offence is $50 (£32), plus a $5 handling fee, said DOT spokesman Tom Cocola. He said the DOT received about a dozen phone calls Thursday complaining about the posters, and teams dispatched removed a few hundred of them.
[October 25, 2002, 15:19]
Origami's Fondness For Folding
Leader Look at the teaser campaign for the Origami Project: two weeks of slyly suggestive überhip flash animation replete with shots of Rio at night and lower-case dot-matrix text by day. The trouble is, 3G and XP are fundamentally incompatible - or...
[March 3, 2006, 14:20]
