Archive for January, 2003

Brobeck gone, a rebound lurks around the corner

Om Malik, Friday, January 31, 2003 at 12:01 PM PT Comments (0)

The New York Times :: Ironic as it may sound, the closing of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, a San Francisco Law firm and a Bay Area institution for over 77 years, is the first bit of good news for the technomy. I personally believe that the law firms are the first one into the boom [...]

WorldCom Looks to Sell Ebbers’s Shipyard

Om Malik, Monday, January 27, 2003 at 12:01 PM PT Comments (0)

WSJ/Associated Press:: WorldCom Inc. has asked a bankruptcy court’s permission to sell a Georgia yacht manufacturing shipyard it took over last year from its former chief executive, Bernard Ebbers. In court filings Wednesday, WorldCom officials said they could realize about $7 million by selling Intermarine Savannah to Palmer Johnson Savannah, a Georgia-based yacht builder. Mr. [...]

European fiber market - boom to dust

Om Malik, Monday, January 27, 2003 at 11:01 AM PT Comments (0)

From Probe Research:: Between 1999 and 2001, Probe Research estimated that over $20 billion was spent for the deployment of fiber-based networks and the associated facilities within Europe. However, only a handful of competitive players remain from the hordes that had descended on Europe in the late nineties. Companies such as Global Crossing, KPNQwest [...]

Plugged in :: How VoDSL is becoming a reality?

Om Malik, Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 11:01 AM PT Comments (1)

Red Herring :: While much of the telecom world has focused on widening bandwidth connections into the home in order to deliver video entertainment, dozens of startups and established telecom companies in countries like Canada, South Korea, Japan, and the United Kingdom have been hard at work shrinking, or compressing, the data that is sent [...]

Essential Asian Flavas - Hits, Beats & New Grooves

Om Malik, Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 8:01 PM PT Comments (0)

With nothing exciting to show for quite a while, this “hot” new compilation from Outcaste may just be their saving grace. Keeping in mind that this compilation doesn’t solve the basic need for some originality from this label, it does manage to pack a decent-almost-solid (if not powerful) punch.
Attracting the casual listener are names like [...]

Linux ahoy

Om Malik, Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 11:01 AM PT Comments (0)

Off to covering the Linuxworld! It is sunny bright and cold! But I am sure things are going to be quite hot inside the Jacob Javits center. The mission today is to find interesting companies and interesting products. I am keen on checking out some new cool products from the likes of Codeweaver, SuSe and [...]

External Affairs

Om Malik, Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 8:01 AM PT Comments (0)

Aamir Khan’s External Affairs : OutLookIndia.com He’s India’s hottest star, with global ambitions after the blockbuster success of home production Lagaan. She’s a lowprofile film researcher from London who’s besotted with Bollywood. And if the buzz is to be believed, the recently-divorced 38-year-old Khan and thirty-something Hines are an item.

Unload that ‘worthless’ stock

Om Malik, Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 8:01 AM PT Comments (0)

Unload that ‘worthless’ stock | csmonitor.com :: Even shares in companies that have gone bankrupt have a market. Finding it, and cashing out, can mean claiming a loss at tax time.

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