January, 2003 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for January 2003

Brobeck gone, a rebound lurks around the corner

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… Read More »

WorldCom Looks to Sell Ebbers’s Shipyard

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… Read More »

 
 

European fiber market – boom to dust

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… Read More »

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… Read More »

Essential Asian Flavas – Hits, Beats & New Grooves

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… Read More »

Linux ahoy

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… Read More »

External Affairs

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… Read More »

Unload that ‘worthless’ stock

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. Read More »

Sari, Wrong Number

Sari, Wrong Number : OutLookIndia.com :: Sari, Wrong Number Having survived for ages, is ‘the’ Indian garment dying? Read More »

Coke signs up Vivek Oberoi

exchange4media :: In a strategic move, Coca-Cola India has roped in Bollywood film star to endorse its flagship brand Coca-Cola in the highly competitive segment. Prior to this move, a number of leading cine stars have lent their names to promote the Coke brand… Read More »

Bollywood Movies 2003 Preview

Reeling In The New : OutLookIndia.com :: Bollywood Movies 2003 Preview:: 2003 will decide whether Bollywood will survive or if it’ll be The End.’ Here are some of the milestones on that crucial course. Make your choice. Read More »

Ta-ta TiVo

Red Herring, January 29, 2003: The coming ubiquity of personal video recorders will lead to their demise. Six years after pioneering the concept of personal video recording–a way to record television shows on a hard drive, skip commercials, and even pause live TV–the industry’s founding fathers are… Read More »

More Must Reads

From DotMusic.com Electric Six may have registered the first memorable single of 2003 but their tenure will be short lived. With the current popularity of all things Bollywood, it’s surprising that it’s taken until now for this to filter through into the charts but… Read More »

Outcaste Press Release:: It is amazing to think that it took a bunch of American hip hop producers to take some Bollywood beats and vocals and turn the UK Asian music scene on its head. Timbaland with Missy Elliott, Dre with Truth Hurts, they have both… Read More »

Alan Reiter believes that the only hope for Microsoft Watch project will be “a variety of consumer-oriented personalization applications” which would like in cellphones allow us to change the faceplates and time display options. Another big area of growth he suggests could be vhe watch-version… Read More »

At the recently concluded CES, TiVo which pretty much defined the PVR business got some good news and then some bad news. First the Good News: TiVo announced several new models, including an HD-capable set-top that will be featured in the DirecTV product lineup later this year. Samsung and… Read More »

Hosting tech, a hosting industry publication has ceased publication. Just got an email from the editor. “As you may be aware, as of January 10, 2002, management of HostingTech has decided to cease further publication of the magazine. The current advertising contraction within the… Read More »

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