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Subject: Nov2000 ECMgt.com:B-to-B Growth Continues its Dramatic Pace
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November 1, 2000 *4,100 subscribers* Volume 2, Issue 11
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  • The Unlikely Revolutionary
  • EMI's Song to Remain the Same
  • Internet Proposals Given To Congress
  • April's Internet Stock-Shock Fallout Continues
  • Web Has Little Impact For Most Olympics Fans
  • Wal-Mart No Web Mart
  • Quake rattles Japanese telcos, chip makers
  • Informax takes its bioinformatics software to the enterprise
  • California Cities Turning Away Dot-Coms
  • IBM to build $2.5B chip plant in New York
  • Cracked! 'World's toughest' code broken
  • Microsoft's Window Into Linux
  • Star Wars
  • Key E-Business Legal Battles Looming
  • Ranking the Best Venture Capitalists
  • Lucent's management change should have come sooner
  • BT Claims Talks With AT&T Continue, Despite Reports
  • NBCi President Quits
  • UPS moving to install wireless LANs at all delivery hubs
  • Prohibition Online ?
  • Microsoft Urging Users To Patch 'Serious' IIS Security Hole
  • Transmeta Debuts Crusoe Processor

The Unlikely Revolutionary
Dave Sorensen is shaking things up at General Mills, leading the maker of Cheerios and Betty Crocker cake mixes onto the Internet.

EMI's Song to Remain the Same
The Warner Music-EMI deal is on hold for now, which means execs at EMI get to keep doing things their way for a while... If you think Web radio is an alternative to traditional radio, think again....

Internet Proposals Given To Congress
Congress should consider a voucher program to help needy families get connected to the Internet, a scientific advisory panel

April's Internet Stock-Shock Fallout Continues
The sudden drop in the Internet stocks market last April continues to reverberate through the online financial markets, according to a study released today by Jupiter

Web Has Little Impact For Most Olympics Fans
Although operators of the official Web site of the Sidney Olympics and the Web home of the games' US broadcaster each boasted of traffic reaching a half-million visitors a day, a study released today says the Web wasn't a big part of most Americans' Olympic experience

Wal-Mart No Web Mart
Sudden site closure magnifies online superiority of retail rivals

Quake rattles Japanese telcos, chip makers
7.3-magnitude quake sends some workers home, reduces telco capacity.

Informax takes its bioinformatics software to the enterprise
Pharmaceutical research is changing in ways likely to make a few software companies very rich.

California Cities Turning Away Dot-Coms
Cities in the land of high-tech milk and honey are doing the unthinkable: turning away Internet companies that are the cutting edge of Silicon Valley's software economy...

IBM to build $2.5B chip plant in New York
IBM said it plans to build a $2.5 billion chip plant in East Fishkill, N.Y. The plant is part of its $5 billion capital-investment plan to support its semiconductor business.

Cracked! 'World's toughest' code broken
Swedes use 70 years of computer time to decipher 10 increasingly difficult codes set by author Simon Singh.

Microsoft's Window Into Linux
Corel got a cool $135 million from their former adversary in exchange for a promise to promote MS' new '.NET' platform. But SEC documents reveal Microsoft can also have Corel develop Linux apps for the platform

Star Wars
The legal battle between DirecTV and its scrappy challenger over shelf space in the nation's largest consumer electronics stores is slated for trial in December.

Key E-Business Legal Battles Looming
The use and abuse of spam and the fight over domain names are the subject of two lawsuits gathering steam in the courts that could affect online business conduct in the future,

Ranking the Best Venture Capitalists
The best venture capitalists are the ones who do well by their companies, not just themselves. An exclusive survey ranks today's top Internet VCs by this new measure -- and turns up a few surprises.

Lucent's management change should have come sooner
Several analysts who follow the networking business said today's ousting of Richard McGinn as chairman and CEO of struggling Lucent Technologies was long overdue.

BT Claims Talks With AT&T Continue, Despite Reports
Beleaguered British Telecom [NYSE:BT], having seen its share price plunge from 15 to around six pounds ($22.50 to $9) over the last year, was fighting a rear guard action after a report in Wall Street journal

NBCi President Quits
Edmond Sanctis exits after NBC network's online unit was streamlined

UPS moving to install wireless LANs at all delivery hubs
United Parcel Service of America plans by mid-2002 to install advanced wireless LANs and next-generation scanners at all 2,000 of its package-delivery hubs and sorting facilities.

Prohibition Online ?
Clinton is set to sign into law Sen. Orrin Hatch's bill against the online sale of alcoholic beverages via the internet. This tells the net community that the idea that the internet's inception would promote "friction-free capitalism" was convoluted, at best.

Microsoft Urging Users To Patch 'Serious' IIS Security Hole
Microsoft Corp. is scrambling to alert users of its Internet Information Server (IIS) software to a serious security flaw that has been discussed online by potential attackers for at least a week

Transmeta Debuts Crusoe Processor
Laptop computers are continuing to become more powerful machines.

 

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