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Running Diskeeper and V-locity on SAN connected systems
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The dotcom ad noise
If you're not yet brain dead, and have been following the trends in the stock market, it was hard last week to miss an obvious point. The big consumer product and industrial companies of...
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Promotion-hungry dotcoms
The biggest problem for dotcoms now is promotion -- why else would so many desperate companies buy ads on the Super Bowl?
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Celebrity Internet schemes pay off
Forget AOL Time Warner, did anyone notice that Ed McMahon has taken to the Internet? Can Kathie Lee Gifford be far behind? Ever since this dot.com thing began, it's been driving certain...
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Time Warner, AOL a good mix
Why the AOL and Time Warner merger now? The key to this questions is with Gerald Levin, Time Warner's CEO, who long ago decided that Time Warner's future was digital. Basically, it boils down...
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The Net pundit power game
The absolute failure of the dreaded Y2K to amount to anything significant caused me to ruminate on an absolute fact of life with regard to the digital life. There is no way to predict what will...
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The future is right now
In 1899, exactly 100 years ago, H.G. Wells published one of the first true science fiction novels called "When the Sleeper Wakes." Although it is not as well remembered today as his "Time...
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Do we really want to vote online?
Here's a weird development. The Arizona Democratic Party is planning to allow registered Democrats for the March 11, 2000 presidential primary to vote online. Considering that the Arizona...
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The dotcom phenomenon
When does an old media company become a new media company? When that company starts talking to stock analysts. That was the case last week at the PaineWebber Media conference in New York, where...
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Will a TV network work online?
Television is a funny business, and it has major pecularities. As a journalist, I covered the TV business for about 10 years. Each of the different sides of the business cable, network,...
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Do we really need Web agents?
Here's something the Web didn't realized it needed-an agent. In a truly original announcement, Creative Artists Agency has announced it has entered into an "exclusive representation agreement"...
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Talk Radio hits the Web
Talk radio is a very big business in America -- Howard Stern regularly makes the list of the highest-paid Americans -- but up until recently, it hasn't been much of a Web business. A search on...
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The next online revolution: Print
What's the next Web revolution? Print. Now that may sound counterintuitive, and just plain wrong, but the medium that was supposed to supersede print is now morphing back into it. Nerve.com...
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Old media execs triumph in new media
One of the interesting dichotomies in the Internet space is that, while old media companies are largely getting left behind in the drive to make lots of money off the Internet, executives from old...
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Why is Microsoft hawking e-books?
Maybe you missed this choice item. Earlier this month, Microsoft said it would serve as founding sponsor of something to be called the Frankfurt eBook Awards, affiliated with the annual Frankfurt...
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Reader's Digest's gifts.com hits the Web
Put together a list of the most techno-savvy media companies, and the 77-year-old Reader's Digest Association (RDA) is very unlikely to make the cut. The company is saddled with an image as an...
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Record industry finally accepting Net music
Back in May of 1998, the announcement sounded like a winner. Ed Bennett, former CEO of Prodigy, was launching a big site called MY-CD, which would offer users the ability to create their own CDs,...
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Cable TV shopping meets the Net
Can weakling cable channels and other vulnerable media properties become giants of industry by making partnerships with the dot.com world? This week, NBC announced a co-promotion program with the...
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Amazon the entertainment company?
Actors don't really want to act, they want to direct. And online commerce geeks don't really want to spend all their time losing money, they want to direct too. Okay, maybe this is an...
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The Internet name game
Early on in the Internet ferment, I used to get a kick out of the meaningless names that Internet sites were saddled with. Prodigy designed something called "Stim," which I suppose was short for...
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Star journalists flock to the Web
It's long been true that heady developments in technology reach the attention of the media elites at least six months before they're common knowledge in Silicon land. So, just as some toilers at...
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