EXCITE@HOME MIGHT SHUT OFF CABLE INTERNET SERVICE

Nov 27, 2001 | broadband, business

Early this year Northpoint shut off DSL service to 100,000 customers with only a few days notice. It caused such a flap that I thought nothing like it would ever happen again. Guess what? Excite@Home says service might be shut off on Friday to 4.1 million cable...

XO COMMUNICATIONS IN TROUBLE

Oct 7, 2001 | broadband, business

XO Communications is struggling to survive. Layoffs, salary freeze, reduced advertising – all the signs of yet another telecommunications company on the ropes. Here’s an article with more details.

AMAZON OPENS TRAVEL STORE

Sep 26, 2001 | Amazon, business

Amazon has added a travel store, appearing as a new tab on Amazon’s home page. It links services from Expedia and Hotwire (a discount agency), presented in an Amazon design and with Amazon handling the transactions. Amazon has cut several of these deals where it...

HP TO ACQUIRE COMPAQ

Sep 3, 2001 | business

Well, this ought to be all over the news in the morning. Hewlett Packard has agreed to buy Compaq Computers in a stock swap valued at $25 billion. That promises to shake up the computing world in a big way.

GATEWAY WOES

Aug 28, 2001 | business

Gateway is struggling more than you realize. Its business plan is a mess – there’s no money to be made from consumer PCs, but it’s had no luck figuring out what else to sell. It laid off 3,000 employees earlier this year, and it’s laying off...

KODAK AND MICROSOFT

Aug 13, 2001 | business, photos

Kodak got a bunch of publicity last month when it attacked Microsoft for not giving its photo finishing software fair treatment in Windows XP. (See my link and comments on July 7.) It was played up as another example of big bad Microsoft giving preferential treatment...