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Squeezing Yourself Out (for the Company) |
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| Topic: Telecom Industry |
4:04 pm EDT, Sep 2, 2002 |
Hugh C. Martin realized that the merger he had initiated to protect his fiber optic company would cost him his job. Last year, an "economic buzz saw" threatened the bandwith industry ... it didn't occur to him that he might soon be out of a job. "I will probably eventually start another company. Now I have a reputation. I can be selective about what I go do." Squeezing Yourself Out (for the Company) |
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Terrorism's Toll on the FBI |
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| Topic: Politics and Law |
11:13 pm EDT, Sep 1, 2002 |
Over the years, FBI directors have shifted resources to confront the scourge at hand. ... But when Robert Mueller announced that the bureau would double his counterterrorism staff, ... agents voiced fears that traditional crime-solving would suffer. At the same time, experts raised concerns the FBI would become a domestic spy agency ... FBI experts question whether the bureau should be cannibalizing itself at a time when its federal responsibilities are already so vast and diverse ... Terrorism's Toll on the FBI |
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Telecom Wreck Provides an Opening for AT&T |
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| Topic: Telecom Industry |
10:08 am EDT, Sep 1, 2002 |
The thinning of competition, along with the potential to whisk away customers from its suffering rivals, should allow AT&T to survive its own dubious investment of more than $100 billion to acquire cable assets. ... AT&T is an "attractive long-term deep-value play" ... Many analysts still fear a nightmarish possibility: that WorldCom and the rest of what Mr. Johnstone calls telecom's "living dead" -- companies reorganizing under Chapter 11 -- emerge from bankruptcy, relieved of their crushing debts and hungry enough for customers to cut prices sharply. Telecom Wreck Provides an Opening for AT&T |
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A New Model for AOL May Influence Cable's Future |
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| Topic: Tech Industry |
11:06 am EDT, Aug 29, 2002 |
"A few years out, the question of whether last week's deal was a good one for AOL Time Warner will probably depend on whether the America Online unit can create the Internet equivalent of must-have offerings like "The Sopranos" and "Sex and the City." A New Model for AOL May Influence Cable's Future |
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Shadow Puppets, by Orson Scott Card |
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| Topic: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Literature |
10:52 am EDT, Aug 29, 2002 |
In Shadow Puppets, Orson Scott Card continues the storyline of Shadow of the Hegemon, following the exploits of the Battle School children, prodigies who have returned to an Earth thrown into chaos after the unifying force of the alien invasion they stopped in Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow has dissipated. ... [Shadow Puppets includes] thought-provoking musings on geopolitics, war, courage, arrogance, good versus evil, and the concept of children wise beyond their years dealing with grave responsibility. Shadow Puppets, by Orson Scott Card |
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When Economics Shifts From Science to Engineering |
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| Topic: Business |
10:33 am EDT, Aug 29, 2002 |
Hal Varian writes in today's NYT. Economists think of themselves as scientists; their primary goal is to understand how the economy works. But scientific knowledge is not their only goal ... Economists are increasingly being called on to give advice about how to design new economic institutions. ... [Now,] economics looks more like engineering than it does pure science. When Economics Shifts From Science to Engineering |
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Deals Within Telecom Deals |
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| Topic: Telecom Industry |
9:01 am EDT, Aug 25, 2002 |
An article about the sneaky financial dealings of the telecom industry. Time Warner Telecom, Sonus, Qwest, Williams, Winstar, Global Crossing, Corvis, Tellium, Lucent, Sycamore, WorldCom, Alteon, Nortel, and others. Supplier to telco: "Buy my gear, please!"
Telco to supplier: [Silence]
Supplier to telco: "Would you like stock options with that router?"
Telco to supplier: "Done!" ... The fact that companies and their executives profited from investments in fledgling suppliers may help explain why there was such a gross misallocation of capital in the sector, and why networks that cost billions to build fetch far less in bankruptcy auctions. Deals Within Telecom Deals |
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The Dixie Chicks Keep the Heat on Nashville |
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| Topic: Music |
8:49 am EDT, Aug 25, 2002 |
In the early 1990's, the Dixie Chicks were a cowgirl revival troupe playing for tips on the Texas dance hall circuit. By the end of the decade, they were Nashville, and pop, superstars. "Home," the album they'll release on Tuesday on their new Open Wide Records label, an imprint of Sony Music, is likely to shake up and challenge the Nashville establishment: tracks too long for radio airplay, no drums, and lyrical jabs at commercial radio. ... But country stations can't afford to ignore them. The Dixie Chicks Keep the Heat on Nashville |
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A Nation of Bloggers and Googling by E-Mail |
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| Topic: Human Computer Interaction |
6:45 am EDT, Aug 23, 2002 |
The number of Weblogs now tops a half-million, by most estimates. So it's no surprise that some bloggers, as the writers of these link-filled, diarylike sites are known, are carving some order out of chaos. There is no easy way to search for blogs by content or popularity. But a bevy of new sites offer interesting ways, if somewhat esoteric ones, to browse the blog universe. A Nation of Bloggers and Googling by E-Mail |
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Mac OS X Switcher Stories |
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| Topic: Technology |
9:40 pm EDT, Aug 22, 2002 |
Tim O'Reilly writes: A few weeks ago, I wrote a weblog entry about Microsoft's perception that Mac OS X uptake is too slow, versus my experience that users are moving to OS X in droves. I decided to do an informal poll. I sent a message to Dave Farber's IP (Interesting People) mailing list, asking: I'd love to hear from IP readers who have adopted OS X. Were you switching from OS 9, Windows, Linux, or Unix? Are you still using your old system as well, or fully switched? Mac OS X Switcher Stories |
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