MOVERS & SHAKERS News Subject: November 2001 ECMgt.com: New Dimensions for Growth and Evolution ECMgt.com brought to you by ECnow.com Your Link to Worldwide E-Commerce Developments November 1, 2001 *4,300 subscribers* Volume 3, Issue 11 ECMgt.com Online: http://ECMgt.com View this Issue Online: http://ecmgt.com/Nov2001 Print this Issue: http://ecmgt.com/Nov2001/full.issue.for.printing.htm
Inside this Issue: New Dimensions for Growth and Evolution Sponsors (COMDEX biz,"E-Volve-or-Die.com" Author: Mitchell Levy, neoIT.com, Fort Point Partners, Delano Technology, Global M&A Survey) Collaborative Commerce: Automating and Integrating Trading Partner Relationships By Steve Rabin, Chief Technology Officer, eB2B Commerce, Inc. All E-News Sections E-Strategies (sponsored by ECnow.com) E-Products E-Services E-Marketing Supply Chain (sponsored by Sameday.com) Content, Portals & Community Governance & Going Global Partners & Deals Movers & Shakers Become a Sponsor Contributing to ECMgt.com Contacting Us Miscellaneous Info				Dream of Clean Desktop Gets Messy Yahoo!, MSN Spar Over Traffic Figures British ISP cuts off virus-spreading users Yahoo!, MSN Battle Over Traffic Figures AT&T Wireless pulls plug on fixed wireless Fiorina, Capellas Hard-selling HP/Compaq Deal Verizon Wireless Wins SMS Spam Case .biz back in business Judge Bars Lottery for ".biz" Web Addresses Arena Set For AOL/MSN Video-on-Demand Brawl Applied Materials starts VC fund MS, Prosecutors Set for Talks E*Trade diversity helps in downturn Fake Internet Cipro Ads Spur Concern Among Government New Yahoo Threat to Microsoft What Webvan Could Have Learned from Tesco Hacker Cracks Microsoft Anti-Piracy Software Flawed Patch Pulled by Microsoft Supreme Court Rebuffs Microsoft Appeal Intel countersues Via over U.S. patents Flooz, 'Currency' No Longer Good Treasury Dept. Unit Notes Rise In ID Theft, Hacking Dream of Clean Desktop Gets Messy Having found that consumers like a clean screen, Microsoft decided to give Windows XP an icon-free desktop. But most computer makers, whom tech companies pay to strut their wares, will clutter it up anyway. Wired http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,47517,00.html?tw=wn20011012 Yahoo!, MSN Spar Over Traffic Figures As advertising dollars continue remaining elusive, two of the biggest players in online media MSN and Yahoo! are trading veiled jabs over the accuracy of each other's claim to be the dominant portal. Internet http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article/0,,12_902921,00.html British ISP cuts off virus-spreading users British Internet users who fail to protect their machines against virulent computer viruses such as Nimda could have their Internet connections suspended by their Internet service provider. Cnet http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7473401.html Yahoo!, MSN Battle Over Traffic Figures Besides having posted dismal earnings for the third quarter, Sunnyvale, California-based Web portal Yahoo! may have slipped behind rival MSN, a unit of Microsoft. eCommercetimes http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/14127.html AT&T Wireless pulls plug on fixed wireless AT&T posted solid third-quarter results, helped by an increase in subscribers and use, but said it will exit the fixed wireless business in the fourth quarter and take a related pretax charge of $1.3 billion. Zdnet http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/newsbursts/0,7407,5098654,00.html Fiorina, Capellas Hard-selling HP/Compaq Deal Embattled CEOs Carly Fiorina of HP and Michael Capellas of Compaq are still hard-selling the proposed stock-swap merger between their two firms, a deal that has lost about $5 billion in value since it was unveiled last month. Computer World http://computerworld.com/nlt/1%2C3590%2CNAV47_STO64642_NLTWK%2C00.html Verizon Wireless Wins SMS Spam Case Verizon Wireless emerged the victor from what could be one of the country's first cases of wireless spamming. Internet http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article/0,,12_904901,00.html .biz back in business NeuLevel, the company in charge of .biz name allocation, clears a legal hurdle in its court case over the new Net address. Zdnet http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2820262,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_mh_com Judge Bars Lottery for ".biz" Web Addresses A Los Angeles judge has blocked a lottery intended to pick the winners of contested ".biz" Internet addresses. Washtech http://www.washtech.com/news/netarch/13112-1.html Arena Set For AOL/MSN Video-on-Demand Brawl The largest and second-largest ISPs in the nation are working out and working up their broadband content and inventory for the hearts and minds of video-on-demand users. Internet http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article/0,,4_907541,00.html Applied Materials starts VC fund Applied Materials said that it's creating a VC fund to invest in companies trying to develop alternative manufacturing methods for semiconductors and optical communications components. Zdnet http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5098839,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_mh_com MS, Prosecutors Set for Talks Microsoft and the government, under pressure from a judge to settle, make little progress despite two weeks of nonstop negotiations and face the intervention of a mediator. Wired http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,47503,00.html?tw=wn20011012 E*Trade diversity helps in downturn E*Trade's move to diversify its business looks like it is paying off, but the company isn't in the clear just yet. Cnet http://two.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=eCCZ0BC75T0U0epD0Ag Fake Internet Cipro Ads Spur Concern Among Government A campaign is being launched to keep unscrupulous online marketers from duping consumers seeking to get the drug any way they can. Internet http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article/0,,12_907691,00.html New Yahoo Threat to Microsoft Yahoo fired a volley at rival Microsoft by unveiling downloadable software that allows users to replace an array of Microsoft operating system and browser features with its own. San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/10/24/BU239766.DTL&type=tech What Webvan Could Have Learned from Tesco Inspiration came to Louis H. Borders back in 1997 when reportedly opening a package of Japanese spices and specialty foods he had ordered from a catalog. Wharton http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/articles.cfm?catid=7&articleid=448&homepage=yes Hacker Cracks Microsoft Anti-Piracy Software A piece of software being distributed anonymously online has successfully cracked part of Microsoft's anti-piracy technology, the centerpiece of much of the giant's recent forays into the audio and video world. Cnet http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7590303.html?tag=mn_hd Flawed Patch Pulled by Microsoft After receiving reports of errors resulting from the installation of a patch, Microsoft has pulled the patch to fix the problem. Internet http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article/0,,10_907031,00.html Supreme Court Rebuffs Microsoft Appeal The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear Microsoft's appeal to overturn a lower court's ruling that the software behemoth violated antitrust laws. Computer World http://computerworld.com/nlt/1%2C3590%2CNAV47_STO64596_NLTWK%2C00.html Intel countersues Via over U.S. patents Intel has escalated its legal war with Via Technologies by filing a countersuit, alleging that Via infringes on U.S. patents for processors. Cnet http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7475230.html?tag=mn_hd Flooz, 'Currency' No Longer Good Flooz customers collectively hold $12.9 million in the redeemable currency but have no chance of turning their flooz certificates into greenbacks Internet http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article/0,1471,8471_907451,00.html Treasury Dept. Unit Notes Rise In ID Theft, Hacking Identity theft and computer intrusion continue to hit the nation's financial institutions at rising levels. Newsbytes http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171424.html   Back to the main ECMgt.com Page (http://ECMgt.com) Back to this issue: (http://ECMgt.com/Nov2001)
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