Apr 9, 2002 | business, news
Two announcements from Time Warner today that should strike fear into your heart, as we move into a future controlled by corporations and inundated by advertising. America Online plans to increase the intensity of advertising on AOL and Time Warner web sites. (You...
Mar 30, 2002 | broadband, business
It’s almost over for XO Communications. According to this article, XO is weighing a takeover bid by Carl Icahn, and it may file for bankruptcy soon. More telling to me is that XO filed its annual report with the SEC; in it, the accounting firm said it has...
Mar 22, 2002 | business, IE, mail
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that America Online has continued to use Microsoft Internet Explorer as its browser engine, even though it acquired Netscape last year – pretty ironic, eh? Well, an even better commentary on Netscape’s software skills...
Feb 22, 2002 | broadband, business
It was reported yesterday that XO Communications (the successor to Concentric Networks) expects to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy within two weeks. No information is available yet on whether this will affect XO’s customers for dialup access, DSL, or web site...
Jan 24, 2002 | business, computers
Gateway continues to fall apart. Steep drop in fourth-quarter sales, another 15% cut in work force, more store closures. The future looks very dim. Interestingly, EMachines is hanging in there. I thought they’d be bankrupt by this time. It’s no longer a...
Dec 5, 2001 | broadband, business
The game of chicken poker is over and the loser is: everybody. AT&T drove Excite@Home into bankruptcy, hoping to pick up its assets for $300 million. The bondholders objected and said the assets were worth $1 billion. The bankruptcy court gave Excite permission to...
