Year: 2002

A buddy sent me an e-mail asking for the largest Internet acquisitions. Here are the ones we’ve got so far. Please let me know which I’m missing: Verisign buys Network Solutions for $21bTerra buys Lycos for $12.5b@Home buys Excite for $6.7bNTT buys Verio for $6bYahoo buys Broadcast.com for $5.7bYahoo buys GeoCities for $3.5b + $1b…

As if deciding who to vote for wasn’t difficult enough, the parties in Illinois have decided to raise the roof: The Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate is Dick Durbin. His Republican opponent is Jim Durkin.The current Illinois Governor is Republican George Ryan, who’s weathered too many scandals to run for reelection. Trying to replace him…

Optimize Magazine: Disrupt and Prosper, by Clayton Christensen, Mark Johnson, and Jeremy Dann Disruptive innovations—usually championed by new market entrants—have proven to be the genesis of major waves of growth in a wide array of industries, from information technology to transportation. For established companies to become successful at disruptive innovation, they’ll need to develop robust,…

This is the first entrant into what will surely be a bigger retail category: the combination DVR/DVD player. DVR is digital video recorder – it’s essentially a bare-bones TiVo (it can do the live TV pause, record programs, etc. but doesn’t include the recommendation feature, program guides, etc.) coupled with a DVD player and a…

magazine: Microsoft’s Weblog Software. Fortunately, Microsoft hasn’t focused their attention on the weblog market. Pesonally, I’d rather stick with tools from small companies like UserLand if/when Microsoft tries to take over the market!Picture the following scenario: Microsoft has created a weblog tool that is designed to run inside the firewall at a company. It’s browser-accessible…

My Cingular contract is up in January, which means it’s time to shop for a new phone. Since I travel a fair amount to Europe on business, I need a GSM phone. I also want to consolidate from my PDA and cell phone to one device. As near as I can tell, my options are…

Wall Street Journal: How Safe Is Airline Water? The results of our water-quality snapshot: a long list of microscopic life you don’t want to drink, from Salmonella and Staphylococcus to tiny insect eggs. Worse, contamination was the rule, not the exception: Almost all of the bacteria levels were tens, sometimes hundreds, of times above U.S.…

A great story: Act of kindness speaks volumes about football’s spirit (as read and discussed this morning on ESPN Radio’s Mike & Mike in the Morning).[POELog] What a great story.

This is newsworthy: Howard Bashman’s blog has become even more influential. Turns out that a judge issued an opinion on Tuesday; Howard noted in passing that one of the footnotes appeared to be in error. On Wednesday, the Judge issued an amended opinion with a correction of the footnote in question, followed up by an…

Why tech’s heavyweights still can’t crush the small fry BusinessWeek Online [News.com: News Around the Web] An encouraging note about the opportunities for innovation from Business Week. In light of the doomsday predicitions coming from Siebel and Oracle, it’s nice to hear someone see the glass as half full: Even if smaller and midsize companies…