TCS Daily : March 2000 Archives
In Today`s Economy, Bigger Can Be Beautiful
March 2, 2000 During the technological revolution that brought us personal computers and the Internet, just about everything about computing keeps getting smaller and smaller. So it is somewhat ironic that the Information Age brought with it a string...
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The hidden costs of online privacy
Earlier this month, Kevin O'Connor, the Chairman and CEO of DoubleClick, announced that his company was retreating from its plan to amalgamate consumers' personal information. Up until then, DoubleClick was taking dramatic steps to customize the advertising you see
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Read my lips: no net taxes!
Something amazing and wonderful happened in Dallas, Texas this week. A majority on the federal Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce voted against new Internet taxes. This is great news for consumers, for our economy, and for our country, because it...
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Buying opportunities in e-commerce?
For most of the last year, tech investors have been chasing opportunities in the "business-to-business space" of e-commerce, or "b2b" in the buzzword of the moment. Any companies that create software for selling industrial products online, automate corporate purcha
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Alan Greenspan's Big Mistake
Alan Greenspan has played a key role in allowing Americans to create the great tech boom of our era. Now he's threatening to destroy that boom. Put simply, the Federal Reserve was dead wrong to raise interest rates last week....
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Tech Central Station Host James K. Glassman interviews Covad's Dhruv Khanna
Glassman: Dhruv, would Covad even exist if it weren't for the Telecom Act of 1996? Khanna: Oh, no. Covad would not exist but for the Telecom Act. We were founded on the basis that we will be allowed, as...
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Rocket Fuel for Tech Stocks
Last week, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair harrumphed about ownership rights in human genetic research, and biotech stocks took a dive. Which shows dramatically something that everyone knows but few think about much: Intellectual Property is the fuel of the...
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Glassman: Dhruv, would Covad even exist if it weren't for the Telecom Act of 1996? Khanna: Oh, no. Covad would not exist but for the Telecom Act. We were founded on the basis that we will be allowed, as...
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E-commerce: Good for consumers, bad for business
Should you use your credit card number on the Internet? Assuming you're ordering from a reputable firm, there's very little risk of a problem. In fact, VISA has just made it even less risky for you to pay with plastic,...
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Mr. President, Leave Biotech Alone!
President Clinton recently joined the anti-biotech chorus, questioning industry patents and torpedoing company valuations. In this week's Tech Central Guest Column, Jim DeLong offers an eloquent defense of intellectual property rights in general. I'd like to tell y
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Buy anything - and hold it!
At TechCentral, we like to stand up and applaud the technology stars of the new economy. And we celebrate the freedom that has allowed companies like Microsoft, Cisco, and AOL to achieve tremendous gains for consumers and investors. Speaking of...
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Bill Joy's Dangerous Pessimism
In any period of rapid technological change, there are numbskulls who forecast imminent doom. But they usually don't know anything about the technologies they're critiquing. That's why it's so surprising and discouraging to see Bill Joy, co-founder and Chief Scient
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Arrests won't stop Net threat to governments, corporations
For all the media hype about technology, pornography and e-commerce, one of the most striking but still largely unrecognized legacies of the Net has been the death blow it has dealt to the very idea of censorship. One industry and...
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The Justice Department's Silliest Case
What is the Justice Department's silliest case? No, it's not the Microsoft lawsuit, but you're getting warm. Think of another successful technology company. Anyone care to guess? Time's up. The Clinton Administration is now investigating EBAY, the popular Internet
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Don't re-write the Telecom Act
Should the government let local phone companies into the long distance market? According to the 1996 Telecom Act, the Bell companies can get into new markets as soon as they demonstrate that they've opened their own markets to competition....
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George Gilder, King of the Net Stock Gurus
George Gilder, Editor of the Gilder Technology Report and columnist for Forbes ASAP, has become the ultimate guru for technology investors. The mere mention of a company in Gilder's newsletter sends share prices soaring. And with good reason, as the...
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Digital Divide? What Digital Divide!?
President Clinton's recent initiative to provide $2.3 billion in federal funds to subsidize Internet access was made just as voices were being raised about whether such funding was necessary. The president's plan began with the premise that "Unfortunately, unequal
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Lawrence Lessig, Cyber-Attorney
The great thing about the Internet right now is that most people still don't really understand how it works. So if you can just learn a few catchy techno-phrases, people will think you really know what you're talking about. In...
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Digital Divide? What Digital Divide?!
President Clinton`s recent initiative to provide $2.3 billion in federal funds to subsidize Internet access was made just as voices were being raised about whether such funding was necessary. The president`s plan began with the premise that "Unfortunately, unequal
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Dear Judge: Don't Regulate the Internet!
What hath AOL wrought? Before AOL's sudden about-face on open access regulation a few weeks ago, the firm had been the most vociferous supporter of opening up cable networks (AT&T's new holdings in particular) to competitors on terms set by...
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In a world of Dow 36,000, where should NASDAQ be?
Ever since Kevin Hassett and I wrote our book on stock-valuation, Dow 36,000 (Times Books), people have been asking me, "Okay, but what about the NASDAQ?" Tech investors want to know how to apply our valuation methods to Internet high-fliers....
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Sales taxes aren't fair!
You like to think that governments, just like people, can learn from their mistakes. In the Internet economy especially, you like to think that mistakes from the old economy will not be repeated online. That's why it's so discouraging to...
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Tech Central Station Host James K. Glassman interviews Majority Leader Dick Armey
Jim: Mr. Majority Leader, thank you for joining us. Armey: Hi, Jim. Jim: Let`s go ahead and get started. I want to talk about the e-contract. So, tell us, who has signed the e-contract, and what is its purpose?...
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Each week, we talk with a 'Big Shot' from the world of politics or technology. Below is this week's interview with Rep. Dick Armey!
Jim: Mr. Majority Leader, thank you for joining us. Armey: Hi, Jim. Jim: Let's go ahead and get started. I want to talk about the e-contract. So, tell us, who has signed the e-contract, and what is its purpose?Armey: Well,...
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