The New York Times 2000 - Abstracts

The New York Times 2000
TitleSubjectAuthors
4 giants set to embrace electronic publishing.(Time Warner Trade Publishing, Simon & Schuster, Random House, and Microsoft)(Company Business and Marketing)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryDoreen Carvajal
$50 billion for German wireless licenses; next-generation technology rights sold in richest global auction.(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryEdmund L. Andrews
A chip plant that is full of symbolism.(a cooperative venture between Chinese and Taiwanese entrepreneurs sees the opening of a new computer-chip plant east of Shanghai, China)News, opinion and commentaryCraig S. Smith
A dog's life: hidden fences with a bite help keep rover home.(Product Information)News, opinion and commentaryShelly Freierman
After space, Hughes battles Time; chasing cable foes to a Web future.(Hughes Electronics)(Company Business and Marketing)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryAndrew Pollack
Agreement on Internet taxes eludes deeply divided commission.(congressional advisory commission on Internet taxes, chaired by James S. Gilmore)(Government Activity)News, opinion and commentaryDavid Cay Johnston
A high-tech domino effect; as dot-com's go, so go the e-commerce consultants.(big layoffs at firms like Scient, Agency.com, MarchFirst and others)News, opinion and commentaryJonathan D. Glater
A high-tech vision lifts Fidelity.(Company Operations)News, opinion and commentaryDanny Hakim
Alcatel will buy Newbridge Networks for $7.1 billion.(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentaryTimothy Pritchard
All used up with someplace to go; at long last, computer recycling efforts are taking off, giving users yet another excuse to upgrade.(includes contact information for firms and organizations offering recycling services or information)News, opinion and commentaryHeidi Schuessler
Aqua everywhere: am early look at OS X.(Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system)(Product Information)(Evaluation)News, opinion and commentaryJ.D. Biersdorfer, Don Donofrio
As Brazil's market grows, so does the free access dispute.(Industry Trend or Event)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryLarry Rohter
At Microsoft's home base, vitriol and a sense of unfairness.(U.S. vs. Microsoft)News, opinion and commentarySam Howe Verhovek
A tobacco company comes up with a funny little jingle, but antismoking forces are not amused.(Brown & Williamson Tobacco at 800-578-7453)(Advertising)News, opinion and commentaryMichael Pollak
At play, it takes the army to save a village.(game software to train soldiers; US Army's Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Command, www.stricom.army.mil)(Technology Information)(Statistical Data Included)(Column)News, opinion and commentaryJ. C. Herz
AT&T shares up on speedy at home deal.(increases stake in Excite@Home)(Company Financial Information)News, opinion and commentaryAnthony DePalma, Simon Romero
Battling little monsters in the schoolyard.(a look at the computer game Sissy Fight 2000)News, opinion and commentaryJ.D. Biersdorfre
Big news on little screens: information is going portable in hand-held world.(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentaryFelicity Barringer
BP Amoco wants to sell much more than gas at its new stations.(new brand identity with BP Connect)(Advertising)News, opinion and commentaryKruti Trivedi
Brazil's hot commodity? Not coffee or soccer.(Embraer)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryLarry Rohter
Cabletron is preparing to divide and conquer.(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentaryKate Berry
Canada broadens its case against suspected hacker.(Industry Trend or Event)News, opinion and commentary 
Chief executive of iVillage gives up title to president.News, opinion and commentaryPaul Hansell
Cisco sales rise 66%, as profits exceed expectations.(Company Financial Information)News, opinion and commentaryLaurie J. Flynn
Computer forensics teams learn to follow digital footprints.(Professor John Leeson helps to train law enforcement investigators in digital crime-solving techniques for coping with computer crimes)News, opinion and commentaryDennis Blank
Control over content: the case of an Internet TV provider illustrates the entertainment industry's copyright power.(Company Business and Marketing)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)News, opinion and commentaryDenise Caruso
Corel and Inprise/Borland cancel merger; market changes cited.(Company Business and Marketing)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryTimothy Pritchard
DaimlerChrysler reports 16% rise in 1999 profit.(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryMichelle Krebs
Deal pushes NTT Communications into U.S. Net market.(acquisition of Verio Inc. is bold move into the U.S. Internet market)News, opinion and commentaryCalvin Sims
Debugging microchips at light speed.(Picosecond Imaging Circuit Analysis, or PICA, developed at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center)(Technology Information)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryMichael Sorid
Device helps keep D.W.I. offenders and others safe.(breath analyzer interlock devices for automobiles, made by LifeSafer Interlock and others)(Technology Information)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryKaren J. Bannan
Directing traffic in the radio spectrum's crowded neighborhood.(Technology Information)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryDylan Loeb Mclain
Don't people want to control their TV's? TiVo and ReplayTV may change viewing habits, but consumers aren't clamoring for them yet.(includes related article on setup and programming of digital recorders and product specs on Panasonic ShowStopper 2000 and Sony SVR-2000 models)(Product Information)News, opinion and commentaryRoy Furchgott
E.D.S. wins record $7 billion contract for Navy computer network.(Electronic Data Systems, Navy-Marine Corps Intranet network)(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentaryKenneth N. Gilpin
For children, how cool is it? Consumers ask an age-old question, and retailers are pining to answer it.(includes list of children's electronic toys)(Buyers Guide)News, opinion and commentaryMichael Marriott
For now, Microsoft can't save itself.(Company Financial Information)(Government Activity)News, opinion and commentaryGretchen Morgenson
For the novice, on-ramps to the Information Superhighway: makers promote powerful machines that don't patronize beginners, and the prices are right.(includes list of hardware gift choices and recommended software programs for the novice)(Buyers Guide)News, opinion and commentaryBruce Headlam
France Telecom buying big stake in German rate-cutter; a $3.6 billion deal breaks a series of acquisition setbacks.(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Tagliabue
Game draws a range of protests.(Hypnotix Panty Raider: From Here to Immaturity, marketed by Simon & Schuster, $19.95)(Company Business and Marketing)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryBonnie Rothman Morris
German giant plans global phone strategy.(Deutsche Telekom)News, opinion and commentaryEdmund L. Andrews
Getting colors right with new technology.(E-Color's True Internet Color and a Pantone standard, so Web shoppers are all on the same swatch)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryCatherine Geenman
God save the queen and all of her screens.(the royal Web site, royal.gov.com)(Government Activity)News, opinion and commentaryMichael Pollak
Government and Internet ad group reach an agreement on data gleaned from Web surfers.(FTC and the Network Advertising Initiative)(Advertising)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryDavid Stout
G.P.S. collars: a new way to tell when the cows come home.(tracking grazing patterns using Global Positioning System)News, opinion and commentaryShelly Freierman
Gray flannel suit at the dot-com.(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentaryRandall Lane
Hewlett introduces a powerful computer; servers revamped in two-year effort.(Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Superdome)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryBarnaby Feder, Carly S. Firorina
How to erase a giant's shadow; an executive gets a chance to move beyond Oracle's Larry Ellison.(former Oracle executive Gary Bloom becomes CEO of Veritas Technology)(Company Operations)News, opinion and commentaryWilliam Santiago
I.B.M. plans a tough problem for Blue Gene's million processors.(supercomputer that will try to simulate or model the folding of proteins)News, opinion and commentaryRobert Hercz
Increasingly, e-mail users find they have something to hide.(address lists on e-mail)(Technology Information)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentarySusan Stellin
In France, originality means using tabletops to sell products.(Accounts)(Advertising)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryEric Pfanner
In some states, speeders cool their heels in online classes.(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentaryKaren J. Bannan
Interpublic takes on challenging new role in defining the brand essence of Coke Classic.(Advertising)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryStuart Elliott, Greg Winter
Israel loosens telephone monopoly's grip; local phone and Internet service are opened to private investors.(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentaryWilliam A. Orme Jr.
Justice Dept. acts to block merger of phone giants.(WorldCom, Sprint)(Government Activity)News, opinion and commentarySeth Schiesel, David Leonhardt
Log off, John Boy, cc: Grandpa Walton; home networking still isn't easy, but broadband has made it much more appealing.(includes related article)(Technology Information)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryRoy Furchgott
Lose the seat belts and step on the gas.('Crazy Taxi' computer game)News, opinion and commentaryJeffrey R. Young
Lycos and Spanish phone giant are seen in a $12 billion deal.(Telefonica)(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentaryAndrew Ross Sorkin, Doreen Carvajal
Making a list by scanning things twice.(a shopper tries out the Qoder, a tiny bar-code scanner that reads Universal Product Codes for price comparisons and other information available on an online database)(Evaluation)News, opinion and commentaryMichelle Slatalla
Making hoop dreams come (almost) true.(Sega Sports NBA 2K video game for the Sega Dreamcast)(Statistical Data Included)(Evaluation)News, opinion and commentaryMarc Speigler
Making phone lines do double duty.(digital subscriber lines)(Product Information)News, opinion and commentaryGlenn Fleishman
Marketing departments are turning to poets to help inspire their companies' clientele.(Advertising)News, opinion and commentaryRobyn Meredith
Mega-network: strength in numbers.(GriPhyN large scale data grid)(Technology Information)News, opinion and commentaryRobert Hercz
Metallica to try to prevent fans from downloading recordings.(from Napster)(Industry Trend or Event)News, opinion and commentaryMatt Richtel, Neil Strauss
Microsoft and Telmex plan a Latin region Web portal.(T1msn.com)(Company Business and Marketing)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryDan Fineren
Microsoft tries another court: public opinion; spends milions on ads and lobbying efforts.(Company Business and Marketing)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryJohn M. Broder
More than advertisers are feeling the effects of the actors' strike.(Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryTerry Pristin
Music industry wins ruling in U.S. court; judge says MP3.com violated copyright law.News, opinion and commentaryAmy Harmon, John Sullivan
New circuit breaker for planes and homes is the sensitive type.(arc fault circuit interrupters)(Technology Information)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryMatthew L. Wald
New front in the copyright wars: out-of-print computer games.(the abandonware market)(Industry Trend or Event)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryGreg Costikyan
Nortel in talks with Corning on optics.(Nortel Networks)(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentaryClaudia H. Deutsch, Andrew Ross Sorking
Nortel makes inroads in building wireless world in Latin America.(includes related article)(Company Business and Marketing)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryAnthony DePalma
Panel on taxing Internet sales ends its meetings in disagreement.(Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryDavid Cay Johnston
Pay phone companies rush to refit for the Internet era; an industry moves from coins to content.(Company Business and Marketing)(Industry Trend or Event)News, opinion and commentaryDennis Blank
Pentagon lets civilians use the best G.P.S. data.(effective May 1)(Government Activity)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryMatt Lake
PeoplePC finds niche in corporate sales.(Company Business and Marketing)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryLaurie J. Flynn
Placing bets on a Web without wires.(Wall Street loves the combination of computer and telephone)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Illustration)News, opinion and commentaryKate Berry
Renting software and the skills to go with it.(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentaryLaurie Flynn
Sensor fish brave the bumps to tame dams for young salmon.(new sensor fish developed by Dept. of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)(Technology Information)News, opinion and commentaryHenry Fountain
Softer outlook for a phone offering.(Orange)(Company Financial Information)News, opinion and commentaryAlan Cowell
Software for the school zone, but watch your speed.(educational software programs for kids)(Buyers Guide)News, opinion and commentaryHenry Fountain
Speak softly, carry a big chip; using speech recognition software takes patience and computer power.(includes related articles on software, choosing hardware, and a user's guide)News, opinion and commentarySusan Fulton
Study finds Internet of social benefit to users.(Pew Internet and American Life Project)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryRebecca Fairley Raney
Supercomputers track human genome.(Paracel's GeneMatcher computer is used to search DNA sequences)News, opinion and commentaryAndrew Pollack
Telefonica's brave new world; a strategy with a Latin American centerpiece.(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Tagliabue
Temp workers at Microsoft win lawsuit; benefits were denied to more than 8,000.(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentarySteven Greenhouse
The bike computer: coxswain and trainer in a small package.('cyclocomputers')News, opinion and commentaryGlenn Fleishman
The fading copier king; Xerox has failed to capitalize on its own innovations.News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Claudia H. Deutsch, Reed Abelson
The future, through Microsoft's glasses.(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentarySam Howe Verhovek
The inkjet color image, born in a rainbow of tiny drops.(Product Information)News, opinion and commentaryMatt Lake
The mighty fall with AT&T.(John C. Malone; includes related article)(Company Business and Marketing)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryGeraldine Fabrikant
The Sims who die with the most toys win.(Maxis The Sims, $49.95, for Windows PCs)(Statistical Data Included)(Column)(Evaluation)News, opinion and commentaryJ.C. Herz
Time Warner scales back its forecast; shares take a beating, as do those of AOL.(Company Financial Information)News, opinion and commentaryGeraldine Fabrikant
Tiny TV sets recall TV before cable.(Sony Watchman (FDL-250T), $170; RCA (L2501), $180; and Casio (TV-880), $100)(Evaluation)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryJames Gorman
TV advertising drives fight over size of Spanish audience.(Nielsen Media Research)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryJayson Blair
Two mergers highlight e-commerce trends.(Vignette Corp. buys OnDisplay Inc. for $1.7 bil; WebMethods Inc. purchases Active Software Inc. for $1.3 bil)(Company Business and Marketing)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryLawrence M. Fischer
Unilever and Procter & Gamble line up campaigns for new entries in laundry detergent.(Advertising)News, opinion and commentaryGreg Winter
Video technology to make the head spin.(Internet Pictures Corp.'s iPIX Movies, and Be Here Corp.'s 360 iVideo)(Technology Information)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryMichel Marriot
VoiceStream to buy PowerTel.(VoiceStream Wireless Corp.)News, opinion and commentary 
Web sites' merger signals consolidation of China's Internet industry.(Sobu.com, ChinaRen.com)(Company Business and Marketing)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryCraig S. Smith
Whose intellectual property is it, anyway? The Open Source war.(Industry Trend or Event)News, opinion and commentaryPeter Wayner
Windows Me, Microsoft's latest, is a less than millennial upgrade.(Windows Millennium Edition operating system upgrade)News, opinion and commentaryPaul Lewis
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