The New York Times 2001 - Abstracts

The New York Times 2001
TitleSubjectAuthors
2-way radios: Digital tethers that cover miles.(Product Information)News, opinion and commentaryJohn R. Quain, Mary Kathleen Flynn
7 formats? Sorting out the camcorders.(Product Information)News, opinion and commentaryErica A. Taub
A company tested and found wanting.(Nortel Networks)(Company Business and Marketing)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryGretchen Morgenson
AdCritic.com's creators say it is a victim of its own success.(Advertising)News, opinion and commentaryAndrew Zipern
Advanced online banking, born of necessity; hyperinflation prompted Brazil to find ways to clear checks quickly.News, opinion and commentaryDavid Lipschultz
A fight for survival in the broadband wreckage.(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentaryWilliam Santiago
A Germany-Israel heritage travel program. So why not?(Advertising)News, opinion and commentaryAbby Ellin
Agilent in deal for technique for speedy reading of genes.(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentaryAndrew Pollack
A leader-in-waiting at Motorola.(Edward D. Breen Jr.)(Company Operations)News, opinion and commentaryBarnaby J. Federa
A legal eagle (his ad claims); with mascots and slogans, lawyers turn to advertising.(as competition grows, law firms advertise in an attempt to attract clients)(Advertising)News, opinion and commentaryCrystal Nix Hines
A new car phone (no strings attached).(Cellport Systems' voice-activated phone system will be available in some Ford model cars this fall)News, opinion and commentaryMindy Sink
A new image: Why pros go digital.(memory cards in photography; includes related information)News, opinion and commentaryMark Glaser
A new kind of software company for India; turning analysts' heads while turning only $15 million in sales.(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentaryMark Landler
A new Listerine product is making a big splash after a short time on the market.(Listerine Pocket Paks)(Advertising)News, opinion and commentaryConstance L. Hays
AOL Time Warner said to be pursuing AT&T's cable unit.(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentaryAndrew Ross Sorkin, Geraldine Fabrikant
A practical way to make power from wasted heat.(researchers at M.I.T and Eneco Inc. discover way to transform heat pollution into electricity)(Industry Trend or Event)News, opinion and commentaryKenneth Chang
Bidders plot comeback for a satellite network; in the satellite business, the low technology can be the most difficult part.(Orbcomm Global)News, opinion and commentaryTheresa Foley
Big media v. freelancers: the justices at the digital divide.(U.S. Supreme Court case)(Industry Legal Issue)News, opinion and commentaryFelicity Barringer, Ralph Blumenthal
Bluetooth defies obituaries.(wireless standard)News, opinion and commentary 
Can XBox electrify Microsoft suppliers?(if XBox computer game console sells well, certain parts suppliers may benefit)News, opinion and commentaryDan Colarusso
CBS drops reruns as big advertiser pulls commercials.(Procter & Gamble chooses not to advertise during certain shows with controversial content)(Advertising)News, opinion and commentaryBill Carter
CBS hopes new slot for 'Big Brother 2' soothes sponsors.(Advertising)News, opinion and commentaryBill Carter
Chip maker in Korea is battling over loan.(Hynix Semiconductor)(Company Financial Information)News, opinion and commentaryDon Kirk
Clinton team in final plea on Microsoft.(antitrust case)(Company Business and Marketing)(Government Activity)News, opinion and commentaryJoel Brinkley
Compaq reports a rise in operating profit for last quarter.(Compaq Computer fourth quarter)(Company Financial Information)News, opinion and commentaryJennifer Lee
Compaq to cut 5,000 jobs; profit forecast is lowered.(Company Operations)News, opinion and commentaryRichard A. Oppel Jr
Computer virus scouts for child pornography; search software that risks subverting due process and privacy.(rogue virus VBS.Noped.a, attached to an e-mail message, searches target's computer for child porn and reports file names to police)(Government Activity)(Technology Information)News, opinion and commentaryRoy Furchgott
Corning and Alcatel announce large cutbacks.(plant closings and layoffs planned)(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentaryFelicity Barringer
Digital cameras are no longer just for the digerati.(Product Information)News, opinion and commentaryDavid Gonzalez
Digital cameras for less: How much will $300 buy?(Buyer's Guide)(Buyers Guide)News, opinion and commentary 
Digital doctoring; the race is on to put a computer into every physician's hand.(use of hand-held computers by doctors to help them in daily procedures)News, opinion and commentaryMilt Freudenheim
Easing the signal squeeze for satellite TV.(Circuits)(Industry Trend or Event)News, opinion and commentaryEric Taub
Ergonomic programs that pester users to take those breaks.(Circuits)(includes related article)(Product Information)News, opinion and commentarySally McGrane
Facing slump and big debts, Xerox hires consulting firm.(Blackstone Group)News, opinion and commentaryClaudia H. Deutsch
Faster data connection waits impatiently in line.(very-high-speed digital subscriber line)(Technology Information)News, opinion and commentaryAaron Donovan
Filtering the Web for young users.(three Internet filtering software programs, Cyber Patrol, We-Blocker and Net Nanny)(Evaluation)News, opinion and commentaryTom Di Nome
Firm auditing MicroStrategy settles lawsuit.(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentaryFloyd Norris
For cellphone holdouts, worry closes the sale.(sales of cellphones increase in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the U.S.)(A Nation Challenged)News, opinion and commentaryJulian E. Barnes
For Congress, an abrupt introduction to the mobile office.(in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, the House Administration Committee has equipped all representatives and senior staff with BlackBerry pagers)(Circuits)News, opinion and commentary 
For high-speed access to the Web, a dish-to-dish route.(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentaryEve Tahmincioglu
For the errant heart, a chip that packs a wallop.(how the Medtronic Gem III DR implantable cardioverter defibrillator works; includes a layered diagram of the device)News, opinion and commentaryDavid F. Gallagher
From Taiwan, a fear of China technology.(Industry Trend or Event)News, opinion and commentaryMark Landler
Gadget tries to lengthen young attention spans.(East3 Ltd.'s Attention Trainer, $899, neurofeedback game system)(Technology Information)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryBonnie Rothman Morris
Game makers scale back; players have other ideas.(aftermath of terrorist attack in U.S.)(Product Information)News, opinion and commentaryDavid F. Gallagher
Golfers begin a $5 million campaign to catch up to the boom in other professional sports for women.(Advertising)News, opinion and commentaryJane Levere
Growing PC's into supercomputers, all in a row. (clustering computers).(Technology Information)News, opinion and commentaryHenry Fountain
Have your photo and eat it, too.(Sweet Art makes cake decorating machines out of H-P inkjet printers)(Company Operations)(Product Information)News, opinion and commentaryDavid Cay Johnston
He-mails, she-mails: where sender meets gender; men and women use e-mail differently, studies find, but not always in the ways you'd expect.News, opinion and commentaryJoyce Cohen
Here, boy: come to the toy store; please!(Tiger Electronics' difficulty in producing its robotic dog i-Cybie)(Product Development)News, opinion and commentaryJulian E. Barnes
Hewlett-Packard puts out the recycling box.(new program for recycling computers)News, opinion and commentaryHeidi A. Schuessler
Hitachi, facing a big loss, plans to cut 14,700 jobs.(Company Operations)News, opinion and commentaryJames Brooke
How to keep vendors from quietly violating your privacy; using an online snoop to foil online snoops.(how computer users can protect themselves from having information about their Internet browsing habits extracted from their computers without their knowledge and explicit consent)News, opinion and commentaryHoward Millman
Hynix to shut chip plant in Oregon for 6 months.(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentaryDon Kirk
I.B.M. creates a tiny circuit out of carbon.(includes related information on the logic circuit)(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentaryKenneth Chang
ID please? Digital wallets are getting another try.(Microsoft's PassPort strategy, Sun Microsystems' Liberty Alliance)News, opinion and commentaryTom Di Nome
In crisis zone, a wireless patch.(Circuits)(businesses in New York use the Wi-Fi wireless hookup to share access to the Internet partially disabled after the attacks)(Industry Trend or Event)News, opinion and commentaryPeter Meyers
Internet piracy is suspected as U.S. agents raid campuses.(Customs Service shuts down huge software piracy ring, called the DrinkOrDie network)News, opinion and commentaryPhilip Shenon
In this new campaign, the words of the advertisers are written on the subway walls.('in-tunnel' system of ads, places ads on subway walls that, when viewed from a speeding train, appear to be animated, similar to the effect of a flip book)News, opinion and commentaryAndrew Zipern
Italian concern is acquiring French Internet business.(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Tagliabue
Japan's dominant agency is looking overseas, but it will find that world to be much less congenial.(Dentsu)(Advertising)News, opinion and commentaryKen Belson
Japan's electronics slump takes a toll on Southeast Asia.(Industry Trend or Event)News, opinion and commentaryWayne Arnold
Letting the world plug into your PC, for a profit.(Industry Trend or Event)News, opinion and commentaryDavid Lipschultz
Making the music sway to your beat.(wearable music synthezing devices)News, opinion and commentaryYudhijit Bhattacharjee
Merrill Lynch pushes masses aside, aiming a new campaign at the very rich and very busy.(Advertising)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryPatrick McGeehan
Micron's bulls, defying the bubble. (stock performance).(Company Financial Information)(Column)News, opinion and commentaryGretchen Morgenson
Microsoft sees clear victory on 'bundling'; but critics say ruling puts limits on Windows.(antitrust ruling by Federal appeals court on June 28, 2001)(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentary 
Motorola cuts 3% of its jobs as chip demand cools off; tightening the belts at another high-tech.News, opinion and commentaryDavid Barboza
Motorola says it may post quarterly loss, first in 15 years.(first quarter)(Company Financial Information)News, opinion and commentaryDavid Barboza
Museum raiders; as artists draw inspiration from video games, curators are starting to play along.(Industry Trend or Event)News, opinion and commentaryMark Glaser
New mouse takes shoulder off the wheel; a doctor capitalizes on the processing power in the hand instead of tension in the arm.(ergonomics expert Dr. Johan Ullman unveils his ergonomic computer mouse design, the Pen Mouse, which looks like a pen stuck into a small mouse)News, opinion and commentaryPhil Patton
New uses help intoduce Linux operating system to non-Geeks.News, opinion and commentaryJohn D. Biggs
New voice heard in music software.(Coda Music Technology's Finale; Sibelius from Sibelius Group)News, opinion and commentary 
Nissan workers to vote on union.(United Auto Workers, Smyrna, Tennessee, plant)News, opinion and commentary 
No earnings, debatable prospects: a new I.P.O. with a 90's feel.(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentaryDanny Hakim
On any window or wall, a portable touch screen; a light projector turns blank surfaces into interactive menus.(Technology Information)News, opinion and commentaryYudhijit Bhattacharjee
Online course lets the isolated bring their medical skills up to date.(Technology Information)News, opinion and commentaryBonnie Rothman Morris
Oracle says earnings won't meet forecasts.News, opinion and commentaryDavid Leonhardt
Playing the potential in Internet security; as businesses add online protection, a sector may rise.(recommendations for securities of companies that provide Internet security software)(Company Financial Information)News, opinion and commentaryJan M. Rosen
Polaroid make a digital leap, but is it enough?News, opinion and commentaryLynnley Browning
Poverty rate falls sharply among Hispanics, study shows.(in New York, New York)(Statistical Data Included)News, opinion and commentaryNina Bernstein
Putting a new soul in your PC.(the experience of installing a Linux operating system on a couple of older, Windows-based PCs)News, opinion and commentaryJ.D. Biersdorfor
Put your face in the line of fire..(video game players can put 3-D images of themselves on virtual characters)(Industry Trend or Event)(Product Development)News, opinion and commentaryJeffrey R. Young
Razorfish founders quit top management positions.(with first quarter loss)(Company Financial Information)News, opinion and commentaryJayson Blair
Ready for battle, wielding a stylus; palmtop makers and software writers are taking aim at the military market.(Circuits)News, opinion and commentaryNancy Beth Jackson
Recruiters fawn over ex-airline employees.News, opinion and commentaryMelinda Ligos
Rent-a-Center charged with price gouging.News, opinion and commentaryJoseph P. Fried
Safe online at home: keeping out uninvited guests.(Circuits)(Product Information)News, opinion and commentaryJoe Hutsko
Satellite vs. cable: a rivalry beyond TV.(both industries seek to dominate the market for interactive TV, digital video and Internet services)News, opinion and commentarySeth Schiesel, Geraldine Fabrikant
Scrambling to survive, at a small Chelsea caterer.(Jason's Catering had 25% of its clientele at the World Trade Center)News, opinion and commentaryJoseph P. Fried
SingTel's chief defends Optus purchase.(Lee Hsien Yang; Singapore Telecommunications's bid for Cable and Wireless Optus)News, opinion and commentaryWayne Arnold
Software that lets a user control the stereo, the DVD and the computer, all from the TV screen.(patent #6,219,839; includes other patent news on #6,219,837)News, opinion and commentarySabra Chartrand
Some of I.B.M.'s 2,886 patents last year turned it away from circuit boards and semiconductors.(patent numbers 6,163,250; 6,024,783; 6,107,995; 6,100,890 and 6,108,592)(Company Business and Marketing)News, opinion and commentarySabra Chartrand
Sony to take charge to pay for cellular phone recall.(about $95 million, first quarter)(Company Financial Information)(Product Information)News, opinion and commentaryMiki Tanikawa
Stumped by Rubik's Cube? Let the Lego robot solve it; a PC dictates the shortest string of moves, and the Lego grippers go to work.(Technology Information)News, opinion and commentarySarah Milstein
Taking video games seriously, as art and product.(Statistical Data Included)(Review)News, opinion and commentaryJeffrey R. Young
Talk if you must, but at least put some muscle into idle chat.(several products allow users to recharge cellular phones using muscle power)(Technology Information)News, opinion and commentaryKevin McKenna
Talk is cheap, but is it disposable? Putting the phone card in the phone, companies bet on devices you can buy, dial and toss.(the development of disposable wireless phones is underway)News, opinion and commentarySarah Milstein
Technical debate in insurance data; signature verification is the issue.(experts caution against haste in adopting a standard for electronic signature, citing lack of sufficient testing of the technology)News, opinion and commentaryAmy Zuckerman
Temple-Inland to buy Gaylord.(Gaylord Container)News, opinion and commentary 
The Times still plans office tower in midtown.(New York Times' new headquarters on Eighth Avenue)News, opinion and commentaryDavid W. Dunlap
The videoconference as a bicostal pas de deux.(Circuits)(Technology Information)News, opinion and commentary 
Three R's: Reading, Writing, Rebooting.(educational software Buyer's Guide)(Buyers Guide)News, opinion and commentary 
Upbeat Xerox reports lower-than-expected loss in first quarter.(Company Earnings)News, opinion and commentaryClaudia H. Deutsch
U.S. expands investigation into piracy of software.(Government Activity)(Industry Trend or Event)News, opinion and commentaryPhilip Shenon
Using the Internet to cut phone calls down to size.(Internet Protocol telephony)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Technology Information)News, opinion and commentaryDavid J. Wallace
Versatile video CD's get a foothold in U.S.; video CD's can't rival DVD's for movie quality, but they offer a wide selection and lower cost.(Industry Trend or Event)News, opinion and commentaryScot Meyer
When the cubicle has a crankshaft.(includes related information on car offices)News, opinion and commentaryTodd Lappin
Why purchasing agents turned out to be hard to herd.(includes related information)(Technology Information)News, opinion and commentaryBob Tedeschi
Winstar bidders are given a week more for financing.(Winstar Communications)(Company Business and Marketing)(Company Financial Information)News, opinion and commentaryAnn Wozencraft
Xerox reports loss and plan to eliminate 4,000 jobs.(fourth-quarter results)(Company Financial Information)News, opinion and commentaryKenneth N. Gilpin
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