From Evernote: StratVantage Consulting, LLC — Mike’s Take on the News 04/11/01 Clipped from: http://www.stratvantage.com/news/041101.htm The News – 04/11/01 Confidence in B2B Exchanges Flows Well if you’re not confused about the B2B exchange marketplace, you’re not paying attention. The March issue of manufacturing-oriented magazine, Start, quotes Jupiter Research as saying independent-sponsored marketplaces (ISMs) are gaining […]

From Evernote: StratVantage Consulting, LLC — Mike’s Take on the News 04/09/01 Clipped from: http://www.stratvantage.com/news/040901.htm The News – 04/09/01 Confidence in B2B Exchanges Ebbs Here’s one for the “I Told You So” file. In a Computerworld story today, Ariba vice president for corporate strategy, Martin Ryu, predicted the demise of all public exchanges. According to […]

From Evernote: StratVantage Consulting, LLC — Mike’s Take on the News 04/05/01 Clipped from: http://www.stratvantage.com/news/040501.htm The News – 04/05/01 Court Decision Limits Patent Rights Late last November, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set aside the “doctrine of equivalents,” which grants broader protection and rights to patent holders. The decision in […]

From Evernote: StratVantage Consulting, LLC — StratVantage News Summary 03/19/01 Clipped from: http://www.stratvantage.com/news/031901.htm The News – 03/19/01 NYSE Fines Online Brokerage for Bad Service In early March, the New York Stock Exchange levied a $225,000 fine and censured TD Waterhouse Investor Services for failures in filling online stock orders and inadequate customer service related to […]

From Evernote: StratVantage Consulting, LLC — Mike’s Take on the News 03/08/01 Clipped from: http://www.stratvantage.com/news/030801.htm The News – 03/08/01 Upstart Domain Registry Offers New gTLDs Just as domain name authority ICANN begins its meetings in Australia, rogue domain registry new.net has unveiled 20 new domain name suffixes for immediate availability. ICANN is supposed to be […]

From Evernote: StratVantage Consulting, LLC — StratVantage News Summary 03/06/01   The News – 03/06/01 A Web Server the Size of a Match Head Researchers have been outdoing one another in creating the smallest possible Web servers. A graduate student at the University of Massachusetts has created one the size of a match head. The […]

From Evernote: StratVantage Consulting, LLC — Mike’s Take on the News 03/05/01 Clipped from: http://www.stratvantage.com/news/030501.htm The News – 03/05/01 Watch Your Trademarks! eReferee Decision Broadens Trademark Protection for Domain Names A recent federal court decision bars startup RightSports from using the word referee not only in its domain names (for example, AskTheReferee.com) but also in […]

From Evernote: StratVantage Consulting, LLC — Mike’s Take on the News 03/02/01 Clipped from: http://www.stratvantage.com/news/030201.htm The News – 03/02/01 Use Your Phone Number As A Web Address Now here’s a bright idea for wireless users: Verisign (which now owns Network Solutions, the domain registrar) is beta testing a new service called Webnum. You can sign […]

From Evernote: StratVantage Consulting, LLC — Mike’s Take on the News 03/01/01 Clipped from: http://www.stratvantage.com/news/030101.htm The News – 03/01/01 Silly Wabbit Stupid buzzword alert: Enterprise Application Integration vendor SilverStream announced they’d purchase the wireless software division of European company Waptop Holding A/S. Waptop. Oh, let’s all hope this buzzword doesn’t catch on. I was so […]

From Evernote: StratVantage Consulting, LLC — Mike’s Take on the News 02/25/01 Clipped from: http://www.stratvantage.com/news/022501.htm The News – 02/25/01 Anyone Can Write a Virus Well here’s disheartening news: Virus creation kits are so popular and easy to use that you, too, could write a virus like the recent Anna Kournikova or ILOVEYOU viruses. According to […]

From Evernote: StratVantage Consulting, LLC — Mike’s Take on the News 02/15/01 Clipped from: http://www.stratvantage.com/news/021501.htm The News – 02/15/01 News Flash: Sex Sells One of the findings of a newly released two-year study by Alexa Research is that the number one word people enter into search engines is “sex” (1 of every 300 terms). Some […]

From Evernote: StratVantage Consulting, LLC — Mike’s Take on the News 02/08/01 Clipped from: http://www.stratvantage.com/news/020801.htm The News – 02/08/01 Buzz Word Alert: PTX Well, somebody’s put a new name to a concept I’ve been talking about for a while: Private Exchanges are now PTXs. This coinage is apparently courtesy of AMR Research, which said: SAP […]