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Andrew Kantor: CyberSpeak - Good technology requires good science behind it
Fri Feb 4,11:41 AM ET
My mandate in these columns (and by "mandate" I mean "what I want to do") is to write about how the latest technology trends and news affect people. But this week I'm going to take a step back and write instead about science - that backbone of technology - and about why it's so important that we protect and improve the science education in this country.
TiVo chief optimistic about future
Fri Feb 4, 6:54 AM ET
When it comes to TiVo, it's hard to tell whether the hard drive is half empty or half full. But CEO Michael Ramsay remains implacably optimistic about a product that he says is still the best of the bunch - and a business plan that will turn profitable this year.
Qwest makes $6B bid for MCI
Fri Feb 4, 6:54 AM ET
MCI has received a $6.3 billion takeover bid from Qwest Communications International and has held talks with another potential suitor, Verizon Communications, sources familiar with the situation said Thursday.
New TVs selling despite higher prices
Fri Feb 4, 6:54 AM ET
Americans will gather this Super Bowl around TVs that cost more - and take up more disposable income. Football fans will buy 1.4 million TVs for Sunday's big game, says the trade group Retail Advertising and Marketing Association.
TiVo's holiday sales might let down investors
Thu Feb 3, 3:04 PM ET
Troubled TiVo seems headed for more turbulence, even after recent exit announcements from CEO Michael Ramsay and President Marty Yudkovitz sent shares down 6.8% Wednesday to $3.58, a 52-week low.
Amazon has new shipping deal; profits miss forecast
Thu Feb 3, 3:04 PM ET
Amazon.com's sales surged during the holiday season, and profits climbed, too, mainly because of a tax break. But the online retailer's profit fell a few pennies a share short of Wall Street's expectations for a third-consecutive quarter, and investors drove its shares down in after-hours trading.
Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - MSN Search test finds some flaws
Thu Feb 3,10:04 AM ET
Microsoft sent me a fact sheet promising that the "built from the ground up" MSN Search tool, which officially launched earlier this week, "provides people with real answers to many of their questions."
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Internet 'discovered' kid soccer star ... could you be next?
Wed Feb 2, 6:52 AM ET
Back in high school in the late 1970s, there was this one English teacher - a guy with long hair - who could find ways to discuss the existential nature of the human soul as found in an Archie comic book or the never-ending struggle between ego and id as depicted in an Art Buchwald column.
Some eBay sellers are going, going, gone
Wed Feb 2, 6:52 AM ET
Trisha Dixon used to swear by eBay. Now, she swears at it. For six years, she sold enough scrapbooks, children's clothes and health products to pay bills and squirrel away cash. Last month, she all but ended her association because of higher fees. "We're getting stomped," another disgruntled customer says.
SBC, AT&T chiefs 2 peas in a pod
Tue Feb 1, 6:43 AM ET
The careers of SBC CEO Ed Whitacre and AT&T CEO Dave Dorman were slammed together by a merger once before. It didn't prove to be a high point in Dorman's career.
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Deal unlikely to push up consumer prices
Tue Feb 1, 6:43 AM ET
Oops! Amazon's new online Yellow Pages pictures Rockefeller Ice Skating Rink as a bus
Mon Jan 31, 7:20 AM ET
Deal goes to our heads - and our bodies
Mon Jan 31, 7:20 AM ET
Study shows some teens not as Web-savvy as parents
Mon Jan 31, 7:20 AM ET
Andrew Kantor: CyberSpeak - When cookies aren't monsters and spyware isn't spyware
Fri Jan 28,10:03 AM ET
HealthSouth, WorldCom CEO trials get personal
Fri Jan 28, 6:29 AM ET
SBC, AT&T discuss merger
Fri Jan 28, 6:29 AM ET
Techie guy by day, rocker guy by night
Fri Jan 28, 6:29 AM ET
Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Apple's new $499 Mac Mini a slick little budget computer
Thu Jan 27,10:05 AM ET
Net-based phones lure more users
Thu Jan 27, 8:26 AM ET
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