HP and RealNetworks to Develop Digital Entertainment Products for the Living Room, HP Press Release, March 6, 2001

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/06mar01a.htm

HP lays bets on add-on CD-RW/DVD drive, by Joe Wilcox, CNET NEWS.COM and New York Times, March 13, 2001

Hewlett-Packard rode the digital music wave to become to No. 1 CD-rewritable drive maker, but analysts warn that the surf may roll over the company's new combo CD-RW/DVD drive.

http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0-1006-200-5125272.html

Hewlett-Packard rolls out first combo drive, by Joe Wilcox, Special to ZDNet News, March 13, 2001

Hewlett-Packard rode the digital music wave to become to No. 1 CD-rewritable drive maker, but analysts warn that the surf may roll over the company's new combo CD-RW/DVD drive.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2696036,00.html

HP sets aside US$50m for storage in Asia, By Nawaz Marican, Special to ZDNet Asia, March 14, 2001

HP's new storage strategy, called Federated Storage Area Management (FSAM), is a combination of hardware, software and services that administer management network of modular storage in a scalable manner, the company said in a statement.

http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/dailynews/story/0,2000010021,20188980,00.htm

HP takes aim at small biz with subscription model, By Paula Musich, eWEEK, March 14, 2001

Hewlett-Packard Co. recently became the first large PC maker to try its hand at the nascent PC subscription utility-based computing model. The Palo Alto, Calif., vendor announced several installation and support services wrapped around its hardware and primarily Microsoft Corp. software for small- to midsize businesses.

http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2696236,00.html

RealNetworks, HP team up on Net music without PC, by Kristi Heim, San Jose Mercury News, March 7, 2001

http://www0.mercurycenter.com/resources/search/

Advertising: The HP Garage, by Stuart Elliott, New York Times, March 9, 2001

The next phase of an ambitious, attention-getting campaign for the Hewlett-Packard Company leaves the garage to assert that past is prologue.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/09/technology/09ADCO.html

The 10 IT Processes, Darwin, March 1, 2001

Ever wonder what you're really paying for when you fork over those millions to the IT department? Here are IT's 10 primary jobs defined.

http://www.darwinmag.com/read/030101/buzz_processes.html

Calculating the Risks of a Recall, by Heesun Wee, ABCNews.com, December 17, 2000

While the headlines and images associated with prominent U.S. product recalls are vivid for many consumers, the behind-the-doors process companies engage in before deciding on formal recalls remains elusive.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/business/DailyNews/productrecalls_000831.html

Compaq's plan spells lower costs, by Michael Kanellos, CNET News, July 10, 1997

"ODM" is the new mantra at Compaq Computer (CPQ), and translates to lower prices for consumers.

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-320405.html

Custom Cars Stuck in Gridlock, Dale Buss, The Industry Standard, October 16, 2000

Until recently, Michael Dell, the guru of build-to-order computers, was a sought-after speaker in the Motor City. Car manufacturers dreamed of emulating his made-to-order model: Let Americans cobble together the cars of their dreams on the Internet, configuring everything from wheel diameters to seat fabrics, then automakers would manufacture the vehicles to those exact specifications and deliver them to customers within 10 days.

http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,19351,00.html

Digital Hospital, by Cynthia Fox, eCompany, April 2001

The system's promise of enabling physicians to organize information any way they want is crucial, says Alton Brantley, CIO of Medstar Health, which owns the hospital: ER doctors "have no idea what information they're going to need on any given patient." The WHC network is "much freer than most," Brantley says. Doctors at other hospitals are also impressed. "What Craig and Mark have accomplished is remarkable," says Steven J. Davidson, ER chief at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn.

http://www.ecompany.com/articles/mag/0,1640,9576%7C9751,00.html

Dog Eats Dog Food. And Damn if It Ain't Tasty, by G.Christian Hill, eCompany, November 2000

But watching Bill Gates squirm isn't what most pleases Ellison about the Web. What really makes him giddy is a different Internet phenomenon: the newfound ability to track, analyze, and, most important, control the behavior of each unit and employee, globally and in real time, by forcing them to do their work via the Internet. Just as the Internet can eliminate the middleman between buyers and suppliers, it also can eliminate the layers of management that stand between a CEO and his troops. Although much has been written about the Internet bolstering individual freedom, the global network also represents a major advance in corporate command and control.

http://www.ecompany.com/articles/mag/0,1640,8520%7C8553,00.html

Get Over It!, by David Weinberger, Darwin, March 1, 2001

You can no longer control all of the information about your company's products. And you shouldn't even try.

http://www.darwinmag.com/read/030101/contact.html

High-tech manufacturers add brains to brawn, by Stephen Shankland, CNET News, August 2000

The contract manufacturing business, once just a cheap source of labor for assembling electronic equipment, is undergoing a radical transformation, becoming not just the screwdrivers and soldering irons behind the high-tech economy but the brains as well.

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2555302.html

"How I Saved $100 Million on the Web," by Paul C.Judge, Fast Company, February 2001

Jonathan W. Ayers, president of Carrier Corp., loves the Web. But he's no radical. For giant companies like his, he argues, the real power of the Internet lies in doing what you already do faster and cheaper.

http://www.fastcompany.com/online/43/ideazone.html

How We Went Digital Without a Strategy, by Ricardo Semler, Harvard Business Review, September-October 2000

Over the last decade, Semco has successfully exteded its business from manufacturing to services to the Internet. Here's what it has learned: transformation is easy - if you throw away your plans and let your people lead you.

Inside the machine, by Frances Cairncross, Economist, November 9, 2000

FIVE years ago, the managers of established, old-economy companies concentrated on running their business well: making cars, perhaps, or selling life insurance. They had to contend with constant change, of course, but normally of a fairly predictable kind: costs had to be cut, new products launched, mergers and acquisitions dealt with. Now life has become much more difficult. Change has not only become more rapid, but also more complex and more ubiquitous. Established companies are no longer quite sure who their competitors are, or where their core skills lie, or whether they ought to abandon the particular business that once served them so well. Behind this new uncertainty lies the Internet (which in this survey is used as shorthand to include the whole cluster of technologies that depend upon and enhance it). In the past five years, this has begun to transform managers’ lives.

http://www.economist.com/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=416998

Intangible Assets Plus Hard Numbers Equals Soft Finance, by Bill Birchard, Fast Company, October 1999

Finance used to be the hardest of business functions: number crunching, bean counting. Now hard assets like plant and equipment have given way to intangibles like ideas and relationships. How does the new math of the new finance add up?

http://www.fastcompany.com/online/28/softfin.html

Intermittent Aberrations: Can Mature Companies Innovate?, by Sharon Doheny, First Monday, March 2001

A whole literature has grown up around the apparently intractable hostility between innovation and bureaucracy, between those who create and those who control. Smart and speedy start-ups blindside mature companies with their inventiveness then grow up into mature companies and are outsmarted in their turn. The only way for innovation to survive in mature companies is to isolate the creators from the managers in protected enclaves. If this is true, it means that it is virtually impossible for sustained innovation to be built into the everyday operation of mature companies; it can only ever be an intermittent aberration.

http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_3/doheny/

Intrapreneuring - A variety of information on this topic can be found at:

http://www.intrapreneuring.com

Living in Excess, by Meg Mitchell Moore, Darwin, March 1, 2001

Overstock.com is an orphanage of sorts. The website adopts manufacturers' excess inventory as well as goods from distressed companies (these days, mostly e-tailers) and sells them, usually for about 55 percent off their suggested retail price. Among its vast and varied offerings are Cartier watches, Easy-Bake Ovens and Rubbermaid pet shelters.

http://www.darwinmag.com/read/030101/net_vulture.html

Lucent Ventures into the Future, by Robert Buderi, Technology Review, November/December 2000

Researchers from Bell Labs are taking company ideas and using them to start new businesses, some of which could threaten Lucent's established product lines. So what's the company doing about it? Supporting them every step of the way.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/nov00/buderi.asp

Management by Web, by John A. Byrne, Business Week.com, August 28, 2000

To thrive in this new century, companies are going to need a whole new set of rules

http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_35/b3696011.htm

New to the New Economy: partnering, by Tracy Seipel, San Jose Mercury News, March 10, 2001

``What's dead is not dot-coms,'' said Kanter, who arrived in the Bay Area the very day that Yahoo announced it was seeking a new CEO and might only break even this year. ``What's dead is the idea that you can survive as a single-channel company; what's dead is the idea that companies can operate alone without partners.'' Kanter says it's an Old Economy mindset to think of partnering as a failure; rather, it's a New Economy mindset to view as a triumph signing up with the best partner.

http://www0.mercurycenter.com/resources/search/

Origins and Reality of Lean Manufacturing, Nelson J. Teed, APICS, January 2001

CPIM Lean manufacturing and other similar efficiency building techniques have their roots in Total Quality Management (TQM). The history of TQM teaches how to approach the reality of lean manufacturing.

http://www.apics.org/Magazine/past_issues/default.asp

Out of the shadows, Economict, August 26, 1999

Firms in China make things you buy every day, but you probably can’t name a single one. That may soon change Somewhere in the aisles of the average American household-appliance store lies a glimpse of a country trying to rise as a consumer superpower. Scattered among the General Electric and Whirlpool refrigerators and air-conditioners are a few unfamiliar and unplaceable brands, often including one with a vaguely Germanic name: Haier. Ask a salesman about it, and you can expect the usual pitch about breakthrough technology, and at such a low price! What the salesman may not say, and may not even know, is that Haier’s real breakthrough is of another sort altogether: it is a mainland Chinese company selling its own brand in the West.

http://www.economist.com/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=324306

Positive Deviant, by David Dorsey, Fast Company, December 2000

If there is one profession that owes its existence to the new economy, it is the change artist. Change artists can assume various forms: They are the men and women from world-class consulting firms who drop in to companies with their patented change programs. They are the business-school professors who pen prescriptive books about the latest change offering.

http://pf.fastcompany.com/online/41/sternin.html

The Power of Memes, by Susan Blackmore, Scientific American, October 2000

Behaviors and ideas copied from person to person by imitation - memes - may have forced human genes to make us what we are today.

http://www.sciamarchive.com/

Strategic OEM Partnering for Success, Mark Sochan, MGS Consulting

http://haig.commerce.ubc.ca/archive/notes/sochan/ppframe.htm

Strategy as Simple Rules, by Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and Donald N. Sull, Harvard Business Review, January 2001

When the business lanscape was simple, companies could afford to have complex strategies. But now that business is so complex, they need to simplify.

Techs turn to contract manufacturers to cut costs, by Bloomberg News, CNET News, January 4, 2001

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.--In November 1998, Motorola began what was, for the 70-year-old manufacturer, a huge experiment. The second-largest mobile-phone maker was losing sales to bigger rival Nokia, which was producing advanced cell phones more successfully. To reduce costs and focus more on design and marketing, Motorola handed some of its production to 25 contract manufacturers--specialists in making electronic products such as phones and personal computers for other companies--for a year.

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-4373539.html?tag=bplst

Value Propositions, by Keith H. Hammonds, Fast Company, August 2000

The five propositions that strategists David Bovet and Joseph Martha say help companies create value for their customers.

http://www.fastcompany.com/online/37/ideazone.html

The Wisdom of Chairman Ko, by Alex Markels, Fast Company, November 1999

Solectron's Ko Nishimura has mastered the art of doing "just enough." Enough to win two Baldrige Awards and build a $6 billion company. Enough to show what it takes to win in the high-tech world of contract manufacturing.

http://www.fastcompany.com/online/29/ko.html

Are Tech Export Restrictions a Lost Cause?, by Art Jahnke, Darwin, March 5, 2001

http://www.darwinmag.com/connect/opinion/

Global Environment Reaches Dangerous Crossroads, by Worldwatch staff, Worldwatch, January 13, 2001

Global environmental trends have reached a dangerous crossroads as the new century begins, according to State of the World 2001, which was released today by the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington-based research organization. Signs of accelerated ecological decline have coincided with a loss of political momentum on environmental issues, as evidenced by the recent breakdown of global climate talks. This failure calls into question whether the world will be able to turn these trends around before the economy suffers irreversible damage.

http://www.worldwatch.org/alerts/010113.html

High-tech titans put the squeeze on privacy regs, by Ted Bridis, WSJ Interactive Edition, March 13, 2001

A group of companies and industry organizations have quietly undertaken a campaign to nip Internet-privacy legislation in the bud.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2695633,00.html

How do you love ALL the childern, by Bill McDonough, A Journal of Positive Future, January 2001

We can make and enjoy the things we need without destroying the natural world, says Bill Donough. This is the task of the next industrial revolution, and McDonough is one of its designers.

www.futurenet.org/11powerofone/mcdonough.html

Prepaid Phones and Privacy, Too, by Declan McCullagh, WIRED News, March 14, 2001

For privacy advocates who have spent years agitating for far-reaching data collection legislation, the last few months have resembled an ongoing bad dream. A Republican lives in the White House, Democrats in Congress are in disarray, and business groups are emboldened. Even the Federal Trade Commission, which once recommended more privacy laws, will be headed by a conservative by the end of this year. But while public attention has focused on Washington, D.C., a quiet revolution has taken place in the marketplace. Spurred not by legislative fiat but by competitive pressures, companies have begun to offer anonymous services -- in part to lure customers who have poor credit or who are immigrants without any credit history.

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42408,00.html

Should ICANN Get Out of the Way?, by Art Jahnke, Darwin, March 12, 2001

http://www.darwinmag.com/connect/opinion/

IBM unleashes software offensive, by William M. Bulkeley, WSJ Interactive Edition, March 14, 2001

IBM (NYSE: IBM) will launch a campaign next week. In a much-needed show of support for Internet advertising, the company expects to spend 15 percent or more of the campaign's budget online--about double its norm. "It's a sign of optimism," says Steven A. Mills, IBM's senior vice president, software. IBM earlier indicated it would spend $650 million this year on advertising, about the same as in 2000.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2696221,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_rt_latest

In praise of disruption, Economist, December 7, 2000

Technologies such as Bluetooth broadcasting, optical switching, code-morphing and proteomics are threatening the old industrial order. Rejoice.

http://www.economist.com/science/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=442777

The Next Economy of Ideas, John Perry Barlow, Wired, October 8, 2000

The great cultural war has broken out at last. Long awaited by some and a nasty surprise to others, the conflict between the industrial age and the virtual age is now being fought in earnest, thanks to that modestly conceived but paradigm-shattering thing called Napster.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.10/download_pr.html

U.S. Slowdown Muffles Volume Of Ireland's Economic Boom, by Christopher Rhoades, Wall Street Journal, March 6, 2001

As Technology Investors Pull Back, Economy Shows Signs of Easing

http://interactive.wsj.com/ (subscription required)

CompUSA to Offer Tailor-Made PCs, by David Lazarus, Wired News, July 15, 1997

Computer retailer CompUSA said Tuesday that it will introduce its own line of build-to-order personal computers - a move intended to maintain competitiveness in a market increasingly dominated by mail-order concerns like Dell and Gateway 2000. The announcement follows a similar decision by Compaq last week.

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,5197,00.html

Eazel unveils Linux platform as it hits hard times, by Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News, March 14, 2001

http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/opinion/dgillmor/dg031401.htm

Home is where the fold is, Economist, December 7, 2000

Building an enormous supercomputer is not the ony way to attack the protein-folding problem. Another approach, now being pursued by Vijay Pande and his colleagues at Stanford University in California, is to use spare processor cycles on thousands of ordinary personal computers around the Internet.

hppt://www.economist.com/science/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=442975

Next on your PC: combo CD-rewritable and DVD drive, by Joe Wilcox, ZDNet News, March 13, 2001

Do combo movie-watching and music-recording drives have the write stuff? Apparently PC manufacturers think so. After a slow start, combination CD-rewritable and DVD drives are showing up in computers as an alternative to two separate drives. Compaq Computer, IBM, Sony and Toshiba added the drives to notebooks earlier this year. Gateway and Hewlett-Packard plan to join the foray into notebooks later this month and in April.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2695782,00.html

Quantum Computers, Elizabeth K. Wilson, Chemical and Engineering News, November 6, 2000

The acceleration of computing power never seems to slow. With each blink of an eye, there's a new, faster processor or a more data-storage-intensive hard drive. But for all their computational might, computers as we know them will eventually bump up against the laws of physics.

http://pubs3.acs.org/s97is.vts

PC Reliability & Service: The Best Are a Phone Call Away, by Brad Grimes, PCWorld.com, May 1999

PC makers that sell their systems direct have won the hearts--and wallets--of consumers. So say 10,000 PC World readers who rated work, home, and notebook PCs and the companies that make them.

http://www.idg.net/crd_idgsearch_0.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcworld.com%2Fnews%2Farticle.asp%3Faid%3D10226&sc=67020455_92953

Who Made Your Notebook? Don't Believe the Label, by Dan Miller, PCWorld.com, May 1999

Many vendors don't design and build their own notebooks; they outsource. So does it matter who you buy your laptop from?

http://www.idg.net/crd_idgsearch_0.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcworld.com%2Fnews%2Farticle.asp%3Faid%3D10226&sc=67020455_92953

New USB: Army 'Land Warrior' tech connects the next cybertoys, By David Coursey, ZDNet AnchorDesk, March 7, 2001

USB--the technology that made it easy to connect peripherals to your computer--will soon give cameras, printers, cellular phones, PDAs, MP3 players, and the like the ability to communicate among themselves, without that pesky PC in the middle.

http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2693677,00.html

Pocket PC gains on Palm in Europe, by Michael Kanellos, CNET NEWS.COM and New York Times, March 14, 2001

Although Palm controls the lion's share of the market for handheld computers, Microsoft and its allies are catching up in Europe, partly because of increased corporate sales, according to a recent survey.

http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0-1006-200-5131450.html

Scientists, engineers rail at PC industry, by Rachel Konrad, Special to ZDNet , March 14, 2001

Computers are illogical machines in dire need of a total overhaul, and the information technology industry is completely screwed up.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2696127,00.html

USB-On-the-Go eliminates PC as the middleman, By Richard Shim, ZDNet News, March 12, 2001

A number of companies are working toward a new USB technology that will connect the world of gadgets without the need for a PC to act as middleman.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2695016,00.html

Alternative dielectrics to silicon dioxide for memory and logic devices, by Angus I. Kingon, Jon-Paul Maria and S. K. Streiffer, Nature, August 31, 2000

The silicon-based microelectronics industry is rapidly approaching a point where device fabrication can no longer be simply scaled to progressively smaller sizes. Technological decisions must now be made that will substantially alter the directions along which silicon devices continue to develop. One such challenge is the need for higher permittivity dielectrics to replace silicon dioxide, the properties of which have hitherto been instrumental to the industry's success. Considerable efforts have already been made to develop replacement dielectrics for dynamic random-access memories. These developments serve to illustrate the magnitude of the now urgent problem of identifying alternatives to silicon dioxide for the gate dielectric in logic devices, such as the ubiquitous field-effect transistor.

Are Wireless Firms Playing Smart?, by Aparna Kumar, WIRED News, March 14, 2001

If the message that wireless service is getting worse isn't reaching carriers, maybe that's because the calls from disgruntled customers complaining about it get dropped or never go through in the first place. Or maybe carriers are aware of the problems with wireless service but are simply choosing not to do anything about it. But as the number of wireless subscribers grows, the industry will have to find ways to expand networks to accommodate greater volumes of voice and data traffic.

http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,42352,00.html

Beyond the Bar Code, by Charlie Schmidt, Technology Review, March 2001

Within a few years, unobtrusive tags on retail products will send radio signals to their manufacturers, collecting a wealth of information about consumer habits—and also raising privacy concerns.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/mar01/print_version/schmidt.html

The Big Picture, by Bob Parks, Wired News, October 8, 2000

A decade ago, Philippe Kahn took on Bill Gates and lost. Now the software maverick is back for another round, and this time he's catching the wireless wave: "Our ambition is to put a visual communicator in every shirt pocket, on every belt, in every handbag."

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.10/kahn_pr.html

Biological Computing,by Simson L. Garfinkel, Technology Review, May/June 2000

A vial of bacteria capable of computation? Injectable cells that survey the bloodstream and produce drugs on demand? These ideas might not be as far-fetched as they sound.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/may00/garfinkel.asp

Blazing Data, by Erika Jonietz, Technology Review, November/December 2000

Two years ago, MIT graduate student Yoel Fink built the Òperfect mirrorÓÑone that reflects light from all angles with negligible absorption. Now OmniGuide Communications, the Cambridge, Mass.-based startup Fink helped found, hopes to roll that perfection into cable that can carry light of higher intensity and a broader bandwidth, transmitting up to 1,000 times more data than fiber optics.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/nov00/benchmark6.asp

Computing Goes Everywhere, by Robert Buderi, Technology Review, January/February 2001

The dream of "ubiquitous computing" has been around for a while. Now it's serious enough that a company like IBM is willing to throw $500 million at it.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/jan01/print_version/buderi.html

Computing Pioneer Challenges the Clock by John Markoff, New York Times, March 5, 2001

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/05/technology/05IVAN.html

DNA Computing, by Antonio Regalado, Technology Review, May/June 2000

DonÕt expect a DNA-based PC anytime soon. But you might well see even stranger thingsÑincluding DNA that computes and assembles nanostructures at the same time.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/may00/regalado.asp

The drive to miniaturization, by Paul S. Peercy, Nature, August 31, 2000

Following the introduction of silicon-based integrated circuitry over three decades ago, the integration density of such circuits has doubled every 12 to 18 months: this observation is known as Moore's law. For this historical trend to continue, significant challenges need to be overcome in several key technological areas. But for many of these challenges, there are at present no known solutions.

Device Gets a Leg Up On Future Memory Storage, by Mitch Jacoby, C&E News, November 20, 2000

High-tech product designers usually try to rid their systems of bugs--especially ones with lots of legs. But some researchers are actively trying to find a place for little critters in tomorrow's advanced microelectronics.

http://cen.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/78/i47/html/7847notw3.html (subscription to C&E News required)

Dial M for Mobile, by Susannah Patton, Darwin, March 1, 2001

Scandinavia's top bank is leading the way into the wireless wilderness. When will the U.S. catch up?

http://www.darwinmag.com/read/030101/mobile.html

Digital ink meets electronic paper, by the Economist News Group, Economist, December 7, 2000

Printed with digital ink, electronic paper promises an era of reprogrammable newspapers, books, billboards, garments and even wallpaper

http://www.economist.com/science/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=442911

Electronic Paper Turns the Page, by Henry Jenkins, Technology Review, March 2001

Guttenberg's printing press needed paper to make a revolution. The clunky e-book needs e-paper. And it's on the way.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/mar01/print_version/mann.html

E-mail encryption failing to catch on, by Anick Jesdanun, San Jose Mercury News, March 12, 2001

Fewer than 10 million people use PGP, the most popular method for encrypting e-mail. That's out of a worldwide Internet population approaching 400 million.

http://www0.mercurycenter.com/resources/search/

The End of Moore's Law?, by Charles C. Mann, Technology Review, May/June 2000

The current economic boom is likely due to increases in computing speed and decreases in price. Now there are some good reasons to think that the party may be ending.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/may00/mann.asp

Freedom to Roam, by Scott Kirsner, Darwin, March 1, 2001

How will ubiquitous connectivity change the way workers work and consumers consume?

http://www.darwinmag.com/read/030101/ecosystem.html

Giga Trends, What's Next, WIRED, April 2001

http://www.wired.com/wired

The Great Out of the Small, by Daniel S. Goldin, Samuel L. Venneri, and Ahmed K. Noor, Mechanical Engineering, November 2000

Researchers probing the secrets of life on the molecular scale have the reaches of the solar system in mind.

http://www.memagazine.org/contents/current/features/thegreat/thegreat.html

IBM Research: We're taking over, by John G. Spooner, ZDNet News, March 8, 2001

IBM is rethinking how it uses its research brainpower. The company's IBM Research Division is following a new path aimed at building more intelligence into computing by creating more autonomous computers.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2693773,00.html

Internet Everywhere, by John Adam, Technology Review, September/October 2000

Handheld devices are taking computers from personal to intimate. A new generation of wireless network is coming that could keep everyone connected all the time.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/sep00/print_version/adam.html

Jobs for the bots, by Duncan Graham-Rowe, New Scientist, February 10, 2001

They're mobile, they're autonomous and they're right outside your door. After years of hype and crushing failure, robots are ready to start serving us in our homes. You can already buy one to mow your lawn. Vacuuming and polishing are next. OK, all-purpose domestic servants they're not. But they're real robots and their only desire is to make your life easier. The second generation will water plants, fix toilets and even fetch beers from the fridge. You'll wonder how you ever lived without them.

http://www.newscientist.com/features/features.jsp?id=ns22771

The Joy of Encryption, by Meg Mitchell Moore, Darwin, March 1, 2001

Everything you need to know about the stuff that keeps corporate secrets safe online.

http://www.darwinmag.com/read/030101/joy.html

Let there be light, by Philip Ball, Nature, February 22, 2001

A silicon laser would revolutionize telecommunications, electronics and computing. Squeezing light out of silicon is no easy task, but Philip Ball discovers that researchers are becoming more optimistic about its light-emitting abilities.

Let the music play--Sony unveils double-density CD-RWs, by Richard Shim, ZDNet News March 13, 2001

Sony is aiming to double the pleasure of CD-R and CD-RW lovers.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2695961,00.html

Machine Head, by David Cohen, New Scientist, February 24, 2001

With an artifical brain that can outshine its human creator, the silicon scientist is a researcher's best friend. And, says David Cohen, it is even willing to share its results. For now.

http://www.newscientist.com/features/features.jsp?id=ns22791

The Media Lab at a Crossroads, by David H. Freedman, Technology Review, September/October 2000

Fierce competition, radical expansion, a dubious funding model and maybe even a new director spell the end of an era. Can a trailblazing enterprise survive and thrive?

http://www.techreview.com/magazine/sep00/print_version/freedman.html

The Microphotonics Revolution, by Peter Fairley, Technology Review, July/August 2000

Get ready for optical switching in the telecommunications network backbone, then an all-optical Internet, and finally optical integrated circuits. The amount of data we can get almost anywhere will skyrocket.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/jul00/fairley.asp

Molecular Computing, by David Rotman, Technology Review, May/June 2000

Imagine computers orders of magnitude more powerful and far cheaper than todayÕs machines. ThatÕs one promise of a field that uses individual molecules as microscopic switches.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/may00/rotman.asp

The Key Vanishes: Scientist Outlines Unbreakable Code, by Gina Kolata, New York Times, February 20, 2001

A computer science professor at Harvard says he has found a way to send coded messages that cannot be deciphered, even by an all-powerful adversary with unlimited computing power. And, he says, he can prove it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/20/science/20CODE.html?printpage=yes

People Power, by Fred Pearce, New Scientist, November 18, 2001

Forget big generators, in ten years' time we could be making and even selling our own electricity. We might even save the planet.

http://www.newscientist.com/nlf/1118/people.html

Peregrine optical chips ready to fly, by John G. Spooner, ZDNet News, March 12, 2001

The gem sapphire, says Peregrine Semiconductor, is a network chip's best friend.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2695332,00.html

Personal Video Recorders, by Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, March 11, 2001

There are two great frustrations in my job as a reviewer of new consumer technology: When people insist on buying a product I know is inferior, and when people ignore a product I've proclaimed as wonderful. The personal video recorder, or PVR, falls very much into this second category. For almost two years now, I and many other technology reviewers have gushed about the wonders of PVRs. Yet PVR sales are minuscule.

http://www0.mercurycenter.com/resources/search/

The Premise and Promise of a Global Information Infrastructure, by Christine L. Borgman, First Monday, July 24, 2000

The premise of a global information infrastructure is that governments, businesses, communities, and individuals can cooperate to link the world's telecommunication and computer networks together into a vast constellation capable of carrying digital and analog signals in support of every conceivable information and communication application. The promise is that this constellation of networks will promote an information society that benefits all: peace, friendship, and cooperation through improved interpersonal communications; empowerment through access to information for education, business, and social good; more productive labor through technology-enriched work environments; and stronger economies through open competition in global markets.

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_8/borgman/index.html

Print Your Next PC, by Stephen Mihm, Technology Review, November/December 2000

Forget billion-dollar fabs. If Joe Jacobson has his way, you may be printing cheap semiconductor chips on your desktop.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/nov00/mihm.asp

Programmable Matter, by Wil McCarthy, Nature, October 5, 2000

Playing 'Spoze, from July 2100. How quantum wellstone ushered in our modern age.

Pushing the limits of lithography, by Takashi Ito and Shinji Okazaki, Nature, August 31, 2000

The phenomenal rate of increase in the integration density of silicon chips has been sustained in large part by advances in optical lithography Ñ the process that patterns and guides the fabrication of the component semiconductor devices and circuitry. Although the introduction of shorter-wavelength light sources and resolution-enhancement techniques should help maintain the current rate of device miniaturization for several more years, a point will be reached where optical lithography can no longer attain the required feature sizes. Several alternative lithographic techniques under development have the capability to overcome these resolution limits but, at present, no obvious successor to optical lithography has emerged.

Quantum Computing, by M. Mitchell Waldrop, Technology Review, May/June 2000

Computers that tap the bizarre properties of subatomicparticles might calculate with awesome speedÑcracking codes that stymie conventional machines.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/may00/waldrop.asp

San Diego Researchers Build a Fast Wireless Network for a Remote Inland Area, by Florence Olsen, Chronicle of Higher Education, March 12, 2001

University of California researchers have built a wireless computer network that could become a model for bringing high-speed Internet access to some of the most rugged and remote regions of the country.

http://chronicle.com/free/2001/03/2001031201t.htm

Sayonara WAP, by Peter Hadfield, New Scientist, October 21, 2000

Out of nowhere, Japan has been transformed into a nation of information junkies by efficient, unflashy, Net-ready phones. Will i-mode take the world by storm?

http://www.newscientist.com/nlf/1021/sayonara.html

Silicon and Cells, by Ian Sample, New Scientist, February 1, 2001

Living tissue has been hooked up to electronic circuitry by scientists in Germany. The technique could lead to implants that communicate with the body and hybrid sensors made from biological material and silicon. "Having solved the principal problem of coupling cellular electrical signals with silicon electrical signals, we can now proceed to develop cellular biosensors," says Peter Fromherz at the Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany.

http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns9999380

Single Photons "on Demand," by Simon Benjamin, Science Magazine, December 22, 2000

No information without representation! This is the fundamental principle behind quantum information (1), a new, rapidly evolving field of physics (2). Information cannot exist without a physical system to represent it, be it chalk marks on a stone tablet or aligned spins in atomic nuclei. And because the laws of physics govern any such system, physics ultimately determines both the nature of information and how it can be manipulated. Quantum physics enables fundamentally new ways of information processing, such as procedures for "teleporting" states between remote locations, highly efficient algorithms for seeking solutions to equations and for factorization, and protocols for perfectly secure data transmission.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/290/5500/2273

The Software Chip, by Claire Tristram, Technology Review, November/December 2000

Upstart Transmeta's pioneering microprocessor chips are heralding a fundamental evolutionary step in the design of computing's core technology.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/nov00/tristram.asp

Things That Matter: Khmer Kids Link to the Future, by Michael Hawley, Technology Review, January/February 2001

Brrr! not just another frosty January in Cambridge, not just a new year, but 010101: the real dawn of the new millennium. But it feels like a digital winter in more ways than that. The Internet bubble deflated, leaving not only pissy investors and a chill on Wall Street but a generation of hackers frozen like mastodons in the Microsoft ice age, and a lot of decent people wondering: What good is this computer stuff anyway? Sufficiently advanced technology may be indistinguishable from magic, but is it really making life more worth living? Where's the beef?

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/jan01/print_version/hawley.html

The Transparent Society, by David Brin, Wired News, December 4, 2000

The cameras are coming. They're getting smaller and nothing will stop them. The only question is: who watches whom?

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/fftransparent_pr.html

Turning on the Nanoworld, by Philip Ball, Nature Science Update, November 2, 2000

Nanotechnology - molecule-sized engineering - promises wonders: from ultra-dense computer memories to cell-sized robots. Now this promise comes a step closer to being realized, thanks to a team of chemists from Liverpool University in the UK. They have solved the problem of connecting electronic components that are not much larger than molecules.

http://www.nature.com/nsu/001102/001102-10.html

Things That Matter: Wired Kingdom, by Michael Hawley, Technology Review, April 2001

As wilderness gets ever more rare, one of the best ways that technology can serve us is in bringing us closer to the wild without destroying it.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/apr01/hawley.asp

Upstream: Biology in Silico, by Rebecca Zacks, Technology Review, March, 2001

Computers capable of mimicking life have long been the stuff of sci-fi nightmares—think The Terminator or 2001's HAL 9000. But for researchers struggling to make sense of vast amounts of new biological data, and for drug companies anxious to cut costs and speed development, having accurate computer simulations of living systems is still a dream. To make that dream come true, they are turning to "in silico biology," building computer models of the intricate processes that take place inside cells, organs, and even people. The ultimate goal: an entire organism modeled in silicon, allowing researchers to test new therapies much as engineers "fly" new airplane designs on supercomputers.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/mar01/print_version/upstream.html

Ultimate physical limits to computation, by Seth Lloyd, Nature, August 31, 2000

Computers are physical systems: the laws of physics dictate what they can and cannot do. In particular, the speed with which a physical device can process information is limited by its energy and the amount of information that it can process is limited by the number of degrees of freedom it possesses. Here I explore the physical limits of computation as determined by the speed of light c, the quantum scale and the gravitational constant G. As an example, I put quantitative bounds to the computational power of an 'ultimate laptop' with a mass of one kilogram confined to a volume of one litre.

Whatevery You Want, by Michael Brooks, New Scientist, September 30, 2000

A spare part for your dishwasher, a new pair of glasses or a toy for your nephew, the same magic box can make them all. And yes, you could soon have one at home.

http://www.newscientist.com/nlf/0930/whatever.html

Where Have All the Computers Gone?, by John Seely Brown, Technology Review, January/February 2001

The following document arrived at the offices of Technology Review in a time capsule dated 2020. It purports to be a history of computers written by computer scientist-turned-historian John Seely Brown. In the late 20th century, Dr. Brown served as director of Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/jan01/brown.asp

Transcendental Destination; Where Will the Information Revolution Lead?, by Rand Research, RAND, December, 2000

World Wide Web traffic emanates predominantly from the United States and Canada. RAND researchers say the information revolution is fostering a global "realm of the mind" that could form the backbone of an American information strategy.

http://www.rand.org/publications/randreview/issues/rr.12.00/transcendental.html

The Future is Now, by Howard Rheingold, Wired, October 8, 2000

Ever since computers started communicating across the ether, geek pundits, nerd poets, and online philosophers have talked about The Future The Net Will Bring, foreseeing that the lightning-speed distributive power of the medium will wreak creative havoc on the world. A few of these predictions have already come true, a few haven't. For the most part we've been waiting, impatient and hopeful.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.10/p2p_intro_pr.html

The Gnutella Paradox, by Janelle Brown, Salon, September 29, 2000

As soon as an online music-trading service gets big enough to be useful, it's doomed.

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/09/29/gnutella_paradox/index.html

Internet Computing and the Emerging Grid, by Ian Foster, Nature, December 7, 2000

Internet computing and Grid technologies promise to change the way we tackle complex problems. They will enable large-scale aggregation and sharing of computational, data and other resources across institutional boundaries. And harnessing these new technologies effectively will transform scientific disciplines ranging from high-energy physics to the life sciences.

http://www.nature.com/nature/webmatters/grid/grid.html

Issues aside, how Napster works is what really matters, Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News, August 5, 2000

To understand why Napster and its clones may be the most significant development in software since the graphical Web browser, you have to forget about music, copyright and piracy.

http://www0.mercurycenter.com/cgi-bin/edtools/printpage/printpage.pl

RadioActive Takes Napster Cue--With a New Spin, by Michael A. Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, March 8, 2001

It's no secret that the music industry hates Napster. But how will it feel about RadioActive? RadioActive is just one of what is almost certain to be a swarm of Web-based music services aiming to satisfy users' thirst for downloadable music without drawing legal gunfire from the recording industry.

http://www.latimes.com/class/employ/showbiz/20010308/t000020392.html

Code Name: Mainstream; Can Open Source Bridge the Software Gap?, by Steve Lohr, New York Times, August 28 2000

In a report to President Clinton last year, a group of leading computer scientists warned that the nation faced a troubling "software gap." The group, made up of corporate executives and university researchers, said that programmers simply could not keep pace with exploding demand for high-quality software -- the computer code needed for everything from Internet commerce to nuclear weapons design. To bridge the gap, the group said, the nation must not only train more skilled programmers but also explore fresh, even radical, approaches to developing and maintaining software.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/08/biztech/articles/28code.html

Eric Raymond: Market slump means great things for Linux, by Will Knight, ZDNet (UK), February 2, 2001

Eric Raymond, self-proclaimed open-source evangelist and Linux advocate, is not depressed by the state of technology stocks. In fact, he believes now is an ideal moment for companies that are looking to tighten their belts to start using low-cost open-source software.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2681831,00.html

Essence of Distributed Work: The Case of the Linux Kernel, by Jae Yun Moon and Lee Sproull, First Monday, November, 2000

This paper provides a historical account of how the Linux operating system kernel was developed from three different perspectives. Each focuses on different critical factors in its success at the individual, group, and community levels.

http://firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_11/moon/index.html

IBM: Linux ready for 'real business', Reuters, February 4, 2001

IBM, the most traditional of technology companies, is betting that the decidedly non-traditional Linux software system can give it an edge in the market for computers that carry out the most mainstream and strenuous business workloads.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2681927,00.html

Linux Looks to Take on the World, by Michelle Delio, WIRED News, January 31, 2001Ê

Linux is a highly capable but curt operating system that does not suffer fools gladly. Likewise, LinuxWorld shows have always been a gathering primarily for the few, the proud, the brave and the extremely nerdy ubergeeks. But this year LinuxWorld will feature tools that will help bring the alternative operating system squarely into the mainstream.

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,41500,00.html

Linux's Open-Door Policy Could Let Hackers Right In, by Kevin Max, New York Times, March 29, 2000

The Linux name has attracted its share of investor euphoria over the past year and, with it, cautious words from computer security experts. The stunning market debuts of VA Linux are examples of the excitement and instant fortunes being built around the Linux operating platform and so-called open source code.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/03/biztech/articles/30tsc-linux.html

Red Hat Dares MS to Debate, by Declan McCullagh, WIRED News, February 26, 2001

WASHINGTON -- A Microsoft executive's recent quip about the purportedly un-American characteristics of non-proprietary software did more than send open-source fans into a tizzy. It also sent companies supporting the Linux operating system a clear signal: You've become important enough for Microsoft to attack directly.

http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,42011,00.html

The Story Behind Tux the Penguin, by Michelle Delio, WIRED News, March 13, 2001

One of the first questions asked by mainstream technology companies beginning to offer Linux products or services is, "Who owns the penguin?" The answer is no one. The Linux logo, a plump penguin known as Tux, is an open-source image.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,42209,00.html

Transmeta releases 'Midori'--Linux for gadgets, by Stephen Shankland, Special to ZDNet, March 13, 2001

Transmeta, the employer of Linux founder Linus Torvalds, has released Midori, its version of Linux for mobile devices.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2695892,00.html

Transmeta Takes Linux Plunge, by Leander Kahney, WIRED News, Mach. 13, 2001

Chip maker Transmeta has released a version of the GNU/Linux operating system for Internet appliances and mobile devices.

http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,42399,00.html

Whose Intellectual Property Is It Anyway? The Open Source War, by Peter Wayner, New York Times, August 23, 2000

There's a war going on. It isn't between ethnic groups, provinces, religions or nations. It is between nimble people who want to think for themselves and big dinosaurs of corporations that want to keep the upstarts penned up and docile.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/08/circuits/articles/24free.html

Control Revolution, The; How the Internet is Putting Individuals in Charge and Changing the World We Know, by Andrew L. Shapiro, Century Foundation Book, 1999