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Friday 22 December 2000

A year in review: Dot-com and gone

The world emerged from the threat of the Y2K bug with a sigh of relief and hope for the new year. But just as one IT headline grabber left the stage, another reared its head: the dot-com start-up.

The Director's Cut: The Scrooge of IT past

Once upon a time, in a company not very far from here, the IT director, Charles, was preparing for Christmas as he had always done, with dread, despair, and depression.

A year in review: The 'Snooping' Bill

The storm over the government's controversial plans to allow law enforcement agencies access to emails and web logs began late in 1999, after the initial plans were removed from the Electronic Communications Bill.

A year in review: Third generation games

This year has been dominated by scrambles to win third generation UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) licences in Europe, which sparked a wave of controversy and caused telco credit ratings to tumble.

NTT DoCoMo Nasdaq listing to finance i-mode push

Japanese mobile company NTT DoCoMo is preparing to list in New York early next year and it hopes to raise an estimated $9bn by issuing new shares.

DoubleClick stands up NetCreation

Internet advertising company DoubleClick has announced it will terminate its merger with NetCreation, having refused to match a third party offer to buy outstanding shares in the email list management firm.

A year in review: Local loop, BT's last monopoly

Undoubtedly one of the most vital issues of the year has been the continuing epic saga of the unbundling of the local loop - the 'last mile' of phone cables between the exchange and your front door. It's also BT's last complete monopoly.

US online shopping keeps growing

The number of American consumers shopping online has not significantly increased this year in comparison to Christmas 1999, according to a survey out this week.

3Com stock takes a hammering despite good results

Networking giant 3Com's share price fell almost eight per cent yesterday despite reporting narrower than expected losses for its second quarter, with revenues down five per cent on the previous three months.

Xerox sells Chinese operation

Xerox has completed the sale of its China operation to Fuji Xerox for $550m cash.


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