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Features
- Analysis & Commentary
PricewaterhouseCoopers' TECHNOLOGY FORECAST 2002-2004
The bursting of the dot-com bubble -- as evidenced most obviously by the
disappearance of many of the highly visible dot-com startups and the decline
in the market value of its survivors -- should not be mistaken for the end
of e-business.
GOOGLE PROTECTS ITS SEARCH RESULTS
This month, about 100 Comcast subscribers were temporarily shut out of
Google when the search company charged the high-speed Internet access
provider with hosting some accounts that had abused its terms of service by
performing "automated queries." The crackdown cut a wide swath, taking out a
block of IP addresses, shutting down the guilty and innocent alike.

- Leading Edge R&D
UCLA RESEARCHERS HELPING TO FIND LOST 911 CALLERS
UCLA engineers are working on something that may someday save your life.
Electrical engineering professor Ali H. Sayed and his research group are
creating technology that will enable medical personnel to use the nation's
wireless phone network to pinpoint the location of someone in distress.
AstraZeneca TO USE CellSpace KNOWLEDGE MINER
Cellomics Inc announced that AstraZeneca has agreed to a license to
evaluate CellSpace Knowledge Miner, a powerful new class of bioinformatics
tool, in their pharmaceutical research programs. By using CellSpace,
molecular biologists and drug discovery researchers are instantly able to
access insights that previously required days or weeks of literature review.
INSIGHTFUL'S TEXT MINING WITH 'HUMAN-LIKE INTELLIGENCE'
Insightful believes InFact is currently the only commercial technology of
its kind to embody human-like intelligence, thereby empowering knowledge
workers and decision-makers to make better decisions faster in a wide range
of critical, high-value business areas.

- Business & Money Trail
INTERGRAPH SETTLES INTEL SUIT
The maker of engineering software said Intel has agreed pay it $300
million to settle a five-year-old patent lawsuit. Investors, perhaps looking
for a sweeter deal, pushed Huntsville, AL-based Intergraph down 11%.
IONA AND SGI ANNOUNCE ALLIANCE
IONA, a leading e-Business Platform provider for Web Services Integration,
announced an alliance with SGI, a world leader in advanced visualization,
high-performance computing and complex data management. The alliance will
ease a customer's incorporation of both vendors' offerings into their
overall enterprise-computing environment.
PLATFORM COMPUTING ANNOUNCES OEM AGREEMENT WITH COGNOS
Platform will initially OEM Cognos' reporting and analysis solutions,
including Cognos PowerPlay and Cognos Upfront, to expand the functionality
of its enterprise Performance Management software solutions.

Top Of The News
Short Takes
- On The Market
Databeacon 5.3 for Interactive Data Publishing
PriceNet Price Management & Optimization System
- Financial Watch
IBM Global Services will Provide IT Support to Amtrak

Quote Of The Week
"We are not going to be able to afford to build the Pentium 27 [chip]. We can't afford the precision." -- Seth Goldstein, Carnegie Mellon University, Addressing the eventual widespread use of reconfigurable chips

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