New York Times

Beyond the timing of any short-term recovery, however, is the longer-term question about the future of information technology: Is it still a growth industry?

10:42:07 PM    

San Jose Mercury News

Siebel Systems will hold a live, in-person shareholders meeting after all.

One day after the San Mateo software maker took heavy fire for announcing that it would hold this year's annual shareholders meeting only in cyberspace, Siebel reversed itself Thursday and said it will allow stockholders to show up at the Marriott Hotel in San Mateo, where the Webcast will be broadcast.

6:49:55 PM    

New York Times by John R. Quain

America Online says 195 million people use its instant messaging service, their keystrokes generating more than 1.6 billion messages a day. For those users, instant messaging - or IM - has become an intrinsic part of their social fabric.

"On the phone, you can only talk to one person at a time,'' Ms. Gittleson, a 15 year old in Colts Neck, NJ said. "Online, you can talk to a dozen people at once."

6:40:08 PM    

Motley Fool

If there's one thing Yahoo!'s just-released 10-Q makes clear, it's that Overture Services is very, very important to its well-being. At the same time, Overture's success could be harmful to its own health.

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