Thursday, October 10, 2002

HP, Critical Path to offer hosted messaging services. Services to help businesses cut costs, free up IT resources and tailor messaging apps [InfoWorld: Top News] Here's a name from the past. I tried 2 or 3 times to do a deal involving these guys (CP), but their financial shenanigans in 2000 killed the deal. CP was way out in front of the rest of the tech sector, insofar as financial fraud. 2:16:56 PM

Posting from the SFO Marriot lobby. Signed up with the resident WiFi provider, STSN, in 1 minute flat. All they wanted was my credit card # and my email address (to email a receipt). Simple, fast, and same price as T-Mobile. T-M should take a lesson - this was nice. 2:11:04 PM

Dell offers hand for e-mail exchange. The direct PC company plans Thursday to offer a fixed-price service to get corporations over to Microsoft Exchange 2000. [CNET News.com] Dell's becoming a complicated company all of a sudden. With this announcement, plus their solo move into printers/ink, plus an announced push into enterprise pro-services, Dell has bitten off a lot. I expect their core business to suffer as a result. They're smart, but brains and effectiveness in one market don't often generalize into others. 7:44:23 AM

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