Week of December 27, 2004: Prozac papers send Eli Lilly stock a tumblin’, Oracle replaces PeopleSoft’s top tier, a new Trojan horse virus lurks, and Gartner buys Meta.
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Celebrity eclipsed geekdom as blonde bombshells saturated search engines in 2004.
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Technology can’t fix everything, Microsoft loses its Passport, and Lenovo buys a lemon.
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Delivering information when wires are washed out to sea.
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For the IPO market in 2005, the forecast indicates a steady stream of new deals - barring any unforeseen road bumps.
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A wireless startup offers a risky new service that has major carriers looking over their shoulders.
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The chip maker backs three startups with its Digital Home Fund.
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Is the Porsche of personal computers going the Volkswagen route?
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The Japanese company will sell more cars in the U.S. than DaimlerChrysler - the only question is when.
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Las Vegas Sands tops a show-stopping marquee; the best IPOs for Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Merrill Lynch. Plus: How this December compares to the last.
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Today’s real-time disaster relief may be tomorrow’s real-time rescue effort.
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Enterprise wireless email usage more than doubles, semiconductor revenues rise, and Wal-Mart continues to push RFID tags.
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Do women really want stylish laptop cases?
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The new rules could spur innovation in emerging networks and technologies, like VoIP.
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Week of December 20, 2004: Blockbuster gauges prices, a spam suit pays off, EMC has SMARTS, and a post-A-round IPO.
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The FCC’s new rules should ease the battle between the Bell cartel and its competitors – and cut emerging technologies some slack.
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Microsoft will have to unbundle its media software, and pay a fine.
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The peer-to-peer telephony software company targets more traditional phone carrier consumers.
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The move will simplify one of the Internet’s most complex corporate contraptions.
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The deal-happy media mogul plans to split up IAC/InterActiveCorp.
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