Wal-Mart is Wal-Smart

The world’s biggest retailer proves the New Economy isn’t just for tech companies. To be at the leading edge of the New Economy, a company doesn’t have to make semiconductors or optical networking components, or even map the human genome. As much as...

California’s Green Profiteers

Last week, a quarter of a million Californians had their power cut in a new wave of rolling blackouts. As one official admitted, “This is the situation everyone feared. Here it is May 7, and we already have rolling outages.” This is only a warm-up for the...

Diversify Your Portfolio with Tech’s Leaders

Jack Welch, the retiring CEO of General Electric, may be the greatest corporate manager of all time. I’m not comparing him to inventors or entrepreneurs who created great things out of nothing, but as a manager who can run a business, develop talent and...

Lost in the Dark

A week ago I wrote here that the NASDAQ’s highs of Wednesday, May 2, marked the closing bookend of the NASDAQ’s fabulous bull run that carried it 35.6% from the bottom on April 4. So far I’ve been right. From May 2 through yesterday’s close,...

Why Fiber To The Home (FTTH) Is Inevitable

For the past few years, telecom companies have been working diligently to provide us with pseudo-broadband internet connections over copper (DSL) and cable (cable modem). I use the term “pseudo-broadband” because the existing telecom infrastructure can...