[JA] NewsScan Daily, 20 July 2001 excerpts

  • From: stanley wong <stanley.wong@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: juno_accmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 00:07:19 -0700

 
"TUNNEL FIRE DERAILS INTERNET SERVICE
Derailed train cars burning in a Baltimore tunnel have seriously damaged 
the area's fiber-optic cables..... with a ripple effect across the
country.... 
 Keynote Systems, which measures Web site performance, said 
the delay experienced by Internet users was the worst it has ever seen." 
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010719/18/train-derailment-communications

"PC WORLDWIDE SALES 
PC shipments fell 2% to 30 million units during the second quarter,
Gartner 
Research's Todd Kort says: "This is the first time we've had a worldwide 
decline since 1986 on a year-over-year basis....  For the time being,
vendors
 continue to opt for price-cutting rather than changing PC design to
stimulate
 growth."  
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/007598.htm

 


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