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...globe. Krauthammer may think alliances are for cowards and losers, but people like Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill spoke often of the need to cultivate alliances in the name of security. The fact is, we will never beat terrorism by blowing up other countries. BRANDEN FRANKEL Newport Beach, Calif...
DIED. EUGENE KLEINER, 80, gentlemanly, Austrian-born Silicon Valley engineer and venture capitalist; of heart failure; in Los Altos Hills, Calif. In 1957, with $3,500 and seven colleagues, he came up with a way to mass-produce silicon transistors, a discovery that opened the door to developing desktop computers and cell phones and spawned companies like Intel. In 1972, he co-founded Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, a venture-capital firm that helped establish more than 300 companies, including Compaq and Sun Microsystems...
...just beginning to make possible. For that reason, most of the major phone companies--AT&T, BellSouth, Qwest Communications, Sprint and Verizon--have already announced a VOIP offering of some sort. They too are responding to upstarts like end-to-end IP service provider GoBeam, based in Pleasanton, Calif. Ultimately, residential customers will reap some of the same rewards...
...giant Siemens has just released a product called HiPath OpenScape, which allows, for example, a salesperson who is in an important pitch meeting to find a product specialist immediately, whether the specialist is in the office, in the car or at home. Smaller companies like Sylantro, based in Campbell, Calif., offer to phone companies similar products that they house in their networks and that the phone companies can in turn offer to their customers. "We're helping to usher in a whole new era of usability in communications that people haven't been able to get to in the past...
...estate. "It's anticompetitive any way you look at it," says Russell Capper, CEO of eRealty, which is based in Houston and has offices in 14 markets. The new rules could make some sites less comprehensive, says Patrick Lashinsky, vice president of zipRealty, a Web brokerage based in Emeryville, Calif. Buyers might see fewer properties, and sellers' houses might not be marketed as widely, he says. For now, any action that might cripple the Web brokerages is at a standstill. This fall the Department of Justice and the Michigan attorney general's office launched investigations into the new rules. Feeling...