Word: computerizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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--The Computer Side Silicon Valley software and hardware companies, backed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Whatever rules finally emerge, it would be a mistake to make them so strict that they wipe out the serendipity and occasional weirdness that exist in Internet domain names. Take www.billgates.com Type it into your browser, and you end up at a black screen with the single word Mail written...
More than 70,000 people have sent e-mail to the site. It's mainly what you'd expect, Ghent says: heavy on computer problems and requests for money. It may be confusing, and a little misleading, but ultimately it's harmless. Ghent isn't trying to make any money...
The next thing you do is find out why the company failed to meet expectations. If you read anything about accounting irregularities being behind the disappointment, then you pick up the phone, or go to your computer, and turn that unrealized loss into a realized loss, pronto. My rule is...
If, on the other hand, the problem appears to be a onetime event--a key part didn't get delivered in time, or demand outstripped supply--buy more. Apple Computer lost about 15 quick points when it preannounced that it couldn't meet consumer demand for its hot new computers...