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Americans bought 635,000 digital-audio players last year, up from just a few thousand in 1999, according to the market-research firm NPDTechworld. Electronics retailers sold 10.4 million CD burners (half of them installed in PCs), a 50% increase over 2000. Computer makers increasingly market their machines as rip...
In the digital-audio-player market, today's gadgets are smaller and lighter than their predecessors of just six months ago. The latest high-capacity units, like Archos' 20-gigabyte Jukebox Recorder, hold 4,000 tunes. The challenge for gearmakers like SONICblue, whose RioRiot is the nation's top-selling...
The story illustrates the danger--of expensive misunderstandings and much worse--posed by business partnerships in the digital age. To speed their delivery of new products and services, more and more firms are asking partners for help. New Internet-based software makes the sharing much easier. But the collaborations also...
But businesses don't have to abandon all secrecy in the information age, says Tom Halbouty, chief information officer of Pioneer Natural Resources, based in Irving, Texas. The company often collaborates with its competitors. To protect secrets about oil-field discoveries and drilling-platform designs, Pioneer purchased software from Infraworks...
Digital networking certainly poses a risk to trade secrets, Halbouty says, "but if you're practical and prudent, you can use these tools to your advantage." Pioneer's secrets, he says, are as leakproof as its oil pipes.