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...most of its users, the Internet might seem like an inexplicably haphazard system. But in The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information, Bernardo Huberman, who heads Internet research at Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, Calif., explains that the Net actually follows predictable rules that can inform business decisions. Like the sports and entertainment worlds, the Internet is a winner-take-all marketplace where relatively few companies reap huge profits. There is a very low probability that a new site will attract significant traffic. And congestion, or "storms" that slow access to pages, can be predicted...
Full-service companies like BGS also face a threat from upstart software firms that are providing clients with content-management tools to go it alone. Hewlett-Packard, for instance, licenses software from GlobalSight, based in San Jose, Calif., to manage translation for its hp.com websites in 72 countries. And for its multilingual tech-support sites itrc.hp.com) HP uses software from Uniscape, based in Sunnyvale, Calif. HP hires its own free-lance translators for both sites. It retains control of its "translation memory," the database of proprietary language that has already been translated. "Leaving it in the hands of a vendor...
CHEAP $1,050 HP PAVILION 7935 There are lower-priced machines but not many with this kind of high performance. Hewlett-Packard's best value includes a superfast 1.3-GHz AMD Athlon chip, Polk Audio speakers and a built-in CD burner. Better still, through Jan. 5, a $150 rebate on the PC-and-monitor combo pushes the system price down to a very merry $900. www.hpshopping.com...
...Microsoft is already seeding the market with software such as its Pocket PC 2002 platform, launched this month on handheld computing devices made by Casio, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, NEC and Toshiba...
...privately-held British company - which has raised $65 million in funding and does about 60% of its business in Japan - has already shipped more than a million Bluetooth single-chip devices, many of which are showing up in IBM, Sony, Compaq, Fujitsu and NEC laptops, Sony cell phones and Hewlett-Packard printers...