High-Tech Battleground

Mon., Dec. 4, 2000

Compiled By Bill Sallquist

While leading electronics companies pitched recordable DVD drives at the Comdex computer trade show, a small band of Russian scientists showed off a new optical storage technology that could make DVDs obsolete.

Constellation 3D Inc. uses a radical new way of reading optical data that could enable 1,000 gigabytes of data to be stored on a single CD-ROM-size disk.

Boston Globe

* Dot-com bright spot: Wall Street may have lost its confidence in business-to-consumer e-marketing, but there’s still some enthusiasm for B2B commerce.

That was apparent at the November Comdex computer show in Las Vegas.

Business-to-business marketplaces generally are Web sites where businesses provide goods or services to one another. Some bring together a broad variety of buyers and sellers; others address narrower segments of the market, such as a certain genre of products or a single company and all of its suppliers.

Knight Ridder

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