Steve Harmon

First reader up this week writes about the ability of your electric utility company to also provide Internet access via those same jolted lines: “Northern Telecom, the #2 digital switch vendor behind Lucent, already has this technology. They’ve also demonstrated it at a school in the UK. The PC-based NICs have been around for years. […]

ISDEX & Market Moves Snapshot   20-Jan-98 % change point change ISDEX Average 108.86 4.19% 4.38 ISDEX Composite 875.94 3.96% 33.34 NASDAQ 1,590.14 1.74% 27.26 DJIA 7,873.12 1.54% 119.57 @Home (NASDAQ:ATHM) posts net loss for the fourth quarter ending December 31 of $11.8 million, or $0.10 per share. Results exclude a non-cash charge of $172.6 […]

Dear Bill: Quite a hectic few weeks. Did you catch the Department of Justice’s stance on your (Microsoft’s) stance? It looks like DOJ just wanted an excuse to play cat and mouse with Microsoft. What does it know about browsers? Operating systems? the inevitable evolution of the OS into the network. A copy of Darwin’s […]

ISDEX & Market Moves Snapshot   16-Jan-98 % change point change ISDEX Average 104.48 2.17% 2.22 ISDEX Composite 842.59 2.01% 16.62 NASDAQ 1,562.88 1.02% 15.82 DJIA 7,753.55 0.80% 61.78 Sportsline (NASDAQ:SPLN) agrees to acquire GolfWeb for 860,000 shares. The news sends SPLN up to $20.625 per share Friday. Timely that we discussed Sportsline in ISR […]

ISDEX & Market Moves Snapshot   15-Jan-98 % change point change ISDEX Average 102.26 1.84% 1.85 ISDEX Composite 825.97 1.39% 11.31 NASDAQ 1,547.06 -0.11% -1.70 DJIA 7,691.77 -1.19% -92.92 Excite (NASDAQ:XCIT) tries to set the pace again for “Web networks” with the $89 million buy for target marketing and ad management software firm Matchlogic. With […]

There’s a heavy case of eyeball envy creeping up on CBS.Sportline.com. Case in point, ESPN’s Sportszone.com claims 9.2 million daily page views vs. Sportsline’s 2.8 million. Or, welcome to the $1.7 billion trail to ESPN Sportszone value. For starters, the recent initial public offering of Sportsline (NASDAQ:SPLN), which debuted at $8 last November and has […]

The Green Bay Packers came to San Francisco’s 3COM Park and made the 49ers say “cheese” for the NFC championship title. The stats told of a story of yards gained and lost, mud slung and packed, long bombs waiting for a receiver to grab onto for a touchdown. Sounds a lot like Internet stocks in […]

ISDEX & Market Moves Snapshot   14-Jan-98 % change point change ISDEX Geo. Avg. 100.41 0.49% 0.49 ISDEX Composite 814.66 0.75% 6.03 NASDAQ 1,548.76 0.46% 7.13 DJIA 7,784.69 0.68% 52.56 ISDEX Geometric Average weights all stocks equally for wide industry benchmarking; ISDEX Price Weighted Composite sums overall price and % changes for group as an […]

ISDEX & Market Moves Snapshot   13-Jan-98 % change point change ISDEX Geo. Avg. 99.92 3.42% 3.30 ISDEX Composite 808.63 5.29% 40.63 NASDAQ 1,541.63 2.26% 34.05 DJIA 7,732.13 1.11% 84.95 ISDEX Geometric Average weights all stocks equally for wide industry benchmarking; ISDEX Price Weighted Composite sums overall price and % changes for group as an […]

All things being average, which they never are, you’d be worth about $116 to the Web site that can claim you as being its “user.” It’s the new game of Web traffic cop as we crunch the numbers of RelevantKnowledge’s raw user data and take it into the realm of investordom. Bean counting meets bean […]

ISDEX & Market Moves Snapshot   12-Jan-98 % change  point change  ISDEX Geo. Avg. 96.62  -0.65% -0.63 ISDEX Composite 768.00  0.29% 2.20 NASDAQ 1,507.58  0.29% 4.36 DJIA 7,647.18  0.88% 66.76 ISDEX Geometric Average weights all stocks equally for wide industry benchmarking; ISDEX Composite sums up overall $ changes for group as an investment portfolio index  […]

First reader up this week writes: “re: Morning Report, Wednesday, December 31–Top Ten Web Stocks To Watch. In the report and specific reference, RealNetworks, you mentioned that Microsoft ‘has licensed Real’s code.’ Could you explain to this neophyte what that means?” Reply: It means that Microsoft can use RealNetwork’s streaming media technology/software in Microsoft products. […]