_____ the Mezzenger _______________________________________ * September 27th, 2000 Volume 2 Issue 6 Subscribe at http://theMezz.com/news Mezzage Board at http://theMezz.com/bbs Win $10,000 http://theMezz.com/news/recommend/ Quote of the Week..... "Microsoft: This company has performed an illegal operation and must be shut down. If problem persists please call the Department of Justice." ______ presenting...... ___________________________________ My friend and associate Mike and I often sit and chat over java. In this case the chatting is not done on IRC or IM, but at a table in a donut shop, and when you order java they do not ask you what version you want, they ask you if you want cream and sugar. I see the computer industry from a technology perspective and I have my blueberry muffin with a PC MAGAZINE, Mike sees the computer industry from a business perspective and has his glazed donut with the New York Times. I mentioned how much I like my portable USB Iomega CD writer and Mike mentioned how well he likes the Iomega new management team and a something about a $12 target. Conversations like that have given birth to a new section of the Mezzenger NewsLetter that we will call Market GlimpZ. It will be written by Mike Zdanowicz and starts today. Please take a second and drop Mike an eMail with tech market info or just to say hello - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want your comment to be public, hit the mezzage board at http://theMezz.com/bbs Hope you like Mike's Market GlimpZ. ______ Market GlimpZ ______________________________________ by Mike Zdanowicz WILL IOMEGA BE ZIPPING ALONG AGAIN? The one time market darling is back in the news. Most of us are familiar with Iomega, for their Zip and Jazz drives for removable storage. This propelled this small capper into a high flying, stock splitting phenom. But the last 3 years have been tough. A "cooked books" scandal, along with shaky management sent this into daytrader doledrums. With a 52 week low of 2 7/8, the longs have been hit hard. However, new management team led by Bruce Albertson along with a new product is making things interesting again. HipZip, a portable MP3 is now on the market. Offering a low cost alternative to flash memory for downloading music on the internet. Some key alignments can make this an industry standard. One brokerage firm has taken notice - First Montauk Securities gives it a short term strong buy with a $12 price target. Trading in the $5 range now, makes this stock worth taking a glimpz at. Comments? Suggestions? Tips? Mail Mike at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ______ cool software ______________________________________ *PowerMark http://www.kaylon.com/power.html We were searching for a way to organize those hundreds and sometimes thousand of bookmarks that we all save with out web browsers when John K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> came up with a new perspective for handling his 6000 bookmarks. The trick is in NOT organizing them at all! John suggested something called Powermarks which has the power to FIND bookmarks not organize them. I tried it and after just a few minutes of using Powermarks I was hooked. Check out some of these features. -Backup and synchronize your bookmarks across the Internet, great if you have multiple computers. -Innovative search interface provides fast and easy access to your bookmarks - no hierarchies to sort, order and arrange. -Small, fast, reliable and exceptionally user friendly. -Browser independent bookmarks, use the same collection with multiple browsers. Compatible with all popular Windows browsers including Netscape 3.0...4.7, IE 3.0...5.0 and Opera 2.0...3.6. -Automatic notification of changed pages (optional). -Powermarks can also create a new bookmark given only a URL - the name, keywords and description fields are automatically retrieved from the actual web page. -An easy and efficient way to publish read-only bookmark collections - perfect for libraries and intranets. -Export bookmarks in a variety of formats, including RTF, ASCII, and HTML formatted for printing so that the URLs are visible. -Color codes, autosaves, easy to modify keywords and many more features. Often feature rich software is cluttered with tool bars and buttons and hard to use - NOT so with Powermarks. This is a great chunk of code. It's not freeware nor adware, but after you use this super utility for just a day, you'll be happy to register it at a reasonable $25. ______ Windows Millennium Edition _________________________ * Most people I run into are not upgrading to Windows ME. However Microsoft sold a quarter million copies in its first four days of release ZDnet news projects sales of Windows Me, will pass the one million unit mark by the end of the year. Will you be upgrading? SO far 54% of you say NO to Windows ME http://www.themezz.com/polls/ *MS has released a security update to OutLook 98 http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/downloadDetails/Cdoup98.htm ______ the good stuff _____________________________________ Don't miss some good stuff http://www.themezz.com/alertZ/ ______ rumors? ____________________________________________ By Julia Angwin THE WALL STREET JOURNAL September 26 � America Online Inc. may be further along in the integration of its two, different, instant messaging systems � AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ � than it has been letting on. ______ 56 years ago on this day ___________________________ 1944 Eckert notifies colleagues of patent application Presper Eckert sent a letter to his colleagues at the Moore School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, advising them that he and John Mauchly would be applying for a patent on ENIAC, one of the world's first electronic computers. He requested that other engineers let him know about any contributions to ENIAC that they would like to patent themselves. In 1946, the new head of the Moore School requested that all engineers sign over patent rights to the school: Eckert and Mauchly resigned in protest and started their own company. Years later, their patent for the electronic computer was overturned after a protracted court battle. (Source: http://historychannel.com ) What's ENIAC? http://www.pbs.org/transistor/science/events/eniac.html see you all next week --- Support our Sponsor------------------------------------- Make eTour.com your Web start page, and you�ll see a different site matched to your interests every time you log onto the Web! 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