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Technology Stocks : barnesandnoble.com (BNBN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Julie Simmons who wrote (740)	2/11/2000 1:26:00 PM
From: Bird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 766

dailynews.yahoo.com Thursday February 10 7:09 PM ET Web Hacking Underscores Need for Constant Monitoring By Andrea Orr PALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuters) "If I go on to Amazon.Com (NasdaqNM:AMZN - news) to buy a book, and it takes more than a minute to complete the transaction, it makes me think maybe I should go to BarnesandNoble.com (NasdaqNM:BNBN - news),' says Hava Mintz, a spokeswoman for Freshwater Software. The Boulder, Colorado company monitors the performance of 1,600 different Web businesses so that they can be alerted to any slowdowns long before they reach the crisis stage that was witnessed in the extended shutdowns this week." I like the way Ms. Orr's article made going to BNBN for a book sound like the last resort. BOrrd