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To: kemble s. matter who wrote (154892)	3/12/2000 1:17:00 AM
From: calgal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Hi Kemble! Can you imagine keeping up with Michael's schedule? :)Leigh MIT Sloan School of Management Announces Finalists for the 2nd Annual MIT Sloan eBusiness Awards; Monster.com, Ebay, iCanBuy, Freeserve and Red Hat Among Finalists CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 2000--MIT Sloan School of Management today announced the finalists of the 2nd Annual MIT Sloan eBusiness Awards ceremony designed to recognize organizations for successful innovation in eBusiness. The awards will be presented in a ceremony at MIT on Wednesday, April 12, 2000 at 6:00 p.m. and will be broadcast live over the Internet at www.mitawards.org. The awards will be given to the distinguished organizations in the following seven categories: Web Responsibility, Clicks & Mortar, International Power Player, Rookie of the Year, Global Reach, Disruptive Technology and Industry Transformation. A committee of MIT faculty and distinguished business leaders will select the winners. The selection committee includes Duane Ackerman, Chairman and CEO of BellSouth, Howard Anderson, Chairman of the Board of The Yankee Group, Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Computer, Bill Porter, Founder of E*Trade, Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director of Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), John Battelle, President and CEO of Industry Standard Communications, Inc., Richard M. Smith, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Newsweek and Alan Webber, Founding Editor of Fast Company. The Web Responsibility Award category recognizes the company that has demonstrated its commitment to safe surfing through an innovative product, service, technology or business practice. The finalists are Entrust Technologies, NetNanny, TRUSTe, Verisign and iCanBuy. The Clicks & Mortar Award honors the company that has made the greatest advancement in integrating both physical and online business practices. The five companies that have been transformed from a "brick and mortar" company into an Internet-based business are Gateway, Land's End, UPS, ClixnMortar and Fitlinxx. The International Power Player Award recognizes the company that has successfully executed an innovative eBusiness model within its own country. Finalists are Softbank, MTTdocomo, Terra Networks, Pacific Century Cyberworks and Freeserve. Other award categories include the Rookie of the Year Award, which is bestowed upon an up-and-coming company that shows the greatest potential to dominate new industries. With the Internet, companies can rise from new ventures to multi-billion dollar enterprises in a few short years and this category awards the company that shows the most potential for doing so. The five nominees are Kozmo, Accompany, MarketSoft, Openratings and Handspring. The Global Reach Award recognizes innovation at an eBusiness that has leveraged the Internet as a channel for extending global reach. The finalists in this category are Babylon.com, Real Networks, Ebay, Monster.com and Nortel. The Disruptive Technology Awardrecognize technical innovation that has the greatest potential to revolutionize eBusiness. Five finalists for this category include: Phone.com, Avantgo, Palm, Net2phone, and Red Hat. The Industry Transformation Award commends the company that has created new areas and opportunity and new benefits to consumers via the Internet. The five finalists include: Healtheon, Chemdex, BuildNet, Enron and Quicktake. "We established these awards to build on the expertise we've already developed within Sloan and the Center for eBusiness@MIT," said Sloan School of Management Dean Richard Schmalensee. "We feel privileged to honor such innovative organizations who advance the practice and understanding of eBusiness," added Dean Schmalensee. Last year's award winners included such successful companies as Akamai for Rookie of the Year; Dell Computer for the Internationalist Award; MP3.com for Re-Inventor Award; Egghead.com for Web Transformation Award; Net Perceptions for Technology Innovator Award; and Impact Online for Socially Responsible Award. In addition, the awards enjoyed several high-technology and leading business sponsors including Cambridge Technology Partners, Dell Computer, Lycos, Inc., Microsoft, Inc., Scient, Red Herring and ZD Net. For the second year in a row, the MIT Sloan eBusiness Awards have attracted today's most influential eBusiness leaders to serve as speakers including Lou Dobbs, CEO of space.com, formerly from CNNfn.com; Carl Yankowski, CEO, Palm Computing; George Conrades, CEO, Akamai Technologies; Farhad Mohit, Chairman and Founder, Bizrate.com; Guislain Lescuyer, CEO of Europ@web's incubator; Mark Walsh, CEO, VerticalNet and Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center. Award sponsors include FleetBank, Scient Corporation, Dell Computer and General Motors. The MIT Sloan School of Management, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of the world's leading business schools-conducting cutting-edge research and providing management education to top students from more than 60 different countries. CONTACT: MIT Sloan School of Management Paul Denning 617-253-0576 denning@mit.edu or Schneider & Associates Philip Pennellatore 617-536-3300 ppennellatore@schneiderpr.com

To: kemble s. matter who wrote (154892)	3/12/2000 2:06:00 AM
From: calgal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Kemble, Will Intel buy Dell Computer's? There should be enough leverage for Dell to get Intel's business... :)Leigh abcnews.go.com Wooing With PCs Are More and More Firms Trying to Buy Employee Loyalty? Technology experts say the giveaways help keep employees up-to-date on the latest technology. Some also consider it a ploy to get employees to take work home. By Cliff Edwards The Associated Press S A N J O S E, Calif., March 10 -Where's my new PC?" could become the mantra of the new millennium as corporate America increasingly bestows the perk on employees in a tight labor market. Computer-chip maker Intel joined Ford Motor Co., Delta and American Airlines Tuesday in offering workers home PCs, printers and free or discounted hookups to the Internet. Technology experts say the giveaways help keep employees up-to-date on the latest technology. Some also consider it a ploy to get employees to take work home. Martin Marshall, director of research at technology-watch firm Zona Research Inc., agrees with both points. Companies have been struggling to find and keep skilled labor and are betting the Internet will be a key means of training and conducting paperless communication in coming years, Marshall said. "One of the single-largest costs is employee training and retention, and this is a cost-effective way of addressing those issues. The good-karma image they may get as a result of the program is entirely a side benefit.? A New Trend in Perks Companies for years have offered employees the option of buying castoff computers at a discount. Other perks such as free dry cleaning, massages, lunch discounts and gym memberships have fallen in and out of fashion as ways to spread good feelings about the boss. Free PC programs have been offered in Scandinavian countries for several years. Analyst Rob Enderle at research firm Giga Information Group said data from the those programs found employees are more likely to train themselves on PC applications at home, check e-mails and do other tasks they did not have time to do at work. "There's literally no bad news here for the company; it creates a more productive employee and actually results in savings to the company's bottom line," Enderle said. Big Chip Company Enters This Arena Intel, the world's leading computer-chip maker, said Tuesday that beginning in July its 70,000 full- and part-time employees will get an entire computer-Internet package for free, with regular technology upgrades. In so doing, the company will have to buy computers from the very manufacturers to whom it sold the chips that run the machines. Intel is taking bids on computers with its own Pentium III chips along with large hard drives and memory, computer networking equipment and 17-inch monitors, said spokesman Chuck Mulloy. An Intel computer camera and games will also be offered, and in areas where it's available, high-speed Internet connections. "This system belongs to the employee," Mulloy said. "They get to keep it, and are free to do with it as they want." Marilyn Guldan, an administrative assistant who helps create Web pages for Intel's legal department, doesn't care if the company wants her to do more work at home. "This is an opportunity. For me, I'm doing Web design, and there's a fine line between work and play. What it means for me is I get to play at home." A Carmaker Leads the Way Ford became the first big U.S. company to extend the free PC offer early last month. The automaker is offering its 360,000-strong work force a computer, color printer and Internet access for $5 a month. Delta Air Lines quickly offered its employees a similar package for $12 a month for 36 months, and American Airlines last week said it would do the same. PeoplePC Inc., a San Francisco-based company that offers deeply discounted PCs, is coordinating the program for both Ford and Delta and is in talks with other companies to provide similar services, said chief executive Nick Grouf. "What this represents is an opportunity to get faster and deeper penetration of technology and the Internet and really help integrate it into the fabric of everyone's life," Grouf said. "When you think about it, a factory worker, a flight attendant, a pilot, these are people whose job does not require them to sit in front of the computer." Copyright 2000 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.