Archive: May 2000

Building relationships, getting personal with the media, understanding the technology and avoiding technical jargon are all helpful hints for high-tech PR practitioners. Here’s one more: Collect payment up front. When Cook Express became the first… Continued

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The Case In the spring of 1999, after months of research and beta testing, E Ink was raring to get ink – the old fashioned kind, that is. A year earlier, the Cambridge, Mass. tech… Continued

Kara Swisher Reporter, The Wall Street Journal 201 California St., Suite 1350 San Francisco CA 94111-5077 Phone: 415/765-6103 Fax: 415/956-0797 Email: [email protected] Focus: Writes “Boom Town” for the Marketplace page. Focus is on the unusual… Continued

Got product? If not, you’ll have a hard time getting the time of day from hype-weary journalists covering high-tech beats. Too many have been burned writing about vaporware innovations that never came to fruition. The… Continued

99 Osgood Place San Francisco, CA 94133 415/743-9990 http://www.dwellmag.com Dwell, a bimonthly magazine launching this summer, will focus on the experience of modern living and making it attainable – not only for the experienced interior… Continued

Who would broadcast journalists most like to interview? D S Simon Productions (212/736-2727) surveyed assignment editors and morning and midday show producers in more than 800 newsrooms following last February’s sweeps to find out. Survey… Continued

Bloomberg News Editor Chris Pummer leaves to join CBS MarketWatch. Contact Patrick Chu, West Coast bureau chief with further inquiries, at 415/912-2980…Maria Shao, assistant business editor, leaves the Boston Globe and will join the San… Continued

Luce Online has added 3,500 additional news Web sites to its online monitoring service, CyberClipping. The service now tracks nearly 1,000 daily and community papers and almost 3,000 print and electronic magazines. (http://www.luceonline.com)

Swedish Tech. Sweden has surpassed the U.S. as the world’s dominant information economy, with more than 40% of its residents online. This explains why Boston-based International Data Group (IDG) recently launched two new IT publications… Continued