Rushed entrees into the Internet field, meanwhile, have paid a steep price.
The Industry Standard is the fastest-growing publications in the Internet field.
The Internet field was mainly the province of men just a few years ago.
C1 Dot-Coms Welcoming Women Women say the Internet field is providing them leadership opportunities equal to or better than those in more traditional companies.
Industry analysts said the memorandum tried to ease the concerns of regulators, online rivals and other open-access advocates that the proposed $165 billion merger could limit competition in the hotly contested Internet field.
Mr. Icahn doesn't actually want to run the ailing Internet giant, and he doesn't claim to be an expert in the Internet field, Mr. Sorkin writes; the activist shareholder just wants to draw Microsoft back to the bargaining table as the catalyst for a stock jump.
Pat watched like any modern-day, tech-savvy youth: a MacBook Air propped on his belly, an iPhone beside him, deftly surfing the Internet, fielding and sending texts between plays and during commercials, eyes darting between multiple screens until a play propelled him off the sofa with a thunderous roar.
Mr Leonard's mission statement makes no bones about his plans to "remake our foreign policy from the bottom up" and democratise the making of foreign policy through the use of "opinion polls, the Internet, field work and focus groups".All this is intended to "give people ownership of the decisions that are made in their name".
For many in an industry and of a generation that has so often appeared headed along a relentless path to greater prosperity, the recent gyrations in the stock market represent an across-the-board brush with vulnerability, and many people in the Internet field hold stock options that are certainly worth much less today than they were a few months ago.
Senator Charles E. Schumer told members of one of Silicon Alley's largest trade groups yesterday that if the city is to remain competitive in the technology industry it must create more options for less-expensive commercial space, force competition into the high-speed Internet field and train more skilled workers.
Three big names in the computing and Internet field dominated the technology sector this week, teasing the public with none-too-revealing hints of products to come.
