Despite a lackluster market, Internet trading is by no means dead.
HIGH-SPEED wireless data networks, which many airports once saw as the perfect intersection of traveler, revenue and technology, have faced serious hurdles this year, including the demise of some Internet service providers and a lackluster response from travelers with laptop computers.
A computer industry adage is that Microsoft does not really make a successful product until version 3. Its Windows operating system was not a big success until the third version was introduced in 1990 and, similarly, its Internet Explorer browsing software was lackluster until the third version.
"Just sprinkling the branding fairy dust over a lackluster portal does not guarantee success," says Vernon Keenan, an Internet analyst in San Francisco.
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For now, however, its phones are woefully outdated in almost every aspect except the keyboard: Email, Internet, Maps, Apps, Camera -- you name it, it's lackluster on BlackBerry.
Like a lone star, the Internet sector is shining brightly, even as the broader markets remain lackluster and struggles for direction.
They have managed to create an atmosphere where even the laziest, most lackluster ads are praised among their coworkers and celebrated as "brilliant" by the internet's media-blogging lemmings.
In its otherwise lackluster second-quarter earnings report, Alibaba said that quarterly revenue from its cloud computing and Internet infrastructure business jumped over 106percentt year-over-year to $78 million.
Amid lackluster activity in the big-cap market, many investors are joining day traders deep-fishing for pickings in the Internet sector.
