Novell's somewhat stand-offish attitude to the Internet has done it no favours with the current generation of Internet-centric customers.
Internet-centric corporations are an area of explosive growth, and one reason is the low barriers to entry, where creative concepts can have rapid acceptance.
But the ultraportable notebook, dubbed a "netbook" for its Internet-centric applications, has delivered what may end up being a knockdown blow to the global PC industry.
And unless you are a technology holdout, you now live in an Internet-centric world where you use multiple smart devices and enjoy instant access to information.
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Google engineers have also been spotted attending a number of Internet telephony-centric conferences.
The conversations were marked by phrases like "Internet time" and "customer-centric, " but fascinating as they were, no single peril emerged as the next Y2K. Instead, the experts veered from wild blue-sky prophecies to practical predictions of a more granular nature.
"We believe there's a large group of increasingly sophisticated Internet users who are underserved by voice-centric mobile providers, " said EarthLink (nasdaq: ELNK - news - people ) founder and Chairman Sky Dayton , who will serve as chief executive of the joint venture, during a press conference.
The aftermath of the dot-com bust may seem like an odd place for a venture capital firm to get its start, but that was the case for Emergence Capital and in the decade-plus since the firm started it has eschewed the consumer-centric booms and blowups of the first wave of the Internet in favor of business-focused services.
Since June, several new (or newly designed) food-centric websites have hit the internet.
Analysts such as Peter Christy at the Internet Research Group refer to this as an inversion of enterprise IT from a business system-centric to a people-centric structure.
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