Spencer F. Katt

In a quiet moment last week, the puss found himself pondering energy trader Enrons Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing. “Certainly this action hits home for the poor Houston Astros,” mused the Mouser. Enron is only two seasons into a 30-year, $100 million deal to keep its name plastered on the National League ballclubs stadium. “Maybe […]

I wonder how Uncle Heathcliffe would look in a Purple Sugar Daddy lid,” mused the Mouser, who was doing all of this years holiday shopping online at PimpHats.com. The fly Furball wondered about the state of e-biz in general as he completed his order. It seemed like only yesterday young punks were telling His Hirsuteness […]

Checking his e-mail for gossip, El Gato found only new kinds of money-laundering schemes from faux doctors and widows supposedly seeking financial help from locales such as Nigeria, Guinea Bissau and Sierra Leone. Disgusted, Spencer shoved his whole peach cobbler dessert into his mouth and pushed aside the remains of his Swanson Hungry Man Turkey […]

Goodbye, booth babes; hello, bomb-sniffing dogs,” mumbled the Mouser. “This isnt your fathers Fall Comdex.” Alas, attendance for Comdex in Las Vegas was way down. Thus the hellish cab lines were gone. But the Kitty noticed that an ample fleet of cabs was present. According to the disgruntled cabbies the Furball rode with, no one […]

While SAP chairman Hasso Plattner was busy rebutting reports that SAP would drop .Net support in favor of Java, El Gato was hearing rumblings that the relationship between SAP and Microsoft may not be as happy as it once was. A Tabby tipster claims one reason Redmonds most important business partner over the last decade […]

Microsofts scheduling of its professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles and the launch of Windows XP in New York during the same week apparently raised quite a stir among its PR and product teams. According to a friend of the Furball, Microsoft execs were less than pleased about the arrangement, knowing that the press, developers […]

While leery venture capitalists have kept their hands in their pockets during this slowing economy, Uncle Sam has not. El Gato has heard that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known for developing defense technology, is one of the few with the money and interest to invest in startups—-specifically existing commercial research facilities that are […]

Despite USinternetworkings recent announcement of $100 million in funding from Bain Capital, a tipster in the know claims the company, one of the original pure-play application service providers (and one of the few original ones still in business), may be for sale. Besides noting the companys recent layoffs, the tattler also presented a clue about […]

El Gato was intrigued by some newspeak that Microsofts Steve Ballmer incorporated into his Mastermind Interview at the Gartner Symposium last week in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Ballmer was extemporizing about the Liberty Alliance initiative that rival Sun had put together with industry partners. In arguing that Liberty poses no threat to products like Microsofts […]

The kitty recently heard tales from a self-proclaimed insider at IBM who claims that Lou Gerstners planned departure from Big Blue may not be going as smoothly as he would like. According to the tattler, market conditions may be making it harder and harder for Big Lou to hand over the reins to President and […]