It was a rough week for troubled speech technology developer Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV (L&H). First the company ousted its CEO, then it a Belgian court denied its petition to postpone a special shareholders meeting and then its chairman resigned.
AMR Research Inc. in Boston earlier this month released a bold forecast setting on-line business-to-business sales at US$5.7 trillion by 2004, up from an estimated US$215 billion in 1999.