Joshua Hallford

-- Joshua Hallford, Staff Writer Prior to joining the Metrics section of The Industry Standard, where he covers e-commerce, Hallford worked at BridgeNews, where he also covered e-commerce.Before that, he worked for "Securities Industry News," a weekly published by the American Banker, in New York.He has also worked for the newsletter division of Institutional Investor and held various posts at investment banks in London, New York and Osaka.

June 25 -- Progress is in the eyes of the measurer (Joshua Hallford, Bridge News): New York--Jun 24--Despite the increasing number of well-prepared speeches from representatives of countries ranging from Gambia to South Korea designed to reassure the public that most mission-critical applications are ready for the Year 2000, little real new information has been forthcoming to allow an outsider to determine exactly how well prepared companies really are for Y2K.