Since 1997, the Industry Standard has chronicled the rise of the Internet economy and other digital businesses and has evolved along with them. At first, the Standard was a print magazine that tracked the Internet boom of the late 1990s. Ten years later, the online-only Industry Standard emerged to cover a new wave of change driven by mobile technologies and networked communities.

Today, the Industry Standard begins a new chapter, offering news and views on the technology economy as a channel on InfoWorld. Here you'll find the latest on the business side of tech, from mergers and acquisitions to startup companies to the latest volley of patent infringement lawsuits. Best of all, you'll enjoy laser-sharp analysis from award-winning technology journalist .

While you're here, we'd like to introduce you to a variety of resources on InfoWorld, the industry's liveliest and most authoritative source of technology information and analysis. With an eye toward modernizing IT, InfoWorld excels at evaluating emerging technologies and calculating their impact on both end-users and IT professionals.

We've taken the liberty of highlighting InfoWorld content that readers of the Industry Standard may find especially entertaining or useful: