Thursday, January 31, 2002
Internet
ISP Failures Put E-Mail Into Limbo
Consumer advocates and others are pushing for stronger laws to protect subscribers, but they face opposition.
AOL Time Warner Lost $1.82B
The world's largest media company fell victim once again to the one-two punch of a national recession and a slowdown in advertising.
Weeding In The Garden Of Good E-Mail
A group of Internet companies is starting public tests this week of a new form of commercial e-mail. The idea is to separate legitimate advertising pitches from junk e-mail.
Linux
Bridging Linux Language Barriers
An industry consortium of the largest server and Linux sellers released the first result of an effort to ensure that different versions of Linux will work similarly.
Wednesday, January 30, 2002
Internet
Linux
Torvalds, Developers At Odds Over Linux
A proposal to help Linus Torvalds keep up with patches for Linux has sparked a controversy over whether the operating system has outgrown its creator.
IBM: Linux Investment Nearly Recouped
IBM nearly recouped the $1 billion it said it invested in the Linux operating system in 2001, the head of IBM's four server group is expected to announced Wednesday.
Tuesday, January 29, 2002
Internet
Content Management Hits A New Low
CMS 100 lacks features such as workflow or check-in/check-out, but it does include core content management capabilities that make it possible for users at nearly any technical level to manage content on a company Web site.
Minus The Piles Of Venture Capital, Entrepreneurs Wise Up
"The quantity is down, but the fluff is out of there. The ones who had no business starting a business aren't there anymore."
Monday, January 28, 2002
Internet
These Help-Wanted Ads Are Found Wanting
To hear some techies tell it, the help-wanted ads could use a little, er, help.
Keeping An Eye On Your Image, Online
If someone is tearing apart Burger King's latest promotion in an Internet chat room, Pete Snyder wants to know about it.
Homestore Fights For Life As Bad News Piles Up
It is increasingly clear that the troubles at Homestore, a company that operates the site for the National Association of Realtors, started much earlier and ran much deeper.
Linux
Linux On Mainframes Enters Phase 2
The mainframe push dovetails with a shift under way at the twice-annual Linux show.
Red Hat To Offer High-End Linux Version
Red Hat will begin offering a higher-end and more specialized version of Linux later this year that won't be as easy to find as the current all-purpose package.
Sunday, January 27, 2002
Internet
Charity Calls For 'Net-Free' Day
Computer users are being urged to take a break from the screen this Sunday by an internet-based charity which is calling for a worldwide 'net-free' day.
The Price Of Free E-Mail Rises
Will you pay to hang on to your Web e-mail address? Hotmail, Yahoo, and others apparently aim to find out.
Pop-Up Ads Are Easier To Defeat Than E-Mail Spam
Pop-up ads are the new spam, but there are differences between the two.
'Spammed' Resumes Now Online Nuisance
Already frustrated by unwanted sales pitches and suggestive come-ons, e-mail users now face another onslaught, this time from desperate job seekers.
Friday, January 25, 2002
Internet
Amazon: How Big Can It Get?
Analysts are wondering where the online retailer will go from here.
Domain Name Growth Slowed In '01
names reserved on hopes for big profits are dropped.
Postage Pushing The Security Envelope
Bye-bye, long lines at the post office. Hello, Stamps.com.
Linux
Can WINE Ferment Move To Linux?
After more than eight years of development, a program that enables Unix computers to run Windows applications is almost ready for prime time. Despite considerable progress, boosters say it won't be for everyone. By Michelle Delio.
Thursday, January 24, 2002
Internet
Amazon Happy Dance Spurs Worry
After Amazon surprises everyone with its first-ever quarterly profit, many followers of the company remain concerned that the retailer's stock is still trading at pricey levels. By Joanna Glasner.
Linux
More Asian Companies Adopting Linux
A new survey of 850 companies revealed that 15 percent of companies in the region — excluding Japan — used Linux in the fourth quarter.
Wednesday, January 23, 2002
Internet
AOL's Netscape Sues Microsoft
Netscape filed suit against Microsoft on Tuesday claiming the software giant's business practices crushed the upstart's Internet browser.
Monday, January 21, 2002
Internet
Amazon Ships To Sorting Machine Beat
Amazon.com, once the champion the strategy of "get big fast," has learned how to become small.
A Credit Crisis For Web Casinos
Although demand by bettors remains brisk, the credit card companies are concluding that the business is more trouble than it is worth.
Sunday, January 20, 2002
Internet
Start-Ups No Longer Shout From The Rooftops
Gone are the days of spending huge sums of borrowed money on celebrity endorsers and SuperBowl commercials.
Linux
Friday, January 18, 2002
Internet
Why DSL Still Sucks
Journalism doesn't get more anecdotal than this, but it seems like everyone I know with a DSL connection to the Internet has bitched about it.
Thursday, January 17, 2002
Internet
From Dot-Com To Contracting? Not So Fast
There is a culture clash between government tech contractors and those who sell to commercial market.
Black Hawk Download: Pirated Videos Thrive Online
The high-tech vanguard of entertainment consumers who initiated a global music-swapping spree with the help of Napster a little over two years ago is branching out into television shows and movies.
Wednesday, January 16, 2002
Internet
EarthLink May Suffer From Marketing Push
EarthLink will have to spend more on marketing to keep up with the competition, something that could cut deep swaths into its earnings in 2002, analysts are saying.
Terrorism Hasn't Stung Travelocity
Online travel agency Travelocity.com on Wednesday reported a fourth-quarter profit before itsm.
Web Takes Help-Wanted Advertising From Newspapers
At the dawn of the Internet age, many analysts warned that newspapers could lose a big chunk of their lucrative, $9 billion recruitment advertising business.
MSN Asia Aims To Double Sales
MSN portal expects to increase revenues in Asia by two-folds for this fiscal year, bolstered by what one company official claims as "strong branding and audience profile."
Windows Media Player Must Be Patched To Fix IE
That makes sense
Linux
Linux 2.5.2 Out; USB 2.0 In
Will we need it?
Tuesday, January 15, 2002
Internet
Dot-Name Frenzy? No, Dot-Calm
Dot-name got off to a slow but relatively untroubled start Tuesday as it released it first batch of domains live on the Internet.
DoubleClick's Cost Cutting Brings Profit
DoubleClick managed to eke out a profit, before items, beating Wall Street estimates, thanks to cost cutting amid the worst ad slump in recent history.
Stop The Email Madness
All I wanted to do was use the email address I had used for over five years. Is that too much to ask?
Does Fast Internet Need A Push?
High-speed access seen as economic catalyst.
Effort To Measure Online Ad Campaigns
In an effort to standardize the often puzzling formulas used to gauge the effectiveness of Internet marketing, a trade group will release a set of guidelines today for measuring online advertising campaigns.
Internet Suffix For Individual Makes Debut
Operators of ".name" are hoping individuals will be lured by e-mail and Web addresses featuring their own names.
Monday, January 14, 2002
Internet
Yahoo Slips Ahead Of Earnings
Shares of yahoo fell Monday as analysts offered a mixed view of the media giant's upcoming fourth-quarter earnings report.
Dot-Camaraderie
Former high-tech workers get together to socialize and exchange ideas in a new twist on the old salon society.
Linux
Tests Indiciate Linux Could Be A Desktop Solution
Testing shows that Linux is viable as a desktop operating system, with one package particularly impressive on laptops.
Sunday, January 13, 2002
Internet
Fed Up With Unsolicited E-Mail, Computer Users Go To Court
Although the laws don't ban unsolicited e-mail outright, frustrated recipients can often find a violation or two when hitting the delete button isn't emotionally satisfying.
Saturday, January 12, 2002
Internet
CMS And The Single Web Designer
What began with CSS and was furthered by XML is exploding witht he CM environment.
Internet Week Magazine Closes
Internet Week, a weekly magazine focusing on Internet strategies and technologies, has stopped publishing as of Jan 7.
Linux
Linux For People Who Think An iMac Is Hard To Use
OEone's Internet Computer is easier to set up than an iMac, and lots easier to use than a typical Windows PC.
Friday, January 11, 2002
Internet
Some E-Mail Users Devise Tricks That Keep Them Afloat
Experts say keeping email under control requires a careful balance of common sense, organizational skills and vigilant workplace policy.
Dot-Com Shakeout Slams Unions
The failure of unions to crack the tech industry, in good times and bad, is somewhat odd considering that New Economy workers deal with many issues that unions fight against.
The Internet's Invisible Hand
The Internet is a network whose many incarnations — as obscure academic playpen, information superhighway, vst marketplace, sci-fi-inspired matrix — have seen it through more than three decades of ceaseless evolution.
Thursday, January 10, 2002
Internet
Net Filter Use Jumps In Libraries
Libraries installed blocking software at a frantic pace last year, according to a new report.
Linux
Linux Chops PDA Prices Royally
Royal Consumer Information Products this week became the first to announce a low-cost color PDA based on Linux.
Wednesday, January 9, 2002
Internet
Hotmail Gets A Wireless Win
Telefonica Moviles will brings Hotmail e-mail service to 24 million cellphone users in Spain and Latin America.
AOL Time Warner's Identity Crisis
AOL Time Warner lost some face this week when executives revealed that their marriage made in heaven was falling quickly to earth.
Cutbacks Push Dot-Coms Toward Profits
Don't call it a comeback. The online media sector is still at a low point. But brutal layoffs and a sharp dose of fiscal discipline over the past 18 months are now offering a surprising number of Web publishers the hope of profitability.
DoubleClick Turns Away From Ad Profiles
Proving consumer tracking doesn't always pay.
Tuesday, January 8, 2002
Internet
Future Uncertain For Feedback Sites
The concept of consumer community sites now resides, like almost all consumer ventures, in a lower-rent neighborhood.
Linux
Linux Handheld Release Near
Sharp said it expected to release the Zaurus SL-5500 in the first quarter of this year.
Monday, January 7, 2002
Internet
The Geeks Who Saved Usenet
Google's restoration of digital history relied on a few heroes' packrat mentality and a mountain of decaying mag tapes.
MSN Has Lots To Offer, Mostly From Microsoft
If you're looking for an ISP that will help you get connected and provide free support anytime, with an easy way to use e-mail, listen to music, watch the news, share photographs, and do other popular Web-based activities, MSN is a reasonable choice.
Linux
China's WTO Entry Boosts Linux
China has agreed to step up its efforts to stamp out pirated software, but instead of paying for Windows, many organisations are switching to locally developed Linux distributions.
Sunday, January 6, 2002
Internet
Lawmaker: Is CD Copy-Protection Illegal?
Record companies' efforts to protect CDs against digital copying are beginning to draw scrutiny from lawmakers concerned that the plans might violate the law.
Some Online Holiday Shoppers Got Scrooged
Several online retailers failed miserably this Christmas to deliver last-minute orders on time.
Court Upholds State Statute On Spam
The appeals court in San Francisco overturned a trial judge's ruling that the state law violates the U.S. Constituion's mandate that only Congress has the right to regulate commerce between states.
Still Alive And Growing Online, Without Fanfare
It is the kind of frugality that has kept expansion costs down at Global Sports, one of the few e-commerce companies that is still growing as if it were 1999.
Saturday, January 5, 2002
Internet
W00w00's Instant Message: Listen Up, AOL
Security experts discover coding hole, leap in.
Governments, Businesses Build Internet 'Barriers'
Governments and private businesses increasingly try to draw boundaries around what used to be a borderless Internet to deal with legal, commercial and terrorism concerns.
Friday, January 4, 2002
Internet
VeriSign Preps Wait List For Coveted .Coms
Automatic signup for names that are not renewed.
Security Hole Hits Patched Internet Explorer
A patch issued by Microsoft for IE 5.5 and 6.0 closed one security hole, but appears to have opened another one that is just as dangerous.
Next Generation's Wireless Web Is Still Painfully Slow
GPRS services are supposed to turn the wireless Web from a pain to a pleasure. But VoiceStream's implementation ultimately left me feeling as frustrated as any other sort of cell-phone Internet access has.
Comcast Copes With Internet Problems
Some customers say the company has played down the extent of the problems they have faced the last 10 days.
Thursday, January 3, 2002
Internet
AIM's Ever-Present Risk
AOL Instant Messnger is always going to be a security risk for companies.
E-Cards Take Over In Corporate Christmas Season
Firms are choosing to cut costs, and some are helping charities, by using email to send festive greetings.
Popular U.S. Web Sites Remain Shut
Judge's order hurts tourists, students, others who visit Interior Department pages.
Online Customer Service Found Lacking
Even during flush times for Internet retailers, online customer service did not meet high standards. Now, amid belt-tightening in the industry, it continues to earn mediocre marks from consumers and researchers.
Yahoo! Hikes Listing Service Fees
The portal has added another source of revenues to its listing service with the introduction of an annual fee for businesses.
Wednesday, January 2, 2002
Internet
Webcaster Cuts Costs While Audience Grows
Internet radio broadcaster Live365 is struggling to stay true to its name.
Tuesday, January 1, 2002
Internet
Today's Web: Fewer Billboards, More Substance
This new web is leaner and deeper. Fewer billboards more substances.
Peer To Peer Finding Its Niche
It took a boom and a bust to do it, but peer-to-peer technology is finding its post-Napster place in the world.
Fewer Dot-Com Job Losses In December
Internet companies in December announced the smallest number of monthly job cuts in the past 1.5 years.
Pay-To-Play Music: Lots Of Missed Notes
Here's a rundown on the three new — legal — subscriber services, none of which seems ready to give listeners what they really want.