Thursday, February 28, 2002
Internet
Flaws Found In PHP Scripting Language
The flaw only affect Web servers running on top of the Linux or Solaris OS.
House Passes Broadband Access Bill
Legislation: Measure would remove requirements that Baby Bells open their networks to rivals.
Morpheus Goes To Sleep - Users Locked Out
We Get What They Pay For
Behold the soul of a search engine. It appears to be available to the highest bidder.
EBay To Shut Site In Japan
Trailing its competitors in Japan, eBay said Tuesday it will close its Web site there and look for new market share in Asia by acquiring a Taiwanese auction site.
Wednesday, February 27, 2002
Internet
Shoppers Shun Shoddy Sites
Badly designed websites are damaging the prospects of firms doing business via the web.
Monday, February 25, 2002
Internet
How Microsoft Will Conquer And Rule Web Services — For Now
Let's forget the politics, launch those pilot programs, and get there sooner rather than later, even if Redmond scores the first few points.
Online Diarists Rule An Internet Strewn With Failed Dot Coms
Bloggers are turning the hunting and gathering, sampling and critiquing the rest of us do online into an extreme sport.
Broadband Legislation Will Squash Competition
Ask yourself if the Internet woul dhave grown so quickly if the phone monopolies had kept this kind of ocntrol over dial-up connections in the past decade.
Sunday, February 24, 2002
Internet
Fine E-Print, Big Headaches
For years, online concerns have loaded their Web sites with easily ignored restrictions. Now courts are upholding them.
Saturday, February 23, 2002
Internet
Online Tunes: People Are Paying
Digital music subscription services are showing signs of good health.
Friday, February 22, 2002
Internet
Getting It Wrong
Google does nothing to change its searches while improving its advertising, but that's not how the Associated Press told the story.
IM Upstart To AOL: We're Baaack
Battle between AOL Time Warner and PlaTalk entered day two.
Linux
Full-Fledged Linux Coming To IBM Servers
Full-fledged 64-bit versions of Linux will arrive for IBM servers that previously had to make do with lesser software, Big Blue is expected to announce in the next month.
Thursday, February 21, 2002
Internet
Webcasters Grumble Over Proposed Fees
Government regulators set long-awaited music licensing rates for online radio stations.
Microsoft: MSN Traffic Takes The Lead
MSN family of Web sites grew faster than traffic to its main rivals.
Wednesday, February 20, 2002
Internet
Web Holiday Sales: Is The Party Over?
Online holiday sales grew only modestly compared with 2000, according to Department of Commerce.
AltaVista Cans Web Mail Service
How the mighty have fallen
No Olive Branch For Napster
Napster and the Big Five record labels are headed back to court after a month of court-sanctioned settlements talks closed without agreement.
Linux
Linux In The US Government
The use of open-source software by the government and its agencies is increasing.
Tuesday, February 19, 2002
Internet
Liberty Alliance, Passport Still At Odds
While a standard system is recognized as necessary, the two sides may not be able to work together anytime soon.
Who Lost China's Internet?
Without U.S. assistance, it will remain a tool of the Beijing government, not a force for democracy.
Better Living Through XHTML
Author new sites in XHTML, and convert old ones when schedule permits.
Monday, February 18, 2002
Internet
Blah, Blah, Blah And Blog
NPR's report is one more sign of the growth of blogging.
Web Sites That Work: Designing With Your Eyes Open
An interview with Steve Krug, usability consultant.
Linux
Corel Puts Final Nail In Linux Coffin
Closes open source developers site.
Saturday, February 16, 2002
Internet
Wiping The Slate Clean
Call it the six-year itch.
Internet Offering Soars, Just Like Old Times
Sounds like 1999? It happened today.
Digital Renaissance
Like cockroaches after nuclear war, online diarists rule an Internet strewn with failed dot coms.
Cannibalization? Au Contraire!
French newspapers with web sites beat their print-only peers' circulation performance.
Microsoft Releases Patch For SNMP Flaw
Virus Smuggling Risk For Outlook Express Users
Mail filtering utilities usually don't search the subject line for virus, so a maliciously constructed email might appear as an attachment to Outlook Express users.
PayPal: IPO Omen Or Anomaly?
PayPal overcame the odds this week when it carried out the first successful initial stock offering in a long time from a profitless Internet company.
Thursday, February 14, 2002
Internet
EarthLink Discounts Networking Features
EarthLink is trying to play up the adage that sharing is good.
DoubleClick, Bertelsmann Ink Ad Deal
Is It Time To Bail From Internet Explorer?
If one program breaks, it might break another seemingly unrelated program as well.
The Net's Counter Attack
Instead of spelling doom for shops, the web is breathing life back into the high street.
The Future Of Cellphones Is Here. Sort Of.
Despite the carriers' claims, the speed that consumers will get, at least for now, is not likely to be any faster than that from a fast dial-up modem.
From The Internet With Love
E-love is in the air this Valentine's Day as sweethearts go e-mail crazy.
Wednesday, February 13, 2002
Internet
ICANN Warns Firms Of Domain-Registration Back Doors
Providing registry access to third parties could violate their ICANN agreements.
Are Amazon's Travel Ties Heading South?
Expedia is not seeing enough of a return on the investment it made in jointly operating a Web travel store with Hotwire and Amazon.com.
Comcast Privacy Move Its Latest Woe
The cable giant's latest problem stemmed from reports Tuesday that it had installed software the compiled detailed records of its customers' Web usage.
Web Surfers Snubbing Search Engines
Internet surfers are increasingly favoring direct navigation and bookmarks over search engines and Web links, according to a study released Wednesday.
The In Crowd
Need a metafilter to make sense of your info-soaked world? Meet the minds behind five elite email lists.
The Crime Of Sharing
How excess legislation will kill your freedom of expression.
Overture Locks In Microsoft Deal
Internet search company Overture Services announced that it has extennded a relationship with Microsoft for at least a year.
Loosening Government Hold On .us
NeuStar, which won the right to manage the United States' Internet country code last October, said it would begin accepting registrations from the general public April 24.
Flaws In Common Software Threaten Net
Software flaws in a fundamental language of the Internet have left the Information Age's basic infrastructure in danger of disruption, said an Internet security watchdog Tuesday.
Linux
Torvalds Looks Into Linux Bottleneck
Addressing concerns that tweaks to the operating system aren't being pushed through fast enough, Linus Torvalds has taken steps to formalize control over the project's underlying source code.
Monday, February 11, 2002
Internet
Judge Dubious About Link Patent
British Telecom is less than cheerio over a small setback in the company's attempt to collect cash for the "unauthorised" use of hyperlinks.
Sites Take Temperature Of Film Lovers
The Net is catching Oscar fever.
Internet Founder Wasn't Planning On Changing The World
As one of the acclaimed fathers of the Internet, Vint Cerf nver anticipated the waves his invention would make when he started developing the network in 1969.
What Was Really Behind The Dot-Com Bust?
Blame gourmet coffee for the dot-com bust.
Google Aims Search Device At Companies
Google on Monday will unveil a new corporate search product to help companies locate documents within their own databases.
Sunday, February 10, 2002
Internet
Tax Policies Give An Unfair Advantage To Online Merchants
As we head into that upleasant period we think of as "tax season," it's worth nothing that unbalanced tax policies are as American as apple pie.
Saturday, February 9, 2002
Internet
Regulating The Olympic Rings
One of the world's most widely watched sporting events will be noticeably absent from the Internet — again.
Linux
Sun Makes A Linux U-Turn
Even though Cobalt devices are supposed to be appliances, users, as well as developers, do care about the operating system.
Thursday, February 7, 2002
Internet
Got Code? Google's Got Cash
Step right up, programmers and hex-slingers: Google's got $10,000 for the most creative coder among you.
Whose Online Is It Anyway?
Has the government met its ambitious targets?
Sun Opts Out Of IBM, Microsoft Web Services Alliance
The group brings together rival camps split between using Microsoft's .Net Internet technology and Java.
Linux
Sun Details Plans For Linux Servers
Sun said Thursday that it would sell general-purpose Linux servers, a dramatic departure for the company that for years has advocated the use of its own Solaris operating system.
Sun Micro Says Will Make Linux Announcement On Thurs
"I am getting a lot of questions about Linux on the low end" COO Ed Zander told analysts.
Wednesday, February 6, 2002
Internet
Google Takes On Paid-Search Company
For Google, the partnership marks its first foray into advertising syndication.
Why Won't You Pay For Net Content?
Perhaps, before we ask ourselves why people don't want to pay, we should ask ourselves a more stringent question: Do we have anything to sell?
Microsoft Launches MSN Mobile Portals In Europe
Microsoft has launched mobile versions of its MSN Internet portal in Europe which are specifically designed for the small colour screens of handheld computers.
Linux
Site To Pool Scrutiny Of Linux Security
A government-funded initiative announced Tuesday aims to boost code review of open-source software to prevent security holes.
Tuesday, February 5, 2002
Internet
Monday, February 4, 2002
Internet
Search Engines Sued Over 'Pay-For-Placement'
The maker of a popular weight-loss system filed suit against four search engines this week, alleging that their policy of letting advertisers pay to appear in top-ranked search results violated federal and state trademark and fair-competition laws.
Cnet Battling Hard Times In Tech Market
Line Between Content And Ads Not Always Clar On Internet
The line might blur even more going forward as advertisers struggle to get the attention of Web surfers who breeze right by banner advertisements, buttons and other spaces clearly labeled as ads.
Today's Publishing: Better By The Book Or By The Web?
Everyone has a tale to tell, but since Sept. 11 everyone here can also describe the personal impact of that day's epochal events.
At Motley Fool Site, Talk Will Now Carry A Price
Access to its discussion areas would soon cost $4.95 a month, or $29.95 for an annual subscription.
A New Test For Internet Offerings
Are investors ready to take a ride again on the Internet? An answer may become clearer with the initial public offering of Paypal.
Where Will You Be In The Fossil Record?
If new media was a species, an evolutionary biologist would be hard pressed to make sense of its past and future.
Microsoft Schmoozes With Hollywood
In its ongoing effort to strike entertainment and media partnerships, Microsoft's MSN portal will power the Web sites for two popular TV shows produced by NBC, according to sources familiar with the deal.
Pssst. Wanna See My Blog?
Impromptu online journals are popping up all over the Web. If I can figure out how to build one, you can too.
Linux
Is Linux Really Ready For The Enterprise?
The sales claims from Linux vendors were compelling. The reactions for potential customers, however, are mixed.
I Tried Linux ANd Lived
Although I ultimately wasn't sold on it, using Linux made me realize I'm not as much Bill Gates' prisoner as I thought I was.
Sunday, February 3, 2002
Internet
Salon Makes A Go Of Premium Service
It appears the critics were wrong.
Saturday, February 2, 2002
Linux
E*Trade Switches To Linux
By moving to the open architecture, E*Trade officials say they can deliver better services more cost-effecitvely than its existing systems can.
Friday, February 1, 2002
Internet
AOL Earnings Leave Investors Puzzled
AOL Time Warner's most recent earnings report highlights an increasingly complex accounting puzzle for investors seeking to untangle the finances of the world's largest media company.
FTC To Announce First Ever Crackdown On 'Spam'
The campaign would mark the first time the consumer-protection agency has specifically targeted spam as he focus of a law enforcement investigation.
AOL Home Page Glitches Irk Users
Some Web sites hosted on America Online have been hit by outages, leaving their Webmasters unable to update, view or transfer files on their home pages.
Vignette Delivers Content Management TOols
THe focus in the new suite is helping companies manage content at the departmental level.
Linux
The Week In Review: Penguin Power
Members and fans of the open-source computing community schmoozed this week at LinuxWorld.
Ellison Says Oracle's 'Whole Business' To Run On Linux
Oracle is about to replace three Unix servers that run the bulk of its business applications with a cluster of Intel servers running Linux.
Local Linux Edition Looks A Lot Like XP
Lycoris is pulling a Microsot. They've bundled Windows-type programs into an operating system that looks and feels like Windows XP.