Tuesday, April 30, 2002
Internet
Final Mozilla Browser Beta Readies Attack
Widespread testing of the browser is under way in anticipation of its final release, as over 200,000 users have downloaded the latest version of Mozilla from the Mozilla.org.
The Story Of '.us' Has Its Critics
NeuStar said to neglect public interest in not setting aside some domain names.
Make The Web WOrk For Your Newsroom
Deliver what readers need, when they need it.
Monday, April 29, 2002
Internet
Why I Trust Microsoft More Than My Bank
I think that if people really knew about all the security gaps and gaffes that financial services companies routinely hide, they'd either find it easier to trust Microsoft and AOL (like I do), or they wouldn't trust anyone (also a reasonable response).
Sunday, April 28, 2002
Internet
AOL Instant Messenger Is Hacked
Three 17-year-olds take credit for inserting pornographic images into America Online's widely used chat service.
Saturday, April 27, 2002
Linux
SuSE 8.0 Arrives Without StarOffice
The German Linux distributor has built many new features into its latest software, but has left out StarOffice 6.0 because of new licensing terms from Sun.
Friday, April 26, 2002
Internet
Study: Users Aren't Buying Online ID Hype
Microsoft and other technology makers struggling to define new Web services business models have another obstacle: consumer distruct of online authentication systems.
SOAP Wars
If Amazon and Google use two different design models for their services, that's excellent — it allows us to see how their respective services develop over time.
There's A Lot Of SOAP Backlash These Days
The real problem with SOAP is that it's the poster boy for Web Serices, which are just the next step in a long line of technologies that has been way overhyped.
Thursday, April 25, 2002
Internet
The Browser That Roared
Enter Mozilla, Web-surfing software by the people, for the people. Has Microsoft met its match?
Viacom Loses Claim Over MTV Domain Name
Viacom failed in its bid when the dispute resolution sole panelist found that the word 'MTV' used in the domain name is descriptive and generic and the company was unable to prove it has 'clear or unequivocal' exclusive rights over the word.
Google's Gaffe
Google's choice was technologically poor, compared to that of eBay and Amazon.
Kicking Out The Cuckoo
Despite the name, web services have increasingly little to do with the Web as we know it, and those at the forefront of its development seem to have little fondness for the W3C or its technologies.
.Net Seen Gaining Steam In Dev Projects
Global 2000 organizations will have heterogeneous application environments indefinitely, but .Net share will increase to 30 percent of enterprise development projects as J2EE use stabilizes at 40 percent by 2004.
Hav U 4Gotten IM?
Instant messaging is promising publishing tool.
Wednesday, April 24, 2002
Internet
Study: Government Sites "Sophisticated"
Treating citizens more like customers has helped governments around the world become "increasingly sophisticated" in their use of the Web, a new study has found.
Nokia, IBM Set Sights On Public WLANs
IBM and Nokia, the world's largest mobile-phone maker, have agreed to jointly pursue the public wireless LAN market with the hope that in combining their strengths, they can add extra momentum to the spread of WLAN networks, the companies announced Monday.
The Battle For The Web Continues
Microsoft clearly doesn't have any vision for the Web other than owning and controlling and freezing it.
Clay Shirky: What Web Services Got Right... And Wrong
The technological case for Web Services is really quite strong. The business case for Web Services is more limited right now, in part because they run under the same difficulties that the application service providers and B-to-B marketplaces did.
The Welch Report - Go Publish Yourself
What journalists and editors can learn from the weblog phenomenon.
Pay Features Gather Steam On Web
All across the Web, consumers are buying newly offered information and services.
Tuesday, April 23, 2002
Internet
Who Cares What You Think? Blog, And Find Out
The arena has produced fresh, clever, idiosyncratic, real-time musings by all kinds of people whose voices would otherwise be heard only at the local Starbucks.
Linux
Gentoo PPC Linux
Gentoo Linux is rather unique on the PPC platform.
Monday, April 22, 2002
Internet
Google Runs Into Copyright Dispute
Legal experts say the episode highlights problems with the law that can make companies or individuals liable for linking to sites they do not control.
Want Privacy? Take Action
For those who believe in privacy, these are tough times. Don't give in, and don't give up.
Linux
The Commercial Salvation Of Linux
As bad things would ever get for them, companies like IBM are into Linux too dep to let it languish.
Sunday, April 21, 2002
Internet
How Does AOL Fit In The Grand Plan Now?
The men at the helm of AOL Time Warner do not yet agree on just how the America online Internet service — one of the company's biggest divisions — should evolve or on just how quickly it can grow over the next few years.
Friday, April 19, 2002
Internet
IBM: We Won't Seek Patent Plan Royalties
IBM on Thursday said it will not seek royalties on patented technology that is part of an e-commerce Web standard.
Deep Linking Returns To Surface
Hyperlinks, the little bits of code that quickly whisk Web surfers from one site to another, may soon be forced to detour around legal and technical "No Trespassing" signs.
SOAP? Blah! What's Wrong With /bin/sh?
What a waste of space for something that can be done in one line of shell script!
Thursday, April 18, 2002
Internet
Web Consortium Officially Recommends P3P 1.0
Microsoft Urges Support For New IP
Microsoft is lobbying the computing industry to start moving the Internet to the next-generation underpinnings that will lay the groundwork for much richer networking.
Wednesday, April 17, 2002
Internet
More Static For 3G
A cheaper, faster technology might give third-generation cellular networks a run for the money.
Linux
Linux Kernel Captain Deported
Marcelo Tosatti, the 18 year-old Brazilian Linux kernel hacker and Linus Torvalds's right hand man, was deported from the US last week because of visa problems.
Tuesday, April 16, 2002
Internet
Google Protects Its Search Results
This month, about 100 Comcast subscribers were temporarily shut out of Google when the search company charged the high-speed Internet access provider with hosting some accounts that had abused its terms of service by performing "automated queries."
The Engine Stalls At AOL
Steve Case's online giant was supposed to take Time Warner to new heights, not lows.
Apache 2.0 Beats IIS At Its Own Game
The new version is written as a native Windows application and is recommended by the Apache Software Foundation for productionuse. And, based on our tests, we agree.
Business Pros Flock To Weblogs
Increasingly professionals in many fields are adopting a technology that until recently was considered to be largely th eprovince of insomniac teen diarists and technology geeks.
Monday, April 15, 2002
Internet
Microsoft-IBM Web Conspiracy? I Don't Think So
Why? Because the marketplace won't let it happen.
AOL Slips As It Tries To Get Grip On Market
Everything that the critics said about America Online turned out to be true — years later.
Linux
Linux For The Masses
Installation a snap with Desktop/LX from Lycoris.
Sunday, April 14, 2002
Internet
Old Domain Refrains
Allow me to declare this once and for all: VeriSign's domain registration operation is out of control.
Saturday, April 13, 2002
Internet
Mozilla Set For A Splash?
Mozilla is an unlikely candidate for a comeback, given that it is barely sliding out of the box.
Google Tests Search Tools For Developers
Google is quietly testing a new service that lets Web developers perform automated searches of its vast Internet database and publish the results on their own sites.
Linux
Red Hat Bitten By Linux's Low Cost
Red Hat's search for a business model that works in the world of freely available, open-source software has been difficult. Judging by the company's sliding sales and slumping stock price, it's unclear whether Red Hat has found it yet.
Linux Set To Take On Microsoft In India
Caldera is making a major splash in the Indian market.
Friday, April 12, 2002
Internet
Why Web Services Will Kill HTTP—eventually
Give Your Password To Complete Strangers? No Problem...
AOL Time Warner Stock Hits Post-Merger Low
Investors have grown concerned about the company's balance sheet, turmoil in its Internet unit, and stock sales by a big shareholder.
Linux
Wireless Linux: Putting Wireless To Work
One of the best-supported access points is also one of the first that was available: the Apple AirPort.
Thursday, April 11, 2002
Internet
Make A Million, Lose A Million, Who Cares?
Even in the middle of the dot-com boom, some start-ups weren't just about the money.
Seeking Profits, Internet Companies Alter Privacy Policy
Pressed for profits, Internet companies are increasingly selling access to their users' postal mail addresses and telephone numbers, in addition to flooding their e-mail boxes with junk mail.
Microsoft Has Shelved Its Internet 'Persona' Service
Microsoft has quietly shelved My Services, a consumer information service that was once planned as the centerpiece of .NET.
Inventing The Future
The facilities being pioneered by thousands of individual hackers and entrepreneurs will, without quesiton, be integrated into a standardized platform that enables a next generation of applications.
Linux
Red Hat CEO Named Chairman
Matthew Szulik replaces Bob Young, a Red Hat founder, who will continue to serve as a board member.
MS Office For Linux: Why It Won't Convert The Masses
Would it make a difference if you could easily run your essential Microsoft Office applications under Linux?
Wednesday, April 10, 2002
Internet
Microsoft Issues "Critical" Server Fix
Microsoft released a "critical" security patch Wednesday for its Web server software, plugging 10 new holes.
Don't Buy Hollywood's Broadband Script
In the name of copyright protection, the film industry wants to call all the shots in this debate, which could harm consumers.
Linux
Lindows Opens New 'Sneak Preview'
Lindows.com this week released a second "Sneak Preview" of its Linux-based OS, adding features for streamlining the process for installing new software and for viewing and printing non-Linux file formats.
Tuesday, April 9, 2002
Internet
Why One Spam Could Cost $50
A US law firm has become the hero of the common people for its decision to take on the spam merchants.
Sun: Microsoft Worried Over Web Services
A high-level Sun executive on Tuesday told a federal court that Microsoft feel threatened by the industry's move toward Web services and is hard at work trying to co-opt that trend.
Microsoft Rival: Web Needs Guards
Applications, information and other service sdeliverd over the Internet could threaten Microsoft's desktop operating system monopoly and are therefore worthy of antitrust protections, a Sun executive says.
Time Warner: Bandwidth Hogs, Pay Up!
The all-you-can-eat bandwidth buffet that cable modem users enjoy may soon come to an end.
Cyberspace And Race
The color-blind Web: a techno-utopia, or a fantasy to assuage liberal guilt?
Linux
Linux Makes Inroads On Desktop
Version 3.0 of the K Desktop Environment represents Linux's best shot yet at breaking out of the back office to gain ground on the desktop.
Who's Making Money From Open Source?
While the term "open source" to most people has come to mean "free," companies large and small have proven there is money to be made in the open source sector.
Monday, April 8, 2002
Internet
New Version Of Apache Released - Again
The backers of Apache, one of the more important open-source software projects, have released version 2.0 for real-world use.
Google's Toughest Search Is For A Business Model
Can Google create a business model even remotely as good as its technology?
Saturday, April 6, 2002
Internet
Overture Sues Google For Patent Infringement
Alleges that Google's system for featuring paid advertisements infringes an OVerture patent.
Judges Blast Library Filtering
A two-week trial over library filtering ended Thursday with a trio of judges criticizing the CIPA as an unreasonable intrusion into the rights of Americans to view legal material online.
Communities, Audiences, And Scale
Can we have a medium that spreads messages to a large audience, but also allows all the members of that audience to engage with one another like a community?"
Hotmail Back On Track After Glitch
A server problem prevented many users of Microsoft's Hotmail e-mail service from accessing their accounts for about three hours Friday.
Friday, April 5, 2002
Internet
Microsoft Securing Anti-piracy Locks
Microsoft is preparing an upgrade to its anti-piracy technology aimed at bridging the gap that continues to separate online music subscription services and portable devices such as MP3 players.
Search Engines Home In
The drive to create smarter search engines is generating some of today's most significant computer research.
Cuba Tests Online Waters
Cuba has been gripped by internet fever. But going online is tighly controlled by the communist government.
Microsoft: AOL Trying To Take Over Net
A Microsoft attorney sparred with an AOL executive in court on Thursday, each accusing the other of plotting to dominate the Internet.
AOL Buddies Up To Increase IM Wingspan
AOL has struck a deal with a developer that could turn Web sites into vast instant messaging playgrounds, the companies said Thursday.
Thursday, April 4, 2002
Internet
Slow Times For High Speed
Only 7 percent of U.S households subscribe to high speed Internet services, still a long way from the point where broadband becomes a standard feature.
AOL Pushes For Customisable Windows
An AOLTW executive support the litigating states' proposed remedy that Microsoft be forced to sell an "unbound" version of Windows, free from software such as its browser and media player.
Linux
Review: Yellow Dog Linux 2.2
TerraSoft should just extend their testing period a bit next time to avoid problems like those I encountered.
Wednesday, April 3, 2002
Internet
In Free Music Software, A Hidden Fee-Based Service
Users of Kazaa, a popular Internet network that lets people freely exchange music files online, have unknowingly received software that could make them participants in a second pay network.
The Battle Over Web Radio Continues
Who benefits from the new rules? Point-counterpoint between the Recording Industry Association of America and an Internet radio pioneer.
Dear Blog, Today I'll Tell All...
New web form of sharing personal details is popular among youth.
Linux
Why Software Should Be Free
Richard Stallman's vision is of software that has no secrets, that people can share freely.
Tuesday, April 2, 2002
Internet
Netscape Upgrade Jumps On XP Bandwagon
Netscape is touting better integration with Windows XP for the new 6.2 browser, which includes several new features and minor tweaks.
Microsoft Web Servers Gain Market Share
A survey of Internet computers finds Microsoft gaining ground on Linux, and discovers that many e-commerce sites use potentially vulnerable e-commerce protection.
AOL Merger Doesn't Add Up
In retrospect, it is clear that nobody had a clue about what was wrong with combining AOL and Time Warner.
Microsoft Considers Raising MSN's Price
Microsoft on Monday said it is evaluating new features and a possible price increase for a pending version of its MSN Internet Access service, due out later this year.
Monday, April 1, 2002
Internet
Where Are The Mahirs Of Yesteryear?
The Web thrill is gone, according to the New York Times, thanks to a critical shortage of flashes in the pan.
Royalties Proposal Casts Shadow Over Webcasters
A government panel recommended music licensing rates that would force many fledgling Webcasters to pay heavy royalty fees.
Millions Of Free E-Mailers Soon May Pay Fees
Free e-mail could become an endangered species at major Internet portals.