Wednesday, July 31, 2002
Internet
Pay Up, Or You're Blocked: Indian ISPs Tell US Megasites
Although the Internet Service Providers Association of India is split on the issue, several of the larger ISPs want to block access to eBay, MSN or Yahoo! unless the prociders pay a toll.
Tuesday, July 30, 2002
Internet
Want To Share Wi-Fi? Ask The EFF
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is spreading the word about ISPs likely to go easy on people who share their wireless access.
Monday, July 29, 2002
Internet
Read All About It
A company called ProQuest has digitized every issue of the New York Times, from cover to cover.
Can MSN Play David To AOL's Goliath?
It's still a distant No. 2 in market share, but opportunity knocks.
Hacking, Hijacking Our Rights
With few execptions, technology companies are turning into lapdogs for Hollywood and its allies.
Saturday, July 27, 2002
Internet
DMCA Demonstration Goes Out With A Whimper
Perens backed down from the stunt under pressure from HP, where Perens is employed as a Linux developer and advocate.
Hollywood Wants The Right To Hack Your Computer
It's finally time to stop patronizing the entertainment industry.
Friday, July 26, 2002
Internet
Tangling The Web
How Web services are changing the Internet.
Thursday, July 25, 2002
Internet
Hotmail Policy Drives Users To Tears
As more and more consumers are discovering, such are the pitfalls of relying on free Internet services. Companies can change their usage policies at will, leaving customers with little recourse.
Net Users Try To Elude The Google Grasp
It is becoming more difficult to keep one's past hidden, or even to reinvent oneself in the American tradition.
Can Blogs Save Salon?
Will this work? Who knows. But bravo to Salon for being first.
Wednesday, July 24, 2002
Internet
Citing Its Price Strategy, Amazon Pares Loss
Amazon.com posted slightly better-than-expected financial results yesterday, as its operations continued to stablize.
AOL Shifts Instant Messaging Compatibility Efforts
AOL has put on hold its efforts to let users of its instant messaging service chat with users of other services through a direct connection, according to a letter AOL filed with the Federal Communications Commission.
Vignette's Revenue Slides, Jobs Cut
With customer purse strings closely guarded, and those who are buying spending less, the vendor still has a long way to go to reach profitability.
Self-Publish Stigma Is Perishing
In the last 18 months, thanks in great part to authors' ability to use the Internet to market themselves, more than three dozen self-published novels have beenpicked up by major houses.
Monday, July 22, 2002
Internet
Scripting Flaw Threatens Web Servers
A flaw found in newer versions of the PHP Web server scripting language could allow attackers to crash, and in some case control,computers over the Internet.
Sunday, July 21, 2002
Internet
The Instant-Mess Age
'IM' isn't private, and that's a problem for firms, workers.
Content Protection Debate Reaching Do Or Die
The political stalemate over digital-rights management threatnes to undermine technical progress on standards for protecting digital TV transmissions and Internet movies, said participants at a digital-rights conference recently.
Wednesday, July 17, 2002
Internet
Blog To Cope With Alzheimer's Fog
You're never too old to start blogging — and to stave off dementia.
Shortsighted Rules Penalize Network Use
At a time when the technology sector needs to attract new users na dpersuade existing customers to expand use of products and tools, businesses seem more intent than ever on restricting access.
Amazon Extends Its Reach With Web Services
Amazon.com rolled out the welcome mat Tuesday for Web site developers and owners to build applications and tools that will allow them to incorporate Amazon's offerings into their sites.
Tuesday, July 16, 2002
Internet
Point. Click. Think?
Welcome to the world of Net thinking, a form of reasoning that characterizes many students who are growing up with the Internet as their primary, and in some cases, sole source of research.
Gator Loses A Round To Web Sites In Fight Over Pop-Up Ads
The Gator Corporation appears to have lost the first round in its fight against 10 Web site publishers who sued the company last month.
Internet Portals In China Sign Pact To Restrict Access To Information Deemed Subversive
Internet portals in China, including Yahoo!'s Chinese-language site, have signed a voluntary pledge to purge the Web of content that China's communist government deems subversive.
Monday, July 15, 2002
Internet
Yahoo Ads Set To Get Busier
Yahoo on Monday said it has signed agreements with four Web technology companies, hoping to strengthen its online advertising offerings.
Smelling Spam, Software Rejects Newsletter
Consider the collateral damage of the Spam Wars.
That's It, I Must Speak Out
Of course it is (potentially) a good thing that any man, woman or child can set up their own website and express their opinions to other men, women and children. But the Blogosphere must have standards if it expects to be taken seriously.
Friday, July 12, 2002
Internet
Asia Proves Sweet Spot For Yahoo
Web portal Yahoo said it hopes to ride on Asia's acceptance of online advertising and focus on wireless content to boost its regional business.
Thursday, July 11, 2002
Internet
DoubleClick's New Focus Leads To Profit
Internet marketing company DoubleClick on Thursday reported a small second-quarter profit on lower revenues and said it had largely completed a transition to focus on more lucrative businesses.
Money Matters Force Standards Stalemate
A key Web standards body has deadlocked over how to handle patented technology that comes with royalties attached, raising questions about the future architecture of the Net.
Dear Member: You've Been Deleted
A man wakes up to find his website no longer exists, and all that's left is an e-mail from a Web hosting company telling him his site is too offensive for the mainstream. It could happen to you.
The Dot-Coms That Survived
Call them survivors. Or hangers on. But two years and counting since the air started coming out of the Internet bubble, there remain a number of money-losing companies that have ducked the storm.
Groups Call For Open Broadband
Free expression on the Internet could be endangered if cable television providers continue to dominate high-speed access services, civil liberties groups said Tuesday.
Ad Resurgence Helps Buoy Latest Figures From Yahoo
Yahoo posted quarterly sales and profit figures today that exceeded the projections of Wall Street analysts.
Wednesday, July 10, 2002
Internet
For PayPal, One Large Internet Payment
With eBay's purchase, online payment technology comes of age.
The Boon Behind The Bubble
Even after big losses, America is better off than before.
Tuesday, July 9, 2002
Internet
eBay Says No To PayPal Gambling
Online gamblers, most of whom can no longer use U.S. credit cards to fund their habit, are about to lose yet another payment option.
Monday, July 8, 2002
Internet
eBay Will Buy PayPal
Internet auction giant eBay said Monday it is buying online payment facilitator PayPal for $1.5 billion in stock in a long-rumored deal that would mark the end of eBay's rival, in-house electronic payment program.
Daylight Webbery
Theft of online design — from whole sites to individual elements — is rife.
Labels To Net Radio: Die Now
You'd think the record comapnies would love Internet tunes—instead they're tying to kill them.
Wednesday, July 3, 2002
Internet
Online Ads, E-Mail Don't Click
Consumers arenít clicking on banners, buttons and other annoying Internet ads-and now, they arenít responding to special e-mail links either.
Cable Modems: Less Boon Than Beast
Cable modems keep us in the dark ages of Internet access, seriously distorting Internet usage, economics, and policy.
Ziff Davis' Yahoo Internet Life To Fold
Yahoo Internet Life, the Ziff Davis Media publication chronicling Net culture, is shuttering operations, sources close to the company said Tuesday.
Tuesday, July 2, 2002
Internet
It's Time For ICANN To Go
John Gilmore, original "cypherpunk" and all-around Internet supergeek, explains why the organization that runs the Internet is broken.
Monday, July 1, 2002
Internet
Amazon Expected To Sell Apparel
The company, which has held the line on product expansion for the last nine months, will open an online apparel store this summer or in early fall, in time to fix any problems before the holiday shopping season begins.
A Dispute Over Wireless Networks
Time Warner Cable has warned some cable-modem subscribers that operating wireless networks and inviting others to freely share them violates their subscription agreements.