9 February 2001

  • Marketers invade Napster users' hard-drives.
  • Silicon Alley lay-offs seen as good for New York industries.
  • American Express launches a free ISP for its a customers, a move seen as an expensive failure for other companies.
  • It takes one fat pipe: Fresno, CA builds an e-village.
  • Razorfish posts first operating loss; may move towards systems integration.
  • KPMB raises $2B on IPO, looks to acquire smaller interactive agencies.
  • Back treatment being sold as remote-controled orgasm machine for women.
  • Dell prepares for large-scale layoffs.
  • Motley Fool drops 30 percent.
  • Video games like Oni benefit from anime-Flash.
  • For DeLillo lovers, the Times has put together a retrospective.
  • British artist destroys every single thing he owns; keeps cat and girlfriend.
  • When UltraShock launches it will be cool because it understands that robots are cool.