With the idea of direct buying, Michael Dell built a business model that few can afford to copy.Tech workers who exercised options but never sold owe a great deal of taxes.Amazon may survive by providing the back-end for Wal-Mart & Co.Attention drug dealers: don'
MarchFIRST files for bankruptcy.Yahoo will pull its porn off.Law Professor calls news filtering poisonous for democracy.In the gilded theaters of NYC, people now pray where movies once played.Dana Carvey entertains cryptologists who find special connection to Garth.When coders can't get jobs in San
The ethics of cloning: a level-headed approach is necessary.Kozmo shuts down early in order to give severance pay to 1,100 employees.Yahoo reports first quarterly loss in two years and plans to lay off 12 percent of 3,510.WIRED magazine picks up new editor from The
When homicide seems justified: Microsoft plans ad campaign around the death of Clippy.Amazon will handle Borders's book selling online.Tapping those masses: Yahoo turns to porn for new revenue.Judge threatens to shut down Napster unless it complies with a court-ordered filtering mandate.Germany's
Amazon declares best financial quarter ever, with smaller loss expected.Amazon will publish e-books with Adobe software.The hat problem, conceived by a computer science professor, has coding experts foaming at the bit.Bridget Jones will call you on your cell phone: the first author-wireless deal.If you
IBM launches Web-based air conditioning in Europe, where users can turn on and off their cooling systems with the net. [wsj]The next to fall will be VCs without ties to the Rockafellers.Only psychopaths love Verizon (is this new to anyone?): a history of wireless product placement in
Donny, you're out of your element!: Lehman Bros. gives Yahoo a buy rating because its executives decided banners weren't good enough.You're entering a world of pain: Sony & Universal will sell song-subscriptions through Yahoo.He's a good man, and thorough:
MTVi and Rio will sell MP3s from the big 5 record companies.A manager ruins his stock price when his bombastic email gets released to the public.IXL claims it's not hurting and offers sympathy after its big stock buyout.Ted Turner plans to leave AOL/TW.After
Dumb Will Hunting should have used a computer: MIT's class materials are now free on the web.Dell attacks Apple's hold on the university market in foreign countries. [wsj]AOL/TW increases its stake in cash-starved Oxygen.Emails will soon interrupt you if they'
The web is no longer free: Yahoo will charge 9.95/month for financial services.EBay may merge or be bought, and it will share your information in the sale.Bertelsmann, EMI, and AOL TW partner with RealNetworks to face off against Sony and Universal.The Internet is growing much
