Microsoft will unleash a hailstorm to turn dot-net into dot-net-profits.Verizon will use Lucent to build always-on wireless Web.Previous tech growth won't be duplicated because it simply didn't exist."I know there's demand for this because I get
Salon and Inside look for buyers as Web zines lose their attitudes.Shill bidders get busted for false auctioning; 1,100 counts.Loudcloud raises $150M at $6 a share.Bezos gets probed for stock trades.Ang Lee tends to cry at good movies; now you can watch one with him.
Yahoo loses its CEO and warns of worse sales in Q1 than predicted.The Dot-com economy was based on venture greed and ego (among other things).What does music look like? Algorithms applied to sound.Great photography at Pixelgraphy.OSX goes to Gold Master and prepares for the March
Where portals have failed, blogs have succeeded: the secret behind the phenomenon.Judge orders Napster to curb copyrighted trading in two days (burn! burn! burn!).AOL launches a Netscape-navigational toolbar on its sites (time.com, etc.)The first web-cam ever, of a coffee pot, is going offline.The
Bertellsman's black helicopters prepare: Canadian maverick moves Napster-clone off-shore to data haven.Andreessen will launch another IPO, with no chance of Netscape's glory.Amazon-owned site, Bibliofind, gets hacked with 98,000 customer records on the loose.Hotmail chooses for you to receive spam.
Fade to Black: Metallica wins with the new Napster filter as songs disappear off the lists.Vivendi may sell its stake in AOL France.Amazon and Wal-Mart plan "strategic alliance."The 8th Wonder, Atari: One million Atari games are stored in a limestone mine, 300 feet underground.
Pirates in the waters: Yahoo adopts anti-takeover strategy. S.E.C. finds 23 to blame for dot-com stock price pumping.Oracle's earnings won't meet forecasts.Using Aimster to swap files prevents the RIAA from snooping.With Napster close to shutting down, blank-CD sales
Dub-Dub earmarks $100M for online government.Watch how Bill Gates reacted to the earthquake.Direct Marketing can have horrible results when the gifts go bad. [wsj]Amazon gives away free MP3s in order to inspired CD-sales.Gunshot tracking system installed in LA's worst neighborhoods.Living with
Sweatshop sneaker prank increases sales and awareness for Nike. [wsj]AOL saves Andreessen again: AOL/TW taps Loudcloud for infrastructure.Smarter companies use technology and people to their best ends, instead of haphazard layoffs.Random House sues start-up over e-book rights.Napster offers indie labels $50M to swap
Dear god: a Napster rip-off that looks for unprotected hard-drives on the Web.EToys files for bankruptcy.AOL accounts for 1/3 of all time Americans spend online.Targeting is hard to do: The Catch-22 of internet advertising.Bertelsmann's back-up plan: Snoopstar, the Napster
