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
Napster's new business plan is the path to the future, and the RIAA knows it.The Future of Flash, part II: Publishers get all worked up over Cnet's new banner ads; expect new standards.Nokia predicts multi-media messaging as the future of wireless.RIAA twists
Record industry begins to move against Napster clones. [wsj]Oracle's advertising succeeds by describing how it uses its own products.Keep your balance low: PayPal is aggressive about anti-fraud, perhaps too much.Priceline's founder stops building his own Xanadu when the stock tumbles.Zagats sells
Ugly as Hell: Jobs shows off trippy new iMacs with CD-RWs.Michigan considers building a cyber court to attract tech companies.Amazon.com Customer Service, The Musical!Italian tech companies settle in Sicily, under a volcano."There will be no new architecture for computers for the next 1,
Napster will become a fee-service in the summer and offers $1B to record companies.Intel announces delayed raises instead of lay-offs to counter slow economy.Supreme Court investigates 4th amendment's application to police's use of thermal imaging.AOL to invest $100M in India as
"Don't kid yourselves, the Internet is still our future," says Clinton, the paid Oracle.Companies set their earnings expectations low in order to beat Wall St. by a penny.NYTimes signs five-year agreement to publish print version on the web (subscription-based).Dot-commers, in
