Television is dying: fewer ads, striking actors, and the lurking threat of the Internet.MP3.com says going it alone will make it profitable.Ebay launches live bidding in 300 auction houses worldwide.The Onion moves to NY and plans a weekly paper.IBM creates software to prevent server crashes.
Our industry has problems; see how people are coping.EBay's fourth-quarter earnings exceed expectations.Yahoo's stock rises ten percent over Viacom-buyout speculation.Clinton will announce his last pardons in his last hours.Microsoft has never had layoffs and now is snatching up employees.Jakob
Customers sue Verizon over delayed DSL installations.Apple posts $247M loss for first quarter.Walmart.com acquires Garden.com.Bezos, and other tech leaders, endorse Ashcroft.IBM beats fourth quarter earnings expectations.Self-organizing sites gain ground and publish all pundits, but make their mustard (the proof in the pudding)
Beware the Borg: Murdoch plans for $40B acquisition of DirecTV.Ebay will raise fees for listing auction items.The Internet may be to blame for California's energy woes.Macromedia creates Flash advertising alliance to make annoying motion banners, that take forever to load, the standard.Security hole found
Dot-coms begin to be evicted from the NASDAQ.Fours equal death: Chinese cell phone numbers sell high for significance.Laid off or on the lam? Pink-slipped dot-commers don't get to say goodbye to their friends or email. I.e., back up now.AOL surpasses 27M
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AOL-TW is approved.Taking the offensive against offensive cell phone users.Napster goes to bed with CDNow."Ginger" is paid $250K for her book about something.Los Alamos has a hacker inside the fold.NASA may have found the first evidence for black holes.Counter-Strike says
The Psychic Friends Network is better for customer service than Microsoft.The case for Verizon: a foolish combination, or a steady business plan?Yahoo announces 10-30 percent drop in profits.What questions have disappeared from the world?'Lord of the Rings' uses the Web to build the
Black, red, or titanium? Apple puts the money on black turtlenecks and titanium powerbooks.The Janus Fund has a sleazeball at the helm who pays his employees well.NYC pays $50M for 50K illegal strip searches.The Vatican puts its valuables up for sale online.Disney pays 50K to destroy
Hollywood studios prepare to protect their films online.Amazon met its sales figures, but not profit margins.Time plans (again) a magazine about your life: The Internet Life.Help build the Pseudo Dictionary.Hamlet never considered his OS: Sony's net appliance chooses to Be.The Industry Standard chops
