In honor of Valentine's Day, The Morning News will not appear today, since it is currently making out with its s.o. But here's a little something, anyway:Windows XP released, to protests that it looks an awful lot like Mac OS X.51 Million Users:
The day the siphon died: Federal appeals court rules against Napster.Corporate America, with axe in hand, must choose which costs to cut.Amazon now sells downloadable software.Google buys Deja, the Usenet archive.19 yr. old tennis star infects worldwide systems.With the EU upset over Bush, Britain is
There are dark days ahead for California and the Pacific Northwest.The CIA partners with SafeWeb in order to mask its movements.B2M's: Back to Mom's and other examples of stupid marketing jargon.E-commerce sites get rid of inventory by bartering with each other.IBM
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
Money over Suicide: Sega President pays $750M to company to cover Dreamcast loss.KPMB Consulting launches IPO today.Will the new economy create a new style of recession?The profits in patterns: E-commerce companies slowly realize the power of hardcore data mining.Razorfish took in $51M; read the memo.
A perfect record from beginning to end, Marquee Moon is one of the best albums ever (ever) recorded. If you’ve heard it, you know what we’re talking about; if you haven’t, maybe it’s time you did. Soaring, woven guitar melodies from Richard Lloyd and Tom Verlaine,
Lehman Brothers rings death bell for Amazon.King opens his books and shows "The Plant" was a financial success.AOL Europe considers an IPO.Microsoft will launch an IM that works with Yahoo and others.Amazon will charge publishers to promote their books by email.Publishers declare war
We heard that you like MP3s. We also heard (from the Coalition for the Future of Music) that everyone’s favorite recording industry entity ‘is forming a pool under the title SoundExchange to attempt to collect and distribute the royalties from webcasters who stream music.’ Fight back here. Also seen
Amazon gets into payment services with one-click honor system.How to evaluate e-commerce when the signs seem confusing.iVillage will acquire Women.com for $27M.Etoys will shut down on April 6.The future of Flash: CNET defends its new banners as "new ad experiences" that
Lycos uses net surfing patterns to predict trends.Ralph Lauren's son wants to turn Polo into a media company.Vanderbilt University funds lab to study AmIHotOrNot.com.The secret of web porn: the spam-king is opening new windows.Time Magazine partners with BlackPlanet.com for black history
