The challenges of a visual language
Comment "We have learned a visual language," writes James Gleick in Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything. That language, he says, is "made up of images and movements instead of words and...
Positive reaction to the new wave BT
News Industry approves BT's tardy restructuring
WAP phones to get maps and follow-me content
News MapInfo provides dynamic location monitoring for telcos and content providers
Opportunistic split
Comment BT has had to follow the dictates of an ignorant stock market, like so many other corporations, and is splitting off its Internet business so that shareholders can buy shares in that sector.
Will Gnutella ignite porn and piracy?
News The program's near-perfect anonymity strikes at the very heart of the Internet's most troubling issues: child porn and pirated music
Startup Spotlight: Ben Way
News At 19, Way is young even for an Internet entrepreneur - but has he paid too high a price for his funding?
The Day Ahead: AMD success gives Needham analyst right to crow
News AMD reported its second consecutive spectacular quarter. Aside from AMD chief Jerry Sanders, no one is more vindicated than Needham & Co. analyst Tad LaFountain
Digital spying under scrutiny - threat to human rights
News ECHELON could be banned and international spying could be made a violation of human rights
DoJ's Klein grilled over Microsoft
News House Judiciary Committee members had lots of questions for DoJ antitrust head honcho Joel Klein. And Klein had plenty of answers
E*Trade beats 2Q estimates
News E*Trade said it handily topped First Call consensus estimates and reached break-even on an operating basis
BT's Bonfield says no to free local calls
News Free local calls are not on the agenda says Bonfield
Is it back to school for VA Linux?
News One of the larger Linux vendors is hoping to strike paydirt by going back to the early source of open source's success: students
Microsoft remedies Office 2000 glitches
News Users are reporting few problems with Office 2000 Service Release 1 - other than the fact you can't uninstall it
Earnings: AMD shatters its Q1 numbers
News Advanced Micro Devices is the chips, with spectacular sales and earnings in its first quarter - almost doubling analysts' profit estimates

