Previous DayUS congress to ask for Carnivore code
News FBI may be forced by US congress to give up Carnivore code
Big Brother Files: Monday
News Through the ZDNet keyhole on Monday...
Yahoo! defends itself over Nazi auctions
News Yahoo! sets out its position to the High Court in Paris
Unix and Linux: Lessons learned, lessons passed on
Comment The very first time I met SCO, I was running Microsoft/SCO Xenix, the first commercial Unix for Intel chips, in 1984 on an 8086 running 4.77MHz. Yes, it was slow. And, yes, I did say Microsoft.
Government IT system is a sitting duck
News Government-appointed security firm highlights possible cracks in security, including an email system that could be seriously exploited
Jupiter research legitimises Napster et al
News Jupiter research suggests a laying down of arms in the battle to bring music to the consumer...
Oracle wins airline exchange contract
News The sought-after prize of the contract for e-commerce services provision to airline industry marketplace AeroXchange has been netted by Oracle
EMusic offers subscription service
News Subscription service to offer unlimited music downloads for a monthly fee
Ignore Naysayers -- the Net Economy is stronger than you think
Comment I'm no cheerleader for silly Internet business ideas.
Pentium III gets a new lease on life
News Intel will revise its venerable chip even after the launch of Pentium 4, as AMD keeps up the pressure
Jane Wakefield: Don't stop the music
News A recent press trip to Ibiza reveals that for most young people the music never stops, but the record industry is nevertheless falling over itself to turn off the volume on MP3
The Day Ahead: Blue Martini and Interland lead IPO parade
News Blue Martini and Interland could be the companies to set the hot markets they play in on fire
IBM debuts commercial supercomputer
News Now see if you can beat it at chess. ASCI White will process 12.3 trillion calculations per second, 30,000 times faster than your average PC
UK army to buy subs, tanks and jets online
News Ministry of Defence will buy military technology - from ammo to fighter planes - on the Internet. Could this be a hacker's dream come true?
IBM invests $200m in Euro Linux centres
News IBM pushes out the boat with European Linux investment
PSINet could flee Britain because of RIP
News After Poptel, Claranet and GreenNet, PSINet has become the next ISP to state that it will seriously think about leaving the UK when the RIP Bill becomes law
Scour needs DSL to bring Hollywood home
News DSL is coming, when it arrives a trip down to the video shop could be a distant memory
Battle over Nazi auction site heats up
News Yahoo explains why it is "technically impossible" to block access to auctions of Nazi memorabilia
PayPal alert! Beware the 'PaypaI' scam
News This Russian-based site looks exactly like the popular PayPal.com payment site, complete with pilfered user names and passwords
Is Scour 'Napster with movies'?
News That's what the Motion Picture Association of America argues in the latest round of a legal battle that could hobble fundamental Internet technologies
ATI suffers wrath of Jobs
News Apple yanks graphics cards from its new systems in apparent retaliation for the chip maker's big mouth
A Year Ago: Is a pocket Mac next for Apple?
News First published: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 08:48:46 GMT
World's most annoying Web sites
Comment Sometimes you have to wonder what goes through the minds of the folks responsible for coding some of the world's leading commercial Web pages.
Gates snuggles up to buyers
Comment The word according to Microsoft, Part 1: platforms chief Jim Allchin, circa October 1997: We are going to "bet the company" on Windows NT 5.0. The word according to Microsoft, Part 2: Chairman and...
Old Media 2000: Beginning of the End
Comment Jesse to the old media: You're going down. From the first days of the Internet, pundits have predicted the Web would siphon viewers and advertising from television, newspapers and magazines. It...
Intel's chip fiasco
Comment It was the fall of 1985, and Compaq Chairman Ben Rosen had reason to beam as he surveyed the swank product rollout of a new computer line from the back of the hotel ballroom rented out for the...
Mac soothsaying: Survey says...
Comment Between getting my week's supply of vintage Power Computing T-shirts starched and blocked and scheduling assorted drinking and dining bouts with friends in the international Mac press and developer...
Web news: The new frontier?
Comment The holiday brochures list Speakers' Corner as a good place for a visitor to kill an extra hour on a summer's morning in London.
One musician's take on Net music
Comment A few weeks ago, Metallica's Lars Ulrich suggested in testimony before the US Senate Judiciary Committee that Napster was theft, echoing an argument also made by the big recording studios and their...
A Windows maven infiltrates Macworld
Comment When entertaining the troops, Apple hires Smash Mouth. Microsoft hires Santana.
Hackers aren't what they used to be...
Comment A lot has changed in the last 10 years since I first poked my head below the surface of the mainstream computer world into the realm of the computer underground.
The metabrowsing fiasco
Comment A few days before Memorial Day here in the USA, a federal judge in California handed down a ruling in a dispute over what's come to be known in the trade as metabrowsing.
