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Execs Need Apply
- Yahoo scores
victory in Nazi case
- Former
Dot-com Workers Find Homes At Porn Sites
- Amazon
to sell PCs Online
- World Supply
of Dull Business Headlines Said To Increase
- Cuban's
Arrest Angers Journalists
- Aggravated
consumers pummel PCs
- For Online
Shoppers, Some Battles Not Worth Fighting
- Salon:
Last One Standing
- Landowners
get paid for cable lines
- Judge
snuffs out ban on cigarette sales
- Worm
Invades Microsoft Servers
- Free
browser tool exposes Web bugs
- Reporters
Win Web Logs Fight
- Search Engines,
Portals, Big Web Draws
- IM rivals
can't connect on messaging plans
- Online
Billing: Clever Idea, Lousy Deal
- Techies
Not Extremely Happy
- Book Awards
to admit e-books for the first time
- Top
Tech Salaries Down, First Time Since 1985-Study
- Premium
Processing For H-1Bs Draws Praise, Criticism
- The
Wrong Way to Do Dirty Tricks
No
Execs Need Apply
Market-battered tech firms are increasingly doling out
new stock option packages, but leaving executives out of the bounty. Yahoo
scores victory in Nazi case
Yahoo has scored an early-stage legal victory
in its ongoing attempt to post material and auction items--including Nazi memorabilia--on
its Web site that may be offensive to people in other countries. Former
Dot-com Workers Find Homes At Porn Sites
As IT workers receive pink slips
by the droves, some are finding job security in an industry that shows little
sign of slowing: online adult entertainment. Amazon
to sell PCs Online
Amazon.com will sell personal computers online and
market books to institutional buyers, including businesses and government agencies,
later this year. World
Supply of Dull Business Headlines Said To Increase
There's a general trend
toward publishing more international business lately, on the theory, I guess,
that our inescapably global economy has gotten readers of the financial pages
more interested than ever in news from abroad. Cuban's
Arrest Angers Journalists
A Cuban reporter whose anti-Castro articles
were published on a website hosted by another country is jailed, raising an outcry
from a media watchdog group. Aggravated
consumers pummel PCs
A quarter of the 4,200 PC users who participated
in an online tech store's survey have confessed to physically attacking their
computers at one time or another. For
Online Shoppers, Some Battles Not Worth Fighting
Can an e-tailer make
a simple mistake without being punished? Are e-tailers human enough to err, and
can customers be divine enough to forgive? Salon:
Last One Standing
With the demise of Feed, one of the Web's first general-interest
online mags, only Salon survives as an independent on the Web. Landowners
get paid for cable lines
Conceding that digital information is not freight,
a subsidiary of Norfolk Southern Corp. has agreed to pay landowners along its
tracks when it installs underground fiber-optic lines. Judge
snuffs out ban on cigarette sales
A federal judge has struck down a New
York state ban on mail-order, Internet and telephone cigarette sales intended
to prevent smoking by youths, saying the law violated interstate commerce provisions
of the U.S. Constitution. Worm
Invades Microsoft Servers
DoS program has been discovered on several corporate
networks Free
browser tool exposes Web bugs
In a gesture intended to heighten awareness
of online tracking techniques, a non-profit privacy group has released a free
tool that exposes surveillance codes hidden in Web pages. Reporters
Win Web Logs Fight
The U.S. government belatedly drops its request for
the Web logs of a journalists collective in Seattle. Search
Engines, Portals, Big Web Draws
About 95 million Americans last month
clicked on search engines, portals and online communities, giving such sites the
greatest volume of Web traffic, according to a survey. IM
rivals can't connect on messaging plans
Barriers between instant messaging
products are proving hard to dismantle, sparking new tactics in a brewing standards
war over the nascent technology. Online
Billing: Clever Idea, Lousy Deal
Somewhere in the zone between idea and
execution, e-commerce suffers from a case of diminished returns. Techies
Not Extremely Happy
Ziff Davis Media just launched ExtremeTech.com. It's
a direct attempt to take on techie sites like AnandTech and Tom's Hardware Guide
popular because they are peer-level sites. Book
Awards to admit e-books for the first time
The National Book Foundation
will now consider literary works in e-book form for its National Book Awards,
the foundation announced at BookExpo America. Top
Tech Salaries Down, First Time Since 1985-Study
Salaries for the highest-paid
bracket of information technology managers have fallen for the first time since
1985. Premium
Processing For H-1Bs Draws Praise, Criticism
The U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization Service next month plans to start a premium processing service
that would charge H-1B visa applicants an additional $1,000 but guarantee them
a decision in 15 days. The
Wrong Way to Do Dirty Tricks
A startling report from the Minnesota Senate
race provides a stunning example of American politics as tech-cluelessness combined
with petty nastiness.
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