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Napster Goes Unmourned to the Grave

The death of Napster is not so much a signifier of the victory of the RIAA over the infidels as it is of the defeat of companies which had no identifiable business plan.. -Ian. ———–...

Open Source Warfare

http://www.e-sheep.com/spiders/ This one from Tim Hardy. I was pretty confused at first, but the author seems to be positing the notion that America has the technology to conduct what could be called “participatory warfare” and thereby could accomplish two...

Survey: Europeans Say U.S. Partly to Blame for 9/11

Of course, France — the country that brought us popular existentialism — thinks that the US brought September 11th upon themselves. Perhaps that’s an overstatement , but it does seem to be widely felt in places other than the US that such an attack...

Play a Game, Go To Jail

Greek govt bans all computer games By Thomas C Greene in Washington Posted: 03/09/2002 at 16:45 GMT http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26939.html The government of Greece is making heroic efforts to humiliate the nation in front of the entire world, by banning all...

AOL Is Evil?

Out with AOL, in with Jabber By Paul Festa Staff Writer, CNET News.com August 30, 2002, 12:16 PM PT http://news.com.com/2100-1023-956097.html When America Online closed its door on efforts to standardize instant messaging, a new one may have opened for Jabber. Jabber,...

eToys is Finally, Truly eToast…

http://news.com.com/2100-1017-955181.html By Troy Wolverton Staff Writer, CNET News.com August 23, 2002, 1:30 PM PT More than a year after filing for bankruptcy, the company formerly known as eToys is preparing for its swan song. EBC I, as eToys is now called, has...

Trouble In The HenHouse..

—– http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020830/tc_nm/ tech_ericsson_handsets_dc Ericsson to Exit Sony JV if Products Don’t Sell Fri Aug 30, 5:30 AM ET By Jan Strupczewski STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish telecoms equipment...

Agere Shifts Gears..

——— http://biz.yahoo.com/smart/020829/20020822tech_2.html SmartMoney.com Agere Shifts Gears Thursday August 29, 3:07 pm ET By Russ Mitchell This article was originally published on SmartMoney Select on 8/22/02. NOT EVEN A PROMISING pedigree was...

Softbank Focusing on Broadband. Yahoo?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020829/ap_on_hi_te/ softbank_yahoo_2 Softbank Sells Part of Yahoo! Stake Thu Aug 29, 9:11 AM ET TOKYO (AP) – Softbank Corp. ( news – web sites) sold a part of its stake in the Internet service Yahoo!...