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RIAA Settles With 12-Year-Old…

Thank you, Recording Industry Association of America, for protecting us from the vast hordes of ruthless villains singularly bent on the destruction of our economic system. And the first perpetrator on the hit parade? A 12-Year-Old girl who lives in the Projects....

On Shorting The Microprocessor Business

In the mid- to late- nineties, as we all know, incumbents and competitors built millions of miles of redundant fiber optic cable, thinking that the opportunities to transit data and voice traffic would represent huge growth in the industry. But one thing seized up:...

Internet Scam Artist Fined $1.9M

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020524/ap_on_hi_te/ftc_m ousetrapping_1 Internet Scam Artist Fined $1.9M Fri May 24, 2:45 PM ET By D. IAN HOPPER, AP Technology Writer WASHINGTON (AP) – An elusive Internet scam artist has been ordered to...

ExCITE@Home is Officially Dead@Toast.

Too bad… They had a good cafeteria. -Ian. ——— http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010928/tc/exciteathome_bankruptcy_4.html Friday September 28 8:32 PM ET ExciteAtHome to Sell Assets to AT&T By MATTHEW FORDAHL, AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE,...

Cisco To Cut up to 5,000 Jobs

I’m SO glad I left. If their stock continues to tank they won’t have to lay off anybody. But christ, when I joined Cisco in September 1998 Cisco had 18,000 employees. But now 44,000? That’s crazy. Anyway, John Chambers once said that, as a result of...