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Napster Goes Unmourned to the Grave

Morpheus got slammed because it installed “GATOR”. Gator is evil. It tracks your web surfing, “sells” unused cycles on your computer, and targets banner advertising. As an added bonus, it’s buggy, is a memory pig, and the company is run...

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. ———–...

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...

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...

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!...