May 06,
2002 -
Dot-Com Still the Main Domain - By Joanna Glasner, WiredNews,
Last autumn, when registrars introduced the first new top-level domains
in 15 years, no one expected suffixes like dot-biz and dot-info to prove
any real match for the all-pervasive dot-com. Dot-com, after all, has
long been the chosen suffix of nearly all the most-visited sites on the
Internet. Heck, it even had a stock market bubble named after it, not to
mention an entire subspecies of human, the dot-commer. Add in the fact
that many folks got burned speculating on dot-com domains, and it seemed
logical that new suffixes would be poised for a slow takeoff...
May 09, 2002 -
The art of office e-mail war - By David Miller, Salon.com, They don't call it a "killer
app" for nothing. E-mail is corporate culture's favorite new weapon.
"Rapidity is the essence of war," Sun Tzu writes in "The Art of War."
"Take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected
routes, and attack unguarded spots." It's a lesson that could just as
well apply to corporate warfare as to the conventional battlefield. And
it's one I learned the hard way...
May 03, 2002 -
Segway hits bump in its progress - Andy Kjellgren - Special,
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, A member of the Ambassador Force
is treated for his injuries after an accident on his Segway. The
heralded Segway has claimed its first Atlanta victim. A member of the
Central Atlanta Progress Ambassador Force toppled from one of the
personal scooters on Cone Street near Luckie Street about 8:40 p.m.
Thursday. The officer, whose name was not released, injured his knee
going up a driveway onto the sidewalk, said Atlanta Police Sgt. Michael
Giugliano. He was taken to Grady Hospital...
May 09, 2002
-
Hell's Angels in Canada - Mom's boys
- From The Economist print edition,
MONTREAL, A victory against organized
crime. FROM start to finish, it was no
ordinary murder trial. Quebec's
provincial government, usually
parsimonious with its justice system,
set up an elite squad of top
prosecutors. It even paid jurors three
times the going rate. Maybe that was why
it took 11 days of sequestered
deliberations and a judicial admonition
to try harder. Still, in the end, on May
5th, the jury convicted Maurice “Mom”
Boucher, a leader of the Quebec chapter
of the Hell's Angels motorcycle club, of
ordering the killing of two prison
guards...
May 17, 2002
-
Jordan Punishes Net Critic - By Julia Scheeres, Wired News,
Reporters Without Borders protested Friday the imprisonment of a former
Jordanian legislator and television reporter who published a letter on a
U.S. website accusing government officials of corruption...
May 23,
2002 -
Online Schools Under Scrutiny -
By John Gartner, WiredNews, More
than 30 publicly funded virtual charter
schools have launched during the past
five years, and parents have largely
been pleased with the results. But the
alleged mismanagement of two academies
run by for-profit companies is prompting
states to request more regulatory
authority...
May 02, 2002 -
Gartner: Microsoft
licensing could
push users to
StarOffice
- By PATRICK
THIBODEAU, IDG.NET,
May 01, 2002,
SAN DIEGO -
End-user unrest
over Microsoft
Corp.'s enterprise
licensing plan may
prompt some
companies to move
from Microsoft
Office suite to
rival Sun
Microsystems
Inc.'s personal
productivity
suite, StarOffice,
predicts Gartner
Group Inc. Gartner
is estimating that
StarOffice has a
slightly better
than 50-50 chance
of taking 10% of
the office
productivity suite
market -- at
Microsoft's
expense -- by the
end of 2004...
