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Seeing Red

August 5, 2001

Last week, for the sec­ond week in a row, IIS admin­is­tra­tors have had to face Code Red. More than a sim­ple virus, Code Red could rep­re­sent a new accel­er­a­tion in the online virus war and shows that we may not be ready, as an indus­try, for the era of web ser­vices. A Rapid Epi­demic Now that I’ve got […]

AIM Not Secure

February 23, 2001

In the past few years, AIM has become a com­mu­ni­ca­tion tool used by both indi­vid­u­als and cor­po­ra­tions to facil­i­tate dis­cus­sions of issues rang­ing from what movie to see on the week­end to arcane details in con­trac­tual cor­po­rate nego­ti­a­tions. But buyer beware as hack­ers have found ways to exploit the AIM client and server to leave such […]

Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles

August 21, 2000

Over the past few months, the con­tro­versy over nap­ster has con­tin­ued to grow increas­ing fear among the music indus­try that it is becom­ing an endan­gered species. How­ever, this issue is not about music but about movies. Yes, L.A. is start­ing to feel that it has now has to open war on a sec­ond front as its […]

Napster Shut Down

July 27, 2000

It’s offi­cial: it’s cur­tain for Nap­ster for now. The judge in a law­suit filed the Record­ing Indus­try Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­ica ordered the ser­vice to shut its doors by mid­night this Fri­day. The genie is out of the bot­tle Yet, I can’t help but believe that the shut­down of Nap­ster will not do much in terms of limiting […]

Netscape Navigator 6.0: Better?

April 5, 2000

I use my browser all the time. It’s one of the pro­grams on my sys­tem that just stays open most of the time. I used to love Netscape but was seduced by Microsoft’s Inter­net Explorer 4.0 and never went back to Netscape on a reg­u­lar basis since. How­ever, some­thing told me that a browser that was two years […]

MS-DOJ Talks Falter: So What?

April 2, 2000

Microsoft and the Depart­ment of Jus­tice fail to come to an agree­ment, insur­ing that Microsoft will be seen as a monopoly.

AOL’s dark little secret

March 20, 2000

Deep within AOL’s infra­struc­ture sits a new piece of soft­ware which could bridge the gap between the inter­net and the desktop.

Wireless: A confusing Landscape

March 4, 2000

The lack of clear stan­dard­iza­tion and leader is imped­ing the progress of mobile inter­net technology.

TNL News Update: Leaving Boo

January 31, 2000

I’m leav­ing Boo and launch­ing a new com­pany to help cor­po­ra­tions with their inter­net strategies.

AOL, Time-Warner to Merge

January 10, 2000

AOL acquires Time-Warner. This is huge and high­lights how inter­net com­pa­nies are now lead­ing the economy.