• IE--embraced, extended, extinct?
    Despite all appearances, Microsoft insists it hasn't lost interest in Web browsers. It has been years since Microsoft declared victory over browser pioneer Netscape Communications, and a long time since it last released a full upgrade to Internet Explorer (IE). Now critics say the company is fulfilling old predictions that it would embrace the browser and extend its capabilities, only to extinguish it.
  • Bush Team Prepares Net Assault
    For the millions of television viewers who tune in to the first presidential debate in Miami Thursday night, the event will probably seem scripted, familiar and maybe even cordial. And for good reason. The Republican and Democratic parties worked out detailed ground rules, all but promising that the televised debates will be uneventful. But both campaigns plan to take off their gloves on the internet. In some respects, the real debate, or a better semblance of one, will take place in cyberspace.
  • Sony Plans European Ad Blitz to Stifle iTunes
    Sony Corp. next week will launch a marketing blitz in Europe for its new Connect music download store, its latest effort to derail the runaway momentum of Apple Computer's iTunes service.
  • California Enacts Anti-Spyware Law
    California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law an anti-spyware bill yesterday, which aims to protect consumers from harmful software that is deceptively or surreptitiously installed on their computers.
  • Google Shares Just May Be Winners After All
    Wall Street, which forced Google, the Internet search engine, to lower the price of its shares sharply in its initial public offering in August, has decided that the company is worth a lot more today than it was then.
  • Google News: Beta Not Make Money
    When Google launched its news site three years ago, it led to a certain amount of hand-wringing at Yahoo News, MSNBC and CNN. Unlike its competitors, which were forced to budget millions of dollars a year to license up-to-the-minute content and pay reporters and editors, Google had figured out a way to do it on the cheap.
  • Picturing the next Net exploit
    As infected images plant back doors on PCs, experts see the possibility of viruses, too.
  • Amazon Targets Phishers in Lawsuits
    Amazon.com has filed a series of lawsuits against spammers who targeted its customers with e-mails trying to defraud them, the company said yesterday.
  • Web board craigslist makes a name for itself
    In the Bay Area, craigslist probably comes up in conversations thousands of times every day. And increasingly, it's being talked about in places as far-flung as New York, Boston, Colorado and London. Craigslist is a giant Internet bulletin board where people buy and sell their stuff, trade humor and political wisdom, look for dates, seek home repair advice, share their poetry and often just rant. Some call the site a public forum. Others call it a classified market. Many call it an obsession.
  • Spam Troubleshooters Attract Venture Capital Interest
    Venture capital firms continue to pour money into spam-fighting companies, committing a total of nearly $50 million to four companies during the past two weeks.
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