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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
The worst thing about laying communications cables under the sea isnt the ships food, nor the choppy waves. Its not the days when you...
Techs Soft Landing In Rough Economy
A year ago people, were nervous about planes falling out of the sky, money disappearing from bank accounts and entire countries going dark from...
Putting It In Perspective
Just when you think the bear market in tech stocks has hit the floor, you find theres a trap door.Surely the first year of...
Instant Messengers Look For Differences
Instant messaging vendors are fighting to differentiate their products to avoid seeing them turn into commodities that all look and feel the same.While rivals...
Kingsnake.com Is Classic Small-to-Small E-commerce
The most popular pet-related Web site during the week of Dec. 14 was not Petco or PetsMart, according to the traffic trackers at 100hot.com....
Private Matters
The world of digital snoops and spooks is a pretty dark space, but Richard M. Smith has illuminated some of its darker corners. It...
Swat Those Bugs Away
Would you want to see a virus crawl into your PC from a message? Of course not, and neither do your users.Unfortunately, many corporate...
Conflict on the Hill
Venture capitalists have gone from smitten to sorry. The stock market has relegated it to the doghouse. The medias two-year panegyric has transformed into...
Developer Kings
When historians look back on the current expansion phase of the Internet, they will identify one of its key drivers as the ascendancy of...
The Industry That Fell Back To Earth
One week into the new millennium we are deluged with reports of the slowing economy and its innumerable ramifications—corporate spending cutbacks, dot-com shutdowns, underwater...