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Stress Test

The fate of a multibillion-dollar government-inspired jackpot for information technology companies sits in limbo as Tommy Thompson, the new secretary of Health and Human...

Soft Landing for Lou

Do you really want to know which companies are raking in the cash these days and who among them is bluffing? Try looking at...

Rick Malone and Rosemary Corcoran

Ask Rick Malone a question and his partner of 15 years, Rosemary Corcoran, will probably answer it. Or vice versa.The two, who own and...

Pamela Samuelson

Pamela Samuelson is a dauntingly bright woman who knows much more about intellectual property law in the real world and in cyberspace than is...

EDS Puts Clients in the Drivers Seat

Electronic Data Systems Corp. built a business—and a reputation—locking customers into long-term deals that were never famous for warm and fuzzy things like customer...

Pick a Finger, Any Finger

Fingerprints: With a long history in law enforcement and government, fingerprints are the most widely researched and understood biometric. With relatively high accuracy, low...

Making Strides

To shamelessly borrow from one of the classics of literature, for information technology it is both the best of times and the worst of...

Going Global? Scope Out Overseas Laws

When I lived in Japan in 1993, I regularly begged my Mom to ship sourdough pretzels from home. I can only imagine what I...

IM: Instant Money?

Teen users and mobile devices are likely keys to early efforts by AOL Time Warner to make money directly from its instant messaging technology.Instant...

Jonathan Potter

When Congress passed a sweeping reform of copyright law in 1998, Jonathan Potters fledgling lobbying group, the Digital Media Association, was 3 days old...