Digital | CYBERIA Mar 7, 2001
by Mark Thompson
I got a whiff of this story last week at Inside.com. It was in a news brief about a journalist who had floated details about a company that would soon offer new top-level domain names. It smelled good because, if the leak proved to be ...
Digital | CYBERIA Feb 21, 2001
by Mark Thompson
As any music fan knows, the future of Napster, the biggest free lunch of MP3s on the Net, is still very much in legal limbo. Last week a San Francisco appeals court confirmed a decision made this summer: Napster is knowingly infringing the copyrights ...
Digital | CYBERIA Jan 24, 2001
by Mark Thompson
This is not what you would call a lede per se, but indulge me for a few paragraphs. This will take some explaining. It started somewhere on my commute, about a week ago. I was scrolling through an AvantGo newsfeed on my PDA, reading the ...
Digital | CYBERIA Jan 17, 2001
by Brad Glosserman
Ahh, vindication is sweet. Especially when you don't have to toot your own horn. So take a bow, Mark Thompson: You got it in one last week when you identified security issues as anxiety numero uno for Internauti this year. Mark's take on e-angst ...
Digital | CYBERIA Jan 10, 2001
by Mark Thompson
2001 may well be the year of the IT revolution, but as far as I'm concerned, we're talking about utilITy. From here on, usefulness is going to be the benchmark for information technologies. The overall state of the economy is partly responsible -- take ...
Digital | CYBERIA Dec 13, 2000
by Mark Thompson
A funny thing happened on the way to work . . About a year ago, I was doing much of my information intake on trains. I don't know about you, but I average close to an hour a day traveling around in Tokyo's speeding ...