Monthly Archives: February 2000

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America Online takes strong issue with my Tuesday column, in which I called the company hypocritical for changing its tune on open access in the cable-data market. I’d cited two highly reputable publications — reports in the Washington Post and … Continue reading →

The Academy Award nominations were announced this morning. “American Beauty” is looking deservedly strong. I suggested an Oscar for hypocrisy in my column today, and gave three examples in the tech industry. Leading the list, of course, was America Online’s … Continue reading →

It’s years late, and few consumers will want or need it. But Windows 2000 is a reasonably significant milestone (Mercury News story) for Microsoft and the computer industry. First, Windows 2000 is a worthwhile upgrade for people who are running … Continue reading →

That’s the message these days as startups crow about which venture capitalist they’ve taken money from. It’s New Marketing in the New Economy, I guess. I explain more in my Sunday column. That column is part of the San Jose … Continue reading →

When Tony Blair ran for prime minister, he pretended to be coming from the left in many areas, including human rights. As soon as he got into power he and his ministers started proposing ever-more Draconian laws to curb the … Continue reading →

Good news: Connectix has won a significant victory against Sony in a case involving Connectix’ reverse engineering of the PlayStation, allowing Macintosh users to run PlayStation games on Macs. Connectix press release Mind-Bogglingly Stupid PR Tricks I just got a … Continue reading →

Here’s a good reason not to fly with Northwest Airlines. Attacks on the Web Let’s get one thing straight first. The attacks on popular Web sites (Mercury News story) are not about security, per se. No one is trying to … Continue reading →

Yesterday at the annual Demo show we saw lots and lots of server-side Internet applications, as I note in my Tuesday column. Today is Internet Appliance day. Lots of cool stuff on tap, some of which I talked about in … Continue reading →

Plenty of cool stuff will be demonstrated at the Demo 2000 conference today and tomorrow. Above is Lernout & Hauspie’s prototype of a voice-enabled personal organizer. More about this and other appliance-type gadgets in today’s column. Above left, Jean-Louis Gassee … Continue reading →