Monthly Archives: April 2001

You won’t believe this. I’m staying at the Campus Inn in Ann Arbor, Michigan, next to the University of Michigan, and the hotel has a policy of not allowing its room service to send red wine to customers’ rooms. No, … Continue reading →

XML Magazine: Peering into the Future. “We’re at a formative stage right now in terms of what is peer to peer—what I would rather call ‘Peer Services’,” says Ray Ozzie, founder and CEO of Groove Networks. “If you’ve got ‘Web … Continue reading →

Now that we in the media built up the peer-to-peer phenomenon, we feel obliged to sieze on some trouble in several of the dubious enterprises that spun from the technology to proclaim its demise (Wall Street Journal). Bull, in my … Continue reading →

AP: PG&E files for bankruptcy. The utility’s 13 million customers probably will be among the least affected, since bankruptcy proceedings allow companies to continue operating while trying to dig out of their financial hole. Really? When this hits the courtroom, … Continue reading →

Ed Foster (Infoworld): Why is Sony’s warranty on batteries for its notebooks good for only 30 days?. So Mr. Powers was out of luck. One thing he was sure of, though, was that he wasn’t going to spend anymore money … Continue reading →

Washington is surreal. The cherry blossoms are out in their full glory. So are the deceptions and spin-meistering of the city’s top politicians. Unlike the Clinton administration, where cabinet members and the White House staff had the habit of saying … Continue reading →

Dave Winer: Call it a shakeout? Comments

Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao told the World Economic Forum audience that she’s looking for people to staff her department’s politically appointed positions. But there’s no pretense of bipartisanship here. “I need people,” Chao said. “If you have an “R” … Continue reading →

Reuters: VeriSign keeps dot-com rights in ICANN deal. The Internet’s top naming authority on Monday proposed extending VeriSign Inc.’s control over the popular “.com” destination in exchange for surrendering control earlier over the “.org” suffix. Translation: Verisign gives up nothing … Continue reading →

On Sunday, as part of a package of stories on being a road warrior, I discussed some of the ways to stay connected — on the Net and the phone — while overseas. I mentioned the ISP global roaming service … Continue reading →