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Author Archives: Dan Gillmor
UCITA Will Be Law
The Maryland Legislature has passed the most anti-consumer legislation in many years. It’s called UCITA, the Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act, and it’s going to cause users of software and online services more woe than they can possible imagine. UCITA … Continue reading
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Pac Bell and AOL
The headline on this story refers to Pac Bell’s DSL outage in the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday. But look closely at the part about America Online, which is fighting email spam by blocking legitimate mail. AOL is now … Continue reading
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Attorney General Solicits Microsoft Advice
A publicity stunt? Or a sign of terminal disarray among the government lawyers who recently won the Microsoft antitrust trial? I’m betting on the former as I note the brand-new “Let’s Talk: Microsoft Remedies” section of the California attorney general’s … Continue reading
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Pacific Bell’s DSL Claims
In the big scheme of things, Pacific Bell’s TV commercial (Quicktime 4 needed to view this) for its DSL Internet service isn’t a poster child for deceptive advertising. Nonetheless, it stretches the truth a long way. The TV spot lampoons … Continue reading
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Nortel Networks Aims at IP
Nortel is one of the world’s biggest suppliers of telecommunications gear. In the past several years it’s moved full-speed toward the Internet, pulled by CEO John Roth. I recently visited Roth at his suburban-Toronto office. Read about what he said … Continue reading
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The Crash of ’00?
I don’t think we’re in the early stages of a stock-market crash, at least not one along the lines of what happened in 1929. Rather, it feels more like a long-needed move toward rationality. The market meltdown of the past … Continue reading
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Microsoft’s Right-Wing Lobbyist Apologizes, Sort Of
Century Strategies, the public relations and lobbying firm run by Ralph Reed, the former executive director of the Christian Coalition, now says it won’t urge influential people (AP) to personally lobby George W. Bush on Microsoft’s behalf. Now that’s progress. … Continue reading
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Grokking the Net in the Rust Belt
Three giant auto companies and two Silicon Valley technology companies have linked up in what is possibly the biggest-ever online project — a bazaar for auto components and other supplies. I stopped by the headquarters of the newly formed alliance, … Continue reading
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