Author Archives: Dan Gillmor

AP: SCO Group’s Web site target of hacker attack. It’s the second time this year the Linden, Utah, company’s Web site has been the target of such an attack, in which hackers use multiple computers to overwhelm the site with … Continue reading →

As you may have noticed, I’ve not posted since Saturday due to an outage, having to do with a misconfigured DNS. We appear to be back up now. Sorry… Comments

Phil Gomes explains why he reads reporters’ blogs, citing this Infoworld TechWatch note, which says: “In the next 48 hours I’m going to be inundated with pitches about disaster recovery and remote mirroring. Please make it stop.” Amen. Comments

I’m at the Progress & Freedom Foundation’s Aspen Summit, where Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell has just given the back of the hand to moves by U.S. Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-North Dakota) and others to overturn the FCC’s recently … Continue reading →

Apologies for the outage during the last day or so. We seem to be back up now. Let me know if you’re having any problems making comments. Comments Posted by: zordor on March 7, 2004 03:23 AM nope.. no problems.

AP: EU Alleges Microsoft Abuses. Backed by new evidence, the European Union on Wednesday accused Microsoft Corp. of trying to monopolize markets for server software and audiovisual players and gave the U.S. giant a last chance to defend itself before … Continue reading →

In my Sunday column I talked about why I’ve moved to VoIP, voice over Internet Protocol, for my domestic and international long-distance phone calls. I chose Packet8 over Vonage for several reasons, only one of which was price. The other … Continue reading →

Few if any postings until late Saturday or Sunday… Comments

Mercury News: Pac Bell Internet sues over subpoenas. Pacific Bell Internet Service said a cascade of subpoenas and 16,700 take-down notices from an electronic “bounty hunter” are turning it from an Internet service provider into the Internet police. The San … Continue reading →

The media operation that helped create the 1990s stock bubble hasn’t learned much from the experience. As the New York Times reports: “Maria Bartiromo, the stock-market reporter and anchorwoman for CNBC, opened her hourlong television interview earlier this month with … Continue reading →