FREE DSL SERVICE OFFER HAS STRINGS
An upstart California company has proposed giving away high-speed Internet service to people willing to watch advertisements as they browse--and who can persuade at least 10 other people to do...
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ON-LINE RADIO HITS NERVE FOR SOME
The Internet can bring radio broadcasts from the other side of the planet directly to your computer, but it can't get them from your PC to your car stereo. Or...
DOLLARS V. OPTIONS
Stock options are at the core of the technology industry's get-rich-quick mythology. They have reshaped compensation, produced overnight millionaires and changed the way companies are run. A technical primer titled...
SURFING THE WEB IN SECRECY GIVES RISE TO CRIMINAL, PRIVACY CONCERNS
Zero-Knowledge Systems Inc. promises to let Web surfers browse the Internet, post messages on bulletin boards and send e-mail without anyone knowing who's really behind aliases like "Shockwave Rider" and...
LUXURY ITEMS ATTRACT UPSCALE WEB SHOPPERS
Wine.com's bestseller: a $12 1997 Bommarito merlot from the Whitehall Lane winery. If the wine's "ripe black cherry and plum aroma" doesn't seduce you, click on over to LuxuryFinder.com to...
COMPANIES GO TO COURT TO FIGHT ON-LINE CRITICS
Companies big and small, from high tech to retail, have made John Doe one of the most sued men in America. In yet another phenomenon of the Internet age, corporate...
MAKING COMPUTERS SEAMLESS PART OF LIFE IS SCIENTISTS’ AIM
In the beginning, there were no computers. Then there were computers. "Then they disappeared." That's how the history of personal computers will be written, according to John Seely Brown, chief...
Y2K SOLUTION FOR LAST-MINUTE SHOPPERS AT HAND
Bill Wattenburg--radio talk show host, former nuclear weapons designer and inveterate inventor--has come up with a Millennium Bug solution for IBM computers that works. And nobody is likely to buy...
PLOWING A FERTILE FIELD: WEB SITES FOR WORKERS
The World Wide Web seems to have a site for every niche interest and hobby, from snowboarding to Chinese opera. Now a new generation of Internet companies wants to make...
E-MAIL VIRUS ALERTS CAN BE ALL ABOUT NOTHING
The warning arrived via Wayne Ribble's mail account Oct. 25, alerting him to a devastating new computer virus capable of erasing a user's hard drive. The alert, which cited several...