February 1, 2001
Forbes: A Net Uncertain.
This week, the world's leading figures in technology, business and politics are meeting at the Davos conference in Davos, Switzerland to discuss the future of the Internet. One question: How the hell would they know?
Discover: A Love Song For Napster.
Jaron Lanier. Whatever happens, the legal decisions surrounding Napster are important for reasons that transcend the music business and extend to our basic concepts of what it means to be free in a democracy. I believe the anti-Napster forces have failed to foresee dangerous implications of their course of action.
News.Com: Cyberlawyer: Don't blame the hackers.
Q&A with Jennifer Granick. We're going to do free speech vs. copyright type issues, open-access broadband issues. We may do some trade secrets litigation, where computer security people are sued or criminally prosecuted because they threatened to reveal information about a company's security vulnerabilities.
Inside: The Next Wave In Video Games: Getting Beyond 'Reptilian' Emotions.
But can video games be an art form? An educational tool? A driving force for technology? That's what several dozen game designers, academics and representatives from the interactive entertainment industry came to figure out Monday and Tuesday at the ''Entertainment in the Interactive Age'' conference...
CIO: Interview with John Barrows.
I've lost interest in developing tools like Prudence because they are being used in ways I don't like. There are companies that are installing software like this to spy on their own employees. There are parents who are using it to spy on their children...
Wired News: Will CNN Site Spoof Crash?
That's because the story about Warren Buffet was just a joke, as was CNNdn, "the financial crash network" -- a website take-off on CNNfn that Exley created earlier this year to project what a dot-com meltdown would look like. But, predictably, the honchos at CNN and its parent company, AOL Time Warner, were not amused.
Business 2.0: BountyQuest Awards $40,000.
In its efforts to reform the patent process by capitalizing on the Internet's reach, BountyQuest claimed its first successes Tuesday when it announced that four people had collected $10,000 bounties. Tuesday's winners submitted "prior art" to support challenges to patents.
Computerworld: Personalization trade group proposes privacy guidelines.
A consortium of vendors focused on technology for personalizing Web sites today issued a set of self-regulatory data privacy guidelines as part of a continuing effort by companies and trade groups in the IT industry to stave off regulatory intervention by the federal government and individual states.
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