March 22, 2001
MIT Technology Review: Remembrance of Things Past.
Simson Garfinkel. And yet more than three decades into the "Information Age," data is something that we still don't quite understand how to steward. Data is not physical, not something that you can lock away today and hope you'll be able to access in 10 or 20 years.
Business Week: Someone Has to Pay the Freight.
The romantic notion of the early Web as open-to-all cybermarket for ideas and goods has been eclipsed. In large part, that's because the ads that were supposed to foot the bill for the democratic digital bazaar simply aren't delivering.
InfoWorld: VeriSign issues false Microsoft digital certificates.
Microsoft on Thursday began to warn users that VeriSign erroneously issued two digital certificates to someone masquerading as a Microsoft representative in January, potentially giving the fraudulent party the means to trick users into running malicious programs...
Christian Science Monitor: 'Trust, but encrypt' is new theme for Internet.
Yet for all the good sessions offered, one of the best was Phil Zimmermann's. In the online privacy community, Mr. Zimmermann is a legitimate hero, an individual who literally took on the US government and some of its most shadowy intelligence operations ... and won.
Fast Company: "But Wait, You Promised ...".
One of the promises of the new economy was that the customer would finally be in charge. We weren't supposed to need to call customer care -- but if we did, then someone would take our call quickly. Everyone believes in delighting the customer.
AtNewYork: Europe's RealMapping Brings IP Tracking to US.
Want to know whether to serve up a Flash-enabled site or other high-speed geegaws? RealMapping says its line speed detector helps a site decide how quickly the viewer can view its products based on whether the connection is ISDN, DSL, T1 or T3 for example.
USA Today: 'Audrey' first casualty of Internet appliance collapse.
But something's happened on the way to the Next Big Thing in technology: Not many people have bought the idea — or the gadgets. On Wednesday, 3Com announced it is discontinuing its Internet appliances, including the Audrey and the planned Kerbango Internet radio.
NY Times: Faster Data Connection Waits Impatiently in Line.
Like other forms of DSL technology, VDSL sends signals along standard twisted-pair copper telephone lines. It has been installed from Phoenix to Toronto by Next Level Communications. Fewer than 100,000 houses in the United States have VDSL connections through Next Level.
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