March 31, 2001
MSNBC: Congress asks Commerce Dept. to probe domain-name contracts.
If ICANN’s board accepts the contracts, which most believe it will do, the deal still past muster with the Commerce Department. Now the House Commerce Committee wants the Commerce Secretary Don Evans to take a closer look at the validity of those contracts.
InfoWorld: Is Network Solutions exploiting the rules or just aggressively marketing?
You'd think, now that Network Solutions has lost its domain registration monopoly, it might be a little less arrogant and a little more customer-sensitive than in the past. But reports to The Gripe Line indicate that would be wishful thinking.
eWEEK: Adobe, Macromedia enter new dimension.
Adobe Systems Inc. released a beta version of its new Atmosphere software, designed to help developers build and deploy virtual worlds. Chief rival Macromedia Inc. isn't likely to be far behind, with a company official saying the debut of its 3-D-enabled Shockwave player is only weeks away.
SJ Mercury: The future of Web design from one who knows it.
Q&A with Jakob Nielsen. The current metaphors are publishing-based or, even worse, television-based. They're not very empowering and they're not oriented toward solving people's problems. They're more oriented toward just throwing things at you.
NY Times: Studies Find Scant Availability of Spectrum for Wireless Internet.
But the studies of military, other governmental and commercial users of the airwaves concluded in effect that the spectrum had become overcrowded real estate with little room for coexistence between the current tenants who refuse to give up space to the competing claims of outsiders.
The Economist: Whodunnit?
Fifteen years later, computer forensics is a growing commercial and legal activity. It even has its own academic literature. Computer forensics refers to the set of tools and techniques that is needed to find, preserve and analyse fragile digital evidence...
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