January 8, 2004
NY Times: Microsoft's Latest, Strapped to a Wrist.
For a company whose name begins with the word micro, practically nothing about Microsoft is small. It has huge profits, enormous power and vast ambition. It might come as a surprise, therefore, to discover that the company's latest target for conquest is minuscule indeed: the face of your wristwatch.
Wired News: Child Porn Law Debated in Court.
State attorneys opposing a challenge to the Pennsylvania law that requires ISPs to block access to websites containing child pornography argued to a Philadelphia federal court this week that "a URL is neither a person, nor a real forum, nor a limited commodity."
InfoWorld: VeriSign planning more changes to .com, .net.
While there is general agreement within the technical community that VeriSign has the right to make the serial number changes, there is also suspicion about the move, especially after the feud over VeriSign's controversial Site Finder service in 2003, which redirected requests for nonexistent Web addresses to a Web site maintained by VeriSign.
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