Category: General

Yahoo sends MapQuest packing: Yahoo said Wednesday that it has stopped using AOL Time Warner online street-finder unit MapQuest and has instead created its own ...

Joel on Software – December 15, 2001: Lazy programmers who didn’t read about how users don’t read anything. Compare with WebSiteNOW!.

Group sues Pacific Bell over Net service – CNET.com “‘In fact, most consumers had not authorized or consented for Prodigy to bill them for suc...

I have the Last Mile Problem, or, rather, the last 1500 feet problem.

It remains possible that the status quo ante bellum will continue after the migrations. But perhaps Chicken Little was right.

Later, c|net got around to analyzing the announcement. I wonder what perspective Yahoo and SBC staff have on this. I found a blogger from SBC, and one, two from...

Yeee-haaww!, or as they say “Yahoo!”

Welcome to SBC.

OK. So OEMs can bundle AOL now. Fat lot of good that will do. Looks like Illegal Monopolist Microsoft got away with both prizes.

It’s interesting the things you find out just by reading the news.

Get your TiVo while it’s hot. Those crazy TV networks are getting confused about fair use again.

In 1996, I taught a class for Associated Press on using Windows 95. Some class members thought that Microsoft was the Internet. There was no distinction between...

Guess the cost of those Windows licenses started getting to them. 🙂

Oops. What happens when a centralized system goes “poof”?

Despite everything, some folks just don’t understand hyperlinks. You would think that the e-mail announcing this article would have contained the URL. But...

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