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The fallout from Gil Amelio's resignation at Apple continues: He talked with us (and Brand X, which will charge you to read its story) about why and how he quit. And don't forget to follow those links. We'll wait here.
By the time you read this, @Home will have traded on the stock market and we'll all just see how investors greet this cable Internet provider.
What's the future going to be? It could be just like Finland, where the majority of the citizenry is already wired and it's resulting in societal change.
If the private sector won't fix it, government may make them. That's the threat in the legislation proposed by one member of Congress to require hardware and software to properly process dates after the year 2000.
Judges don't like spammers: At least, the Tennessee Supreme Court doesn't, because it has disbarred a notorious attorney-spammer. He may be the first lawyer disciplined for illegal advertising on the Net.
Surf your checkbook: Intuit's Quicken will embed Microsoft Internet Explorer in its next version. In return, Quicken's personal finance website will become a "premier active channel" in the next version of MSIE.
It seemed so innocent: But the ActiveX control called CussOut rifled through e-mail files and fired off obscene messages to every e-mail address it found. That's why McAfee Software is releasing a program to screen out such hostile ActiveX controls or Java applets downloaded from Web sites or received over email.
You've got to say this about WebTV; they're ready to sell, and they're not afraid of a little hard-sell.
We've all been there: Was it a reboot problem? Maybe an .exe file? We don't know, but something related to his personal computer caused a man near Seattle to pull out a gun and shoot the hard drive. Unfortunately, we don't know the PC brand name, or if it still ran.
For the weekend: One of the coolest things about the web is its ability to put you in places you'd never go yourself. Like, for example, the North Pole. Explorer Will Steger will be dropped there tomorrow, and will hike, solo, back to Canada. His only contact? A laptop and a website at National Geographic. (Credit where credit's due: I heard about this on some old media -- National Public Radio.
By Patricia Sullivan, online editor
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We disbarred him and gave him a one-year
sentence just to emphasize that his email
campaign was a particularly egregious offense.
-- Spokesman for the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility
In Mercury Center today:
Amelio: I know I've rescued Apple
Looking for a job? Apple's hiring a CEO
Apple after Amelio; future's unclear
More brainpower for Mars rovers
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