Pesky Home Networks Trouble Cable Behemoths: Are wireless router users stealing broadband Internet access? Useful background and projections; via Dave Farber

Executive Fearful of Microsoft in Interactive TV Software See following entry for some of the reasons why he should be fearful

The Register: MS accuses Liberate CEO of offering anti breakup deal

Software for the People - Knowledge Management Research Center "One reason the Internet, e-mail and instant messaging are so popular is because you and I can just sit down and start using them. If you want to put up a webpage, your 12-year-old next-door neighbor can tell you how. If you have a big monolithic system such as Lotus Notes, lots of people use it very effectively, but the end user can't do anything until the systems administrator has done a lot of work setting up contact lists and databases, helping people learn it, and trouble-shooting. You want the user's experience to be something like face-to-face communication."

Yahoo's 'Opt-Out' Angers Users "It's a tragedy when the actions of an individual company force people to conclude that all e-marketers are a bunch of pushy, disrespectful scumbags," said Jason Catlett, of Junkbusters, a direct marketing information site. "People may simply decide that the problems inherent in shopping online aren't worth the benefits."

Enterprise IM lags behind expectations "In a survey of 164 companies conducted March 12 to 18 by Osterman Research Inc. in Black Diamond, Wash., almost 30% of respondents said they officially use IM, and another 42% said they will likely use it in the future. That figure is significantly lower than what Framingham, Mass.-based IDC projected about 18 months ago. In the fall of 2000, the market research firm estimated that 70% of corporations would have installed IM software by now. In a survey of 72 corporations with more than 1,000 employees that IDC conducted at that time, only 6.9% of companies said they had installed such software."

Boston Globe Online / Living | Arts / In the world of Web logs, talk is cheap Uh oh -- more data suggesting Weblogs have jumped the shark

TheServerSide.com - Making a Real World PetStore Handy history

CRM companies miss financial targets - Tech News - CNET.com Guess they weren't managing their customer-related information very well...

Stealth P2P network hides inside Kazaa - Tech News - CNET.com "A California company has quietly attached its software to millions of downloads of the popular Kazaa file-trading program and plans to remotely "turn on" people's PCs, welding them into a new network of its own."

'The Osbournes': No Rest for Family Values on Black Sabbath "An odd amalgam of "Ozzie and Harriet," "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "This Is Spinal Tap," the show is the biggest hit in MTV's 24-year history, and its popularity is spreading. Last week the show, on Tuesday nights, drew six million viewers. HBO's "Sex and the City" gets about 6.4 million an episode; "Six Feet Under," also on HBO, gets about 5.4 million." (Kill your TV before it's too late!)

AOL Time Warner Merger Adds Up To Less Than the Sum of Its Parts (washingtonpost.com) "So by rather perverse logic, you have to give AOL founder Steve Case credit. When Case found himself with a stock that was way overvalued, he did the smart thing: he spent it before reality caught up." (via Dave Farber)

Microsoft's Next SQL - CRN.com "Constantine Photopoulos, president of Eden Communications, a Lotus partner in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., said he was likewise thrilled about Lotus' DB2 direction. "We'll hopefully be able to remove the sentence 'That's a Notes issue' from our repertoire when people ask us why the application can't do this or that," he said." ... "Even Microsoft insiders privately say Exchange Server has been hamstrung by its current data store. The current WSS "is still built on the old Access JET engine, which was designed for small applications,not running huge multiuser mail systems or directory services with replication. That's why [both] Active Directory and Exchange have so much trouble scaling," one Microsoft source said."

Unstrung.com: Nokia to Gain Control of Symbian? Maybe they just want to be like Sun, and own their very own "standard"

Forbes.com: Gemstar-TV Guide's Star Is Fading "The Gemstar programming guide is now used by most of the country's top-ten cable operators, according to J.P. Morgan analyst Jack Ripsteen. "They are the gorillas in that space," he says. But the company has yet to establish the validity of its technology patents--and that's essentially what its future hinges upon."

The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Microsoft can't topple Adobe Acrobat

On a Futurists' Forum, Money Backs Up Predictions More on longbets.org

Top HCI Research Laboratories (Alertbox March 2002) "A core group of elite corporate research labs (and a few universities) defined the field of human-computer interaction and established much of whatever ease of use we now enjoy. With big labs disappearing, the future of HCI research is in jeopardy."

WSJ.com: 'Multiple Intelligence' Theory Lets TV
Appeal to Both Parents, Preschoolers "Dr. Gardner says he has never watched Dora and doesn't have an opinion about the show. But even he says "one has to retain a healthy skepticism when people say things like bodily-kinesthetic intelligence or spatial intelligence or interpersonal intelligence can really be strongly realized by television as we know it." The professor, who removed the TV set from his own house during his youngest child's first 10 years, adds: "A week in the real world is worth 10 years watching television."

WSJ.com: Microsoft-Led Campaign Against Unix
Uses Web Site Running on the Software "A Web site funded by Microsoft Corp. urging businesses to avoid the Unix operating system is itself running on Unix, the latest example of Microsoft benefiting from the competitive software even while criticizing it."