1998 Readings

• More Java Lyricism... ()
• Bishop: Clinton, U.S. leaders 'war criminals' (San Jose Mercury)
• Apple preps iMac, OS updates (news.com)
• Microsoft trying to match Sun's Jini (news.com)
• Analysts question "cyberterrorism" hype (news.com)
• What does Sun get out of Java? (news.com)
• Sun Unveils Cross-Platform Testing Software (Techweb)
• Clash over digital wiretap bill escalates ()
• Microsoft loses ruling on e-cards (San Jose Mercury)
• Schools find hidden costs of high tech (San Jose Mercury)
• What's in store for magnetic storage (San Jose Mercury)
• Microsoft asks for Java extension (news.com)
• Sun breaks promise and sends spam (Wired)
• Sun, Java group mending fences (news.com)
• Sun waits for New Year to 'open' Java licensing model (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• Microsoft appeals Java Injunction (Wired)
• ICANN names 13 to advisory committee (news.com)
• Freedom Of Expression On The Internet (HRW World Report 1999)
• Net heavyweights push caching proposal (news.com)
• Netscape to cut Mozilla's cord? (ZDNet)
• Too Old for High Tech (Upside)
• Squeak (Wired)
• Top Java hawker leaves for start-up (news.com)
• Oracle, Sun plan `database appliance' (12/14/1998) (San Jose Mercury)
• New Microsoft VM Has Bug, Sun Says (Techweb)
• Sitting in Sun section, lawmaker shadows trial (12/13/1998) (San Jose Mercury)
• The saint of free software ( Salon 21st )
• What does Sun have to fear from Linux? ( SunWorld - December 1998)
• WebTV turnaround on Real Audio (news.com)
• Burns to reintroduce crypto legislation (news.com)
• 1999 and Beyond: An Open Source Odyssey (IW December 7, 1998)
• Judge paints Sun as sore loser (news.com)
• Getting help with Linux ()
• Sun extends olive branch to Microsoft on Java (PC Week)
• Sun rebuffed Microsoft's Java offers (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• The Java Community Process (Sun)
• IBM calls on Sun to hand Java to standards body (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• Sun may relax Java grip (news.com)
• Microsoft claim of bundling efficiency is contradicted (San Jose Mercury)
• Microsoft's ClearType Technology (Steve Gibson)
• Oil's Rockefeller could be Gates' only competition (San Jose Mercury)
• Critics confounded by success of Sun strategy (San Jose Mercury)
• Documents show Gosling's distrust of Microsoft (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• Eoalas Patent ( I, Cringely: The Pulpit)
• Microsoft may put Gates on stand (news.com)
• Sun to herald new version of Java (news.com)
• Microsoft jabs Sun on Java, browsers (news.com)
• The Spreading Grass-Roots Threat to Microsoft (Washington Post)
• The Open-Source Revolution (Tim O'Reilly, Releaes 1.0)
• IBM Centre for Java Technology Development - Year 2000 and Java ()
• Europe is Listening (Wired)
• Of Two Minds About Java (Intelligent Enterprise )
• sunsite.unc.edu becomes MetaLab.unc.edu (Slashdot)
• Netscapesucks.com asked to cease and desist (news.com)
• Platform ploys in the public eye (news.com)
• China shuts down pro-democracy party (San Jose Mercury)
• SunSpot - Plugged In ()
• U.S. vs. Microsoft -- Day 22 (San Jose Mercury)
• Dead Web sites really need a proper funeral (seattletimes.com)
• Sun emerges from deal smelling like a rose (PC Week)
• Case touts benefits of stayingto join 3-way deal with Sun (San Jose Mercury)
• Open-Source Java at Last? (Wired)
• Deal paves way for 'AOL devices' ()
• AOL's Case Supports Open Source (New York Times)
• Inner Net Workings (San Jose Mercury)
• Do We Worry Too Much About Protecting IP? (Scott McNealy)
• fear and loathing on the merger trail (mozilla.org)
• Macintosh Java Virtual Machines (MacInTouch)
• Microsoft case in court of public opinion (San Jose Mercury)
• Institute creating Universal computer language (news.com)
• Microsoft Challenges Sun's Jini Technology (Techweb)
• AOL buys Netscape for $4.2 billion (news.com)
• Amazon alleges Wal-Mart intimidation (news.com)
• AOL-Netscape deal close (San Jose Mercury)
• Microsoft drops Java from IE for Mac, Unix (news.com)
• Sun plans Java licensing revisions following win over Microsoft (PC Week)
• No problem, Microsoft says to ruling (news.com)
• Japanese say Microsoft violated law (San Jose Mercury)
• Consumer Advocates Slam Microsoft Posture on Privacy ()
• Microsoft mulls annual Windows fee (news.com)
• Cooler Heads Prevail (Wired)
• Move seen as payback for CEO's Senate testimony (San Jose Mercury)
• Sun hopes Microsoft falls into line (San Jose Mercury)
• Developers cheer Java ruling (news.com)
• Sun wins injunction against Microsoft (news.com)
• Judge rules in favor of Sun (San Jose Mercury)
• IBM should be smarter with SmartSuite (San Jose Mercury)
• Ethnic bullets in Israel (Wired)
• BEATING THE TEMPEST (Scientific American: Science and the Citizen)
• Can Microsoft raise lawsuits against Linux projects? (Linux Today)
• How to cook a 3,255-pound holiday bird (San Jose Mercury)
• Microsoft shelves Chromeffects (news.com)
• Java decision could sway DOJ case (news.com)
• Hidden Costs Of Code Reuse (Information Week)
• Preparing for the intellectual-property offensive (Bruce Perens)
• Java and XML in Oracle 8i (Oracle Corporation)
• Sun to open Java processes to non-licensees (InfoWorld)
• An Intel Executive Testifies of a 'Credible and Fairly Terrifying' Threat by Microsoft (New York Times)
• Scientology loses copyright round (news.com)
• Sun free to terminate Microsoft's Java contract (PC Week)
• U.S. vs. Microsoft (San Jose Mercury)
• Microsoft memo touts Linux (news.com)
• McNealy bashes Microsoft smart card OS, touts Java (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• Linux Today: Who are all these people behind the Halloween document? ()
• Blizzard Of Documents Released In Java Suit (New York Times)
• E-mails show animosity over Java (11/05/1998) (San Jose Mercury)
• Sun mirrors real-time Java debut (news.com)
• WebTV users want features (news.com)
• Off-the-shelf supercomputing (news.com)
• Vendors: Sun not fair in standards process for embedded Java (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• Power Line Makes Use of a Miracle of Physics (New York Times)
• Microsoft wary of open source, embedded systems (11/02/1998) (San Jose Mercury)
• Ever Elusive Privacy Slips From Grasp of Patients (New York Times)
• JavaSeek (Wired)
• Apple says Microsoft used influence to bully (11/01/1998) (San Jose Mercury)
• Tell Canadians we won't take this sitting down (10/30/1998) (San Jose Mercury)
• WebTV drops plans for Java support (news.com)
• McFarlane on Sun, Solaris and the Java Industry ()
• ECHELON: America's Spy in the Sky (Patrick S. Poole)
• New supercomputer takes over speed title (San Jose Mercury)
• "What's Related?" Everything But Your Privacy (Interhack)
• Global Thermometer Imperiled by Dispute (New York Times)
• Microsoft Trial | Virtual Court (San Jose Mercury)
• Symantec adds muscle to Java (news.com)
• Unix gaining in NT rivalry (San Jose Mercury)
• Sun to release JDK 1.2 beta next month (PC Week)
• Tech execs doing image no good (San Jose Mercury)
• U.S. releases e-mails to back Microsoft case (10/23/1998) (San Jose Mercury)
• Swedish law threatens freedom of speech on the net ()
• Sun maps app server strategy (news.com)
• Serb Hackers Declare Computer War (Washington Post)
• Damn the Java license and full speed ahead (ZDNet)
• Attack on Java detailed (San Jose Mercury)
• Sun buys Canadian firm Beduin (news.com)
• Fears of Sorcerers Spur Killings in Java (New York Times)
• Microsoft Develops Java Killer (Techweb)
• I Remember IANA by Vint Cerf (Wired)
• Master of Your Domain: Jon Postel (The Industry Standard)
• Clinton scandal's sweeping effects on heartland (San Jose Mercury)
• Microsoft issues Cuartango patch (news.com)
• Communicator 4.5 Due Next Week (Techweb)
• Industry reps boo Microsoft policies (HeraldLink)
• Sun posts robust results, defying global slowdown (San Jose Mercury)
• Sun vows to bring order to Java (PC Week)
• Sun To Fix Flaws In JavaBeans (Techweb)
• JavaSoft readies JDK 1.2 for November delivery (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• Placebos Prove So Powerful Even Experts Are Surprised (New York Times)
• Netscape takes new JVM tack (PC Week)
• Congress' sneak attack on liberty (San Jose Mercury)
• Jini not just a Sun creation? (SunWorld - October 1998)
• IBM eyes Java marketplace with AS/400 (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• FBI kept reports on a different Marxism -- the Groucho kind (San Jose Mercury)
• With tensions high, will the Java alliance fall apart? (ZDNet)
• Experts: More trillion-dollar software troubles loom (San Jose Mercury)
• How a Giant Software Maker Played the Game of Hardball (New York Times)
• Witness list boosted against Microsoft (San Jose Mercury)
• Disney wants exemption from online porn rules (San Jose Mercury)
• What's on Your Hard Drive? (New York Times)
• Codename: Echelon (QA Information Security AB)
• HP Supports Sun's New Java Virtual Machine (Techweb)
• Sun scrapping Java chip plans, analyst says (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• Microsoft to ship Visual J++ 6.0 (news.com)
• Gates pushes hometown to Linux (IDG New Zealand)
• Caldera poised to launch ultra-thin Java client (THE REGISTER)
• McNealy had a good year: He earned $37.4 million (San Jose Mercury)
• REBOL: New Language for the Net? ()
• Sun insiders questioned Java license but were overruled (PC Week)
• Canadian Crypto (Wired)
• Latest FBI Attacks on Privacy (Wired)
• Spillover from Java suit (9/30/1998) (San Jose Mercury)
• Sun held MS view of Java deal (news.com)
• Echelon (Wired)
• More Java components from IBM (news.com)
• Anti-spam laws signed (San Jose Mercury)
• Vendor politics may delay next EJB release (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• Windows is a grief-causing kludge (ZDNet)
• HP out to eclipse Sun on Net service providers (San Jose Mercury)
• Potentially Big Security Flaw Found in Netscape Software (New York Times)
• Censure and Move On ()
• Microsoft vs. Linux (I, Cringely: The Pulpit)
• Business apps for Linux (news.com)
• Who's Calling The Java Shots? (ZDNet)
• Microsoft hears Linux's footsteps (news.com)
• Sun vs. Microsoft Documentation To Go Public (ZDNet)
• Pet answers to economic instability (Dave Barry)
• Sun ships latest mail server (news.com)
• The Analog Bill Gates (FEED: techno)
• Chip inserted into man's arm (news.com)
• 'Whois' Database Tapped For CD (ZDNet)
• Sure, Java's Cool, But Is It Making Money? (The Industry Standard)
• Sun bristles at my `open-source' idea (San Jose Mercury)
• Java partners seek options (PC Week)
• Y2K and pensions, mutual funds (news.com)
• A pure Java browser? (Chicago Tribune Silicon Prairie)
• Aglets (Wired)
• Outcome of Sun's suit is: a) very important b) irrelevant (9/16/1998) (San Jose Mercury)
• The Doomsday List (Slashdot)
• Y2K status info from EDS (news.com)
• Microsoft rebuffed (San Jose Mercury)
• Sun could learn a lesson on Java from Netscape (San Jose Mercury)
• U.S. drops key-recovery requirement on encryption export (InfoWorld)
• John Gilmore on Cryptography (Scripting News)
• Bug of the century (news.com)
• Newest Communicator takes aim at Windows (news.com)
• JUSTICE VS. MICROSOFT: THE CASE OF THE MISSING PC MAKERS ()
• seattletimes.com: New Microsoft allegation: Company deleted e-mail ()
• Deep Blue Team Tests Backgammon Machine (Techweb)
• Microsoft Says NT Code Not For Modification (Techweb)
• Hacker Accused of Using U S West (Washington Post)
• Encryption limits to be relaxed (San Jose Mercury)
• Baratz feels heat from Microsoft lawyers in Java case (InfoWorld)
• Internet Applications Outside the Browser /IW September 14, 1998 ()
• Sun: Give Java a chance (news.com)
• Few surprises in Java lawsuit transcript (PC Week)
• Don't force me to opt out; allow me to opt in (9/14/1998) (San Jose Mercury)
• API initiative edges Java into interactive design ()
• IBM to announce breakthrough in monitors (San Jose Mercury)
• Clinton still has support of women (San Jose Mercury)
• Network computing shows promise (San Jose Mercury)
• Judge: Java case about contracts (news.com)
• Microsoft's attitude is nothing new (9/10/1998) (San Jose Mercury)
• Sun to Make Software Windows-Friendly (Washington Post)
• Encryption dealt a blow (San Jose Mercury)
• Object Management Group outlines CORBA 3.0 (PC Week)
• Oracle details plans to supersede Windows (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature (Performance Computing)
• Sun Official Warned of Microsoft Java Deal (ZDNet)
• Java suit hearing under way (news.com)
• Microsoft exec: Sun gave us the right to extend Java (PC Week)
• Sun refines Java for the enterprise (PC Week)
• Will iMac Help Equalize Game Prices Across Platforms? (Techweb)
• One Planet, Two Worlds (Techweb)
• Gates: IBM, Sun are biggest threat (news.com)
• Fire, Work With Me (The Brunching Shuttlecocks)
• Quantum Computing with Molecules (Scientific American)
• Fanning flames of e-mail obsession (San Jose Mercury)
• Follow the e-mail trail in the Sun-Microsoft case (ZDNet)
• Year 2000 Compliance: Lawyers, Liars, and Perl. (perl.com)
• Doggy Doo Doo DNA (Wired)
• Tamper Resistance - a Cautionary Note ()
• ATM Security - Why Cryptosystems fail ()
• SAP kicks off TechEd conference with Visual Studio, Java initiatives (PC Week)
• Sun, Microsoft offer judge differing lessons on Java (InfoWorld)
• Unsealed e-mails reveal Gates nixed Novell-Microsoft Java collaboration (ZDNet)
• Sun sheds light on chip path (news.com)
• Allegations being added to Microsoft suit (San Jose Mercury)
• Java cited as weak brew for tech applications (EE Times)
• Students to get a taste of Java (news.com)
• Java's math in question (news.com)
• Fee voids Sun's Java suit, MS says (news.com)
• Java use limited in critical apps (CNN)
• Using the Net to search for aliens (news.com)
• Test Infected (Kent Beck and Erich Gamma)
• Microsoft may have deterred Intel from new Net technology (San Jose Mercury)
• Programmer on hot seat for posting encryption software (San Jose Mercury)
• Red Herring Online - Microsoft planned to sabotage competitors (The Red Herring)
• IBM Closes Crypto 'Back Door' (Wired)
• Sun, ObjectSpace make Jini plans (InfoWorld)
• JavaApp.Strange Brew (SARC)
• Test Center (InfoWorld)
• Symantec Finds Java Virus (PC World Today)
• Symantec spots first Java virus (CNN)
• Bad Software
• Q &A: Norm Matloff (San Jose Mercury)
• Growers keep Silicon Valley's rural roots alive (San Jose Mercury)
• Virtual desktop: Clinton, Divx, etc. (San Jose Mercury)
• Sun, Lucent team up on unified messaging (San Jose Mercury)
• Jamaica to miss Y2K deadline (news.com)
• User profiles in privacy stir (news.com)
• Sun's JDK 1.2 delayed, again (news.com)
• Geared up for work: Who says commuting is bad for you? (San Jose Mercury)
• Big Web Sites to Track Steps of Their Users (New York Times)
• Truth decay is the result of winning at all costs (San Jose Mercury)
• Microsoft: Sun knew our Java plans all along (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• The Y2038 Problem (Wired)
• Sun publishes Java Message spec (news.com)
• At Inprise keynote, Sun's Baratz makes release-date announcements (JavaWorld)
• Java developers get boost from new OMG specifications (InfoWorld)
• Inprise, Sun in Java tools deal (news.com)
• Y2K study paints grim picture (news.com)
• Free Solaris Joins Burgeoning Freeware Movement (Newsbytes)
• Bereavement for DOS will leave ample time for wake (seattletimes.com)
• Microsoft sheds its Java skin -- again (JavaWorld)
• Renegade Marketing (UnixZone)
• Microsoft Admits NT Trails Solaris (Techweb)
• Plenty of time left to panic on Y2K bug (San Jose Mercury)
• Cleaning Out THE Garage: The role of valley landmark remains ignoble (San Jose Mercury)
• Spammers jump gun on legislation (news.com)
• "Special master" to aid Java suit (news.com)
• Wanted: Retired Workers to Fix Year 2000 Problems (New York Times)
• How the Web is killing DCE (news.com)
• Yes Virginia, there is an alternative to Microsoft's ASP (active server pages). It's from Sun. It's called JSP (Java server pages). Find out how this emerging specification can turn your drab Web page into an interactive ()
• The start of Y2K lawsuit rush? (news.com)
• High tech hasn't made strong case for visa hike (San Jose Mercury)
• Visa veto threatened (San Jose Mercury)
• Better luck next time on this legislation (San Jose Mercury)
• SEC tightens Y2K disclosure rules (news.com)
• PC WEEK: Where have all the good keyboards gone? (PC Week)
• FAA ripped for Year 2000 reports (news.com)
• Email bug found in Eudora (news.com)
• Back Orifice (Wired)
• Microsoft updates DirectX tools (news.com)
• Sun software goes to India (news.com)
• Antislamming act draws fire (news.com)
• Business News from Wired News (Wired)
• The State of the Mac (MacInTouch: Henry Norr)
• Sun cofounder joins Novell board (news.com)
• Sun tops Unix server sales (news.com)
• The long, strong arm of the NSA (CNN)
• Security flaw leaves e-mail systems open to attack (San Jose Mercury)
• Y2K may stall transit (news.com)
• First bug bites Java 1.2 -- Mozilla stung (JavaWorld)
• I Don't Care if Space Aliens Ate my Mouse
• Survey: Britain not ready for Y2K (news.com)
• Sweden preps power plants for Y2K (news.com)
• Ulysses for Dummies (Hunger) Read it before the lawyers get it
• New Sun Server Bug Surfaces (San Diego Source)
• Tuition-free MIT (Philip Greenspun)
• Free Software and Free Manuals (Richard Stallman)
• Farmers Get Plowed Under By Y2K Problem (Techweb)
• Sun, BEA Systems ship tools (news.com)
• Fighting hackers with freeware (news.com)
• Year 2000 lawsuit bill revived (news.com)
• Software glitches in NT leave Navy Smart Ship dead in the water (Government Computer News)
• Linux gaining respect (news.com)
• IBM, Sun search for JavaOS niche (Lan Times)
• Small Java Gets Smaller (Wired)
• Lawsuit will test state's new e-mail spam law (Seattle Times)
• F.B.I. Seeks Access to Mobile Phone Locations (New York Times)
• Group cracks crypto standard (news.com)
• Security hole found in Navigator (news.com)
• Visa bill for tech workers draws veto threat (San Jose Mercury)
• Design for thread safety (JavaWorld)
• Sun shines despite Asia (news.com)
• Linux Aims For The Mainstream (Techweb)
• FBI Wants To Track Cellphone Users (Techweb)
• "Runnability" testing of Java programs (JavaWorld)
• Are you ready for the Java backlash? (JavaWorld)
• Bennett Paints Jan. 1, 2000, Scenario (Techweb)
• History Deletes Itself: Today, much of the world's information is stored electronically in ways (Miami Herald)
• High tea, high tech; local, galactic causality; whatever -- it's Fry's (San Jose Mercury)
• Man collects $200 under anti-spam law (San Jose Mercury)
• SunSoft after the shake-up (SunWorld)
• Sun to let Jini spec out of the bottle (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• Scriptics Formed to Lead Scripting Revolution (PR Newswire)
• New Product From Sun Microsystems Allows Supercomputing at Home (New York Times)
• SETI@home
• XML-RPC for Newbies (Dave Winer, scripting.com)
• Sun the software company? (InfoWorld)
• India pieced together its supercomputers (San Jose Mercury)
• W3C proposes HTTP overhaul (news.com)
• Java tool hits beta No. 2 (news.com)
• Sun revs Java standard process (ZDNet)
• These are stories I'd love to read, so I made them up (San Jose Mercury)
• Top 10 overrated Web building products and technologies (Fredric Paul)
• Sun sees new glitches in MS Java (news.com)
• IBM lends Sun Java help (news.com)
• Scripting Wars (Wired)
• SGI to shutter Cosmo Software (news.com)
• Tell 'em we're 'mad as hell' (USA Today)
• Sun to merge Java tools in two-stage integration (JavaWorld)
• Java to be -- or not to be -- on the BeOS (JavaWorld)
• Apple Doomsday Clock (mgabrys)
• Valley gets a dose of its reality (San Jose Mercury)
• Autodesk Jumps On Java Bandwagon (Computer Reseller News)
• Women In the Engineering Industry (SunWorld)
• Netscape drops development of Java virtual machines (InfoWorld)
• Andreessen: Netscape's Javagator is dead (Computer Reseller News)
• Sun does away with 200 jobs (news.com)
• Source code bug bites Sun (news.com)
• Sun turns PCs into NCs (news.com)
• Netscape's Andreessen disses client side Java (InfoWorld)
• Vendor group wars malicious code (news.com)
• Judge moves IE case forward (news.com)
• College tech deal folds (news.com)
• Workers offered a bone: Rover can come along, too (San Jose Mercury)
• Microsoft wraps Visual C++ bundle (news.com)
• E-commerce crypto code cracked (news.com)
• Microsoft photo site overwhelmed (news.com)
• Contractors in IRS computer fiasco back again (San Jose Mercury)
• MacHack posts top-10 list (MacWeek)
• The Voice on the Phone Is Not Human, but It's Helpful (New York Times)
• Maverick publisher delivers the first and last word on the Internet (San Jose Mercury)
• Postal Service Eyes .us Domain (Wired)
• Netscape to update Communicator (news.com)
• GNU offers a new kind of Java IDE (JavaWorld)
• IBM Woos Enterprise Java Developers (Techweb)
• Java fund looks to long term (news.com)
• Required to buy Microsoft Windows (David Chun)
• Chemistry key to future PCs? (news.com)
• Adobe hails PDF in MacOS X (MacWeek)
• Java's First Set Top Box (Wired)
• New Software Finds Crack in Microsoft Armor/Program bypasses Windows, offers gateway to Internet (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Tickled pink by Ousterhout (developer.com)
• RSA opens its software safe (news.com)
• International Text and Layout in the MacOS (MacInTouch)
• ICQ Insecure (Wired)
• Hackers steal Indian Nuke Data (Wired)
• Internet abuse latest example of privacy for sale (San Jose Mercury)
• Baratz says Java licensing restrictions to change (InfoWorld)
• Marimba's New Strategy Gets A Push (Internet Week)
• Sabre to resell Sun JavaStations (news.com)
• Sprint speeds up (Wired)
• Unicode in Mac OS' font future (MacWeek)
• New era for MacOS imaging (MacWeek)
• Mac OS 8.5 usability enhancements (Henry Norr, MacInTouch)
• THE BYTE FIASCO (Jerry Pournelle)
• Spam is Pink (Wired)
• Traffic jam grows in telecom skies (San Jose Mercury)
• Byte to cease publication (news.com)
• Possibly first planet outside solar system seen (San Jose Mercury)
• The language barrier (The Red Herring)
• Reality bytes (The Red Herring)
• Sun walls off Java: new division to own standards process (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• Sun seeds Java in Singapore (news.com)
• Data structures and algorithms: A comparative slice and dice -- er, review -- of 5 Java DS&A books - JavaWorld - June 1998 (JavaWorld)
• Chaffing and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption (Ronald R. Rivest)
• Java in Wonderland (JavaWorld)
• Chapter 3 Graphics from Graphic Java 1.2 Vol 1 - AWT (Java Developer Connection) Warning - very large files
• WWDC 1998 Wednesday (Scott Anguish)
• Calamity Gene (Wired)
• Gene Patents: even worse than software patents (Wired)
• JOS (Wired)
• A Java Programmer Shortage? Not True, Some Say (Internet World)
• Working Woman doesn't like Working Women (Wired)
• Opening Pandora's Box (Dan Fylstra)
• Buy Flash, Get Sued (news.com)
• WWDC 1998 Wednesday (Scott Anguish)
• Calamity Gene (Wired)
• Gene Patents: even worse than software patents (Wired)
• JOS (Wired)
• A Java Programmer Shortage? Not True, Some Say (Internet World)
• Working Woman doesn't like Working Women (Wired)
• Opening Pandora's Box (Dan Fylstra)
• Buy Flash, Get Sued (news.com)
• A Rebuttal to BOGU (Joubin)
• Intuit faces Y2K lawsuit (news.com)
• Microsoft blinks in showdown with DOJ/States (San Jose Mercury)
• Jeff Walsh on Apple Zealotry (Scripting News)
• Jorg Brown on Mac OS X (MacInTouch)
• Sun to Microsoft: Change Win 98 (news.com)
• Whither the Yellow Box? (Scott Anguish, Stepwise)
• Yellow Box Developer Tools (Scott Anguish, Stepwise)
• Yellow Box: AppKit/Foundation Kit in Depth (Scott Anguish)
• YellowBox: Developing for Windows (Scott Anguish, Stepwise)
• Hostile Applet Sparks Debate About Java Security Issues (Internet World)
• Rick Ross Wants to Sue Microsoft (Computer Reseller News)
• Jobs: Carbon Age for Mac OS (MacWeek)
• Corel blends Java and XML in new Open*J (ZDNet)
• It's Your Problem (Not Theirs) (James Gleick)
• PersonalJava for all TCI set-tops (news.com)
• Second Thoughts on iMac: Echoes of 1988? (Henry Norr)
• No spam on the spambone (news.com)
• Another Netscape giveaway (news.com)
• Sun cuts prices, unveils new chip (news.com)
• The Swing 1.0.2 File Chooser (JavaSoft)
• A Brief History of the Green Project (James Gosling)
• Top 10 Signs the new Mir Computer is Running Win95 (Mike Popovic)
• Feds try to stick consumers with the bill for wiretapping (Wired)
• More hostile applets (developer.com)
• Microsoft: Unix powerhouse? (SunWorld)
• Inevitable Microsoft Decline (editorial) (slashdot.org)
• Network Solutions grabs registrar (news.com)
• Sun eliminates its 'planet' concept (4/22/1998) (San Jose Mercury)
• Online gamers fume over information gathering (San Jose Mercury)
• Microsoft to pull Java VM from minimal IE (Wired)
• The Failure to Connect (San Jose Mercury)
• Microsoft Bribes in Academia (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• What should an OS be? (Feed)
• JavaBeans book review (JavaWorld) They like JavaBeans!
• Technicians reported what they found in customer's computer to police (San Jose Mercury)
• JavaSoft tries to soothe licensees (news.com)
• UDP considered harmful (Wired)
• Homesteading the Noosphere (Eric S. Raymond)
• Free Java VMs (InfoWorld)
• Microsoft Plans Stealth Media Blitz (L.A. Times)
• Graphical Interface Babylon (Peter Bickford, View Source)
• Microsoft tries to reshape debate (San Jose Mercury)
• Stanford forgets to backup (San Jose Mercury)
• The T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project (Rice University)
• Sue the Bells (Bruce Kushnick) Essential!
• I Got Spammed by Esther Dyson: Release, the Old-Fashioned Way (New York Times)
• Cryptozilla (Wired)
• Jazilla (Wired)
• DOJ Seeks Greater Wiretap Capability (Techweb)
• Library's 'Internet User's Agreement' Violates Rights, Group Says (New York Times)
• Study: Search engines fall short (news.com)
• My Day at Netscape (Ben)
• What's new is old (Salon)
• Netscape 5.0 to support XML (Wired)
• AOL cancels evidence? (Wired)
• Earthlink wins $2,000,000 judgement against Spamford Wallace (New York Times)
• Apple talks about Java and Rhapsody (Bang)
• Sony says yes to Java (news.com)
• Sun faces Java strategy challenges (news.com)
• Ant Tech (Wired)
• JavaOne off to a slow start (Wired)
• Asteroid Flap Reveals Astronomy's Gaps (Wired)
• Are crackers attacking a Chinese satellite? (Wired)
• IBM, Lotus avoid often-fatal culture clash (USA Today)
• Sun sticking to Java software (news.com)
• Washington state joins spam war (news.com)
• Study: Y2K already a problem (news.com)
• Microsoft says farewell to DOS (San Jose Mercury)
• Best Actor should have gone to Gates (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury)
• GAO report questions tech-worker shortage (San Jose Mercury)
• Brains and the Internet (San Jose Mercury)
• Netscape site sells Java software (news.com)
• McNealy: Netscape rumors a joke (news.com)
• JavaOS headed to consumer gear (news.com)
• Sun JavaStation ships, quietly (news.com)
• JavaSoft jabs at industry titans (news.com)
• HP, Sun do legal dance over Java (news.com)
• Sun wins Java trademark ruling (San Jose Mercury)
• Suspicious notebook PC survives detonation by bomb squad (CNN)
• Playboy sues 1981 PMOY over site (news.com)
• Scripting (John Ousterhout)
• Even in Silicon Valley, It's Caveat Employee (TechWeek)
• New Hewlett-Packard product angers Sun (San Jose Mercury)
• Online surveys are: a) useless b) useless (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury)
• Court rules against Baby Bells (news.com)
• EU criticizes Net domain plan (news.com)
• Crypto firm circumvents rules (news.com)
• Dancing Baby available for a song (news.com)
• HP opts for Java home brew (news.com)
• Forget Big Brother (New York Times)
• Will fans balk if Simpsons get new voices? (CNN)
• FileMaker open for development (MacWeek)
• Sun taking on 3D in Java (news.com)
• Meat of the Loom (Prehensile Tales) Read it before the lawyers get to it
• Class action against NSI in court (news.com)
• Feds not seeking crypto law (news.com)
• Tonga domain to be spam-free (news.com)
• MS appeal judge removed from case (news.com)
• Despite ban, U.S. still training Indonesian troops (3/16/1998) (San Jose Mercury)
• An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control (EC Draft)
• Cheap PCs don't draw new buyers (news.com)
• Net libel suit raises free speech issues (news.com)
• Anders Hejlsberg tells how his team designed WFC (MSDN)
• Sendmail developer goes commercial (news.com)
• FCC approves PC-TV V-chips (news.com)
• Another Senate attempt to censor the Net (San Jose Mercury)
• Sun slams Microsoft over Java (news.com)
• McNealy's surprise investment (news.com)
• JavaStation dream fading (news.com)
• Bill lets ISPs throw book at spam (news.com)
• AOL claims victory against spam (news.com)
• Apple learns to live with Microsoft (news.com)
• Treasury may not be Y2K ready (news.com)
• State passes Net decency law (news.com)
• Shampoo ruling to affect high tech (news.com)
• It's a rumor after all: Disney may have eyes for Apple (San Jose Mercury)
• Patently absurd patents (Tim Clark, news.com)
• Crypto bill lightens up (news.com)
• Children's First Amendment Rights Lost in the Filtering Debate (New York Times)
• Porn site protest backfires (news.com)
• Microsoft sues German magazine (news.com)
• Write once, run on Windows (news.com)
• Elvis+ to sing new tune (SunWorld)
• Microsoft makes new attack on Java (San Jose Mercury)
• The Real Bill Gates Diary (Upside)
• Microsoft sued over Palm PC (news.com)
• AOL lists top ten spammers (news.com)
• Net privacy policy in the works (news.com)
• Fast net access from hotels? (InfoWorld)
• ZDNNews Special Report: Bill to the hill (ZDNet)
• Is it a burglar or a clumsy dog? (Lisa Stapleton, Techweek)
• Teens With Tech Talent Rise to Top (Washington Post)
• Clinton Draws High-Tech Cheers/President favors moratorium on new Net taxes (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Whither Javagator? (Wired)
• Usenet II (Wired)
• Foreskin Farming (Wired)
• High tech jobs aren't hard to fill (Wired)
• Employers should pay the price to import tech workers (Marge Wylie, news.com)
• Student finds AOL Instant Messenger Security bug (news.com)
• Y2K suits likely to keep coming (news.com)
• Court rejects Net censorship law in Virginia (news.com)
• Javagator on back burner (news.com)
• Java Superbowl (Techweb)
• Group to attack Clinton on crypto (news.com)
• New browser for Linux (news.com)
• California cancer victims sue IBM (news.com)
• ISPs subpoenaed in Microsoft case (news.com)
• Dark clouds threatening Silicon Valley (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury)
• Java Shmava (Web Digest For Marketers)
• FedEx Backs Away From NCs In Favor Of Windows Machines (TechWeb)
• PalmPilot attracts developers (Wired)
• O'Rumpley & A Socks: Book Catalog (Nutcase Handbooks)
• Java virtual machine books -- a comparative review (JavaWorld)
• Designing object initialization (JavaWorld)
• Oral sex saves lives (Slate)
• Does Sun want to become the next Microsoft? (SunWorld)
• Chris Date muses on SQL, Java, relational and object databases (InfoWorld)
• Electronic Commerce, Part One: Getting into the Game ()
• Java Commerce Client (InfoWorld)
• OMG prepares IIOP for RMI (InfoWorld)
• Writing a Web Crawler in Java (Muscle Fish on the Java Developer Connection, registration required)
• Sun joins VRML Consortium (news.com)
• Researchers are called on to fight Info Glut (Philadelphia Inquirer)
• Millionerds (Michael Lewis, Slate)
• Getting started with Python - SunWorld - February 1998 (SunWorld)
• Tcl's inventor leaves Sun to form start-up - SunWorld - February 1998 (SunWorld)
• Industry agrees on movie, music encryption (2/19/1998) (San Jose Mercury)
• Jobs Sues Over Email Divulging Pixar Salaries (San Francisco Examiner)
• The battle for digital images (news.com)
• Conviction in online threat case (news.com)
• Who's your PC talking to? (news.com)
• Critics slam new NSI domain policy (news.com)
• Sun pushing for a profitable Java (news.com)
• Sun buys VR patents (Wired)
• Gosling on Java (Wired)
• Intel Processor performance flaw (Intelligent Firm)
• Ad filtering catching on? (news.com)
• A new Windows password cracker (news.com)
• Java: How long can we stomach this unripe brew? (Greg Saltzman, ZDNet)
• Top 25 Sites (Wired)
• Corporations key to Java's new reality (2/08/1998) ()
• Cybersitter sends email bomb (news.com)
• Java Decompilation and Reverse Engineering (Digital Cat's Java Resource Center)
• Microsoft counters Java dispute (news.com)
• Why Be has a chance to really be something (2/05/1998) (San Jose Mercury)
• Cold calls uncover vulnerable computers (San Jose Mercury)
• Network Outages Slow West Coast Traffic (Net Insider)
• 56K modem standard finally OK'd (ZDNet)
• Apple rethinks OS schedules, refines features (MacWeek)
• Feds Target Spam Scams (Net Insider)
• Microsoft spurns overtures from Java Lobby (ZDNet)
• Throwing In The Java Towel (CMP)
• IANA tests Net redirect (news.com)
• Fonts copyrightable, judge rules (news.com)
• Is Netscape for sale? (news.com)
• White House in porn domain dispute (news.com)
• Nando seeks payment for links (Aardvark)
• Bill Gates hit by cream cake in Brussels (CNN)
• Microsoft problems much like IBM's used to be (2/02/1998) ()
• Rhapsody Relegated To Server-Side OS (Techweb)
• Argentina says piracy not illegal (news.com)
• $500 server handles Net access (news.com)
• World unprepared for Y2K bug (news.com)
• Novell wins trade secret ruling (news.com)
• Wired can't take the heat (news.com)
• SPA takes on Microsoft (news.com)
• Lessig appointment suspended (news.com)
• Egghead breaks the mold (news.com)
• 11 states subpoena Microsoft (news.com)
• Bill Gates sings for Barbara Walters (seattletimes.com)
• Net firm beats Murdoch in court (news.com)
• The myth of Java ( MacWEEK Insider)
• Microsoft lawyers blitz Sun (developer.com)
• AOL: Crackers Paradise (Wired)
• Sun proclaims it is No. 1 (news.com)
• Seven Deadly Web Site Sins (And Why You Must Avoid Them at All Costs) (Jesse Berst, ZDNet)
• Oreos domain in dispute (news.com)
• Start-up debuts XML-based server (news.com)
• "Click of death" strikes Iomega (news.com)
• Navy barred from ousting sailor (news.com)
• Scientologists misuse trademark law to harass dissenters (news.com)
• My Uncle Sam (Dave Winer, scripting.com)
• AOL sues two more spammers (ZDNet)
• Email with Bill Joy at Sun (Dave Winer, scripting.com)
• RSA Data Security: Firms cleverly selling strong crypto - SunWorld - January 1998 (SunWorld)
• Gates wants to grow even more (news.com)
• Real Java Applications Arrive (Wired)
• Microsoft may face new antitrust case ()
• Hotmail sues spammers (news.com)
• Microsoft Draws Appealing Panel (Cal Law)
• FCC Disappointed In Appeals Court Ruling On Telecom Pricing (Techweb)
• It's a Drudge World (Wired)
• Scientists daydream on company time at 3M (Wired)
• Netscape pulling back from Java commitment (San Jose Mercury)
• Shut Up and Eat: The Beef Industry's Lawsuit Against Oprah Winfrey (PR Watch)
• Netizens weigh in on Oprah trial (news.com)
• MS college deal under fire (news.com)
• NEC working on Java portable (news.com)
• Caching comes at a price (news.com)
• PC makers rethink Netscape (news.com)
• Air Force wary of push software (news.com)
• Amazon.com sales grow (news.com)
• Religion group in domain dispute (news.com)
• Clinton scandal all over Net (news.com)
• NT and NDS (Computerworld)
• E-Mail Trial May Set U.S. Precedent (New York Times)
• Netscape Communicator to become freeware (news.com)
• DOJ, Microsoft settle part of suit (news.com)
• Notebook prices under siege (news.com)
• Technology blocks DVD copying (news.com)
• Will CDs follow Amazon's lead? (news.com)
• AOL admits to privacy lapse (news.com)
• Spam site killed under threats (news.com)
• ACLU threatens suit on Net filters (news.com)
• Java battle goes retail (news.com)
• Microsoft suffers ID security lapse (news.com)
• Email still dangerous in business (news.com)
• NBC stakes Mining Company (news.com)
• Dancing Baby in TV encore (news.com)
• Should Microsoft sell cars? (Wired)
• Vaporware Clouds IBM's 'San Francisco' (TechWeb)
• Layoffs Could Be Costly For Netscape's Java Effort (TechWeb)
• Ads Put Education Web Sites on Defensive (New York Times)
• JFC vs. AFC: Which GUI toolkit should you use? (JavaWorld)
• Domain Names: I.Am.Who.I.Am (Wired)
• Microsoft's Next Ambition: The Net's Backend (Wired)
• Sun's New Web Design (Jakob Nielsen) an interest case study
• Solaris on Merced: What's in it for Sun? (SunWorld)
• Nostalgia for Telnet (Daily Grounds)
• Macworld Developers' Java Programming Perking (Newsbytes)
• With Boom in High Technology, Software Jobs Go Begging (New York Times)
• JCE underwhelms (developer.com)
• Microsoft's Accumulating Enemies: The *Other* Court Case You Should Know About (ZDNet)
• Email Addiction (Bruce Epstein)
• Local site hosts protest (news.com)
• Site to charge IE 4.0 users (news.com)
• Navy: AOL probe unnecessary (news.com)
• Microsoft appeals Lessig ruling (news.com)
• IE 4 for Mac has crypto bug (news.com)
• Intel ad subsidies raising eyebrows (news.com)
• Controversy over Gore Web site (news.com)
• Web caching system to launch (news.com)
• Wanted: A few good geeks (San Jose Mercury)
• A Conversation with Larry Wall (Dr. Dobb's Journal)
• International Text in JDK 1.2 (IBM)
• WELL leader to step down (news.com)
• Crypto rivals challenge RSA (news.com)
• Ice storm cuts some Net access (news.com)
• Pentium II prices to continue downward (news.com)
• SPA to meet over antitrust (news.com)
• Judge won't remove Lessig (news.com)
• Dyson among the Machines (Salon)
• Pornutopia lost (Salon)
• Top 25 Women on the Web (Webgrrls)
• Senator Wants Back Door to Encrypted Data Closed (Wired)
• The Anti-Privacy Lobby (Mother Jones)
• GPL Netscape! (Slashdot.org)
• Amazon's top titles go mainstream (news.com)
• Judge miffed at Microsoft on OS (news.com)
• Sun promises big things for Java, channel (ZDNet)
• Sun begins sales on Web (news.com)
• Europeans slam U.S. crypto policy (news.com)
• Delays won't halt memory slide (news.com)
• Solaris server drops below $4,000 (news.com)
• AOL investigating Navy discharge (news.com)
• Microsoft inspected in Japan (news.com)
• America Hates Microsoft (Stewart Alsop)
• America Loves Microsoft (Fortune)
• Playboy to spin out Net unit (news.com)
• Netscape can't spell (news.com)
• Low-cost Sun workstations arrive (news.com)
• Link Titles Help Users Predict Where They Are Going (Jakob Nielsen)
• It Isn't Just Big Brother Who Is Watching (New York Times)
• Microsoft Posts XSL Parser (TechWeb)
• Telcos get new shot at ISP fees (news.com)
• net.wars (Wendy M. Grossman)
• PersonalJava ships to licensees (news.com)
• Questionable Study claims IE is leading Netscape in market share (news.com)
• 3Com threatens to sue Microsoft (Wired)
• Rival to roil DVD market (news.com)
• Bell Atlantic screws up again (news.com)
• Another Web mag out of print (news.com)
• Amazon.com is down (news.com)
• Apple missing sub-$1,000 market (news.com)
• Microsoft/Boeing greed inspire unionization (Marge Wylie, news.com)
• Close Company (Marketing Computers)
• What's up at Wired (news.com)
• Telcos get new shot at ISP fees (news.com)
• Lessig email called smoking gun (news.com)
• California Lawmakers to take up MS CETI plan (news.com)
• AMD evicts Intel, Cyrix at Compaq (news.com)
• O'Reilly Ponders Its Might-Have-Beens (WebWeek)
• High hopes for high tech in 1998 (1/01/1998) (San Jose Mercury)
• PAS could cripple Java (LanTimes)
• Mac on the Desktop: A Slow Fade (The Slater Perspective)
• Violence, sexcess, and a handheld exodus (news.com)
• Playing the stock options game (news.com)
• Top flops of '97 (news.com)
• Spammers threaten to post AOL email addresses (news.com)
• What's a Guy Gotta Do for a Cup of Java 'Round Here? (MacAddict)
• Netscape sharpens Javagator plans (news.com)