Microsoft über alles By Janelle Brown, Andrew Leonard And Scott Rosenberg
Have Gates & Co. peaked? 21st reviews tech highs and lows of '98
(12/24/98)
Microsoft on Microsoft By Karlin Lillington
How does the
software giant spin its own history in its reference products?
(12/18/98)
Boon or boondoggle?
By Nicholas Confessore
The E-Rate subsidizes Net access for schools and libraries -- and your telephone company wants to kill it
(12/16/98)
Internet censure-ship By Janelle Brown
Can the Censure and Move On Web site make a difference?
(12/14/98)
You've got sendmail
By Andrew Leonard
Eric Allman's free program makes sure your e-mail gets through. Now it's going commercial.
(12/11/98)
What does technology want?
By R.U. Sirius
Kevin Kelly talks about his "New Rules for the New Economy"
(12/10/98)
Internet activism, Czech-style By Mark Schapiro
The Communists
are yesterday's target -- today, it's the phone company's Net-access rate hikes
(12/08/98)
Event Horizon's Web gamble By Patrizia DiLucchio
Can a publisher of blue-chip science fiction for smart readers make it online?
(12/07/98)
Spin sisters By Janelle Brown
Why is PR the only high-tech field that women run?
(12/03/98)
The father of Mario and Zelda
By Moira Muldoon
Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto creates the world's most popular video games
(12/02/98)
The Net never forgets
By J.D. Lasica
Everything you've ever posted online could come back to haunt you someday
(11/25/98)
Strange Web fellows? By Andrew Leonard
What the AOL purchase of Netscape really means
(11/24/98)
Thought-activated computing By Sam Witt and Sean Durkin
The brain/computer interface becomes real -- as a boon for the paralyzed
(11/23/98)
The copyright boomerang By Peter Wayner
A new copyright law bans tools that "circumvent" copy protections -- is cutting and pasting illegal?
(11/20/98)
Court puts new Net censorship rules on hold -- for now By Janelle Brown
First ruling in "CDA II" case goes the way of law's opponents
(11/20/98)
Top of the frag heap Top of the frag heap By Janelle Brown
Can one Quake player's pixel-pounding success turn gaming into a true pro sport?
(11/17/98)
Soweto online By Andrew Leonard
Where millions don't have plumbing or telephones,
who needs the Net?
(11/16/98)
Martin Luther, meet Linus Torvalds By Thomas Scoville
Linux and free software challenge the Microsoft papacy
(11/12/98)
Is there such a thing as a software monopoly? By Mike Romano
Microsoft says no -- and its arguments could provoke changes in the antitrust laws
(11/11/98)
Music industry to webcasters: Pay up! By Janelle Brown
Will the new copyright law's rules help Web radio flourish -- or smother the infant medium?
(11/09/98)
The god of the information age is a trickster By R.U. Sirius
"TechGnosis" author Erik Davis talks about technology's habit of hoodwinking us
(11/06/98)
Dr. Laura, how could you? By Patrizia DiLucchio
Copyright war rages over Schlessinger's nude photos
(11/03/98)
A new mecca for Silicon Valley By Simon Firth
The Tech Museum is full of innovative wonders -- just don't expect to see the Valley's darker side represented
(11/02/98)
The war for your e-mail box By Andrew Leonard
Do we need anti-spam laws? Some Net veterans think the unthinkable
(10/30/98)
Is culture endangered in the digital age? By Chris Bray
Ironies abound at a Los Angeles conference pondering the future of museums and libraries
(10/29/98)
Blame it on Rio By Janelle Brown
Netheads love the MP3 digital-music format. Why does the music industry hate it so much?
(10/28/98)
Prime time for hackers is over By Richard Thieme
Why did a consultant hack a US West network to solve a 17th-century math problem?
(10/27/98)
Good times for Dilbert By Janelle Brown
Scott Adams, creator of the world's best-loved cartoon engineer, talks about Zippergate and the enduring stupidity of humankind
(10/22/98)
The adventure continues By Greg Costikyan
Why Myst was no dead end -- and online gaming isn't ready for the big time
(10/21/98)
Has the Web made porn respectable? By Janelle Brown
The Web professional next door just might be running an adult site -- but it's probably not making him rich
(10/20/98)
The cookie monster of Putnam Pit By Matt Welch
An angry muckraker seeks access to the municipal computer systems in a small Tennessee town
(10/15/98)
Service with an artificial smile By Robert Rossney
Supermarket clubs point the way to a future of corporate-mandated friendliness and Stepford clerks
(10/14/98)
Getting to know all about you By Jennifer Vogel
Attention, shoppers -- what you tell supermarket clubs may be used against you
(10/14/98)
The joy of Perl By Andrew Leonard
How Larry Wall invented a messy programming language -- and changed the face of the Web
(10/13/98)
Typing for nonconformists By Alex Marshall
The Dvorak alternative keyboard is a boon for the aching hand
(10/12/98)
The games people play By Greg Lindsay
Myst and Riven are a dead end. The future of computer gaming lies in online, multiplayer worlds
(10/08/98)
Wired acquired By Janelle Brown
Lycos gobbles up the pieces of Wired's online empire. Is the revolution over?
(10/07/98)
Network to Tabloid: drop ads By Brooke Shelby Biggs
Outrageous tale of "Subway Whale" prompts protests to site's advertisers
(10/05/98)
Play money By Andrew Leonard
Is Silicon Valley talent souring on stock options?
(09/30/98)
Talk to our agent By Howard Wen
In the rapidly consolidating world of computer gaming, you need more than a good idea to get ahead
(09/28/98)
The president as lab rat By Gary Wolf
How much surveillance can one human being take? President Clinton is helping us find out
(09/25/98)
From girl-games to glamour By Matthew DeBord
Silicon Alley star Theresa Duncan moves nimbly between worlds
(09/24/98)
CDA -- the sequel By Janelle Brown
Congress is flooded with new bills restricting online expression. So where are the protests?
(09/23/98)
Anatomy of an e-mail chain letter By Amy Virshup
Why did so many people forward an obviously bogus message about a Bill Gates giveaway?
(09/22/98)
Bombs away By Andrew Leonard
What if everyone can wreak cyberhavoc?
(09/21/98)
What the spell-checker knows By Tom Krattenmaker
It doesn't just fix your typos -- it sees through to the truth behind names
(09/18/98)
How Palm beat Microsoft By Mary Eisenhart
One of the PalmPilot's parents explains its success
(09/17/98)
A kinder, gentler Usenet By Janelle Brown
Will putting a friendly face on the Internet's wilderness of newsgroups improve them -- or tame them?
(09/15/98)
The Richard Stallman saga, redux By Andrew Leonard
New debates about the philosophy of the open-source movement
(09/11/98)
Death and the hard drive By Moira Muldoon
Data can be a precious link
to a lost loved one -- if you save it
(09/09/98)
Inside the new high-tech lock-downs By Jim Rendon
Prison gadgetry promises to save money and reduce overcrowding -- but at what cost?
(09/08/98)
Look ma, no ink! By Janelle Brown
The technology industry tries to invent a better book. Will publishers bite?
(09/02/98)
The long bust? By Andrew Leonard
With the collapse of stock prices, Silicon Valley hype also takes a fall
(09/01/98)
The saint of free software By Andrew Leonard
Maverick Richard Stallman keeps the faith -- and gives Bill Gates the finger
(08/31/98)
Just the facts, RAM By Christopher Ott
Do computers in the classroom promote a conservative vision of education?
(08/28/98)
iMac -- iLove it or iHate it By Janelle Brown and Scott Rosenberg
Is Apple's new blue bombshell a hit or a dud? A debate
(08/27/98)
The Xy files By Amy Virshup
For the rest of the world, XyWrite is history -- but to its devotees, the antiquated word processor still rules
(08/25/98)
Revolt of the couch potatoes By Howard Wen
When TV fans want to save a favorite show from cancellation, they organize online. But do the networks care?
(08/24/98)
Suicide watch on the Net By David Cassel
When chat room participants say they're going to kill themselves, what should service providers do?
(08/20/98)
Wired: The book By Andrew Leonard
A former Wired insider
lands a contract to tell the
magazine's rise-and-fall saga
(08/20/98)
A bug too far By Janelle Brown
In Ultima Online, fed-up players carry a crusade from the fantasy world into a real-life courtroom
(08/19/98)
Is it sex, or is it art? By Janelle Brown
In Austria, right-wingers take aim at a Net arts group for peddling porn
(08/06/98)
Will the Asian crisis end Silicon Valley's boom? By Andrew Leonard
When the chips are down in Asia, the U.S. economy has a hard time escaping the pain
(08/05/98)
The future is now and then By Etelka Lehoczky
Professional "futurists" see a golden tomorrow -- but they don't love computers
(08/04/98)
The paperless book By Tamsin Todd
Leaving hardcovers and paperbacks behind, an Internet publisher experiments with downloadable literature
(07/31/98)
Do loose lips sink chips? By Janelle Brown
Nondisclosure agreements are a way of life in Silicon Valley
(07/30/98)
A lab for online experiments By Spencer Ante
Does the Web need nonprofit funding to keep its edge?
(07/27/98)
The church of Amiga
By Greg Lindsay
Why do fans of the long-eclipsed computing platform keep the faith?
(07/23/98)
Microsoft.orgy By Andrew Leonard
When Microsoft started giving away free videoconferencing software, it didn't plan on hosting a global sex party
(07/21/98)
A tangled Web for virgins site By Greg Lindsay
New details cast doubt on the "Our First Time" story
(07/17/98)
The Web's sacrificial virgins
By Greg Lindsay
Is "Our First Time" serious sex-education or cheesy scam?
(07/16/98)
A Web of their own By Janelle Brown
Scientologists say their Internet filter protects the faithful. Critics call it "cult mind-control"
(07/15/98)
3-D epiphany By Mark Pesce
Forget cyberpunk -- Char Davies is remaking virtual reality along human lines
(07/13/98)
Rags for Net richies By Janelle Brown
A passel of new
magazines tries to snag the tech-business elite -- but only the fittest will survive
(07/09/98)
Hands off that data -- I'm European! By Karlin Lillington
A transatlantic trade war brews over data privacy rules
(07/07/98)
Baring your soul to the Web By Simon Firth
Online diarists have invented a new art form and gathered a devoted following. But now some pioneers are questioning what they've created
(07/03/98)
The big chilly By Julie Caniglia
It has sped up our work lives, forced us to wear sweaters in July and robbed us of the chance to sweat. Down with air conditioning!
(07/02/98)
Razorfish among the sharks By Greg Lindsay
In the rapidly consolidating world of Web design companies, is bigger really better?
(07/02/98)
Going once, going twice and growing like crazy By Janelle Brown
Everything under the sun is on sale in eBay's online auctions
(06/30/98)
Where's the rest of me? By Maia Szalavitz
The prospect of "full-body transplants" offers some weird new twists on the old mind-body problem
(06/29/98)
Showdown at the HTML corral By Greg Lindsay
The Cool Site in a Day contest between East and West Coasts has already become an anachronism
(06/29/98)
The little operating system that could By Andrew Leonard
Microsoft, beware -- Linux fans are hell-bent on world domination
(06/26/98)
Conspicuous consumption, high-tech style By Janelle Brown
Be the first on your block to dress your computer gadgets in gold, lizard skin and leather
(06/24/98)
New life for old games By Howard Wen
Video-game emulators intriguingly blur the lines between hardware and software, PCs and game machines. Do they also promote piracy?
(06/23/98)
The Freudian e-mail By Regina Lynn Preciado
What happens when you send a disparaging message to precisely the wrong person?
(06/19/98)
Are microchips too fast for mere mortals? By Scott Rosenberg
Moore's Law means our processors get faster every year -- but no law can find uses for all that computing power
(06/18/98)
Canned obsolescenceBy Aaron Weiss
We only think old computers are useless -- that's what the industry wants us to think
(06/18/98)
Batteries included By Janelle Brown
Is the electric car a high-tech toy -- or the savior of the planet?
(06/17/98)
Ulysses in Net-town By Karlin Lillington
On Bloomsday, a portrait of James Joyce as a young Web-head
(06/16/98)
Geek central By Andrew Leonard
At a site called Slashdot, "news for nerds" draws a passionate crowd
(06/15/98)
Millennium bugging out
By Janelle Brown
Year 2000 survivalists, fearing digitally induced chaos, head for the hills
(06/11/98)
The software that refused to die By Greg Lindsay
When the owner of mTropolis gave it the ax, users raised money to take the code into their own hands
(06/10/98)
Quake-r state By
Andrew Leonard
When online gamers rallied to defend a female player from harassment, they learned there's more to life than pixel gore
(06/08/98)
Password spamming By Andrew Leonard
When Web companies make deals, sometimes it's not cash that changes hands (06/03/98)
Growing up in gameland By Moira Muldoon
At E3, the game industry's mecca, babes no longer prowl the aisles -- they just beckon from the booths
(06/02/98)
Bill's don By Karlin Lillington
Roger Needham, the boss of Microsoft's hoopla-laden U.K. research lab, talks about the Redmond-Cambridge connection
(06/01/98)
Return of the hex-crazed wargamers By Andrew Leonard
Is the Net breathing new life into an endangered hobby -- or just postponing
the inevitable?
(05/29/98)
No future in Tomorrowland By Janelle Brown
Instead of predicting future technologies, Disney's updated playground opts for the predictable
(05/28/98)
Starwave in Disneyland By
Janelle Brown
A once-proud Web-content firm mutates from an editorial powerhouse to a technology backbone -- because that's what its new owner needs
(05/26/98)
The Transmeta enigma By Andrew Leonard
At a tantalizingly elusive Silicon Valley start-up, secrecy spawns hopes of revolution and a raft of conspiracy theories
(05/22/98)
Customer disservice By Simon Firth
How Fry's became a totem of Silicon Valley computer retailing by giving tech shoppers a taste of S&M
(05/21/98)
Tinkerer's paradise By Sara Kelly
At a Pittsburgh invention fair, innovation is alive and well -- and riding motorized suitcases
(05/20/98)
Mr. Gates, meet Mr. Antitrust By Janelle Brown
Three former Justice Department antitrust experts handicap the new Microsoft suit
(05/19/98)
Who owns the desktop? By Andrew Leonard
Microsoft and the DOJ battle for control of the user interface
(05/19/98)
The Internet strikes back By Howard Wen
Online sleuths piece together the plot of the forthcoming "Star Wars" film -- and post it on the Web
(05/18/98)
Trashing the flamers By Mike Godwin
An online civil libertarian discovers the proper uses of "censorware" software filters
(05/15/98)
The dumbing-down of programming By Ellen Ullman
Part Two: Returning to the source. Once knowledge disappears into code, how do we retrieve it?
(05/13/98)
The dumbing-down of programming By Ellen Ullman
Part one: Rebelling against Microsoft and its wizards, an engineer rediscovers the joys of difficult computing
(05/12/98)
Wired nests with Condé Nast By Lori Leibovich
But will the magazine's new owners dull its edge?
(05/11/98)
Maximum confusion By Janelle Brown
On the Web, a typo throws frat boys and feminists onto each other's turf
(05/08/98)
The geeks and the aliens By Janelle Brown
Why are the tech industry's best and brightest so determined to spearhead the hunt for extraterrestrials?
(05/06/98)
Web-ability By Mike Britten
Even people who aren't in the position to enjoy all the Web's bells and whistles ought to be able to access its information
(05/05/98)
Groveling for dollars By Greg Costikyan
Bugs, babes and booze -- for game developers rustling up financing, there's a million potholes on the road to success
(05/04/98)
Starship trouper By Janelle Brown
Douglas Adams' new "Titanic" game is just the tip of a multimedia iceberg
(04/30/98)
Revenge of the early adopters By Andrew Leonard
Angry DVD owners didn't like a new video-rental technology -- so they fought back on the Net
(04/29/98)
Betrayed! By Evan Marx
A writer's engagement unravels -- thanks to a stray telltale e-mail message
(04/28/98)
Epistolary romance, digital style By Jenn Shreve
E-mail has changed how we start relationships, how we keep them going -- and how we wreck them
(04/27/98)
Do computers boost productivity? By Andrew Leonard
According to one student of the numbers, the answer is: No way
(04/24/98)
You are what you type
By Pamela LiCalzi O'Connell
Why do people love taking personality tests online?
(04/23/98)
Royal treatment for game reviewers By Mark Glaser
From boot camp to Versailles, gaming industry junkets send critics to the strangest places
(04/21/98)
Gun mad By Andrew Leonard
While the oldest, nastiest debate online remains deadlocked, gun rights activists on the Net get organized
(04/20/98)
Black and white and Web all over By Janelle Brown
African-Americans aren't flocking online -- a new study puts the numbers together
(04/17/98)
Let my software go! By Andrew Leonard
Netscape was desperate for a new strategy against Microsoft. Eric Raymond had one
(04/14/98)
Consider the source By Laura Lemay
Why Netscape's program code causes geeks to swoon
(04/13/98)
The Quicken and the deadbeat
By Andrew Leonard
How Intuit and Microsoft are saving us all from bankruptcy and crushing personal debt. Or not
(04/09/98)
Dear author By Pamela LiCalzi O'Connell
What happens when a novelist puts his e-mail address on the book jacket?
(04/08/98)
Popcorn with your operating system? By Scott Rosenberg
Microsoft beams its vision of computing's future into your local multiplex
(04/07/98)
Gene blues By Jeffrey Obser
Why you should think twice before betting your life on genetic testing
(04/06/98)
Microsoft throws in the towel A Salon staff report
Software giant capitulates to government, sets new course
(04/01/98)
What's new is old By Andrew Leonard
The NCSA "What's New" page is a time capsule from the Web's infancy
(03/30/98)
Renaissance geeks By Simon Firth
Silicon Valley sees itself as the new Florence. Then why is it so godawfully ugly?
(03/26/98)
Please, Mr. Postman? By Andrew Leonard
Netscape's and Microsoft's software just don't get along -- and God help anyone who tries to get them to make up and be nice
(03/24/98)
Mutiny on the Net By Andrew Leonard
Music pirates cross swords with the recording industry
(03/20/98)
The Minor league By Tom McNichol
Can Halsey Minor's "user-driven" publishing empire, CNET, make him the Internet's Ted Turner?
(03/13/98)
Piracy on the Web seas By Andrew Leonard
Will Slate be able to fend off the Web's password pirates?
(03/09/98)
To Be or not to Be By Greg Lindsay
The new high-end operating
system has a cult -- but can it find a market?
(03/04/98)
"Myst" partnership is riven By Karlin Lillington
Rand and Robyn Miller, the brothers who created the world's most popular computer games, go their separate ways
(03/02/98)
Hatch vs. Gates By Marcia Stepanek
Senator says Microsoft
demanded more sympathetic voices at next week's hearing
(02/26/98)
Hatch vs. Gates By Marcia Stepanek
Senator says Microsoft
demanded more sympathetic voices at next week's hearing
(02/26/98)
A doctorate in "Doom" By Moira Muldoon
For students at the world's first video game university, it's all math and little play
(02/25/98)
Schools of hard knocks By Andrew Leonard
"Lock ups" for "defiant teens" use questionable tactics -- on the Web and off
(02/23/98)
Caught in the headlights By Aaron Weiss
What if we were as paranoid about cars as we are of the Net?
(02/19/98)
Festival in search of a medium By Karlin Lillington
Cannes' multimedia showcase loses its way
(02/17/98)
Metal Madness
By Andrew Leonard
Headbanger wars: The battle for heavy metal on Web
(02/13/98)
Just pay for it By Andrew Leonard
Technology may bring the Olympics to your desktop someday -- but not for free
(02/11/98)
Windows on their world By Karlin Lillington
On site at Microsoft's museum and shop: Where the Windows never cease
(02/09/98)
AOL's insecurity complex By David Cassel
The online service can't even keep its own staff bulletin boards private
(02/06/98)
The Net's new turf wars By Rebecca Vesely
Domain name mavericks take their case to Washington
(02/04/98)
The little city that could By Doug McLellan
Tacoma's power company rolls its own Net and cable service
(02/03/98)
Drudging admiration By Mike Godwin
Why the gossip may win in court -- but lose in the press
(02/02/98)
Is Bill Gates a closet liberal? By Andrew Leonard
The money trail of his philanthropy suggests just that
(01/29/98)
Flicks from the underground By David Hudson
Berlin transforms subway tunnels into movie screens
(01/27/98)
Education in the ether By Vicky Phillips
The classical ideal of learning thrives in Net-based classrooms
(01/20/98)
Let a hundred modems bloom By Andrew Leonard
As the Net grows in
China, the authorities keep looking for ways to control it
(01/14/98)
Parental advisory warning By Cynthia Joyce
Dos and don'ts of
getting mom and dad online
(01/13/98)
Air Microsoft Satire By D.T. Max
The sky's the limit for Bill on a buying spree
(01/12/98)
Live! From my bedroom By Simon Firth
"Homecam" operators broadcast their daily lives to Web voyeurs
(01/08/98)
Apple's profit and gloss By Scott Rosenberg
Steve Jobs offers a Macworld progress report -- with some glaring omissions
(01/07/98)
Top 10 new jobs for 2002 By Wendy M. Grossman
New technologies mean new job descriptions. Be the first bot therapist on your block
(01/05/98)
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