Why are the airwaves -- medium of so much potential commerce -- so poorly managed in the U.S.? The rapidly growing demand for spectrum, or a range of frequencies, is creating tension between … more
Is a government Web site more like a bus or a park? How you
answer this question is likely to determine how you feel about
the idea of government agencies selling advertising space on
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They fought over Social Security, tax cuts and defense.
But Al Gore and George W. Bush agreed on one thing: Both pledged
to extend the current three-year moratorium on new Net taxes.
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In the days before Web addresses were
as ubiquitous as McDonald's, the Internet was imagined as a
lawless badlands. Rogues and bandits would soon terrorize cyberspace
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The building at 4500 Southgate is indistinguishable
from the cookie-cutter offices that dot the outskirts of Dulles
Airport in Virginia. But beyond a phalanx of security… more
Who's winning in the new economy? Not as many people
as you might think. Even as the market hits the stratosphere,
the vast majority of working Americans continue to struggle
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In April 1999, Bruce Schneier, mathematician, digital
security expert and unlikely hacker-scene hero, had an epiphany.
It prodded him to reorganize his company, Counterpane Internet
Security,… more
The future of governance was recently
on display in Yokohama, Japan. It was not a World's Fair, a
U.N. conference or an international exposition. Rather, it was
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The cartoon character on Theo de Raadt's
business card is surprisingly uncuddly. Most upstart software
companies employ cute mascots -- Linux's bemused penguin, for
example… more
Not so long ago it was common for high-minded "Netheads"
to spout theories about the Internet's capacity to learn, evolve
and, yes, even think. For anyone who still believes this, consider
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