Monthly Archives: December 2001

The LA Times is say­ing that the Sony Playsta­tion 2 is out­selling the MS Xbox and the Nin­tendo Game­cube. Mean­while, Dave Winer thinks the Xbox is just the tip of the iceberg.

Meg dis­cov­ers the down­side of fame.

There’s a new drug that is sup­posed to speed recov­ery from the com­mon cold. But it only decreases dura­tion from 7.3 to 6.3 days if you take it from onset of symp­toms. Still, it’s progress in an area many thought was … Read More →

Palm is in acqui­si­tion mode, pur­chas­ing Thi­nAirApps Inc. for it’s wire­less data access soft­ware. Palm also has a new deal with TI for wire­less chips. It’s fairly obvi­ous where this is going, but they’re still play­ing catch-up to Handspring.

What is it about ICQ that makes it the spam­mers’ favorite? Is it the fact that the user id is a number?

If you pay atten­tion to Web devel­op­ment, you’ve prob­a­bly heard of the Web Stan­dards Project. Recently, they’ve announced a sort of hia­tus, and it’s raised eye­brows all over the Web. But per­haps it shouldn’t have, accord­ing to Jef­frey Zeld­man in … Read More →