May 2, 2002 - America Online has selected Google to provide search results for searches. The AOL deal should be a financial boost. Relevancy and simplicity are two key factors in Google's popularity.
May 1, 2002 - Anti-abortion supporters are taking pictures of abortion clinic patients and putting them on the internet. Is it an invasion of privacy?
April 30, 2002 - The net is becoming an increasingly important political tool with each passing campaign. Bush has been using the internet to get volunteers to help with his initiatives and through the aspect of security.
April 29, 2002 - The campaign committee for Jesse Ventura is thinking about creating video games as means of election propaganda. The games would be either on CD/DVD or on Ventura's website.
April 26, 2002 - AOL Time Warner has reported the biggest quarterly loss ever by a US company, more than 54 billion dollars. New accounting rules forced the company to take a whopping charge to reflect the decline in the value of its assets. The writedown follows a sharp decline in the company's stock, which has fallen by more than half since the America Online-Time Warner merger was announced in January of 2000. The company is home to CNN, People Magazine and television shows like the Sopranos. Its weakest unit lately is the AOL Internet service. Kara Swisher follows AOL Time Warner for the Wall Street Journal.
April 25, 2002 - Internet users everywhere report an alarming increase in spam and junk mail. It is increasing because people are spending more time on the internet, junk emailers are making money, and spamers are getting more sophisticated in hiding their identity.
April 24, 2002 - The promise of weblogs. Emergence is when the whole of something is smarter than its parts. Blogs are headed to emergence.
April 22, 2002 - Why is electronic communication with doctors the exception and not the rule? The majority of internet users want to be able to communicate with their doctor via e-mail.
April 19, 2002 - The publisher of Consumer Reports magazine wants to boost the confidence in electronic commerce. Lack of visible credibility is the main key to the distrust.
April 17, 2002 - Future Tenses’ Jon Gordon interviews Alex Ignatiev about why computers are such a pain to turn on and off. Firing up a computer, or rebooting it after a crash, takes longer than we'd like. But it could be a lot quicker if new technology from the University of Houston is a hit in the marketplace. Already, the school has licensed the technology to Sharp Electronics.