Lydia Lee

Spend shamelessly.com

LVMH quietly launches Eluxury.com, but will anyone buy a $17,000 watch on the Web?

Lydia Lee Monday, Jul 10, 2000 7:00 PM UTC
Politics

Raging youths tune in to aging soaps

Can Hottie and Trouble pull in the ratings for daytime TV?

Lydia Lee Monday, May 22, 2000 4:49 PM UTC
Politics

Boo hoo!

Over-the-top design and a burn rate of $120 million in six months force the achingly hip fashion retail site to give up the ghost.

Lydia Lee Thursday, May 18, 2000 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment

Spam virgin

In which we offer up sacrificial e-mail addresses and are spurned by the bulk e-mailing gods.

Lydia Lee Tuesday, Apr 18, 2000 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment

Tasty spam?

If companies served up e-mail right, consumers would beg for it, says Hans Peter Br

Lydia Lee Monday, Apr 17, 2000 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment

A vote for Bill is a vote for more (dollar) bills

Microsoft is on the campaign trail, hustling for a better public opinion.

Lydia Lee Monday, Apr 10, 2000 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Microsoft, Advertising

We're here, we're queer, we're media moguls

Is PlanetOut CEO Megan Smith building the gay and lesbian AOL Time Warner?

Lydia Lee Monday, Apr 3, 2000 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment LGBT

Judge to Microsoft: Guilty!

Thomas Penfield Jackson slams Microsoft for abuses of monopoly power.

Lydia Lee Monday, Apr 3, 2000 12:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Microsoft

Vote naked in the privacy of your own home!

While Arizona Democrats cast online ballots in the primary, Election.com CEO Joe Mohen patrolled the virtual booths for illegal hanky-panky.

Lydia Lee Monday, Mar 20, 2000 5:00 PM UTC
Entertainment

Don't shoot that iMac!

Online reviewers convince Epinions not to run a TV ad featuring a Mac being blown to smithereens by a PC lover.

Lydia Lee Monday, Mar 20, 2000 5:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Advertising, Guns

The privacy police?

TRUSTe CEO Bob Lewin explains how even sites selling personal data can get the nonprofit's privacy seal of approval.

Lydia Lee Monday, Mar 13, 2000 5:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Privacy

“Opt-in rules!”

How does 24/7 Media CEO David Moore target ads without raising the ire of privacy activists? He asks permission.

Lydia Lee Monday, Mar 6, 2000 5:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Advertising, Privacy

Big Bouncer is watching you

Biometric smart-card scanners are keeping undesirable elements out of Dutch clubs.

Lydia Lee Thursday, Mar 2, 2000 5:00 PM UTC
Entertainment

Linux in every lap

Stars of the original Mac development team try to solve one of the hottest puzzles in technology today: How to make the Linux desktop user-friendly.

Lydia Lee Thursday, Feb 24, 2000 5:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Apple, Linux

How much for that doggie in the dot-com ad?

Pets.com auctions off its mascot, a singing sock puppet-pooch, raising some serious cash for charity.

Lydia Lee Monday, Feb 14, 2000 5:00 PM UTC
Entertainment

Friends don't let friends use AOL

I've tried and failed to convince my boyfriend's father to "upgrade" to the wide-open Web.

Lydia Lee Wednesday, Feb 2, 2000 5:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Internet Culture, AOL

The Dot-cominator

If you're going to dot-com yourself, Sun wants to help. That's just what its new ads are trying to say.

Lydia Lee Wednesday, Jan 26, 2000 5:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Advertising

E-book makers sold to a TV-centric company

What will Gemstar International, a maker of VCR programming technology, do with SoftBook and NuvoMedia?

Lydia Lee Wednesday, Jan 19, 2000 9:30 AM UTC
Entertainment

The Net on AOL's Time Warner deal

Will the new colossus change the Internet for better or worse?

Janelle Brown, Damien Cave and Lydia Lee Tuesday, Jan 11, 2000 5:00 PM UTC
Entertainment The New York Times, AOL

No cooks in the kitchen

CookExpress looks for funding after its gourmet meal-delivery service grinds to a halt.

Lydia Lee Monday, Jan 10, 2000 5:00 PM UTC
Entertainment

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