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Save TiVo!
Farhad Manjoo
Just when it's on the verge of creating the Perfect Machine -- streaming TV, music, movies and the Web through one stylish box -- TiVo is facing doom. Unless a certain company decides to think different.
First Social Security, then taxes
Tim Grieve
Even some Republicans say the time isn't right for extending the president's tax cuts.
AIDS scare is overblown
Katharine Mieszkowski
Medical experts say the "super strain" of HIV found in a New York man is probably not so super after all.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
Secret memo reveals NBC's Brian Williams is GOP's new "go-to anchor." Tony Blankley's plan to make L.A. liberals spew their lattes. Plus: Still brooding over Janet Jackson's boob, Brent Bozell now discovers shocking depravity of MTV!
Letters
Salon Staff
Can't we all just get along? Not bloody likely, say readers responding to the latest round of Mac-Windows wars.
Owning a piece of our brains
Oliver Burkeman, Bobbie Johnson
With the launch of MSN Search, Microsoft hopes to dominate the market for a simple tool that has become essential to our lives.
Letters
Salon Staff
A nation of Windows users is sick and tired of slobbery Mac love: Readers respond to Farhad Manjoo's "Hallelujah, the Mac Is Back."
Hallelujah, the Mac is back
Farhad Manjoo
Weary of spyware, tired of virus attacks, a nation turns its lonely eyes to ... Apple?
Better speed up that Social Security “crisis,” boys
Mark Follman
How Microsoft is losing the war on spam
Brian McWilliams
Bill Gates said junk e-mail would be history by 2006. His prediction's being buried by an avalanche of Viagra ads and Rolex pitches -- and his company's policies are a big reason why.
Letters
Salon Staff
Farhad Manjoo: Steve Jobs' love slave or minion of Satan? Readers respond to "A Mac for the Masses."
Insanely geeky
Andrew Leonard
Andy Hertzfeld's collection of stories about the legendary creation of the Macintosh is full of details only an engineer could love -- and that's why it works.
“I got diagnosed with an STD since we played”
Lynn Harris
A new Internet-based public health program in San Francisco allows gay men with STDs to anonymously inform their partners via e-mail.
When technology became cool again
Andrew Leonard, Farhad Manjoo, Katharine Mieszkowski
Google, Firefox and digital cameras gave us reason to cheer in 2004. Then again, outsourcing, global warming and the politics of stem cells proved there is a dark side.
The Friendster of photo sites
Katharine Mieszkowski
On the photo-sharing site Flickr, instant and unlikely communities spring up around a wild universe of images, from cats and grocery day to giving birth.
Meet the high-tech Ugly American
Mark Follman
The Shlemiel way of software
Scott Rosenberg
Author Joel Spolsky talks about what Microsoft has in common with his grandparents and what Isaac Bashevis Singer has to do with code-generating schemes.
Shocked, shocked!
Steve Kettmann
The hand-wringing over Jason Giambi and Barry Bonds is stupid and hypocritical. Everyone knows the score.
Hot and horny for Hitler
Jana Prikryl
What drew German teens by the millions to the Hitler Youth? The uniforms, the camaraderie, the cultish adoration of Der Fuhrer -- and lots of Aryan sex.
Urban renewal, the wireless way
Linda Baker
Thanks to Wi-Fi networks, cellphones and global positioning locators, there's a new sense of place in the city.
Privatization follies
Ellen Dannin
Halliburton fraud. IRS tax-collection shenanigans. Voting-machine madness. There's got to be a better way.
Firefox — the flag bearer of free software
Sam Williams
Mozilla's browser is taking market share away from Microsoft. Sometimes, slow and steady really does win the race.
Who nabbed Indymedia’s computers?
Mathew Honan
The freewheeling network of Web sites has a history of clashing with authority. But usually it knows who is trying to shut it up.
Short and sweet
Curtis Sittenfeld
You can look him straight in the eye and even borrow his clothes: Some reasons why smaller men rock.
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