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Out of the Blue: The delinquent-flier upgrade
Elliott Neal Hester
Like high-altitude ninjas, they abandon the crowded coach cabin for an unoccupied seat in first class.
Software that can spy on you
Simson Garfinkel
Why did Mattel include technology that can encrypt and send data to and from your PC in its children's CD-ROMs?
Mega record labels: We want our MP3
Eric Boehlert
MP3.com basks in a landmark agreement with the majors. But how will the audio company turn the deals into profits?
Courtney Love does the math
Courtney Love
The controversial singer takes on record label profits, Napster and "sucka VCs."
RIAA tries to shut down Napster
Janelle Brown
By moving for an injunction against the file-swapping service, the recording industry shows just how little it gets the Net.
Are two Microsofts better than one?
Janelle Brown, Katharine Mieszkowski, Damien Cave
Microsoft's competitors argue that a breakup could get the bully off their backs.
Learning to love your geek
Janelle Brown
"The Geek Handbook" is a handy how-to manual for keeping him or her in good running order.
“Better Living Through Circuitry”
Jeff Stark
In this floor-level view of the rave scene, director Jon Reiss keeps it pumping, humming, buzzing and spinning.
Napster at law
Damien Cave
Attorney-turned-interim CEO Hank Barry promises to make money, not war, for the beleaguered music-swapping service.
The urge to merge
Steve Bodow
Summer?s here and the time is right for merging on the Street. A look at who?s seeking matrimonial and monetary bliss this wedding season.
If code is free, why not me?
Annalee Newitz
Some open-source geeks are as open-minded about sex as they are about hacking.
“Plowing the Dark” by Richard Powers
Pam Rosenthal
A riveting novel conjures up the bygone days of virtual reality and the
promise of the unreal
world that might have been.
DEN, Boo: R.I.P.
Scott Rosenberg
These spectacular dot-com flameouts are lessons in bad thinking, not harbingers of industry-wide collapse.
Just give me the recipe, and shut up already!
Ann Hodgman
Sometimes you have to wade through pages of clotted prose to get to the (Tuscan) goods. Plus: A great bread book.
Letters to the editor
Salon Staff
Abortion isn't easy -- in movies or in life. Plus: Is gun control elitist? Virtual panty raids are better than gore fests.
The unknown hackers
Rachel Chalmers
Open-source pioneers Bill and Lynne Jolitz may be the most famous programmers you've never heard of.
Napster fans to Metallica: Prove it!
Janelle Brown
30,000 users of the MP3 trading service claim the band misidentified them.
BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code
Andrew Leonard
How Berkeley hackers built the Net's most fabled free operating system on the ashes of the '60s -- and then lost the lead to Linux.
Wireless warrior
Wendy M. Grossman
Symbian CEO Colly Myers is partial to his electric knife sharpener -- but he's built an operating system that could radically change your phone.
Nag on wheels
Paul LaFarge
For just $6, I turned a rental car into my mother; its global positioning system was flawed and irritating, but ultimately kind of lovable.
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