From: "Swisher, Bob" <bswisher@ou.edu>
To: "'it-fyi@listserv.ou.edu'" <it-fyi@lists.ou.edu>
Subject: it-fyi: New York Times Technology Headlines
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 10:31:23 -0600
Here are summaries of today's top technology news from The New York
Times on the Web.
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Netscape Throws Open Party After a Year of Open Source
At first glance, it seems a little crazy for Netscape to invite the
entire world to a Thursday night party at San Francisco's Sound Factory
celebrating the first birthday of its Mozilla project. From the
invitation to Mozilla's birthday party. But in a sense, the invitation
is perfectly appropriate
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/04/cyber/articles/01netscape.html
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Trial Could Drag Into 2000
The presiding judge in the Microsoft antitrust trial laid out a longer
timetable for additional testimony, oral arguments and written
submissions, virtually ensuring that the trial will not end much before
2000.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/04/biztech/articles/01microsoft-a
ntitrust.html
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Make Van Gogh 3-D! Should We?
A new art museum site from Intel will soon let visitors wander around
inside three-dimensional versions of Van Gogh paintings. Are they better
than the flat ones?
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/04/cyber/artsatlarge/01artsatlarg
e.html
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IBM Takes Stand for Web Privacy
Saying it hoped to ward off government regulation and increase consumer
confidence in electronic commerce, IBM said that it would pull its ads
from Web sites that lacked clear privacy policies.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/04/cyber/articles/01ibm-ad-column
.html
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Yahoo Set to Buy Broadcast.Com
Yahoo is expected to announce that it has agreed to buy Broadcast.com in
a stock swap valued at $5.6 billion.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/04/biztech/articles/01yahoo-broad
cast.html
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NATO Web Site Zapped
In an electronic assault on NATO's presence in cyberspace, computer
users in Serbia managed to temporarily disable the alliance's Web site
last weekend and cause intermittent outages over the last few days.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/040199kosovo-hack.html
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Book Casts Spell Over Adults
As if on a loopy ride on his Nimbus 2000 broom, 11-year-old Henry Potter
has soared into the popular imagination, with the first volume of his
adventures even outselling adult titles by the likes of Tom Wolfe in the
United States.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/040199potter-book.html
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