The question occurred to me over lunch in the press lounge at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Atlanta. As hundreds…
One of the perverse ironies of the World Wide Web is that in order to reach a virtually unlimited number…
Seattle companies developing the wireless Internet are chasing new venture capital.
While electronic freedom fighters wage battles to protect our access to information on the Internet, who is watching to protect…
Why the scourge of the Internet might be unstoppable.
On my refrigerator hangs an old cartoon in which Dilbert, extolling the freedom his laptop computer and cellular phone give…
When word got out that this would be the last Byte Me column, the accolades from Seattle’s technology elite poured…
If you want to get a taste of what it’s like to live in Internet time, don’t go to work…
Is Nintendo finally off its game? You couldn’t tell from its public pronouncements, but there are signs the master of…
Online consumer beware: ‘Trusted’ retail partners don’t honor Amazon’s privacy policy—or your marketing preferences.
A roundup of battery-draining holiday fun.
Like it or not, the company that aspires to innovate is tied to the PC.
Anyone who thinks there can be a rational resolution to the e-mail spam problem might first want to tackle issues…
More than two decades before the first personal computer, Arthur C. Clarke’s short story “The Nine Billion Names of God”…
I first heard the complaint two years ago, mentioned in passing in the halls of computer trade shows. Last spring…
If you want to get a bargain, simply fire up the modem and shop on the Web, right? Sure—if you’re…
Imagining a Seattle where Microsoft never existed.
Bigger is better—so promoters of super-sized fast-food meals, cinematic lizards, and Viagra would have you believe. Now it appears the…
The software industry may have finally found the real mass market “killer app”: programs that encourage the realistic dispatching of…
Seattle’s remaining tech companies aren’t likely to rebound soon, but some are poised to capitalize if new products catch on.
This year, all cables lead to consumer electronics.
The French are not like us. They put huge ads for vacations in Cuba in their subway stations. They eat…
In 2002, ‘smart’ and ‘multimedia’ are givens.
