Microsoft: Breaking Up Is Good to Do Microsoft: Breaking Up Is Good to Do
The pace of recent events made one of the most significant rulings in the history of American antitrust law seem like an anti-climax.
Jun 8, 2000 / Feature / Eben Moglen
What They Do Know Can Hurt You What They Do Know Can Hurt You
This article is adapted by permission from Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century (O'Reilly).
Feb 10, 2000 / Feature / Simson L. Garfinkel
Microsoft’s Fatal Error Microsoft’s Fatal Error
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's factual findings in United States v. Microsoft, released November 5, spell the doom of Microsoft as we have known it.
Nov 11, 1999 / Eben Moglen
Media, Inside Out Media, Inside Out
The recent CBS-Viacom-bination--at $37 billion, the largest media deal ever--mirrored previous purchases, like Disney's acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC and Time Warner's taking...
Nov 11, 1999 / Feature / Rory O’Connor
Indonesian Improvisation Indonesian Improvisation
Armed militias had forced most journalists to flee from East Timor by September 7, the day then-President B.J. Habibie and General Wiranto of Indonesia declared martial law for t...
Nov 11, 1999 / Feature / Suzanne Charlé
Thurow’s Infonomics Thurow’s Infonomics
We are entering, techno-boosters breathlessly proclaim, a "third industrial revolution," that of the "knowledge-based" or "new" economy.
Oct 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Robert J. Crawford
Reality Check–Virtual, of Course Reality Check–Virtual, of Course
A perplexing disconnect from reality haunts the American financial community.
Aug 19, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Larry Hedrick
The Net That Binds The Net That Binds
This article is adapted from Andrew L. Shapiro's book about the politics of the Internet, The Control Revolution (PublicAffairs/Century Foundation). For more information visit www....
Jun 3, 1999 / Feature / Andrew L. Shapiro
On the Virtual Picket Line On the Virtual Picket Line
The unfortunate flaw in From the Telegraph to the Internet is its title, which suggests a highly specialized account of an industry when in fact it is a deeply moving narrative ...
May 13, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Marcus G. Raskin