Tuesday, December 3, 2002

Why do books cost so much?: Good question. A good programming book averages $35 bucks. Jeez..whatever happened to good documentation.

AOL Sees Flat 2003. Plus, the real cost of free shipping, and three questions before you shack up.

Wi-Fi app alerts IT managers to intruders Newbury Networks says its WiFi Watchdog helps IT managers sniff out 802.11b network intruders and cut off their access.

"To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." e. e. Cummings, American poet (1894-1962).

EchoStar offers to sell frequencies: EchoStar Communications Corp. and Hughes Electronics Corp. have offered to sell more frequencies to Cablevision in a last ditch effort to secure regulatory approval of their $19 billion merger.

George Mannes: Some Say EchoStar-DirecTV Deal Still Won't Fly

George Mannes: Cable Watchers Thinking Inside a Cheaper Box

Doing Business by Cellphone Creates New Liability Issues. The technological boon of mobile phones may make companies liable if employees using them are involved in accidents.

Scratching Without Vinyl: a Hip-Hop Revolution. Recently some of hip-hop's most celebrated D.J.'s have made the leap from analog to digital. By Michael Endelman.

Offers for AOL Online Unit Were Rejected. Several Wall Street buyout firms approached AOL Time Warner earlier this year about the possibility of acquiring its flagship online unit but were rebuffed, according to executives close to the discussions.