Saturday, August 21, 2004

Insiders Get Rich Through Google IPO. The biggest individual winners are the top three executives, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt as each make $41 million. -The Washington Post By By Terence O'Hara. [washingtonpost.com - Technology] 4:40:59 PM    comment []

College help solve music problem More colleges get cheap online music. Cdigix will distribute MusicNet subscriptions to students at six different schools. [CNET News.com] 3:22:45 PM    comment []

Moveon.org subscribers exposed. Dozens of the political action committee's subscriber pages revealed by simple Google search. [CNET News.com] 3:21:52 PM    comment []

verbose: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. verbose [Dictionary.com Word of the Day] 1:34:47 PM    comment []

Possible security breach seen at AOL. An AOL user who logged on to check his online financial portfolio was given access to someone else's data and is calling on AOL to correct what he sees as a security breach. AOL acknowledged an "issue," but said corrective action has been taken. [Computerworld News] 1:34:28 PM    comment []

online sales up up up Online sales continue to rise, up 23.1% from a year ago. While they're still a sliver of overall U.S. retail sales, retail online sales continued to rise in the second quarter of the year to $15.7 billion, according to figures released today by the U.S. Department of Commerce. [Computerworld News] 1:33:16 PM    comment []

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