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Welcome Bugs for Parisian Trees
- There are an estimated 475,000 trees in the French capital. Protecting them against pollution and disease may be getting a little easier, thanks to a computer chip. [Wired News]
What Cookies Can Do for You
- Webmonkey serves up a hot and piping introduction to cookies -- the main course for any e-business relying on ad revenues. [Wired News]
What Glitters for Gates?
- The world's richest man holds a 10 percent stake in a Canadian silver mine, and it's already made him a cool US$4.5 million. [Wired News]
What Next for AT&T?
- With Comcast out of the way, its acquisition of MediaOne is on track. Now AT&T is reportedly set to enter into a partnership with Microsoft. [Wired News]
What's It All About, Andy?
- Intel's chairman muses about Internet stocks. Like everyone else, Grove could use a crystal ball. [Wired News]
What? No Net IPOs Ahead?
- These are truly the dog days of summer when it comes to Internet companies going public. But it's just a temporary lull. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]
Whatever You Say, Al
- Greenspan thinks share prices are too big for their britches. Naughty investors respond by pushing prices even higher before finally taking his advice. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
When Irish Eyeballs Are Smiling
- The ideal St. Patrick's Day revelers will hold a pint of Guinness in one hand and a mouse in the other as they explore a range of new Irish portals. By Niall McKay. [Wired News]
Whew! A Net Gain
- Dot-com stocks made a comeback Thursday after a long slump. That made investors happy. But the International Monetary Fund is still worried about the bubble bursting. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]
Whither China on Dot Coms?
- China says it will clamp down on foreign investment in its nascent Internet industry. Foreign investors say they'll wait and see. China.com tanks anyway. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
Who's King of the Domains Now?
- Will throwing open domain-name registration change the Net at all? Or are new domains, such as .store and .law, needed for real competition? By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]
Who's the Next Lucky MP3 Site?
- No one's naming names, but VCs and big media companies are seriously scoping enterprises involved in MP3. At least, that's the word on the street. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
Whole Foods Going Online
- The natural-foods grocer establishes an e-commerce subsidiary. It hopes to offer 6,000 products online this spring, and become profitable within two years. [Wired News]
Whopping Profits for Microsoft
- The numbers are in for Microsoft's latest quarter, and they're big -- much bigger than Wall Street projected. So what's new? [Wired News]
Will AT&T Blot Out AOL?
- If AT T succeeds in its bid for MediaOne, it will control a massive chunk of the cable Net-access market. That could be grim for AOL, say analysts. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
Will Compaq Dump AltaVista?
- The struggling computer maker is reportedly in talks to sell the search engine to CMGI. Also: Metromedia Fiber to acquire AboveNet for US$1.55 billion in stock.... Banking giants in e-billing venture.... Aussie mining company to sell sex toys on the Net.... And more. [Wired News]
Will D-10K Undo Wall Street?
- Brokerages have prepared their computer systems for the added digit that would be necessary if the Dow Jones Industrial Average hits 10,000. But there's still a teensy bit of nervousness. [Wired News]
Wired News Unplugged
- Service on our network was interrupted for 100 minutes Monday at 8:20 a.m. PDT by a power failure in a portion of San Francisco's Multimedia Gulch. We regret any inconvenience to our readers. [Wired News]
Wired News Unplugged -- Redux
- A power failure in the immediate vicinity of Wired Digital took Wired News offline for approximately 2 1/2 - 3 hours on Thursday. It was the second such power failure this week. Geez. Sorry for the inconvenience. [Wired News]
Wired News Week
- Bigwigs dis Congress ... Slashdot slashes the middleman ... Windows faces a security hole the size of Seattle ... and more news and goings-on. Compiled by Pete Danko. [Wired News]
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