Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Net Overloads US Patent Agency - The US Patent and Trademark Office can't hire people fast enough to keep up with skyrocketing demand for Internet patents, let alone stay current with the technology. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]   Net Rumors Fry Stock Guru - Wade Cook's controversial investment advisory firm files a slander suit against anonymous users of a Yahoo bulletin board. [Wired News]   Net Tax Fan's Switcheroo - A proponent of Internet taxation is now eyeing a voluntary system. Also, a vote for Orrin Hatch is a vote for Orrin Hatch. By Declan McCullagh. [Wired News]   Net Tax Panel Convenes, at Last - A federal advisory group meets to untangle the thorny issues surrounding Internet taxation. How will the panel's contentious beginning affect the business at hand? Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   Net Tax Policy on the Slow Track - The federal panel charged with creating Net tax guidelines seeks to balance the demands of business with state and local governments. It's not so easy with Congress breathing down its neck. [Wired News]   Net Tax Stalemate Snoozes On - Billions are at stake, but tax geeks spent much of the first E-Commerce Commission meeting adjusting ties, cradling chins, and drumming impatient fingers on the table. Declan McCullagh reports from Williamsburg, Virginia. [Wired News]   NetSol Cleared of Antitrust - A US Court of Appeals clears the domain-name registrar of charges that it refused to add new top-level domains to the .com, .net, and .org family. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   NetSol Spams Name Holders - The company in charge of all things .com, .net, and .org emails an unsolicted marketing message to thousands of domain-name holders. Network admins cry spam. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]   NetSol to Keep Domain Data - The US Department of Commerce extends Network Solutions control over the domain name database for four more years. The company agrees to lower prices and cooperate more with ICANN. [Wired News]   NetSol, ICANN Reach Accord - Network Solutions cuts a deal: ICANN gets the Whois datatase of registered domain names, but it promises to play nice. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   New Hearing in Caldera v. MS - Caldera questions the motives behind Microsoft's licensing agreements. Microsoft says the Utah software company is desperate. Chris Stamper reports from Seattle. [Wired News]   New Push for Taxing E-Commerce - Despite a Clinton-supported moratorium on imposing a sales tax on Internet purchases, that's exactly what county government officials are urging Congress to do. [Wired News]   New Registrars Join the Melee - With eight more successful applicants, ICANN expands its list of eligible domain name registrars to 43. [Wired News]   Next They'll Ban Rubber Duckies - When the National Security Agency moved to ban fuzzy, adorable Furby dolls from its headquarters, spooks were none too impressed. Internal NSA discussion groups were buzzing with questions about how a toy could be a security risk. [Wired News]   No Credit Where It's Due - Vice President Gore tells a reporter the Internet was his idea. Nice try, Al. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   No Smut Please, We're Australian - A proposed Australian law would force Internet service providers to block foreign and domestic adult-oriented Web sites. Critics say the bill's footprints lead straight to the political offices of a Tasmanian devil. By James Glave. [Wired News]   Nosing Into Shopping Carts - A California supermarket drops its consumer discount cards. The bargains don't justify the loss of privacy for some customers. [Wired News]   Not for Sale: Bushsucks.com - Thinking of registering a parody George W. Bush domain, with an eye to lampooning the presidential hopeful? Sorry, they're all taken, and they all point to one place. [Wired News]   Noteworthy Threats on Netscape - An IBM manager says Redmond routinely demanded that Big Blue promote Microsoft products in lieu of other developers' applications. But it was especially adamant about not loading Netscape's browser on IBM PCs. [Wired News]   Nukes Still Buggy - More than two dozen of the nation's nuclear power plants are not Y2K-compliant. The feds say the problems are insignificant. Ri-i-ight. [Wired News]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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