Internet
NYT: Netscape Tries a Nonprofit Approach to Profits
WSJ: Idaho Tribe Uses Loophole to Put Gaming on Web
Merger
NYT: Lycos Buys Tripod for $58 Million
Technology
NYT: IBM and Digital to Report on New Super-Chips
** Internet **
Title: Netscape Tries a Nonprofit Approach to Profits
Source: New York Times (CyberTimes)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/020498netscape.html
Author: Peter Wayner
Issue: Online Services
Description: Netscape's decision to give the source code of its browser away
free has raised eyebrows and prompted cheers throughout the Internet. The
radical move surprised many because most software companies guard source
code much the same way that restaurants protect their secret recipes.
Releasing the source code makes Netscape's Web browser more attractive for
adept programmers because they can customize the product for themselves,
their companies and their friends, but it also brings new problems for
managing the source code and generating revenue.
Title: Idaho Tribe Uses Loophole to Put Gaming on Web
Source: Wall Street Journal (B1)
http://wsj.com/
Author: Thomas E. Weber
Issue: Internet Regulation
Description: The Coeur d'Alene, an Indian tribe in Idaho, believes it has
found a legal loophole to offer a $1 million lottery on the Internet, but
opponents are rallying to get the Web site shut down. Missouri Attorney
General Jay Nixon, who has filed a lawsuit against the tribe, said, "They're
trying to beat the system...it's wrong, it's illegal and we're going to
fight it." The fight is looming as a key case as gambling creeps onto the
World Wide Web. So far, Internet wagering operations have been relegated to
shady-sounding offshore locales. The few U.S.-based ventures that tried to
make a go of it were quickly driven off. But the Coeur D'Alenes are relying
on the same legal foundation that has spawned an explosion of traditional
casinos on tribal land across the U.S. If the Coeur d'Alenes succeed on the
Internet, "I'm sure other tribes would take a look at it," says Shannon
Bybee, executive director of the International Gaming Institute at the Univ.
of Nevada.
** Merger **
Title: Lycos Buys Tripod for $58 Million
Source: New York Times/CyberTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/020498lycos.html
Author: Bloomberg
Issue: Merger
Description: Lycos Inc. announced yesterday that it has purchased Tripod
Inc., based in Williamstown, MA, for $58 million in stock. The acquisition
of Tripod, a Web site that offers members free publishing tools to create
their own Web sites and content on topics, will add an online community to
Lycos' Internet directory service. Bob Davis, Lycos chief executive, said in
a statement, "This new-generation online service is a single place where all
users can communicate, network, play and interact within communities that
meet customers' interests as well as access the most popular free Internet
services today."
** Technology **
Title: IBM and Digital to Report on New Super-Chips
Source: New York Times/CyberTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/020498chip.html
Author: John Markoff
Issue: Technology
Description: At the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San
Francisco today, both IBM and Digital Equipment Corp. will present technical
papers describing experimental chips that operate at more than one billion
cycles a second. The so-called gegahertz speed will run at three times the
speed of today's most powerful personal-computer chips. The chips are not
expected to hit the market until after the turn of the century.
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