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Thursday, March 21, 2002

HP, Compaq declare victory. special coverage Compaq shareholders give a green light to the blockbuster merger, a day after HP CEO Carly Fiorina claims a narrow win among HP shareholders. [CNET News.com]
7:55:11 PM

Zvon.org: Online RFC Repository Completed Requests For Comments are the Bible of the Internet, but unfortunately their usefulness as reference materials were restricted by their format. [Linux Today]

This repository fixes that problem.

7:49:09 PM

PayPal launches developer toolkit The PayPal e-Commerce Toolkit was created by Web development company WebAssist.com and is being offered as a free extension for Macromedia's Dreamweaver 4 and Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 Web development tools. The toolkit can be downloaded at http://www.macromedia.com/exchange/dreamweaver/.
[IDG InfoWorld]
7:17:41 PM

The end of the free web... maybe less spam?

7:13:45 PM

Yahoo to charge POP3 e-mail users YAHOO WENT ONE step further toward weaning users off its free services Thursday, informing those people who access their Yahoo Mail accounts using POP3 programs or automatically forward e-mail to other accounts that they will now have to pay $29.99 a year for these services or they will be shut out effective April 24.
[IDG InfoWorld]
6:59:33 PM

Yahoo tacks fees onto e-mail, storage. E-mail, photo and briefcase services are no longer spared from fees imposed around the site: People who want to keep using certain mail and storage features will have to pay up. [CNET News.com]
6:57:41 PM

Microsoft sweeps out Hotmail accounts. People using the free e-mail service are seeing their folders and in-boxes cleaned out as their junk-mail folders fill with pitches for a paid version of Hotmail. [CNET News.com]
6:53:14 PM