San Francisco Chronicle

Explains some of the current e-book technology and how it works. [SF Gate]

The San Francisco Chronicle's article about cybercafes.

Compaq Computer Corp. has agreed to pay a San Jose man $3.35 million for the Web address www.altavista.com, which is believed to be a record amount paid for a domain name, according to a source close to the deal. [SF Chronicle]

"Stealth" Web pages feed off addresses [San Francisco Chronicle]

In a pioneering move that may herald the dawn of the cyber-campaign, hundreds of thousands of Californians will soon begin hearing from political candidates via e-mail.

In a victory to thrill anyone annoyed by the "spam" that clogs e-mail accounts, an appellate court has upheld the constitutionality of California's tough 1998 law regulating unwanted commercial messages.

Fight is on to keep unwanted text ads off cell phones.

According to the latest monthly data from Brightmail the rate of unique spam attacks measured by the company's network of decoy addresses has increased more than five-fold during the past year -- from less than a million in June 2001 to more than 4.8 ...

Amid all the unwanted e-mail pitches for Viagra, porn and Nigerian get- rich schemes comes this message from computer experts: You ain't seen nothing yet.