April 3, 2001 - Americans think that child pornography is the biggest problem on the internet. Child pornographers are coming out of the dark corners of the world and they are congregating on the internet.
March 30, 2001 - All week Minnesota Public Radio has been looking at the promise of new wireless technologies. New uses for web-ready cell phones and palm-top computers on the job, at school, and in rural communities offer greater mobility than ever before . But some of the same features touted by proponents are precisely those raising hackles among critics. Take the ability of mobile phones and other wireless gadgets to pinpoint and broadcast a user's location to within a few feet. That means it'll be easier to find people when they become ill, or get lost in a blizzard. But do people really want marketers and government officials to know where they are at all times? Minnesota Public Radio's Jon Gordon has the final installment of our series, Minnesota Unplugged.
March 28, 2001 - Why the wireless communications industry is moving aggressively to fight cell phone spam.
March 27, 2001 - The emerging problem of cell phone spam. It is coming from the SMS availability.
March 26, 2001 - Politicians are ignoring emails because there are too many emails to read through. Each politician is getting approximately 80,000 emails a year. It all started with the Clinton impeachment hearings. Citizens are using the internet for quick delivery and convenience.
March 26, 2001 - For some, wireless technologies hold the kind of promise once offered by the Internet itself. A host of companies are racing to find new ways of untying information from its wired moorings. The result -- appliances like web-ready cell phones and palm-top computers. Whether on the job, at school, or at play, rising numbers of people are going mobile. Today Minnesota Public Radio's Jon Gordon launches a new series, Minnesota Unplugged.
March 20, 2001 - Dot-com companies are abandoning the idea of having those who built the companies be treated well after being let go.
March 19, 2001 - Greed and stupidity is the cause for the downfall of many dot-com companies.
March 6, 2001 - Gopher, created in the early 1990s at the University of Minnesota, organized the internet into lists.
March 5, 2001 - Using the web to fight world poverty. Internet should be able to encourage Americans to be aware and care about world poverty.