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...year-old Dallas resident DotComGuy (known as Mitch Maddox before he changed his name) has turned himself into a sort of wired groundhog, vowing to spend an entire year ordering everything he needs to live, from food to furniture, over the Internet. Like a switched-on Thoreau at a virtual Walden Pond, he devised the stunt to teach mankind that the age of e-commerce is here--and that it is good...
...futuristic DotComGuy, on the other hand, continues to live happily inside his cyberden. The equivalent of a 1920s flagpole sitter, he shows no sign of cracking; indeed, if his virtual exile goes as planned, he will earn more than $90,000 this year. His website, which features streaming video of nearly his every move, receives millions of hits a day and is laced with advertisements. What's more, he's lined up corporate sponsors that include online grocer Peapod.com and bookseller Borders.com Wrote an admirer in an e-mail to DotComGuy's site: "What you're doing...
...target of the virtual stickup was a website known as CD Universe, which sells music and DVD movies online. Doing business on the Net since 1996, CD Universe had served more than 300,000 customers--which translates to roughly 300,000 credit-card numbers salted away in its electronic files. Last month the site's parent company, eUniverse, based in Wallingford, Conn., was contacted by someone identifying himself as "Maxus," a 19-year-old Russian who claimed to have hacked into those files and filched those numbers. The FBI has since asked the company not to reveal whether that communication...
...Evening News. On New Year's Eve in Times Square, his heir Dan Rather might have closed, "And that's the way it appears to be, thanks to the magic of computer imaging." But he didn't. Nor did CBS say it had digitally inserted a virtual logo in the neon adscape behind him, obliterating an existing sign for NBC. In fact, it turns out CBS has used digital image-insertion technology ever since launching the Early Show in November, to plaster that program's logo all over its Manhattan neighborhood--at the entrance to Central Park, on the back...
...INTELLIBARTER.COM, members list everything from used CDs to elegant evening gowns in the hope that someone will offer them a desirable trade. You can read the listings for free, but in order to get a person's contact information, you must pay 35[cents] to 50[cents], using virtual "tokens" you buy on the site. A rival site, MRSWAP.COM, launches early next month. Look out, eBay...