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Which is why it's such a shame that Steve Case and Bill Gates aren't better buddies. The AOL and Microsoft bosses have spent the past week in a mini-war over this hugely popular software, which analysts consider the second most valuable piece of digital real estate in the world, after the Windows desktop. Because AOL is the undisputed king of IM, Microsoft (along with a host of other IM providers) is trying to gain access to the 40 million folks using AOL's free IM software--and is occasionally succeeding. AOL, claiming concern for users' password protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Shoot the Messages | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...invite the press to "kiss my skinny white ass." And for once, "skinny" wasn't the problem. "White," rather, reminded us too vividly that Fox had bumped to midseason the heftier black keister of Thurgood Stubbs, animated star of The PJs, in favor of Ally, the half-hour Mini-Me to Ally McBeal and, incidentally, part of the most Caucasian fall lineup in years. It should not have surprised anyone, then, that N.A.A.C.P. president Kweisi Mfume last week issued a similarly spirited directive to the Big Four networks, ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC: Put some color back in prime time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Vast Whiteland | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

...hostel owner noticed my mini panic-attack and offered to shuttle me to the outskirts of Hamilton. From there I could hitch a ride to Raglan. "It's very hitchable," he assured me. I accepted the offer and wondered if his generosity had anything to do with the fact that yesterday I had introduced myself as a Let's Go New Zealand research-writer...

Author: By Jonathan S. Paul, | Title: POSTCARD FROM NEW ZEALAND | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

...hostel owner noticed my mini panic-attack and offered to shuttle me to the outskirts of Hamilton. From there I could hitch a ride to Raglan. "It's very hitchable," he assured me. I accepted the offer and wondered if his generosity had anything to do with the fact that yesterday I had introduced myself as a Let's Go New Zealand research-writer...

Author: By Jonathan S. Paul, | Title: To Raglan and Back | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

DIED. CECILIA DANIELI, 56, developer of compact steel mills, or mini-mills, that revolutionized the steel industry; of cancer; in Aviano, Italy. The so-called Iron Lady turned the Danieli Group into a hugely profitable international company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 5, 1999 | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

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