Swimming pools and private-school tuition for the lawyers and their families; warm bucket of spit for Ameritrade customers whose accounts were compromised
The wildly successful pixel-powered Web page of a British university student is coming under increasingly intense DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks trying to knock down the profitable brainstorm. Alex Tew, who created The Million Dollar Homepage to finance his schooling, has been selling pixels for US$1 each since September and auctioned the last 1,000 pixels earlier this week on eBay Inc. The technicolor site resembles a well-traveled suitcase covered with stickers, ranging from Che Guevara's image to a stop-smoking ad to a yellow smiley, all leading to paid links.
For the first time in its history, EMC Corp. has decided to offer an enterprise-class tape library as part of its product line and will begin reselling Advanced Digital Information Corp.'s tape libraries next month.
Remember the classic Dr. Seuss tale of the North-going Zax and the South-going Zax? The two identical creatures meet face-to-face, stopping in their tracks. But both are too proud and stubborn to change their course or move aside, so they just stand there, nose-to-nose, as seasons pass and technology evolves all around them.