Search

Your search keyword '"HARMON, AMY"' showing total 112 results
Start Over Author "HARMON, AMY" Topic internet
112 results on '"HARMON, AMY"'

1. Over the River? Not Anymore. Grandma's at Home on Screen

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Computer video camera, Technology application, Internet, Interpersonal communication -- Methods -- Technology application -- Usage, Grandparent and child -- Technology application -- Usage -- Methods, Internet -- Usage -- Technology application -- Methods
Abstract

Her grandfather wanted to play tea party, but Alexandra Geosits, 21/2, insisted she had only apple juice. She held out a plastic cup, giggling as she waited to see if […]

Published
2008

2. Cyberbullies: cell phones, instant messaging, and the internet are giving bullies new ways to harass their classmates, even they're not at school

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Internet -- Usage, Internet -- Analysis, Instant messaging -- Usage, Instant messaging -- Analysis, Harassment (Law), Internet, Instant messaging technology
Abstract

The fight started at school, when some girls in the eighth grade stole a pencil case filled with makeup that belonged to a new classmate, Amanda Marcuson, and she reported […]

Published
2004

3. Internet Gives Teenage Bullies Weapons to Wound From Afar

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Internet, Bullying -- Methods -- Social aspects, Teenagers -- Behavior, Youth -- Behavior, Internet -- Social aspects -- Methods
Abstract

The fight started at school, when some eighth-grade girls stole a pencil case filled with makeup that belonged to a new classmate, Amanda Marcuson, and she reported them. But it […]

Published
2004

4. Survey Finds 'Opinion Leaders' Logging On for Political News

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Internet, Internet -- Political aspects, United States -- Political aspects
Abstract

The people trolling the Internet for political news, reading the blogs of presidential candidates and bombarding their friends with campaign-related e-mail notes are not just computer wonks. They are not […]

Published
2004

5. As Digital Vandals Disrupt the Internet, A Call for Oversight

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Company legal issue, Government regulation, Internet security, Market trend/market analysis, Virus, Internet, Hacker, Computer viruses -- Prevention -- Forecasts and trends -- Cases -- Safety and security measures -- Laws, regulations and rules, Internet -- Safety and security measures -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Cases -- Forecasts and trends, Computer hackers -- Cases -- Safety and security measures -- Forecasts and trends -- Laws, regulations and rules
Abstract

The teenager accused of creating a version of the Blaster worm that infected computer systems across the world last week has been arrested. SoBig.F, an e-mail virus unleashed on the […]

Published
2003

6. Fame Is No Laughing Matter for the 'Star Wars Kid'

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Digital video, Internet, Digital video -- Public opinion -- Social aspects, Internet -- Social aspects -- Public opinion
Abstract

The Internet is riveted by a video of Ghyslain, a 15-year-old boy in Quebec who filmed himself wielding a double-bladed light saber in the manner of Darth Maul, the bad […]

Published
2003

8. New premise in science: get the word out quickly, online

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Internet, Scientists -- Science and technology policy -- Authorship -- Usage, Internet -- Usage, Periodical publishing -- Usage, Periodicals -- Science and technology policy -- Usage
Abstract

A group of prominent scientists is mounting an electronic challenge to the leading scientific journals, accusing them of holding back the progress of science by restricting online access to their […]

Published
2002

9. Internet sites delete news of sales by big retailers

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Company legal issue, Online shopping, Patent/copyright issue, Internet, Retail industry -- Cases, Copyright -- Cases, Online shopping -- Cases -- Advertising, Patents -- Cases, Internet -- Cases -- Advertising
Abstract

Several Internet shopping sites have removed information about post-Thanksgiving sales after major retailers including Wal-Mart and Target threatened legal action under a digital copyright law. Legal experts said invoking a […]

Published
2002

10. Investors may have repudiated the Internet, but consumers have not

Author

Harmon, Amy and Barringer, Felicity

Subjects
Company marketing practices, Cable television/data services, Online services, Internet, Mass media industry -- Marketing -- Usage, Conglomerate corporations -- Usage, Online services -- Marketing -- Usage, Internet -- Usage
Abstract

The reorganization of AOL Time Warner last week has been recounted as a story of Time Warner, the king of traditional media, reclaiming its rightful throne from the upstart digital […]

Published
2002

11. Use of Internet is more active at high speed

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Broadband Internet, Internet, Internet service provider, Internet service providers -- Research -- Usage, Broadband transmission -- Influence -- Usage -- Research, Internet -- Usage -- Research
Abstract

People who use high-speed services to connect to the Internet from home have a much more active relationship with the online world than those who dial up to it over […]

Published
2002

12. Fusing old and new. Leaders of media companies want to go wherever the customers are

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Company business management, Internet, Viacom Media Networks -- Management, Warner Media L.L.C. -- Management, Cable television broadcasting industry -- Management, Mass media industry -- Management, Conglomerate corporations -- Management, Cable networks (Television), Internet -- Influence
Abstract

Two years ago, when America Online, the cheeky Internet powerhouse, announced that it was buying Time Warner, the paragon of offline publishing and entertainment, it was seen as confirmation that […]

Published
2001

13. The search for intelligent life on the Internet

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Internet, World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001 -- Social aspects, Technology and civilization -- Social aspects, Terrorism -- Social aspects, Internet -- Social aspects
Abstract

AT a moment when the world's need for information has never been greater, the Internet's role as the ultimate source of unmediated news has been matched only by its notorious […]

Published
2001

14. Internet services must help fight online movie pirates, studios say

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Government regulation, Patent/copyright issue, Software piracy, Internet, Copyright -- Laws, regulations and rules, Motion pictures -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Distribution, Motion picture industry -- Crimes against -- Laws, regulations and rules, Software piracy -- Laws, regulations and rules, Internet -- Laws, regulations and rules, Product counterfeiting -- Prevention -- Laws, regulations and rules
Abstract

Anyone who wanted to see 20th Century Fox's 'Planet of the Apes' over the weekend had a choice: pay to see it in a theater or get it free over […]

Published
2001

15. Virtual revenge and the decline of the dot-coms

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Company legal issue, Company Web site/Web page, Company bankruptcy, Internet, Webvan Group Inc. -- Cases, High technology industry -- Criticism and interpretation -- Cases, Bankruptcy -- Cases, Web sites -- Humor and anecdotes -- Cases, Internet -- Cases
Abstract

THE hooting and jeering began the moment Webvan, the online grocer that was once a Wall Street darling, shut its doors last week, laying off its 2,000 employees and saying […]

Published
2001

16. Users want a greater say on how the Internet runs

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Government regulation, Internet, Markle Foundation -- Surveys -- Statistics, Attitude (Psychology) -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Surveys -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Statistics, Americans -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Surveys, Consumers -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Surveys, Public opinion polls -- Statistics -- Surveys -- Laws, regulations and rules, Internet -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Statistics -- Surveys
Abstract

If the American public could elect a governing body for the Internet, candidates would include the Pope, William H. Gates, Oprah Winfrey, teachers, ex-hackers and 'regular folks,' according to the […]

Published
2001

17. Copyright and copying wrongs: a Web rebalancing act

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Company legal issue, Government regulation, Cable television/data services, Company Web site/Web page, Patent/copyright issue, Online services, Internet, MP3.com Inc. -- Cases -- Laws, regulations and rules, Copyright -- Analysis -- Cases, Online services -- Cases -- Analysis, Web sites -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Cases -- Analysis, Home shopping -- Cases -- Analysis, Internet -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Cases -- Analysis
Abstract

WHEN Michael Robertson emerged last week from a Manhattan court, pale beneath his California tan, the chief executive of the MP3.com online music service told reporters that consumers want to […]

Published
2000

18. Online Davids vs corporate Goliaths

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Company legal issue, Government regulation, Internet, Sound recordings -- Cases -- Laws, regulations and rules, Video recording industry -- Cases -- Laws, regulations and rules, Sound recording industry -- Cases -- Laws, regulations and rules, Video recordings -- Cases -- Laws, regulations and rules, Distribution of goods -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Cases, Internet -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Cases, Piracy (Copyright) -- Cases -- Laws, regulations and rules
Abstract

IN a business culture that has long fixated ambivalently on the image of computer wizards brewing technological revolution in their garage, the back-story to the pair of digital copyright battles […]

Published
2000

19. Music industry wins ruling in U.S. court; judge says MP3.com violated copyright law

Author

Harmon, Amy and Sullivan, John

Subjects
Company legal issue, Electronic commerce, Cable television/data services, Patent/copyright issue, Online services, Internet, MP3.com Inc. -- Cases, Recording Industry Association of America -- Cases, Copyright -- Cases, Electronic commerce -- Cases, Online services -- Cases, Sound recordings -- Cases, Sound recording industry -- Cases, Home shopping -- Cases, Internet -- Cases
Abstract

A federal judge gave a key victory to the recording industry yesterday in its effort to harness the distribution of digital music over the Internet, ruling that MP3.com had violated […]

Published
2000

20. Internet Sale of Nazi Books in Germany Assailed

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Online shopping, Computer services industry, Internet, Amazon.com Inc., Online shopping, Computer services industry, Internet
Abstract

Contending that the two largest on-line booksellers are violating German laws against the distribution of hate literature, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has called on Barnesandnoble.com and Amazon.com to stop selling […]

Published
1999

21. Take These Jokes . . . Please

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Internet, Microsoft Corp., Computer software industry, Internet
Abstract

HOW many jokes has Gary Lewis sent by E-mail in the last month? Like a lot of jokes that circulate on the Internet, it isn't even funny. Mr. Lewis, an […]

Published
1999

22. Parents Fear That Children Are One Click Ahead

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Internet, Internet
Abstract

It would be hard to find a parent more gung-ho about the Internet than Faith Maupin, the moderator of an on-line discussion forum for parents with teen-agers who spends much […]

Published
1999

23. Some Enter the Fast Lane To Get Access to the Web

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Telecommunications services industry, Internet, Bell Atlantic Corp., Telecommunications services industry, Internet, Communications industry
Abstract

The craving for speed seized John Drees the day after he bought his first personal computer late last year. In a stir-crazy state that most everyone who uses the Internet […]

Published
1999

24. Caveat Emptor on the Web: Ad and Editorial Lines Blur

Author

Hansell, Saul and Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Online information service, Internet, Johnson & Johnson, AOL Inc., Online information services, Online services, Information services, Internet, Pharmaceutical industry
Abstract

Does your baby have diaper rash? You could search for solutions on an Internet site called Baby Center. Looking for a Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles? The Los Angeles Times […]

Published
1999

25. Internet Changes Language For :-) & :-(

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Internet, Internet
Abstract

Consider the linguistic life of Andrew Walker, 12, a k a Off Cpring. Like most seventh graders, he talks quite a bit to his friends and parents. He also writes […]

Published
1999

26. Reviews Follow Ban on Library Internet Filter

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Internet, Public libraries -- Censorship, Internet
Abstract

A ruling by a Federal judge on Monday that barred public libraries in Loudoun County from limiting how patrons use the Internet is binding only in eastern Virginia, but it […]

Published
1998

27. U.S. Expected to Support Shift in Administration of the Internet

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Internet, Nonprofit organizations, Internet
Abstract

Clearing the way for the global Internet to be governed without governments, the Clinton Administration is expected today to commit itself to hand over the administration of the computer network […]

Published
1998

28. TESTING OF A PRESIDENT: THE INTERNET; Tangled Web Tangles Up the World Wide Web

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Online information service, Internet, AOL Inc. -- Reports, Online information services -- Reports, Online services -- Reports, Information services -- Reports, Internet -- Reports
Abstract

The downloads were slow, the error messages were many, but in the first experiment in electronic communication between the United States Government and its citizens on a massive scale, millions […]

Published
1998

30. Sad, Lonely World Discovered in Cyberspace

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Internet, Depression, Mental, Internet
Abstract

In the first concentrated study of the social and psychological effects of Internet use at home, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found that people who spend even a few […]

Published
1998

31. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS; Canadian Ruling Unmasks a Company's Internet Critics

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Internet, Internet service provider, Philip Services Corp. (Chicago, Illinois), Internet service providers, Libel and slander, Recycling industry, Internet
Abstract

In a ruling that may impose new limits on some on-line discussions, a Canadian court has unmasked several pseudonymous critics that attacked an Ontario-based recycling company on an Internet message […]

Published
1998

33. Compressed Data; Conference Takes On Internet Privacy Again

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Privacy issue, Internet, Privacy, Right of -- Conferences, meetings and seminars, Privacy -- Conferences, meetings and seminars, Internet -- Conferences, meetings and seminars
Abstract

If the Commerce Department's weekly conference calls are any indication, the chief result of its summit meeting on Internet privacy in Washington this week will very likely be frustration on […]

Published
1998

34. U.S., in Shift, Drops Its Effort to Manage Internet Addresses

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Company business management, Internet, Internet
Abstract

The Clinton Administration renounced the last vestige of control by the United States Government over the Internet's basic structure yesterday, acknowledging that the computer network had grown too big, too […]

Published
1998

35. Racial Divide Found on Information Highway

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Internet, Internet -- Reports -- Surveys, African Americans -- Surveys -- Reports
Abstract

At a time when the Clinton Administration is promoting the Internet as an engine of commerce and a tool of democracy, a new study has found that black Americans are […]

Published
1998

36. Biggest Sender Of Junk Mail On Internet Agrees to Stop

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Internet, Unsolicited bulk e-mail, Cyber Promotions Inc., Spam (Junk email), Marketing industry, Internet
Abstract

In a consent decree that represents a turning point in the escalating war against Internet junk E-mail, or 'spam,' the company most responsible for stuffing millions of E-mail boxes with […]

Published
1998

37. Guess Who's Going On Line

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Online information service, Internet, AOL Inc., Online information services, Online services, Information services, Internet
Abstract

THE E-mail was brief, but for the loose group of Webheads who subscribe to a list where it was posted recently, no further explanation was required. They could identify. To: […]

Published
1998

38. Library Suit Becomes Key Test Of Freedom to Use the Internet

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Software quality, Internet, Software, Public libraries, Internet
Abstract

When patrons of the Loudoun County, Va., public library try to view sexually explicit material on any of nine computers newly connected to the Internet, a software program responds with […]

Published
1998

39. Internet Group Challenges U.S. Over Web Addresses

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Internet, Internet
Abstract

One of the more remarkable features of the computer network on which much of the world has come to rely for communication is that nobody owns it. That does not […]

Published
1998

41. Ideological Foes Meet on Web Decency

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Internet, High technology industry, Internet
Abstract

Five months after the Supreme Court struck down an attempt by Congress to criminalize the distribution of indecent material over the Internet, several family advocacy and civil liberties groups plan […]

Published
1997

43. In TV's Dull Summer Days, Plots Take Wing on the Net

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Internet, The X-Files (Television program), Television programs, Television broadcasting industry, Internet
Abstract

On TV this summer, as it does every long, trying season of reruns, time is standing still. Impatient channel surfing doesn't help. Glimpses of fall premieres are only maddening. Months […]

Published
1997

44. For Parents, a New and Vexing Burden

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Internet, Parenting, Internet
Abstract

The discussion topics in Internet support groups for parents of teen-agers are typically as raw and predictable as adolescence itself: 'Huge hickeys on my 16 y/o son's neck,' divulges one […]

Published
1997

45. Surging Internet use strains phone system

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Internet/Web technology, Internet, Telecommunications industry, Internet -- Usage, Telecommunications services industry -- Services
Published
1996

49. Judge blocks government's enforcement of Internet ban

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Telecommunications industry, Internet, Censorship issue, Lawsuit/litigation, United States. Department of Justice -- Cases, American Civil Liberties Union -- Cases, Telecommunications services industry -- Laws, regulations and rules, Internet -- Laws, regulations and rules
Published
1996

50. PacBell pulls plug on vaunted high-tech plan

Author

Harmon, Amy

Subjects
Company systems management, Internet, AT&T Inc. -- Management, Internet -- Services, Fiber optic networks -- Services, Telecommunications services industry -- Services
Published
1996

Catalog

Books, media, physical & digital resources
See catalog results