Farhad Manjoo

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  • Total Commercialization Awareness!

    Al-Qaida online, Slashdot sells out and Yellowstone National Park gets renamed: Salon's top 10 technology and business predictions for 2003.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski and Farhad Manjoo January 2, 2003

  • March of the "lucky duckies"

    How did a callous and inaccurate argument for taxing the poor become part of the conservative agenda and the White House playbook?
    By Farhad Manjoo December 21, 2002

  • United's ESOP fable

    Did employee stock ownership drive the airline into bankruptcy?
    By Farhad Manjoo December 12, 2002

  • Replay it again, Sam

    Personal video recorders already have Hollywood running scared. Now Microsoft is pushing a new computer that will make trading TV shows as easy as using ... Napster.
    By Farhad Manjoo December 9, 2002

  • Is Big Brother our only hope against bin Laden?

    Civil libertarians are outraged about Total Information Awareness, the government's Orwellian plan to monitor everyone, all the time. But some computer scientists say it might be the only way to save civilization.
    By Farhad Manjoo December 3, 2002

  • The Homeland Security merger mess

    A Harvard analyst says government consolidation won't improve the fight against terrorism quickly, and maybe not at all. The reason: Most big corporate mergers fail.
    By Farhad Manjoo November 21, 2002

  • Microsoft wants your cellphone

    The software king has big plans for making the world of mobile phones safe for Windows. Can phone makers, and a little Norwegian company called Opera, stop the onslaught?
    By Farhad Manjoo November 21, 2002

  • Pulling the trigger on Saddam

    In Quest for Hussein, you can invade Iraq all by yourself. But is ousting this evil dictator worth the effort?
    By Farhad Manjoo November 12, 2002

  • Voting into the void

    New touch-screen voting machines may look spiffy, but some experts say they can't be trusted.
    By Farhad Manjoo November 5, 2002

  • Settlement talk

    What Bill Gates and advocates for each side have to say about the court's decision to approve the Microsoft antitrust deal.
    By Farhad Manjoo November 2, 2002

  • Guns, lies and the Internet in South Carolina

    Field & Stream's Web site was associated with a voter's guide accusing a Democratic Senate candidate of being anti-gun. One problem: He's a member of the NRA.
    By Farhad Manjoo November 1, 2002

  • Goliath crushes David

    Even as it was fighting its antitrust battle with the feds, Microsoft was already on to Round 2: Winning the streaming-media wars. Second of two parts.
    By Farhad Manjoo October 30, 2002

  • Microsoft's media monopoly

    Bill Gates wants to control the delivery of digital entertainment into your home. And according to a lawsuit brought by a pioneering software company, he's prepared to crush anything that gets in his way. First of two parts.
    By Farhad Manjoo October 29, 2002

  • U.S. Embassy to Dmitry Sklyarov: Access denied

    The Russian programmer expected to testify in the first DMCA criminal trial can't get a visa to visit the United States.
    By Farhad Manjoo October 17, 2002

  • Saving AOL

    The online giant's woes are legion. Will new software and a bet on broadband come to the rescue?
    By Farhad Manjoo October 15, 2002

  • Betting on Uncle Sam

    Online gamblers are waiting for legislators to make their Wild West world a safer place to wager -- but the government keeps waffling.
    By Farhad Manjoo October 5, 2002

  • Investors of the world, unite!

    Former chairman of the SEC Arthur Levitt declares the time is ripe for fighting back against Wall Street.
    By Farhad Manjoo September 25, 2002

  • Building the underground computer railroad

    Anti-globalization activists in Oakland, Calif., are recycling old machines, loading them with free software and shipping them off to Ecuador.
    By Farhad Manjoo September 23, 2002

  • The strangest domain-name squabble ever

    Girl Scouts, domestic violence awareness, charges of racism and censorship -- this Web site fight is a train wreck!
    By Farhad Manjoo September 19, 2002

  • Mozilla rising

    Netscape won't dislodge Internet Explorer from its hegemony over browser space. But its open-source sibling is aiming at even bigger game: Windows.
    By Farhad Manjoo September 10, 2002

  • Meet Mr. Anti-Google

    A crusading webmaster says the popular search engine's page-ranking algorithm is "undemocratic."
    By Farhad Manjoo August 29, 2002

  • Buy Linux. It's the law

    A San Diego lawyer says California's state government should be forced to dump Microsoft in favor of open-source alternatives. But can free software get into politics without getting dirty?
    By Farhad Manjoo August 27, 2002

  • Accounting scandal at Mother Earth, Inc.

    Put that rainforest on your spreadsheet and suddenly the global economy looks different, by trillions of dollars, a new study shows.
    By Farhad Manjoo August 19, 2002

  • Gnutella bandwidth bandits

    The file-trading network's developers are discovering that even their wide-open, free-for-all technology might need a little policing.
    By Farhad Manjoo August 8, 2002

  • Sour notes

    The legal crackdown hasn't squelched MP3 trading -- it's just made it more of a pain. But the music industry would still rather fight than give its online customers what they want.
    By Farhad Manjoo July 30, 2002
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