Piper Jaffray Has a Bad Quarter

Piper Jaffray announced net income of $7.3 million, or $0.38 per diluted share, for the quarter ended March 31, 2005, down from net income of $13.8 million, or $0.71 per diluted share, for the quarter ended March 31, 2004.

An Editor Spins Her Thoughts about Web Content

A glossy magazine placed an advertisement on its Web site, targeting the publication's upscale subscribers. The expensive ad emphasized how perfect the tiniest detail would be for guests who stayed at a certain, very fancy hotel.

AOL Takes Action Against Phishing

America Online announced a major new initiative to combat "phishing" -- the practice of using fraudulent e-mail and fake web sites to solicit sensitive personal information from users.

How XHTML 2 Handles Headings

One thing I like about the upcoming XHTML 2 is the way it handles headings. Anyone who ever touched HTML knows a heading is written as <h1>...</h1>, <h2>...</h2> and so on.