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Everything Has Changed
Wired Economy As the Internet comes of age, many are still trying to understand its raw power to usurp existing structures. Both business leaders and policymakers feel its force. "Getting wired," both in a business sense and a policy sense, seems ever more urgent. This special section, the third in an occasional series on technology, examines the upheaval caused by the Internet to traditional business models and to legislative policies. It also provides help in getting wired, both to the key policies and to the businesses that are shaping the global network. Continue Reading

Part II: Wiring Your Business
The Right Connections: Online Operations Expand Influence on Businesses Large and Small

Outsourcing Data Management: Amid Tight Security, Web Hosters Fill a Niche For Smaller Firms

Caught in a Web of Complications: For Businesses Hooking Up to the Internet, Shortcuts Can be Frustrating

ASPs Help Clients Use the Net: New Application Service Providers Hope to Profit by Offering an Array of Services

Three Little Letters; One Big Leap: Internet Experts Enthusiastic About XML Programming Potential

Innovators Wait for the Payoff: Firms Find Cost of Some Technologies Is More Justifiable Than Others

Resources
A B2B Internet Sampler

Glossary

Technology Roll Call
House of Representatives | Senate
Senate Commerce Committee
House Judiciary Committee

The Reporters
Fred Barbash | Peter Behr
Ariana Eunjung Cha | Albert Crenshaw
Dan Eggen | Dina ElBoghdady
Peter S. Goodman | Dana Hedgpeth
Neil Irwin | Carrie Johnson | Amy Joyce
Alec Klein | Yuki Noguchi
Terence O'Hara | Robert O'Harrow
Greg Schneider | Michael D. Shear
Christopher Stern | David Streitfeld

Part I: Tech Policy
Digital Whirl Blurs Policy: Lawmakers Struggle to Keep Up With Fast Pace of Change

High-Tech Firms Alter Virginia Political Landscape: Big Campaign Contributors Defy Traditional Labels

Access Issue Isn't Open-and-Shut: AOL's Plan to merge with Time warner Triggers a Rip-Roaring Debate

Country Flavor in Tech Revolution: States Work to Provide Internet Infrastructure to Poor and Rural Areas

Government Takes Stock of B2B:

Without Precedent: Internet Cases Mark a New Frontier of Tech Law

A Distant Sense of Data Security

A Day in the Life Of a Lobbyist:

Main Street Takes on the Internet: Small Businesses, States Fight for Coherent Web Sales-Tax Policy

States Jump Into Privacy Battle: New Bills Set Limits On Use of Customers' Personal Data

Copyright Issues Grab Spotlight: Entertainment Firms Bolster Defense of Intellectual Property

Tech Industry Seeks More Visas

It Isn't Childs Play After All: Web Sites Find Privacy Law Costly

Taking New Economy Into Account



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