With visions of e-dollars dancing in their heads, online retailers worry that a strike by pilots will affect holiday deliveries. By Polly Sprenger. NASA and the microprocessor big boys meet to pair the esoteric science of nanotechnology with the prosperous world of silicon chip production. By Niall McKay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The worldwide semiconductor industry will grow next year, after one of the worst in a decade, according to an industry group.
Investors boost chip stocks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A new demonstration virus is the first to exploit the language of Web pages. Observers say it's a new frontier for malicious computer code. By Chris Oakes. A watchdog organization develops software to block racist and anti-semitic sites from the eyes of young netsurfers. By Steve Silberman.