March 17, 1999
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Red Herring: The naked truth about online commerce.
...it's not yet clear whether people will be seduced by content into buying related products or will run screaming from a perceived breach of the Chinese wall between advertising and editorial.
News.Com: Oracle hands out Web access to handhelds.
The technology--based on the Oracle 8i database and application server--uses Java and Extensible Markup Language (XML) to deliver Web access to the devices...
PC Magazine: Battle of the Mobile Operating Systems.
"While it's not certain that alternative operating systems to Windows CE such as EPOC will succeed, the Palm OS shows that it can be done."
W3C: Common Markup for Web Micropayment Systems.
Working Draft. This specification provides an extensible way to embed in a Web page all the information necessary to initialize a micropayment (amounts and currencies, payment systems, etc).
Wired News: MS Ballyhoos Digital Audio.
In addition to creating a new audio format to compete with MP3, Microsoft is building a sophisticated backend system into Windows 2000 that will be able to encrypt, manage, and track digital files...
WebWord.Com: Interaction Design: The Guru Speaks.
Q&A with Alan Cooper. Historically, we have not used interaction design to create pleasing, helpful, comfortable software, and that bad tradition has been inadvertently brought to the Web.
Wired News: UK's Royal Mail Does E-Commerce.
The Viacode system, which began this week, secures email and online transactions using public key cryptography...
News.Com: IE 5 sneak peek shows new content features.
...it will be showing off a browser with some new ideas on how to present Web content along with one or two others borrowed from the competition.
News.Com: BBB Web site privacy program finally arrives.
The long-awaited BBBOnline privacy seal requires applicants to indicate when they gather consumers' sensitive information, how they use it, and how they protect it.
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