April 12, 1999
NY Times: British Venture Takes On Microsoft in Wireless Data Market.
[Colly Myers, CEO of Symbian] "This will define a whole new networked economy, where the wireless information device is the consumer's 'physical portal' to a world of information and services."
Red Herring: Palm opens.
Palm Computing will open its handheld organizer platform to licensees, and there will be several Palm "clones" within nine months...
USA Today: The Internet's 'nextgen' apps.
Making the Internet truly a global medium will not only demand smart technology but perhaps even smarter societal choices.
MSNBC: Getting ‘permission’ to make a Web pitch.
"Direct marketing is a more stable revenue stream than banner advertising, which is completely dependent on the number of people who come to the site."
Industry Standard: The Times They Are A-Targeting.
The ads, which will run primarily in print publications, are not intended to garner new online readers, but rather to lure potential advertisers who've yet to commit to selling on the Web.
Webmonkey: Gecko Lays Out the Future.
While the preview version of Gecko looks good, it'll be months before it can be considered a real browser for consumers.
Industry Standard: E-books Open a New Chapter.
The two biggest electronic book publishers are expanding this week into the distribution of corporate and personal documents.
Forbes ASAP: Dynamic 100: Yahoo, Internet Services and Content.
One of the great things about doing a directory is that you know what people are looking at. The log files clearly told us that our site visitors were looking for sport scores, stock quotes, and Yellow Pages.
News.Com: Cyberian Outpost offers free shipping.
The computer products site will swallow the cost of overnight shipping, which starts at several dollars per item in an attempt to dispel consumer confusion about the actual cost of its products...
Industry Standard: Are You Experienced?
As John Perry Barlow likes to say, information wants to be free. Only when companies package it in a form customers will buy – informational goods, information services or informing experiences – do they create economic value.
Business Week: Why Famous Brands Often "Fracture" When They Hit the Web.
"What looks stupid is when you are something different online than you are offline, but you're not being up-front about it..."
Interactive Week: Web Inspires Corporate Adventures.
The latest examples include KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, which has unveiled a division, NewFlowers.com, to link buyers and sellers of fresh-cut flowers...
Scientific American: XML and the Second-Generation Web.
The combination of more efficient processing, more accurate searching and more flexible linking will revolutionize the structure of the Web and make possible completely new ways of accessing information.
Wired News: Shooting AOL's Messenger.
Meanwhile, Microsoft is working behind the scenes with standards-setting bodies to establish a standard protocol, called Rendezvous. Its motives aren't purely altruistic; by creating a universal chat room, AOL's closed network would lose much of its appeal.
News.Com: MSN's Messenger late to the party.
According to Microsoft, the lag is the result of scalability issues with the integration of Messenger into MSN Hotmail...
News.Com: IBM, RealNetworks in online music deal.
Under the agreement with IBM, RealNetworks will develop consumer software based on IBM's Electronic Music Management System...
Industry Standard: Music Giants Fight a Corporate War Online.
This week, the group intends to finalize "Version 0.1" of its specification. "Why the low number?" asks Chiariglione. "Because at the moment we have nothing."
Industry Standard: I'm Going to Silicon Valley!
Carl Steadman. The PA system squeals to life. "Good morning. I'm Keith, and I'll be your driver and guide on today's sight-seeing tour of Silicon Valley.
Forbes: The Internet from Anywhere.
"The VXML Forum's efforts will not only help to provide a crucial mobile component to Internet access, but will also offer Internet access to the 58% of people who own a telephone but don't own or have access to a computer."
Advertising Age: Web merchants make affiliate programs boom.
...Forrester is finishing a report on affiliates, said anecdotal evidence shows affiliates contribute as much as 30% of a site's total sales.
Wired News: The View from AboveNet.
The San Jose, California, company is in an esoteric business, but a lucrative one: It establishes express lanes between ISPs to minimize congestion to high-traffic sites or one-time Net events.
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