April 15, 1999
TechWeb: Post-PC Era Needs A Vision, Expert Says.
[Donald Norman, Nielsen Norman Group] "There has to be effortless communications between devices, and that requires standards," he said. "The problem is we have too many standards, and I think standards need to be mandated by a fiat."
Industry Standard: Reebok Steps In to Save Its Brand.
In an effort to assume greater control of its online sales, Reebok International is preparing to launch a historic initiative: It will handpick a select group of online vendors to sell its products.
Web Review: Home Page Reader 2.0.
Home Page Reader allows people who are blind or visually impaired to browse the Web using a text-to-speech engine instead of mouse clicks.
ZDNN: AltaVista gunning for Yahoo!
Schrock, who said the number of keywords will initially be limited to 500, insisted that users would not be shortchanged because of commercial considerations.
InfoWorld: Web-switch vendors to beef up hardware.
The new breed of Web switches, a variation on "server switches" designed to link up servers with load-balancing and redundancy, offers the capability to discover detailed information about Web sessions so one can be treated differently from another.
Freedom Forum: Journalists, nonprofit Web sites discuss sharing resources to cover 2000 elections.
"We would prefer to always have it on our site. We're not going to point to competitors online. You don't see newspapers touting their competitors."
NY Times: Web Phones: The Next Big Thing?
"Is it just a phone with a standard screen, or a big screen? Is it even a laptop with an embedded wireless modem, or something altogether different we haven't thought of?"
Wired News: Net Keywords for Everyman.
So far, about 20,000 RealNames have been sold to trademark owners.
News.Com: Firm simplifies community Web addresses.
Not only is the $100 annual fee nearly three times what it costs to register a domain name per year, but RealName search bars are relatively hard to come by on the Web.
InfoWorld: Imaging group seeks standard file format.
DIG's goal is to have a file format that manages both the image data and metadata, as opposed to other file formats that purely deal with the image data.
SF Examiner: Intel's Grove gives newspapers advice.
[Andrew Grove] "(High-tech executives) hype shamelessly over the story of the day because we know we'll never be asked about it again."
News.Com: Open source Mozilla browser headed to market.
Not only will NeoPlanet release a product based on Mozilla's code, but it will assign four full-time employees to work on the open source project.
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