May 6, 1999
TechWeb: Designers See Same-Old, Same-Old Web Face.
"It was designed by engineers for engineers," he said. "It's going to take a long time to overcome their metaphors."
PC World: Web Makes Nobel Laureate 'Grouchy'.
[Arno Penzias] "Sorry to sound so grouchy, but I see the Internet as being about empowerment of individuals--and so far the people in business have only given lip service to it."
DaveNet: Money on the Table.
To the high-tech VCs, here's your business model. Start the Internet music label. Contract with the big name performers that the current labels are leaving behind.
SJ Mercury: AT&T deal provides no help to consumer.
Dan Gillmor. AT&T and other cable companies understand the power of owning the first screen of digital information.
News.Com: Math professor wins landmark crypto ruling.
U.S. export limits on encryption are unconstitutional, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today.
News.Com: Starbucks, media firms fund Talk City.
...CEO Howard Schultz said the company planned to create an online venture in a "multibillion-dollar" category and would promote the venture at the company's 2,200 cafes.
Wired News: Who Owns Whois Database?
The company contends the database is its own property to do with is as it wishes. It vehemently rejects the description of its agreement with the government as a contract that somehow makes the Whois database government property.
Washington Post: The Web Prepares for Oral Exams.
"Computers are going to get more pervasive, and a lot of these devices don't have keyboards or displays. That's where speech will be moving over."
Online Journalism Review: Print Sites Still Wary of Chatting It Up.
In reality, most print media Web sites -- with a few notable exceptions -- run their message boards with benign neglect. They're decidedly dull and little-used.
Fast Company: The Email Prescription.
One reason why so many of General Interactive's clients are eager to do better at analyzing incoming messages is that they want to get smarter at responding to customers.
Microsoft Press Release: Microsoft Joins WAP Forum.
Microsoft will work with WAP Forum members to accelerate the deployment of wireless mobile devices...
News.Com: 3Com readies new wireless technology.
Analysts say 3Com is entering the market at the right time as standards are being finalized and technology is improving.
Wired News: A Personal Data Privacy Bureau?
Privacy and consumer groups on Thursday will urge White House officials to take aggressive steps to regulate what online businesses can do with consumers' personal information.
ZDNN: MS, AT&T marry on digital cable.
In return, AT&T will agree to use Microsoft's Windows CE operating system in its digital set-top boxes.
Wired News: Customers Rule on the Web.
[SmithKline CEO Jan Leschly] Pharmaceutical companies will have to respond to a consumer revolution, driven in part by Web sites that provide health information directly to patients...
Editor & Publisher: USA Today Accepts Ads on Front Page.
Page One ads are unheard of among daily newspapers because most publishers consider the front page sacred — a place for news only.
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