May 11, 1999
Freedom Forum: ShutUp Software: Net threat from within.
Jon Katz. I think it's ill-considered, a way of Balkanizing sites and communities, of exposing people only to the echoes of their own ideas, of distorting reality and discouraging real communication.
Computer World: Real-time inventory management still an online rarity.
Many online retailers are spending heavily on customer acquisition, with less attention to customer service and back-end systems.
Computer World: ... but a few stores do offer instant inventory info.
The problem for online retailers is that most start out with a legacy processing system and stick a Web site on the front end...
Computer World: Future.Com.
The future of the Internet is bound up in myriad technical issues, but the ability of the Net to accommodate skyrocketing traffic dominates all else, says Vinton G. Cerf...
MSNBC: Sony Music to sell ‘virtual singles’ using technology from Microsoft.
The Internet singles will be available this summer and are expected to cost about $3.49 a piece, the same price as in stores.
TechWeb: Start-Up Brings Web Access To Handheld PCs.
AvantGo will offer consumers and businesses connectivity to HTML-based personalized content, interactive applications, and popular websites, tailored for handheld computers.
Forbes: Downhill for Deja News.
So when Deja News premiered its e-commerce makeover yesterday it was much more than just another content site desperately looking for profits that it couldn’t generate via advertising.
NY Times: I.B.M. Sets a New Record for Magnetic-Disk Storage.
The advance is significant, said IBM researchers, because it contrasts recent remarkable progress made by magnetic storage systems with that of silicon memory chips...
Business Week: And Now from RealNetworks, E-Commerce and Streaming Media.
...the company plans to announce a partnership called Buy@Once with two other Net companies to provide a technology that can embed a purchase offer into streaming media embedded in E-mail...
InfoWorld: Chief scientist at Rational calls for Web app discipline.
...Grady Booch, chief scientist at Rational Software, said that as the complexity of Web sites increases alongside scalability problems, the challenges facing developers are only going to increase.
ZDNN: FTC focuses on Web ads.
The FTC on Friday will detail its proposal to "clarify how existing laws apply to advertising and commercial transactions on the Internet...
Forbes ASAP: Stealing traffic online.
Although the decision sets a course for the rest of the nation, we're still a long way from solving the problem of brand erosion and trademark infringement on the Internet.
News.Com: Global group seeks movie-like Net ratings.
...formed the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) to promote a system that lets Web publishers review and rate their online material...
News.Com: AOL turns on TV deals.
...the online giant hopes that its AOL TV product will bring interactivity to the television experience while extending AOL services through television.
Wired News: Log on, Tune in, Buy Now.
GetMedia's new Web-based system allows radio listeners to view song titles as they play on a station along with the chance to buy the CD on the spot.
News.Com: Artists pre-release albums on Amazon.
Companies will soon be experimenting with a number of different types of online promotions, many of them involving digital music downloads, trying to see what will work.
PC World: Together We Search, United We Find.
To demonstrate how personal computers can cooperate for the common good, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is offering a $50,000 prize to the first person to find a million-digit prime number...
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