May 20, 1999
Interactive Week: 3Com To Launch Wireless Palm.
Analysts said the way the pricing is structured, Palm VII users can expect to pay a healthy premium to get wireless data.
Time Digital: Monday Debut of Palm VII Heralds Era of Wireless Internet.
Additional transfers will run 30 cents per K, suggesting that spam victims will have to pay a dollar for each accidentally downloaded stock scam or porn promo.
ZDNN: What e-commerce really means.
If you think of the Web as a communications device and as a database front end rather than a cheap substitute for paper, you'll come up with many more ideas, and they'll be much more interesting.
- Useit.Com: From March 8, 1998; Better than Reality.
Instead of impoverished facsimiles of reality, design from a basis of strength and go beyond reality to things that are impossible in the physical world.
Online Journalism Review: Is Reliance on the AP Draining the Life from Online News?
As the same article gets posted on 20 different brand-name news sites, the differentiation between those brand names becomes smaller.
EE Times: Tomorrow's computers will let the dead speak, panelists say.
The four science-fiction authors, two of whom are also math and engineering professors, debated the future of user interfaces at the CHI 99 panel...
PC World: Shoppers Band Together on Mercata.
"Channel conflict is the biggest fear about this concept," said Shepard. "They [manufacturers] are afraid of the reaction in the traditional distribution chain."
News.Com: Merchants pay the price for portals.
Many Net merchants pay millions of dollars for premium placements on portal sites. But as e-commerce has matured, the value of those deals has become less clear.
Red Herring: Bloomberg builds a bigger black box.
Bloomberg officials see the ECN as a obvious extension of their original corporate vision, which is to provide an electronic pipeline of news, data, and content for the financial markets.
Business Week: A Conversation with Vinton Cerf, Part 2.
Q&A with Vint Cerf. The Internet community is waking up to the importance of fashioning Internet-based services so that they can be readily used by people with a variety of disabilities.
News.Com: What does the future hold for NSI?
Critics of the current system say it is inappropriate for NSI to serve as both a registry and registrar...
Wired News: The End of the American Mansion?
Susanka believes that technology and the Web will soon change the way people in the market for a new home find what they seek.
Forbes: e-Window shopping gets better.
Like Macromedia, MetaCreations is heading for a phase when revenues from its ongoing products will come under pressure as the company becomes more web-centric in its focus and repositions itself as a "creative web" company.
News.Com: AOL contemplates German flat rate.
The company's German unit, AOL Deutschland, is testing new pricing models with a flat monthly fee and low telephone charges for Internet access...
Interactive Week: Is Web Usage On The Decline?
But with a difference so small, some Web publishers are likely to blame the dip on statistical vagaries in measuring audiences on the Internet.
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