June 12, 1999
Webmonkey: The Web Isn't Free.
Jeffrey Veen. Doing business on the Web — being able to turn traffic into money — is affecting the very nature of how we design Web pages. And you can see the results everywhere you go.
Upside: Stockholm: Wireless Kingdom.
For homegrown Swedish IT companies, the high concentration of mobile device users provides a homogeneous test bed for trying out wireless Web services.
NY Times: Big Fish in the Wireless Pond.
Suddenly, the world seems smitten by the prospects of fixed-wireless technology -- the fast-growing industry niche that links users to high-speed telecommunications networks through disk-shaped antennae instead of expensive fiber optic or T-1 lines.
Red Herring: Futuristic technology gets a new voice.
The market is still young, but some big players are starting to rely on the technology for vital customer service functions. But as more companies catch on, speech recognition could become an important ingredient in the future of e-commerce.
Online Journalism Review: Web Staffs Urge the Print Side to Think Ahead.
Searchable databases, audio and video, e-mail links, background on the writer -- these are just some of the ways to enhance traditional stories for the Web. Increasingly, Web news staffers are urging their print brethren to think about and help gather such online elements.
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