June 13, 1999
Useit.Com: Disabled Accessibility: The Pragmatic Approach.
New official standards make it easy to get the top priorities right and make websites accessible for users with disabilities (e.g., blind users who can't see images). But the single-design approach may be nearing the end of its life.
NY Times: Cable Convention Focuses on High-Speed Internet Delivery.
Among the sessions this year are "Internet 2," "Introducing High-Speed Data Services" and "Topics in Broadband Data Networking." It takes only three letters to explain the shift: AT&T
NY Times: Developing a Repetition-Free Language for Web Transactions.
"This will be particularly important for attracting new customers," said John Pettitt, chief technology officer for Beyond.com, a software retailer. "Every time you ask a customer to do something, you risk losing them."
NY Times: Illness Is Fast Becoming Apt Metaphor for Computers.
In a world where computers, once isolated work tools, are increasingly the very engine driving modern business life, computer researchers say they are detecting an ominous trend toward programs that mimic viruses and pestilence in the physical world.
- Xerox PARC: Internet Ecologies Area. The Internet Ecologies Area's research focuses on the relation between the local actions and the global behavior of large distributed systems, both social and computational.
NY Times: A High-Tech Strategy for Rolling With the Punches.
As high-technology business strategies go, it was a classic, perfectly executed: find a technological "discontinuity," race a new product to market and dislodge an entrenched competitor.
Information Week: Digital Imaging For Business.
Not long ago, these products were typically considered either high-end specialty gear for photojournalism or graphics projects, or as low-end electronic toys for consumers. But a growing number of companies are looking at the hardware as tools that can propel business initiatives.
Forbes: Picture Perfect.
"We don't ever want to sell $100 cameras," Mead says. "It's true that as digital technology evolves, you get more performance per dollar-but that doesn't necessarily mean you want to make things cheaper."
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