June 25, 1999
The Economist: The net imperative.
Part of the explanation is that IT investments, particularly ERP, have been inward-looking, concentrating on making each enterprise more efficient in isolation. By contrast, the Internet is all about communicating, connecting and transacting with the outside world.
MIT Technology Review: That’s Not How My Brain Works...
Q&A with Jeff Hawkins, creator of the PalmPilot. Indeed, the PalmPilot, which recognizes patterns written by a pen or stylus, is a direct spinoff from Hawkins’ work in theoretical neuroscience.
- FEED Magazine: The Elaborate Machine.
End-of-millennium science has given us a startling new vision of the brain's topography. FEED invites eight of the world's leading experts to describe the brain's most fascinating regions.
MIT Technology Review: Into the Big Blue Yonder.
What’s more, the rise of the Internet and the fusion of communications and computers play perfectly into decades of research—raw computing power, storage, chips, displays, speech recognition, "data mining" and electronic security...
Forbes ASAP: Distributor of information may be one winner in e-commerce arena.
"Information aggregation is becoming a commoditized business, since providers like Dow Jones and Reuters have roughly the same 4,000 sources in the oil industry."
Web Review: Understanding Comics.
Q&A with Scott McCloud. Understanding Comics was the culmination of my obsessions with comics itself. But I found in doing the book that it branched out into to so many other areas of visual perception, that it had a pretty broad focus by the time it was done.
The Australian: Bloomberg predicts Internet maelstrom.
Mr Bloomberg said the companies which prevailed were nevertheless destined to struggle because the Internet was not the perfect business medium many believed it to be.
News.Com: NSI won't sign on with ICANN.
The crux of the conflict is that ICANN says Network Solutions is obligated to comply with its rules for new registrars, but NSI disagrees with ICANN's accreditation agreement...
Industry Standard: Viva Portland?
"To demand open access is to throw the franchise into litigation and uncertainty." In other words, if the city did not accept the transfer, AT&T would sue, and in the interim, withhold upgrades in the city's cable infrastructure.
MIT Technology Review: Internet Artifacts.
While recent data are stored on disk for quick retrieval, the bulk of the archive is in a library of digital tapes that are too slow to search effectively.
News.Com: Dell reorganizes to face fast-changing market.
These roll-outs will emphasize troubleshooting and support via the Web and may come as part of a package with a new product.
Editor & Publisher: Cannibalism Myth Just Won't Die.
Steve Outing. There's nothing that newspaper executives can do about this trend, except embrace it — and stop fighting it.
Interactive Week: Centraal, M'Soft Strike RealNames Deal.
...next week is expected to announce a partnership with Microsoft to include RealNames listings in the MSN Autosearch feature of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.
TechWeb: Netscape Search Engine Too Late, Analysts Say.
Search is increasingly becoming a standard commodity, McCabe added. Users expect major sites to have search services, she said, and they expect those services to get better and better over time.
Web Review: CSS: If Not Now, When?
Splitting CSS into modules will allow implementors to tackle a module at a time, and then claim support for that module once they've correctly implemented the properties and behaviors described in a given module.
MIT Technology Review: E-toys Unite!
Bluetooth is not a substitute for other forms of wireless communications. It operates over a very short range—roughly up to 10 meters.
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