August 4, 1999
News.Com: Net number system faces infighting.
A new system, which has been on the drawing boards for nearly a decade, seeks to remedy the potential shortage as well as alleviating other problems. But critics say its costs to businesses far outweigh its benefits.
MSNBC: Reuters reinvents its role to provide Internet news.
It decided to flood the Internet with Reuters news on as many sites as would take it, leaving it up to other Web operators to actually run the sites, and worry about attracting visitors and finding advertisers.
USA Today: Study: e-commerce paying off.
''Companies should consider e-commerce as more than a way to sell products or services, they should focus at least as much attention on the business efficiencies and cost-savings opportunities presented by the Internet and related technologies."
News.Com: Prices already being slashed on color CE handhelds.
The cuts are a function of intensified competition, relatively low sales, and expectations for upcoming products, analysts say, as well as a reflection of overall confusion in the market.
Editor & Publisher: Online Sports Credentialing: Audience Is What Matters.
Steve Outing. Some sports events, such as the NCAA Final Four tournament, remain closed to online journalists, but the majority of sports entities are beginning to wake up to the idea that online reporters have as much right to be in the press box as traditional-media journalists.
Red Herring: Would Yahoo's gain be Excite@Home's pain?
If it were up to Ma Bell, say analysts speaking on background, the cable set-top box should be a jumping-off point for the user to access any type of information, be it Excite, Yahoo, Microsoft, America Online, or whatever. Stickiness would take a back seat to owning the pipe.
News.Com: Net sales snag brick-and-mortar business.
Only 6 percent of online sales this year will be "incremental," or sales added to what consumers would have made without the Web.
NY Times: More Publishers Adapt Textbooks to Digital Era.
A number of businesses are experimenting with how to offer electronic versions of textbooks and other scholarly material usually found on paper, potentially saving themselves money in the process.
Wired News: A Palm in the Tool Belt.
Construction companies have turned to the Internet and handheld computers to build structures more efficiently, and are pushing projects through ahead of schedule.
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