March 23, 2001
Internet World: Ask Jeeves Mixes Ads with Content.
Called Branded Response, the format provides a few inches of text space, plus an advertiser logo and graphic, that appears just after Jeeves's list of questions that he is able to answer, but before the standard list of search engine results.
NY Times: When Linking Isn't Better Business.
The Better Business Bureau did not say it was contemplating a lawsuit to enforce its request. Nevertheless, the letter raises an interesting question that courts are just beginning to grapple with: Is there ever a time when a link is unlawful?
SF Gate: The Wireless Underground.
The price of creating an 802.11b network -- a satisfyingly fast protocol for wireless ethernet -- has come down so much over the past several months that over-eager consumers are setting them up at work and at home with very little regard for security.
Wired News: Flat Rate a Fat Bust in Europe.
The main reason for the failure of flat-rate Internet is that there is no flat-rate phone. The ex-monopoly telcos have a steady stream of cash flowing in from metered local calls, and prying this easy revenue away has met with very limited success.
eCompany: Would You Buy a Patent License From This Man?
Of course, if you talk to those who follow the PTO closely, they'll tell you that the TechSearches of the world are symptomatic of a larger problem: an overworked, underfunded PTO issuing hundreds -- if not thousands -- of ill-advised patents.
NY Times: 'BitStreams' and 'Data Dynamics': Creativity, Digitally Remastered.
And there is no denying the inevitability and multiple implications of the big message here, which we discount at the risk of sheer stupidity: Technology is changing how artists, especially young ones, make all types of art and, in turn, how we experience it.
Industry Standard: Reuters/Microsoft Product Could Bring IM Stock Trading.
The information group announced Thursday that Reuters.Net messaging was under development with Microsoft and 25 leading financial institutions. It is expected to be available later this year and will provide secure, encrypted real-time messaging both within and between major organisations.
Forbes: More PDA Phones.
The latest entrants in the increasingly crowded product niche come from overseas. Samsung of South Korea used the CTIA Wireless 2001 trade show to display working models of the SPH-1300, which will join the chorus of phones that wear a second hat as PalmPilot.
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