March 26, 2001
Business 2.0: Hawkins Talks.
Q&A with Jeff Hawkins. I've got a long-term hat on here. We're going to be around for 20 years. Ten years from now it's going to be awesome. It's going to be like having a T1 line in your pocket for no cost. What do you do with that? What do you do with a persistent server in your pocket?
InfoWorld: Transmeta finds a home in Microsoft's Tablet PC.
Microsoft is working with Transmeta to incorporate Transmeta's Crusoe processor in the software maker's Tablet PC, a portable computer due next year that will allow users to jot down handwritten notes using a touch-screen pen, Transmeta announced Monday.
NY Times: Hyperbole Still Outruns Reality on the Wireless Web.
Out of fashion are grandiose visions of consumers wearing goggles fitted with three-dimensional maps of cityscapes. Instead, many of the industry's small companies are focusing on relatively more mundane services, like sending short text messages over mobile phones.
EE Times: Ethernet begins sprint to bring broadband home.
A technical study group has taken the first steps toward bringing Ethernet into the home to challenge digital subscriber lines and cable modems as the predominant means for supplying broadband access to consumers.
Business Week: A Cracked Cornerstone of Net Security.
The good news is there's no evidence the phony certificates were used to trick consumers into downloading malicious software. But the ease with which an impostor could obtain a high-level certificate calls into question one of the major pillars of security for electronic commerce.
Network World: Patent flap slows multilingual domain name plan.
The IETF's Internationalized Domain Name working group recently discovered that an Ann Arbor, Mich., start-up named Walid received a patent on Jan. 30 that appears to cover many aspects of the technical solution developed by the working group.
News.Com: Adobe to unveil 3D software.
An auto dealership, for instance, could have a Web site where visitors walk into a virtual showroom. A visitor--in an animated icon form--could look at cars in different rooms, talk to other shoppers, and step up to a kiosk where a salesman stands by, eager to answer questions.
SF Chronicle: Beyond the Banner.
Other new marketing techniques include selling advertisements in the previously commercial-free zone of instant messaging windows. Companies are also emphasizing pop-up windows -- extra browsers that appear out of nowhere to offer product information.
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