April 4, 2001
NY Times: Auditing Classes at M.I.T., on the Web and Free.
M.I.T. plans on Wednesday to announce a 10-year initiative, apparently the biggest of its kind, that intends to create public Web sites for almost all of its 2,000 courses and to post materials like lecture notes, problem sets, syllabuses, exams, simulations, even video lectures.
- Industry Standard: From October 22, 1999; Ivy Online
Seattle Times: People-friendly computers are researchers' goal.
They'll discuss improving keyboards, screen layouts and mice, but there's far more at stake at the CHI 2001 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, which continues through Thursday. Participants believe that if they can improve the machines, they'll improve the world.
News.Com: Microsoft's big thinker.
Q&A with Jack Breese, assistant director of Microsoft Research. We'd like to be able to interact with a computer just like you interact with another human being. And we've used that expression to combine various aspects of our research program...
Editor & Publisher: Mining Your Site For Multiple Revenue Streams.
Steve Outing. We're definitely in a phase where online news executives are assessing all options, and looking at new potential revenue streams. For this week's column, I'll examine some of the more innovative approaches that news sites are taking or thinking about...
ZDNN: Is P2P plunging off the deep end?
Now, with technology funding in a funk after the bursting of the Internet bubble, those problems suddenly don't seem so small anymore. And the P2P party, which once looked like an exception to the dot-com downturn, seems more like a wake.
NY Times: Wireless Companies Ask Suppliers to Share the Costs.
Short of cash after spending billions to win high- speed digital wireless licenses, Europe's mobile phone companies are asking the companies that sell them equipment to share the cost of building the new networks.
eWEEK: MSN Music Service one of many new services to come.
On the heels of an announcement by rivals RealNetworks and AOL Time Warner to create a paid, online music-subscription service, Microsoft Corp. has launched, as anticipated, its own MSN Music Service.
Forbes: PocketPC Phone.
The latest entrant in this trendy class of products comes from Siemens, the German electronics conglomerate that is aiming to compete head-to-head with Sweden's Ericsson, as well as Motorola in the U.S., for their share of the mobile-phone market.
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