April 21, 2001
Wired: The Future Will Be Fast But Not Free.
As for pricing, here, too, broadband will change the picture radically. Flat-rate billing isn't commercially viable in an era when some users consume 1,000 times as much data as others. If you're downloading a million bits per second, the cost of those bits isn't trivial anymore...
eWEEK: Protection policies: food for thought.
There's a long list of failed anti-piracy technologies that didn't do much to stop piracy but did succeed at alienating customers. Even the federal government couldn't force-feed consumers lousy encryption technologies while they had better alternatives freely available.
IBM developerWorks: How not to make your site accessible.
In general, accessibility problems fall into several basic categories. Browser requirements, user requirements, bandwidth requirements, and simple usability. It's no accident that most of these are about requirements; the chief accessibility problem is that sites start making demands of their users.
Industry Standard: Room Service Providers.
But few guests are taking advantage of in-room broadband - either because they don't know it's there or because, like DePalma, they can't get it to work. Most estimates peg the percentage of guests using these services in the low single-digits...
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