August 1, 2001
EE Times: NTT launches 100-Mbit/s fiber-optic service.
NTT's pricing is almost a quarter as much as it had originally planned to charge for the service, but the company lowered its rates after a small company named Usen Corp. initiated a 100-Mbit/s fiber-optic service in a limited area of Tokyo this past March.
Darwin Magazine: Imagining Faster.
These new technologies—all geared to helping product designers, marketers, salespeople and CEOs imagine new offerings faster—seem as if they've been purloined from the sets of Star Wars or The Matrix. They tend to fall under the rubric "rapid prototyping."
SJ Mercury: ICANN's controversial crusader.
To some, Karl Auerbach is a cyber-Robin Hood, underdog crusader for the free and unfettered Internet. To others, he is an acid-tongued critic, a wannabe cult figure who advocates the overturn of law and order on the Web.
- Salon: From October 16, 2000; ICANN-oclast.
Q&A with Karl Auerbach.
AskTog: Good Lawyers, Bad Products.
Lawyers are destroying the usability of American products. It's bad enough in the paper world, where user manuals invariably start with an "idiot section" ("Do not use this toaster while taking a bath.") However, consumers soon learn to skip to section 2, and life goes on.
Financial Times: IBM joins push to construct next-generation internet.
The movement to build a new-generation internet through a global computer "grid" will receive a big boost on Thursday when International Business Machines, the world's largest computing company, commits itself to the new technology.
News.Com: Microsoft, Intel sign on with Wi-Fi standard.
Although still committed to a rival technology known as Bluetooth, Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. are putting their muscle behind 802.11b, or Wi-Fi, which also enables short-range wireless links between computers and other devices.
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