August 24, 2001
Wired: Beam On.
Once that happens, bringing fiber directly to the home should cost carriers less than $1,000 per customer, positioning telecom carriers for a nice return on investment. So what will fiber to the curb mean, exactly? All the bandwidth you've ever dreamed of.
Paul Boutin: What Hollywood can learn from Microsoft.
In the spirit of the article itself, I offer this editorial from today's Wall Street Journal - and add that if you're only getting daily tech news from Web sites and the New York Times, you're missing the leading, well-reported, smart coverage in the Journal.
PC World: Do Search Engines Tell the Truth?
Some online search engines are yielding results that are less than you expect. The most prominent findings may surface not because they're the best fit, but because the subjects wrote the biggest checks to the search engine providers, industry participants acknowledge.
Glenn Fleishman: Pay for That Bat and Ball.
That data relation argues for increasing trust between search engines and "suppliers." Paid trust is an odd concept, but it allows both parties to agree to a contracted set of terms with a bar to entry for the party the search engine is going to trust.
BBC News: Broadband fines threat to BT.
The watchdog's move should cheer telecoms firms who have accused it of doing too little to stop BT dragging its feet in the final stages of opening up the UK's telecoms sector. Oftel has decided - following a host of complaints - that BT's level of service had not been satisfactory or reasonable...
Business Week: Photoworks: Lots of Negatives.
If I'm paying full price for developing and printing the photos, that ought to be business model enough. Trying to position a photo-development service as a filter for marketing offers I might actually want to receive strikes me as distinctly unpromising.
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