October 19, 2001
Fast Company: Nickeled-and-Dimed to Death.
That lesson is finally sinking in for the Internet economy, after years of sincere but misguided excitement about new economic models based on micropayments. Get consumers online, the theory went, and all of a sudden, prices could be exquisitely tailored to their actual shopping desires.
Wired News: Apple's New Toy: Portable Music.
The device -- called the iPod -- can be synched with the computer using a high-speed cable connection that allows consumers to download their music into a portable system, which can then be accessed by either a car or home stereo system.
InfoWorld: Intel drops consumer electronics range.
In addition to discontinuing the consumer products already on the market, Intel has also decided not to sell a Web Tablet Internet appliance touted by President and Chief Executive Officer Craig Barrett at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January.
NY Times: Congress Will Allow Ban on Internet Taxes to Expire.
In a move that will allow a ban on Internet taxes to expire this weekend, Congress declined today to extend it, remaining mired in a dispute over how state sales taxes should apply to billions of dollars in electronic commerce.
EE Times: Japanese display makers strain to regain footing.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. and Toshiba Corp. said this week they will combine their flat-panel businesses into a joint-venture company, in a move that analysts see as a needed first step if Japan's once-vaunted display industry is to compete against lower-cost rivals in South Korea and Taiwan.
Interactive Week: Sprint's Decision Could Wound MMDS Market.
Sprint said on Wednesday, Oct. 17, that it would stop adding customers to its fixed broadband wireless network. The Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service industry leader had already halted its build-out of new markets while it examines second-generation gear.
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