August 8, 2003
Good Experience: Usability Professionals Must Disappear.
Instead of singing "me me meeee" about their job title (and, for that matter, their peculiar UX-centered research methods), usability professionals should disappear - like any good interface - and just serve the company and the various groups inside it.
SJ Mercury: Leaving the phone company out of the loop.
International communications carriers are feeling the heat as telephone calls they used to charge hundreds of dollars for can now be made for nothing. But they're not alone: VoIP is also giving the Baby Bells fits as they get their first real taste of competition at home.
InfoWorld: Ultrawideband renews high-speed wireless hopes.
In this context, UWB would most likely be a complement to higher-throughput 802.11 standards. Such standards, currently in the works, promise 100Mbps shared bandwidth over a large coverage area. To capitalize on this promise, however, the enterprise will have to wait until UWB emerges from its working-group phase.
News.Com: Comcast to extend 3mbps trials.
The new 30-day trial will begin Thursday in Pittsburgh for subscribers who pay $42.95 a month on top of basic cable TV service. A separate 3mbps test is already under way in Knoxville, Tenn. A company representative would not comment on whether Comcast plans to eventually offer 3mbps service to all of its subscribers.
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