- Personalization:
Is it worth it?
- Sprint Hoping
Customers Will Pocket Net Access
- Microsoft
roils waters with license changes
- Airfare
search race shifts into overdrive
- Putting
the Web on the map
- E-Banking,
Where Art Thou?
- Sitel's CRM
Compass Shifts North
- Priceline
Gives Up Down Under
- Microsoft
supports Windows Media services on Linux
- Personal
Firewalls Fail the Leak Test
- Race
to Put Web in the cars
- Record
company prepares to sell copy-protected CDs
- The
Battle for Instant Messaging
- Verizon
Battles Backlog Of Spam
- Japanese
Govt Begins Tests On IPv6 Network
- Solution
Integrators Muddy the Waters by Referring to them selves as eBusiness Solutions
Providers
- Real Networks Unveils
New Streaming-Media Technology
- This
Is Not My Father's Internet
- Nordstrom.com
Tops Forrester Power Rankings
- What
will Cisco Turn To Gold in 2001?
- Wireless
Web Security: Enter Data at Your Own Risk
Personalization:
Is it worth it?
Right now, probably not -- unless you're really serious
about it and willing to spend the money on the technology to prove that you are.
Web sites that have jumped in say that quantifying ROI is difficult. Sprint
Hoping Customers Will Pocket Net Access
The company unveils a prepaid
Internet access card that will allow people to buy a set amount of minutes and
use them from any computer. Microsoft
roils waters with license changes
The software giant has angered some
clients by abolishing volume licensing agreements next year for the consumer versions
of its Windows software. Airfare
search race shifts into overdrive
The two largest travel Web sites recently
made significant changes to their fare search engines, prompting many industry
watchers to conclude they are reacting to the threat posed by the expected debut
this summer of airline-owned Orbitz. Putting
the Web on the map
Antarcti.ca Systems is offering a new visual way to
navigate the Web with two- and three-dimensional maps of Web sites. E-Banking,
Where Art Thou?
Weren't we all supposed to be paying our bills with a
simple point and click by now? Weren't the bricks and mortar of the traditional
banking world supposed to fade away, like the rotary phone and the television
knob? Sitel's
CRM Compass Shifts North
Baltimore, Maryland-based Sitel Corporation announced
that it intends to open 600-seat contact centers in Montreal, Quebec and St. Catharine's,
Ontario by the beginning of the new year, bringing to 76 the total of contact
centers it operates around the world. Priceline
Gives Up Down Under
Struggling online discounter Priceline.com said a
venture set up earlier this year to launch a version of its name-your-own-price
Web site in Australia and New Zealand is dropping those plans. Microsoft
supports Windows Media services on Linux
A new licensing deal with StarBak
heralds the first time Microsoft officially gives its blessing to Windows server
functionality delivered from a Linux platform. Personal
Firewalls Fail the Leak Test
In an attempt to show that personal firewalls
may afford their users little protection against serious threats, a respected
PC security expert has released a new software tool that pokes holes in many of
the leading desktop security packages Race
to Put Web in the cars
Palm, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems are all pushing
their own visions for Web services delivered to your car's dashboard. Why the
rush to this competition? The emerging field promises $5 billion in revenues by
2005. Record
company prepares to sell copy-protected CDs
Country music record company
Fahrenheit Entertainment said it will begin selling copy-protected CDs by early
next year using encryption technology from SunnComm, a little-known company based
in Phoenix. The
Battle for Instant Messaging
Instant messages don't take up much virtual
real estate, just a few square inches of screen space when they pop up. But size
can be deceiving. Verizon
Battles Backlog Of Spam
Verizon Communications worked to clear a backlog
of millions of junk messages that slowed email for as many as 200,000 of its Internet
customers on the East Coast. Japanese
Govt Begins Tests On IPv6 Network
Japan's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
has finished building a next-generation Internet protocol (IP) network that it
will this week begin using to test high-speed multimedia data transfer applications.
Solution
Integrators Muddy the Waters by Referring to Them selves as eBusiness Solutions
Providers
IDC's New Report Analyzes 35 Companies to Keep an Eye on in
the Dynamic Solutions Integration Market Real
Networks Unveils New Streaming-Media Technology
Streaming-media technology
company Real Networks Inc. has unwrapped what it says is technology that will
improve the reliability of Internet audio and video broadcasts. This
Is Not My Father's Internet
Note to e-tailers: Many seniors have sizeable
incomes or nest eggs and like to travel, buy clothes, exercise, dine out, connect
with other seniors who have similar interests, and even date... Nordstrom.com
Tops Forrester Power Rankings
Clothing retailer Nordstrom.com won the
top customer experience ranking in a review of online apparel companies by Forrester
Research, Inc. What
will Cisco Turn To Gold in 2001?
If you follow the bread crumbs laid by
Cisco's venture investments, which have increased 45 percent to $256 million as
of September 30, 2000, from $176.8 million last year, according to Venture Economics
Wireless
Web Security: Enter Data at Your Own Risk
Word has it that wholesale wireless
Internet access is a potential silver lining in the flagging New Economy, but
is it secure?
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