• , Aug 30, 2004, 12:00 AM
  • Wi-Fi Goes Airborne Technology Review, August 27, 2004 While the title of the punk band Dead Kennedys 1987 album, "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death" may be a little extreme, people today have gotten pretty bellicose in their demands for service. And one of the areas in which we are most thwarted is in our desire to use the Internet while traveling on planes. Oh sure, we can surf in the airports, but once we set foot in the cabin, the laptops go off and our In Boxes lie fallow. Read the whole story...
  • Reining in Public IM InfoWorld, August 20, 2004 There is no question that IM is entrenched in the enterprise. More than 90 percent of businesses report IM activity, according to Osterman Research. A main reason, as we discovered in "Getting serious about enterprise IM," is the improved productivity and reduced communications costs that IM delivers. What should concern CIOs is that unsanctioned consumer IM networks -- such as those from America Online, ICQ, Microsoft, and Yahoo -- make up 80 percent of corporate IM use today, and the number of users of these unsecured IM networks is growing at a fast clip, according to The Radicati Group. Read the whole story...
  • Ad Servers' Growing Ad Trafficking Role ClickZ, August 30, 2004 More broadband access and more sophisticated ad-serving technology means advertisers increasingly use rich media and streaming video to stand out from the crowd. According to DoubleClick's Q2 2004 Ad Serving Trends, the number of rich media ads served has grow 34 percent year on year for Q2 2004. Read the whole story...
  • BusinessWeek.com Revamp Touts Fresh News DM News, August 30, 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. redesigned its BusinessWeek Online's home page with easier navigation and new content features. The changes on businessweek.com come a year after BusinessWeek magazine was redesigned to commemorate its 75th anniversary. The online redesign aims to differentiate the two versions. Read the whole story...
  • Can Microsoft Stomp iTunes With a Store of Its Own? New York Times, August 30, 2004 When Microsoft unveils its online music store later this week, the first song offered should be Dave Brubeck's "It's Déjà Vu All Over Again." For Microsoft, taking a trail blazed by others - then trying to dominate the market - is a familiar tune. Read the whole story...
  • Startup Launching Web-To-TV Video Service Associated Press, August 29, 2004 The promise of Internet-based video has long been hamstrung by copyright and piracy worries, slow dial-up connections, technical challenges and consumer disdain for watching blotchy videos on their home computers. But a Silicon Valley startup is tackling those obstacles, hoping to become the first major provider of cinema straight from the Internet to the living room boob tube. Read the whole story...
  • Web Turns 35, but Still Work in Progress Associated Press, August 29, 2004 Thirty-five years after computer scientists at UCLA linked two bulky computers using a 15-foot gray cable, testing a new way for exchanging data over networks, what would ultimately become the Internet remains a work in progress. Read the whole story...