CRN: Daily Archives

CRN: Daily Archives The iMeeting component will offer full Web conferencing, white-board capabilities for marking up and editing documents online, voice/audio streaming, polling, annotation, the record and playback of meetings, and chat sessions, he said.
However, version 2.0 will lack the robust instant-messaging and presence-awareness features of Lotus SameTime and Microsoft's forthcoming Real-Time Communications Server 2003, but those capabilities will be offered in a future release, Levine said.

Motorola Woos Teens with IM Appliance

Motorola Woos Teens with IM Appliance What you get, essentially, is a basic level of AIM connectivity anywhere in the home. The client supports a handful of AIM emoticons, but does not support rich text. IMfree users appear as mobile users to others on AIM -- that is, with a small mobile phone icon next to their Buddy List name. There are a few glitches to work around -- if AOL is an IMfree user's ISP, then the IMfree user must log into the handheld with a different Screen Name than they used to sign onto PC.

WSJ, InfiniteAgent Launch News Bot

WSJ, InfiniteAgent Launch News Bot The bot, dubbed "WSJOnline" and available on America Online's (Quote, Company Info) AOL Instant Messenger network, gives current news headlines and summaries, and stock quotes, when users send it an IM. Users can navigate through menus to sort headlines by region or section, and can click on the summaries to open the stories on the WSJ.com site -- but only if a user is a paid subscriber to the site, that is.

Meet The Makers - Creative people in a technical world.

Meet The Makers - Creative people in a technical world.(an interview with Jeremy Allaire) Well, Web services are still the next big thing, among many others. Seems like a wide range of positive, reinforcing trends are creating an opportunity for a new Internet environment. A bunch of things that I’m tracking that seem very inter-related include:
Rich clients
Web services
Real-time communications
Broadband
Digital lifestyle devices
WiFi and wireless devices
Paid content
Blogsphere and syndication networks
Open source and outsourcing
So, combined, we’ve got a great new Internet to go out and build for!

Microsoft R&D efforts seek to bolster home networks

Microsoft R&D efforts seek to bolster home networks The company is developing with Philips, Onkyo and others content directory services for automatically discovering and interacting with PC-based media libraries on a home network. With Creative Labs and others, Microsoft is defining a new protocol for quickly synchronizing libraries over a USB 2.0 cable.

Designtechnica News - Motorola delivers solution for IM addicts

Designtechnica News - Motorola delivers solution for IM addicts About the size of a CD case, the IMfree handheld device is equipped with a large display and full QWERTY keyboard for IM addicts, providing a private IM experience away from the restraints of a stationary computer. Currently compatible with AOL® Instant Messenger™ and AIM Buddy Lists®, the new, easy-to-use Motorola IMfree system has all that chatting lovers need to take their IM experience almost anywhere in the home.

Websphere Adds Wireless Notifications, Messaging

Websphere Adds Wireless Notifications, Messaging IBM joins a number of smaller players -- including names like Critical Path, Vayusphere, and telecom giant Sprint, which is offering a solution in connection with UnBound Technologies -- in mobile, enterprise-focused alerting and notification. That's while consumer mobile alerting also is seeing interest from major names in wireless. Inphomatch, one of the big names in Short Messaging Service inter-carrier interoperability, earlier this year debuted a gateway service designed to route content and alerts from third-party sources to mobile phone users' devices.

Sleuthing Out Data - Emerging Technology - CIO Magazine May 1,2003

Sleuthing Out Data - Emerging Technology - CIO Magazine May 1,2003 Smart searching might very well become as important to the face of an enterprise as smart salespeople.

Interesting list of companies in the information categorization and finding market...

Amazon patent bid targets used goods | CNET News.com

Amazon patent bid targets used goods | CNET News.com Amazon.com has applied for a patent on a system to offer used material, with the bid coming not long after the e-tailer rebutted publishers who thought that its sale of used books would hurt them financially.
The patent application, filed in May 2002, but made public on Thursday, would cover a system that allows people to preorder a used item from an unspecified seller when that item isn't yet offered by anyone else on the site.
The application's timing is interesting because it was filed just two weeks after Amazon came under fire from The Authors Guild, which criticized the company's then year-old system for selling used books, saying it would hurt publishing industry profits. The guild, which is the largest organization representing published authors, asked its members to remove links to Amazon's site.

Erik and Mark Baard: May 2003 Archives

Erik and Mark Baard: May 2003 Archives The "personal server," which is being developed at Intel Research by ubiquitous computing wizard Roy Want, is the size of a deck of cards, half the weight of an iPaq, and has no i/o, no screen, and no peripherals. The device never leaves its user's pocket or handbag.

You ‘Pinging’ Me?

You ‘Pinging’ Me? New products from AOL, MSN (Microsoft’s ISP business) and Yahoo, the big three public IM providers, are addressing these issues. All have recently launched heavy-duty IM products, generically called “enterprise IM.” They’re hoping to exact a toll from companies—from $30 to $45 per desktop—after having given IM away free of charge to consumers for so many years. IBM has already claimed a slice of the corporate IM pie; two thirds of the Global Fortune 100 use its Lotus Sametime product. And 25 smaller companies offer an enterprise-IM software product, each addressing a different niche of this burgeoning market.

Wired News: DSL Firms Drop Prices to Compete

Wired News: DSL Firms Drop Prices to Compete This week, Verizon Communications -- one of the nation's largest DSL providers -- quietly cut the price for its basic service plan from $50 a month to $35. The company slashed rates for an enhanced service with higher data-transmission speeds even more dramatically, from $60 to $35.

I love my high speed, but I'd love it more if I didn't feel like I was being held hostage...

Microsoft to show off PC prototype | CNET News.com

Microsoft to show off PC prototype | CNET News.com Developed with Hewlett-Packard, the new "Athens" prototype is intended to be the hub for communications and collaboration built around voice, video and text messaging capabilities. It will also feature a more streamlined design, Microsoft said in a statement.