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.

Macromedia Makes a Data Connection

Macromedia Makes a Data Connection The Macromedia Firefly Component framework is designed to provide a rapid development environment in which developers can create data aware components to access, display and update data within Macromedia Flash applications.

Corporations seek better search results | CNET News.com

Corporations seek better search results | CNET News.com Knowledge workers spend 15 percent to 30 percent of their day searching for information, according to IDC. But more than half of their online searches fail to turn up the desired information. IDC estimated that a company with 1,000 knowledge workers wastes at least $6 million every year spending hours on fruitless searches.

Perspective: A mosaic of new opportunities | CNET News.com

Perspective: A mosaic of new opportunities | CNET News.com • Most people now use browsers to pull information from the Internet or visit Web sites to check what's new. In the future, virtually every Internet information and transaction provider will expose a broad array of events--such as the availability of news or messages--that can be subscribed to using standard protocols. Higher-level subscription aggregation services will automatically filter and prioritize incoming events according to programmed criteria.

Internet Is Losing Ground in Battle Against Spam

Internet Is Losing Ground in Battle Against Spam The microscopic cost of sending e-mail, compared with the price of postal mailings, allows senders to make money on products bought by as little as one recipient for every 100,000 e-mail messages. Internet marketing companies typically charge $500 to $2,000 to send a solicitation to a million in-boxes, but the cost goes up if the list is from a reputable source or is focused on people in certain favored demographic groups. Sending the same offer to a million people by mail costs at least $40,000 for a list, $190,000 for bulk-rate postage and more for paper and printing.

The economics points to spam being around longer than I certainly would like, but talk about a business opportunity on both sides of the equation...

InfoWorld: XMPP rises to face SIMPLE standard: April 18, 2003: By Cathleen Moore: Application Development

InfoWorld: XMPP rises to face SIMPLE standard: April 18, 2003: By Cathleen Moore: Application Development With the lure of presence-aware applications and systems dangling before them, competitors are warming up for a heated race to establish an industry standard protocol for presence awareness and instant messaging interoperability.

Lines are drawn between two protocols currently working their way through the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards body: the SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)-based SIMPLE (SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions) and the open-source, XML-based protocol XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol). Vendors are placing bets, hoping to choose the correct side of the market's eventual shakeout.

Forbes.com: Inside The EBay Biosphere

Forbes.com: Inside The EBay Biosphere He'll get 20 or 30 questions for each item he's selling, and he's now auctioning 7,000 items a month. "A lot of bidders have my direct extension and call me with questions," Edery says. "You need to be committed 100%. The community needs a lot of hand- holding."

A very interesting story, but the comment above starves for something different to scale...

IMlogic, Vayusphere Move into Security

IMlogic, Vayusphere Move into Security After having been in the works since late last year, Mountain View, Calif.-based Vayusphere last week took the wraps off its Managed IM Gateway, which imposes auditing, archiving, reporting and blocking features on top of public IM use within the enterprise -- similar to competing offerings from FaceTime Communications and Akonix.

Meanwhile, IMlogic, an early mover in the public IM logging and auditing space, earlier this week unveiled the upcoming version of its flagship IM Manager product, slated to ship in a month. The Waltham, Mass.-based company's IM Manager 5.0 adds anti-spam and anti-virus protection, unauthorized client-blocking, as well as keyword-based blocking that can be configured to inform superiors or compliance officers when a flagged word is used during an IM conversation. The earlier iteration, version 4.1, provided reporting, archiving, and authentication against corporate LDAP directories.