The Change Mariner: Category: Industry

December 31, 2004

Internet Sites Allow Gift Card Exchanges

Yahoo! News: The gift card -- often viewed as the little, plastic solution for keeping friends and family out of the return lines -- doesn't always serve as the ideal present. Responding to consumers who don't want to buy themselves...

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September 1, 2004

Philadelphia Considers Wireless Access For All

Yahoo! News: City officials believe they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world's largest wireless Internet hot spot. The ambitious plan, now under discussion, would involve placing thousands of small transmitters around the city -- probably...

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June 24, 2004

Digital Impact: Television Advertising

Yahoo! News: With TiVo's fast-forward, viewers' shrinking attention spans and new media choices, the 30-second TV ad has more rivals for consumers' attention. That is pushing marketers' thinking increasingly outside the TV box for ways to make the costly but...

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June 23, 2004

BEDD: Social Networking Meets Bluetooth

Yahoo! News: Student Gracinia Lim has made new friends thanks to mobile phone software that alerts her to compatible people nearby. She is an early customer of a service in Singapore called BEDD that uses Bluetooth wireless communications to scan...

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June 14, 2004

Blog Readers Defy Stereotypes

MediaDailyNews: Blog readers are just a bunch of kids with too many opinions, too little money, and too much time on their hands. Think again. According to a survey of blog readers conducted by Weblog ad network Blogads, they're older...

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June 6, 2004

Grassroots Wi-Fi Is 'Potentially Monumental'

The New York Times: Meanwhile, thousands of free hot spots have been established by public agencies, mom-and-pop businesses hoping to attract customers and individuals working to build a grass-roots based network. A handful of city governments, some in cooperation with...

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May 14, 2004

Wireless Broadband: Craig McCaw's Secret Plan

BusinessWeek Online: Although McCaw won't say what he's up to, the deals have again made him the talk of telecom. The wireless broadband technology he's investing in has the potential to be one of the most disruptive forces in the...

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May 11, 2004

Iraq, Digital Photography and The Internet

BBC NEWS: Last year's US-led war in Iraq presented a showcase for the Pentagon's superior military technology - but as the occupation drags on, gadgetry is increasingly showing another side of the American armed forces. Pictures taken by US troops...

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May 10, 2004

Broadband Over Powerlines?

DigitalJournal.com: The Federal Communications Commission is looking into complaints from amateur radio operators about the use of electrical power lines for providing broadband internet service, a concept known as BPL, for Broadband over Power Lines. Many power companies and some...

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April 30, 2004

Internet E-Commerce Poised To Remake Six Major Industries: Jewelry, Bill Payments, Telecom, Hotels, Real Estate & Software

Business Week Online: The Web is threatening to force down the prices charged by traditional players, squeeze their margins, and even put some out of business. New technology, new ways of doing business, and new approaches to cutting out the...

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April 19, 2004

The Success of Open Source

San Francisco Chronicle: The growing popularity of the Linux operating system has drawn attention to a style of software development in which volunteers, collaborating over the Internet, can create programs that are cheaper, even arguably better, than those that emerge...

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April 16, 2004

Wireless Blooms Beyond Wi-Fi

BW Online: It's just one example of how the unlicensed portion of the radio spectrum is turning into a hothouse of technological innovation. For years, these radio frequencies were neglected, the lonely domain of cordless phones and microwave ovens. In...

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April 14, 2004

FTC Says Pornographic 'Spam' Must Be Labeled

Yahoo! News: Pornographic "spam" e-mail will have to contain a warning on the subject line so Internet users can easily filter it out, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday. Starting May 19, sexually explicit e-mail will have to...

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April 13, 2004

Google Challenges Microsoft Monopoly

TechWeb: While Linux advocates look to desktop software to challenge Microsoft's desktop championship, a new top-ranked contender is coming from a direction that's both unexpected and obvious: Google. But first, Google needs to overcome privacy concerns, as proposed terms of...

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April 8, 2004

Religious Use of the Internet Climbs

San Jose Mercury News: Jimmy Chu sent a mass e-mail to his Bible study group asking for help setting up for Easter services. He posts the group's prayer requests on his Weblog, downloads hymns from his church's Web site and...

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April 6, 2004

Privacy and Google's New E-Mail Service

Yahoo! News: Google Inc. hails its new e-mail service as a breakthrough in online communication, but consumer watchdogs are attacking it as a creepy invasion of privacy that threatens to set a troubling precedent. Although Google's free "Gmail" service isn't...

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Reaching Out With VoIP

San Jose Mercury News: When was the last time you ooohhed and aaahed at your telephone? Probably never, right? Because let's face it, the traditional home phone may be amazingly reliable, but its coolness factor is almost zero. This might...

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Froogle Visitors Soar

Mercury News: Traffic to Froogle soared after Google added a link to the comparison-shopping site on its home page last week. A report by Hitwise.com said a 319 percent increase in visits to Froogle pushed it into the top 10...

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April 3, 2004

Google E-Mail Causes Privacy Concerns

San Jose Marcury News: Internet giant Google caught some flak this week for its new e-mail service, Gmail, which will serve up text ads based on the content of a user's e-mail messages. The concern is that Google will somehow...

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Sony's Chief's View of Change: Broadband as the Big Meteorite

UK Times Online Inteview with Nobuyuki Idei, Sony CEO. ... In an environment changing as quickly as this you have no time to create a business model. People used to talk about "game plans" but you can't even do that...

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March 31, 2004

Google to Offer Free E-Mail

Yahoo! News: Search engine Google Inc. announced Wednesday it would launch a free, Web-based e-mail service to compete against popular services from rivals Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp. Google's service, called "Gmail," will include a built-in search function that will...

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March 29, 2004

Leisure Pursuits of Today's Young Man

New York Times: The television industry was shaken last October when the ratings from Nielsen Media Research showed that a huge part of a highly prized slice of the American population was watching less television. As the fall TV season...

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March 25, 2004

China Blocks Blogs

JoiIto.com The messages on JoiIto.com indicate that China has blocked blogs, most notably any site with xxx.typepad.com or xxx.blogs.com. Apparently, this is an effort to control information about the recent Taiwan President election and 1989 Tiananmen Crisis. This is a...

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March 24, 2004

Online Games Surpass $1 Billion

San Jose Mercury News: Online gaming on video game consoles gathered momentum in 2003, with U.S. retail sales of online games exceeding $1 billion. Market researcher NPD Group in Port Washington, N.Y., said sales of games with online features rose...

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March 21, 2004

Get Out of My Namespace

New York Times: The world is running out of names. The roster of possible names seems almost infinite, but the demand is even greater. With the rise of instantaneous communication, business spreading across the globe and the Internet annihilating geography,...

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March 16, 2004

Hotels Attempt to Plug $1 Billion Leak

Canada.com: After haphazardly building an Internet sales pipeline, the lodging industry sprang a $1-billion US leak - and major hotel chains are now aggressively working to plug the hole. ...The hotel chains' current revenue leakage, as the industry refers to...

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March 13, 2004

Students Embrace Virtual Communities

Telegraph (UK): Sarah Brown and Linzi Andrews are at the same university and live in the same halls of residence. But rather than leaving their rooms to talk to each other, they simply head for their computers. "The computer is...

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In Google We Trust

New York Times: With an estimated 200 million searches logged daily, Google, the most popular Internet search engine, "has a near-religious quality in the minds of many users," said Joseph Janes, an associate professor at the University of Washington in...

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March 9, 2004

Lingering Job Insecurity of Silicon Valley

New York Times: For computer scientists and engineers, the 1990's were close to paradise - until the technology boom collapsed. But even as business has started to pick up again, the job market they operate in has become the toughest...

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Multimedia Messaging (MMS) Booming In China

Taipei Times: China's top dotcoms believe multimedia messaging services (MMS) will become a gold mine sustaining their profit growth, and have earmarked large sums for aggressive development, state Chinese media said yesterday. Sohu.com Inc, one of China's three large NADAQ-listed...

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March 5, 2004

Cyber Literarure Takes Off in China

People's Daily (China) It was not until 1998 that online writing's popularity really skyrocketed. A modern love story entitled "First Close Touch" written by Taiwan writer Pizi Tsai got widely spread on the net. Its free writing style and modern...

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March 1, 2004

Search Gets Personal

San Jose Mercury News: Nonetheless, Google, Yahoo, America Online, Microsoft and many smaller companies have invested in the [personalization] technology. While most will not detail how they plan to use it, they all say it could make their sites more...

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February 26, 2004

China To Stifle Online Speech

Los Angeles Times: China on Monday launched a major crackdown on one of the most vibrant parts of the Internet, the news discussion groups that have pushed the boundary of free speech. The new rules ban independent reporting that has...

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February 23, 2004

Blogs: Lasting Impact On Politics

WSJ.com (subscription): Blogs, for instance, have been closely identified with the Dean campaign from the start. These are personal, frequently updated Web pages that typically contain short essays on sundry topics. The early Dean blogs, created by backers of the...

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Nokia Leaps Into Wi-Fi

WSJ.com (subscription): Nokia Corp., in a move that could loosen cellphone operators' grip on the wireless market, plans to unveil Monday its first handset capable of surfing the Internet using short-range wireless technology known as Wi-Fi. Nokia's Communicator 9500 will...

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February 22, 2004

Privacy and The Information Explosion

San Jose Mercury News: Feel overwhelmed by the deluge of information flooding the world today? No wonder. Researchers say that the amount of new words, sounds, pictures and numbers produced and stored on paper, film or computer disks has almost...

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February 20, 2004

Women Tailor Sex Industry to Their Eyes

New York Times: Experts say demand by women -- both heterosexual and lesbian -- is driving the growth of all sorts of sex-related ventures, from stores, catalogs and sex toy companies to adult Web sites, pornographic films and cable television...

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February 16, 2004

Local Search: New Market for Search Engines

New York Times: Can small businesses be persuaded to pay for online advertising even if they do not sell their products or services on the Web? That is a big question for Internet companies like Google and Yahoo, as well...

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Instant Messaging A Fact of Life For Kids

Mercury News: These days, when Alex wants to go to a friend's house or to play video games, he'll go to his computer and shoot me a quick instant message. It's easier -- and far safer -- than bursting into...

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February 15, 2004

Corporate Travel: Online Booking Soars

CNN: For many business travelers planning a trip still means reaching for a telephone instead of keyboarding onto the Internet. But that is changing, according to a new report, which suggests that online travel booking is capturing an increasing share...

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Explosive PC Growth in China

Xinhuane (China): After a year of explosive growth in China, the world's number two personal computer maker Dell Inc. said Friday it hoped to triple its overall growth rate this year. The company may even be able to push its...

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February 14, 2004

eBay Now A Fashion Hot Spot

San Jose Mercury News: The online auction house once thought of as the fastest way to dump garage sale castoffs is now the place to buy and sell Jimmy Choo shoes, Salvatore Ferragamo alligator handbags and Etro coats. And this...

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February 12, 2004

BitTorrent: The Third Wave of File Sharing

New York Times: Three years later, Mr. [Bram] Cohen, 28, has emerged as the face of the next wave of Internet file sharing. If Napster started the first generation of file-sharing, and services like Kazaa represented the second, then the...

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Information Technology May Have Cured Low Service-Sector Productivity

New York Times: But the recent evidence compiled by Mr. Triplett and Mr. Bosworth shows that information technology may just be the cure for Baumol's disease. They found that from 1995 to 2001, labor productivity in services grew at a...

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February 10, 2004

Internet Lessons From the Dean Campaign

Mercury News: But [Joe Trippi, Howard Dean's former campaign manager,] was right about plenty of things last year. He bet that savvy use of the Internet, plus unprecedented reliance on and trust in people at the edges of networks, could...

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February 9, 2004

Social Networks: Will Users Pay to Get Friends?

New York Times: The idea behind "social networking" Web sites like Friendster, Tribe.net and LinkedIn is almost the opposite of the old Groucho Marx joke: they attract people who want to join a club eager to have them. But as...

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February 4, 2004

Janet Jackson's Bare Breast Tops Internet Searches

Reuters: A flash of singer Janet Jackson's right breast during a halftime Super Bowl performance has become the most-searched image in Internet history, online companies said on Wednesday. Jackson's unscripted flash of flesh during Sunday's Super Bowl halftime send Internet...

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February 3, 2004

From Runway To eBay

New York Times: Not the typical path for fashions from a hot young design team. But within days of its runway show during Fashion Week in New York next week, Proenza Schouler plans to auction some of the newly modeled...

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January 28, 2004

Signs Show Massive Reach of Latest Virus Infecting Web

IHT: An antivirus company Wednesday declared Mydoom, the latest global computer virus, as the biggest ever, spreading at a pace likely to make it larger than the Sobig virus of last year. Mydoom clogged the Internet with 100 million infected...

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January 24, 2004

Desperately Seeking Sundance Cool

Wired News: PARK CITY, Utah -- Sundance is the Super Bowl of film festivals, at least in terms of advertising. During the 11 days of the Sundance Film Festival, held each January, this tiny ski town grows thick with corporate...

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