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Current Topic: High Tech Developments

Will Consumers Pay for News Webcasts?
Topic: High Tech Developments 5:20 pm EDT, Aug  3, 2002

Who will pay for online news? The question has long boggled the news media, which has largely failed to make money on their Web sites using advertising, even though millions use the free news they provide.

But publishers and broadcasters are redoubling their efforts to sell news for money, and the offerings have generated -- if not yet profits -- at least some buzz.

ABC exec: "I think many users, certainly not all of them, are prepared to pay for high-quality service and high-quality content."

The key to success is gearing news packages to the interests of individual subscribers, beyond the simple personalization settings available on some Web sites.

[ Originally from Jeremy. Another segment that is being missed here is the research segment. I would actually pay a subscription to various online newspapers if:

A) Articles were never modified after being originally submitted or, if modified, you could find the original as well as subsequent modified articles.

B) All print articles were available online.

C) A sophisticated search engine were in place. A lot more can be said here, but specifically mechanisms for searching reference-able material (author, date begin/end, etc.).

D) Ability to link to the articles are references. I don't care if it requires a registration at the specific news site as long as they have an entry-level "free" registration so that subscription costs would not hinder the ability of people to read my reference.

Anyone else? --Rek ]

Will Consumers Pay for News Webcasts?


AeroSite Boeing BWB
Topic: High Tech Developments 3:09 pm EDT, Jul  1, 2002

Awesome. Check out the view you would have as a passenger on a plane like this. Killer.

AeroSite Boeing BWB


2 Tinkerers Say They've Found a Cheap Way to Broadband
Topic: High Tech Developments 12:41 am EDT, Jun 11, 2002

Anyone looking for the next big thing in Silicon Valley should stop here at Layne Holt's garage.

Mr. Holt and his business partner, John Furrier, both software engineers, have started a company with a shoestring budget and an ambitious target: the cable and phone companies that currently hold a near-monopoly on high-speed access for the "last mile" between the Internet and the home.

... Although he has partially broken with the Wi-Fi standard, he argues he is doing just what the unlicensed radio spectrum was originally set aside to encourage.

John Markoff reports on new developments in the emerging business for large-scale WiFi-based Internet access. The developers have paired 802.11b with a software-defined radio, which Markoff (perhaps mistakenly) refers to as a "software-designed radio".

2 Tinkerers Say They've Found a Cheap Way to Broadband


Mercury News | 05/18/2002 | Imagine: world with unlimited airwaves
Topic: High Tech Developments 9:53 pm EDT, May 22, 2002

Unlimited bandwidth in the airwaves! Power to the people!

Mercury News | 05/18/2002 | Imagine: world with unlimited airwaves


Wearable Computer Laboratory - ARQuake
Topic: High Tech Developments 9:37 pm EDT, May 22, 2002

Using the Tinmith system described earlier, the students at UNISA (in Australia) have been able to get Quake working as an Augmented Reality system on campus. Movement is controled by GPS positioning and firing is controled by a toy gun.

Wearable Computer Laboratory - ARQuake


O'Reilly Emerging Technologies 2002 [Audio]
Topic: High Tech Developments 1:23 am EDT, May 19, 2002

TechNetCast is making available the audio tracks for the keynote speeches given at the recent O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. As I log this URL, only four are available, but the rest of them are promised within days. (Hopefully that will include Steven Johnson ...)

The keynotes include:

Rethinking The Modern Operating System, by Richard Rashid, Microsoft.
Fixing Network Security by Hacking the Business Climate, by Bruce Schneier.
Autonomic Computing, by Robert Morris, IBM.
The Shape of Things to Come, by Tim O'Reilly.

O'Reilly Emerging Technologies 2002 [Audio]


 
 
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