Message-Id: <55206A473154D011924D0020AFF7ACB5327080@mail1.oulan.ou.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 16:34:51 -0500
From: "Swisher, Bob" <bswisher@ou.edu>
To: "'it-fyi@ou.edu'" <it-fyi@ou.edu>
Subject: Edupage, 14 October 1997
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> Edupage, 14 October 1997. Edupage, a summary of news about
> information technology, is provided three times a week as a service by
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> TOP STORIES
> Netscape, AOL Launch Joint Messaging Service
> Internet2 Applications Showcased
> New Bill Targets Net Pirates
> CompuServe Woos Businesses With Latest Service
>
> ALSO
> Publishing Giants Merge
> Telescope For The Web
> Internet Commerce
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> NETSCAPE, AOL LAUNCH JOINT MESSAGING SERVICE
> Netscape Communications and America Online are collaborating on a
> messaging service that would alert users of Netscape's browser
> software when they receive e-mail from AOL subscribers, enabling them
> to engage in a real-time dialogue over the Net. In addition, AOL will
> supply information to be included in Netscape's Netcaster product.
> Netcaster uses "push" technology to deliver content to users' PC
> screens. Analysts see the move as part of AOL's strategy to hedge its
> bets in the browser battles between Netscape and Microsoft. (Wall
> Street Journal 14 Oct 97)
>
> INTERNET2 APPLICATIONS SHOWCASED
> A demonstration held last week offered U.S. senators a glimpse of some
> of the applications that will be made possible by Internet2, the
> high-speed network project involving more than 100 universities. The
> demo used the National Science Foundation's Very High Performance
> Backbone Network Service, or vBNS, which will form the skeleton of
> Internet2. Senators donned 3-D goggles to experience ImmersaDesk, a
> kind of large-screen TV that can project computer displays in three
> dimensions, and examined a virtual ear housed at the University of
> Illinois at Chicago. Other applications included a scanning electron
> microscope that can be controlled remotely over the network, a
> data-mining project, and a multimedia database. (Chronicle of Higher
> Education 17 Oct 97)
>
> NEW BILL TARGETS NET PIRATES
> A bill introduced in Congress by Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) would
> penalize first-time offenders who steal and distribute software, music
> or other copyrighted works on the Internet with fines up to $250,000
> and three years in jail. Repeat offenders would receive even stiffer
> sentences. The No Electronic Theft Act amends federal copyright law
> to define "financial gain" as receipt of anything of value, including
> copyrighted works. The bill also extends the statute of limitations
> for criminal copyright infringement from three years to five years.
> (TechWire 13 Oct 97)
>
> COMPUSERVE WOOS BUSINESSES WITH LATEST SERVICE
> CompuServe is debuting a new Web-based online service aimed at
> corporate users, in an effort to generate new income to boost the
> company's revenue stream. The new service will be based on a hybrid
> business model that will derive income from advertisements as well as
> from subscriptions and pay-per-use access to CompuServe databases.
> "This is not a migration play at all," says CompuServe's VP of
> business management in response to concerns over the service's new
> focus on the Web. "It's a brand new revenue stream. We believe we'll
> be one of the Web's biggest sites the day we launch." (Wall Street
> Journal 14 Oct 97)
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> PUBLISHING GIANTS MERGE
> Reed Elsevier, the world's largest publisher of academic and trade
> journals (as well as the owner of the Lexis-Nexis database service),
> is merging with Dutch publisher Wolters Kluwer. The combined company
> will also buy Chilton, which publishes 39 U.S. trade magazines. One
> industry analyst says: "The main thing is that they can now together
> make the large investments needed for the change from print publishing
> to electronic publishing." (Atlanta Journal-Constitution 14 Oct 97)
>
> TELESCOPE FOR THE WEB
> Case Western Reserve University is modernizing an 8-ton telescope at
> the Nassau Astronomical Station in northeastern Ohio by installing a
> computerized drive and imaging system and research spectrosocope to
> make it the world's largest robotic telescope. It will be one of just
> a few large telescopes that can be accessed over the Internet. Others
> are at the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University
> of Iowa, and the University of Bradford (U.K.). (AP 12 Oct 97)
>
> INTERNET COMMERCE
> Joining companies like IBM and Amazon.com in efforts to demystify
> electronic commerce for the consumer masses, the company CD Now, which
> offers information about and sells compact disks, cassettes, books and
> other music-related merchandise online, has begun a $10 million
> advertising campaign in traditional and interactive media. To give
> consumers a reason to buy CDs online rather than going to a record
> store, CD Now will be "very targeted: On a fan site of a certain
> band, we can advertise some rare
> import CDs of that band." (New York Times 14 Oct 97)
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