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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 15:56:20 -0600
From: "Swisher, Bob" <bswisher@ou.edu>
To: "'it-fyi@ou.edu'" <it-fyi@ou.edu>
Subject: Edupage, 23 November 1997
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> Edupage, 23 November 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
> Justice Disputes Microsoft's Claims
> ITU Says Teledesic Must Share Frequencies
> Can Journalistic Ethics Coexist With New Media?
> New IBM Computer Sees And Hears
>
> ALSO
> Multiplayer Gaming Market Set To Explode
> Net To Kill, Create Jobs By Millions
> Is Microsoft Really Smart Or Really Stupid?
> Gerstner Re-Ups
> Will Andy Be Replaced By An Indian?
>
> JUSTICE DISPUTES MICROSOFT'S CLAIMS
> The U.S. Department of Justice disputes Microsoft's claim that
> investigators had known for years about its plans to integrate its
> Internet Explorer into the Windows operating system. "Internet
> Explorer was not designed or 'developed' to be an integrated product
> with Windows 95," says a document prepared by Justice's antitrust
> division. The Justice Department, which is seeking a $1-million-a-day
> fine unless the software developer changes its aggressive marketing
> practices, accused Microsoft of attempting "to rewrite history" with
> this latest explanation. (InfoWorld Electric 21 Nov 97)
>
> ITU SAYS TELEDESIC MUST SHARE FREQUENCIES
> The International Telecommunication Union has granted guaranteed
> Ka-band radio frequency access to several proposed multimedia
> satellite systems, including Alcatel's Skybridge and Motorola's
> Celestri. The decision, urged by European members, reverses a 1995
> ITU decision which effectively gave Teledesic, the
> "Internet-in-the-Sky" project proposed by Bill Gates and Craig McCaw,
> a de facto monopoly. "It has adopted a treaty which will allow
> systems to continue to develop and be deployed," says an ITU
> spokeswoman. "Competition is assured." The new arrangement means that
> for the first time, geostationary, or fixed-orbit, satellite systems
> will have to share bandwidth with nongeostationary systems, enabling
> competing systems to re-use each others' frequencies. (Reuters 21 Nov
> 97)
>
> CAN JOURNALISTIC ETHICS COEXIST WITH NEW MEDIA?
> Former Wired VP David Weir says: "There's potential conflict brewing
> in branding new media: how to create a successful business and
> maintain journalistic values such as honesty, truth, and integrity
> under the enormous pressure to reach profitability quickly... In
> traditional media, everyone tends to know the ground rules (such as
> being interrupted on a semi-regular basis by commercials). But for
> the Internet, there are no ground rules: It's a Wild West; it has to
> be invented. All of the Web sites are challenged to create a great
> interface but are limited really in what they can establish on that
> interface design to fit on a laptop or small screen... You have to
> load on as much marketing and banners -- all in that small space -- as
> you can, which is the problem. And there's no agreed-upon way to
> solve that problem such as the commercial which interrupts the news.
> That certainly was true at Wired," which, he says, is still trying to
> figure out its branding strategy. (Tech Investor 21 Nov 97)
>
> NEW IBM COMPUTER SEES AND HEARS
> A new IBM computer uses a combination of speech recognition and a
> small camera to track the movements of users, enabling the computer to
> respond to a combination of voice commands and hand gestures -- for
> instance, "Take this paragraph and move it down here," or "Make this
> logo about this big." The company anticipates commercial applications
> in two years. (Investor's Business Daily 21 Nov 97)
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> MULTIPLAYER GAMING MARKET SET TO EXPLODE
> DFC Intelligence, an interactive entertainment research company,
> predicts that the market for online games will expand at an annual
> growth rate of 66% over the next five years, to $1.26 billion by 2001.
> The company says that PC-based games will make up $709 million, with
> set-top devices and game consoles comprising the remaining $555
> million. The biggest obstacles to the success of online gaming will
> be technical difficulties, particularly infrastructure and bandwidth
> issues, and developing a successful business model. (TechWeb 21 Nov
> 97)
>
> NET TO KILL, CREATE JOBS BY MILLIONS
> Clinton Administration special advisor Ira Magaziner told an OECD
> conference that millions of jobs will be destroyed around the world as
> business computerizes and moves onto the Internet, but that the new
> technology will eventually create even more jobs; Magaziner went on
> to say that governments need to allow markets to break down barriers
> to Internet commerce, even though employment could often be thrown
> into turmoil as the information society causes the same kind of
> upheaval as experienced during the industrial revolution. Donald
> Johnston, director general of the Organization for Economic
> Cooperation and Development, said it would do all in its power to
> break down constraints on Internet ways of doing business. Johnston
> noted there are suggestions from some governments that new taxes
> levied on business generated across the worldwide network of computers
> known as the Internet would be resisted. (Toronto Star 20 Nov 97)
>
> IS MICROSOFT REALLY SMART OR REALLY STUPID?
> While the most of the computer industry has been retrenching on basic
> research, Microsoft has been expanding aggressively. Asked to explain
> why Microsoft is so at odds with the rest of the industry in this
> regard, Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold says: "It
> means we're either really smart or really stupid. Whenever you're
> greatly at odds with the rest of the world, one of those two things is
> true." (Fortune 8 Dec 98)
>
> GERSTNER RE-UPS
> IBM chief Lou Gerstner agreed to extend his contract as top executive
> of IBM at least until his 60th birthday in 2002. Though IBM stock has
> increased 500% since Gerstner joined the company in 1993, he considers
> his turnaround job only half-way finished, saying that the first half
> of the turnaround "was to get from survival to strength" and that "now
> we need to go from strength to leadership. I think that is going to
> take another five years." (Wall Street Journal 21 Nov 97)
>
> WILL ANDY BE REPLACED BY AN INDIAN?
> Intel chief executive Andy Grove says: "If you can telecommute from
> Boise, somebody else can do it from India. This can cut every which
> way. Medical advice can go from Memorial Sloan-Kettering back to
> India. That's a fascinating aspect. A lot of work can be imported
> and exported. It won't matter where people work. Trade concepts and
> pricing will apply to nonphysical work." (Forbes ASAP 1 Dec 97)
>
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