The Internet may reach the world, but some sites just tapping local markets
11/10/99, Rachel Beck, Associated Press. Local cyber-services are growing fast, and people are quickly taking to these Web sites for help with everyday chores, most of the time in a speedy and efficient way.
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Internet2 Offers Glimpse of Superfast Online Future
11/9/99, HEATHER COCKS, Cox News. AUSTIN, Texas Last month, almost 30 years to the day after Stanford University first logged onto a revolutionary 50 kilobits-per-second computer network, a new generation of Stanford researchers sent video clips across a connection that was 48,000 times faster.
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A Visitor On Your Website? Odigo's 'Homepager' Rings Your Doorbell
11/8/99, Eric Wards, URLWire. While an Odigo user is surfing anywhere on the Web, Homepager runs in the background, monitoring their home page (or any other web page they specify). When a visitor enters that page, Odigo pings them with a small audio alert - much like a doorbell.
www.urlwire.com/newsarchive/110899.html

Hottest Net Technologies
10/4/99, Jesse Berst, AnchorDesk.
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Web may be found in tiny places
10/13/99, Heather Cocks, Star-Telegram. At the Fall 1999 Internet World conference, which wrapped up here Friday, a handful of companies pushed what they believe is the next big advance in Internet computing -- tiny World Wide Web servers embedded in clothing, jewelry and even household appliances.
www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:COMP34/1:COMP34101299.html

How to Use the Web for Meetings
10/11/99, Jesse Berst, Editorial DirectorZDNet AnchorDesk. The idea is called "Web conferencing." The concept is not new, but is winning converts due to gradual improvements in the technology. A recent MCI WorldCom study of business professionals found that more than a third have taken part in Web-based meetings.
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In Defense of Cookies
10/8/99, Jesse Berst, ZDNet AnchorDesk. Cookies cannot "see" or steal data from your hard drive or email. Cookies cannot give you a virus. One site cannot co-opt another site's cookies.
www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/cgi-bin/print_story.cgi?story=story_3957

Online, It Ain't Easy Being Me
10/14/99, Leslie Walker, Washington Post. The battleground involves software aimed at solving the problem of having to remember multiple user names, passwords and credit-card numbers as you visit and revisit Web sites. In theory, you fill in your personal information only once and the new products take care of the details any place you go.
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Instant Messaging Goes To Work
10/7/99, Madeleine Acey, TechWeb. Novell and AOL on Wednesday launched an instant-messaging product aimed at corporate users, heralding a new era of either information overload or improved communications at work. The companies said "instantme" combines NDS technology, which governs corporate network address lists, with AOL's Instant Messenger (AIM) service.
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Tomorrow's Internet puts the world in your pocket
10/12/99, ANICK JESDANUN, Nando Times. "The Internet is beginning a transition," said Harry Fenik, an industry analyst with Zona Research Inc. of Redwood City, Calif. "A lot of these wireless devices are going to access the Internet, but it's not something you're going to be conscious of."
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