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CompuServe Network Services announcedit will support Microsoft's(R) FrontPage across its Web hosting service, WebHost(TM), for public and private web sites. The Web authoring and management tool allows customers to easily and automatically edit and upload Web content. FrontPage allows customers to use a local server or desktop as their staging server to view changes to their Web site before committing those changes to a live, production server residing in a secure CompuServe data center. FrontPage includes Web wizards and page templates that guide authors and designers throughout the development process. The FrontPage server extensions support remote authoring, remote site management and drop-in WebBot components that add interactive functions to a web site.
Netscape announced a meeting of the ECMA international standards organization to advance the standardization of JavaScript, a cross-platform scripting technology for creating applications on the Internet and Intranets. The meeting, to be held in California on November 21-22, resulted from Netscape's submission of JavaScript to ECMA for consideration as an industry standard. To enable interested parties to review the JavaScript proposal, Netscape is posting the JavaScript specification on its Internet site. In addition, the company is providing information about how to license JavaScript at no charge as part of the Netscape ONE(TM) open network environment.
In the short time since their introduction last year, the new languages have seen rapid developer acceptance with more than 175,000 Java applets and more than 300,000 JavaScript-enabled pages on the Internet today according to www.hotbot.com. With Java and JavaScript support incorporated into both its client and server products, Netscape is the most widely deployed software platform for building and running Java based applications, with millions of users worldwide.
Microsoft plans to spend $400 million this year to develop content for its Internet services and nearly as much in each of the next few years, the Wall Street Journal is reporting
The new offerings also include five Unix-based HP Domain Enterprise Servers combining hardware and software for up to 1,360 users ranging in U.S. list price from $9,500 to $85,000. Palo Alto-based HP said its HP NetServer Web Master, with a U.S. list price of $9,999, was the industry's first integrated Internet personal computer-based server package based on Microsoft's Windows NT platform.
"The servers range from a 100 megahertz unit with a PA7100LC reduced instruction set (RISC) processor, 32 megabytes of random access memory (RAM), a quad-speed CD-ROM and two gigabytes of storage to a 180-megahertz PA8000-based server with 128 megabytes of RAM and four gigabytes of storage.
America Online reached the six million subscriber landmark on May 30, 1996, Pam McGraw, director of media relations, said.
Infoseek unveiled a dramatically redesigned and enhanced version of its award-winning Internet navigation service for the busy, mission-oriented user searching for reliable information on the Internet. The new version combines an easy to navigate interface with innovative new features and Infoseek's Ultra search technology to create an intelligent information resource. The new free service is available today at www.infoseek.com.
Infoseek's directory, a listing of Web sites organized by category, continues to be the largest directory on the Internet, and has been expanded to include more than 700,000 Web sites. The enhanced directory also includes task-based topics, such as "buying a car" or "finding a job," which make it easier to find the comprehensive information on a specific task.
Ultraseek gives power users, or those who want a "search only" service, a way to fully exploit Infoseek's Ultra technology and search the entire real-time index of the Web using either natural language queries or special search expressions. Search from within Ultraseek will return only a list of relevant Web pages and exclude related information included in Ultrasmart.
Ultraseek also includes a set of advanced search options such as:
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Imageseek -- search specifically for an image on the Internet
* Site Search
-- search a particular site or domain
* Link search -- determine how many
URLs link to a particular site
* Title search -- search for documents with a
specific word in the title
* News Center Featuring Personalized News
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People Finder
* Stock quotes * Company directory * Street maps
For those who predicted the Internet and the World Wide Web would severely curtail face-to-face business, the answer is ``not yet,'' according to a survey by the International Executive Services Practice of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP. The survey says there's still no substitute for face-to-face interaction when engaging in business internationally. When asked if the Internet will lessen the need for expatriates (employees given assignments outside of their own country), 74 percent of international human resource administrators and tax professionals said it would not. This does not mean, however, that respondents think the Internet and other advanced technologies have little value. More than half of them (56 percent) predict the Internet will impact the way they manage their expatriate programs.With the Internet factoring so prominently in the administration of expatriate programs, companies are likely to step up investments in technology. In fact, when asked to characterize how important it will be to invest in technology to manage expatriates in the next five years, an overwhelming 87 percent said that it was either ``extremely important'' or ``important.'' Not one respondent believes that this investment is not important at all.
Young kids can get a taste of interactive online games at Simon & Schuster's Teach Your Children site. You'll find coloring and counting games to play with. http://www.teachkids.com/
From the essentials of life to the esoteric, from the practical to the just plain fun.
Breathe Easy The Breathing Lungs site has a simple message: When you can't breathe, nothing else matters. Find info on preventing and managing lung disease, on subjects ranging from asthma and tobacco control to radon and ozone. http://www.lungusa.org
Waiting alone in the lab where Constance had witnessed the accident, with the faint zoo noises wafting in from outside, Lady Pamela thought once more of the Professor's handsome son. He was now, according to the fax on the workbench, struggling for life in the intensive care ward. The retired primatologist's thoughts once more drifted towards their next possible romantic rondezvous.
Permits access to DIGEX routers at MAE-West/MAE-East/SprintNAP for traceroute and certain statistics
MicroMovie MiniMultiplex - Collection of links to server "push-pull" and GIF89 movies on the WWW.
MasterCard executives sees 1997 as the year in which electronic commerce through the Internet will take off. "We see ourselves as a payment-service company, not just a credit-card firm," said James Cassin, Singapore-based president of MasterCard Asia and Pacific, referring to MasterCard's recent strong growth in debit-card business in the region. Cassin said MasterCard's Maestro card, an on-line debit payment product, has posted triple-digit annual growth in cards issued in many Asian countries since its introduction three years ago. "Eighty percent of our business is cash-based transactions ...if you look at the future, debit and chip cards, electronic commerce, stored-value applications and things we don't even know about will be an increasingly big part of it," he said. He projected MasterCard will see the number of all its cards increase 25-30 percent in Asia this year with South Korea, Australia and India being its highest growth areas.
An overwhelming nine out of 10 insurance professionals who were asked if they had ever considered selling a product or service over the Internet answered yes, an e-poll conducted by the Foundation for Issues Research & Management revealed. The Schaumburg, Ill.-based FIRM conducted an e-poll of 803 insurance professionals over its Web site (located at http://www.connectyou.com/firm) about their Internet experiences and future marketing plans. The research organization learned not only that 95 percent answered that they have considered using the Internet to sell a product or service, but that almost 85 percent of the respondents plan to buy products or services using the Internet in the future. Furthermore, FIRM said 53 percent of those surveyed have actually bought a product or service using the Internet.