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Rent Net, which boasted 5 million hits in April
http://www.rent.net
Rent Net, a Web-based real estate guide, now boasts listings for all 50 states. In addition, the service will provide users with e-mail notification of newly listed apartments. It offers users floorplans, color photos and location maps.
America Online will license security and electronic commerce technologies from CyberCash, IBM, RSA Data Security, Terisa Systems and VeriSign. The technologies, which will include IBM's Cryptolope document containers and RSA's encryption algorithms, will be used both on the proprietary America Online service and as part of Global Network Navigator, AOL's Internet access service.
IBM to form a new home banking company
Tentatively called INET, the service would allow users to pay bills, transfer funds, obtain mortgage rates, and communicate with customer service representatives via their PCs, IBM's global communications network, and eventually over the Internet, according to the report.
The following banks reportedly have signed on to the joint venture: BankAmerica, NationsBank, Fleet Financial Group, First Bank System, Royal Bank of Canada, BayBanks, KeyCorporation, Banc One, and Barnett Banks. The report did not identify the tenth bank.
Philips announces a U.S. version of its CD-Online entertainment machine designed to give users access to email and the Web through their television sets.
CD-Online, which is used with a television set, plays all CD-i software titles, as well as audio, video and photo CDs. It will also come equipped with a 14.4 modem, proprietary Internet software, and the ability to convert text and graphics for NTSC television display.
Philips plans to offer the system for less than $700. For current CD-i owners, an upgrade kit to the Internet version will be available for less than $200. Keyboard will cost another $50.
Sun Microsystems will have a Internet protocol later this year that could deliver data eight to ten times faster than existing protocols such as FTP and HTTP.
Sun will try to make WebNFS a standard protocol for transferring files and Web pages to browsers on PCs and network appliances expected from companies such as IBM, Oracle, and Sun.
Articles
The Boss May Be Looking Over Your Shoulder As You Surf The Web
http://techweb.cmp.com/ia/dailies/nyt.htm#story1
Cable modems as an option for high speed Internet access.
http://techweb.cmp.com/products/cable/cable.htm
Netwatch: Consortium Okays Rating Standards
http://nytsyn.com/live/Latest_columns/136_051596_084004_8134.html
E-mail Will Likely Overshadow Faxes -- Eventually by Bill Gates
http://nytsyn.com/live/Gates/130_050996_194003_2334.html
Is That A Fact
http://pathfinder.com/pathfinder/fact/
Be a contestant on Pathfinder's live online game show
Internet 1996 World Exposition
http://park.org/
Foreign Languages for Travelers
http://pathfinder.com/Travel/language/
Get hints on pronunciation as you listen to the computer pronounce basic words and phrases from 24 languages.
Indianapolis Racing League
http://www.brickyard.com:80/irl/
The Indianapolis 500, a Memorial Day tradition.
The New England Journal of Medicine
http://www.nejm.org/
The site includes the complete text (with figures and tables) of many features in the print edition.
The Interactive Humor Database:
http://humor.ncy.com/
Kids WB!
http://pathfinder.com/KidsWB/
Brings kids the sights and sounds of the coolest animated shows on TV plus new online and downloadable games that are bound to become their favorites.
TechHelper, your "virtual helpdesk,"
http://www.techhelper.com
Answers to your most frustrating computing questions, through a
variety of sources including, vendor sites and independent
FAQs
Discover which type of memory you have, which type you
should get, how much you need, and how to add it:
http://www.cnet.com/Content/Features/Howto/Memory/
WebCompare Browser Features Comparison
http://www.webcompare.com/browser-main.html
New HTML Editor GNNpress - Mac & Windows
http://www.tools.gnn.com/press/index.html
Hints on Running a High-Performance Web Server
http://www.apache.org/docs/perf.html
Quantitative Analysis of Five WWW "Search Engines"
http://neal.ctstateu.edu:2001/htdocs/websearch.html
Dee Dee's Collection
http://www.NorCom.mb.ca/deedee/animat.htm
A small collection of some "cool" animated gif's, as well as
some links to " huge" collections.
The Internet As A Marketing Tool
http://www.louisville.edu/~w0geisz1/theint.htm
Everything You Need To Know To Market On The Internet
http://web.idirect.com/~mbsprog/hotsites.html
Postage-Due Marketing
http://www.internet.com:2010/marketing/postage.html
1st Steps: Cool Marketing Resources and Tools
http://www.interbiznet.com/ibn/nomad.html
United States Postal Service ZIP Code Lookup:
http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/lookup_zip+4.html