WebTV rolled out its plan to bring the Internet to the TV set via a low-cost set-top box due out this fall.The start-up plans to get the Web to the tube using a phone line, compression technology, a custom browser, and a set-top box "well under the $500 price point" in late September.
"As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion," wrote U.S. District Judge Stewart Dalzell, a member of the panel that barred the enforcement of a new federal law prohibiting indecency on computer networks. "The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation," Dalzell wrote. "The government may not, through the CDA, interrupt that conversation."
The average user of the World Wide Web is a 33-year-old white male with an income of $59,000. Women using the Web was steadily increasing, up roughly 2% from 29% in a similar survey last fall. That increase has been even more dramatic in Europe, where the number of women jumped 45%, to 15.2% from 10.5%. Shift away from office and educational use towards home use. 48.5% of the 11,700 Web users surveyed accessed the Internet from home using local providers, versus 27.9% a year ago.
Data General plans to build a new category of network computer appliance designed for viewing information transmitted at high-speeds over the Internet. It is developing an entire of line of new special-purpose computers, known as servers, that would manage the information flow among smaller Internet-connected appliances in a house, school or business. The new line of products will be called THiiN Internet Appliances and are expected to be available beginning early in 1997 These smaller devices, which have prices starting at $300 to $500, are known as Network Computers (NCs), and are designed to provide an easier, lower-cost method of Internet access than full-size PCs carrying tags at $1,500 and above.
Internet telephony is expected to grow to $560 million a year by the end of 1999, from current levels of $3.5 million. According to a report by International Data Corp. (IDC). As of the end of 1995, IDC said, there were estimated to be about 500,000 active Internet telephony users. That number is expected to grow to 16 million users by the end of 1999.IDC said Internet telephony firm VocalTec had the lion's share of those users, with 94 percent.Growth will be driven primarily by business users.
PC Dell Computer will begin shipping two business personal computers with the 200-megahertz Pentium processor this month. Prices for the Dell Dimension XPS P200s and OptiPlex GX5200 will begin at $2,499 for a fully configured system, including color monitor.
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Internet Business Chief executive officer Bert Roberts also said MCI Communications hopes to grow its Internet business to a $2 billion a year enterprise by the year 2000 from around $100 million today. and to expand its overall business to $30 billion by the year 2000 from its current size of about $16 billion in annualized revenues. Roberts said MCI made a serious decision to enter the Internet market two years ago and accelerate its opportunities there, fundamentally by upgrading the capacity of its network. The MCI backbone network now operates at 155 megabits a second, up nine-fold from a year ago, he said.
Under a new agreement between America Online and Netscape the online service will work with the browser company to sell banner-space on the latter's site as part of a combined media buy. The agreement will give advertisers one-buy access to America Online's audience of over 6 million users and Netscape's 2.3 million daily site visitors. Netscape's site, which the company claims gets 70 million hits per day, has had trouble selling ad space Netscape delivers 5.9 million page views per day, charging anywhere from $17 to $25 per thousand impressions.
CNN Interactive says advertisers are lining up to buy spots on the Cable News Network's Web site. Daniel Stone, CNN's senior VP for business development, also said the site generates money by charging advertisers $5,000 to $35,000 a month for advertising banners linked to their own sites or display pages. CNN Interactive's advertising will total "several million dollars" and the company's 130-person Internet operation will break even in 1996 and double its revenues in 1997, although the company would not provide exact figures. The company estimates that the CNN Web site, which boasts 32 advertisers, including American Express, Fidelity Investments, IBM and Samsung, gets an average of six million page impressions per week.
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