Internet Digest for 15-July-96

Internet News

Capitol Hill meeting over Web pages
House Democrats engaged Republicans in a subcommittee meeting over the majority's policy on posting Web pages.
According to Roll Call, a newspaper that covers Congress, Representative Vic Fazio (D-California) wanted to amend an appropriations bill to move $4 million out of the hands of the office that oversees the House computer resources. The budget scalpel was used to highlight Democrats' dissatisfaction with having access to subcommittee Web pages controlled by Republicans.
Fazio was also reportedly upset with the House computer system, saying the email system was not working properly, yet another $85 million for computer and telecommunications projects was being requested.The Appropriations Committee voted to approve the spending bill, which provides for day-to-day operations of the House.

Netcom to upgrade its network
Netcom has completed a six-month upgrade of its network backbone that should let data traffic flow faster and help the company keep up with the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth.
Faster backbones mean fewer and less noticeable Internet traffic jams when data clogs up like airplanes backed up along a runway. The backbones share traffic from many access providers, and data can travel from one backbone to another in the course of delivery. But most ISPs are upgrading their backbones in an effort to speed whatever portion of the information superhighway they're responsible for. The company's backbone hubs are now connected by ATM (aynchronous transfer mode) switches, a kind of technology that transmits data at a basic rate of 45 mbps, compared to 1.45 mpbs and 45 mbps for the T1 and T3 connections it replaces.

Internet Servey says increase use of intranets.
A Delphi Consulting Group survey of 400 companies on the Fortune 1000 list shows that 90 percent of companies are using or planning to use corporate intranets, but only 30 percent of those surveyed think that either Netscape Communications or Microsoft are going to win the battle of the browsers.
More than 50 percent of respondents believe that Web browsers will become the standard for desktop computing, even beating out proprietary operating systems such as Windows. But only ten percent of those surveyed believed that Netscape will become the dominant desktop environment for intranets, and only 20 percent thought Microsoft would be the dominant system or browser.

Yahoo $1.3 million loss
Yahoo announced a $1.3 million loss Wednesday, The company's stock slid $2.1, or 11.4 percent, to a new closing low Wednesday. Then Yahoo reported a loss for the quarter ending June 30, its first quarter as a public company. This quarter's loss compares to a profit of only $68,000 for the quarter ending March 31. Still, Yahoo's loss of 5 cents a share came in better than expected by most Wall Street analysts, who had predicted a 7 cent per-share loss.

Internet Explorer 3.0 beta delayed
It is now expected to be released "sometime late next week," not this week as originally anticipated. A member of the IE development team, Denise Wyn,said "The Beta2 release of IE30 will not be happening today. Please look for this release sometime late next week. As with all products under development, changes do occur to scheduling. I know you are all looking forward to this release and we want it to be a great experience for everyone."

GTE, UUNet offer national Net access
GTE , which until now provided only limited Internet access to customers in Dallas-Ft. Worth, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Tampa, Florida, will tap UUNet to provide dial-up and dedicated access in 46 states, beginning immediately.
GTE will offer customers unlimited access for $19.95 per month. The company will also offer a plan with five hours of access for $8.95 per month plus $1.95 for each additional hour. The company will support dial-up access at speeds up to 28.8 kbps for regular modems, dedicated lines at speeds from 56 kbps to 45 mbps, and ISDN access at speeds up to 128 kbps.

Internet access at airports
Dedicated Net Machines (DediNet) will begin to install 1,000 terminals in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., areas.terminals will run over ISDN connections to let users read email, browse the Web, chat, and shop A terminal is being beta-tested at Planet Hollywood in Washington. The company then plans to install 10,000 terminals in ten major U.S. cities by the end of 1997. DediNet will use CompuServe's Internet division, Sprynet

Articles

Cybercitizens Balance Budget On The Internet
http://nytsyn.com/live/Features1/192_071096_104034_26428.html

Explorer Outshines Navigator In Browser Use
http://techweb.cmp.com/ia/dailies/market.htm#story1

AT&T Aims to Pocket the Net
http://netday.iworld.com/textonly/96Jul/0712-att.html

Best Sites of the Week

RadioClassics
http://www.radioclassics.com/
RealAudio broadcasts of vintage radio shows including War ofthe Worlds and Dragnet.

Feminism and the Net - primer to the Net for feminists.
http://www.eskimo.com/~feminist/nownetin.html

A complete Webauthoring toolbox of shareware programs
http://206.66.184.152/prespick/prescrnt.htm

American Museum of Natural History
http://www.amnh.org

CoverGirl
http://www.covergirl.com

The Olympic Games live, has a behind-the-scenes page
http://www.olympic.nbc.com

Vette-Americana Online
http://www.corvette-americana.com

HTML CGI and Programming Help

WWWimagesize
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ark/wwwis/
A perl routine which will read in an HTML file and insert HEIGHT=### WIDTH=### directives into the inlined images used in the file.

Wallpaper Machine, The
http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/wallpaper.pl

The Asylum's Gif Transparentifier Thinga-Ma-Jiggy
http://asylum.cid.com/tgif/

Internet Primer for Teachers
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4610/

Icon Gallery - sardonic icons for web developers
http://www.thecorporation.com/icon/icon.html

What's On - directory of British web sites.
http://www.whatson.com/

Backward Compatibility Viewer
http://www.delorie.com/web/wpbcv.html
View any page as any (previous) browser. Great way to seepages without having to see frames.

My Background Farm
http://www.ilstu.edu/~awilson/Backgrounds.html

Icon Depot - collection of over 1000 web page graphics.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/6603

Identify - Search the web using IDML.
http://www.identify.com/

E-mail News - mailing lists you can subscribe to.
http://www.oro.net/~jmrpaint/mail.html

Textures Unlimited
http://stega.smoky.org/~bzhuk/

Marketing Articles and Sites

Web 100, The - lists the top 100 websites, as ranked by users. Updated hourly
http://www.web100.com/

Internet Commerce Research
http://www.global-concepts.com/research.htm

Download past GCI research, including a Summer '95 study of e-commerce for VeriFone, MasterCard and Visa; and a Fall '95 follow-up study for MasterCard. Research conducted by Global Concepts.

Market of ISPs getting bigger
The nationwide total of ISPs now tops 3,000, according to the The List, a Web site that keeps track of ISPs. That number is up from fewer than 1,000 just six months ago, according to market research firm The Gartner Group. "This summer will be the topping-out point, and we will begin to see a decline in the number of ISPs by fall," said Eric Paulak, a research analyst at Gartner. "I expect that about 90 percent of current ISPs will be gone in the next five years." The good news for those that make it is that ISP profits are growing at a 30 percent clip, with revenues expected to top $1 billion this year.

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