Internet Digest for 14-Oct-96

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Sun Microsystems is unveiling a new computer chip that's designed to let consumer electronic devices -- everything from handheld computers to cellular telephones -- tap into the Internet.The JavaChip can be used in cellular telephones to let people read their email, or to look up phone numbers on online directories.

1. The Federal Communications Commission to approve that schools and libraries be given basic Internet services free. Telecommunications companies would pay for this by putting money into a fund, much as they currently subsidize poor and rural phone users.
2. Have industry leaders would help raise money to match government technology-literacy grants to buy computers for schools and ensure that teachers are properly trained.
3. Develop a new generation of the information superhighway that would be 100 to 1,000 times faster than the existing computer system, which is rapidly reaching capacity.

The new version of its online service features new services, original entertainment programming and a new program viewer that puts MSN members just one click away from any major area on MSN or any other site on the Internet. The Web-based MSN is scheduled to be launched in early November. MSN is the third-largest online service worldwide.

An international audit group has agreed to set standards for measuring traffic at World Wide Web sites on the Internet. Establishment of a common set of measurement and reporting standards is expected to allow the Web to realize its potential as an advertising medium. The IFABC agreed to develop a set of minimum measurement and reporting standards for use by its members and to develop an international trademark that will be included on Web site reports where the standards are used.

AT&T said it would offer a service that would allow businesses to build and maintain sites on the popular World Wide Web part of the Internet, as well as ways to attract customers to the site. It also said it would guarantee credit card transaction security for people who shop on the Web, which has become a major concern of businesses and consumers trying to buy or sell via the computer network.

Under its program, AT&T said it would guarantee secure Internet transactions for Web shoppers who join the company's free Secure Buyer's program and charge their Internet purchases to their AT&T Universal credit cards. In addition, it said it would guarantee that customers using its service would never have their Web sites give the message "server not available," which is similar to a busy signal on the Web.

The Gartner Group predicts about 100 million people will be using the Internet by the end of 1998. Cayne told a Gartner Group technology symposium here that projecting the number of Internet users is nearly impossible, because of the fast-changing numbers, as more new users log on every day. "By the year 2000, we expect the Internet to become the dial tone of data communications around the world," Cayne said.

The Internet will remain a secondary advertising medium, useful for marketing specialized services and products but failing to compete against the mass market reach of television and other traditional media for selling most consumer goods, according to a UK advertising executive, said Winston Fletcher, chairman of the UK advertising agency. "So it will never be a significant advertising medium for the great majority of consumer goods and services," Fletcher said in a commentary in the Financial Times. In the three months to June of this year, worldwide Internet advertising totaled $45 million. Total Internet advertising in 1996 could well reach $200 million and even double to $400 million in 1997, Fletcher said.

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