Compiled by Kevin Smith
MessageBay offers audio to ad campaigns
This week MessageBay, a leader in voice messaging on the Internet, released a new program to speed up adding audio to online advertisements. "QuickStart Audio" integrates audio technology and advertising in all phases of the project. The program handles audio from all aspect of a project, from creation, to hosting ad streaming of the message for any online ad. To help get its product out to the industry MessageBay is offering a free 30-day trial of QuickStart. The promotional offer includes free set-up and free 30-day hosting. For more information check out www.messagebay.com
B2B Study Released by Jupiter
A new tool is out to help firms in the business-to-business market. Jupiter has published its new research study on 12 different industries and what works best for them in the B2B market. Businesses of all sizes are rushing to take advantage of unprecedented opportunities to build stronger customer relationships, streamline internal processes and reduce sales and purchasing costs. What are the infrastructure implications of this movement and how can different industries learn from those early movers that have succeeded thus far? Jupiter has gathered and analyzed the best practices that have enabled the success of these early movers. Gain valuable insight into the best-of-breed Web sites and learn how today's leaders have optimized infrastructure development and vendor management to succeed in today's online world.
With Internet infrastructure spending expected to reach $350 billion by 2003, "Business-to-Business Infrastructure Practices: Markets, Early Adopters, Applications and Vendors" helps companies address the important issues in the B2B circle.
COMDEX Adds More Bells and Whistles
COMDEX/Fall 2000 is the global IT marketplace where buyers, sellers and investors go to do business and make technology decisions. Already the largest IT meeting place in the world, this year COMDEX has developed a customer-centric initiative that will concentrate on segmenting everything from the conference programming to the floor plans in order to better serve the specific needs of the buyers and sellers and to enable discreet community development. The fall show is scheduled for Nov. 13-17, in Las Vegas.
E-business Conference and Expo Slated for Mid December
New York will be the site in mid December as experts gather from a wide array of areas to discuss the future of e-businesses. The eBusiness Conference and Expo will examine how electronic business is transforming the corporation through three conference program themes: "From Here to E-Business: Strategies for Managing Transition"; "Reinventing Business Models: The E-Business Imperative"; and "eValues: A New Equation of People, Ideas, and Capital." These themes will be explored and debated throughout the event-taking place December 12-14, 2000 a the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. The eBusiness Conference and Expo is the only business event to focus on e-technologies and services and brings together leading practitioners and world-class expertise to explore electronic business opportunities. To register online or for more information, visit the conference website at http://www.ebusinessexpo.com.
Web Access Coming to Airports, Travelers
If airlines and electronic companies have their way, travelers who find themselves in airport terminals waiting for a delayed or cancelled flight, will soon have a new way to pass the time. Several airlines are interested in installing wireless Internet access in airport terminals and lounges which would allow travelers
to work, surf the Web or even watch digital movies. Delta Air Lines is already offering the service at its terminal in Vancouver, British Columbia, and plans to have it available by the end of next year in its main hub cities, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Dallas-Fort Worth. United Airlines, which had the worst on-time performance in August among the major carriers, announced plans to start its own Internet service next year at 30 airports.
Long-Awaited Gateway Web Appliance to be Released Friday
Sources close to Gateway 2000 Inc., the well known PC manufacturer and retailer, have said the long-awaited Web appliance will be released Friday in partnership with America Online, Broadcom and Transmeta. The San Diego, Calif.-based company also is expected to outline its vision for the connected home. Unlike PCs, Web appliances are simple-function devices largely used for quick access to content on the Internet or for sending email. Gateway unfurled prototypes of the product in April and promised that other devices would follow. Gateway had been expected to unveil the product next week at the Comdex trade show, but instead will make the announcement at a New York event on Friday. Gateway's Web appliance will use Transmeta's Crusoe processor, sources said. The processor has come under fire recently,
after IBM canceled plans to use it in ThinkPad portables. To date, Transmeta's chips have been used almost exclusively in portable devices.