The WAVE Report would like
to highlight some past
articles that stand out among the issues we have written.
Microsoft's
Essential Web Services Summit, WAVE0146/0147,
10/24 & 11/2/01
"The
battle over "Web services" seems to dominate the coverage of the IT
industry today. But a lingering question is: what exactly is a Web service?
How does it work, what technology does it rely on, and why is it desirable?
A major question for many is Microsoft's .NET initiative - how it will
work, how it will provide Web services, and how (and whether) to update."
Fair
Use or Copyright Violation?, WAVE0117, 3/30/01
"Which view is correct? 1.
Hollywood, in the form of music and movie companies, collectively seek
to protect the value of the products created by musicians and producers.
2.
Hollywood, in the form of music and movie companies, is the ultimate
expression of greed, interested in only its own self- preservation and
not the public, which is its customer. 3. Consumers
only want reasonable opportunities to listen to music and video in their
own homes. 4. Consumers
will take every opportunity to steal artistic property, pass it around
and ignore any concept of property rights."
The
Smoke and Mirrors of Deregulation, WAVE0114, 3/9/01
"We find ourselves...looking at the three players in this market
- government, new competitors and the consumer. The new administration's
focus seems to be supporting commercial ventures - not consumers, new
competitors are financially weak and destined to lose to the RBOCs,
and consumers are very unhappy with their limited choices and technical
DSL nightmares. The FCC has said that deregulation is great, but if
it doesn't result in competition, then consumer interest is threatened,
which it certainly has been in the past few years."
Content,
Infrastructure and the Internet, WAVE0109, 2/15/01
" In the last year, in part, due to the Internet market downturn,
a debate has arisen surrounding Internet content and infrastructure.
In 1999, the market put its faith in content, and predicted that broadband
would foster even larger increases in subscriber growth for the
Internet because it enabled more and richer content. This is now being challenged.
Analysts have concluded that content does not make a venture successful,
but instead infrastructure drives usage - and therefore broadband, instead
of merely increasing subscribers, will actually drive the whole
market
not just content."
NGN
- The Future of Networking,
WAVE2054, 11/1/00
"Next Generation Networks is a first class conference crafted by
John McQuillan. In a nut shell the conference reflects the struggle
between the old and new with the old being the traditional phone connection
based network and the new being a packet based connectionless network.
But it is much deeper than this." Also read NGN
Report #2,
WAVE2056, 11/22/00.
Information
Appliances - A Competitive Place to Be, WAVE2047, 9/7/00
"Is an information appliance the microwave cooker of morsels of
information or the freezer of data to be preserved? Or is information
appliance an oxymoron? To many, it is the convenience of marrying the
ubiquity of information with the convenience of an appliance. Yet,
there are few appliances which one carries around with them - a watch is hardly
called an appliance. Thus, the literal transliteration of these terms
into a larger meaning remains vacuous. Some of the major market research
firms only see the PDA or tablet as information appliances - and maybe
the set top box. Thus, there is no coherency in what is an information
appliance."
Point
- Counterpoint - Is Prime Time TV Dead?,
WAVE9082,
8/24/99
"Although the future may see interactive
television playing a big part of home entertainment, the idea that
Prime
Time television is going to be upstaged is a bit exaggerated. This
scenario can be likened to an earlier era of television when cable
entered the
market (then called pay TV). Broadcasters succeeded in convincing policy
makers to restrict cable from penetrating larger cities from 1964-1972
in order to protect themselves. After 1972, cable restrictions were
slowly eliminated and in 1984 cable was deregulated. This has not had
the dramatic effect on broadcasters that everyone thought."
A
Future in the Sky, WAVE9076,
7/28/99
"Almost like Moore's Law, as the market for telecommunications
grows, the number of broadband access solutions seems to double. So
far the battle has been largely between cable modems and xDSL. Yet from
the shadows, MMDS, LMDS, Ka-Band satellite and other wireless technologies
have begun to deploy broadband systems claiming to offer bandwidths
greater than 1Mbps."
Broadcasters
have a BIG Problem, Internet Appliance Providers have a BIG Opportunity,
WAVE9052, 5/17/99
"...Broadcasters have a BIG problem in the way they are approaching
the market. The Internet, although allowing mass communication and
reach,
is not the killer app. In fact, as the available bandwidth increases
to individuals the value of mass broadcasting faces continual decline.
Yet, at the same time the transition to digital for broadcasters only
brings its own BIG problem - not enough viewers and limited income.
This falls back to the classic marketing problem - what is the core
business of broadcasters? It may not be supplying mass content but
their
core business may be that of a spectrum manager."
Hold
on to Your Seats,
WAVE9047, 5/6/99
"...Consider the following as indicators of the state of the
turmoil in the computing, PC and 3D industries. With the stock market
at 11,000 virtually all the traditional metrics of evaluation have
been
discarded. Valuations as multiples of P/E rations are being tested
at new heights. Underlying much of this turmoil is inverted economics
which
now implies that revenue, profitability, and market value are not related."
Getting
Blown Away at 160mph,
WAVE917, 11/16/98
"...A key to the driving experience is the role of the instructor.
Every driver is paired with an instructor which runs ahead of the driver's
car. As a driver you are, above all else, to follow the lead of the
instructor. A series of hand signals are laid out to set your distance
from the instructor and to provide instructions during the run. At
the
center of the track is the nest tower just above the track and adjacent
to the stands. During a real race this is where the flags are waved
to the drivers. The same applies in the Richard Petty Driving Experience.
However, you can also be given signs which tells one to pull up closer
behind the instructor or open up a greater distance."
Disney
Quest I,
WAVE 865,
8/16/98
Disney
Quest II, WAVE 866, 8/16/98
"... Sitting in Downtown Disney within the DisneyWorld complex
is a 100,000 sq. ft. aqua blue cube containing of some of the freshest
ideas in out-of-home entertainment to come in years. Disney calls this
an interactive theme park. A key objective is that the guests create
their own experience. For Disney, and the whole industry, this is a
first and they described it as a 'Grand Experiment.'"
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