INTERNET TRADE SHOW FOCUSES ON THE PRACTICAL.Byline: Ben Sullivan Daily News Staff Writer The Internet: It's not just for tech-heads anymore. Reflecting the Web's growing influence, Wednesday's launch of Internet World 99 saw mostly pitches for practical applications by the 500-plus exhibitors. Two previous Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. shows had leaned more toward infrastructure. ``It's fascinating how far it's come,'' said Jack Powers, conference chairman for Penton Media Penton Media, Inc. (OTC: PTON.OB), founded in 1892, is a diversified business-to-business media company. Penton Media is a mass media corporation that publishes and produces over 40 magazines, 80 trade shows, and 47 web sites. , which produces the traveling event. ``Instead of introducing people to basic technology, exhibitors now are into best practices, managing the Internet, marketing and customer service.'' Recurring themes were free services (O.Eng. Law) such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum of money, etc. See also: Free and migration to the Internet of tasks previously conducted in a real-world setting. Melding both were eFax.com (www.efax.com) and rival CallWave (www.callwave.com), which offer free fax numbers to deliver documents to an online mailbox A simulated mailbox in the computer that holds e-mail messages. Mailboxes are stored on disk as a file of messages, a database of messages or as an individual file for each message. The standard mailboxes are usually In, Out, Trash and Junk (Spam). for later viewing. CallWave now offers business users bundles of up to 10 fax numbers for free; eFax is throwing in a new viewer that lets users preview different kinds of files attached to their e-mail. FreeDrive.com (www.freedrive.com) offers users a ``virtual hard drive'' with up to 20 megabytes disk space for backing up important files at a remote locale (programming) locale - A geopolitical place or area, especially in the context of configuring an operating system or application program with its character sets, date and time formats, currency formats etc. Locales are significant for internationalisation and localisation. . Stamps.com (www.stamps.com) and e-stamp (www.e-stamp.com) have managed to move to the Internet a task that requires a trip to the post office or supermarket. Both services let users buy postage off the Internet for printing pre-stamped envelopes. Currently in beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the , the services are expected to be available this summer. Creative Labs (www.soundblaster.com) launched what promises to be one of this year's must-have technotoys - NOMAD, a $249 device about the size of a deck of cards that can store two hours of music or four hours of voice recordings on a removable flash memory card. NOMAD has no moving parts Moving parts are the components of a device that undergo continuous or frequent motion, most commonly rotation. "Parts" only include the mechanical components which does not include fuel, or any other gas or liquid. , so a jogger can listen to near-CD quality music without missing a beat. PeopleSupport.com (www.peoplesupport.com) showed off its online customer support to help make sense of it all. By clicking a green button on a PeopleSoft-enabled Web site, a user is engaged in an chatroomlike dialogue with a technician who can answer questions about that particular site. THE FACTS WHAT: Spring Internet World 99 WHEN: Today, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m to 4 p.m. WHERE: Los Angeles Convention Center The Los Angeles Convention Center (abbreviated LACC) is a convention center in downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, and was best known to video games fans as host to E3 until its cessation in 2006. , South Hall. 1201 S. Figueroa. St. HOW MUCH: $50 for three-day pass, or free by registering online at www.internet.com/registerspring. |
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