Internet Focus.New Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. Developments Workers Shop On Line Unauthorised personal use of the Internet has soared by up to 80% as employees shopped online during work hours in the run up to Christmas. Research carried out by Vanco, showed that, on average, 30% of corporate network traffic in the first two weeks of December was caused by workers shopping online. This peaked at 80% in places. This highlights the problem for businesses which are reluctant to dampen the Christmas spirit amongst their employees, but are concerned that they will have to deal with the resulting technical and commercial fallout. This trend was revealed during the analysis of the network performance of over 30 blue-chip companies. Four of the most popular sites visited during work hours include Amazon.com, Ikea.com, beeb.com (BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. shopping) and Hemscott.net, the online share-trading site. www.vanco,.co.uk ICRA (Internet Content Rating Association, www.icra.org) An organization dating back to 1994 that was created to protect children from potentially harmful online content and to protect free speech on the Internet. ICRA did not rate Web sites or label the content. Make Internet Safe for Children A new development in the effort to protect children online, while respecting the free speech rights of content providers, has been announced by the Internet Content Rating Association ICRA, the Internet Content Rating Association, is an international non-profit organization with offices in the United States and the United Kingdom. Its mission is to help users find the content they want, to trust what they find and to filter out what they don't want for [ICRA], The new content labelling system, which can be found at www.icra.org, is the culmination of a year's consultation exercise to create an internationally acceptable rating system which could be adapted to different national, cultural and individual needs. The second part of the system, a filter that allows parents to set their own controls, will be launched mid 2001. Cybersquatters A report by digital domain name registrar An organization that manages Internet domain names. Any person or company that wants a presence on the Internet must register a unique name with one of the many registrars, such as Network Solutions (www.netsol.com) or Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com). , Speednames, highlighted the dangers of cybersquatting Registering an Internet domain name for the purpose of reselling it for a profit. One of the more notable transactions was the domain name wallstreet.com, which was registered in 1994 for $70 and sold for one million in 1999. to a number of vertical sectors and the importance of protecting their brands on-line on the Interact. Sectors used for the purposes of the research were the IT/Telecoms, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and financial sectors. Speednames demonstrated that the financial and manufacturing sectors were at particular risk of cybersquatting through failing to register their key brand domain names on the Interact, While the main domain name of .com has almost been universally registered, companies are still failing to protect their e-brands among country code domains especially in Central Europe Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. In addition, Northern, Southern and Southeastern Europe may variously delimit or overlap into Central Europe. . Research undertaken by Speednames into the top companies in each sector of the Fortune 500 demonstrated that all sectors take different approaches to protecting their brands on-line on the Interact. For example the financial sector only has a 30% registration rate for company names within all top-level domaina. The IT/Telecoms and pharmaceutical sectors are the best protected by far. The difference in the approach taken to e-branding is demonstrated by the fact that certain sectors rely on registering their key brands while others choose not to register any of their trademarked brand. www.speednames.com Freeserve uses MGI MGI Mouse Genome Informatics MGI Modular Gateway Interface MGI McKinsey Global Institute MGI Military Geographic Information MGI Marine Geological Institute MGI Policy on the Management of Government Information (Canada) ZOOM Image Server MGI, specialist in visual media software products says, that Freeserve has introduced MGI's ZOOM linage lin·age also line·age n. 1. The number of lines of printed or written material. 2. Payment for written work at a specified amount per line. linage Noun 1. Server on its Freeserve Marketplace web site (www.fsmarketplace.co.uk), enabling customers to zoom in and examine products in close detail before they purchase. Freeserve is expected to extend the implementation to a number of its online services over the next three months. www.mgisoft.com World Markets Energy Site and Telecoms Supersite WMRC WMRC Waste Management and Research Center WMRC World Markets Research Centre (London, England) WMRC Weighted Maximal Ratio Combining has launched World Markets Energy an online subscription service focused on the energy industry together with Telecoms Supersite. World Markets Energy, provides online daily analysis country reports, and email alerts on the energy markets in over 50 countries, principally in emerging markets. Subscribers receive daily updates and related analysis every time there is a change in the risk and opportunity associated with the energy market in each of the countries covered. WMRC's Free Access Division has also launched Telecoms SuperSite, specifically targeting the telecoms market. The site is a specialised research database which comprises two sections - Information Exchange and Business Exchange. The Information Exchange is subdivided into various categories of the telecoms market - Wireline, Wireless, Interact & e-business, Broadcast & Media, and Regulation & Policy. www.WMRC.com Demand for Internet voting Two out of three local authorities believe online voting is the Internet-based service the public most wants them to provide, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Metastorm. Second in the poll was Web-based job seeking with over half of respondents citing it as one of the electronic services most in demand from residents. The survey of 50 UK local authorities also found that increased access to information about local health and education services was considered key to e-government. www.metastorm.com SAP implements IXOS email solution SAP is to implement IXOS - Exchange ARCHIVE for every one of its employees worldwide. The IXOS - Exchange ARCHIVE solution will enable simple email archiving See e-mail archiving. , eliminating capacity problems and reducing pressure across their entire network. IXOS - ExchangeARCHIVE stores saved e-mails and attachments in a separate archiving server. The text of the email message and/or the attachments can be archived either automatically (rules-based) or interactively. Archived emails can be retrieved almost instantly through the normal Microsoft: Outlook graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to . www.sap.com Natural Language Search A co-branded version of WebTop's search engine product will be featured on ZDNet UK's "Web Suffers "Power Tools" site. The site is accessible from within the ZDNet Downloads channel (www.zdnet.co.uk/downloads). By packaging downloads within a specific category into one site - in this case Web surfing Refers to jumping from page to page on the Web. Just as in "TV channel surfing," where one clicks the remote to go from channel to channel, the hyperlink on Web pages makes it easy to jump from one page to another. tools - ZDNet is offering a service for visitors and sponsors. Visitors gain an access point for downloading Web surfing tools, while participating software companies gain visibility before ZDNet UK's audience of visitors. WebTop's "next generation now" search technology lets users input phrases and complete paragraphs as the search request. Proprietary software then searches the web for the search string within context, This is claimed to be in advance of traditional key word search engines, and gives more relevant, up to date, and focused search results. www.bankside.com `Blueprint for Reliability' NetBenefit, the Internet business solutions provider, reports it is receiving a lot of calls from companies which are upgrading their web sites and adding sophisticated tools such as high-spec graphics and Flash movies to their pages. Many organisations however, are failing to recognise that the hosting infrastructure they require needs updating in order to make their sites as quick, reliable and accessible to customers as possible. NetBenefit has just completed a major overhaul of its hosting infrastructure, enabling it to offer high-spec, resilient web infrastructure. This is made up of three mirrored sites, including gas-based fire protection systems, incident tracking systems and scaleable customer power linked to early warning systems for bandwidth limits. The company has also become a Cobalt TrueBlue Diamond Partner, offering a hosting', 'infrastructure for Cobalt servers in the industry. www.netbenefit.com AdvantEDGE IIS (Internet Information Services) Microsoft's Web server. IIS runs under the server versions of Windows, adding HTTP server capability to the Windows operating system. AdvantEDGE IIS, a proactive management solution for Microsoft's Internet Information Service (IIS) gives Internet Managers insight into the actual performance, and impact, of IIS servers on overall e-business system resources (1) In a computer system, system resources are the components that provide its inherent capabilities and contribute to its overall performance. System memory, cache memory, hard disk space, IRQs and DMA channels are examples. . Because service providers and enterprises rely on the Internet to send e-mail, exchange information, communicate with customers and perform critical e-business functions, it is imperative that Internet servers have 100 percent up-time and availability. Rather than waiting for brownouts and downtime to occur, AdvantEDGE IIS identifies bottlenecks, tracks Web page errors and isolates poorly performing application services See ASP and Web services. . It also increases an Internet manager's ability to monitor CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. utilisation and system resources by sending real-time alerts to identify and fix problems before they reach a critical point and affect performance. The solution can also take corrective action and fix problems on its own such as restarting a failed web or ftp service. WWW.concord.com WebAnalyst DecisionPoint Applications, Inc. (DPA DPA - Data Protection Act ), packaged data warehouse and analytical applications vendor, has launched its new, web-based analytical tool - WebAnalyst. The internet-based software is designed to provide decision-makers with access to ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. , CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. and Supply Chain Management data enabling `concept-to-cash flow' business analysis. DecisionPoint WebAnalyst enables analysis - normally limited to trained specialists to be available to all decision-makers whatever the location. The software enables users to perform ad-hoc queries directly from a browser, ensuring real-time access to data on a 24 x 7 basis. The menu-driven GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. provides the range of query and reporting functionality required by both front-line and advanced users. Capabilities include drill-down and drill-across functionality allowing ad-hoc querying and reporting across individual departments, thresholding and alarming, with output to personal productivity tools. Users can analyse invoices and receipts associated with a customer's account receivable account receivable Any amount owed to a business as the result of a purchase of goods or services from it on a credit basis. Although the firm making the sale receives no written promise of payment, it enters the amount due as a current asset in its books. , starting with summary data to identify the problem and drill-down into the details to identify the exact cause of the problem. The software can also create a web page containing critical enterprise data for instantaneous access by executives, create standard reports and save them to a common library, download functionality into Excel and the option to share reports with external organizations via XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. . www.dapplication.com Lychee Web Content Management Lychee is designed to empower non-technical personnel within organisations to update content they own, on the corporate web sites, reducing the need for technical knowledge of complex web languages such as HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. . It also enables companies to control their web publishing strategies and make use of their web sites as part of an integrated marketing programme, rather than static brochure-ware. Version 3.5 of Lychee bridges the gap between web professionals, marketing teams and other departments that need to contribute input to the company web site by providing a Web Content Management system that allows both Web Masters and non-technical personnel to update a web page with text and media. www.netcentrwsystems.net ON icommand Web-Enabled Software Delivery ON Technology, a provider of solutions for remote software delivery & management, have announced a Java-based server platform called ON icommand that allows end-users to automatically download and install software applications and content from the convenience of their Web browsers. ON command will be available in open source format from ON Technology and runs on standard Web servers including Microsoft IIS, Netscape Enterprise Server A Web server from Netscape that runs under NT, Solaris and HP-UX. It supports JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology, Java servlets and Server-Side JavaScript (SSJS). It was superseded by iPlanet Web Server and renamed again in 2002 as Sun ONE Web Server. , Microsoft Personal Web Server, and Apache. The new product has been implemented as a Java-based `servlet A Java application that runs in a Web server or application server and provides server-side processing such as accessing a database and e-commerce transactions. Widely used for Web processing, servlets are designed to handle HTTP requests (get, post, etc. " in order to provide customers and partners with the flexibility to add value via enhancements and customisation. www.on.com Go Link Internet Solution `Go Link' offers multi-user internet access to ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. , leased line and common Telephone connections, together with a range of options including, unlimited email, Internet security, the ability to manage Internet access, an intranet, a file server plus an integral web server. A key feature of the system is that no technical knowledge is required, making it suitable for companies with limited or no technical expertise. www.circom.Net HTML-To-Host Solution SEAGULL seagull a noisy, gregarious bird that frequents the seashore. Web-footed, hook-billed, white with gray wings. Member of the family Laridae and of the genus Larus. , provider of e-business-enabling software technology using Web to host, Wireless to host and Enterprise Application Integration (EM), has announced TigerRay, a new software product that enables specific host application functions to be accessed via Web pages. TigerRay is designed to create self-service Web access to business functions in mainframe or midrange applications such as check account information, update address, schedule and check order status. In enterprises where host applications play a pervasive role in day-to-day business activities, TigerRay provides a direct connection between the Web and the host applications for retrieval of information and real lime interaction with specific business functions. www.seagullsw.com |
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