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Hotels Begin Race to Offer Net as Amenity - With Hilton and Hyatt soon to launch beta versions of in-room Internet service in San Jose, it may not be long before online access is part of the lodging package. [Wired News]
 
How US-centrism Hinders Ecommerce - Many Web developers and business people tend to assume that, while the United States is way ahead of the pack in technological sophistication and innovation, the rest of the world is living in an era of TRS-80s and 2400-baud modems. [Wired News]
 
How an Exit Spurred Reconstruction at Time - After three years of baton-passing, Time Inc. New Media decides to rebuild from the ground up. Chip Bayers reports. [Wired News]
 
How to Buy Friends and Influence Standards - Microsoft reportedly has been spreading billion-dollar offers among major cable interests. But are the cable guys are interested in exclusive hardware and software deals? [Wired News]
 
How to Make PC World's Poor ISP List - For some, it could be as easy as getting trapped in a consumer-oriented survey when you're moving away from the consumer market. For other's, it's having the initials AOL. [Wired News]
 
IBM Buys Remaining Portion of Advantis - Big Blue aims to enhance its Internet services, which constitute the fastest-growing part of the company's business. [Wired News]
 
IBM Hypes New 'E-Business' Equation - The old-time purveyor of business solutions foregrounds its Web servers and Java-based programming. [Wired News]
 
IBM Japan Goes Shopping for Used PCs - The unusual move is an inducement to get Japanese computer users to upgrade their systems. [Wired News]
 
IBM Jumps Gun on Digital TVs - Big Blue starts to make broadcast equipment, kicking into gear the highly anticipated digital TV revolution. [Wired News]
 
IBM Shuns NetPC - Big Blue is going full-steam ahead with the network computer, but it's no longer wasting its time on the Microsoftian version. [Wired News]
 
IBM Takes a Wrecking Ball to Net 'Mall' - Big Blue will shutter its year-old World Avenue "shopping mall" next month, a grim reminder that if you build it, they won't always come. [Wired News]
 
IBM to Beef Up Global Services Division - The move is part of Big Blue's transformation from a rigid giant to a company more attuned to the Internet. [Wired News]
 
IBM's Deep (Blue) Coverup - Ned Brainard tells a sordid little tale of the paranoiac behavior of IBM's public-relations hordes. Plus: Will heads soon roll at MSN? [Wired News]
 
IBM, Banco do Brasil Brew Some Serious Java - A $180 million deal between Big Blue and Latin America's biggest retail bank sets the stage for one of the largest client investments in Java and OS/2 technology yet. [Wired News]
 
ICG Snaps Up Netcom - The latest in voice-data mergers has an all-but-unknown local telco looking to plug itself in to Net service via an ISP. [Wired News]
 
IDG, Ziff-Davis Merge Mac Mags - Dwindling circulation and ad sales force Macworld and MacWEEK into a joint venture, while MacUser dies. [Wired News]
 
IDT Pays Up, Cuts Back, Mixes Kosher and Cyber - The ISP agrees to reimburse customers for misleading ads and billing practices, lays off 140 workers, and adds a cyber flavor to its kosher cafe. [Wired News]
 
IE Used by Majority - in Turkey - Microsoft announces milestones for its increasingly popular 3.0 browser, including 50 percent penetration - here and there. [Wired News]
 
ILM Dream Job: Foot in the Door - Geaorge Lucas' special-effects company, Industrial Light Magic, is hiring at the entry level. [Wired News]
 
ISP Competition Forecast - The shooting war that characterized the long-distance phone industry will soon spill over to the Net, an analyst believes. [Wired News]
 
 

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