World Telecommunication Day 1999

IHT October 14, 1999


Links related to Tracking Telecoms 99: The Home


The Home Office Partnership
http://www.hop.co.uk/
Strategies and solutions for new ways of working

Jini Technology
http://www.sun.com/jini/
Jini connection technology is based on a simple concept. Devices should work together.

Home & Office Computing Magazine
http://www.misshoc.com/home.htm
Good reference source, with just about everything relevent to the topic represented.

Telecom Insider
http://www.telecominsider.com/
From PicewaterhouseCoopers. Provides latest information on the telecommunications industry and how it relates to consumers.

Total Telecoms
http://www.totaltele.com/
Breaking news and useful information on all things telecommunications.

CNET Special Reports
http://home.cnet.com/category/topic/0,10000,0-3762-7-277352,00.html
Good rundown of the competing standards for high-speed home access.

The Aspen Institute
http://www.aspeninst.org/dir/polpro/CSP/AIRIT/sustain.html
The Aspen Institute's Report on "Towards Sustainable Growth in Global Telecommunications" contains good information on consumer issues.

Digital Living Room Consumer Index
http://www.greenfieldcentral.com/dlrci/
Report on consumers and the digital living room, including the possibility to join the panel and contribute.

Webcamer
http://www.webcamer.com/
This French site (also in English) demonstrates the possible future of on-line shopping.

Upside
http://www.upside.com/
Consumer technology reference magazine on the Internet.

Cyber Shopping
http://datcp.state.wi.us/static/cp/cpfacts/cyber_shopping.htm
Jump point for the Bureau of Consumer Protection's information on how to shop on-line, including protection issues.

Better Business Bureau
http://www.bbb.org/library/cybershop.html
More information on shopping on-line.

Harlemlive
http://www.harlemlive.org/
Great example of a living on-line community.

The Global Bangemann Challenge
http://www.challenge.stockholm.se/
This Swedish contest's Web page provides fascinating glimpses into on-line communities around the world.