Current Events in Information Technology

Current Events

• RealAudio events
• Internet Expo (Feb. 19-21, 1996)
• AudioNet
• WebChat Broadcasting System
• Business Week's Special Report: TELECOM'S NEW AGE
• High hopes for first Baby Bell marriage: But short-term stock gains have already been realized by Michael Brush (from Money Daily)
• WAR OF THE WEB: Waves of upstarts are storming into the no-frills market (Business Week: March 4, 1996 Department: Information Processing: ONLINE SERVICES)
• Compuserve Announces Internet-Only Service
  Compuserve, reaching for a more computer-savvy audience and a global Internet presence, said it has begun offering an Internet-only service to customers around the world. The service, called Sprynet, includes free software and unlimited Internet access from local phone numbers for a flat fee of $19.95 a month.
• AT&T WorldNet
AT&T rattles the Internet sector
AT&T WorldNet Service customers can access America Online
• Telecommunications Act of 1996
On February 1, 1996, Congress passed S.652, the "Telecommunications Act of 1996." The Act represents the first-ever comprehensive rewrite of United States communications laws and is the most sweeping reform of FCC policy enacted in decades. President Clinton signed the Act on February 8, 1996, and its provisions become effective immediately.
• CNN
• Commentary
We are pleased to make the full, indexed text of the Telecommunications Act available to the Internet community, along with a number of related resources -- summaries, analysis of particular subject areas, and the Conference Committee report accompanying the Act -- that may be useful to communications practitioners, regulators and others.
• How will the telecom act affect you? By Jeffrey Frentzen
• Telecommunications reform offers possibilities, but no sure bets, to individual investors by Robin Schatz
• FIRING LINE SPECIAL DEBATE Friday, March 22, 1996 on PBS
"Resolved: Cyberspace Doesn't Need Special Protection From Smut" (w.t.)--This program, hosted by William F. Buckley Jr. and moderated by Michael Kinsley, plunges into the divisive issues of the telecommunications bill currently before Congress -- a bill that could change the ground rules in every area of the communications industry. Buckley heads the four-person team arguing against government regulations on communications. He is joined by Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. Defending government intervention is Reed Hundt, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and three other speakers.
• Telecommunications bill means change (from Indianapolis Star/News)
• PBS Newshour on the Communications Decency Act (requires RealAudio)
• Broad coalition to file suit against Internet decency act
  Microsoft, America Online, CompuServe and others head to court
• Indiana
  • Affordable Internet 2 All
  • Competitors decry Ameritech measure (from Indianapolis Star)
• Does the "dumb box" have a future? (Analysts at odds over cheap, limited-use computers)
• Wyse Winterm
• Not just a 'dumb' terminal
• USING CABLE T.V. TO SURF THE NET By JEFF PELLINE c.1995 San Francisco Chronicle
• @Home
• HIGH STAKES IN CYBERSPACE (Frontline on PBS airdate: Tuesday, October 31, 1995)
• AT&T announces major restructuring for 21st Century
• AT&T Buys Stake in DirecTV
• Events
• NetWorld & Interop
• TELECOM 95
• COMNET'96

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3 April 1996